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Xbox’s Chief Technology Officer, Scott Van Vliet, has offered transparency and an explanation for the system and service outage that affected game libraries, sign-in, and game launching for many players from late Sunday night and well into Monday, vowing to „do better.“

Xbox’s big reset has scrapped studios building original ideas in favour of doubling down on legacy IP – but how will it find its next big franchise if it only focuses on the old?

Next year could be a grim one for Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, as console sales are expected to dramatically decline in 2027 by almost 20%. Thanks to component shortages, video game consoles like the Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S have only gotten more expensive over time–a complete reversal of how systems used to […]

Xbox brass wants more of its biggest franchises more often: Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc. Here’s how we’d go about utilizing Xbox’s remaining resources to make it happen.

In the wake of mass layoffs at Xbox and several studios exiting the company, Microsoft’s gaming division has outlined it plans for growth. Some of these plans include a focus on its biggest IP, investing more in games like Minecraft, and removing several layers of management to streamline its studio model. One other major area […]

Although Xbox is planning a massive layoff soon that may impact several of its subsidiaries, it appears the iconic RPG studio Obsidian Entertainment is safe. According to a July 2 Bluesky post by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, Obsidian Entertainment is „not in negotiations to avoid shutting down.“ More details will become clearer on Monday, July […]

According to a new report, Xbox is also abandoning physical media with its next console.