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Report: Laid-Off Staff At Candy Crush Maker Say They've Been Training Their AI Replacements
15.7.2025
Candy Crush maker, King, which Microsoft acquired along with Activision Blizzard back in 2023, was the first hit when mass layoffs were announced across the company earlier this month. Now some impacted staff say morale is at an all time low, as AI they’ve been training for years is potentially...
Microsoft Cutting 9,100 Jobs As Latest Mass Layoff Hits Xbox Beginning With Candy Crush Maker King
2.7.2025
Reports and rumors of massive layoffs at Xbox have been building since late last month and the first blood has now been spilled. Bloomberg reports that Candy Crush maker King is cutting 200 employees, or roughly 10 percent of its 2,000 person headcount, with layoffs also underway at other European...
Report: Xbox Bracing For Another Mass Layoff
24.6.2025
Microsoft’s gaming business is seemingly in for another round of mass layoffs. The fresh cuts would be coming just as Xbox seems to be in full retreat from its long-standing console hardware business as it invests more in Windows gaming and bringing first-party exclusives to PlayStation 5. Read more
Will Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Come To Switch 2?
8.6.2025
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the next entry in Activision’s long-running military shooter franchise and it’s once again coming to last-gen consoles. But what about the Switch 2? More than two-years after Microsoft and Nintendo entered into an agreement to bring Call of Duty to Switch, nothing...
Xbox Just Added 50+ Classic Activision Games To Game Pass
21.5.2025
Surprise! If you are a Game Pass subscriber, you now have access to dozens and dozens of retro video games. And Xbox and Activision plan to add even more classic games in the future. Read more
Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'
9.5.2025
The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized. That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn’t have someone else reporting to them. It’s the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since...
Bethesda Devs Threaten Strike As Union Negotiations Drag On At Microsoft
1.4.2025
Are you ready for your games to get buggier? Over 300 quality assurance testers working on Bethesda franchises like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls have voted to authorize a strike following what they say are stalling negotiations with parent company Microsoft. “We’ve had to continuously fight...
Game Companies Want To Be Able To Replace Actors With AI Replicas In The Next Strike, Union Says
12.3.2025
Game actors have been on strike for over a year now, and while they say progress has been made in negotiations with companies like Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, they also claim that publishers are refusing to budge on offering meaningful AI protections. A major sticking point in...
Former Xbox Exec Says Microsoft Would Stop Making Hardware If It Could
7.3.2025
The Xbox that fans have known for decades is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation as Microsoft sets it sights on a multiplatform approach to gaming and its console sales continue to decline year after year. Veteran gaming executive Peter Moore, an Xbox VP in the early aughts...
An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Is Coming And It Could Be Out This Year
13.1.2025
After years of rumors suggesting it was in the works, a remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion appears to be closer to releasing than ever, with some sources suggesting it could come as early as 2025. The modern version, created in Unreal Engine 5, would give fans of the open-world RPG series...
Call Of Duty Keeps Getting More Expensive To Make Even Though It's Selling Fewer Copies
7.1.2025
Call of Duty is the best-selling game almost every year, but even that might not be enough to keep up with its ever-ballooning blockbuster budgets. New court filings reveal that 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to make over the life of the game, despite selling 10 million...
The 15 Biggest Video Game Disappointments Of 2024
24.12.2024
Wow! Another year down. It feels like 2024 went by in a flash, and also feels like I spent half my life slowly trudging through this mostly awful year filled with a lot of bad news.Read more
Microsoft Says The Quiet Part Loud About Xbox
17.12.2024
Microsoft’s newest sales pitch to prospective gamers is that everything—your TV, computer, or phone—can be an Xbox. It’s part of a new strategy aimed at reaching more people, and potentially making a lot more money. It’s also a major shift for the millions of people who have been Xbox fans...
Some Classic Call Of Duty Games Might Be Coming To Game Pass
10.12.2024
It looks like some more Call of Duty games might be making the leap to Xbox Game Pass, but likely only on PC. Read more
Xbox Is Working On A Gaming Handheld But It's Still A Few Years Out
13.11.2024
Rumors have been flying all year that Xbox is working on a PC gaming handheld. On Wednesday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that plans are underway, though it sounds like an actual portable device is still a few years out.Read more
Spyro The Dragon Coming To Xbox Game Pass Tomorrow
11.11.2024
Earlier today, after some teasing, Xbox confirmed that 2018's Spyro Reignited Trilogy would be available to play via Xbox Game Pass starting tomorrow. It follows the addition of fellow former PlayStation platform mascot Crash Bandicoot, who arrived on the service earlier this year. Read more
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Divisive, Call Of Duty's Launcher Sucks, And More Of The Week's Top Takes
2.11.2024
This week, nothing in video games resulted in more takes being heated and tweets being fired off than the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the first new entry in BioWare’s series in 10 years. We took a look at the different reactions some critics and players are having to the game. We also...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Is Breaking Records For Xbox When It Needs Them Most
31.10.2024
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is the first entry in the annual blockbuster to be announced and released since Microsoft acquired it along with the rest of Activision Blizzard last October. And, by all accounts, it’s giving Xbox the boost it needed during a rough year. On an earnings call this week...
More Activision Games, Including Black Ops 6, Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass This Month
15.10.2024
The eclectic mix of stuff coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next few weeks includes some Call of Duty games, some nasty zombies, StarCraft, a South Park RPG, and a wonderful indie game about a growing hole. Read more
Playtesting For Mysterious Nintendo Switch Software Fills Up In Seconds
10.10.2024
As people continue waiting patiently for official news of the Switch 2, Nintendo has taken the unusual step of rolling out a public testing program for a secret new piece of Switch software. It filled up in seconds as players eagerly signed up to be guinea pigs for whatever the Mario maker...