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Phil Spencer Reflects on 38 Years at Microsoft: ‘I Never Could Have Imagined the Path Ahead’
Longtime Xbox head and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring. We broke this news earlier this afternoon, alongside the news that Xbox president Sarah Bond is also departing the company, with current president of Microsoft CoreAI Asha Sharma taking…
New Xbox boss promises next-gen consoles, no “soulless AI slop”
As Microsoft’s position in the game console space seems increasingly diminished, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming says she’s fully committed to delivering a new Xbox console. In an email to employees announcing her role replacing outgoing Xbox boss Phil…
Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined
As you may have heard, Roblox is big—but the scale of the platform’s dominance over the attention span of a significant portion of the world’s populace can be hard to comprehend. Thankfully, a report on 2025 games industry trends from…
NieR:Automata “To Be Continued” As Sales Hit Another Milestone
10,000,000.0000000 (and counting). NieR:Automata continues to be a big sales success for Square Enix, and in a celebratory video for the game’s 9th anniversary, we now know the game — a sequel to 2010’s NieR — has sold over 10…
Warlocks have taken the throne as Diablo 2’s best class 26 years later, and Blizzard seems to be OK with letting them have their fun for now
Nobody could’ve guessed that Diablo 2: Resurrected would get a surprise expansion drop with a new class in the year 2026, but here we are. That also means the 26-year-old game will have to deal with a major shake-up to…
Get a New Alienware 16 Area-51 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop for Just $1,999 at Woot
Woot, which is owned by Amazon, is offering an excellent deal on Alienware’s highest-end 16″ gaming laptop. For a limited time, you can get the Alienware 16 Area-51 RTX 5070 Ti laptop for just $1,999.99. Add on $5 for shipping…
DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are ‘death traps’ and is planning a Labs test dedicated to ‘vehicle improvements’
Battlefield 6 is pretty awesome, unless you happen to be in a jeep. The LGT (light ground transport), Battlefield 6’s most plentiful vehicle, is a failure on every level. “It is so bad at its one job—safely transporting—that it’s not…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Good Fortune, and everything new to stream this weekend
It’s a very bloody weekend on streaming. Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Templeprovides the perfect second entry in the planned post-apocalyptic trilogy as a twisted cult leader who believes he’s the son of Satan turns out to be…
The Internet Reacts To Microsoft’s Massive Shakeup Of Xbox
Microsoft’s gaming division is seeing a huge shakeup and folks are not optimistic