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If you’re reading this, thank you very much for popping by. We have been covering Xbox games, hardware, events and more for over 7 years now, and we have plenty of awesome reviews up on the site for you to check out, from smaller indies to the biggest AAA fare – and everything in between.
Obviously, our platform of choice is the big green (well, black) box, and like myself, most of the team have been onboard with Xbox since day one. I still remember lining up outside GAME in the UK at midnight to buy my Xbox, and was blown away watching the standard def, 24″ TV they had set up showing off a little game called Halo: Combat Evolved. That game, as well as many others, defined a large part of my teenage years, and I’ve stuck on team green ever since. Xbox felt like not just a great way to carry on gaming after Sega bowed out of the console race, but also like a genuine forward-looking machine that was going to set the standard of gaming. Ethernet ports? Build in Hard Drives? Online Multiplayer and chat?? It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come since those landmark moments, and while I’m sure we would have gotten there one way or another, there’s no denying Xbox pushed the boundaries and made the progression to todays gaming scene far quicker. Even today, with things like Quick Resume and the back-compat program, Xbox have been clear in their ambitions to make gaming as robust and easy for players as possible.
Of course, as I write this in 2025, that may seem harder than ever to see and feel. Not only are Xbox lagging in popularity compared to Playstation and Nintendo, but for every good move they make – Game Pass, Cloud Gaming, Play Anywhere – they take two steps back. The recent round of hardware price rises was one thing, but the bump to Game Pass Ultimate has been met with huge backlash (and rightly so). This isn’t a piece dissecting all of Xbox’s problems, but I wanted to lead with this before getting into the following.
If you’re a regular reader (thank you!), you may have seen more PC content going up in recent months. This is partly due to a few of the team getting decent gaming machines lately, but also due to Xbox themselves, and their spreading of the wings in terms of exclusivity.
With the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally machines out in just a few days, we feel this is only the beginning of Xbox becoming more and more PC-like in it’s approach to games and hardware. Of course, Xbox/Microsoft/Windows are all sides of the same coin, so this was perhaps inevitable, but more and more we’re finding Xbox is either being skipped over for game releases, or it seems harder to get Xbox versions of things to check out.
As the owner of Xbox Tavern, I’ve always had one eye on other formats, and own most of the current crop of machines. I love The Last of Us, Pikmin, Zelda, Uncharted, and many others, but most importantly to this update, I love all the random, weird and wonderful PC indie games that fill my inbox each week. Until last year I would sigh as I moved on as I had no way of playing them, but now, I want myself and anyone else on the team to feel like they can check out something on Steam or Epic, or GOG, even if there isn’t an Xbox version.
So, while we’re not quite ready to follow out YouTube channel in going full Gaming Tavern just yet, we will be exploring more and more PC content at the very least. These reviews/impressions will be noted clearly so as to not confuse matters in the same way as our current ones are, and if it’s also coming to Xbox we’ll be sure to include that info in the text too.
We’ll still be leaning toward the Series’ machines when we can, and Xbox – for all its faults lately – has a promising 2026 and beyond to look forward to, with Fable, Gears of War: E-Day, Forza Horizon 6 and much more to come. But just as Microsoft are branching out, so too are we, with the hope that we can shed light on some more awesome games that might have slipped under your radar.
We hope you continue to enjoy the content we put out on here, and keep an eye and ear on the YouTube channel and podcast feeds for revamped videos and audio work that we’re planning in the background.
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