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Age of Empires Studio World's Edge Reportedly Lost Nearly Half Its Staff - and Xbox's Own Announcement Never Said a Word
Two documents landed this week that, read side by side, tell a story neither one tells on its own. The first is Xbox's internal announcement, published to the official Xbox newsroom under the banner...
LEGO Dragon Ball Z Sets: What's Actually Confirmed (And What's Still Just a Rumor)
LEGO Dragon Ball Z: The Teaser Is Real, the 'Confirmation' Isn't If you have spent any time in gaming or LEGO circles this week, you have likely seen the headlines: LEGO has "officially confirmed"...
Star Wars Zero Company Hits 1 Million Estimated Sales - But Bit Reactor's Furloughs Loom Over the Win
By almost any conventional measure, Star Wars Zero Company is a triumph. The turn-based tactics game earned some of the best reviews the Star Wars brand has seen in decades and, according to...
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Halo Studios' Cinematic Director Was Promoted and Laid Off in the Same Week: Inside Xbox's 268-Person Reset
"Promoted and laid off in the same week is pretty wild." That is how Josh Daniels, until recently the cinematic director at Halo Studios, summarized his own week on LinkedIn. In a single...
Undead Labs Went Independent From Xbox - Then Cut the Devs Building State of Decay 3 Within 24 Hours
Undead Labs Went Independent From Xbox, Then Cut Its Own Developers Within 24 Hours Undead Labs told the world it had escaped Xbox's restructuring by becoming an independent, employee-owned studio....
Gears of War: E-Day Loses Story Director Juan Vaca to Xbox Layoffs One Week Before Early Access
A game goes gold, and the studio celebrates. Four days later, the person who led its story is out of a job. Roughly a week before players were set to log into Gears of War: E-Day, story director Juan...
Destiny 2's Impossible U-Turn: How Players Forced Bungie to Reverse the End of Its Own Game
In June 2026, Bungie laid off most of its Destiny 2 team, listed its office space for sublease, and described the "Monument of Triumph" update in its own Steam news posts as "our last live service...
Xbox Hands Halo to Activision as Halo Studios Winds Down: The End of an Era
In July 2026, Halo: Campaign Evolved launched to generally positive reviews. It was a milestone moment for the franchise: the first Halo game ever to appear on a PlayStation console, an Unreal Engine...
World of Warcraft: Forever Won't Add Shared Tagging - And Blizzard Says That's the Point
One tweet. That is all it took to reignite the oldest argument in the World of Warcraft community. The question of shared mob tagging has divided players since World of Warcraft: Forever was first...
Rare Under Activision: What the Xbox Reset Actually Means for Sea of Thieves
Rare, the 40-year-old studio behind Sea of Thieves, has been consolidated under Activision, the Call of Duty publisher Microsoft acquired through its $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard deal. The...
Rainbow Six Siege Is Planning for the GTA 6 Exodus - And Promising Loyal Players 'Kings and Queens' Treatment
It is not often that a live-service game director stands up in public and admits a rival release is going to hurt his numbers. The industry playbook usually calls for spin, deflection, or silence. So...
Xbox's Second Wave of Layoffs Begins: Inside the Studio Restructuring Reshaping Microsoft's Gaming Division
What Is Actually Happening in the Second Wave The most important thing to understand is scope. The approximately 3,200-role reduction Sharma announced spans fiscal year 2027, with 1,600 immediate...
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Auto-Level Feature Explained: Director Naoki Hamaguchi on Skipping the Grind
Naoki Hamaguchi has finished Final Fantasy 7 Revelation 46 times. That number alone tells you something about the director's relationship with his own game. It also makes what he said at Tokyo Game...
Blizzard Says StarCraft 'Won't Be Exclusive' in 2030 - What That Actually Means
"Won't be exclusive" is one of the most reassuring phrases a console owner can hear, and one of the emptiest. It promises everything without naming anything. When Blizzard applied it to the new...
Call of Duty: Warzone Is Leaving PS4 and Xbox One on October 23 - What the Last-Gen Cutoff Really Means
The headline circulating across social feeds is blunt and alarming: Call of Duty: Warzone is shutting down for millions of players on October 23. It has the ring of a death knell for one of the most...