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Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company’s Xbox division. The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and also involve four game studios being spun off to be run independently from Microsoft. Today’s layoffs, which are being described as…
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce. Most of the employees affected by today’s cuts are in Microsoft’s commercial sales business or the company’s Xbox division.…
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Pokémon has partnered with the Japanese soccer league to give every club a Pokémon mascot
The J. League has partnered with Pokémon to ensure all 60 clubs in the top three divisions have a mascot Pokémon that fits their team.
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Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades finally leaves early access after 10 years
The popular VR shooter, Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades has finally left Steam Early Access after more than 10 years.
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Some days I fondly recall Warhammer 40k’s first Inquisitor was called ‘Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau’ and he’s still too powerful to be retconned
Must be all those grenades stuffed up his ass.
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WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
Not quite Corrupted Blood 2.0, but close enough.
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This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
Breaking the mold.
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A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
We don’t know how much it cost, but it does apparently work.
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This week in PC games: Stardew Valley plus vampires, a lavish gamebook RPG, and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, finally
Happy this week, all! Also: huge apologies to the World Cup organisers and teams for any matchside cosmic sabotage brought on by our struggle to feed the Maw. Truth be told, Mexico should have had last night’s game in the bag, if only I’d topped up the Maw’s feeding trough on Friday with another handful…