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Gears POP! is now available to download on Android and iOS; includes Xbox Live achievements
by Lewis White
2 months
Gears Pop!, the Funko Pop tactics interpretation of Xbox’s first-party Gears of War game, is now live on Android and iOS. For the first time ever on mobile, Gears of War & Funko Pop! have joined forces to deliver you exp...
Gears 5 will require a mandatory Xbox Live login on Steam; PC requirements revealed
by Lewis White
2 months
Gears 5 may be a key Microsoft exclusive but the AAA third-person action game is also one of the company’s wave of titles releasing on Steam. With Microsoft hoping to create a multiplatform ecosystem for Xbox Live, the fif...
Subscription services won’t replace traditional game purchases, says Warner Bros boss
by Lewis White
4 months
Ever since the reveal of EA Access, the video game subscription service has been a booming success. With Xbox Game Pass, Ubisoft’s Uplay+, and more, the subscription service boom has some gamers scared: will they replace tra...
Confirmed: Xbox Live Gamertags are becoming more Discord-like
by Lewis White
4 months
Major Nelson has confirmed that Xbox’s iconic Gamertag system will be changing in the future. In the future, players will be able to change their name to whatever they want, no matter whether or not someone else has the same...
Xbox Game Bar’s Looking for Groups feature is rolling out now on Windows 10 PCs
by Lewis White
5 months
Update: Looking for Groups is rolling out now for the newly titled Xbox Game Bar. Announced by Major Nelson on Twitter, the Xbox Game Bar aims to be more in line with the Xbox One experience on consoles. Are you going to try it ou...
Windows 10 Game Bar now has Xbox One Groups feature
by Lewis White
5 months
Windows 10’s Game Bar tool has been updated with yet another Xbox One feature: Looking for Groups. Found within the beta version of Microsoft’s software, the Groups feature allows Windows users to quickly find other pl...
Nearly 10 million people are already subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online
by Lewis White
6 months
9.8 million people are now subscribed to Nintendo’s online service, Nintendo Switch Online. After being available since September, 2018, the service has claimed nearly 10 million users in just eight months. Nintendo Switch O...
Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo under investigation for “unfair” online services
by Lewis White
6 months
Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo may have stood together on The Game Awards stage last December to celebrate video games, but now they stand together as part of a government investigation. Headed by the UK government’s Competi...
Price of Xbox Live Gold subscription increasing for UK players
by Ash
6 months
Microsoft have confirmed that it’s raising the price of an Xbox Live Gold subscription for UK users, according to an article from Gamespot. A Microsoft spokesperson told Gamespot that prices will rise by £1 a month for mont...