Month: September 2024

According to documents accidentally leaked by Microsoft during its trial with the FTC (spotted by The Verge), we got to peek at Xbox’s plans for the future, including a refreshed, disc-less version of the Xbox Series X and, more notable from the PC gaming perspective, a fancy new controller. 

Codenamed Sebile, the new two-toned Xbox controller offers Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, “Direct-to-Cloud” pairing, and a rechargeable, swappable battery. Moreover, it will feature new modular thumbsticks. However, it’s unclear if that means just the joysticks or if you can pop out the entire joystick module like with the $200 PlayStation DualSense Edge wireless controller. 

Inside the Sebile is an accelerometer, which is presumably the hardware that controls its new  “lift…

Journalism is a tireless line of work. At all times, you’ve got to be vigilant for where news might break next. I’ve got my nose to the ground, foraging for what might be buried in a corporate press release, uttered in an interview, or bubbling up on social media, knowing that sometimes—sometimes—I’ll find the next big scoop in time to claim first dibs.

Other times, times like today, what I find is all the world’s biggest game companies tweeting the same dumbass horse.

At first, I’d been scrolling past this awful horse’s awful face without taking much notice. Eventually, with dawning horror, I realized I’d spent the last hour beneath that wretched steed’s inscrutable gaze as it gawped out at me from countless image edits and crude photoshops.

I’ll …