Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen nearly 50 years ago. Here's a history of the company's leadership, products, layoffs, and more.
Google Stadia is known as one of the greatest flops in gaming history, but the fear around the system was apparently intense for a time.
But touting the qualities of Xbox as a service also means having a line-up that gets people excited. 2024 wasn’t a bumper year for Microsoft, even with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle swinging in at the 11th hour in December, fedora in hand, to give us a genuine blockbuster that does justice to its movie license.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella said Activision’s “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” finished as both the best-selling premium video game of December and the 2024 year in the U.S. C
Nintendo Switch surpassed 146 million lifetime sales at the end of September 2023 and remains the No. 3 console by that metric, behind its 2004 Nintendo DS handheld predecessor and Sony’s PlayStation 2, the all-timer that kicked off the new millennium.
Banjo-Kazooie is one of those gaming franchises that deserves to come back, but hasn't. Moon Studios thinks that's terrible.
But how much will GTA 6 cost the gamer? Most triple-A video games cost $70 as standard after a $10 price hike that kicked in with the current generation of consoles in 2020. Could Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two use GTA 6 as an opportunity to go higher five years later?
Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Thursday, supported by positive cues from Wall Street overnight.
Ahead of the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in March, the organization behind the event released its latest annual survey of creators on the state of the industry. The feedback showed that gaming has been rocked by layoffs over the last 12 months, but also pointed to some silver linings for its growth and future heading into 2025.
There's a new year upon us, with 2025 capping off a quarter-century of the modern Apple and its definitive role in personal computing innovation. In particular, 2025 marks 25 years of Apple's intuitive experience that turns elements of hardware and software into a magical coherence.
To celebrate the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo is hosting hands-on experience days around the globe. They’ll take place in April, May and June, which makes us think the console could be released after the experience days. With the final experience day set for 1 June in Seoul, we’re leaning towards a release in the first week of June.
Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will stop manufacturing the discs in February, alongside recordable MiniDiscs, MD-Data, and MiniDV cassettes, adding, “there will be no successor models.”