2025-10-01

Here are all the games Microsoft added to Game Pass today, including a whole lot of Assassin's Creed

Xbox owners got a bit of a nasty surprise thanks to Microsoft’s sudden announcement today that the monthly cost of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is getting a 50 percent increase. The new $30 mon [...]

2025-01-20

The best gaming headsets for 2025

Sometimes, the best gaming headset doesn’t need to be a “gaming headset” at all. While many people view these devices as their own niche, they’re ultimately still headphones, just with a boom [...]

2025-08-27

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now playable in the cheaper Game Pass tiers

It's now a little cheaper to try Xbox Cloud Gaming. Previously restricted to the Game Pass Ultimate tier, it's now open to Core and Standard subscribers. Xbox Cloud Gaming is still in beta, [...]

2025-01-28

UK seeks greater regulatory power over Microsoft and Amazon Web Services' cloud computing services

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its preliminary findings that the cloud services market "is not working as well as it could be." That relatively vague sta [...]

2025-09-10

NVIDIA's GeForce Now with RTX 5080 GPUs is a cloud gaming revelation

If you had told me five years ago that playing PC games over the cloud would soon look  indistinguishable from using a powerful rig, I would have called you a fool. But after diving into NVIDIA' [...]

2025-07-21

Xbox cloud games will soon follow you just about everywhere

Microsoft just launched a service for Xbox Insiders that brings all cloud-playable games, along with play histories, to the official Xbox PC app. This includes console exclusives spanning multiple gen [...]

2025-10-03

A free, ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming option might be on the way

It’s been quite the week for Xbox news. A lot of people are still coming to terms with Microsoft's veritable gut-punch of announcement that the price of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is abo [...]

2025-05-06

Backbone Pro hands-on: A pricey controller for more than just your phone

Since arriving in 2020, the Backbone One has helped popularize dedicated mobile game controllers, the kind you might use for streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GeForce Now, remote pl [...]

2025-08-26

Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a [...]