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Nintendo has confirmed that sales of its original Switch console system – including its Lite and OLED models – will be discontinued in Europe next year. Nintendo outlined its plans…

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The corner of Fairfield Avenue and D Street stood for years in Johnstown’s West End as a comic book sanctuary, home to Triangle Collectibles, and soon that…

Obsidian Entertainment, one of the various studios impacted by the dramatic Xbox layoffs announced earlier this week, has reportedly started shifting its resources towards the development of a new Fallout…

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Less than three years after it went live on Steam, Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis is calling it quits. Square Enix said in an end-of-service announcement that the sale of…

Summary The classic Assassin’s Creed title returns, rebuilt from the ground-up for a satisfying, swashbuckling adventure. New stealth features and a reworked version of combat are just some of the…

Following the end to Destiny 2‘s development and subsequent layoffs at developers Bungie, fans of the series have decided to get a bit of revenge of the studio’s ex-boss Pete…

You might want to sit down for this one. Some 17 years after its release, Minecraft is finally adding somewhere for weary adventurers to rest their flagging posteriors: cushions are…

Stephen R. Bissette really didn’t want to be Vermont’s cartoonist laureate. It wasn’t that he didn’t feel worthy. In a career spanning more than half a century, the award-winning Windsor…

In unexpected but welcome news, premium mobile games are seeing a resurgence, after years in which free-to-play has been seen as the only option worth pursuing. The total number of…

Xbox laid off around 1600 people earlier this week, revealing plans to part ways with five studios at the same time. Naturally, boss Asha Sharma’s been tasked with justifying it…

For what it’s worth, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed in June that Xbox Game Pass has “started to grow again” in recent weeks following over eight months of decline. She…

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(Credit: Microsoft/The Shortcut) 🤔 Microsoft has expanded sign-ups for the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition to the UK, US, Germany, and France, hinting at an upcoming announcement 📅 Pre-orders for…

Xbox aren’t closing or selling off Doom developers id Software as part of their latest business teardown, but they are reportedly laying off around half the studio, with swinging cuts…

Last week brought the news that Xbox had dropped their support for Project Fantasy the, er, fantasy project in development at IO Interactive. The Hitman maker announced they would remain…

It’s one of those weeks. After Xbox pulling out of a publishing and funding deal for Project Fantasy – IO Interactive’s next game – the developer has regained full control…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has made a number of big changes since taking over from former chief Phil Spencer. Some of them—dialling back Game Pass, leaning into exclusives—collectively represent a…

X-Men ’97 Season 2, episode 4 ends with the perfect Weapon X setup. Post-credits scenes have been a Marvel tradition ever since 2008, but Marvel’s TV shows have increasingly avoided…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service apparently has around 30 million users. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reports that a person familiar with the situation said that…

On Monday, July 6, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote online that Xbox was laying off 3,200 people, offloading at least four gaming studios and that Xbox Game Pass hasn’t grown as…

The day has come! Almost, anyway, that day being Subnautica 2’s first update that isn’t just a hotfix, bringing in a small bounty of those previously promised improvements that’ll…

I’ve spent weeks playing Task Bar Hero as part of my daily work routine, and after pouring over 300 hours into the desktop auto-battler, it’s safe to say it sits…

Crikey, they sure do love putting Miss Lucy Cyberpunk in other games, don’t they? First Guilty Gear Strive, then Wuthering Waves, and now the Cyberpunk Edgerunners characters is finding…

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2023’s Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is one of the best party-based CRPGs you can play today, but its Nintendo Switch 2 port was called one of the console’s worst so…

In the 1970s, the X-Men faced cancellation, and reprints were all that carried the comic book series on. However, with Giant Size X-Men introducing the new mutant heroes to the…

Licensed games don’t really exist in the way they did 20 years ago, with three different versions of the same game being made for different consoles adapting a popular…

Microsoft announces Xbox will reduce its workforce by 20%. Overall, the software giant is cutting its global workforce by 4,800 employees. The cuts come as Microsoft drastically increases investment in…