Xbox’s first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief
If you’ve never played a Final Fantasy game, October is a great time to start. Microsoft is bringing Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, the first game in the remake’s trilogy, to Xbox Game Pass on Oct. 29. That should give you plenty of time to play the game for the first — or fifth —
I have lost count of how many times I have tried to cram a full-size Xbox controller into my laptop bag for a weekend away. When you are packing a laptop, a camera, and an endless nest of charging cables, a standard controller is just a chunky piece of hardware that takes up far too
Team, The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we’ve
You’ve just set down your Xbox controller after wiping out the final boss. Now, time for an ad! The folks at Patentlyze made me aware of a recent patent filing from Microsoft that hints at Xbox’s in-game advertising ambitions. The filing, published earlier this month, outlines a concept for a content management system that would
According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” — phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device — will actually be a “family” of devices.” “We’ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix,
