Microsoft has ended manufacturing of all Xbox One consoles, according to a report from The Verge, to “focus on production of Xbox Series X / S,” the company said in a statement Thursday. That decision, Microsoft says, dates back to 2020. As reported by The Verge, Microsoft had already discontinued the Xbox One X and digital Xbox One S ahead […]

If Xbox Live Games with Gold was facing an existential crisis at the turn of a new console generation, the service’s catalog didn’t reflect it over the course of 2021. Players, subscribers, and games press like myself still may have rolled their eyes and wondered how long Microsoft could continue balancing the free-games obligation of a Gold membership with Xbox […]

All the versions of Halo still playable on Xbox 360 will lose online services on Jan. 13, 2022, 343 Industries announced on Monday. The shutdown does not affect games in the Halo: The Master Chief Collection anthology, 343 emphasized. The closure affects Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009), Halo: Reach (2010), Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (2011), and Halo 4 […]

Tunic, a top-down Zelda-like game starring a little fox, finally got a release date after being originally announced as “Secret Legend” back in 2015. Tunic is now scheduled to be released on March 16 and will come to Mac, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The developers announced the news at The Game Awards on Thursday. Tunic started […]

Have you really ever played Halo: Combat Evolved if you haven’t attempted to drive a Warthog into the map room at the end of Silent Cartographer? Well, yes — but the tight-squeeze challenge still feels like an essential way to play Halo. There are so many spaces along this path through which a Warthog should not fit. You need to […]

Microsoft found another Lego video game to toss into November’s Games With Gold offerings. 2012’s Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes for Xbox 360, available Nov. 16 to Nov. 30, headlines this month’s lineup of free games. The other three are Moving Out, a zany, cooperative, physics-based “moving simulator” from 2020; Kingdom Two Crowns, which launched on Xbox Game Pass […]

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get four free games in July with Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program — or maybe they get 34 free games, if you count all the retro arcade hits in the Midway Arcade Origins anthology. The collection of coin-op classics, which launched for Xbox 360 in 2012, is the prize of […]

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get four free games under Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program in June, but they may only recognize one of them. That’s 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us. The DC Universe fighting game isn’t available until June 16, however. Injustice is an Xbox 360 game; all of June’s Games with Gold are […]

Titanfall 2, Battlefield 5, and 11 other Electronic Arts titles for Xbox One now support the Xbox Series X’s FPS Boost option, increasing performance to 120 frames per second for all but one of them. Microsoft announced the new batch of supported games on Thursday. They include both Titanfalls and Star Wars Battlefronts, the three most recent Battlefields, all three […]

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get four free games in April as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on April 1 with Games Farm’s action-role-playing game Vikings: Wolves of Midgard for Xbox One and Capcom’s flying shooter Dark Void for Xbox 360. All of April’s Games with […]