Xbox just wiped out most of the excuses game developers use to skip the platform

Microsoft says devs can now get a working Xbox development setup in about 30 minutes, alongside new free tools designed to support cross platform development.
GameSpot

Project Helix Release Date Speculation, Potential Price, Specs, And Everything We Know About The Next Xbox Console

As Xbox has continued to stumble in recent years, the future of the console has been in question. Most recently thanks to the ...
Pure Xbox

'Every Xbox Game Gets To Use This' - Microsoft Announces Free Cross-Platform Tools For Developers

Yesterday, amidst all the headline-grabbing Project Helix news at GDC 2026, it was also announced that PlayFab Foundation Mode is being rolled out for free to all Xbox developers and publishers, and ...
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Xbox Reveals New Details On 'Project Helix' Next-Gen Console, Says Devs Will Get It In 2027

It's now been confirmed that an "alpha" version of the next-gen Project Helix hardware will be shipped to developers in 2027, but there's no word on whether that's early or late in the year — so who ...

Microsoft finally shares details of the Xbox Project Helix console and its AMD heart

Xbox Project Helix will feature a custom AMD silicon and support next-gen pipelines for ray-tracing and frame generation tech, while also unifying the game development pipeline for PC and console.
GameSpot

Xbox Project Helix Gets Key Updates, Including When Devs Will Get The System

Xbox executive Jason Ronald announced that alpha versions of Project Helix devkits will begin to go out to developers in 2027. Devkits are early versions of new consoles that developers often get ...

Microsoft will start providing game studios with Project Helix consoles in 2027

Microsoft plans to begin shipping early units of its next generation console to game studios starting sometime next year.

Xbox Project Helix 'alpha' hardware will go out to game devs in 2027, Microsoft says

Microsoft's next Xbox, code named Project Helix, will be in developers' hands in 2027, the company revealed during a talk at the GDC Festival of Gaming on Wednesday. Alpha versions of development kits ...

.NET 11.0 Preview 2 delivers asynchronous runtime

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

ThreatDown Uncovers First Cyber Attack Abusing Deno JavaScript Runtime for Fileless Malware Delivery

ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, today published research documenting what researchers believe to be the first documented case of attackers abusing the Deno JavaScript runtime ...
The Escapist

Slay the Spire 2 console commands – how to mod the game and get access to the dev menu

Here’s how to enable the dev console in Slay the Spire 2 and a full list of console commands you can use during a run.

Google Removes JavaScript SEO Warning, Says It’s Outdated

Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is outdated and noting it has rendered JavaScript for years.