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At a press briefing in Los Angeles, Microsoft indicates that PC Game Pass license entitlements will carry over to NVIDIA's GeForce Now streaming service.

Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer says that the Xbox gaming brand is expected to make over $1 billion from PC in 2023, possibly driven by Game Pass.

A key securities analyst from Jefferies tells investors that he believes the Microsoft-Activision merger has a less than 50% chance in being approved.

With tomorrow's showcase, Microsoft has a valuable opportunity to swing back in a big way and turn around the current discourse on the Xbox brand.

10 years ago, Xbox introduced disastrous marketing that gave PlayStation an easy win that grew into two consecutive console generations of success.

Video games industry analyst Mat Piscatella predicts that digital-only AAA games will become more prevalent in the following years as physical recedes.

Original Fallout creator and designer Tim Cain delivers some of the highest praise for Fallout New Vegas, says that the game 'felt really OG Fallout'

A custom Xbox Series X with Porsche sporting colors is now available as part of a sweepstake celebrating 75 years of the company's existance.

Competition and Markets Authority CEO Sarah Cardell says that parties withdrew a confidentiality waiver that limited info CMA could share with the FTC.

Although it's still not widely adopted in PC game releases, Microsoft's DirectStorage leverages NVMe storage to drastically improve loading times.

UK regulators at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) met with the FTC 26 times to discuss the Microsoft-Activision merger, CEO Sarah Cardell says.

'Am I a gamer? For a long time, I would have said no because I don't spend hundreds of hours going deep on one game.' Bill Gates, Gamer.

Microsoft claims that it was a data retention glitch that resulted in it asking children playing Xbox for their phone numbers and other personal info.

GPU demand exceeding supply, sound familiar? This time it's all about high-performance chips like NVIDIA's A100 and H100 - and TSMC is trying to keep up.

Western Digital introduces two new Xbox Series X/S SSDs that helped drive down the high expansion storage prices for Microsoft's new Xbox console.

MSI is expanding its range of QD-OLED displays this year and is planning to release a massive 49-inch ultrawide with an impressive 240Hz refresh rate.

Elon Musk was asked how long human civilization has left and what he thinks are the risks that would cause society to fall into darkness.

Sony Group Corp. CEO Kenichiro Yoshida comments on the challenges of cloud gaming, and hints that Sony could use its GT Sophy AI tech to boost streaming.

Activision and Microsoft are considering dramatic solutions in order to merge, including having Activision completely pull its operations out of the UK.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to sell around 25 million copies, with around 12-14 million unit sales in its first week and break $1 billion in revenues.

Reports indicate that Arkane's latest Redfall live service shooter had a substantial amount of microtransactions before a major revision took place.

Before the Microsoft acquisition in 2020, ZeniMax insisted that studios inject in-game purchases and games-as-a-service elements in key franchises.

A seriously nasty bug appears to reside within the latest May 2023 update for the Surface Duo, and Microsoft is currently in the process of investigating.

T-FORCE was at Computex 2023 in full force, where in addition to checking out its DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 options we spotted something very cool for the PS5.

Consumers in the United States spent $2.4 billion more on video games than consumers in China, with 50% of worldwide games revenues coming from mobile.

Microsoft President Brad Smith comments on the ongoing Activision merger regulatory concerns, says company is determined to address regulator concerns.

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick responds to the allegations of harassment made against the company and also asserts that he's not anti-union.

A whole bunch of AI scientists and experts have signed a statement to this effect, including execs from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

Sony's expansion onto PC sets a clear picture for PlayStation's multi-device future, but that doesn't mean the PS5 console is a second-class citizen.

Activision legal counsel alleges that regulators at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had only spent 1/8th of its total investigation on cloud.

Now NVIDIA is making so much cash from its AI chips, will GeForce gaming graphics cards become increasingly less of a priority? That's not inconceivable...

Delivering delightful performance is what Microsoft is boasting about in a blog post which outlines a raft of things that just happen more swiftly now.

CD Projekt Group CEO Adam Kicinski officially squashes the new rumors that Sony's PlayStation division is seeking to acquire the Witcher publisher.

Grace Hopper Superchips are on track for late 2023 and the new NVIDIA DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer connects 256 of them in a 1-Exaflop beast.

Some of the arguments that Microsoft presents in its appeal to overturn the Competition and Markets Authority's merger block decision aren't very strong.

Microsoft has filed an appeal with the Competition Appeal Tribunal that outlines five major reasons why the CMA was wrong to block the MSFT-ATVI merger.

For starters, it's still in testing as an optional update, and besides, there aren't any big standout features which are being added to Windows 11 here.

Sony's new live service games currently lack cohesion or connection with the PlayStation brand, and Sony needs to better communicate its new model.

Remedy and Epic Games shave off $10 from Alan Wake II's price tag in exchange for a digital-only release, a concept that has sparked debate amongst gamers.

An expired security certificate is supposedly why the tablet's cameras have stopped working, and the only workaround has a real sting in the tail.

Microsoft has announced that any Android app developer can now get their software on Windows 11 PCs, which is great news for bolstering the ecosystem.

Sony has officially revealed an early look at its Project Q device, a PlayStation 5-powered handheld that exclusively streams PS5 titles via Remote Play.

Native support has been introduced for RAR files, as well as 7-Zip and other less common archive formats, so you don't have to mess around opening them.

Sabrent's new Rocket Q 2230 SSD 2TB SSD is available now via Amazon, and it has been built for portable PC gaming devices like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.

Bringing more guns to bear on Google, Microsoft will doubtless be hoping that this is a fresh way to drive Bing usage onwards and upwards.

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says that the division is planning an aggressive push into cloud gaming that could extend beyond PS Plus.

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick believes AI could make games development easier, but effects will be short-lived as devs focus more on quality.

Following mass layoffs, Intellivision gives a dire-sounding update on its Amico console plans and confirms it will release games on other platforms.

Not Cortana, not Clippy, meet Copilot, Microsoft's big plan to infuse Windows 11 with AI - but the software giant needs to tread carefully here.

Microsoft hasn't acquired Activision-Blizzard yet, but the company is still delivering on its commitment to bring Xbox PC games to cloud competitors.