
Age of Empires IV Server Maintenance - Wednesday Notes (7th July 2026)
The matchmaking servers across all Age of Empires titles are coming down for scheduled maintenance this Wednesday. Plan your matches accordingly.
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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.

A report claiming Obsidian Entertainment was negotiating to avoid closure has been officially retracted. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier confirmed Xbox is keeping the studio.

Capcom has pulled Onimusha: Way of the Sword's release forward by three weeks, shifting from September 25 to September 4. It's a rare move that sidesteps some brutal competition later in the month.

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.

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round launched today with a 29-fighter roster, a new lighting engine, and a free Core Fighters edition. A new DLC character named Minato is already teased for this summer.

A peculiar Jester has arrived at the Hangman's Halter Tavern with a strange new quest, alongside fixes for controller detection and hardcore mode.

Nexon rolls out fixes for Ines and Bunny, reworks how Shape Stabilizers function, and streamlines mission access.

Stability fixes dominate this update, along with vehicle physics tuning and some long-overdue FIA tweaks.

Bethesda's boss says he saw Marvel's Blade in May and was impressed, but given Xbox's track record of shuttering studios it publicly praised, words only go so far.

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.

The upcoming Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports won't include DLC maps, and recent price changes on Steam and Xbox suggest players will need to shell out an extra $70 to get the full experience.

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6 go live on June 25 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. After two delays, Rockstar is putting its money where its mouth is.

Luna Abyss earned strong reviews and player praise, but the entire Kwalee Labs team has been made redundant just weeks after launch.