Last summer, we here at Ars made the argument that the company’s next Xbox console should give up the walled garden approach and just run Windows already. Now, newly named Microsoft Executive Vice ...

Microsoft’s next Xbox videogame console is codenamed Project Helix and will play Windows PC games.

The PC is the best gaming platform. The fact that the next Xbox is apparently becoming a PC is good news – for gamers. Microsoft is taking a big risk.

TL;DR: Microsoft's new Xbox PC app update introduces an aggregated gaming library, allowing users to launch and manage PC games from multiple storefronts like Steam and Battle.net in one place.

Microsoft’s big focus for Windows is AI integration. Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ecosystem from Microsoft, turning the Linux-based SteamOS into a real ...

Gaming on a Windows 11 PC poses problems due to the idiosyncrasies of Microsoft's operating system, but there are tools ...