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Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas
A Fox News report describes a backlash against Microsoft after the company announced substantial layoffs while also gaining approval to hire thousands of foreign workers through the US H-1B visa programme. Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs in total, including 1,600 from its Xbox gaming division, at the same time as being approved this year to…
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced beats Shadows and Odyssey: biggest Steam launch in the series instantly sails past 99,000 players
Ubisoft’s remaster of the 2013 pirate adventure, released as Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, has become the biggest Steam launch in the franchise’s history. According to the article, the game rapidly climbed past 99,000 concurrent players on the platform, surpassing the peak launch figures of recent mainline entries such as Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Assassin’s…
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Pokémon Go 10 Year Anniversary Celebration Livestream — Updating Live
Pokémon Go marked its 10th anniversary with a special livestream broadcast from a pop-up event in Times Square, New York, staged by developer Scopely Explore (formerly Niantic, which rebranded that week). The centrepiece was a large-scale recreation of the giant Mewtwo battle from the game’s original 2016 trailer, with Times Square’s screens plunged into darkness…
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New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn’t, as ‘vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping’
A new report from analyst firm IDC finds that worldwide PC shipments fell by around 5% over the period in question, yet the industry’s revenue did not decline in step. The apparent explanation is that manufacturers are raising prices quickly enough to offset the drop in units sold, meaning buyers are paying more per machine…
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Palworld Won’t Raise Its Price Following 1.0 Launch
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Microsoft lays off Bethesda vet behind Todd Howard’s “crazy” Fallout 4 idea, “too many Skyrim weapons to count,” the Dwemer, and Mudcrabs – and he may leave games altogether
Microsoft has laid off Bryan Vitale, a long-serving Bethesda Game Studios developer, as part of the wider round of job cuts sweeping across the company’s gaming division. Vitale worked on several of Bethesda’s most celebrated titles, including Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield, and the news matters because it highlights the continuing human toll of Microsoft’s…
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Black Flag Resynced 7 Tips We Wish We Knew Before Playing
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Witches, Swords, and Vampires: The Blood of Dawnwalker’s Skill Trees Explained
IGN has published an in-depth look, as part of its monthly IGN First coverage, at the character-progression systems in Rebel Wolves’ vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker. The piece explains that protagonist Coen can be built across three distinct skill trees — witchcraft, swordmastery and vampirism — each offering its own active abilities and passive…
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It’s not just gamers impacted by Sony’s all-digital PS5 future: 4K Blu-ray collectors and film buffs will also feel the sting
Sony has confirmed that it will stop manufacturing the disc drive versions of the PlayStation 5, moving its console line-up towards an all-digital future in which games are bought and downloaded rather than owned on physical media. The article argues that this shift will not only affect gamers who prefer buying, trading or reselling physical…