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"No amount of hard work is enough to protect us": Over 450 Diablo devs sick of "the constant pressures of layoffs, passion tax, and crunch" under AI-obsessed Microsoft vote to unionize
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "I've witnessed the dread"

Gears of War: Reloaded hammered in Steam reviews for missing splitscreen co-op and Microsoft accounts seemingly crashing everyone's fun, including mine
By Austin Wood published
News Gears of War: Reloaded sits at 49% positive Steam user reviews

I can finally share meat-tastic cover shooting bliss with my PS5 friends thanks to Gears of War Reloaded
By Oscar Taylor-Kent published
Now Playing Now Playing | If playing Gears of War while feeling the thrum of the PS5's DualSense is wrong, I don't want to be right

Black Ops 7 lead says FPS fans are "eating" thanks to the head-to-head release with Battlefield 6, "but if you want maximum variety..." play the new Call of Duty game
By Scott McCrae published
News "I think because we've been working on Black Ops 7 for so long. It has a really strong vision"

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
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