Meta chief technology officer Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said early in 2025 that the metaverse could be a “legendary misadventure” if the company’s Reality Labs division didn’t turn things around that year in a big way. Well, here we are in 2026, and it looks like the mission was not accomplished: Bloomberg says Meta is beginning…
Category: ID@Xbox January 13, 2026 From the Po Valley to the Deep: Building Italian Horror with Loan Shark Scott Millard, Dark Product CEO/ Publisher Summary Horror driven by obligation, time pressure, and the quiet weight of an impossible debt. Drawing on Northern Italian storytelling traditions. Step inside a single night where every choice feels costly…
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of dying to bears, and the mean grizzlies expedited my search to get iron in Hytale since my weapons fashioned from rocks and sticks just weren’t cutting it. I found a hefty deposit early on, and I’ve smelted it all down into iron ingots for making fancy…
A “voluntary career transition program” at Ubisoft’s Massive studio announced in October 2025 apparently wasn’t enough to get the job done, and so now Ubisoft is going back to the old-fashioned way of doing things by simply laying people off. “Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm)…
A “voluntary career transition program” at Ubisoft’s Massive studio announced in October 2025 apparently wasn’t enough to get the job done, and so now Ubisoft is going back to the old-fashioned way of doing things by simply laying people off. “Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm)…
The first time Windows users started looking for an alternative OS en masse it was 2012, and Microsoft had just released a desktop UI so bad it would be almost entirely purged from existence within just three years. Windows 8 was all about big, square icons designed for a new wave of touchscreen-enabled laptops and…
In a game called Cozy Caravan, I’d have expected more focus to be on the actual driving. Buzzing around in my giant bee-drawn wagon is pretty adorable, and many of the chores I’ve got do encourage me to develop a little route of regulars around the map, but the cooking minigames are really where it’s…
It might have taken a decade of development, cancellation, and miraculous project revival, but Hytale, the Minecraft-esque voxel sandbox RPG, has finally launched in early access. As a metric for just how much hype Hytale has built up, its first announcement trailer has amassed an absurd 62 million views since it was uploaded in 2018….
Nineteen months after joining Unity as its director of community and advocacy, Larry Hryb, who spent much of a 20 year career at Microsoft as Xbox hype man Major Nelson, has been laid off. Hryb shared the news in a message on LinkedIn, writing, “I’ve always been transparent with this community, so I wanted to…
EA is delaying Battlefield 6 Season 2 by a month, and its reasons for doing so are unnecessarily vague. “During our ongoing development, we’ve continued to review community feedback and, in order to keep our promise, determined that our best path forward is to extend Season 1 and give ourselves extra time to further polish…