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Ever since Microsoft introduced its Xbox Series X/S game consoles in late 2020, Seagate has been exclusively selling storage expansion cards for these systems. But to the chagrin of gamers everywhere, these single-supplier drives have maintained their high prices even as the price of NAND and industry-standard SSDs has plummeted in the last year. But this might finally be changing, as Western Digital on Tuesday introduced its first WD_Black-branded storage expansion cards for Microsoft's latest Xbox consoles. Western Digital's WD_Black C50 lineup of expansion cards for Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S consoles includes 500 GB and 1 TB models. The WD_Black C50 expansion cards are designed to offer similar performance and features (e.g., Quick Resume) as built-in Xbox Series X|S internal storage so to provide seamless...
Seagate Updates Game Drive SSD for Xbox with New Look and Internals
Seagate has been maintaining a line of Xbox-certified external SSDs since late 2016. The current Game Drive for Xbox SSD is based on the Seagate Fast SSD's internals and...
19 by Ganesh T S on 10/7/2021
The Xbox Series X Review: Ushering In The Next Generation of Game Consoles
What makes a console generation? The lines have been blurred recently. We can state that the Xbox Series X, and its less-powerful sibling, the Series S, are the next...
68 by Brett Howse on 11/5/2020
Xbox Series X Unboxed: Our First Look At Microsoft’s Next Gen Console
After over a year of official teases, naming, and plenty of performance details, Microsoft is on the cusp of launching their first proper new generation of the Xbox since...
35 by Brett Howse on 10/28/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Microsoft Xbox Series X System Architecture (6:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
59 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Microsoft Drops More Xbox Series X Tech Specs: Zen 2 + RDNA 2, 12 TFLOPs GPU, HDMI 2.1, & a Custom SSD
For the past several months both Microsoft and Sony have been slowly but steadily trickling out additional details about their forthcoming gaming consoles. And now this morning we’re getting...
74 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2020
Microsoft Announces Xbox Series X: Available Holiday 2020
Microsoft this evening has finally given their long-awaited next generation gaming console a name, announcing the Xbox Series X. The device, formerly known as Project Scarlett, is said to...
83 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2019
Xbox at E3 2019: Xbox Project Scarlett Console Launching Holiday 2020
Today at E3 Phil Spencer of Microsoft announced Project Scarlett, which is their next generation console and brings some massive performance increases over even the already powerful Xbox One...
166 by Brett Howse on 6/9/2019
Xbox at E3 2019: Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 Announced
Today at E3, Microsoft took the wraps off an updated version of their Elite controller for the Xbox, which addresses some of the issues of the original and adds...
23 by Brett Howse on 6/9/2019
SteelSeries Launches The Arctis 9X Headset: X Marks The Xbox
SteelSeries is well-known in the gaming headset industry, and we’ve been fortunate enough to test out some of their products in the past, including the amazing Arctis Pro with...
16 by Brett Howse on 4/23/2019
Microsoft Launches Xbox All Access
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new way to get into the Xbox ecosystem with Xbox All Access. For $21.99 per month for two years, you can get...
14 by Brett Howse on 8/28/2018
Microsoft Rolls Out Xbox April Update: FreeSync And More
Although we’ve not yet gotten an official launch date for the latest version of Windows 10, Microsoft’s Xbox team has once again beat them to the punch with a...
14 by Brett Howse on 4/25/2018
Microsoft and AMD to Bring FreeSync 2 Support to Xbox One S and Xbox One X This Spring
Over the weekend, Microsoft and AMD made a somewhat unexpected announcement on the debut of their new Inside Xbox show: AMD FreeSync 2 support will be coming to the...
27 by Nate Oh on 3/12/2018
The Xbox One X Review: Putting A Spotlight On Gaming
It’s amazing how time flies. Only four years ago, Microsoft launched the Xbox One, its successor to the Xbox 360, but the Xbox One was a strategic departure from...
128 by Brett Howse on 11/3/2017
Microsoft Details The Xbox One Fall Update, Available Today
There’s a lot going on in Xbox land, with the launch of the new Xbox One X console due for November 7th, and, thanks to the biannual Windows update...
29 by Brett Howse on 10/16/2017
Hot Chips: Microsoft Xbox One X Scorpio Engine Live Blog (9:30am PT, 4:30pm UTC)
This week it's the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino. We're sat nice and early, with the first talk today from Microsoft. John Sell, a Microsoft hardware veteran, is set...
33 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2017
Razer Launches The Thresher Ultimate: An Xbox, PS4, And PC 7.1 Headset
This morning at E3, Razer is announcing a new product in their lineup, targeting the console market, with the Thresher Ultimate wireless headset. This is a 7.1 Dolby surround...
16 by Brett Howse on 6/13/2017_carousel.jpg)
Microsoft’s Project Scorpio Gets a Launch Date: Xbox One X, $499, November 7th
Over the last several months, Microsoft has been trickling out details about their mid-generation hardware update for the Xbox One console, which has been going under the name Project...
88 by Ryan Smith on 6/11/2017
Seagate Launches The 4TB Game Drive For Xbox Game Pass Special Edition
Seagate has been partnering with Microsoft to supply official accessories for the Xbox console for a couple of generations now, and we took a look at one back in...
3 by Brett Howse on 6/1/2017
Microsoft Releases The First Xbox Play Anywhere Title: Recore
At E3, Microsoft announced a new feature to bring together their Xbox ecosystem with the much larger, and more diverse, Windows 10 user base. The initiative was called Xbox...
48 by Brett Howse on 9/12/2016
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