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Microsoft is winding down Gaming Copilot in the Xbox mobile app and ending development of the planned Xbox Series X and Series S console version after new Xbox chief Asha Sharma said the feature no longer fits the division’s reset strategy. The move is not just another product cancellation; it...

Microsoft has reportedly ended development of Gaming Copilot for Xbox Series X and Series S and will wind down the feature in the Xbox mobile app in 2026, reversing a plan that would have brought AI game assistance directly onto consoles later this year. The decision is less a quirky anti-AI...

Microsoft is winding down Gaming Copilot in the Xbox mobile app and stopping development of the planned Xbox Series X and Series S console version in May 2026, reversing a 2025 AI push that had promised voice-driven help, game recommendations, achievement guidance, and contextual play advice...

Microsoft’s Xbox division said on May 5, 2026, that it will wind down Gaming Copilot on mobile and stop developing the AI assistant for console, reversing a year-long push that began with beta testing in 2025. The move is not merely a feature cancellation. It is an admission that Xbox’s most...

Microsoft’s new Xbox chief Asha Sharma is winding down Copilot for Gaming on mobile and stopping its console version before launch, a May 5 decision that reverses one of Microsoft’s most visible AI-for-games bets barely 14 months after its debut. The move is not an anti-AI retreat so much as a...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used Microsoft’s fiscal 2026 third-quarter earnings call on April 29, 2026, to say the company is doing “foundational work” to win back fans across Windows, Xbox, Bing, and Edge after years of customer frustration. The line matters because it was not delivered at a...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the AI assistant Microsoft has been testing inside Xbox Game Bar and on mobile — is officially headed to Xbox Series X|S consoles later this year, the company confirmed during its GDC 2026 presentation. What began as a Windows-centered beta and mobile preview is now...

Microsoft’s gaming strategy just gained its most poignant whisper of nostalgia yet: industry signals from Game Developers Conference, a reliable insider, and community chatter now point toward Microsoft preparing to make original Xbox and Xbox 360-era games playable on Windows — possibly through...

Satya Nadella’s short, pointed message to Microsoft’s gaming teams — “For me, we’re long on gaming. We’ll continue to invest, and we’ll always do so.” — landed like both a reassurance and a challenge: reassurance that the company’s commitment to games remains, and a challenge that words must now...

Microsoft’s brief confirmation that a new Xbox exists — codenamed Project Helix — landed like a teaser more than a reveal, but the implications are already reverberating through the industry: a next‑generation box that promises to “lead in performance” while also playing PC games changes the...

After nearly two decades of building loyalty, Xbox now sits at a hinge moment: Phil Spencer, the architect of modern Xbox, has stepped away and Asha Sharma — a senior AI executive with a background in scaling services — has been tapped to lead Microsoft Gaming, while Microsoft teases a hybrid...

Forza Horizon 6’s launch window has just become a lot more complicated: Playground Games will ship the game without the long-running in‑game Club functionality because Xbox is retiring its platform-level Social Clubs feature in April 2026, and the Forza team says the infrastructure change...

Microsoft's Xbox division quietly flipped a strategic switch on March 5: the next-generation console now carries an internal codename — Project Helix — and Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, has publicly signalled the company is moving forward with first‑party hardware that blurs the line...

Microsoft quietly flipped a switch this week: Xbox Insiders can now test an AI-powered Highlight Reels feature on the ROG Xbox Ally X that automatically captures and stitches memorable gameplay moments into short, shareable clips — and the feature’s reliance on an on-device NPU makes it as much...

Microsoft will use the Xbox Dev Summit at GDC to put a public marker on its next‑generation plans, scheduling a March 11 session that Xbox leadership intends to use to brief developers about the platform direction — including what the industry and leaks have been calling a “next‑generation”...

Microsoft’s chip partner just gave us a hard timing marker: AMD CEO Lisa Su told investors that development of “Microsoft’s next‑gen Xbox featuring an AMD semi‑custom SoC is progressing well to support a launch in 2027,” a cautious but unmistakable signal that the company’s engineering timeline...

AMD’s comment last week that its custom silicon is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027” has reset the public timeline for Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox — but industry reporting since has been unequivocal: supplier readiness is not the same thing as a locked-in release date, and 2027...

Microsoft appears to be steering the Xbox platform toward a bold architectural pivot: the next-generation, living-room Xbox may ship as a full Windows 11 device under a controller‑first, TV‑optimized Xbox shell, while still offering the option to “exit to Windows” and run PC storefronts such as...

Microsoft’s next-generation console is reportedly less a traditional, closed Xbox and more a living-room Windows 11 gaming PC wrapped in a console-first shell — a design that promises desktop-style openness and developer portability while creating a raft of engineering and policy trade-offs few...

Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox is reportedly being rebuilt on a Windows-derived core, designed to support multiple digital storefronts and a family of OEM devices — a strategy that would reshape Xbox from a single-purpose living-room console into a Windows-centric, cross-device gaming...