Microsoft plans to raise Xbox Series X price by $50 to $649.99 and Series S by $20 to $399.99 starting Oct. 3, citing “changes in the macroeconomic environment”
second price increase of 2025 comes as shifting tariffs continue to plague tech prices Vikki Blake / Eurogamer.net : U.S. Xbox fans hit with another hardware price hike just four months after the last...
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
read Phil Spencer's note to staff Bloomberg : Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs IGN : Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Conf...
As Microsoft hikes Xbox game prices, 2025's three highest-reviewed games on Metacritic so far—Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction—are all budget titles
Numerous publishers would likely not even benefit from jumping straight into $80 priced games. — Especially when $50-$60 “AA” are giving people exactly what they want as of late. — www.bloomberg.c...
As Xbox hikes game prices, the three highest-reviewed games of 2025 so far on Metacritic—Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction—are all budget titles
Numerous publishers would likely not even benefit from jumping straight into $80 priced games. — Especially when $50-$60 “AA” are giving people exactly what they want as of late. — www.bloomberg.c...
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013
Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice. Mastodon: @RYStorm@mastodon … . X: @ben_heathston...
Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development
8yrs in game development. 2 weeks of availability. Priced at $40, this AAA title made only $30,000 on PC sales & never reached 700 users online. — And with that, Sony Playstation is refunding the ...
The problem with Xbox's new vision isn't that it is moving away from console-exclusive games, but that its release strategy is confusing and inconsistent
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Bungie says it will lay off 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, and integrate an additional 155 roles into its parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment
The New Path for Bungie has Bungie's announcement of “difficult changes … X: Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier : Sony's Bungie is shrinking from 1,300 people to 850: - 220 laid off - 155 moving to Sony ...
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about reuniting with Square Enix to bring his company Mistwalker's Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian to PC and consoles
I want to stress ‘rare occasion’ — sometimes one of the Mistwalker team members will hop on Final Fantasy XIV, and I'll see a message saying, 'Hey, the meeting's started'” Jason Schreier / @jasonschre...
Four of the top seven best-reviewed games on Metacritic in 2024 so far, not counting remakes, are indies, including Animal Well and Balatro in the top three
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