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Earlier on in the console generation, the Xbox Series X/S systems appeared to be doing fine, continuing sales at the same pace as the Xbox One generation, while Sony ate up the majority of marketshare with the PS5. Now, analysis shows that the Xbox Series X/S systems have fallen behind the Xbox One in sales. 

Following months of no news, Xbox has now teased the much-anticipated Hollow Knight Silksong – possibly hinting at a 2025 release.

Xbox is set to integrate AI-powered features directly into the gaming experience, aiming to streamline gameplay, enhance discovery, and facilitate re-engagement with titles. During The Official Xbox Podcast, Fatima Kardar, Xbox Corporate Vice President of Gaming AI, and Jason Ronald, Vice President of Next Generation, unveiled this and other upcoming updates.

As they have been doing consistently for years now, Microsoft Flight Simulator has gotten its 19th major world update – featuring Brazil, Guyana and more.

Avowed marks the biggest first-party Xbox game for 2025 so far, with the Obsidian Entertainment-developed RPG arriving on Microsoft’s console (and PC) just under a month ago. Being Microsoft, the company rarely shares sales figures for its games. That being said, according to the game’s director, the higher-ups at Xbox are “happy” with Avowed’s player numbers.

Microsoft has been rumoured to be working on a gaming handheld for decades. Even back during the days of the Xbox 360, there were rumours of an Xbox-style PSP or GameBoy style system. With handhelds now able to offer enough power to run even current-generation games, Microsoft finally looks to …

Recently it was claimed that next year's Call of Duty is already in development for the next-gen Xbox. However, a reliable source has now rebuked this claim, as the next generation Xbox hardware is being planned for 2027 and no development kits exist yet.

Following its internal cancellation years ago, Activision has officially announced and dated Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 - coming this July.

As they do every month, Microsoft has announced the line-up of Game Pass titles which are set to leave the service in a couple weeks’ time.

While Skype was at one point the dominant VOIP software in the market, over the 2010s, Microsoft saw a rapid decline in users thanks to competing technologies and nowadays, services like Discord, Microsoft Teams and Zoom have essentially replaced Skype entirely. Now, Microsoft is shutting Skype down for good. 

Further sparking rumours of their addition to Xbox Game Pass, Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 has now been added to the PC Microsoft Store:

Fable has been delayed from 2025 to 2026. As it turns out, this could have something to do with Microsoft's evolving multiplatform strategy, as rumour has it that Fable will now launch on PC, Xbox and PS5 simultaneously. 

We've known about Microsoft's long-awaited Fable reboot since 2017. Fans were pleased to see the game listed on the release schedule for 2025 but now, just two months into the year, Xbox has revised its plans, pushing the game back to 2026. 

Gamers have made it well known that they don't want to see the market flooded with titles that make heavy use of generative AI. As it turns out, one of the biggest games in the world, Call of Duty, is already there. Activision has admitted that it has been using GenAI tools to produce a range of in-game assets for Black Ops 6. 

2025 is a busy year for Obsidian Entertainment, with the Microsoft-owned studio having just released their fantasy RPG Avowed – and The Outer Worlds 2 coming up later this year. Despite having quite a lot on their plate, the creative director for Avowed is hoping to support the series for years to come with expansions or even a sequel.

Phil Spencer has been doing the rounds in headlines again this week thanks to a newly published interview. We've already heard that Microsoft is no longer interested in convincing gamers to switch to Xbox from competing platforms. Spencer has now confirmed that future Xbox game showcases will feature more multi-platform titles.

Microsoft has now announced its Xbox Game Pass line-up for the second half of February – including a bunch of notable departees.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, instead of PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox, the video games industry’s 3 console giants consisted of the aforementioned PlayStation and Nintendo – but also SEGA. Unfortunately, following the failure of the Dreamcast, the console maker would pivot to becoming a 3rd-party publisher. With Microsoft seemingly set to go a similar route, Xbox Head Phil Spencer has now directly addressed these comparisons.

Xbox head and Microsoft Gaming CEO, Phil Spencer, gives a surprising update on Rare Studios next game - Everwild.

one of the most popular titles in Call of Duty history is reportedly joining Xbox Game Pass soon.

Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed will be the first Xbox game to offer cross-buy with PC – but only through the Battle net launcher.

Ever since Final Fantasy 7 Remake was announced as a PS4 exclusive, there have been doubts around the future of mainline Final Fantasy games on Xbox. Final Fantasy 16 also skipped Xbox consoles at launch last year. We've heard rumours about both titles finally heading to Xbox over the past year, and it looks like an announcement is just around the corner. 

February is set to be a big month for Game Pass. We already know that Obsidian's new fantasy RPG, Avowed, will be a day-one title for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. Now, we know the full list of games joining the service over the next two weeks. 

Obsidian has an extremely busy year ahead with Avowed due to launch this month, followed by The Outer Worlds 2 later this year. In the middle of this, Obsidian is also preparing for its next major game, and it has brought back the lead writer behind Fallout New Vegas to work on it. 

Back in August, we began to hear rumours that Microsoft was planning to bring Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 5 to PlayStation – following on from the likes of Grounded, Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves. Reports later claimed that this port had been internally delayed, but not cancelled. Finally, seemingly out of nowhere, Forza Horizon 5 has officially been announced for PS5.

Just under two months on from its release, Microsoft has announced that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has surpassed 4 million total players.

Over a year after its Xbox debut, Larian Studios' Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally getting split-screen support on the Xbox Series S.

Microsoft accidentally advertised World of Warcraft as coming to Game Pass in a recent email. Unfortunately, it was a simple marketing error.

Microsoft looks set to have a pretty big 2025, with one insider offering a look at the console maker’s Xbox game release plans for the year.

While DOOM: The Dark Ages has not been confirmed for Switch 2, an insider claims the game is coming – but the announcement is being blocked by Nintendo