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No new ways of managing store-based purchases yet in this preview version of the app
Read More »Xbox launches Family Settings app to empower parents – with special Minecraft feature
Xbox Q3 sees Game Pass subscribers hit 10m with all-time record engagement – as results hint at coronavirus boom to come
“We saw all-time record engagement this quarter, with nearly 90 million active users of Xbox Live.”
Read More »Bungie and Microsoft ask ’employees who can work from home to do so’
Microsoft says it will continue to pay its hourly service providers "their regular pay during this period of reduced service needs"
Read More »Microsoft, Epic, and Unity withdraw from GDC
However, the conference is reportedly still going ahead
Read More »Xbox Console Streaming rolls out to all Xbox Insider participants
"We view the public preview as an important step in our journey to deliver game streaming to Xbox players around the world"
Read More »Xbox’s next-gen system will have backwards compatibility from ‘day one’
"We wanted to make sure we had that, day one, we could deliver on the compatibility promise"
Read More »Microsoft simplifies brand of next generation of home consoles to just “Xbox”
The new console's generation starts with the Xbox Series X
Read More »Why has Microsoft announced the Xbox Series X console so early? Because it needs time to play out its multi-console release strategy
A two-pronged console launch would be a very tricky beast to manage
Read More »Welcome to the X Games: The rise of external development
No modern triple-A game is created without the help of external developers. But the sector isn’t sitting still.
Read More »Microsoft insists it has ‘no plans for cloud-exclusive content at this time’
Despite reports of "early talks with first- and third- parties" the company says xCloud will be "complementary to console"
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