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Xbox is a video game console and associated ecosystem developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

… According to the report, employees at Xbox are testing the "Disc2Digital" feature, which will work on Xbox One and Xbox Series X /S discs, but not the original Xbox or Xbox 360. This restriction is likely due to Microsoft's plans to move more games online with the Xbox One. …

Jul 1, 2026 · Andrew E. Freedman
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Microsoft 'resets' Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites 'margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses'

… This year, we’ll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we’ll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates." Microsoft's other recent moves include bringing more games exclusively to Xbox consoles, such as G… …

Jul 6, 2026 · Andrew E. Freedman
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Microsoft increases Xbox Series console prices for the third time in two years, kills off 2TB model — $100-$150 upswings on every model

… Here's the new pricing, in all its glory: Xbox Series S, 512 GB, Digital Edition: $499.99 Xbox Series S, 1 TB, Digital Edition: $599.99 Xbox Series X, 1 TB, Digital Edition: $749.99 Xbox Series X, 1 TB: $799.99 Microsoft is also adding a few options for payment and alternative purchases. …

Jun 25, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console

Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet said in a post on X that a licensing service sitting outside Xbox, which the platform depends on, began failing late on July 26 and took roughly 16 hours to clear, blocking sign-ins, library listings, and game launches across Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbo… …

Jul 28, 2026 · Luke James
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Xbox will pay five times more for memory and storage in 2027 than it did two years ago — CEO Asha Sharma admits there's an unsustainable hardware gap that 'cannot continue'

… Despite that, in February 2026, Xbox paid 2x as much for storage as it did last fall, and those costs have already doubled since then. By 2027, the price hike is set to the 5x multiplier; Xbox will shell out more than 500% of what it originally used to pay two years ago. …

Jun 12, 2026 · Hassam Nasir
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Microsoft shipped a native Xbox 360 emulator with its new backwards-compatible releases on PC — modders quickly got 360 games running with minor tweaks

… Also called Fission, Xe03 is Microsoft's official Xbox 360 emulator that comes baked into the Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles for backwards compatibility. Within the Xbox 360 environment, Microsoft already had another emulator called XeFu, or Fusion, that emulates the original Xbox. …

Jul 25, 2026 · Hassam Nasir