TL;DR: Microsoft's next-generation Xbox, expected in 2027, will run a full Windows 11 version alongside a console-like UI, supporting Steam and Epic Games Store. Featuring AMD's powerful Magnus APU ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it’s a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...

The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

Currently, Microsoft’s long-running Cloud Gaming service is limited to players who have a Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription. Now, new reporting suggests Microsoft is planning to offer non-subscribers ...

Xbox appears to be laying the groundwork for ads in its cloud gaming service, according to a new report from Windows Central. The outlet spotted reports from several users who were met with a pop-up ...

Where do I even begin? Microsoft’s stewardship of its increasingly vast gaming empire — which includes Xbox consoles, the Game Pass subscription service, and not one but three massive publishers — had ...

The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

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This year, it feels like Xbox is basically backing down from the so-called console wars. Instead, the company is focusing on developing great games with a multiplatform focus. So while there will ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...