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 […]