Xbox is Microsoft’s gaming brand, encompassing video game consoles, online services, software, studios and a cross-platform game ecosystem. Its hardware generations have supported both physical and digital games, while Xbox Game Pass and cloud gaming broaden access across devices. The brand also publishes and develops games through Xbox Game Studios and partner teams.
A new preservation-focused dataset highlights a real dependence on post-launch downloads, but its findings also show why “unplayable offline” and “not complete on disc” should not be treated as the same thing.
A report has linked inXile Entertainment to an early-stage, Fallout-adjacent project, but neither Xbox, Bethesda nor the studio has announced that it is developing a Fallout game.
Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses delivered strong fourth-quarter growth, while Xbox content and services declined and the company began a broad reset intended to restore gaming growth in fiscal 2027.