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 ...

Microsoft Plans ‘Xbox Mode’ for Windows 11 PCs Starting in April Your email has been sent Microsoft announced Wednesday at the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC) that it is officially bringing a ...

During its GDC 2026 talk, Xbox also revealed more features coming to PC and plans to bring back old games GDC Project Helix Xbox At GDC 2026 earlier today, during a talk about the future of the Xbox ...

Microsoft is retiring Xbox chief Phil Spencer and naming CoreAI executive Asha Sharma CEO of Microsoft Gaming, tightening the division’s connection to Microsoft’s AI push. Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET ...

Friday’s news of a major shake-up at Microsoft’s Xbox division caught the gaming world by surprise. Phil Spencer, who has run Xbox for almost 12 years, announced his retirement, effective ...

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 ...

The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Xbox division aims to boost profits without raising first-party game prices to $80 soon. Instead, Xbox focuses on diverse monetization strategies, including subscriptions, ...