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2025 proved Xbox is trading exclusivity for a multi-platform future
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Even with 3 Obsidian games in one year, Xbox's 2025 felt like the calm before the storm.

Xbox didn't charge $80 for The Outer Worlds 2, but Microsoft still has to run a "healthy business" moving forward
By Scott McCrae published
News Pricing remains a tricky balance to strike

How to solve High Packet Loss on Xbox
By Joel Franey last updated
Guide Getting 100 Packet Loss or similar errors on your Xbox? We can help you to try and fix it

Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there"
By Heather Wald published
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | The Outer Worlds 2 director on the future of the RPG and Obsidian

Xbox wants to define "the future for where the Xbox ecosystem's going" in 2026, has "a lot of exciting things to share"
By Catherine Lewis published
News Xbox also wants to celebrate its "great legacy"

Not even Hideo Kojima knows what his new horror game OD will be like, but it'll be different from Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding: "I can't say exactly what it is yet, nor do I know if it will work out"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Kojima Productions is working with Xbox for the game

Best Black Friday Xbox deals 2025: the best Xbox Series X/S discounts still live
By Rosalie Newcombe last updated
Deals Black Friday Xbox deals are done for another year, but there's still a chance to grab these remaining discounts.

18 years after it owned the Xbox 360 era, Crackdown deserves so much better – and should have one more chance to prove itself
By Joel Franey published
Opinion Opinion | Helldivers 2 has opened the doors for Xbox's most mishandled series to make a proper comeback

The Outer Worlds 2 director bravely says Chrono Trigger is "the best JRPG ever and it's not even close" - and that it doesn't get enough credit for being one of the only ones where "you don't actually have to grind"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "The pacing on it is just amazing"

The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I'll say, to Microsoft's benefit, or to kind of put them in a good light here, they didn't ever say anything to us"
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