Microsoft gaming division is hit by the biggest wave of structural changes: Halo, Sea of Thieves (Rare UK), and Age of Empires (World's Edge) are going under Activision. While Halo Studios is left with limited staff and set to support older games.

Obsidian is fully merged with Bethesda to make Fallout, Turn 10 Studios is merged with Playground Games to make Fable and Forza.

While Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Mahjong are moving from Bethesda to King — who are way more experienced with casual games.

With all that, only 268 roles were fully eliminated while Asha promised that there will be extra 1600 layoffs during the year (in addition to 1600 already occured a few mouth ago). It is still expected that these people will be eventually fired sooner than later.

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Ninja Theory will be closed, the studio was planned to be sold but the deal failed and there are no public details about the buyer. The upcoming Senua game is most likely cancelled.

NT are known for Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, Hellblade, and several DmC titles. The studio was supported by Epic Games, collaborated with Andy Serkis, and was mostly a boutique company for the last decade. They peaked at 120 employees back in 2020 and were losing people ever since.

Same when they tell me that AI can beat a boss for me in the game...

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Microsoft way: so, we have some bad news and some good news...

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1348 Ex Voto and Caravan SandWitch publisher Dear Villagers lays off most of their staff. The teams of both games got fame for attacking people on social media who dared to disagree with their far left views.

Caravan Sandwitch sold well for the price, 1348 Ex Voto failed miserably. But overall strategy of being a publisher in Western Europe is not reliable recently.

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🎂 That day again: I'm getting old!

Honestly, no idea how am I still up and running but hey, pizza is still tasty even if you're 35.

Indie Dev checked the feedback and found this (kinda correct but...)

That's from the comedy Kopps (2003) by Josef Fares, the Hazelight Studios founder and "fuck the Oscars" guy.

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Microsoft has filed a patent application for a system that would show ads in PC and console games during natural breaks, such as after a boss fight, at the end of a cutscene, or on a loading screen.

https://www.techpowerup.com/352914/microsoft-patent-shows-ad-breaks-during-loading-screens-and-after-boss-fights

Good night, chat 😴

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Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Quake Champions now costs $9.99 unless you've played before (then you still have it). All microtransactions were removed. The online shifts between 80 and 400 people, so this move from id Software looks rather unexpected.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/611500/Quake_Champions/

2026 be like... According to reporting by 404 Media, internal documents explicitly ban all AI usage, including tools like Grammarly and automated AI detectors.

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Same as in Pragmata and several other games recently, the new Control Resonant do not use RT Shadows and only use RT for some reflections and GI, unless you enable Path Tracing with Ray Reconstruction.

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Hold up...

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Gears of War: E-Day has set the JUMP button on CTRL and SLIDE on SPACEBAR.

That's how I know The Coalition devs don't play anything on PC.

Oh no, wait, what

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