Back in 2002, Xbox Live shaped gaming forever by bringing online multiplayer to home consoles, but it wasn't the first to do so. Before Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony turned online multiplayer into a ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Ever since video games entered the home, there has been a competition for gamers' money, and attention. Grizzled veterans know this conflict as the “console wars” — battles for sales and cultural ...

Layden went on to compare what Microsoft is doing now to what Sega previously did, a console manufacturer that completely switched to just developing software. "I was in the business when Sega brought ...

Rumor has it that Microsoft will take select first-party Xbox exclusives to other platforms. Fans think this could kick off a death spiral that eventually gives Microsoft a logical and reasonable exit ...

As of 2025, there have been a total of nine video game console generations, beginning in 1972. That’s the year the world got its first commercial home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, and since then, ...