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Microsoft’s gaming brand cut 1,600 employees on Monday, with an additional round of layoffs expected before June 2027, according to an employee memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. The layoffs are part of a massive restructuring by Microsoft, which is cutting about 2.1% of its total workforce, or roughly 4,800 employees. 

I think we can all agree that Mister Terrific was the coolest thing to come out of James Gunn’s Superman. He’s also my favorite DC Comics character, and as played by Edi Gathegi, who also played Darwin inX-Men: First Class, I couldn’t be happier with the way he was depicted. Obviously, Gunn was pretty happy…

Last month, Xbox executives laid out some “hard truths” about Microsoft’s struggling gaming division that they said would require a difficult “Xbox reset.” This morning, Microsoft revealed the brutal shape of that “reset,” announcing plans for 3,200 layoffs and the divestment of five smaller studios that the company has spent years acquiring and shepherding

Market snapshot: Panorama Studios International has announced a significant expansion of its distribution footprint by signing a worldwide deal for its upcoming film “Ranjheya.” The agreement with Shadow Fox Entertainment LLP marks a strategic move to capture global box office revenues and enhance the label’s international presence

Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios — Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs — as part of the restructuring announced today. However, two that are going independent, Double Fine and Compulsion, will get to keep their franchises and games catalog

Xbox has announced it is splitting from four of its development studios – Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs – while announcing plans to reduce headcount by over 3,000 employees over the next several months. 

Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent, and Microsoft is also selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs

Marvel Studios just brought back a powerful Guardians of the Galaxy villain, and the return played out in X-Men ’97Season 2. The animated series premiered on Disney+ on July 1 with the X-Men scattered across time, including a group led by Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto that remains trapped in ancient Egypt. That storyline pits…

Panorama Studios International has executed a film distribution agreement with Shadow Fox Entertainment LLP for the worldwide theatrical rights of the Punjabi film ‘Ranjheya’, starring Hardy Sandhu and directed by Gurjindh Maan

The creator of Deadpool and many other notable comic book characters believes Marvel Studios held off on using a certain X-Men team lineup due to financial reasons. It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. For starters, the merry band of mutants will return to the big screen in Avengers: Doomsday, a movie that’s…