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Microsoft recently clarified that Avowed’s delay to February 2025 wasn’t due to quality issues with Obsidian’s much-anticipated RPG. Initially expected this year, the release was pushed back to give players some room to tackle their growing game backlogs, especially with a packed Xbox lineup already on deck for late 2024. In an interview w...
Phil Spencer, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, has confirmed that the Xbox handheld gaming console is in development. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Spencer expressed awareness of the increasing demand for portable gaming options and highlighted that Microsoft is exploring several avenues in this burgeoning market. However, he cautioned fans ...
It's been revealed that Microsoft will lay off around a whopping 650 employees, or 3 percent of the Xbox’s global workforce. Microsoft employees in the US will receive exit packages that include severance, extended healthcare and outplacement services, while international employees will receive different packages depending on their location. ...
A special episode of the Xbox Official Podcast dropped today, revealing that four Xbox games are coming to other consoles and platforms. Three people participated in the podcast, including Xbox head and CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox President Sarah Bond and Xbox President of Game Content and Studios Matt Booty. However, Phil Spencer doesn't reveal the ...
Xbox has officially announced that the future of the brand will be revealed in an official episode of the Official Xbox Podcast (via YouTube) at 4am GMT+8 on Friday, 16 February 2024. Three people will participate in the podcast, including Xbox head and CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox President Sarah Bond and Xbox President of Game Content and Studios Ma...
Earlier this week, rumours have been speculating about Xbox exclusives like Starfield and Hi-Fi Rush going multiplatform and coming to non-Xbox/PC platforms. Now, Xbox head Phil Spencer himself has broken the silence and finally given out a statement online on Twitter, promising that he will announce the "future of Xbox" next week. In a tweet, P...
Video game companies are experiencing a string of brutal layoffs lately, including Microsoft, which has announced that 1,900 of its employees will be let go. The cuts will affect various roles within the company, cutting 8% of its gaming division which stands at around 22,000 employees in total. These include Activision Blizzard, Xbox, and sever...
Earlier today, Microsoft announced major changes to the Xbox leadership earlier today. Matt Booty is being promoted to president of game content and studios, including the new responsibility of Bethesda and ZeniMax. Meanwhile, Sarah Bond (who was previously the Corporate Vice President) is now the Xbox president, overseeing all Xbox platform an...
Microsoft's head of gaming Phil Spencer said that the company will be careful in approaching Activision Blizzard's vast back catalogue of games. After the massive acquisition from Microsoft, about US$69 billion which is anything but a small sum, the company will be respectful when approaching classic franchises Call of Duty, WarCraft, Diablo, Gu...
The Xbox Digital Broadcast makes a comeback for this year's Tokyo Game Show. This exclusive annual event will feature the latest news and updates from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks as well as a creatively diverse collection of titles from talented developers based in Japan and Asia, and announcements of upcoming Xbox Game Pass games. ...
Xbox veteran Larry Hryb, also known as "Major Nelson," announced his departure from Microsoft's Xbox division today via Twitter. Hryb spent many years as Xbox Live's Director of Programming. Although he did not state his reasons for leaving, he said he plans to step back and work on his next step. The news came as Microsoft’s Xbox is still cel...
The Elder Scrolls VI was announced all the way back in 2018 but there has been little to no news about the game. During today's trial between Xbox/Activision and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Xbox Head Phil Spencer says that the game is still more than five years away. At this point, he's not even sure what platforms the game will be coming o...
Is Xbox's direction focused too much on PC and less on consoles? Turns out that the answer is a bit more complicated. Microsoft's head of gaming said that the company needs to focus on the wider gaming market if it wants to be successful, despite the Xbox console being the core of the brand (it's in the name). That means more than just making gr...
You may have noticed that The Game Awards 2022 yesterday morning was missing a key first-party company: Xbox. Or at least, the company has been low-key about its participation. The company did not make any major game announcements because they're saving their load for 2023, according to Xbox marketing lead Aaron Greenberg. He tweeted online to r...
CEO of Microsoft Gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer made an announcement on Twitter stating that Microsoft has entered into a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty back to Nintendo consoles along with an identical pledge to continue publishing Call of Duty to Steam as well. The last Nintendo console to see a Call of Duty game was the Wii U. So yes...
Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer has stated that he is open to making a commitment to Sony so that Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation longer than currently agreed. Check out the piece we did on Sony's rejection of Microsoft's offer to keep CoD on PlayStation On The Verge’s Decoder podcast, where Spencer explained that he is open to...
Microsoft's Head of Gaming Phil Spencer just took a new office photo, complete with a possible tease of a new device. The photo on Twitter is basically to celebrate the Fallout series' 25th anniversary, but closer inspection on the top right (next to the Kojima Productions Ludus statue) reveals a device that hasn't been seen on any official Xbox...
A lot of people are worried about whether other game companies will raise video game console prices, as well as games for that matter. PlayStation has done that so far with the PlayStation 5 and its triple-A games. Xbox? Well, they have one idea: don't disrupt the status quo. Xbox brand head Phil Spencer said that it's not right in these economi...
CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan has come out and stated that Microsoft’s proposal for keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles is “inadequate on many levels”. Last week, Microsoft clarified their plans for the Call of Duty franchise should the Activision Blizzard acquisition go as planned. In a statement to The Verge, ...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer stated on the Xbox blog this morning to confirm that the next Call of Duty will be on PlayStation. Oh, and that the Diablo and Overwatch franchise will be on Xbox Game Pass. At this point in time, it's unclear whether this will include Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 (all signs point to "yes", but it's not official), though the p...
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