Nearly a year and a half ago, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed that “in the next 12 months” it will be possible to stream Xbox games to TV. The same was said again in June 2021 when Microsoft confirmed that the company would release the Smart TV app and the Xbox streaming device at […]
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The Xbox Series consoles managed to overtake the PlayStation 5 and even the Nintendo Switch as the top-selling consoles in the first quarter.
After more than a year and a half since their launch, the Xbox Series game consoles have finally managed to outdo their competitors and become the top-selling consoles on the market. Thanks to the high availability of Microsoft consoles in March, according to the NPD Group, it was the Xbox Series that became the market […]
Xbox Series X with 40 GB of storage. As it turned out, the development kit differs from the serial console not only in design
As you know, consumer game consoles differ from developer kits, and not only externally. The latter usually have more ports and sometimes slightly different characteristics. So, only now it became known that the Xbox Series X developer kit has much more memory than a serial console. The device, known as the XDK, was acquired and […]
The Xbox Seris X and Seris X outsold the Xbox One. Microsoft has sold nearly 14 million next-gen consoles
Microsoft has sold 13,867,499 next-gen game consoles since the Xbox Series S and Series X launched, VGChartz, which ranks game console sales across multiple manufacturers. And they diverge better than the Xbox One. If we take the same time intervals, then in the same 17 months, Microsoft once sold 11,480,703 Xbox One. It turns out […]
Advertising of real products will fall into the game universes. Microsoft may run ads in free Xbox games
Microsoft is working on an advertising assistance program for developers of shareware (free-to-play) games for Xbox consoles. This was reported by BusinessInsider. According to the source, companies will be able to buy advertising space on virtual billboards. It’s not yet clear exactly how the system will be implemented, whether it will extend to characters and […]
Microsoft may be working on an improved Xbox Series X console, but it won’t be any faster
The Xbox Series X game console is the most productive in the new generation, which many people actively paid attention to after the announcement and which, as expected, became unimportant after the start of sales. And if we have already heard something about the conditional PlayStation 5 Pro, now the first rumors about the updated […]
For the Xbox to sell better than the PlayStation. Microsoft paid for priority access to chips
Since last fall, gamers around the world have noticed that the Xbox Series X has become much easier to buy in online stores than the PlayStation 5, and even easier than the cheaper Xbox Series S. At the time, it was said that this was due to less interest in the older Xbox console. But […]
Approximately such will be the games of the near future. The creators of Gears of War showed a demo on the Unreal Ungine 5 engine
Will the new game in The Witcher series not suffer from a lot of bugs at launch? The developers explained the transition to Unreal Engine 5 Developers from The Coalition studio, known for the Gears of War series, have published a video demonstrating the capabilities of the Unreal Ungine 5 engine. The Cavern Cinematic Tech […]
Microsoft brings Twitch streaming back to all Xbox consoles
Microsoft has released a fresh update for the Xbox Control Panel. It brings an important change – video game streaming will return to the Xbox game consoles using the Twitch service. Microsoft began testing the integration in October, and now Twitch will appear in the Xbox Guide interface with webcam support for all users. Twitch […]
Xbox Series X Owners Complain About UHD Blu-ray Playback Issues
The Xbox Series X is more than just a gaming console. It is also a media player with a built-in UHD Blu-ray drive. A source said that owners of Xbox Series X consoles are complaining about problems with playback of 100 GB triple-layer UHD Blu-ray discs and noise during the operation of the optical drive. […]