You can now play free-to-play games without Xbox Live Gold

You can now play free-to-play games without Xbox Live Gold

As of today, Microsoft no longer requires you to have an active Xbox Live Gold membership in order to play free-to-play games online through the Xbox consoles. For unclear reasons, Microsoft has long insisted on paying to use the multiplayer functionality of these free games, which was always a bit strange. Microsoft has recently made […]

Microsoft renames service to Xbox Network

Microsoft renames service to Xbox Network

After nearly two decades of Xbox Live, Microsoft seems to rename its iconic service. Several people from the Xbox insider program (such as Tom Warren from The Verge and Adam Fairclough) tweeted that all mentions of Xbox Live have been removed from the Xbox menus, where it is now instead referred to the Xbox Network. […]

Quarantined Gamers get Gaming Services to their knees

Quarantined Gamers get Gaming Services to their knees

Since a large part of the world have entered voluntary and/or involuntary quarantine, it seems to have become a problem for the world’s gaming services to keep up with capacity, several sources report. Since this weekend, there have been operating problems on most of the world’s gaming services. Services such as Xbox Live, PSN and […]