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New Xbox boss Asha Sharma promises no ‘soulless AI slop’ after moving over from Microsoft’s CoreAI products division

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…

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Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined

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,…

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DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are ‘death traps’ and is planning a Labs test dedicated to ‘vehicle improvements’

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…

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Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition Is “The First Step” In The Platformer’s Comeback

“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,…

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Ubisoft CEO confirms new Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games are coming, denies that putting his son in charge of them was nepotism

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…

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Imagine if politics were full of monsters! Haha, no, I mean fun monsters like vampires, orcs, and goblins who use cards to hurl insults and smears at each other

The supremely ugly situation of politics these days has put me off most forms of political pop culture. I don’t want to watch movies about fictional presidents, I don’t want to watch TV shows about the government, and I sure as heck don’t want to play games about political wheeling and dealing. At least until…

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