8BitDo's licensed Forza Horizon 6 dock costs $34.99 and ships with a rechargeable battery, exposing a gap Microsoft's own Xbox hardware still hasn't filled.
Activision says Call of Duty's Ricochet anti-cheat is secure after CVE-2026-45642 let PCs spoof Secure Boot; Microsoft fixed it on its own servers.
Playground Games hand-built Fable's 1,000-plus NPCs and cast 100 actors, a bet that pushed the RPG's launch past Grand Theft Auto 6 into 2027.
Creative Assembly showed Alien: Isolation 2 hands on at Summer Game Fest, sending its single Xenomorph out of the space station and into a storm.
Microsoft's new Windows 11 26H1 Beta channel splits testing for Snapdragon X2 and RTX Spark laptops, which won't rejoin mainstream Windows until 2027.
Akamai's API Security earned Microsoft's Solutions Partner with certified software designation on June 10, unlocking Azure co-sell and marketplace status.
CIQ's Fuzzball platform now runs AI and HPC workloads across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and CoreWeave from one workflow file.
Microsoft's new preview lets Azure Database for PostgreSQL teams test major-version upgrades for blockers before real downtime starts.
Microsoft is cutting up to 400 Azure jobs in China and retiring 21Vianet cloud plans as US-China data rules squeeze its cloud business there.
NHS England is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff by October 2026, after a trial found 43 minutes saved daily per worker.