The Xbox Wireless Headset, available for Xbox consoles and Windows 10 PCs starting this week for $99. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Tomorrow, March 16, Microsoft will launch its first official, Xbox-branded pair of headphones—a far leap beyond the cheapo, one-ear headsets packed into original Xbox 360 consoles. Headphone expectations have changed a lot since those […]
Enlarge / Fishing for answers. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on “next-generation” systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X). Last week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doubled down on that decision, saying the market was […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Getting older video games to run on newer consoles may seem like a simple idea: the new boxes are faster, so older, weaker games should just work, right? Things never quite work out that way, especially when architecture changes dramatically between console generations, which is why we’ve been […]
A Collection of Xbox Series boxes. This year’s new Xbox games consoles, Series X and Series S{} the least critical apparatus in the background of this Xbox ecosystem. This is possibly an excellent thing and an immediate consequence of Phil Spencer righting the boat as the leader of Microsoft’s Xbox division. Because of public-facing Xbox […]
Holes. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] What’s a next-gen console with no”fresh” video games to play it? That issue as I unpacked an Xbox collection X console in my house office weekly, almost two weeks prior to its 499 retail launching November 10. Such early entry to an advanced gaming machine certainly will come with some […]