Microsoft Flight Simulator can now be played on your smartphone

You wouldn’t download an airplane, but you can absolutely use the internet to fly one. Microsoft Flight Simulator has made the leap to cloud streaming via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which means it’s now playable on a large number of devices with screens and internet connections. It’s worth a shot. As one of the best games of 2020, Microsoft Flight […]

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Xbox fix will let you resurrect your ancient Gamerpic

If you’re nostalgic for your ancient Xbox 360 Gamerpic — old enough to drive in some states — Xbox engineers have cooked up a way for you to restore it to your profile on a modern machine. Microsoft engineering lead Eden Marie revealed last night on Twitter that Xbox Series X players in the Alpha Skip Ahead Insider group now […]

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Xbox Games with Gold offers Midway Arcade Origins in July

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get four free games in July with Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program — or maybe they get 34 free games, if you count all the retro arcade hits in the Midway Arcade Origins anthology. The collection of coin-op classics, which launched for Xbox 360 in 2012, is the prize of […]

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Space Jam 2 is getting a video game tie-in

Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to the iconic ’90s sports comedy with Looney Tunes characters, is getting a video game tie-in. Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game will launch exclusively as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks program on July 1. It will become free-to-play on the Microsoft Store on July 15, according to […]

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Xbox Games with Gold offers Injustice: Gods Among Us in June

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get four free games under Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program in June, but they may only recognize one of them. That’s 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us. The DC Universe fighting game isn’t available until June 16, however. Injustice is an Xbox 360 game; all of June’s Games with Gold are […]

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Xbox Series X’s FPS Boost now available to 97 games

There are now 97 Xbox One games that support the Xbox Series X’s FPS Boost feature, Microsoft announced today, with a batch of around 70 titles adding the option after a dozen joined the club a week ago. The feature increases the framerate of some Xbox One games to 60 or 120 frames per second on the newer console. Xbox’s […]

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Xbox Games with Gold offers Dark Void, Contra prequel in April

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get four free games in April as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on April 1 with Games Farm’s action-role-playing game Vikings: Wolves of Midgard for Xbox One and Capcom’s flying shooter Dark Void for Xbox 360. All of April’s Games with […]

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