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Following the cancellation of the Halo series at Paramount, Xbox has shifted its focus to Netflix for future partnerships. At one point, Netflix actually had interest in acquiring the exclusive film and TV rights to Xbox IP and characters, but Microsoft wanted $800M for it.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has been available for over a year now, and so far Nintendo has been doing pretty well at protecting their software from piracy. The company has become somewhat notorious for their swift takedowns of illegal game distributions, and they’ve managed to hold most of them off for as long as possible.…

While the video game industry seems to be in free fall, especially at Xbox, the TV-pulled-from-video-games industry is on the rise. Especially at Xbox. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a new department dedicated to cross-media property development. According to an industry insider, the team may have come from the ashes of a burned deal with…

EA shut down legendary RPG developer BioWare this week, canceling its in-development fifth Mass Effect game as a result. Despite the closure, Amazon Prime’s upcoming Mass Effect streaming series will proceed as planned, according to a report by IGN.

Footage appearing to show a Homebrew Launcher running on the Nintendo Switch 2 has emerged following the disclosure of a software-only jailbreak. Meanwhile, SmileBASIC 4, the programming application used to trigger the exploit, has reportedly disappeared from several regional Nintendo eShop listings. The developments come just a day after the jailbreak became public, although Nintendo…

Soon enough, there will be more of what you missed on Glee. On Oct. 21, Disney announced that Hulu and Disney+ have officially greenlit the long-speculated Gleerevival, giving the show a full series order.

Some time ago, Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson revealed on a podcast that the budget for Gears of War: E-Day exceeded $400 million. Right away, Windows Central’s Jez Corden countered that it was lower than that; however, Kotaku’s Ethan Gach claims today that oney higher, more than $500 million, and even that insane figure did not…

Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced it was laying off three percent of its workforce and shuttering BioWare, the pioneering video game studio known for its role-playing games. At the time of its closure, BioWare was in early development on a new RPG set in the Mass Effect universe. That game will now never see the light…

The Nintendo Switch 2 has reportedly been jailbroken through a software-only exploit, with developer pepsipu demonstrating the jailbreak by running modified content in Mario Kart World. Called ns2jb, the exploit is said to work on Switch 2 firmware 23.0.1 and does not require a hardware modchip.

Despite previous denial, Jennifer Lopez is reportedly dating her Office Romanceco-star, Brett Goldstein.