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After weeks of pre-orders, ASUS’s anniversary handheld is finally reaching buyers. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 starts shipping today, October 15, with Canadian shoppers first in line through Best Buy and the ASUS Store, and the United States launch carrying the same date and a $1,299 standalone price. The X20 marks 20 years of Republic … Read more

Xbox owners, clear some storage space. Forty new games land on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC over the next seven days, and it’s one of the busiest weeks of the year for the platform. Five of those launches are day-one Xbox Game Pass releases, so subscribers get a stacked week without spending an … Read more

Microsoft hasn’t given up on building its own Xbox handheld. According to a new report from Windows Central’s Jez Corden, the company’s in-house portable plans were sidelined — not scrapped — when Microsoft decided to go to market with the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally first. Corden reports that the Ally partnership was a deliberate strategy: … Read more

Xbox is going Hollywood in a big way. Today, the company announced XP, a brand-new entertainment division whose entire job is to take Xbox franchises beyond games and into movies, TV shows, merchandise, and live events. The name is a nod to “experience points,” the familiar stat every gamer knows. The announcement, shared on Oct. … Read more

Yesterday’s biggest Xbox rumor lasted about 24 hours. On Tuesday, The Verge reported that Xbox had signed a deal with Rockstar Games for the exclusive cloud streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto 6 — the kind of move that would have made Xbox Cloud Gaming the only way to play the decade’s most anticipated game … Read more

Microsoft’s worst-kept hardware secret is leaking out through its own website. Dataminers digging through the backend of Xbox Design Lab — the customization tool behind custom Xbox gamepads — have uncovered configuration records and 3D component models for a new pro controller, codenamed “Edessa,” that all but confirms the long-rumored Xbox Elite Series 3. The … Read more

Seven years after Gears 5, Marcus Fenix is back — and this time he’s going back to where it all started. Gears of War: E-Day launched today on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers can play it right now at no extra cost. E-Day is a prequel, … Read more

The Locust Horde is here early. Gears of War: E-Day has gone live on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and cloud today, October 1, as five-day early access opens for Premium Edition owners. Everyone else — including Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers — gets access when the full launch lands on Tuesday, … Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox chief has gone on the record to quash one of the industry’s loudest rumors: the company is not shopping its gaming division around. In a New York Times profile published Wednesday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma addressed the speculation head-on with a four-word denial: “Xbox is not for sale.” She followed it with a … Read more