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Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball believes one way to help revitalize gaming is through something most people do not care for: in-game ads. Speaking to The Game Business, Ball said there exists a "two-sided problem" in the modern gaming space. Development costs for many games are now "way too high," and consumers do not want to pay more. Something has got to give, and one possible solution, as Ball sees it, is through advertising. He cited streaming TV as an example here, saying most of the growth for a variety of streaming platforms comes from ad-supported tiers. At the same time, peop

Mojang's blocky sandbox game is currently inaccessible--a rarity for Minecraft. The last major widespread Minecraft outage was in October 2025, when the global Microsoft Azure cloud disruption affected services, including Minecraft authentication and Xbox Live. Around 12:30 AM PT on June 1, players began to report problems with launching Minecraft via Downdetector. Attempting to connect to the game via the Minecraft Launcher shows the message, "Oh no! Something went wrong, and we couldn't connect to the Minecraft services. Please connect to the internet to refresh your offline access." A furth

Palworld 1.0 does a great job of easing you into its many complex systems.

Microsoft has announced the next set of additions to the Xbox Game Pass library, and there are nine games on the way in the first half of June. The list of titles includes games new to Game Pass and games joining different tiers. The new additions for June include the day-one new releases Solarpunk (June 8), Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions (June 11), and Junkster (June 16). Also in June, the adventure game from the publisher of Firewatch, Herdling, comes to Game Pass Premium on June 4, joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Total Chaos, the first-person survival-horror game, also comes

From Pro Evo's through ball to FIFA's Ultimate Team, these are the 9 features that changed soccer games forever.