Microsoft news: Good news and bad for Xbox’s new killer feature

Microsoft’s Xbox One offers some great unique features (Image: MICROSOFT) Microsoft has had to get creative following their relegation to second place in the video games market. Sony’s PS4 is the best-selling console of this generation, while Microsoft’s Xbox One looks set to drop below the Nintendo Switch. But that hasn’t sparked a massive decline […]

In the lab with Xbox’s new Adaptive Controller, which may change gaming forever

A look inside the Xbox Inclusive Tech Lab as they reveal their new controller with improved accessibility. (Captions available.) REDMOND, Washington—The Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC), slated to launch “later this year,” looks almost incomplete at first glance. The clean, confusing-looking slab, nearly the length and width of an Xbox One S, has no joysticks. The […]

Original Xbox’s huge controller is returning for current platforms

Original Xbox owners got a powerful yet eccentric machine in Microsoft’s first stab at console gaming. The system itself was a massive VCR-sized slab of circuits and plastic, but it was the comically oversized controller that most baffled gamers. Yet fans look back fondly at the beastly peripheral, nicknamed “The Duke.” Unbeknownst to most, one […]