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Unionized Bethesda Montreal employees have slammed parent company Microsoft for allegedly offering laid off workers the “smallest severance legally possible without bargaining with the union.”

Xbox has begun offering the starter edition of Game Pass to Meta Horizon+ subscribers.

Game preservation is a hot topic at the minute amid Sony’s decision to stop making PlayStation discs. Xbox has arguably done a better job that front over the last several years thanks in large part to its backward compatibility efforts on consoles. It’s now expanding those to more platforms with the Xbox Backward Compatibility on…

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As July slowly comes to a close, culminating a month ofthousands of layoffscarried over by Microsoft across its Xbox studios, the company has shared some very different news, as it is slowly rolling out Xbox backward compatibility on PC.

Four classic Xbox games are heading to PC as part of a new program from Microsoft. These older titles, which are currently available on Xbox Game Pass, will now be playable on desktops, laptops and handhelds such as the ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X.

In the United States, video game sales have diminished by 20% over the past year, with figures suggesting a decline from $5.7 billion to $4.5 billion between June 2025 and June 2026.

A California man who bought an Xbox game console that was marked up amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs regime is suing Microsoft, claiming the company pocketed government refundsand never distributed them back to consumers.

You can now play these classic games on your XBOX console, in the cloud, on PC, and on handhelds. By •