Steam is the most popular gaming platform of the last two years. This conclusion was reached by the PR manager of TweakTown, who compared the MAU of four large console and desktop platforms.

Microsoft has blocked Russian users from being able to connect an Xbox Live subscription over the Internet through its own store. You can now activate a subscription only through third-party retailers.

In March, Microsoft will introduce a new SDK for cross-platform support of the service.

The price tags in rubles have disappeared from the Microsoft Store. Now the purchase of games and applications for PC and Xbox in the store will be made only for dollars.

Microsoft reported earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2018, which ended for the company on March 31 of this year. The Xbox division’s revenue during this period reached $2.251 billion. This is 18% more than at the same time last year.

An action adventure with cooperative gameplay Sea of Thieves gathered more than 2 million gamers during the launch week. Half of this number played in the new Rare and Microsoft project on the day of the game’s release on March 20, according to the Xbox news service.

According to rumors, Microsoft is ready to radically deal with the lack of exclusives for Xbox. To do this, the IT giant is eyeing the purchase of Electronic Arts and other gaming companies.

Microsoft’s gaming division generated $1.9 billion in revenue from sales of games on Xbox and Windows 10 in the third quarter of the fiscal year.

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Live service in the Windows 8 version, as well as the launch line of games for it. Each of these games can be played on any device with the new Microsoft platform on board – be it a PC, laptop or, what is relevant in our case, a tablet. 

The developer of am games for Windows Phone, who has not yet been among the Xbox Live-certified developers, has the courage to pay attention to the OpenXLive social gaming platform. By the way, not so long ago a new version (0.9.9) of its SDK arrived.

The other day we wrote that Angry Birds and PES do not work on new budget smartphones from Nokia (namely Lumia 610). Just last night it turned out that the problems are not only with the gadgets of the Finnish manufacturer. It turns out that in addition to the mentioned applications on budget devices, about 25% of mobile Xbox Live games will not work on Windows Phone.