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Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition hands-on - 3D Wololo refined

Microsoft and Forgotten Empires complete their Age of Empires original trilogy remastering efforts with a steady, if unexciting release.

Shack Chat: What do you want to see from Microsoft acquiring ZeniMax/Bethesda?

One of the biggest game publishers on the planet was acquired by Microsoft this week. Our staff chimes in with their thoughts on an ideal marriage between Zenimax and Xbox.

Microsoft Flight Simulator's next update is expanding the beauty of Japan

In the first of a number of world updates, Microsoft Flight Simulator's next one will focus on expanding the beauty and realism of Japan in the game's world.

Microsoft to acquire Bethesda & parent company ZeniMax Media

Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, and other major Bethesda properties are coming under the Microsoft banner in a deal valued at around $7.5 billion.

In Twitch Plays Microsoft Flight Simulator, chat took off & landed a plane safely

In a full flight controlled by Twitch chat commands, the audience also survived a barrel roll on its way to a safe landing.

Never Forget: Traveling with the Xbox team on 9/11

In the home stretch to release the original Xbox, Microsoft developers find themselves in an America forever changed by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Sea of Thieves Vaults of the Ancients & pirate dogs get spotlight in update video

All new voyages and events await us in the Vaults of the Ancients content update, and some good doggo friends are coming with it. Hopefully, they aren't scurvy dogs.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has a 212-story skyscraper due to a typo in a university project

Apparently, university work in a mapping app made its way to the cloud mapping used in Microsoft Flight Simulator to create an obelisk towering over Melbourne, Australia.