The Xbox community’s mood has swung from guarded optimism to open frustration in a matter of weeks — and that swing isn’t just internet drama. What began as a strategic repositioning of Xbox Game Pass and a renewed push toward cloud-first offerings has turned into a public relations crisis with...
I pulled my old Project Scorpio Xbox One X out of the closet, installed the Black Ops 7 beta, and spent a few unforgiving hours trying to make the case that last‑generation consoles still belong in the conversation — only to walk away convinced that, for this franchise at least, the era of...
Microsoft’s plan to offer a free, ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming marks a pivotal shift in the company’s cloud strategy — one that could widen access to streaming games while reshaping how Microsoft monetizes playtime across devices.
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Microsoft has spent years positioning...
Rumors that Xbox is abandoning console hardware in favor of an all-cloud future are overstated: Microsoft’s multi-year partnership with AMD, continued production of Xbox Series X|S hardware, and public statements from Xbox leadership make it clear the company still plans to ship devices — but...
Microsoft’s decision to raise Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $19.99 to $29.99 a month — a 50% jump that rolled in partner perks like Fortnite Crew and a promise of “75+ day‑one releases” — has turned what was widely billed as gaming’s best-value subscription into a contested experiment in platform...
Canceling Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is quick and straightforward: you can stop recurring billing from your Microsoft account, directly from an Xbox console, or from a Windows PC, and you’ll keep access to the service until the end of your current paid period.
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Microsoft’s October overhaul of Xbox Game Pass is the largest restructuring the subscription has seen since its 2017 debut — and it has changed the math for millions of players overnight. In a single announcement Microsoft renamed and recast the lower tiers, bumped up PC Game Pass pricing, and...
Microsoft’s October overhaul of Game Pass jacks the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by roughly 50% while adding high-profile perks — Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ Classics, better cloud streaming and a promise of 75+ day‑one releases a year — yet the one feature many families asked for for years, a...
Xbox’s Game Pass shake-up is dramatic by design: the company has restructured tiers, rolled cloud access into lower plans, bundled partner services, promised a surge of day‑one releases — and bumped Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $19.99 to $29.99 a month, a 50% increase that landed with immediate...
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Microsoft’s September platform refresh for Xbox shipped with more than a few tidy UI fixes — but also with clear strategic intent: make Xbox’s services feel less like separate islands and more like one living, cross-device ecosystem built around discovery, cloud saves, and on‑demand AI help. The...
The new OD teaser — a moody, P.T.-tinged vignette that dropped during Kojima Productions’ 10th‑anniversary stream — does more than tease a game: it makes a deliberate, high‑risk statement about where cinematic horror and modern game technology might collide. The three‑minute “Knock” trailer...
Valve has set a firm deadline: beginning January 1, 2026, the Steam desktop client will no longer be supported on 32‑bit versions of Windows — a move that freezes the client on any remaining Windows 10 32‑bit installations and pushes the platform fully onto a 64‑bit baseline.
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Steam will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows on January 1, 2026 — a decision that closes the last mainstream holdout for 32‑bit Windows on Valve’s gaming platform and forces the small number of remaining Windows 10 32‑bit users to plan a near‑term migration if they want continued...
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Valve has set a firm deadline: beginning January 1, 2026, the Steam desktop client will stop receiving official support on 32‑bit editions of Windows — effectively ending the platform’s last holdout for 32‑bit Windows and forcing the tiny remaining cohort of users on Windows 10 32‑bit to migrate...
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Valve will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows for the Steam desktop client on January 1, 2026, a decision that effectively ends a long era of 32‑bit platform compatibility while imposing a clear migration deadline for the tiny fraction of users still running Windows 10 (32‑bit)...
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Steam’s decision to stop supporting 32‑bit versions of Windows on January 1, 2026 closes the last major chapter of 32‑bit desktop gaming on the platform and forces a small—but real—slice of users to migrate or accept an unsupported, increasingly risky configuration.
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Steam will stop supporting Windows 32‑bit installations on January 1, 2026, a move that, if confirmed and implemented as reported, will leave the vanishingly small number of users still running Windows 10 in its 32‑bit form without client updates, security fixes, or official Steam Support help —...
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Valve’s Steam client will stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows on January 1, 2026, a decision that closes the final mainstream chapter for 32‑bit Windows on the platform and forces a small—but real—cohort of users to migrate, back up data, or accept an unsupported client.
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Microsoft’s pitch for Windows 11 promised more than a new skin — it promised a gaming OS that would feel like it was built from the ground up for modern play: Auto HDR to breathe new life into older titles, DirectStorage to make load screens and texture pop-in fade into memory, and tighter Xbox...
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Microsoft has quietly reworked the Xbox app on Windows 11 into a genuine one‑stop hub for PC gaming, and the implications reach well beyond a refreshed launcher: the app now aggregates installed titles from multiple storefronts, lets you launch non‑Microsoft games without opening third‑party...
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