An Xbox Game Pass program, which Microsoft announced four years ago, has been officially canceled. Xbox Game Pass has been around since 2017, offering digital games to stream on Xbox consoles, ...

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Handheld gaming PCs are impressive, but at the end of the day, they’re running integrated graphics originally meant for laptops and cheaper PCs. That means they have some fairly hard limits in terms ...

With the ROG Xbox Ally gaming handhelds now available to preorder, Microsoft has announced a Handheld Compatibility Program to ensure that games work well on the new devices. “The Handheld ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday during Gamescom 2025 that not only will its Xbox Ally handhelds be released on October 16, but the company is spinning up a new initiative to support optimized gaming on ...

This week, during Gamescom 2025, Xbox and ASUS ROG have finally revealed that the ROG Xbox Ally (Xbox Ally for short) and Xbox Ally X are slated to land on store shelves on October 16, 2025, but no ...

Priye's fondness of gaming started early when he first beat Double Dragon II and couldn't stop himself from doing it all over again every chance he got. Since then, playing a bunch of Contra, GTA, ...

A new rumor served by Xbox leaker eXtas1s hints that Xbox is working with the Xenia Canary emulator team to revive original Xbox and 360 games. Microsoft apparently wants to bring them to PC, Game ...

A new evolution to the Game Pass service? We’re certainly interested in seeing what the folks over at Microsoft have planned for Xbox moving forward. We are aware that additional hardware is in ...

The latest firmware update for Xbox Series X|S consoles is out now, and it's apparently resetting users' consoles to factory settings--but none of this likely applies to you. Microsoft's testing ...