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Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul | Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that
Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, ‘a testament to what CD Projekt does best’
Viral indie hit Meccha Chameleon sells a massive 15 million copies in less than a month, becomes the fastest and best-selling game of the year
IO Interactive to shutter Istanbul studio following end of Project Fantasy deal with Xbox
Thick as Thieves dev OtherSide Entertainment impacted by further layoffs
Criterion’s Future Is Battlefield, but Don’t Forget the Burnout Heritage Within Its Walls
Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" before getting PC working again
Xbox’s CEO wants its games to cater to ‘more than a billion people each day’, or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
Top ‘Suicide Squad’ Developers Say the Flop Made Them Not Want to Make Games Anymore
Switch 2 Systems With Swappable Batteries Coming This Year, But Not In The US
“There’s a wealth of talent here, our focus is on how to leverage and support it” – Atari appoints Andreas Deptolla as Atari Europe president
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