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Xbox Disc to Digital is now live for all players. Insert an eligible Xbox One or Series X disc and get a digital license, but the entitlement follows the disc, not you.

Files in a new Xbox PC app update reveal the Mythic Achievement, Xbox’s answer to the PlayStation Platinum trophy. It unlocks on all base-game achievements, ignores DLC, is worth zero Gamerscore, and comes with a 15 second fanfare.

Microsoft’s newly published patent describes pausing a game after a boss fight or loading screen to show an ad, then rewarding players with more ad-free playtime. Here’s what the filing actually says, and why it lands right as Xbox tests free ad-supported cloud streaming.

Microsoft is ending unlimited Xbox Cloud Gaming. Starting in November, Game Pass tiers get fixed monthly hour caps, from 5 hours on Essential to 15 on Ultimate, with paid top-ups for anyone who runs out.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword launched today after a 20 year wait, and it debuts with an 86 on Metacritic and IGN’s first-ever perfect score for the series. Here is what the Issen combat system, the story and the launch-day reviews actually deliver.

A clip of someone spelling LEEK on a wall with bullets proved CyberLeek is not recycling stolen footage. They are playing GTA 6. With the game three months out and no disc in the box, the leaker says the leaks stop only when Rockstar apologizes.

Through August 15, GameStop is giving the same trade credit for defective official controllers that it gives for working ones. Stick drift qualifies. Completely dead controllers do not. Here is how the offer actually works.

Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled…

A dramatic prediction about the future of Xbox has been making the rounds online, claiming the brand could slowly fade…

The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in…