Xbox One update adds Cortana – and paves way for Universal Windows Apps
A summer update to Xbox One will bring a variety of new features, including closer ties with Windows 10 PCs
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft sign EU hate speech code
To tackle racism and xenophobia, big internet companies say they will try to review most notifications within 24 hours
Facebook and Microsoft to build private internet highway underwater
Projects to install undersea cables from US to Spain would ensure fast enough connectivity for tech companies’ virtual reality and live video services
Minecraft mini-games coming to Xbox, PlayStation and Wii U in June
Hugely popular on the PC version of Minecraft, multiplayer competitive games are coming to console, starting with a battle mode
Below: the story behind Xbox One’s biggest little indie game
Dark Souls meets tilt shift photography in the latest project from respected Toronto developer Capy Games – and it’s a big deal for Microsoft’s console
Lionhead: the rise and fall of a British video game legend
One of the UK’s most creative studios was shut by Microsoft in April, we talk to co-founder Peter Molyneux and his staff about the end of an era
BB-8’s Windows XP makeover is the stuff of nightmares
Star Wars: The Force Awakens mascot droid turned from inspirational robotic pal into a 2001 disaster with the help of Microsoft’s operating system
The digital apocalypse: how the games industry is rising again
From mid-cycle PlayStation upgrades to episodic entertainment and virtual studios, something big is happening in the way games are bought, made and sold
Five of the best tablets
The new generation of mobile computers are powerful, sleek and able to cope with the demands of both work and play. We tried and tested some of the frontrunners
Windows 10 updates are now ruining pro-gaming streams
Forcing a gaming PC to update mid-game during a livestream to up to 130,000 followers isn’t best advert for the software
Windows 10 is now ruining weather forecasts
Is this a new form of native advertising? What’s next, Hurricane Cortana? Tropical storm Groove? Windows 10 whiteout?
The 12 greatest Xbox 360 games
Microsoft has stopped making its hugely successful console. Here are our favourite moments from its 10-year history
Microsoft may have sold fewer than 20m Xbox Ones, EA reveals
If an accidental disclosure from EA is correct, the PS4 has outsold Xbox One almost two to one
Microsoft sues for right to tell customers when US government requests emails
Traditional searches or wiretaps often require government to eventually notify the people they’ve searched; Microsoft wants the same to apply to emails
European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules
‘Groundbreaking’ changes strengthen EU privacy protections, enshrine right to be forgotten and give regulators wide-reaching powers