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Microsoft Insists Every Game Shown at Its Xbox Showcase in June Is Safe — but What Were the No-Shows?
Amid this week's layoff bloodbath, Microsoft has insisted every game shown at its Xbox showcase in June is safe. But what ...
Microsoft Scraps ‘Perfect Dark' Reboot, ‘Everwild' and Other Games, Closes Studio The Initiative
Microsoft is scrapping two upcoming video games, a reboot of “Perfect Dark” and the fantasy title “Everwild,” in addition to ...
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Rumor: MS Is Not Replacing Developers With AI – They’re Firing Them To Pay For Their AI Investment
Microsoft reportedly laid off a large number of their video game developers to compensate for the cost of their massive ...
PlayStation Game Helldivers 2 is Coming to Xbox Next Month
Over a year after a wildly successful launch on PS5 and PC, the PlayStation-published third-person shooter is making its way ...
Microsoft to Lay Off Thousands; Xbox Chief Says Gaming Division Cuts Will Remove ‘Layers of Management’
Microsoft is set to layoff thousands of employees worldwide Wednesday, including some in the Microsoft Gaming division.
"We were rapidly making real design decisions so as to not knowingly lie to players."
A developer who worked on Microsoft's now-cancelled Perfect Dark reboot has addressed the claim that last year's gameplay ...
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Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all
But there’s another story to be told here — and it’s older and, if possible, even sadder. Microsoft has simply never been any good at running game studios.
Games Inbox: Are video games too expensive for kids?
The Friday letters page asks whether there’ll ever be a new Perfect Dark game, as readers fail to share EA’s optimism for ...
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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran
One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe ...
Microsoft cancels Perfect Dark reboot, shuts down studio
Xbox Game Studios’ new Perfect Dark game — the project that was first revealed in 2020 as the debut title from internal ...
Everwild has reportedly been cancelled amid Xbox layoffs
In today's gaming world, a decade of development can sometimes amount to nothing. Parent company Microsoft has reportedly ...