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Leaked internal emails reveal Blizzard is Xbox's best-performing studio, posting its third-highest revenue year ever. Meanwhile, 3,200 people across the rest of Xbox's gaming division are losing their jobs.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed the team is building a Platinum Trophy equivalent for Xbox achievements, finally giving completionists the recognition they've been asking for since 2005.
Microsoft's August Game Pass wave brings 11 games including the Gears of War: E-Day beta, Grounded 2 in early access, and a surprise Game Freak RPG. The Gears beta starts August 6, but there's a catch.
Microsoft's EU and UK Xbox price hikes are now live, pushing the disc-equipped Series X to €799.99. That's roughly $900 for hardware that launched in November 2020.
After yet another round of price increases, the Xbox Series X disc model has climbed from its original $499.99 launch price to $799.99. UK and European buyers are getting hit even harder.
The full UK and European Xbox price increases have landed, and they're even steeper than the US hikes suggested. A disc-drive Series X now costs £670.
Digital Foundry's testing reveals that Halo: Campaign Evolved runs better on PlayStation 5 than Xbox Series X, with cutscene stuttering absent on Sony's hardware and the PS5 Pro delivering the cleanest image of any platform.
A single internal Microsoft licensing service went down and took Xbox sign-ins, game libraries, and game launches with it. Xbox's CTO has now explained what happened and why recovery was so uneven.
Microsoft's first wave of original Xbox games on PC via backwards compatibility skips the classics everyone actually wants in favour of Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, and Crimson Skies.
Microsoft's ad-supported cloud streaming test is live for Xbox Insiders, and the most interesting angle isn't the ads themselves. It's that Xbox One owners can now stream Series X games without buying new hardware.
Xbox has started testing ad-supported cloud streaming with Insiders, offering one-hour sessions in exchange for pre-roll ads. The specific math behind the deal tells you whether this is a fair bargain or a slippery slope.
Microsoft's answer to its own $800 console price tag? Watch an ad and stream for an hour. The irony writes itself.
A legal filing reveals Xbox eliminated roughly 435 unionised employees out of 1,205 in just six months, while Bethesda Montreal workers say they were promised employment through September before receiving bare-minimum termination emails.
GSC Game World has publicly contradicted its own founder's claims that Microsoft paid more than Stalker 2's entire development cost for timed Xbox exclusivity, calling his statements inaccurate.
GSC Game World founder Sergiy Grygorovych says Microsoft's exclusivity deal covered more than the full development cost of Stalker 2, making the game profitable before launch day.
Seven games join Game Pass over the next two weeks, headlined by Halo: Campaign Evolved on July 28. But Celeste, Crusader Kings III, and six others are leaving on July 31.
Xbox's top brass say Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution won't be the only exclusives, but when pressed on the actual criteria, the answers just create more questions.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 was set to hit Game Pass on July 21. Microsoft pulled it without a word of explanation, despite owning the game, the IP, and the publisher.
Id Software says it's still the same studio that made Doom 2016. It's just conveniently ignoring that Doom 2016 was made a decade ago.
Dane Olds spent two decades building the weapons and creatures players associate with Bethesda's biggest RPGs. Now he's been cut in Microsoft's latest layoff wave, and he's considering leaving the industry for good.
Xbox says it's doubling down on The Elder Scrolls. Then it laid off half the only studio actively making Elder Scrolls content, two days before a major release.
Half of id Software's workforce is gone, reportedly including most of the studio's coders. The cuts landed on the same day the team's Doom: The Dark Ages DLC shipped.
Microsoft Flight Simulator marks the USA's 250th anniversary with World Update 22, adding 31 meticulously detailed national parks and forests across the country.
A report claiming Obsidian Entertainment was negotiating to avoid closure has been officially retracted. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier confirmed Xbox is keeping the studio.