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Xbox To Get Rid of Xbox Live Gold To Be Replaced With Game Pass Core
Xbox has revealed that Xbox Live Gold will be getting replaced by a new Game Pass Core subscription officially saying goodbye to Xbox Live branding. Xbox Game Pass Core In a video shared on the Xbox YouTube page, it has been officially announced that Xbox Live Gold will be getting…
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Microsoft Makes a Huge U-Turn in Xbox Live Gold Price Hike
Late last week, Microsoft announced that it would be raising the price of its Xbox Live Gold subscription package… Again. – With the new increase representing quite a notably significant jump from the previous charges, Xbox gamers, as you might expect, didn’t take the news particularly well. Not least of…
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Microsoft Removes 12-Month Xbox Live Gold Subscription
The chances are that if you own an Xbox console, you probably take out one of their subscription packages to give you access to the (genuinely good) library of games available. If you do, however, do this on a 12-month upfront basis, however, you may want to pay attention. In…
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Microsoft Offers $20,000 Bug Bounty for Xbox Live
It’s not unusual practice to see companies occasionally (and sometimes regularly) run bug bounty programs. If you’re not familiar with the concept, then let me explain. Put simply, it’s effectively a challenge to ‘ethical hackers‘ to see if they can identify any security flaws in a piece of software. If…
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Microsoft To Start Deleting Inactive Xbox Accounts
As you might imagine, there are rather a lot of Xbox accounts that have been created since it launched in 2002. To date, however, Microsoft has remained rather lenient in keeping those account still on their system. Even when they haven’t been accessed for years. In a report via PCGamesN,…
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Microsoft Updates Xbox Live Guidelines To Address ‘Trash Talk’
Microsoft Clarifies ‘Trash Talking’ I am a firm believer in that ‘trash talking’ can be an acceptable practice in gaming. It is, after all, fun to have a little banter to try and get the people you are playing with engaged in a positive way. It does, however, raise the…
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Xbox Live Gold UK Subscription Price To Increase Next Month
Xbox Live Gold The chances are that if you own an Xbox console, you probably have an active subscription to the Xbox Live service. While there are, of course, various tiers in which you can have a ‘package’, the ‘Gold’ level provided by Microsoft has many added bonuses. These include,…
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Cuphead is Arriving on the Nintendo Switch Next Month
With Xbox Live Support The aesthetically pretty but painfully difficult 2017 platformer Cuphead is heading to the Nintendo Switch handheld console. The game originally started as a Microsoft exclusive, debuting on the Xbox One and PC. Two years later, the game is still well-received by fans. Despite being almost as…
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The Best Of The Worst Xbox Live Ban Appeals
Xbox Live Ban Appeals For an online service as popular as Xbox Live, you can imagine that a fair number of accounts require a little monitoring. The internet is, after all, an interesting place full of interesting people. If you are subject to a ban or suspension of your Xbox…
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Sea of Thieves Reaches Two Million Player Milestone
Sea of Thieves Setting Records Microsoft along with the team at Rare is proud to announce that Sea of Thieves has now reached over two million players. That is quite impressive considering the game only launched last week. In fact, the first million was sold by launch day. That makes…
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Microsoft’s Inclusive Xbox Live Avatars Arriving in April
Xbox Live Avatars for All Microsoft first announced an updated set of inclusive and diverse avatars for Xbox Live at E3 last year. It was supposed to launch before the year’s end but it has been pushed back. Now it appears that the overhaul is launching next month in April…
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Microsoft Ends Xbox 360 Production
Even we look forwards towards a potential Xbox One revision, Microsoft is turning over a page to their past. After nearly 11 years in production, Microsoft is finally ending Xbox 360 manufacturing. This means while Xbox 360s will continue to be sold and Xbox Live related services supported, once the…
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Formula E ‘Virtual Championship’ to Take Place on Forza 6
Not content in running only in the real world, Formula E, the racing series for specially designed electric cars, will be running a ‘virtual championship’ that will take the form of a month-long eSports tournament on the popular racing sim, Forza Motorsport 6. The event will begin next weekend and…
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Microsoft Improves Cyberattack Security Measures
In the modern interconnected world, we rely on technology to complete work, and enjoy various forms of entertainment. Unfortunately, this means there are unscrupulous individuals who try to exploit any loopholes and attack networks. Perhaps, they feel this is a way of exposing a company’s poor security or attempt to ruin…
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Phantom Squad Threatens Week-Long Xbox Live and PSN Attack over Christmas
Following its attack on Xbox Live earlier this week, hacker group Phantom Squad has threatened to take down both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for a week over Christmas, calling its first successful attempt a demonstration, The Independent reports. The Twitter account that Phantom Squad used to make these threats…
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