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The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox’s continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player count, or something. It’s hard to…

You can’t have too many screens. That’s pretty much been the guiding moral in my life. Enter the new Asus ROG Strix XG129C and a minor existential crisis. This is a screen, but I have to ask—I can’t believe I’m saying this—is there any real point to it? For starters, this “gaming monitor” (Asus’ words,…

If you’ve found yourself with much less storage than you otherwise anticipated, to the tune of hundreds of missing gigabytes, there’s a chance you’ve fallen victim to a new Windows 11 bug. That, or you’re not very good at managing your storage (same). As spotted by Windows Latest, this new bug involves the CapabilityAccessManager. This…

Two of the most interesting aspects of early access space survival MMO EVE Frontier always seemed to exist in opposition to me: Its striking, deliberately crafted vision of a dark future, and its uniquely freeform modding ecosystem. How are you supposed to get in the mood of the former if you’re at risk of stumbling…

The latest mass layoff at Xbox will see roughly 3,200 people lose their jobs—1,600 today, and 1,600 more over the next fiscal year—and four game studios turned loose into the forest: Compulsion and Double Fine as independents, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs under new ownership. It’s bad no matter how you look at it, a…

First reported by GamesRadar, CD Projekt Red has thanked thousands of fans for doing something exceedingly rare in today’s entertainment space: Not spoiling a hotly anticipated new show even though they got advance access. 6,000 fans showed up to the advance premier of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 at LA’s Crypto.com Arena (lol) as part of Anime…

FromSoftware president and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki is one of the most revered names in today’s games industry. Even figures like legendary former Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada hold him in high esteem: Recently asked on X about his opinion of Miyazaki, Harada said the Dark Souls creator is a “rather unique, yet extremely serious game…

Curiously absent from today’s mass layoff announcement at Microsoft was legendary RPG studio Obsidian Entertainment, which thus far had navigated Xbox’s 2020s layoff waves unscathed. Not anymore: An indeterminate number of developers has been laid off from the company, according to social media posts from current and former employees. I have reached out to Obsidian…

The latest double whammy that both Grand Theft Auto 6 and PlayStation will soon be ditching disks and going digital has angered fans and roused old discussions of what ownership of videogames and players rights will look like in a digital future. Spoiler alert: it’s not great, that’s if Hideo Kojima’s preminitions are anything to…

A data centre is usually where the so-called magic of any larger scale AI workload actually happens. In order to fulfill its AI ambitions, big tech has overseen a rapid infrastructure build out. Resource-intensive and often loud, they make for exceptionally poor neighbours. Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that…