Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Xbox

Top 5 new Action RPGs to play in 2026

Looking to try a new action RPG in 2026? Look no further.

Dot Esports

"This is an unacceptable situation, and we must do better" Xbox CTO apologizes for its biggest outage in recent memory

Xbox just had its biggest outage in recent memory, with Xbox's core services down for well over 15~ hours for some users. Xbox CTO just took to X (Twitter) to explain what went wrong.

Windows Central

13 Ubisoft games go free on PC if you own them on Xbox

Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Skull and Bones, Rainbow Six Siege, and others are now part of Xbox's 'Console to PC' program.

PC Gamer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Xbox Outage Raises an Uncomfortable Question: Do You Really Own Your Games?

The Xbox outage exposed how digital purchases depend on Microsoft's authentication systems, renewing debate over whether gamers truly own what they buy.

International Business Times UK

Ubisoft is giving out free PC copies of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia,and Tom Clancy games to people who own them on Xbox

Xbox's "Console-to PC Offer" includes big Ubisoft titles like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Far Cry 6

GamesRadar

Xbox console players now get select Ubisoft PC versions for free via Xbox PC — it's not Xbox Play Anywhere, but hey it's something

Ubisoft+ Classics are available as part of Xbox Game Pass on PC, but the PC versions are trash without cloud saves, Play Anywhere, or Xbox achievements.

Windows Central

Fortnite just got dethroned as PlayStation’s top game by a 14-year-old Call of Duty

I thought variety was the spice of life...

Destructoid

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Xbox outage: Microsoft says things are slowly improving, but expect issues - Here's what is happening, latest updates, and how to fix the 0x87e107df error

Xbox Outage Update News : Thousands of Xbox users faced login and game access issues due to a major service outage. Microsoft engineers identified the problem but a complete fix remained elusive for many gamers. The 0x87e107df error prevented access to owned digital games, causing significant frustration. This disruption reignited…

The Economic Times

Xbox Live Outage: Digital Games Unplayable as Microsoft Investigates Server Collapse

A major Xbox Live outage left UK gamers unable to access digital games due to licensing issues, sparking frustration and highlighting the fragility of digital game ownership.

International Business Times UK

Xbox outage leaves many gamers in the dark, but Microsoft is aware of the issue

Hello darkness, my old friend.

Destructoid

Xbox is down, just days after PlayStation outage, and it affects both digital and "disc-based" games

Xbox sign-in, store, library, apps, and game launch are all affected

GamesRadar

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has revealed the release date of its first DLC, and "Cost of Hope" is arriving on Xbox and PC sooner than you'd expect

GSC Game World has announced that its open-world survival game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, will launch its first DLC expansion on August 20, 2026, for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, along with a free 2.0 update.

Windows Central

The Windows Central Podcast discusses backward compatible Xbox games on Windows, LG forcing McAfee adware on PCs, and Samsung's new folding phones

On this week's episode: Daniel Rubino and Jez Corden discuss the recent announcements around Xbox backward compatibility, Windows adware, and Samsung foldables.

Windows Central

PlayStation makes a mockery of Xbox's multi-plat push by dropping God of War one day before Fable — Microsoft is helping advertise the fact PS5 has more content.

Microsoft's lack of faith in its own platforms gets a shiny new spotlight in February 2027, as Sony confirms a tentpole exclusive will go head to head with Xbox's own contribution to PS5.

Windows Central

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Player One

Nintendo Switch 2 Leak Unveils Three Games Ahead Of Their Debut—What Are The Games?

The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting three new games soon, according to a new a leak that has surfaced online.

Player One

Xbox Tests Smart Download Client to Improve Speeds on PC App Soon

Xbox is now testing the Smart Download Client feature that aims to help improve speeds, coming to aid PC app soon.

PC Gamer

The new 'backward compatible' Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games

Emulator turducken.

Windows Central

Halo: Campaign Evolved on PC manages to look good even at low settings, sparing folk from selling their souls for RTX 5000 cards that are rising in price

PC players deprived of powerful GPUs thanks to the RAM crisis rejoiced because PC Gamer has discovered Halo: Campaign Evolved can achieve solid framerates on low settings and still maintain superb graphical fidelity without needing the latest PC hardware to work.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Windows Central

JSAUX Xbox Ally ModCase review: I used scissors to cut off my dbrand Killswitch case to replace it with this — ZERO regrets ✂️

The dbrand Killswitch case for the Xbox Ally isn't bad, but the JSAUX Mod Case absolutely blows it away — better feel, features, and value.

Tom’s Hardware

Microsoft shipped a native Xbox 360 emulator with its new backwards-compatible releases on PC — modders quickly got 360 games running with minor tweaks

Microsoft dropped four OG Xbox titles on PC a couple of days ago and they came with a native Xbox 360 emulator baked in. These games are packaged as Xbox 360 files, to the emulator runs them as such, then another emulator takes over to translate OG Xbox code inside…

The Guardian - UK

From A Useful Ghost to Self Esteem: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

A woman is reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner in this Cannes prize-winning black comedy, and the uncompromising pop star hits the festival trail

GamesRadar

Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters are a good start, but before Fallout 5 Bethesda could be doing so much more

War never changes - but perhaps it should

PC Gamer

Bethesda says layoffs haven't affected 'the roadmap' for The Elder Scrolls 6, it hasn't forgotten Oblivion Remastered, and it's not telling you this because Asha Sharma forced it to

Well, that clears that up.

Windows Central

Steam just MASSIVELY improved gifting, and I hope Xbox copies it

Steam has announced new changes to its gifting system so that it's easier to buy and send games to friends and family. Here's how the new system works.

Xbox now offering free cloud gaming, no Xbox Game Pass required – here's how to sign in and what you get

You can stream your Xbox games for free, as part of new cloud gaming service tests

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.