Consoles

New initiative will promote existing parental controls to the vast majority of parents who do not take advantage of them

A two-pronged console launch would be a very tricky beast to manage

New categories, no time-consuming entries and an industry-wide voting system

“On Game Pass, a game can just be a game, with a beginning, a middle and an end. We can support those kind of games.”

Could this be the start of more casual mobile games heading to the Switch?

With Gears 5 released on Steam, plus Ori and the Blind Forest coming to Switch, Aaron Greenberg, GM of games marketing, clarifies Xbox’s first-party strategy and fills us in on the thinking behind its upcoming London celebration, X019

To what extent is Xbox Game Pass responsible for taking retail sales away from Microsoft’s title?

Sega is remastering Yakuza 3, 4 and 5, with the first title having launched at gamescom, but not all of the content made the cut, series producer Daisuke Sato tells MCV

System Shock 3 and Oddworld: Soulstorm are among the first wave of titles to show that Unity is all-set for bigger things on console and PC

A second full Zelda title on Switch is great news for the platform