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Xbox Live rebranded to Xbox network by Microsoft News Mar 23rd, 2021

Xbox Live rebranded to Xbox network by Microsoft

Apparently the change of name is to stop confusion between its various services

Xbox Game Pass now boasts 18m subscribers News Jan 27th, 2021

Xbox Game Pass now boasts 18m subscribers

Microsoft's games business brought in $5bn in this quarter for the first time ever

Xbox services and content offsets hardware decline at Microsoft News Oct 28th, 2020

Xbox services and content offsets hardware decline at Microsoft

Big M's games division saw 22 per cent increase in revenue year-on-year

Minecraft had close-to 132m monthly active users in the last quarter News Jul 23rd, 2020

Minecraft had close-to 132m monthly active users in the last quarter

Xbox content and services revenue rose 65 per cent year-on-year

Xbox Live GM McCulloch is leaving Microsoft Job News Jun 30th, 2020

Xbox Live GM McCulloch is leaving Microsoft

General manager for the firm's online service leaving after 15 years

Microsoft reports record Xbox Live usage, 10m Game Pass subscribers News Apr 30th, 2020

Microsoft reports record Xbox Live usage, 10m Game Pass subscribers

Big M saw 90m monthly active users on its online service

Microsoft says it's seen record numbers on Xbox Live, Game Pass and Mixer News Mar 31st, 2020

Microsoft says it's seen record numbers on Xbox Live, Game Pass and Mixer

Big M's cloud business has seen 775 per cent rise in regions where social distancing has been enforced

Xbox Live sees an increase in users thanks to the coronavirus News Mar 16th, 2020

Xbox Live sees an increase in users thanks to the coronavirus

"Play is a fundamental human need"

Xbox services revenue flat as console cash falls for Q1 19/20 News Oct 24th, 2019

Xbox services revenue flat as console cash falls for Q1 19/20

Turnover for the quarter down seven per cent in total

Xbox UK boss Eagle moves to Xbox Live marketing role Job News Oct 21st, 2019

Xbox UK boss Eagle moves to Xbox Live marketing role

Shifts into new global job on November 1st

Xbox CVP Mike Ybarra leaves Microsoft after 20 years Job News Oct 10th, 2019

Xbox CVP Mike Ybarra leaves Microsoft after 20 years

"It's time for my next adventure"

Increase in subscription revenue offsets Fortnite decline for Microsoft as Xbox Live hits 65m monthly users News Jul 19th, 2019

Increase in subscription revenue offsets Fortnite decline for Microsoft as Xbox Live hits 65m monthly users

Games cash dips ten per cent year-on-year for the Big M

Xbox Live monthly active users dropped to 63m in last financial quarter News Apr 25th, 2019

Xbox Live monthly active users dropped to 63m in last financial quarter

Revenue up five per cent for Microsoft's games business

Microsoft: Xbox Live users spend 4.28bn hours in game each month across all platforms News Mar 25th, 2019

Microsoft: Xbox Live users spend 4.28bn hours in game each month across all platforms

64 million monthly active users

Microsoft brings its tools and services under Game Stack banner News Mar 14th, 2019

Microsoft brings its tools and services under Game Stack banner

PlayFab, DirectX, Azure, Simplygon, Mixer, Havok and more get brought closer together

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