Feature: These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (March 30-April 3)
Including five more Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for March 30 - April 3! We haven't got any major AAA releases lined up for the next few days, but there are still plenty of interesting indies to look out for, while Xbox Game Pass is treating us to five additions highlighted…
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 28-29)
Is it time for some Yakuza?Welcome to the final weekend in March! This week, the clocks change here in the UK, which means an extra hour of much-needed sunlight - at the expense of an hour's sleep of course.When we're not adjusting our body clocks for British Summer Time, here's what we're playing…
Talking Point: Xbox GPU Members, What Do You Think Of 'Ubisoft+ Classics' So Far?
The program was added to Ultimate almost six months ago.It's been almost six months now since Xbox announced that, as part of a massive overhaul to Xbox Game Pass, a service called "Ubisoft+ Classics" would be integrated into the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers.In the process, around…
Hello Neighbor Receives Unlikely Free Upgrade For Xbox Series X|S
Nine years since its original launch.Of all the games we expected to get the free upgrade treatment for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, 2017's Hello Neighbor was not one of them! Nevertheless, this new "Next-Gen Update" sounds like a pretty meaty overhaul.As detailed on social media, Hello…
Microsoft Issues Statement On Why 'This Is An Xbox' Campaign Has Been Retired
MS spokesperson confirms it's been nixed by the new Xbox boss.It's official, folks! Following a report earlier this week that suggested new Xbox boss Asha Sharma had directed the scrubbing of the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign, it's now been confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson.We don't know…
New Marvel & Mega Man Collections Are Out Now On Xbox, And The Reviews Are Decent
Here's a closer look at each of them.We've got a couple of big releases on the Xbox Store today for fans of retro games! Both the Marvel MaXimum Collection and Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection have just released, and they're getting decent reviews so far.Let's start with the Marvel MaXimum…
Sony Announces Major PS5 Price Hikes, Here's How They Compare To Xbox Series X|S
Series S looking like a bit of a bargain!Sony has today announced what our good friends at Push Square are calling "gigantic" PS5 price increases, including a $200 price bump on the company's flagship PS5 Pro console.Of course, Microsoft has done similar things in recent months and years - heck, we…
Life Is Strange: Reunion's Review Situation Is Weird, But It Seems Great On Xbox Series X|S
The first impressions from players are very positive.Yesterday marked the release day for Square Enix's Life is Strange: Reunion, but there wasn't a whole lot of fanfare around it - mainly because the reviews were so few and far between.We don't exactly know what's happened here, but the Metro…
Xbox Fan Claims To Have Spotted New Game Pass Codename Featuring Older First-Party Titles
An interesting development...There's been a lot of talk about Xbox Game Pass recently and whether Microsoft might be trying to implement a cheaper version of the program for subscribers (thanks to a report that was widely shared earlier this week), and so it's pretty interesting that one Xbox fan…
GOTY Frontrunner Resident Evil Requiem Gets Fresh Photo Mode In New Xbox Update
List of bug fixes also included.Capcom has detailed its latest patch for Resident Evil Requiem — which is out now on Xbox and other platforms — and this latest title update contains the first major feature to be added to the game post-launch: photo mode.Yep, a new in-game photo mode headlines…
'Xbox Presents' Is A New Type Of Showcase Debuting This May For Stranger Than Heaven
A first-of-its-kind standalone broadcast.One of the big reveals at today's Xbox Partner Preview showcase was that of Stranger Than Heaven, which has already been announced by SEGA before, but today got revealed for Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere.No release date though! That's seemingly…
Two Of 2025's Best Games Are Finally Getting Xbox Versions Soon
Dispatch and Hades 2 - the latter on Xbox Game Pass!Today's Xbox Partner Preview showcase was absolutely filled with great games, and two of 2025's very best games were finally announced to be getting Xbox versions as part of it - those being Dispatch and Hades 2.If you look at Metacritic, Hades 2…
Xbox Announces 14 Titles Coming To Game Pass At March's Partner Preview Showcase
A ridiculous amount of new XGP reveals!Xbox's March Partner Preview showcase is now over, and it was absolutely stacked with Game Pass reveals. Of the 19 games that were showcased during the event, 14 of them are coming to Xbox Game Pass day one - including some massive titles like Hades 2,…
Serious Sam Returns To Xbox With 'Shatterverse', And Its Developer Might Surprise You
A different direction for Sam.As part of the Xbox Partner Preview showcase today, Devolver Digital has announced Serious Sam: Shatterverse, and it's a bit of a different direction for the series both in theme and in terms of the folks developing it.Shatterverse is "a multiversal multiplayer FPS…
Roundup: All 19 Reveals From The Xbox Partner Preview Showcase (March 2026)
Everything we saw at today's event.Today marked the first Xbox Partner Preview showcase of 2026, with the event focusing on third-party reveals that are coming to Xbox (and Game Pass in many cases) at some point in the near future.The show was 30 minutes long, with some of the highlights including…
Poll: How Would You Grade March's Xbox Partner Preview Event?
Did you enjoy the show?The dust is now beginning to settle on the Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026!If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can catch the full thing over at our live coverage page, and we've also provided a separate recap of everything that happened as part of the…
Terminator, RoboCop Dev Is Making A New 'Hunter: The Reckoning' Game For Xbox
Say hello to Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish.Remember Hunter: The Reckoning for OG Xbox? Well, the vampiric series is back with another sequel - this time being developed by the folks behind Terminator: Resistance and Robocop: Rogue City, Teyon.Yep, this was a super-unexpected reveal from the…
Live: Watch The March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview Showcase Here
30 minutes of third-party Xbox reveals.Welcome to the Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026! This is the first version of this specific showcase we've seen in 2026, and as the name suggests, it's focused around third-party games.It's set to last around 30 minutes in all, and here's a bit of…
Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (March 26-29)
Live now through Sunday evening!The latest edition of Xbox Free Play Days has officially begun, and Microsoft has two games for us as part of the program this weekend - including Train Sim World 6: Thomas & Friends Edition (sorry, it's not the recently-released Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor…
It Was Asha Sharma's 'Direction' To Scrub 'This Is An Xbox' Marketing, Suggests Report
Someone with supposedly direct knowledge has chimed in.A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned how Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" advertisement on the official Xbox Wire website had been mysteriously removed, and that ad is still giving off a "404 Not Found" message at the time of writing.This naturally…