The best way to innovate in gaming ‘is to have good margins,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, so I guess he’ll be reinvesting his $96.5 million payday back into Xbox any second now

Days after a report from Bloomberg explained that Microsoft has expected unrealistic profit margins from its gaming division—one likely reason for its raft of studio closures, game cancelations and thousands of layoffs—a chipper Satya Nadella basically said as much out loud during an interview at a Github conference on Tuesday. “If we as an industry…

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Why is Battlefield 6 so afraid of big maps?

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Fired up Halo: Combat Evolved on the Steam Deck and decided it’s the last game that needs another remake. One day is not enough time to confidently declare Blackwell Fields the worst map in Battlefield 6, but that hasn’t stopped folks from doing it anyway. I’m…

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New World is dead: Amazon ends new content updates following massive layoffs, says ‘servers will be live through 2026’

Amazon Games was hit with “significant” layoffs today, part of the massive 14,000 job cuts announced by Amazon but also reflecting “strategic changes” at the company, including “the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work—specifically around MMOs.” As it turns out, that includes the MMO New World: Aeternum,…

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The Vampire Survivors online co-op update just arrived with a bonus Balatro collab expansion

We’ve been expecting Vampire Survivors’ online co-op update since it entered beta branch testing in August, but Poncle’s weekly feature teases have been hinting at some extra surprises since the start of October. Today, update 1.14 has finally landed—and it brought a bonus Balatro-themed expansion with it. Considering that Vampire Survivors was one of the…

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