Rob Fahey

It's just over a year since Microsoft shattered industry records with its $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard – and next week, that eye-wateringly expensive deal will face its most important test yet.

Looked at from certain perspectives, the VR/AR market seems to be making steady progress.

Japan's ruling coalition has lost its majority - with difficult negotiations among potential governing partners on the horizon, who are the winners and losers of this week's election?

By pretty much any estimation, the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been a huge success for Microsoft. Precise f…

Sony's PS5 Pro is the only major hardware launch we're getting this year – making 2024 into a bit of a damp squib when you consider that it was originally expected to bring a similar spec-bumped revision of the Xbox Series X and perhaps even the launch of Nintendo's Switch successor.

It's been clear for quite a few years that Microsoft's notion of what "Xbox" actually means has evolved past physical consoles alone. It now describes a whole ecosystem of software and services that spans all sorts of devices, and which is itself just one outlet for Microsoft's enormous game publishing business.

During the drawn-out process of Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard, one regularly voiced concern was that this pur…

Only a week or two after confirmation that Microsoft is working on a handheld Xbox device, we now have reports that Son…

Turning points are tricky things: they seem so obvious in hindsight, but are tough to spot when they're actually happening. False positives are common, because all manner of things can seem pivotal in the moment, but transpire to be far less important in the long term.

At the outset of 2024, the most often expressed concern about this year in the games business was that it was going to have a very sparse and underwhelming release calendar, at least compared to the spectacular heights of 2023. This was to some extent a ripple effect from the pandemic years: a backlog of delayed software made its way onto the market during 2023, meaning that with many major studios set to be in the early stages of new projects, 2024's line-up did not look very inspiring.