reader comments 4 The game includes recreations of classic battles from the original trilogy… …as well as the prequel trilogy. You can play as various Jedi and other heroes and villains from the films in a hero battle mode. There was once a time of outstanding Star Wars computer games, before Disney made a deal ..
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Enlarge / A demo of “Project Xcloud” streaming running on a mobile device, circa 2019. reader comments 75 Yesterday’s news that four unnamed Microsoft games are coming to “the other consoles” was a bit anticlimactic after weeks of now-refuted rumors about games like Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle going to the PlayStation ..
Artist interpretation of the creatures talking about your mom on Xbox Live last night. Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock reader comments 5 with Anyone who’s worked in community moderation knows that finding and removing bad content becomes exponentially tougher as a communications platform reaches into the millions of daily users. To help with that problem, Microsoft ..
Enlarge / The crucial part, you see, is You. Microsoft / Activision Blizzard reader comments 205 with It has been a long road since January 2022 when Microsoft first announced its intentions to buy the gaming conglomerate Activision Blizzard King. But after overcoming a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit and appeasing UK antitrust authorities, it’s official: ..
The Xbox 360. reader comments 28 with The digital storefront for purchasing games and other media on the Xbox 360 game console will be shut down next summer, just a bit shy of 20 years after the console’s debut. A blog post announcement credited to Dave McCarthy, CVP of Xbox Player Services at Microsoft, stated ..
Enlarge / The only way we can ensure Sony doesn’t capture that planet is if we buy it ourselves! reader comments 138 with Thus far, much of the legal and regulatory drama surrounding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Activision has centered on concerns about the potential for Microsoft to make major cross-platform franchise Call of Duty ..
Enlarge / The FTC’s reported filing would be more likely to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard than its previous internally litigated lawsuit. Getty Images reader comments 153 with [Update, 6:30 pm ET: The FTC filed its complaint (PDF) for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s ..
Enlarge / Sony chief Kenichiro Yoshida. Tokuyuki Matsubuchi via FT reader comments 34 with Sony’s chief executive has warned that cloud gaming is still technically “very tricky,” playing down the risk to the console maker of the industry quickly converting to a technology on which its rival Microsoft has bet heavily. In an interview with ..
Enlarge / On May 22, Benj Edwards (left) moderated a panel featuring Paige Bailey (center), Haiyan Zhang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, “The Lightning Onset of AI — What Suddenly Changed?” Ars Technica reader comments 1 with On Monday, Ars Technica hosted our Ars Frontiers virtual conference. In our fifth panel, we ..
Enlarge / It was nice while it lasted… Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 80 with Share this story Back in 2020, we reported that emulator developers were using a hole in the Xbox Store’s app distribution system to get around Microsoft’s longstanding ban on emulators running on Xbox consoles. This week, though, many ..