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New reports show that Microsoft has tried and ultimately failed to convince Activision's management to put its games on Xbox Game Pass subscriptions.

Although Microsoft owns Minecraft, the mega-hit block-builder earns much more revenue on competing platforms like the Switch and PlayStation than on Xbox.

The ZeniMax acquisition, codenamed Project Atom, used a sliding-scale 'Neutrino Model' to determine the effects of taking ZeniMax games exclusive to Xbox.

All future ZeniMax and Bethesda games, including new IP and upcoming entries like Fallout 5 and The Elder Scrolls VI, may be made exclusive to XXbox.

An internal Microsoft report shared with employees may hint that advertisements may become a bigger part of Xbox's video games business in the future.

In a poorly-redacted report that was uploaded to a public federal court folder, Sony admits that it does sometimes require subscription exclusivity.

NVIDIA and Microsoft signed multi-year deals that offer Xbox and Activision content to GeForce Now, and an addendum may have lowered Windows license costs.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a radical idea about game exclusivity--if it were up to him, there would be no platform exclusives, Xbox or otherwise.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick strongly indicates that Activision games could be made available on content subscriptions & streaming if the price is right.

A Twitter user was surprised to see Bard recommend an Apple smartphone rather than Android, but in other circumstances, Bard will favor Android.

FTC's principal witness, economist Dr. Robin Lee, missed a valuable opportunity to highlight the sheer magnitude of Activision-Blizzard's megaton games.

More juicy info from the ongoing Microsoft versus FTC court case, this time with the revelation that Microsoft is planning to make Windows cloud-based.

Sony PlayStation boss Jim Ryan tells federal courts that he believes Bobby Kotick wanted to make a backup deal for Activision in case merger failed.

In sworn testimony in the FTC v Microsoft court case, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says he believes Microsoft will use Call of Duty to damage Sony gaming.

Xbox gaming missed management's internal annual revenue estimates by $780 million, and also failed to meet expected Xbox Game Pass subscription growth.

WinGPT is written in C and brings an AI assistant to this ancient version of Windows, featuring some amusing responses to queries, as you might imagine.

Microsoft aspires to make Xbox reach global games industry leadership by 2030, and double total Xbox gaming revenues across the next 7-year timeframe.

Microsoft's internal mergers and acquisitions consideration list from 2021 includes 100+ devs/publishers like Bungie, CD Projekt RED, Hello Games, SEGA.

Xbox is a separate business unit with its own profit targets within Microsoft: 'There's no part of our business where I get to lose money over time'

Minecraft is the top-earning Xbox game of all time, and that's largely because of the game's availability on PlayStation,Switch, PC, and other platforms.

Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he has no interest in using Sony's tactics of paying third-party studios for exclusivity deals to skip PlayStation.

Citing recent advances in its quantum computing research and a new roadmap, Microsoft is planning to build its first quantum supercomputer within 10 years.

Microsoft does not expect Activision's 8x separate billion-dollar franchises to help it grow the Xbox console business on a post-acquisition basis.

Despite the current friction, assessment indicates that Microsoft and Sony are likely to strike a mutually beneficial agreement for Call of Duty licensing.

Microsoft invested $10 billion into OpenAI for the underlying software powering ChatGPT, and now the AI is generating Windows 11 keys.

Having already bought timed exclusivity for two Bethesda games back-to-back, Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5 billion to stave off Sony's 'hostile' deals.

Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming initiative was originally created to bring Xbox games to mobile devices, but the streaming offshoot has 'missed traction'

Starfield will have quiet and solemn moments of introspection as Bethesda creates a sense of wonder from 'magnificent desolation' of barren planets.

In its quest to acquire its way into the mega-billion mobile market, Microsoft identified 1,000 potential buyout targets...one of which was Zynga.

The Elder Scrolls VI (TES6) is so far away that Microsoft is not ready to announce Xbox exclusivity just yet, Phil Spencer won't commit to exclusivity.

Microsoft Xbox sees Sony PlyStation as a hostile competitor, with Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer outlining how Microsoft is iadvertently funding its demise.

Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer briefly outlines the general business arrangements that Microsoft makes with developers to bring games to Xbox Game Pass.

Bethesda's Pete Hines reveals why Bethesda Games Studios recommended that Starfield go full Xbox exclusive, talks about positivity of exclusivity delas.

Project xCloud, Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming streaming fork, may not ever get its own dedicated standalone service release due to business logistics.

Microsoft lawyers reiterates that the company still expects next-gen Gen10 consoles like the PlayStation 6 (PS6) and next Xbox to launch sometime in 2028.

Microsoft's Project xCloud Xbox Game Streaming platform is a costly venture given the nascent tech as well as its console-based hardware infrastructure.

Activision threatened to not launch its powerful $31 billion Call of Duty franchise on Xbox Gen9 unless Microsoft offered a favorable revenue split.

Xbox gaming CEO Phil Spencer has the final authority on whether or not a game is made exclusive to the Xbox console and PC platform ecosystem of products.

If Microsoft acquires Activision, then Sony will stop sharing details and info about its new PlayStation consoles with the Call of Duty publisher.

Clippy first saw the light of day - by which we mean the Microsoft Office helper was designed - on a Mac, not a Windows PC as you might have expected.

MachineGames' new Indiana Jones game was originally a multi-platform game, but has now become an Xbox exclusive after Microsoft's acquisition at ZeniMax.

In private emails Sony's CEO Jim Ryan says that Sony will be 'more than okay' if the merger goes through and that he didn't believe COD would be withheld.

As part of a new preview build for Windows 11, Microsoft is looking to streamline File Explorer by cutting some of the least used Folder Options.

For game developers, adding DLSS 3 support into Unreal Engine 5 powered games just got a lot easier thanks to a new NVIDIA plugin.

By introducing a price increase in its console subscription model, Xbox Game Pass is entering the next phase of its value-oriented business cycle.

Microsoft is raising the price of Xbox Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate on console in many countries, but the PC version is unaffected. Here's why.

Microsoft is reportedly raising the price of its Xbox Series X consoles and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions in major worldwide regions outside of the U.S.

The Sims 4 horse expansion was previously rumored, but there were doubters of its existence - they can doubt no longer, though, as it's all but confirmed.

Mercesdes-Benz has announced that customers will be able to opt-in to a new beta that initiates an update that adds ChatGPT to their vehicle.

A friendly reminder that pirating an operating system like Windows 10 is a dangerous game, especially when they arrive packed with malware.