Microsoft related news and articles

Microsoft has just announced that the HoloLens, their augmented reality headset device aimed mainly at commercial interests, is going to be released in six new countries outside of the United States and Canada – including France, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. HoloLens was previously launched in North American markets for developers in March 2016, […]

After the recent referendum in the United Kingdom, and its subsequent choice to leave the European Union, a wide variety of industries have expressed their fears about how well they expect to fare outside of the EU. Microsoft, however, has said that it feels ‘really optimistic’ about the future of the gaming industry in Britain. […]

Aaron Greenberg suggests that hardware updates will make progressing to consoles beyond the PS4 and Xbox One unnecessary.

Reports indicate that a large spike in sales has made Xbox One the big hitting console of this summer so far, while sale of boxed games hit record low.

Xbox One S console is now on sale, and details arrived which discuss the new performance abilities of the first of the console’s mid-generation updates.

Tim Sweeney, one of the co-founders of Epic Games, has recently spoken out and criticised Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform which he believes will be used to progressively attack and limit Steam. As reported in an interview between Sweeney and Edge, reported by PC Gamer, he claimed that patches to Windows 10 will […]

Gamescom 2016 will be held in Cologne in August and will take place over the course of five days, from Wednesday August 17 to Sunday August 21, 2016.

There was much to excite Microsoft fans at this year’s E3 Expo – not least the announcement of two new consoles – but fans of the Crackdown series will have been disappointed by the absence of Crackdown 3 from the convention. Crackdown 3 is set to mark the debut of the open world, third-person shooter […]

The biggest bombshell of this year’s E3 Expo was Microsoft’s announcement that a new console, currently referred to as Project Scorpio, is on the way.

The word “backwards” doesn’t usually signify progress, but the past has value – just ask fans of Rockstar Games’ classic game Red Dead Redemption.