Microsoft has made its first Xbox Game Pass announcement of 2026, confirming a number of big hitters for January.

Yesterday, I reported that Microsoft's first-party Xbox handheld has been shelved, at least for now. Not to be confused with the ASUS partner device, codename Kennan, the first-party Xbox handheld was ...

Microsoft’s big focus for Windows is AI integration. Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ...

But Star Wars Outlaws leads the charge, landing on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on January 13. As the first-ever truly ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Bottom line: Microsoft's gamble on gaming subscriptions has reached a turning point. Xbox Game Pass, once an ambitious bet on a Netflix-for-games model, is now officially in the black, pulling in ...

The next generation of Xbox hardware will play your "entire Xbox console library," behave like a Windows PC gaming device when you want it to, and do away with pay-to-play multiplayer, according to a ...

PC gaming is wonderful. You can customize games as much as you desire, run them at high framerates, and enjoy all sorts of other useful advantages. But one really annoying part of gaming on a PC in ...

Microsoft has begun to roll out Gaming Copilot, its AI companion for gamers, to Windows 11 beta testers. The feature is available from the Windows Game Bar and is designed to be the "ultimate gaming ...

The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. The Xbox app is now a launcher for all of your PC games. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...