For the next six days, Microsoft is offering some solid bargains across its console and PC offering on the Microsoft Store. Not all the discounts are huge, but with a little digging there's plenty of plum pickings. Here's the best bargains.

Microsoft is in a weird place. It has sold an estimated 30 to 50 million Xbox Ones, placing the company a distant second in the console race behind Sony’s PlayStation 4 with more than 75 million. And Nintendo’s Switch console? It’s a runaway success.

There haven't been a whole lot of new releases in the last fortnight, but there's been some very good reasons to revisit old games. Especially if you own an Xbox.

FreeSync isn't the kind of technology that you see in TVs an awful lot. It does, however, appear quite frequently in computer monitors. And if you happen to have an Xbox One or Xbox One X plugged into your PC monitor, then you'll finally be able to take advantage of something rather neat.

If you haven't given DOOM a whirl on consoles in a while, and you own a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X, here's a reason to give the demon booter a second go this week.

Been waiting for an excuse to pick up an Xbox One X? Want to set sail for adventure in Sea of Thieves? Now you can sate both of those urges by picking up an Xbox One X with a free copy of Sea of Thieves.

Burnout Paradise Remastered comes out tomorrow on Xbox One and PS4 but a PC version of the original is readily available. So was this a quick and dirty port or was some polish added?

In a developer update, 343 Industries outlined ongoing plans to update Master Chief Collection, an anthology of Halo games for Xbox One whose multiplayer has been plagued with problems ever since it released in late 2014.

Slowly but surely, the native 4K titles are coming. The latest to supposedly join the pack: Forza Horizon 3.

When the Xbox One X launched in November, players discovered the console could run a completely un-patched disc version of The Witcher 3 at 60 frames per second. The Xbox One X update for the game dropped today, giving players a choice of 60 FPS performance or 30 FPS at 4K.

When we talk about the Xbox One in 2017, which Xbox One are we talking about? The original big black box? Last year's streamlined One S? The ultra-powerful One X?

Mirror's Edge took people by surprise when it released back in 2008. The first-person parkour game was transportive, making you feel the air rush past you as you bolted across rooftops. It's also one of the games that you can upscale to 4K on the Xbox One X.

Almost a decade later, not only can you play Mirror's Edge on a current console, you can experience a better version of it.

The Xbox One X update for Fallout 4 arrived this week, and while Microsoft's machine delivers the best-looking un-modded version of the game on a console, Digital Foundry's in-depth comparison found the PlayStation 4 Pro's version ran a tiny bit smoother. That's the difference full 4K makes.

Last week, the Xbox One X sold out at stores in Japan. Since retailers were only filling pre-orders and there weren't lines, it was hard to tell how the console did. Famitsu's sale figures shed light on the situation.

We've had our say: now you have yours.

The Xbox One X does exactly what it's meant to do, but who is it for? Is it worth buying the most powerful game console ever? Let's discuss on today's Kotaku Splitscreen.

When The Witcher 3 launched for the original Xbox One back in 2015, it only ran at 900p (1600 x 900) resolution and had trouble maintaining a stable 30 frames per second. The same unpatched version of the game, running fresh from the disc, hits 60 frames per second more often than not on the Xbox One X.

Going home earlier this week, my partner wanted to play Assassin's Creed: Origins. She'd been playing it for a few days - being a double history major, makes sense - and was just starting to get into a groove with the game.

So we went home. Powered up the Xbox One X. Tried to launch AC: Origins. But it wouldn't start. We quickly realised that was because it wanted an update.

A ~41GB update, to be exact.

The Xbox One X is a box filled with powerful components that's designed to do the same thing as a box with less powerful components, only a little bit better. That's a weird place for the "world's most powerful console" to be.