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ACE Team's Lovecraftian co-op horror drew massive pre-launch interest, but middling reviews and performance issues on PC and console tell a very different story on day one.
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.
Days after announcing the largest layoff in gaming this year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named co-leader of a US Federal Reserve task force on productivity and jobs. You can't make this up.
Disney Dreamlight Valley's latest paid expansion opens a gate to Honeyglow Woods, bringing Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore into the cozy life sim alongside beekeeping, Pooh Sticks, and four new regions.
Fiesta Online, the anime MMORPG that first launched in 2007, is making the jump to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Gamigo hasn't set a date, but the game will appear at Gamescom.
Ubisoft is bringing The Crew Motorfest to Switch 2 on October 8 for $50. Three years after launch, with mandatory online and a game-key card for physical, the price tag raises questions.
Schedule I's latest update brings gamepad support to the heist sim, alongside a major systems overhaul and performance improvements across the board.
Cold Symmetry's Soulslike sequel lands August 20 with a $50 price tag, eight Shells, over 60 dungeons, and a stamina-free combat system. The open beta already sits at 92% positive on Steam.
Obsidian is returning to the Fallout franchise under Josh Sawyer's direction, but the studio had to lose 52 employees and its planned Avowed sequel to make it happen.
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.
The Revelations DLC's flagship weapon, the Chain Spear, shipped without a keybind on console. Players are greeted with a "??" button prompt and can't progress until they toggle a controller preset.
The matchmaking servers across all Age of Empires titles are coming down for scheduled maintenance this Wednesday. Plan your matches accordingly.
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.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma calls the business 'not healthy' as 1,600 roles are eliminated immediately, with Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and Arkane all leaving Xbox ownership.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma laid bare the division's financial reality: for every dollar invested in its studios, Xbox lost 64 cents. Now 3,200 people are paying for it.
Asha Sharma announced the biggest restructure in Xbox history, cutting 3,200 jobs and spinning out four studios. Then she promised Xbox would entertain over a billion people every day.
Battlefield Studios sent every player an in-game message celebrating a switch to in-game XP Booster timers, then yanked it back and called it an error. Sound familiar? It happened three weeks ago too.
Microsoft is actively pushing Game Pass subscribers toward a $70 purchase for Modern Warfare 4, which won't join the service until Holiday 2027.
Weeks after shipping one of 2026's biggest hits, IO Interactive faces layoffs as Xbox pulls funding from Project Fantasy.
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.
Black Tides wraps up Assassin's Creed Shadows with a three-hour finale that outclasses the base game's storytelling in almost every way, and it couldn't have arrived at a better time.
Konami dropped a free crossover costume letting Silent Hill f's Hinako dress as Fatal Frame 2's Mio Amakura, completing a two-way collaboration between the horror titles.
The 65" LG Evo C5 OLED just hit its lowest price ever at $1,099 on Prime Day's last day, and there are solid game discounts worth grabbing before midnight too.