Microsoft is expanding storage options for Xbox Series X/S, allowing external USB drives larger than 16 terabytes through a new update. This will be beneficial for managing game libraries, especially for the Xbox Series S.

Xbox has some killer games on the way, and soon, too. Will the incoming software wave be enough to bolster Game Pass and inspire confidence for unsure Xbox owners?

It’s been a tough few years for the Xbox brand. The early going of its console lacked the big haymaker titles to make its platform shine as bright as its competitors. Despite being an excellent, and cheap,

While Xbox Game Pass rarely goes a month without getting at least something new that’s worth checking out, it’s certainly had its dry spells in recent years. The back half of January, however, has quietly revealed a surprising number of cool new games hitting the Netflix-like subscription service,

At the third annual Xbox Developer Direct event, previously-unannounced games and release dates were revealed. And Ninja Gaiden 2 Black came out, too.

A new report shows that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard hasn't been as helpful to Xbox Game Pass as the company hoped.

Beyond these four games, Microsoft has a busy year ahead of it: Avowed, Fable, and The Outer Worlds 2 are all slated for 2025, too, though they weren’t showcased during the Thursday Xbox Developer Direct. Here’s what was.

The show begins at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 23. You can watch it on the YouTube stream posted above and at the Xbox Twitch channel, the Xbox ASL Twitch channel, the Bethesda YouTube channel, the Bethesda Twitch channel and the Xbox page on Facebook .

Xbox fans, that marks another year of dualities. Microsoft is likely to have its most potent year in first-party content in history. After almost a decade of requests from Xbox fans, Microsoft's acquisition spree is finally starting to bear fruit.

Xbox acknowledges an ongoing issue affecting app performance, causing them to become increasingly laggy after extended periods of playback.

Microsoft has mentioned a potential Xbox handheld a number of times in the past few years, with Phil Spencer (Xbox head honcho) mentioning in late 2024 that Microsoft loves "building devices". Speaking to Bloomberg, Spencer said this while declaring his admiration of handheld platforms: The "expectation is that we would do something" in that space.