picture: Google If you haven’t heard Google Stadia will shut down and Closing time next week. But before the never-quite-successful game-streaming service dies, it’s provided a nice (and free) little gift that you can play for just a few days before it all goes offline. Launched in 2019, Google Stadia was a costly and massive ...
After two years on the market, you’d probably think it would be easier to buy a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X now. Sure, there’s the semiconductor shortage the world is still grappling with and a bottleneck in the supply chain expected to last until 2023 (unless 2024 corresponding some estimates). But, as said by ...
Somehow, 2022 was both a very big, successful year for Xbox and Game Pass, and one that felt like the gaming giant was slowly losing steam. Sure, the Xbox Series S has quietly become one of the biggest next-gen success stories – easy to find and cheaper than the PS5 or Series X – but ...
screenshot: activity B. Microsoft is trying to buy ailing publisher Activision Blizzard starting to hit some serious roadblocksthe software giant is forced to make some concessions to seal the deal. One of these is a series of promises to competing platform owners that, should Microsoft be successful with its purchase, the bestseller call of Duty ...
Xbox Game Studios CEO Phil Spencer takes the stage at the 2015 Game Awards.photo: Allen Berezovsky (Getty Images) It would not be the first timebut Xbox fans are upset in the wake yesterday’s broadcast of The Game Awards. The problem? While competitors like Sony scooped up award after award, the Xbox brand and Xbox-related games ...
photo: Daniel Boczarsky (Getty Images) In his last written reply to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group., Microsoft uses lots of data to show that buying struggling publisher Activision Blizzard won’t hurt Sony or Nintendo. While the bizarre self-denial madness continues, it even suggests that the deal will actually help the publisher compete ...
picture: Microsoft/Kotaku Microsoft is making big strides and game pass is just one piece of the puzzle. The subscription service has kept the Xbox Series X/S relevant despite the lack of new conversation-stealing first-party exclusives, but the company seems to be targeting mobile for its next big gaming push. While PS5 console warriors to fight ...
picture: Anthony McLaughlin (Shutterstock) Video game consoles are very expensive pieces of computer hardware packed in relatively small boxes and packaged with expensive controllers. So it’s not surprising to hear that Microsoft doesn’t make any money from selling Xbox consoles. In fact, it’s losing as much as $200 on every console sold these days. Previously, ...
picture: Infinity Ward everyone plays Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, which came out today on Xbox or PC find themselves in the shallow trenches of video games, but not in the way they were hoping. Infinity Ward’s first-person shooter seems to have a console preference among Xbox gamers unable to switch off cross play, ...
picture: Q Games / Google earlier today, Google confirmed it’s shutting down Stadia, his short-lived cloud gaming service. While the company plans to refund all Stadia-related software and hardware purchases, the future of the service’s few remaining exclusives is less clear. And if they’re not ported to other platforms before Stadia rides into the sunset ...
