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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 […]
Read moreXbox is hosting a quiet, dirt-cheap backward compatibility sale for some of the best original Xbox and Xbox 360 games. The sale highlights over 100 classic games, all of which are playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X. The back-compat sale goes up to 85% off and ends Monday, Jan. 24. You can get classics like Timesplitters 2 and […]
Read moreIf Xbox Live Games with Gold was facing an existential crisis at the turn of a new console generation, the service’s catalog didn’t reflect it over the course of 2021. Players, subscribers, and games press like myself still may have rolled their eyes and wondered how long Microsoft could continue balancing the free-games obligation of a Gold membership with Xbox […]
Read moreXbox Live Gold subscribers get four more games thanks to Xbox Games with Gold in December, Microsoft announced Tuesday. On Dec. 1, players will get access to The Escapist 2 and the original Orcs Must Die!. Then on Dec. 16 players will get access to Tropico 5 — Penultimate Edition and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Games With Gold already gave […]
Read moreIf 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 […]
Read moreXbox 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 […]
Read moreSpace 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 […]
Read moreXbox 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 […]
Read moreThere 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 […]
Read moreXbox 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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