Microsoft goes one step forward and three steps back again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft started ushering users from ...

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Microsoft is turning a corner with their oft-maligned Xbox app for Windows 10 and Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A new compact mode hopefully paves the way for more Windows handheld improvements in the future. A new compact mode hopefully paves the way for more Windows handheld improvements in the future. is a ...

Microsoft and Asus have just announced two ROG Xbox Ally devices that include a new full-screen Xbox experience for handhelds. After promising to combine “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for ...

Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed that it’s not abandoning the home console market just yet. In a short video teaser, Xbox President Sarah Bond highlighted a “strategic multi-year partnership with AMD” ...

Here at Ars, we have been writing about rumors of a portable Xbox for literal decades now. With the ROG Xbox Ally, Microsoft has finally made those rumors a reality in the weirdest, most Microsoft way ...

The Windows 10 Xbox app has just added lots of new features. Preview members can now download and launch the Avatars app from within the Xbox app, and can add, report and favourite friends. Game hubs, ...

The Xbox Ally devices represent the beginning of an Xbox and Windows interface. The Xbox Ally devices represent the beginning of an Xbox and Windows interface. is a senior editor and author of Notepad ...

Xbox’s latest video was ostensibly about a “strategic, multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon” for the next generation of Xbox hardware–spanning consoles, handhelds, and more. But the ...

Microsoft’s next Xbox will run Windows, a report says, blurring the line between PCs and consoles and making the latest Xbox Ally X the model of what Microsoft hopes to achieve in gaming. Windows ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 offers a console-like, controller-friendly gaming interface that boots directly into the Xbox app, optimizing system resources and ...