"For the future, the big question mark is really AI," says former Microsoft vice president of game publishing, Ed Fries. "There's obvious advantages where AI is going to make building games faster and ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Kansas City grant program is filling empty storefronts ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The Open Doors program received 463 applications, with 52 applicants shortlisted as ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

Today, the Xbox may have fallen off in the console race, but the fact remains that console gaming wouldn't have been the same without Xbox, specifically the Xbox 360. The digital gaming ecosystem and ...

The big picture: Microsoft has spent the past few years rushing to answer the potential threat that Valve's Steam Deck and SteamOS present to Windows. At this year's Game Developers Conference, ...

Imagine playing all past Xbox games on your PC. Officially, we mean. Microsoft Gaming’s VP of Next Generation Jason Ronald has announced that Xbox’s backwards ...

In the days leading up to one of the games industry’s bigger trade conferences, Microsoft has quietly unveiled the code name for its next-generation Xbox console: Project Helix. The name appeared ...

Project Helix has been confirmed as the codename for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox gaming console. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images After a big shakeup at Microsoft's gaming division, ...

Phil Spencer, the longtime head of Microsoft's gaming business, is retiring. Microsoft named Asha Sharma, an executive in its CoreAI group, as Spencer's replacement. Xbox's president, Sarah Bond, is ...

The United Way of Beaumont recently gathered community leaders, partners and supporters for its 2026 Empty Bowls Program & Luncheon, an event that showcased unique, community-painted bowls to raise ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it’s a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...