Xbox
The Fable Story So Far: 22 Years, a Closed Studio and One Last Chance
Fable went from Xbox's great fantasy hope to a closed studio and a ten-year gap. Here's how it got here, before the new game lands in February.
Gaming
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Forza
Forza Horizon 6 Hits PS5 in January, and This Time Your Save Comes Too
Forza Horizon 6 lands on PS5 on the 26th of January with cross-save and a disc. Horizon 5 had neither, and it took years longer to get there.
Xbox
Xbox Labs Has a Website, a Slogan and a Scott. It Doesn't Have a Game Yet
Xbox says its new Labs team will give old games new life. Eighteen days on, there's a clever website and nothing you can play.
PlayStation
Sony Never Called Old Games Impossible. It Just Kept Finding Reasons
For 19 years Sony has explained why old PlayStation games don't run on new consoles. The reasons changed, and fans kept working on it regardless.
Emulation
What AI Misses When It Decompiles a Game
Decompiling a game used to take fans years. AI has cut that down, and the people who did it by hand say speed was never really the point.
Forza
Forza Motorsport 5 and 6 Are Running on PC, and Xbox Had Nothing to Do With It
Fans have got four Forza games you can't buy any more running on PC, better than they ever ran on console. I can't find a word about it from Microsoft.
Xbox
Xbox Says It Can't Make Enough Consoles. Its Console Revenue Fell 14% Anyway
Microsoft's latest numbers have Xbox down 2% and hardware down 14%. Xbox's boss says there's more demand than consoles, but nobody will show the number.
PlayStation
GTA 6's Score Is by Justice, and It's Out Three Weeks After the Game
With under three weeks to go, the newest GTA 6 news is the music. French duo Justice have scored it, and the album lands on the 11th of December.