‘There has to be a better way than this’: Game developers call Microsoft’s latest layoffs ‘a colossal waste of talent’ from a publisher that seems like it’s in ‘a death spiral’

Yesterday, despite posting $26 billion in profits and outperforming Wall Street forecasts in the last quarter, Microsoft began its latest round of restructuring with a targeted goal of laying off 9,000 employees. Many of those cuts have affected the Xbox gaming division, leading to cancellations of projects like Rare’s Everwild and an unannounced Zenimax MMO,…

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MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on ‘saboteurs’ and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff

The situation at MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy has taken another weird turn in the form of a video chat between founder Leslie Benzies and employees. According to an IGN report, Benzies has committed to a “re-launch” of MindsEye, presumably with the goal of setting the game on a redemption arc, even though the…

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NZXT N7 Z890 review

It might be late to the party, but NZXT’s trio of new motherboards bring a refreshing new look to both Intel and AMD platforms that’s sure to appeal to those wanting to color-match their motherboard to the rest of their hardware. The N7 Z890 looks a lot like the N9 Z890, which is NZXT’s flagship…

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NZXT N9 X870E review

Like a number of manufacturers, NZXT opted to put its weight behind Intel with last year’s new processor and chipset launches. Even though it’s very late to the party and only just launching a trio of new motherboards co-designed with ASRock, it still went with two LGA1851 motherboards and just a single AM5 board, in…

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NZXT N9 Z890 review

It’s rare to see a motherboard with a brand name other than the usual four of ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI; and also one that differs in design enough to stand out from the crowd too. But that’s exactly what the NZXT N9 Z890 has and does. Under the hood is a slightly different story,…

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