After struggling to compete with the PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, Microsoft’s gaming division has spent the last few years trying to remake the Xbox brand into a software label first and foremost: it started with Steam releases and cloud streaming, continued with the painful “This is an Xbox” ad campaign, and culminated in phrases like…
You have no doubt heard about the very major shakeup at Xbox today: Longtime boss Phil Spencer is retiring, presumed heir apparent Sarah Bond has resigned, former AI executive Asha Sharma is now in charge, and Matt Booty, head of Microsoft Studios, is now chief content officer. It’s the kind of thing that makes you…
Long-time Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer has retired, and Xbox president Sarah Bond has resigned. Filling their shoes will be Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty, who has been promoted to chief content officer, and a newcomer to Microsoft’s gaming division, Asha Sharma, who will take over for Spencer as the new CEO of Microsoft…
As you may have heard, Roblox is big—but the scale of the platform’s dominance over the attention span of a significant portion of the world’s populace can be hard to comprehend. Thankfully, a report on 2025 games industry trends from analyst Matthew Ball puts Roblox’s relative prominence in concrete terms. And that prominence is, well,…
10,000,000.0000000 (and counting). NieR:Automata continues to be a big sales success for Square Enix, and in a celebratory video for the game’s 9th anniversary, we now know the game — a sequel to 2010’s NieR — has sold over 10 million units. Plus we have a tease for the series’ future Last we heard, the…
Nobody could’ve guessed that Diablo 2: Resurrected would get a surprise expansion drop with a new class in the year 2026, but here we are. That also means the 26-year-old game will have to deal with a major shake-up to its meta, with the warlocks taking over as not only the new flavor of the…
Battlefield 6 is pretty awesome, unless you happen to be in a jeep. The LGT (light ground transport), Battlefield 6’s most plentiful vehicle, is a failure on every level. “It is so bad at its one job—safely transporting—that it’s not unusual to watch your team ignore a fleet of free jeeps and choose to hoof…
“We’re looking forward to talking more about ‘Rayman’ soon”. Last week’s PlayStation State of Play brought us the welcome news that Rayman is back, thanks to the Digital Eclipse-developed Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition. And for the once-iconic platforming legends, it seems this is just the beginning. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has told Variety that Rayman,…
We sometimes say “it’s the end of an era” to mark a notable occasion of one sort or another, and sometimes it’s warranted and sometimes, not so much. In this case, though, it really is the end of an era: A Variety report says that after nearly 40 years at the company, Microsoft Gaming CEO…
I’m not sure this really needs to be said out loud, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said it out loud in a new interview with Variety and so we’re spreading the word: Yes, new Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games are in development. “We have a solid pipeline underway across Vantage Studios,” Guilemot said. “Under…