Skype has been losing ground in the online communication space for years now and is finally tackling one of its most plaguing issues - the lack of decent encryption.

If you were expecting Halo Infinite to reset a timeline or take the Halo franchise in a radically new direction in terms of story, don't. Halo Infinite is the next chapter in Master Chief's story, and essentially just Halo 6.

An impending update to the Xbox One X will allow for support of some – but not all - of the features of the newwer HDMI 2.1 spec

The highly acclaimed Forza Motorsport racing games had a bit of a stain on them with the last game. It wasn’t nearly as beloved as previous games, with complaints ranging from boring music, the removal of interesting classes, and a messy progression system. Most criticised of all though was the inclusion of loot boxes. Mods for cars came by way of Prize Crates – loot boxes - changing the way you earned cash for new cars. Those are now being yanked.

A new report suggests that Microsoft's focus on streaming will come sooner rather than later, with a second console launching in 2020 that will feature less hardware and a solution to latency.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have come together to create a new open standard that’ll make it easier for users to transfer their data between applications. It’s called the the Data Transfer Project, and its goal is to let users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”

Not only did the Xbox One release a little later than the PlayStation 4 at the beginning of this gen in 2013, but it was also more expensive and less powerful. That wasn’t a great start for the Xbox One, which has now blossomed into a beast thanks to the Xbox One X. Leaving the gates second is a mistake that Microsoft probably doesn’t want to make again – and it’s likely that the next generation of Xbox (in whatever guise that may be) will be out before Sony’s ready to launch its own next-generation PlayStation.

sets that support it are usually better than ones that only stick to HDR10. And it looks like the Xbox One will become the first console to support the superior format.