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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.
Microsoft is actively pushing Game Pass subscribers toward a $70 purchase for Modern Warfare 4, which won't join the service until Holiday 2027.
The Communications Workers of America held a press conference where Xbox developers from Blizzard, ZeniMax Online, and Activision demanded layoff protections, calling out the gap between Microsoft's AI billions and its treatment of game workers.
Microsoft acquired Undead Labs in 2018. Eight years and zero shipped games later, the State of Decay studio is reportedly searching for a buyer to avoid being shut down.
The latest Stellaris patch tackles Forever Cruise balance issues and Nomads overhauls while squashing dozens of crashes and edge cases.
Microsoft is quietly tagging games like Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution as 'Exclusive' on the Xbox Store, right alongside a new lowest-price tracker.
Mark Gordon's retirement from Treyarch after 22 years makes him the third senior Xbox figure to leave in a single week, as Microsoft's gaming division continues to shed leadership.
Three sources told The Information that Microsoft has considered spinning Xbox out into a standalone business unit, a move that could pave the way for a sale or joint venture.
Satya Nadella went on stage and essentially admitted that after 25 years and tens of billions in acquisitions, Xbox still doesn't know how to make money.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits Xbox has been subsidizing entertainment rather than monetizing it, with YouTube making more off Xbox games than Microsoft does.
Two months after Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called Compulsion's Peabody Award 'a well-deserved recognition for storytelling that truly matters,' the studio is reportedly being shut down.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dropped a brutal admission during a live podcast event: YouTube is making more money off Xbox games than Microsoft is.
Craig Duncan and Louise O'Connor are both out at Xbox Game Studios, just days after Asha Sharma's internal letter outlined an aggressive reset of the entire Xbox division.
Microsoft's gaming division has lost nearly half a billion in annual revenue over five years. Now Xbox is rushing its biggest franchises to market while the company quietly considers whether to spin off or sell the whole operation.
Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler didn't hold back when explaining why No Rest for the Wicked won't hit Xbox alongside PS5 in October, calling Series S specs "not far from mobile."
Warzone Season 04 is live with a refreshed Fortune's Keep, a new PC attestation requirement that restricts cheaters to limited playlists, and a Placement Challenges system that rewards consistent finishes.
A new ESRB filing quietly lists Minecraft for Nintendo Switch 2, almost certainly spoiling what was meant to be a Summer Game Fest announcement this Friday.