Xbox announced this morning that their long-running online service Xbox Live Gold will be replaced with a new service called Xbox Game Pass Core this September.

Nowadays, everything is an Xbox — or so Microsoft would have you believe. The advent of the Netflix-like Game Pass subscription has become the tech company’s top priority, shifting their focus from traditional hardware sales to basically producing third-party software for an array of devices,

One of Microsoft’s boldest experiments in the Xbox 360 era was 1 vs. 100, a live game show where most players would be randomly selected to play along in The Crowd, while a lucky 100 would be chosen to be in The Mob and a single person would be chosen as The One.

Microsoft announced today that they are immediately dropping the requirement of an Xbox Live Gold subscription to play free-to-play games, instantly making over 50 games completely free-to-play on any Xbox system that can play them.

The Xbox 360 is officially 20 years, and to celebrate, I replayed all the games that were available for it at launch back in 2005.

Microsoft will soon dive into the November 2025 Xbox Partner Preview as Xbox Series X | S closes out the year with a brand-new showcase.