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Apple's Game App on iPhone vs. Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally: The Real Winners Are Gamers

At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off plenty of changes in its preview for software upgrades due out later this year, but alongside visual shifts like Liquid Glass, the company also debuted a new Games app designed to be a hub for downloaded games. It's a continued push for iPhone, iPad and Mac owners to play and connect with others that comes as other gaming companies shift their strategies -- most notably, Apple announced its Games app days after Microsoft revealed its own ROG Xbox Ally, a powerful

Video Games Weekly: The one that happened while the Waymos burned

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. Summer Game Fest 2025 will be reme

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Xbox handheld console finally revealed after a decade of speculation

Xbox handheld console finally revealed after a decade of speculation 3 days ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Xbox Microsoft has finally revealed its highly-anticipated handheld console, years after it was first rumoured. The ROG Xbox Ally will let gamers access their Game Pass subscription library on-the-go, in effect meaning members will start off with hundreds of games. It is being made in partnership with Asus, which has been making handheld gaming devices since 202

Xbox Game Pass was supposed to be the Netflix of gaming — what happened?

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Decoder! This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break from what I can only describe as a pretty bleak news cycle. So I’m filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity to switch gears a little bit from the

Play Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Now and More Games Soon on Xbox Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass subscribers can now expand the Imperium of Mankind in the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And if you've got the need for speed, you can race to the checkered flag in the Formula One Championship in F1 24. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate -- a CNET Editors' Choice award pick -- offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One, PC and mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription provides access to a large library of games, with new titles

Xbox’s AI initiative with Muse is an attempt to read the tea leaves, not the room

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Earlier today, the heads of Microsoft’s Xbox division revealed Muse, a generative AI model that intends to create both visuals and gameplay for games. The model, which was trained on the largely forgotten Ninja Theory multiplayer game Bleeding Edge, is not a shocking leap for Microsoft’s Xbox division. The company as a whole, from CEO Satya Nadella down, has wholeheart