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Microsoft has revealed that Xbox users will soon have the option to have their avatars use a wheelchair. The confirmation came first from Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who replied to a Twitter user to state that the company was working on the idea. Fellow Xbox exec Mike Ybarra then chipped …

Initiative run by Creative England and Microsoft awards British studios with Xbox One dev kits, inclusion in ID@Xbox and up to £50,000 in funding to build their IP

E3, as has become custom, is almost more about what wasn’t shown than what was. Where was Crackdown?” That was the first question I was asked by a fellow journalist shortly after Xbox’s press conference, followed swiftly by: "where was HoloLens for that matter?" PlayStation executives spent half their time …

Microsoft’s premium, pricey and customisable Xbox One Elite gamepad appears to be doing well for itself. Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted (below) that the company has shipped one million of these controllers. While, of course, this does not mean that Microsoft has sold one million of the Elite gamepads, it …

Microsoft has explained its decision to reveal just a handful of games at last month’s E3 games show. The firm showed new trailers for a series of previously announced titles at E3, while the new game surprises at the show came in the form of Dead Rising 4, the expected …

When Microsoft said it was taking gaming seriously with Windows 10, we weren’t the only ones that didn’t believe it. We’d heard it all before. We are told that: ‘gaming is at the heart of Windows Vista/7/8 [delete as appropriate]’, a couple of games would then emerge, and a year …

It may not have a VR headset, but Xbox told MCV that the technology is not far from its thoughts. The firm has partnered with other VR companies, such as Oculus, yet unlike PlayStation, has not developed its own product. Yet head of operations Dave McCarthy says that Xbox is …

Research from social media analysis firms Synthesio and ListenFirst has revealed which games publishers were most talked-about at this year’s E3. The data from the former – as reported by GamesBeat – says that PlayStation was the most-talked about games company during the show. 29.87 per cent of tweets mentioned …

Aaron Greenburg insists “no one gets left behind” as devs eye new console

Platform holder denies claims by The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson that framerate in Gears of War 4 is more consistent on slimmer console