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Microsoft’s sophomore console, the Xbox 360, maintained a prominent presence in the gaming industry for nearly a decade. Launched in 2005, the 360 was Microsoft’s primary home console until 2013 with the debut of the Xbox One. We’ve covered the best Xbox 360 games before, many of which are still renowned as being among the…

Last week’s sweeping Xbox layoffs have affected The Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, a studio that had already faced cuts a year ago. This has reignited fears amongst the community that the game is being moved into ‘maintenance mode’, in which no substantial new adventures or updates will be developed for it

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on July 6 that Xbox would lay off 3,200 people, offloading at least four gaming studios, and said that Xbox Game Pass hasn’t grown as expected, contributing to an unhealthy business. Nevertheless, Microsoft announced on July 7 that Xbox Game Pass would be getting a handful of new games in July, including the…

Valve recently released a new version of the Steam Controller, which features a wired USB puck that serves both as charger and dedicated, low-latency wireless receiver. The downside is they aren’t currently available for purchase separately, but that’s not a worry because you can now make your own thanks to [safijari]’s OpenPuck project