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Bungie’s new extraction shooter, Marathon, blew past expectations during its open Server Slam stress test, peaking at roughly 143,621 concurrent players on Steam during the first day of testing — a result that both validates strong market interest and raises urgent technical and strategic...

Forza Horizon 6 will let you pick up where you left off on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation — and that confirmation matters more than you might think for the future of big-budget, cross-platform live services. Playground Games has reportedly confirmed full cross-save between platforms — expanding...

Bungie’s Steam store page now lists the PC system requirements for Marathon, confirming that the studio has targeted a broad slice of PC hardware for its March 5, 2026 launch and opening pre-orders for Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The published specs set a modest bar on the minimum...

Among Us remains one of the most efficient ways to turn an ordinary evening into a session of paranoia, laughter, and heated voting — and for Windows players it’s still one of the easiest multiplayer games to install, run, and enjoy on modern PCs. This feature explains exactly how to get Among...

Among Us is one of the quickest multiplayer pick‑up games to install and play on Windows, and you can be in a lobby within minutes whether you use Steam or the Microsoft Store — but a few small setup choices and connection tweaks will save time and frustration. This feature walks through...

Ooblets’ announcement for Xbox One and Windows 10 landed as an immediately charming — and oddly ambitious — piece of news: a tiny two‑person studio promising a cozy, creature‑collecting farming sim with full Xbox Play Anywhere and Cross Play support, published under the Double Fine Presents...

Halo Studios’ decision to ship Halo: Campaign Evolved as a campaign-focused remake — with robust co-op but deliberately no player‑vs‑player (PvP) multiplayer — is both a defensive design choice and a strategic reset: the team is choosing to perfect a single, heritage-defining experience rather...

Gears of War: Reloaded hit my PC with all the polish and performance of a modern remaster — and also with a nasty, unexpected side effect: I felt nauseous within minutes until one toggle in the game settings changed everything. Background / Overview Gears of War: Reloaded is the newest remaster...

Borderlands 4’s launch has delivered the series’ trademark mayhem and a spike in player numbers — but the conversation this week has been dominated less by loot and boss fights than by stuttering frame rates, crashes on PC, and a CEO publicly telling frustrated players to “code your own engine.”...

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered reintroduces one of the franchise’s most beloved arcade racers with contemporary polish—updated textures, cross-platform multiplayer via Autolog, and all previously released DLC bundled into a single package—while also surfacing the practical trade-offs...

Sony’s Helldivers 2 has crashed Xbox’s best‑seller list and — for a brief, loud moment — is outselling Microsoft’s own heavyweights on the Xbox storefront, an unusual reversal that speaks to how cross‑platform releases and live‑service economics are reshaping console competition today. The...

This week’s Xbox calendar (August 25–29) reads like a high-stakes festival for players: a canonical remaster of a defining shooter, a long-awaited console arrival for a runaway multiplayer hit, a faithful -- and controversial -- remake of a PlayStation-era classic, and a stylish Shinobi revival...

Pac‑Man’s 45th anniversary is getting a proper party: Bandai Namco’s year‑long “Make imPACt” campaign has been joined this weekend by an Xbox Free Play Days spotlight that lets Game Pass members jump into three Pac‑Man titles for free while limited‑time discounts make ownership tempting...

The week of August 11–17 delivers a crowded roster of new Xbox releases, headlined by EA Sports’ long-awaited Madden NFL 26 and punctuated by a surprise QuakeCon shadowdrop: the remastered Heretic + Hexen pack, now available on Xbox Game Pass. For players still holding onto Xbox One hardware...

Square Enix has officially confirmed that support for Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) on Windows 10 will come to an end on October 14, 2025, a date synchronizing precisely with Microsoft’s own termination of security updates for the aging operating system. For millions of FFXIV players on PC, this...

Microsoft’s relentless pursuit of the perfect cloud gaming experience reaches a new milestone with its latest test: letting Xbox users stream their personally owned games directly through the Xbox PC app, thereby removing the once-inextricable bond between purchases and required downloads...

If you've faced issues with automatic updates on Windows 11, you're not alone. Many users encounter disruptions that hinder critical updates from successfully installing. Fortunately, Microsoft provides multiple methods to manually install updates, ensuring your device is always up-to-date with...

this is for people that want to play against their mates but are having crossplay issues Steam players: need to right click Stellaris from the steam ui, pick properites then Betas and the cross_play server... if you now see Stellaris [Stellaris_Test] in the game title you got it right...

Link Removed Join your favorite heroes in Story Mode as they team up to battle the frightening Ultron Sigma, the merged form of Ultron and Sigma, who plans to unleash a virus that will decimate all organic life. Or, you can try your hand at Arcade Mode where every win will advance you towards a...

Below are some additional news highlights out of gamescom 2017 from Xbox Wire. World’s Most Powerful Console Makes European Debut and Kickstarts Global Pre-orders LIMITED pre-orders are now open and available for Xbox One X here. During Xbox @ gamescom Live, we announced global pre-orders...