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Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: ‘I don’t get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business’
After a lot of wrangling with regulators, Microsoft recently spent $69 billion-with-a-b to acquire Activision Blizzard, after which it almost immediately cut 1,900 jobs across its gaming business. Not great news for anyone, unless perhaps you own MSFT stock. In an interview with Polygon about the driving forces behind layoffs at Microsoft and across the…
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Ninja reveals skin cancer diagnosis: ‘Please take this as a PSA to get skin checkups’
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the most famous figures in the world of streaming, is reminding his followers to “get skin checkups” after revealing on Twitter that he’s been diagnosed with an aggressive form of skin cancer. “I’m still in a bit of shock but want to keep you all updated,” Blevins tweeted. “A few…
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Call of Duty’s latest crossover is somehow its most ridiculous yet: Cheech and Chong are coming to Warzone
At first I thought this had to be an April Fool’s joke fired early, or perhaps a build-up to one coming next week. But I double-checked with the company, and it’s true: For reasons I absolutely cannot fathom, Cheech and Chong are coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone. “Forged in the…
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Stardew Valley gets another new patch that fixes the ‘creepy face’ bear and makes new cabins paintable
Stardew Valley’s big 1.6 update went live last week, but work on the game hasn’t stopped, or even slowed down by the looks of it. Creator Eric Barone rolled out a new 1.6.3 patch for the PC version of the game today that makes a pretty hefty number of fixes to the game. Despite a…
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Europa, the gorgeous indie platformer about the only human awake on a terraformed moon, is delayed
Puzzle-platformer Europa has associate editor Ted Litchfield excited, and for good reason: It looks and sounds fantastic, and the demo did not disappoint. But the April 16 release date that was announced at the end of 2023 isn’t going to happen—instead, it’ll probably be out sometime this summer. I say “probably” because that’s what developer…
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Ken Levine reveals why everyone hates you so much in Judas
Judas, creative director Ken Levine’s follow-up to BioShock Infinite, has been in development for years, but we knew very little about it until the basics were laid out in a story trailer in January: Players will wield a mix of weapons and not-plasmid powers aboard a giant spaceship called Mayflower, while trying to stay alive…
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Phil Spencer says he’s open to bringing stores like Epic and Itch.io to Xbox consoles
Historically, exclusive game releases have been a powerful weapon in the console war: Customers are more apt to buy a certain piece of hardware if that’s the only way they can get the particular games they want to play. In an interview with Polygon, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said Microsoft is now leaning away from…
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Ukraine recreates famous lost salt mine in Minecraft ‘to tell the world about their history and struggle for freedom’
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As part of Ukraine’s ongoing effort to combat Russian disinformation and memorialize its own history, the United24 charity has teamed up with Minecraft creator Endorah for Minesalt, a recreation of 16 real-world locations from the town of Soledar, at one time home to the largest salt production facility in Europe. Soledar was the focal point…
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Remedy’s multiplayer Control spinoff won’t be free to play: expect a ‘lower initial price’ followed by live service updates
Remedy’s latest annual report contains, among a great many other things, a very brief new look at Condor, the codename for the multiplayer spinoff game based on Control. Condor was announced in 2021 as a four-player PvE game set in the very strange world of Control. At the time, it was being developed in partnership…
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Arkane founder teases his next project, a ‘retro sci-fi first-person’ game, and now I’m thinking a whole lot about the Prey sequel we never got
Arkane co-founder Raphael Colantonio, who left the studio in 2017 and launched indie developer WolfEye Studios a couple years later, is teasing his next game—and even though it’s just scribbles on a whiteboard, I am already excited. It’s been a subtle process so far, beginning with an image of Colantonio and his longtime cohort and…