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This week, users in the Xbox Insider program did not receive the usual update for Xbox Series X|S consoles. The delay came as a surprise, especially since Asha Sharma said some time ago that new console updates would be released every two weeks

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Xbox has made a 2026 PlayStation game free to play for a limited time for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S users. More specifically, the PlayStation and PS5 game is free to play on both current Xbox consoles until the end of July 12. In other words, it’s free for the weekend. The catch,…

Thousands of jobs are being eliminated at Microsoft’s Xbox unit as the company says its gaming business needs a fundamental reset, in what executives describe as the division’s biggest shake-up in 25 years

Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, where the company that just cut 1,600 Xbox jobs remains one of the nation’s largest users of the H-1B foreign worker visa program. (Photo: Sean Gallup

We chat with Mike Futter from the Virtual Economy Podcast about Microsoft’s sad Xbox trajectory

Few people know more about helping run a successful console business than Shawn Layden. He was there at Sony when the PlayStation dream was first dreamt, and over the course of three decades he helped realise it and shape it. He was there for PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and 4. He helped lead the Japanese…

Valve’s PC storefront Steam continues to go from strength to strength. In the first half of 2026, it recorded its highest-ever results, generating an enormous $11.1bn in revenue, which is more than it made during the game-heavy end of last year, and considerably more than it made during the first half of 2025

Asha Sharma hasn’t slowed down since she became the new Xbox CEO. Not only is she planning on resetting the brand, but she’s been laying off and shutting down studios after saying that the company has run too thin. And now, Asha Sharms joins the Federal Reserve, being appointed as co-leader of the new Productivity…

Bethesda Game Studios union workers under the OneBGS banner will hold a ‘Save Our Devs’ march in protest of yet another round of mass layoffs across Xbox