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Palworld exits early access on July 10, joining a wave of over a dozen titles hitting Xbox Game Pass this month — but act fast, ten games leave on July 15.
Raphael Colantonio, who built Dishonored and Prey, posted a joking bid to buy back Arkane Lyon after Xbox confirmed it's looking for a buyer.
Undead Labs has been sold as part of Xbox's 3,200-job restructure, and the new owner gets to decide whether the zombie survival game lands on Game Pass at launch.
Microsoft's 3,200-job Xbox overhaul has landed heaviest on Bethesda studios, with DOOM maker id Software losing roughly 95 employees and the Elder Scrolls Online team cut by up to half.
CEO Asha Sharma admits Xbox margins are 3–10x worse than PlayStation's, triggering the biggest restructuring in the company's history.
Jerk Gustafsson quietly became Arkane's president on June 30, replacing Leonard Bendel — a move that hints Microsoft is merging studios rather than shutting Arkane down.
While Sony is killing physical discs entirely by 2028, Microsoft is testing a way to turn existing Xbox discs into digital entitlements tied to your account.
Up to 110 jobs are at risk at the studio behind State of Decay 3, which just got a 2027 release window — and Xbox's CFO-driven cost cuts are driving the decision.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has frozen negotiations with indie studios mid-deal, as Microsoft rethinks a subscription model that's bleeding money despite $20 billion in investment.
AI-driven memory shortages have pushed console prices to new highs — and buyers are walking away from the hardware while still snapping up games.
Xbox's restructuring wave has already claimed Ninja Theory and Double Fine. Now employees at the studio behind Dishonored say they could be next.
Microsoft announced the new Hellblade game at its June showcase knowing it already intended to sell or shut down the Cambridge studio, a report reveals.
Microsoft's second June wave leans on back-catalog heavyweights, with FC 26 timed to the FIFA World Cup and eight titles leaving on June 30.
Microsoft is in talks to sell or spin off three of its most acclaimed studios — the makers of Hellblade, Psychonauts, and South of Midnight — just days after showing off new games at the Xbox showcase.
The Coalition's October 6 shooter runs on six-year-old GPUs — a rare sign that UE5 can scale down as well as up.
