The Avatar: The Last Airbender movie that suffered such a devastating leak earlier this year finally has a release date on Paramount+.
The recent layoffs at Microsoft, including deep cuts at Xbox, impacted 4,800 people across the business. One of the staffers let go was Kevin LaChapelle, a 37-year Microsoft veteran who helped bring to market one of the best, most-beloved features in Xbox console history: backwards compatibility. LaChapelle, who was the vice president of the Xbox […]
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 […]
Microsoft’s mass layoffs had a heavy impact on the Xbox division, and Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds, is one of many Xbox-owned studios where cuts were deep. Kotaku reports that between 60 and 70 people–roughly a quarter of the studio’s workforce–have been let go. The talent laid off includes producers, QA testers, […]
We also got a glimpse of Aion 2’s four-player party-based content, which looks similarly fast-paced, and the team told us that there’s also more challenging eight-player raids, though we didn’t get to see them. This stuff was less traditional “navigate a bunch of scenarios and regular enemies and then do some boss fights along the […]
1 Billion DAU! Following the announcement that Xbox will cut its workforce by 20%–with 1,600 employees already laid off in the first wave of retrenchments–Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has detailed plans for the company to reach an absurd number of people every day. „I want Xbox to be one of the few companies that entertains […]
Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the original Nintendo Switch, which remains in active production despite the debut of Switch 2 in 2025. However, the Switch’s time will be coming to a close in Europe just shy of a decade after its initial release. According to a notice on Nintendo’s official site, the […]
Diablo 4 Season 14 dramatically reworked Mythic items in Blizzard’s ARPG going forward, and judging from early feedback, it’s a change that isn’t going over well. Season of Death Awakening launched on June 30 and introduced what Blizzard coined Mythic Uniques 3.0, a new system where any of the game’s hundreds of Unique items could […]