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Microsoft: Laying off 10,000 employees “hurts”

Microsoft: Laying off 10,000 employees “hurts”

photo: Patrick T Fallon (Getty Images) A few hours ago, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer sent a company-wide email to all full-time employees in Microsoft’s gaming divisions. A copy of the email was shared with my city from a current Xbox employee, we’ve confirmed its authenticity, and the full text has been transcribed below: This has ...

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Microsoft explains why Elder Scrolls VI could be exclusive

Microsoft explains why Elder Scrolls VI could be exclusive

screenshot: ZenMax The court case to justify why Microsoft can take over Activision Blizzard is currently ongoing. In a reply to the UK Markets Inspectorate Statement about the acquisition the publisher suggests that making a “mid-size” game like the upcoming one makes good business sense for them The Elder Scrolls VI exclusive while arguing that ...

Bethesda plans to continue Elder Scrolls 6 with Fallout 5

Bethesda plans to continue Elder Scrolls 6 with Fallout 5

picture: bethesda In an interview published today, Bethesda’s creative director Todd Howard revealed the studio’s future plans and explained it after the Elder Scrolls 6 comes out will be the studio’s next game failure 5, the next major entry in the company’s post-apocalyptic open-world role-playing game franchise. However, considering how long it takes Bethesda to ...

Starfield is getting a new trailer during the Xbox Bethesda Showcase

Starfield is getting a new trailer during the Xbox Bethesda Showcase

Bethesda and Microsoft revealed yet another look at the ambitiousSkyrim in space” role-playing game starfield during today’s joint presentation by the two companies. This time it was much more than eight secondsand actually presented gameplay. After some preamble, Xbox boss Phil Spencer presented a short film starfield Sizzle Reel before director Todd Howard took the ...

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Classic Wolfenstein MP game launches 19 years late on Steam

Classic Wolfenstein MP game launches 19 years late on Steam

screenshot: splash damage Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released 19 years ago and is one of the greatest multiplayer shooters to come to PC. Unfortunately some younger readers may never have had the pleasure of playing it as it was never released on Steam. Til today! Note that the game has been available elsewhere all along ...

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Tokyo Creative Director opens new studio

Tokyo Creative Director opens new studio

The room behind Nakamura becomes the studio.screenshot: Invisible/YouTube/Kotaku former GhostWire: Tokyo Creative Director Ikumi Nakamura has officially opened her new studio named Unseen. Nakamura who made a big splash at E3 2019 with her enigmatic and heartfelt approach and has worked on it before Okami and bayonetShe left Tango Gameworks out of concern for her ...

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If Capcom Remakes RE4, Shinji Mikami Wants The Story Improved

If Capcom Remakes RE4, Shinji Mikami Wants The Story Improved

Resident Evil 4 is a landmark for gameplay, not storytelling. Screenshot: Capcom/Steam For a while now, there have been persistent rumors that Capcom is remaking Resident Evil 4. The Osaka-based game company has already remade other RE games, so these lingering rumors don’t seem that far-fetched. Plus, the fan made Resident Evil 4 HD mod ...

Windows 11 features make PC games more like Xbox games

Windows 11 features make PC games more like Xbox games

Xbox manager Sarah Bond talks about Windows 11 games.Screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku While Microsoft’s Windows 11 revealed event this morning, Xbox manager Sarah Bond joined the stream to talk about how the latest version of the operating system will bring powerful Xbox Series X / S tools to PC, including Auto-HDR and the super-fast DirectStorage ...