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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release date reportedly leaks, and it looks like the FPS is the latest to escape Microsoft's $80 price hike
By Scott McCrae published
News Activision is also seemingly sticking to its word to skip the Switch 2 at launch

Minecraft fans are convinced that Mojang has accidentally leaked its next Live event date, but don't get your hopes up – it looks like it might actually be the remains of an old typo
By Scott McCrae published
News Hopefully they add the Inspector Gadget collab

We could've gotten a Banjo Kazooie cartoon in the '00s, but Xbox was breaking fans' hearts even then: "Microsoft did not see this as something that they wanted to invest in"
By Scott McCrae published
News At 4Kids, "The loss of the Pokémon franchise left a huge hole, and so began an initiative to develop new shows"

43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland "worried about job loss" from AI, which seems justified now that his parent company Microsoft laid off 9,000 in exchange for more slop
By Ashley Bardhan published
News Brian Fargo is still deciding how he feels about generative AI

Contraband: Everything we know about the canceled co-op game
By Josh West last updated
Guide Contraband was a co-op heist game set in a fictional 70s locale that was cancelled in 2025

Grounded 2 update improves the survival game's stability by around "40%-60%" while devs warn the "various performance improvements" aren't expected to fix the "problems as a whole"
By Catherine Lewis published
News Grounded 2 version 0.1.2 squashes loads of bugs and visual issues, too

Weeks after canceling Everwild and laying off developers, Xbox puts on a smile to celebrate Rare's 40-year legacy with a red hat in Sea of Thieves and a swanky controller
By Jordan Gerblick published
news The fact that the Perfect Dark reboot was also canceled just adds to the cruel irony

Hot 25: Summer 2025 Edition
By Josh West published
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