#Xbox

Blindfire is a thrilling arena shooter where players battle in pitch-black conditions, relying solely on their instincts to survive. Trust your senses to distinguish friend from foe as you engage in intense team battles. Blindfire is now available in early access on Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC through the Xbox Game Preview program.

In the Xbox partner preview event, Remedy shared the first gameplay of Alan Wake 2 The Lake House expansion. You get in the shoes of FBC Agent Estevez and explore the horrors of The Lake House experiment facility. Alan Wake 2 Lake House DLC be released on October 22, 2024.

Bloober Team has announced Cronos: The New Dawn, a third person survival horror game set in an amazing yet horrifying world. Featuring nightmarish enemies and what looks like satisfying combat, Cronos releases for Xbox and PC in 2025. Read more here.

After a full decade, Xbox has finally revived the friend requests feature for Insiders. Players will be able to manage friends through the people tab on Xbox. The new privacy options also allows players to manage who can send them friend requests. However, the followers tab stays the same according to Microsoft.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is rumored to be arriving on Xbox Game Pass for consoles and PC on July 24th. Additionally, popular tactical shooter Valorant is also rumored to be getting a global console launch on July 26th, following closely behind Modern Warfare 3.

As per latest Windows Central report, Microsoft is planning to launch new Xbox Game Pass tiers, including one that only allows you to stream games via Cloud, and bring back the Family and Friends tier.

Xbox is globally hiking the price of the Xbox Game Pass Pass Ultimate subscription for both PCs and consoles. For starters, the new pricing for PC Game Pass is now $11.99 per month, Game Pass Ultimate is now $19.99 per month, and 12-month Game Pass Core is now $74.99. Similarly, the Xbox Game Pass for Console don't exist starting today for new users. Rather, they'll get a new tier called Xbox Game Pass (Standard), which will cost $14.99, and excludes Day One game offering, and Cloud Gaming. However, existing Xbox Game Pass for Console subscribers can continue to use their subscription until their recurring billing stays.

It seems Microsoft Xbox plans to launch a mobile gaming app store sometimes in July this year. This will be a web-based app store, and will allow gamers to download first-party Xbox titles like Candy Crush, Minecraft, and even Call of Duty games from there.

Microsoft has officially announced that the next Xbox Games Showcase will take place in June 9, 2024 at 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET. The showcase will be followed by a [REDACTED] Direct, that multiple sources have confirmed to be a Call of Duty Direct.

We finally have a look at the rumored all-digital Xbox Series X, as images surface online. The rumored upcoming console from Microsoft sports the same boxy form-factor of the original Xbox Series X. Except, this time it sports a white paint-job, and no disc drive.

Microsoft has announced Mouse and Keyboard feature for Xbox insiders if they game via Xbox Cloud Gaming. This will only support selected browsers such as Edge and Chrome or the Xbox PC app. The games are also limited for now but will increase in future as per Microsoft. You can turn this feature on from your cloud gaming settings.

Speaking to Polygon at the annual Game Developers Conference, Phil Spencer mentioned how in the future Xbox might allow game stores like Epic Games Stores and Itch.io on their platform for players to purchase and enjoy. He believes console's closed ecosystem should be abolished, as console sales are dwindling, and game sales subsidization barely helps recoup the cost.