GameCentral gets a hands-on session with the Nex Playground, the unexpectedly successful spiritual successor to Kinect.

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

A hot potato: For more than a decade, the Xbox One stood as a remarkable exception in console security – a machine long considered impervious to hacking attempts. That reputation is now over. At the ...

The Xbox One was, on almost every front, a monumental failure. I could wax poetic about Don Mattrick’s abysmal showing at E3 2013 for hours, but the end result is all you need, as the PlayStation 4 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to limit screen time with them, but as someone who has fond memories ...

An inevitability of console gaming is that your hardware will age out. It will get outperformed by a next-generation console with higher specifications and support for fancier graphics. Now that we ...

Those still on Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series X just got some great news to start 2026. Obviously, it has been 13 calendar years since the launch of the Xbox One. And while the Xbox One is not ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, ...

The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...

Microsoft has announced not one, not two, but nine day one Xbox Game Pass games; some coming very soon, some coming in 2026, and others without release dates at all. In particular, the new mix of ...