On November 15, 2001, Bill Gates (and The Rock) unveiled a new gaming console called the “Xbox”. Later this year, the Xbox line will celebrate its 25th anniversary and Microsoft is ready with a ...

E3 might be dead, but the E3-era console-war gusto is in full resurrection mode thanks to Xbox and PlayStation’s rekindled “exclusives” rivalry. Thankfully, there’s Summer Game Fest — and Xbox’s own ...

The Wolf Among Us 2: A Telltale Series will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in 2027, developer Telltale Games and co-publisher ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

A hot potato: For more than a decade, the Xbox One stood as a remarkable exception in console security – a machine long considered impervious to hacking attempts. That reputation is now over. At the ...

The Xbox One was, on almost every front, a monumental failure. I could wax poetic about Don Mattrick’s abysmal showing at E3 2013 for hours, but the end result is all you need, as the PlayStation 4 ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it's a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to limit screen time with them, but as someone who has fond memories ...

Those still on Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series X just got some great news to start 2026. Obviously, it has been 13 calendar years since the launch of the Xbox One. And while the Xbox One is not ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, ...

The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...