Microsoft makes continued effort to evolve Xbox into a brand beyond a hardware platform.
As Xbox hardware sales continue to dwindle, Microsoft is strategically shoring up its Xbox Game Pass market saturation for when Xbox Live (and Game Pass) makes its way to additional platforms.
The last seven years have not been kind to Vancouver’s game development scene. And the way things are going, with studio closures all over the province, things may get worse before they get better.
Service launches with nearly 100 mods, more games to be added soon.
Third title in series suggests the fun’s still there, but is late to the open-world party.
Game Pass subscribers are playing more games for longer periods of time.
Microsoft says it’s rebranding to ‘expand focus’ beyond Xbox as just a platform.
Phil Spencer, Xbox’s head executive, has long stressed that Microsoft’s plan for the future lies in letting users enjoy games beyond merely owning an Xbox console.
Cloud-based services helped fuel a 12 percent increase in revenue for the tech giant.
In the second of our three-part analyst series on what to expect from the major consoles and their publishing platforms, DFC Intelligence and IHS Markit give us some perspective on what’s to come for Xbox and Microsoft in 2019.