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Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 stopped being incremental and started feeling strategic: Microsoft and partners focused less on single‑title gimmicks and more on solving long‑standing platform problems — shader stutter, inconsistent handheld performance, and sparse Arm support — by changing...

Creative Assembly’s long-running Total War series is stepping into the grimdark future: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 was revealed at The Game Awards 2025, and unlike any mainline Total War before it the title is being built for PC and consoles — PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — with actor...

Microsoft is reframing 2026 for Windows 11 as a year of surgical performance work rather than feature glut, putting gaming performance, system efficiency, and predictable frame times at the center of its roadmap. Background / Overview Microsoft’s public positioning for Windows 11 in 2026 centers...

Microsoft appears to be testing the outer edges of a bold — and technically messy — idea: expanding the legacy Xbox backlog beyond console silos and into Windows PCs and portable Windows handhelds. Recent insider chatter and storefront anomalies have reignited hope that original Xbox and Xbox...

Microsoft’s year-end wrap for PC gaming is both a reassurance and a roadmap: after a year that produced meaningful technical progress — from the Xbox Full Screen Experience on handhelds to the arrival of DirectX Raytracing 1.2 — the company has publicly committed to one central goal for 2026...

Microsoft’s pledge to tune Windows 11 specifically for gamers in 2026 marks a rare moment when the company is promising platform-level engineering fixes — not just another round of cosmetic gaming features — to address the persistent, practical problems that have long frustrated PC players...

Microsoft’s long reign as the default platform for PC gaming is suddenly under real pressure — and not only from Epic Store deals or console crossplay, but from an operating system that champions a different philosophy: SteamOS and the Proton compatibility layer. The shift is visible in...

Microsoft says it wants Windows 11 to be “the best place to play,” and it’s backing that claim with a coordinated, cross‑stack engineering push that touches the OS shell, power and scheduler behavior, the DirectX/graphics stack, driver delivery, and new AI‑assisted features designed first for...

Linux gaming has quietly crossed a new milestone: for the second month in a row the Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Linux users climbing to a record share of the platform, reaching 3.2% of all Steam users in November 2025 — a modest fraction of the total, but a clear and sustained uptrend...

Microsoft’s cross‑stack gaming push this year translated into tangible fixes for long‑standing PC woes: first‑run shader stalls are being precompiled and delivered at install time, handhelds are getting a console‑style UI and performance tuning, Windows on Arm compatibility took major strides...

Microsoft’s latest pledge to sharpen Windows 11 for gaming is far from a cosmetic refresh — it’s a cross‑stack engineering push that pairs visible consumer features with deep OS, driver, and developer tooling changes aimed at reducing shader stutter, steadying frame pacing on battery‑limited...

Microsoft’s renewed commitment to “fixing Windows’ gaming fundamentals” is not spin — it’s a concrete engineering shift with practical features and system-level changes that could reshape how games run on Windows 11, especially on handheld and lower‑powered PCs. The company is rolling out the...

Microsoft’s latest promise to make Windows 11 a noticeably better platform for PC gaming — with a broad “cross‑stack” effort rolling into 2026 — has reignited debates that are at once technical and cultural: can Microsoft actually deliver measurable, system‑level frame‑rate and stutter fixes...

Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 reads less like an incremental update and more like a deliberate course correction: handhelds that behave like consoles, meaningful progress for Windows on Arm, and DirectX features that make ray tracing and AI-driven rendering practical beyond demos. These...

Microsoft’s work with the ROG Xbox Ally has done more than spawn a pair of attention-grabbing Windows handhelds — according to the company, the collaboration has accelerated a string of operating‑system, driver and DirectX improvements that make gaming on Windows faster, more portable and more...

Windows 11’s next wave of visible changes is being shaped not by fresh native controls but by a quiet, strategic shift toward embedding the web inside the OS — and that single decision has implications both subtle and profound for everyday users, administrators, developers, and gamers. Neowin’s...

Microsoft’s latest pledge to sharpen Windows 11 for gaming in 2026 marks a deliberate shift from feature marketing to system-level engineering — a promise that could change how handhelds, laptops, and desktops prioritize games over background tasks and make Windows a stronger competitor in the...

Microsoft has quietly folded a console‑style front door into Windows 11: the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) — a controller‑first, full‑screen shell that began life on Xbox‑designed handhelds — is now available to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels and is rolling out to supported...

Wanting to play Pokémon Sun and Moon on a PC isn’t unusual — the games remain among the most praised titles of the 3DS era — but getting them running on Windows 7/8/10 or macOS requires careful choices, legal discipline, and realistic expectations about performance and online functionality...

Microsoft has quietly layered a console-style front door onto Windows 11: the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) offers a controller-first, full‑screen shell that can boot to the Xbox PC app, trim desktop overhead, and change how you start, browse and switch games on devices from handhelds to...