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Whoa, delisted Xbox 360 games just showed up on the Xbox Store — did Microsoft leak new Xbox Backwards Compatibility games?

Several delisted Xbox and Xbox 360 games have recently appeared on the Xbox Store, leading many to wonder if they'll be made backwards compatible soon.

Xbox One Backward Compatibility

Xbox One Backward Compatibility

STALKER 2 is getting a free new content update this month — I break it down and reveal why it sets the stage for what comes after

Ahead of STALKER 2's upcoming Cost of Hope DLC, dev GSC Game World is releasing a free Sealed Truth content update for the open-world survival shooter.

STALKER 2

Official cover art for STALKER 2, the 2024 open-world survival shooter from GSC Game World that's getting the first of two DLC expansions this summer.

This fan-made Xbox website brings back the golden era of Xbox 360 voice chat messages — its distortion makes your mic sound just as bad as it did 20 years ago

If you've ever wanted to relive the days of Xbox 360 voice chat messaging, you now can thanks to an awesome new fan-made site that recreates it.

The dashboard of the "xboxchatting" website.

The "xboxchatting" site is a faithful recreation of the Xbox 360 messaging menu, complete with functioning voice chat messages with a mic filter, a changeable gamertag and gamerpic, Xbox 360 button sounds, and more.

Ex-Bethesda dev on Fallout and Skyrim says Todd Howard has too many yes men around him — "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd, and I think that hurt him"

An ex-Fallout and Skyrim developer says Bethesda's Todd Howard might not be getting the best feedback from his teams, as they're "afraid to say no to Todd."

Todd Howard attends the "Fallout" Season Two London Screening at Picturehouse Central on December 02, 2025 in London, England.

A photograph of Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard during an event for Amazon's Fallout TV show.

You can finally play this long-awaited Xbox game soon — its studio is hosting alpha playtests next month, and you can sign up for them now

Six years after it was announced, Xbox's State of Decay 3 will finally be playable soon as Undead Labs prepares to kick off alpha playtests this year.

State Of Decay 3 Ice

State Of Decay 3 Ice

Xbox and Blizzard are hiring for "an upcoming AAA open-world shooter" that uses the Unreal Engine — is this the new StarCraft FPS we've been waiting for?

A new Blizzard job listing describes "an upcoming AAA open-world shooter," which has everyone hoping it's working on a new StarCraft FPS after all.

Key art for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.

Official key art for 2010's StarCraft 2. There hasn't been a new game in the franchise since its launch.

Call of Duty studio head at Xbox dev is retiring after over 36 years — he shipped 42 games, 18 CoD titles, and this criminally underrated shooter I love

After 36 years of leading Call of Duty developer Raven Software, studio head Brian Raffel is leaving the company to "step into a well-earned retirement."

Raven Software studio head Brian Raffel.

Brian Raffel founded Raven Software with his brother Steve in 1990, and has led the studio for 36 years.

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