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Microsoft’s year-long reorganization of Xbox has arrived at the Forza franchise. In an internal memo published on Xbox Wire today, Xbox’s Matt Booty announced that Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games will be combined into a single studio, “focused on the Forza and Fable franchises”.

The official social media channels for Forza Motorsport have broken the long silence over the past five weeks to confirm that developer Turn 10 will continue to support the title over the coming months — though what’s in store beyond that remains a mystery.

Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has lost almost half its staff in one fell swoop, according to industry reports, amid a wide-ranging reduction in staff numbers across Xbox’s various subsidiaries.

Today, Microsoft celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the original Xbox, first released two decades ago to the day on November 15, 2001.

After two years of preparation, Microsoft’s xCloud streaming service is now officially available. In an official news post, Microsoft have also revealed details of the launch title lineup.

Microsoft has shared a glimpse of the new Xbox user interface (UI) coming to not only the new console this November, but across the Xbox family.

Microsoft’s push to bring its Xbox services to the masses is taking another step forward. Almost two years after first announcing it, the xCloud streaming service has begun a limited rollout to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.

In these strange and uncertain times, we’ve seen a number of efforts from brands to bring people together and raise money for charity. Several of these enterprises have used the medium of video games — ideal for people stuck at home. Racing drivers like Charles Leclerc have run charity events, and the whole of the Formula E Race at Home Challenge was geared to fundraising for UNICEF.

In case you haven’t heard the unfortunate news, E3 2020 is now cancelled. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) made the official announcement this afternoon amid the growing concerns of the coronavirus pandemic.

At this year’s Unpacked event in San Francisco, Samsung announced a partnership with Xbox, continuing the South Korean tech company’s partnership with Microsoft that began last year.

Depending on who you believe, the future of gaming might be either a much more powerful console or outside the box altogether. While both Sony and Microsoft are working on next generation consoles for next year, Google is going the other way with the cloud-based Stadia.

Xbox is gearing up for its annual Electronic Entertainment Expo live stream, straight from the Microsoft Theater in LA, and you can watch it all here.

Two of the giants of console gaming — and fierce rivals — have announced a partnership that will see them jointly develop new products and technologies for consumer entertainment.

Microsoft has showed off the first live demo of its xCloud game streaming service. It even used Forza Horizon 4 to do it.

Microsoft is currently working on the ability to play Xbox games on your PC. However, what if you want it the other way around? With the latest update to the Wireless Display app, this is now a reality.

Is there a new Xbox One S on the horizon? According to a report by Windows Central, the answer is yes.

The line between console and PC gaming is about to get even blurrier. Thanks to a deep dive into the Windows 10 version of State of Decay, some gamers have found hints that Microsoft is bringing the Xbox and PC platforms even closer together.

There’s a new streaming service on the way from Microsoft that could revolutionize how we play games. Called Project xCloud, it looks to stream Xbox games to virtually any device.

We briefly touched on it prior to Microsoft’s E3 conference, and now it’s official: Playground Games is a first-party Microsoft studio.

Electronic Arts kicked off the pre-E3 presentations yesterday. Next up is Xbox, which begins its own conference from the Microsoft Theater.