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The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Adventure Time
Adventure Time changes you. A show that starts off as a silly cartoon about a kid wearing a bear hat and his shape-shifting adoptive brother Jake the dog hides some of the deepest, darkest lore in entertainment history. The show deals with…
Microsoft and Xbox layoffs today: Tech giant cuts 4,800 jobs, including 20% of video game staff, amid AI shift
Microsoft announced on Monday it is laying off 4,800 employees, or 2.1% of its workforce—with more to come—as part of a massive cost-cutting restructuring effort. The layoffs include major cuts from its Xbox division. In a memo to…
10 Video Games Without a Single Flaw
While many fans will describe some video games as being absolutely perfect, there isn't really such a thing, because it is almost impossible to create a masterpiece without some sort of flaw. Titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Legend of…
Hideo Kojima Is Worried Movies Could Go The Way Of PlayStation's Video Games
Hideo Kojima has chimed in on PlayStation's decision to stop making physical disc games, and he's not with Sony on this one. As translated by Genki_JPN, he said this in a recent film festival: Since production is ending in 2028, this is about video…
Believe It or Not, These Are the Top 5 Best Selling Video Games of 2026 on Amazon (So Far) - Here's Why Nintendo Switch Is Still Dominating the Charts
Grand Theft Auto 6 and a slew of Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 games are dominating the best-seller charts at Amazon in the U.S so far this year. The top five best-selling games of the year at the retail giant are listed as GTA 6, Tomodachi Life:…
We Are Never Getting Another Video Game Like Pokemon GO
I will never forget when Pokemon GO took over the world and became the only thing anyone could talk about for months. I was in my second year of university, living in a lovely city by the sea where walking along the beach or spending time outside…
Microsoft announces Xbox layoffs, cutting several game studios
July 6 (UPI) -- Microsoft announced Monday that it is laying off 20% of its Xbox workforce and is cutting ties with several game studios. The company is laying off 1,600 employees and plans to terminate 1,250 more over the course of the year. It is…
A Sad Kind of Convenience
When I was 16, I did something I'm embarrassed to admit: I waited in a long line to buy a video game called Assassin's Creed III. Over the past few days, though, that experience has become ever so slightly tinged with nostalgia. Last week, Sony…
Microsoft to cut 3,200 jobs amid Xbox restructuring. 'Our business ... is not healthy.
Microsoft (MSFT) on Monday announced it is cutting 4,800 roles across the company, roughly 2.1% of its workforce. The bulk of the layoffs, 3,200, will come from Microsoft's Xbox division. According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, the first round of cuts…
Microsoft lays off nearly 5K workers, most of them at Xbox: 'Our business today is not healthy'
Microsoft is axing 4,800 employees, most of them from its Xbox division, as it and the rest of the tech industry seek to adapt to the AI era. The cuts come as the software giant has heavily invested in artificial intelligence after years of pouring…
Ingress developer Niantic Spatial shuttering New Zealand office
Niantic Spatial is winding down its office in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and laying off an undisclosed number of employees. James Everett, creative director at Niantic Spatial, confirmed the news in a post on LinkedIn and said the closure is the result…
Why Xbox is hitting reset on its business
The video game industry's problems are crystallizing inside Microsoft's Xbox. A fresh round of layoffs at the tech giant's games division shows how those pressures are coming home to roost as costs rise and players devote more time to a just a…
How Did Xbox Get Here?
Xbox once vowed to “Power Your Dreams.” These days, it just wants to keep the power — meaning the lights at its Redmond, Washington HQ — on. On Monday, new-ish Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced “ the most significant…
'This is all about control' - industry experts speak on Sony's move away from discs, and what this means for the PlayStation 6 and the cost of games
Last week was a disruptive time in the video game industry, as Sony announced it would no longer be creating video game discs starting January 2028. For many, that was the ring-side bell for the death of the physical games industry. On its own it…
Colombia's Bogota Audiovisual Market Welcomes Netflix, France, Discusses the Impact of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
Colombia's burgeoning Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM) opens its doors even wider to welcome young wannabe producers from Central America, the Caribbean and Andean countries this year, thanks to an alliance with Netflix. In past years, only…
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