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Microsoft has announced sweeping layoffs and other dramatic changes resulting in 4,800 layoffs across the company, including 3,200 at Xbox specifically. What’s led to this? According to one expert, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his „catastrophic mismanagement“ of the company is to blame. Ed Zitron, an author who specializes in covering the technology space and […]

With the Steam Machine starting to land in some lucky buyers hands, a few of the gremlins in Valve’s compact living-room PC have started to surface. But while some might remind you of infamous hardware failures of old, many of them are smartly designed errors that you can, for the most part, resolve yourself. Last […]

Microsoft is undergoing a major shakeup that involves mass layoffs, studio sell-offs, and other significant changes as part of a „reset“ of the business. While we have learned that Ninja Theory and Undead Labs are being sold off and Double Fine and Compulsion are going independent, we don’t yet know what the future holds for […]

As part of the 1,600 people being let go by Xbox during its big reset on July 6, it appears that the company’s Accessibility division has been hit pretty heavily as well. According to a July 6 Bluesky post, the senior user researcher for accessibility at ZeniMax Media, Elisabeth Whyte, shared that she was caught […]

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has outlined her plan to „reset“ the Xbox business, and it includes mass layoffs and selling off studios. In her memo announcing the dramatic shakeup, Sharma also talked about what led to this moment, and one piece is that the Xbox business is „not healthy“ due in part to big bets […]

It’s a bleak Monday for Xbox, as the division is losing five of its studios and approximately 20% of its workforce will be laid off throughout the current fiscal year. These changes, referred to as „the most significant restructure in Xbox history“ by Xbox boss Asha Sharma, will impact every corner of the business, including Id Software and ZeniMax […]

Microsoft has begun its big reset, cutting 1,600 jobs right now and another 1,600 in the next 12 months. Despite this massive restructuring, the company claimed that these moves don’t involve canceling any already announced first-party games. In a lengthy Xbox Wire blog post on July 6, Microsoft announced that some studios (such as Ninja […]

Despite promises of a reset, the unveiling of a fancy new logo, and a charm offensive for its new leadership, the news at Xbox has been getting increasingly worse throughout 2026. Between massive price increases for Xbox hardware—and possibly another one soon–the fluctuating price of Xbox Game Pass, and the cancellation of funding on several […]

Following Sony’s announcement that it will no longer support physical game discs starting in 2028, Microsoft has confirmed that Halo: Campaign Evolved’s physical editions will include discs, including on PS5. Microsoft’s announcement likely doesn’t have anything to do with Sony’s, however. In a Q&A, Microsoft said people who buy a copy of the game will […]