Sailing the Sea Of Thieves without a crew is lonely and strange
This article focuses on what it’s like to play Rare’s multiplayer pirate simulator Sea Of Thieves all by your lonesome.…
Microsoft finally fixed the bug that turned all your e-mail smileys into random Js
Good news for anybody who’s ever tried to add a little personal flair to a work e-mail, only to see their well-intended…
Microsoft now claims Paint isn’t dead, it’s just going to live on a farm
Yesterday, reports came out that Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update would make the iconic-ish Paint program…
Microsoft is killing its iconically lousy Paint program
As reported by The Guardian, Microsoft is going to begin phasing out its iconic Microsoft Paint program with the…
UPDATE: Microsoft’s souped-up console is called Xbox One X, launches on November 7 for $500
First, there was Xbox One. Then, there was Xbox One S. And on November 7, there will be Xbox One X. That’s right,…
Watch a guy bring jokes from Siri, Alexa, and other robots to an open mic night
Animals will always be cuter than humans. And robots will always be smarter. No one, though, will be funnier than us.…
Stephen King-inspired horror game Alan Wake is being pulled from stores
Remedy Entertainment has announced that, as of May 15, its Stephen King-inspired horror game Alan Wake will no longer…
Watch a man install every major Windows upgrade from the past 30 years
In 2011, Andrew Tait of the YouTube channel TheRasteri decided to test the upgrade capabilities of Microsoft Windows by…
Microsoft to launch a subscription service for gaming on Xbox One
Microsoft has announced a new $10 per month subscription service that’ll give users access to over 100 games for their…
A quick primer on all the crazy stuff people have done with Minecraft over the years
We almost never play Minecraft the way it was intended. In its adventure mode, players are tasked with staying alive,…
Google, Facebook, many more react to Trump’s Muslim immigration ban
Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on immigration, halting refugee entrance to the United…
Microsoft has canceled PlatinumGames’ Scalebound
Just hours after Kotaku broke the news of the game’s troubles and possible cancellation, Microsoft made it official: Sca…
This bot will do a wonderful, terrible job mashing things up for you
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled Murphy, the latest eerily smart chat bot out of the machine learning labs. Last…
The new Xbox is in the right place at the wrong time
Back at E3, Microsoft announced that, after just three years of the console being on the market, two new versions of…
Gears Of War 4 doesn’t reinvent the chainsaw, and it doesn’t need to
When Microsoft bought Gears Of War from Epic Games two years ago, the tech giant clearly knew what it was getting: a…
A Gears Of War movie will be slicing its way into theaters
Like a gun-mounted chainsaw ripping its way through a horde of screaming piles of machismo, muscles, and meat,…
We’re live-chatting Microsoft’s E3 2016 Xbox conference
Heading into E3, the big mystery is always what games each publisher is going to announce and show off for the first…
Microsoft’s new AI bot is way less racist, still pretty confused
Microsoft’s slow, stumbling climb toward The Rise Of The Machines continues today, as another one of the tech giant’s…
Microsoft’s chat bot returns to spout nonsense, this time of the non-racist kind
Microsoft took one small step for artificial intelligence, one giant leap for bigoted mankind when it introduced the…
Microsoft’s teenage AI went full Nazi within 24 hours
In a moment that will surely be cited by future cyborg historians to explain why the polluting influence of human…