New Xbox Game Pass games (Nov. 2025): What's coming and leaving soon
Xbox Game Pass As Xbox Game Pass grows ever bigger, I'm keeping careful track of the best new additions, upcoming arrivals, which games are leaving soon, and much more.
Features
ARC Raiders quiz: test your knowledge on the new shooter
Quiz See how well you know this year's big extraction shooter, by taking our ARC Raiders quiz.
I played Goat Simulator 3's new 'Baadlands' DLC
Gaming Baadlands Furry Road is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds and more fun for Goat Simulator 3 fans.
Battlefield 6's new Eastwood map is awesome — with one big caveat
Opinion Battlefield 6's California Resistance update added the Eastwood map, and after playing it, it's quickly become one of my favorites in the entire game.
Xbox Ally re-review after a month of daily use — everything I love and desperately want fixed
Handhelds The Xbox Ally has totally changed my gaming habits, and honestly, other leisure habits too. But the criticisms are valid, particularly so if you're trying to use this more like a PC than an "Xbox."
Windows & Software
PowerToys v0.96 breaks Advanced Paste free from OpenAI with new AI options
Apps PowerToys v0.96 removes Advanced Paste’s reliance on OpenAI and adds support for Gemini, Mistral, Azure OpenAI, and local models powered by your PC’s NPU.
Windows 11 is catching up: Here's the new agenda view for the Taskbar
Windows 11 You'll soon be able to see your upcoming events and meetings directly in the calendar flyout on the Taskbar on Windows 11. Finally!
Windows 11 gains point-in-time recovery feature
Windows 11 Microsoft has unveiled new recovery methods for Windows 11 PCs in the event where a PC is no longer able to boot, or data has become corrupted.
PC Hardware
Score big on Surface: The ultimate Black Friday guide to Microsoft deals is here
Deals Looking to get your hands on a new Surface PC or some Surface accessories? Black Friday is a great time to save, and the deals have already begun.
Qualcomm has finally released its Snapdragon Control Panel
Qualcomm Several months after first being announced, Qualcomm has released the Snapdragon Control Panel into general availability. It provides optimized game settings options, improves performance, and more.
CalDigit's TS5 dock is $100 cheaper than the TS5 Plus, but does it have what you need?
Review It's $100 cheaper than the TS5 Plus, but does it have what you need?
Is Kensington's latest Thunderbolt 5 dock the new best accessory for your desk?
Review A wide variety of ports and a built-in M.2 SSD slot make Kensington's new Thunderbolt 5 dock one of the best in 2025. IS it right for you? Let's find out!
MSI's Raider A18 HX is all about raw power, but its mini-LED display is my favorite feature
Review I got my hands on MSI's Raider A18 HX gaming laptop featuring the most powerful CPU and GPU combo on the market today. Does the raw power sell the device alone, or could MSI have done more elsewhere?
The dream lives: fan project Windows Astria shows the perfect Windows Phone
WINDOWS PHONE A breathtaking fan concept, Windows Astria, resurrects Windows Phone by merging Windows 11 Fluent Design, beloved Live Tiles, and native Android app support. it’s the Microsoft mobile OS that should have been.
Deals
Get some free cash with this Xbox gift card deal
Deals Newegg is running its generous Xbox Gift Card offer for a short time, spend $54 to get $60 of credit.
This monitor is perfect for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Deals The Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 is a premium gaming monitor that just got a nice Black Friday discount. It's the perfect choice for playing this year's The Game Award nominees (and future winners).
There's no reason to wait for Black Friday to get a cheap gaming laptop
Deals There's really no reason to pay full price for a great gaming laptop with the latest performance hardware.
XREAL's AR glasses and Beam Pro add-on enjoy an early Black Friday sale
Deals XREAL has announced it is hosting an early Black Friday 20% discount for a plethora of its products, including the XREAL One AR glasses, XREAL One Pro AR glasses, and the XREAL Beam Pro.
Handheld Gaming PCs
New Xbox Ally system update improves power and stability
News Armoury Crate SE update version 2.1.15.0 is rolling out to ROG handheld gaming PCs, and it's bringing some excellent performance improvements.
Gaming
Echo Generation 2 is official, and it's coming to Xbox Game Pass
Gaming During the latest Xbox Partner Preview, Cococucumber announced its next game — and its first ever sequel. Echo Generation 2 is official and coming to Game Pass.
007 First Light wouldn't be a James Bond game without an Aston Martin supercar
Gaming During the Xbox Partner Preview November 2025, IO Interactive showed off the custom Aston Martin Valhalla that Bond can drive in 007 First Light.
Vampire Crawlers has me ready to lose another 200 hours
GAMING Creators of Vampire Survivors just announced a brand new game, Vampire Crawlers at the Xbox Partner Preview.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT goes down in massive Cloudflare outage
AI A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting major web services right now, one of the biggest being OpenAI and its chatbot, ChatGPT.
Did Microsoft's Copilot ad just prove the AI isn't ready for your Windows 11 settings yet?
Windows 11 Microsoft's obsession with AI in Windows 11 is becoming so toxic that its latest ad campaign shows Copilot failing to help a user in their quest to change a setting, while pretending it worked as intended.
Microsoft CEO: the biggest thing since the Industrial Revolution is still "early innings"
AI Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, recently shared some interesting insights on AGI, but also claimed that the technology is still in its early innings.
Microsoft AI CEO says superintelligence shouldn't replace our species
AI Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, says that superintelligence AIs shouldn't be developed to replace humanity, but to serve them and drive significant scientific breakthroughs and innovation.
Microsoft
Microsoft Agent 365 gives you one place to manage the next billion AI agents
AI Microsoft revealed Agent 365 during Ignite, launching a central hub that was designed for creating, deploying, and securing AI agents across Microsoft 365.
NVIDIA joins Microsoft’s push on Claude — piling billions into Anthropic’s future
AI Anthropic is partnering with Microsoft and NVIDIA in a deal that brings Claude to Azure, expands engineering collaboration, and includes billions in new investments.
Microsoft's latest tweet is angering developers
Microsoft The company's latest post on X hasn't gone down well with the developer community, as responses beg for it to focus on fixing Windows instead.
Agentic AI takes center stage as Microsoft and NVIDIA back UK startup hub
News The new Agentic Launchpad program offers UK startups Azure credits, NVIDIA tools, and direct engineering support to scale autonomous AI systems.
Peripherals & Accessories
X / Twitter knocked offline after major Cloudflare outage
Cloudflare A major Cloudflare outage has caused hundreds of websites to go offline, including X. Here's what that means.
