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America's Biggest Video Games Union Goes on Strike

It seeks to limit the number of outsourced jobs after Microsoft’s recent moves.

By Shannon Liao
Opinion

Xbox’s Success Means Little To Actual Xbox Owners

500 million monthly players don’t mean a whole lot to players burned by a lack of support.

By Trone Dowd
Gaming News

The Xbox Game Pass Price Hike Just Gave The FTC More Ammo Against Microsoft

The FTC governing body accused Microsoft of "introducing a degraded product." Experts talked to Inverse about the latest and what it means.

By Trone Dowd
Xbox

Microsoft Might Have Ditched a Huge Xbox Series X Redesign for This Mild Refresh

Looks like we're not getting a rounded Xbox this year.

By Jackson Chen
AI

Microsoft Thinks the Key to Making Chatbots More Reliable Is... More Chatbots

What could go wrong?

By Jackson Chen
Microsoft

How Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops Earn the Title of “First AI PC”

Let's demystify what we mean by “AI PC” and whether it’s worth all the rage.

By Emma Madden
Opinion

Microsoft Is Giving Windows a Memory and It Might Change Everything

Do we want our computers to remember everything we did on them? Yes.

By Ian Carlos Campbell
Opinion

AI Can’t Change the Surface Pro’s Ugliest Truth

It might as well be false advertising at this point.

By Ian Carlos Campbell
Opinion

You Absolutely Don’t Need AI To Tell You How to Make A Sword In Minecraft

Yet another way for AI to ruin gaming.

By Robin Bea
AI

Microsoft’s New AI Feature Can Remember Everything You Ever Do on Your PC

Windows 11 is getting is getting an AI-supercharged memory.

By James Pero
Microsoft

Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops Are Here to Destroy the M3 MacBook Air

They’ll come with a bunch of AI features, too.

By Jackson Chen
AI

Microsoft’s New AI Makes Convincing Deepfakes Worryingly Easy

The potential for misuse feels dangerous with VASA-1.

By Jackson Chen
Opinion

Microsoft’s New Surfaces Need to Beat MacBooks or Die Trying

Microsoft has the AI chops and big chip plans, but it needs to prove that those add up to a better experience than what Apple offers.

By Ian Carlos Campbell
Retrospective

8 Years Ago, Microsoft’s AR Headset Flopped So the Vision Pro Could Soar

The HoloLens never made it to consumers and never became the AR headset Microsoft imagined, but its ideas are still alive in modern headsets like the Vision Pro.

By Ian Carlos Campbell
Xbox

This SpongeBob Xbox Series X Is Microsoft's Best Custom Console Yet

Expect these to sell out immediately.

By Raymond Wong
The Video Games Issue

Xbox exec reveals how Microsoft finally fixed the worst thing about gaming

Director of Program Management Jason Ronald reveals how Microsoft's ambitious project to preserve older games came to life.

By Jen Glennon
Review

Not Even Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2 Can Give Copilot Its Driver’s License

I married Microsoft’s top-of-the-line hardware with its top-of-the-line AI and the result wasn’t exactly a compelling next-gen experience.

By James Pero
Cloud Gaming

Microsoft-Sega deal: Don't expect an acquisition soon

The beginning of a beautiful friendship?

By Tomas Franzese
Gaming

Microsoft's latest gaming innovation could make life difficult for this competitor

Microsoft Store's revenue split for developers is changing on August 1.

By Tomas Franzese
Gaming

Sonic 2 Xbox controllers are Microsoft’s wildest collab yet

The power of fur in the palm of your hand.

By Jen Glennon
Flight Patterns

Look: 11 jaw-dropping photos from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

The most convenient way to travel around the world is now on Xbox Series X|S.

By Joseph Yaden
Gear

Microsoft Surface Studio 2+ — in pictures

Spoiler: This massive 28-inch touchscreen desktop is glorious.

By Raymond Wong
hands on

Microsoft Surface Pro 9 — in pictures

With Arm chips, a brand new slate of colors, and a 120Hz display, Microsoft's Surface Pro 9 is a solid upgrade.

By James Pero
Look

Look: Microsoft-Activision deal in 7 staggering numbers

It’s a watershed moment for the video games industry.

By Joseph Yaden
Gaming

I Can’t Stop Myself From Wanting Microsoft’s New Swirly Xbox Controller

Once again Xbox introduces a new official controller that I do not need but desperately want.

By James Pero
News

The Microsoft-Activision Deal Just Hit a Massive Roadblock

Game over?

By Hayes Madsen
Gear

Microsoft's Surface Studio 2+ could be an illustrator's dream PC

The new Surface Studio 2+ isn’t exactly the Studio 3, but at least the CPU and GPU are much faster, and there are Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports.

By Raymond Wong
AI

Microsoft’s New Copilot App Isn't Just a Feature, It's Now the Whole Point of Windows 11

Microsoft is making generative AI an inescapable aspect of using Windows.

By James Pero
Xbox

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X Wraps Customize the Console in Seconds

They’re way easier to put on than a traditional skin.

By Jackson Chen
Gaming

Halo Infinite's Juneteenth "Bonobo" skin is a shocking failure by Microsoft

Yikes.

By Hayes Madsen