Xbox CEO doubles down on exclusives, saying they remain central to defining the Xbox platform | Gaming

Exclusivity and XBOX — these two terms have been glued to one another like peanut butter and jelly. Since Asha Sharma took over as CEO of the now-rebranded XBOX, exclusives…

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Jobs roundup: June 2026 | Leadership changes at gaming service provider Side | Gaming

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups. If you have new appointments…

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Poll: Do you like the new Steam store design, or is it ‘hot garbage’? | Gaming

After a couple months in beta, an update to the Steam store has rolled out for all users. It adds new sections like a personalized release calendar, tweaks existing features…

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Unknown Worlds outline a bunch of incoming small Subnautica 2 updates including predator behaviour adjustments and proximity chat | Gaming

How about a little look ahead at what’s apparently coming to Subnautica 2? Following the game’s incredibly strong launch that is probably going to force Krafton to pay out…

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Xbox CEO Acknowledges Exclusives Are Needed to Build a Platform; Decisions Are Still Being Made | Gaming

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has publicly addressed the on-going decision-making process regarding exclusives. Speaking with Bloomberg, Sharma stated that Xbox is trying to balance being a successful video game publisher…

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Lexispell is Balatro for people that love spelling bees and hate gambling | Gaming

Game gets popular, games gets clones, that’s just how the cookie crumbles. Vampire Survivors, Buckshot Roulette, Lethal Company; as soon as those games blew up, derivatives were a guarantee….

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Hell Clock for PS5, Xbox Series launches July 14 alongside ‘Cursed War’ expansion | Gaming

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions of roguelike action RPG Hell Clock will launch on July 14 alongside the game’s first major expansion, “Cursed War,” publisher Mad Mushroom and…

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7 Creative Decisions that Defined the X-Men | News World

The X-Men are one of Marvel’s biggest names, and that has stayed true for decades because of how many great ideas so many different people have poured into the mutant…

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Subnautica 2 studio “hard at work” on new updates as it shares more details on the features its 4 million players can expect next | Gaming

Subnautica 2 is off to a roaring start, and developer Unknown Worlds recently celebrated the fact that 4m players have now dipped their toes into the waters of the ocean…

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Rust’s latest update asks you to say goodbye to your old outdated face and hello to your new, handsome one | Gaming

It’s time to say hello to your new face! This would be a creepy as all hell a sentence in just about any other context (perhaps it still is),…

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3 Cool New Features Available For Xbox Insiders In June 2026 | Gaming

Microsoft’s Xbox division has announced a slate of new features for Xbox Insiders. These will only be available to “select Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insiders”…

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A Persona 6 announcement may be incoming | Gaming

It’s far from a sure thing, but there are reasons to believe that we’ll see a Persona 6 announcement in the near future. Recently, images purported to show the rumored…

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Development on Prologue: Go Wayback is ending as PlayerUnknown Productions lays off an unspecified amount of staff | Gaming

I guess we’re not going to find out what comes after the prologue after all. By that I mean, some bad news came out of PlayerUnknown Productions yesterday. The…

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“Indie titles now routinely produce launches with AAA-level concurrent player counts” – How to prepare in case of viral success | Gaming

When Windrose launched into early access in April 2026, it became an instant hit. Developed by indie studio Kraken Express, the co-op survival game sold 500,000 copies within 48 hours…

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Dune: Awakening Is Coming to XBOX on September 22 | Gaming

Dune: Awakening is coming to XBOX on September 22. Not only that; it’s also coming to XBOX Game Pass as an XBOX Play Anywhere title and will be Handheld Optimized, so…

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“We didn’t have the content needed to do it justice at the time”: Helldivers 2 is finally getting a roguelite system Arrowhead experimented with pre-launch | Gaming

Late last year, Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt briefly teased on social media that Arrowhead had put together a prototype for a roguelite mode which would fundamentally change the…

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If You See Supergirl At AMC IMAX, Get The Comic It Was Based On, Free | News World

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Movies, Supergirl, Superman, Warner Bros | Tagged: amc, Bilquis Evely, IMAX, supergirl, Tom King If you see Supergirl at AMC IMAX the weekend of release,…

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Nintendo’s finally developing replaceable batteries, so we presumably won’t have to bin a Switch because the battery conked out | Gaming

Nintendo has announced it is creating hardware with replaceable batteries, which presumably will include its Switch consoles, due to new EU regulations tackling electronic waste. Announced on the official Nintendo…

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How To Watch Xbox Games Showcase 2026 | Gaming

It’s June, so you know what that means: a week packed full of video game reveals and announcements. As ever, Microsoft will be at the heart of the action with…

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Witcher devs’ Project Hadar will make you feel all of the open-world emotions, a new job ad suggests, though sorry it still isn’t a cosmic Japanese horror game | Gaming

They might have proven they deal in secret extra DLC for decade-old RPGs this year, but for my money, Project Hadar remains the most mysterious game CD Projekt have in…

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Here’s how to catch the Future Games Show’s 40 games and 10 world premieres this June 6 | Gaming

Time was, you used to have to go places to see videogame events. I’ve been through it myself—a sweltering period in Los Angeles where I spent approximately $6,000 on Ubers…

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Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest, and its XCOM-ish star warring isn’t too far, far away | Gaming

The release date for Bit Reactor and Respawn’s XCOM-coded strategy game Star Wars Zero Company has leaked ahead of the Summer Geoffs. Those in the mood to order a squad…

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Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass Premium (June 4) | Gaming

Welcome to another Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we’ve got two games jumping over to Xbox Game Pass Premium from the Ultimate and PC libraries, so these are only new…

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Asia and MENA games market revenue predicted to grow 16.5% to over $103bn by 2030 | Gaming

The Asia and MENA regions generated $88.9 billion in gaming revenue in 2025, with revenue projected to reach $103.6 billion by 2028, Niko Partners reports. The data covers 13 markets:…

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“Storm Earth’s Mightiest Mutant” Comic Book Issue 5 “Chapter 5: Reunited” – Review – The Geekiary | News World

Storm Earth’s Mightiest Mutant Issue 5 ‘Reunited’ (Image via Marvel Comics) You can tell writer Murewa Ayodele tried to offer a satisfying conclusion to the numerous storylines that make up…

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Can You Solve The Case? FORENSIC – M.E. Protocol Arrives On Xbox And PC | Gaming

Forensic ME Protocol – now on Xbox and Play Anywhere Those old crime dramas make it look easy. A detective strolls into a crime scene, spots a tiny clue everyone…

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Marathon season 2 launch plagued by anteaters, monkeys and weasels, with Bungie dishing out free gear to say sorry for the server issues | Gaming

Watch out! An unruly gang of animals have been accosting Marathon right as its season 2 update has gone live! Developers Bungie have been hard at work getting the creatures…

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Texturetown is a Frankenstein’s MMO created by remixing Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and other dead MMOs | Gaming

I’ve really been getting into videogame collages, lately – projects like Funi Racoon, a verminous cache of Windows 95 desktop materials and Easter Island sculpture, and Water Level/b.l.u.e. EXPLORATION, a…

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CD Projekt Red’s new mystery IP ‘Hadar’ is “an emotional, open-world experience” in line with the developer’s Witcher and Cyberpunk games | Gaming

We’ve known about Hadar, CD Projekt Red’s new franchise, for a few years now, but it wasn’t until March 2026 the studio “established the foundations” of what it’s actually going…

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The overclocking headroom in AMD’s Radeon 7000-series GPUs ‘was certainly not accidental… the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user’ | Gaming

Having only just finished my testing and review of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE before I flew out to Taipei for Computex 2026, I wanted to take the opportunity when…

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