News April 10, 2023 Microsoft has stopped warranty service of Xbox consoles in Russia Owners of Xbox consoles from Russia can no longer apply for warranty repairs directly to Microsoft. The Izvestia newspaper, with reference to the technical support of the corporation, reported that Microsoft had stopped warranty service in the country “due to the current situation.”
News March 23, 2023 Microsoft has introduced a set of tools for eco-friendly game development Microsoft has been trying for several years to reduce its negative impact on the climate. Now she has announced a new initiative. At the GDC 2023 conference, Microsoft presented a set of tools for eco—friendly game development – the Xbox Developer Sustainability ToolKit.
News March 22, 2023 Over 10 years, Microsoft has paid over $4 billion to indie developers as part of ID@Xbox Microsoft has celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ID@Xbox program. In honor of this, she shared a number of numbers.
News March 20, 2023 Microsoft is going to open an Xbox mobile store in 2024 The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division in an interview with the Financial Times said that the corporation could open an Xbox store for mobile devices as early as next year. This will happen if regulators approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard.
News March 1, 2023 Phil Spencer Believes AI can Help Take Video Games to the next level The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division gave an interview to the Xbox On channel. During the conversation, Phil Spencer touched upon, among other things, the topic of artificial intelligence and video games.
News January 25, 2023 Quarterly revenue of Microsoft’s gaming division fell by 13% The corporation told about this in the report for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022).
News January 19, 2023 Layoffs at Microsoft affected the gaming division On January 18, Microsoft confirmed that it would lay off 10,000 people. As it became known to the media, among others, developers from Bethesda, 343 Industries and The Coalition were reduced.
News December 5, 2022 Microsoft: starting in 2023, the company’s flagship games from internal studios will cost $70 The company confirmed in a comment to IGN that from the beginning of next year it plans to raise the cost of its main titles for the Xbox Series X/S.
News November 15, 2022 Phil Spencer is ready to discuss with Sony and regulators a longer stay of Call of Duty on PlayStation This was stated by the head of Xbox in the framework of the Decoder podcast. He did not name the approximate period for which Call of Duty may linger on Sony consoles, but noted that it is a bit silly to expect Microsoft to sign a contract with the word “forever”.
News October 27, 2022 Phil Spencer: “Xbox product prices will rise” An amazing generation of consoles. Prices for devices and services do not fall over time, but rather grow. In August, Sony announced a price tag increase for the PlayStation 5, now Microsoft does not exclude its products either.
News October 20, 2022 Developers are actively trying to abandon the release of games on the Xbox Series S This statement was made by Ian Maclure, special effects artist at Bossa Studios. He explained that many studios have already managed to work with new-generation consoles and were dissatisfied with the first experience precisely because the Xbox Series S “hung like a stone around its neck.”
News October 11, 2022 Analyst: PS5 shipments to the US increased by 400% year-on-year in September Such data was shared by David Gibson from MST Financial. According to him, in September Sony shipped about 7.5 thousand tons of consoles to the United States.
News October 10, 2022 In 2021, Microsoft earned $2.9 billion on the Xbox Game Pass The corporation told about this in a report for the Brazilian antimonopoly regulator, which checked the deal with Activision Blizzard.
News September 29, 2022 The release immediately on the Game Pass usually provides the game with an audience of 230 thousand people This figure was named by Simon Carless. Let’s clarify that we are talking about the median, not the average value.
News September 5, 2022 The head of Xbox Game Studios hopes that AI will be able to replace game testers in the future Matt Booty has already asked Microsoft‘s research department to address this problem
News September 5, 2022 The head of Xbox Game Studios: the days when the studio could work alone on an AAA game are long gone The processes of game development are changing, Matt Booty is sure. In his opinion, now more and more often several teams are engaged in one game at once.
News August 26, 2022 Microsoft Wants to Make Cloud Gaming on TV as Easy as Watching Movies on Netflix This was stated by Harrison Hoffman, chief product manager at Xbox. He said that although the corporation pays a lot of attention to streaming cloud games to smartphones, it is much more interested in the possibility of broadcasting games to televisions.
News August 25, 2022 Phil Spencer stated that he is wary of P2E games Last November, the head of Xbox shared concerns about P2E games. Yesterday, in an interview with Bloomberg, he repeated that he still considers some projects with blockchain and NFT exploitative.
News August 24, 2022 Phil Spencer expects that game exclusives will be released less and less often During a conversation with Bloomberg, the head of Xbox also touched on the topic of games. In his opinion, in the future, exclusives will be replaced by titles with crossplay support, although not everyone likes them now.
News July 29, 2022 The former head of Xbox said that the company encouraged console wars Peter Moore, who led Microsoft‘s gaming division until 2007, shared his memories in the Front Office Sports podcast. He said that at the time of the launch of the Xbox 360, the company saw console wars as an opportunity to challenge Sony.