PROJECT HELIX: XBOX MEETS PC | WELCOME TO THE PLAYGROUND

Microsoft’s next Xbox is starting to sound less like a traditional console and more like a PC that still wants to keep the comfort of a console shell. That is the interesting part of Project Helix. For years, Xbox has lived somewhere between two worlds: a console brand with PC software ambitions, a Windows company with a gaming box in the living room, and a platform that kept saying “play anywhere” while still carrying old console boundaries. Now the direction...