Save more money firing one higher up than 1000 regular employees.
If it was real A.I then it might be cool, but LLM aren't worth that kind of investment. Sure they're helpful for praising documents but the fuck else they going to be used for? Writing crap articles? How do LLM help in game development at all??
The fuck is going on there? What is the goal here??
The Microsoft-owned gaming division continues to make deep cuts following its aggressive studio acquisition strategy over the last several years.
Microsoft has laid off thousands of workers across its various divisions in the latest cost-cutting measures taken by the corporation, whose 2024 revenue exceeded $245 billion, a 16-percent increase over its 2023 revenue. Though the cuts have impacted several of the company's various divisions, Xbox appears to be hit particularly hard. This represents the fourth time in 18 months that Microsoft Gaming has laid off workers.
"We continue to implement organizational and workforce changes that are necessary to position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace," an Xbox spokesperson said in an official comment provided to Game Informer. Alongside the official statement, Xbox PR confirmed that less than 4 percent of Microsoft's global workforce was impacted. However, according to Microsoft's official reporting, the company employs 228,000 people worldwide, which means 4 percent of the global workforce accounts for more than 9,100 people. Xbox PR also confirmed to
The reboot of Perfect Dark developed by The Initiative has been cancelled as part of the latest round of cuts at Microsoft.
UPDATE 6:27pm UK: Chris Linn, senior producer at Zenimax Online Studios, has confirmed the cancellation of the unnanounced MMO on LinkedIn.
Linn wrote: "Hi everyone! Our amazing MMO project was just cancelled, I am starting to poke around for new remote work."
Executive producer Sean Dunn wrote his own statement about the cancellation on LinkedIn, stating: "Today was one of the biggest dissapointments of my 35 year long career in games. My dissapointment isn't primarily for myself, but for my team, and for players that will never get to play the amazing game we were building."
Dunn continues: "This team is one of the best groups of people I've been able to work with. They treated each other with kindness and respect on a daily basis. I fell so honored to have been able to help lead them. If you have open roles, please hit me up and I can guide you to the right folks on the team."
"To the team, I just want to say that I love you. You deserve better.
I have tumor riddled lungs and chest muscles that don't quite do their job any more and I was able to breath just fine with a N95 on for hours at a time. These gigantic turd burglers must be more out of shape than my dead gran if not being able to breathe was their excuse.
The rumored Halo: Combat Evolved remake might be announced later this year
Rumors have been swirling for a while now that Xbox’s flagship series, Halo, might be making the leap to PlayStation in the near future. There have also been rumors about a remake of the OG game. Now, Halo Studios, formerly 343 Industries, has stepped forward to explain that it will provide actual information later this year.
Earlier this month, Xbox boss Phil Spencer ended the company’s Summer Showcase with a tease for what’s coming in 2026, promising a new Fable, a new Gears of War, the next Forza, and hinting at Halo by saying: “and the return of a classic that’s been with us since the beginning.” This followed reports that Halo would leap to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025. Gears of War is making that leap later this year, so it seems plausible Halo might do the same. The rumors and speculation have grown so large that Halo Studios has directly addressed them in a new blog post.
On June 30, Halo Studios Esports Lead Tahir “Tashi” Hasandjekic shared a
"Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead"
A founding member of Team Xbox caused a stir on social media over the weekend after posting a video on YouTube criticising the state of the brand in 2025, and particularly the strategy over the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally handheld.
Laura Fryer, who worked as director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group back in the 2000s (as well as being an executive producer on the likes of Gears of War and Too Human), spent much of the 12-minute video questioning why the ROG Xbox Ally exists when it doesn't play any exclusive games or offer anything particularly major to set it apart from Xbox consoles, PCs and even other existing PC handheld devices like the Steam Deck and standard ROG Ally.
As part of this, she claimed the "Xbox Anywhere" message will make the ROG Xbox Ally a hard sell:
undefined"The Xbox Anywhere message sounds great on the surface, but in reality it's just marketing. It's style with no substance. Unfortunately, I don't think marketing is going to be enough. There i
Maybe he just has a crush on her aha.
Void Interactive has confirmed the console port of its violent shooter, Ready or Not, has been changed "as absolutely r…
Void Interactive has confirmed the console port of its violent shooter, Ready or Not, has been changed "as absolutely required by our first party partners", including tweaks to dismemberment/gore, nudity, mistreatment of children, and "explicit representations of violence". And in some instances, these changes may be applied to the PC version, too.
In an update posted to Steam, the team said that after some changes, the game secured a PEGI 18 / USK 18 / ESRB M-rating, and was "fortunate enough ...] to pass certification for the launch on our first submission". Void was now "relieved" to be finished with the console launch certification process and says any changes made "remain faithful to the original tonality of the game".
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I've been waiting for 60fps!
Players have hit out at The Alters developer 11 Bit Studios after AI prompts were discovered in both subtitles and flav…
Players have hit out at The Alters developer 11 Bit Studios after AI prompts were discovered in both subtitles and flavour text in the game, intimating routine use of large language models (LLMs) without disclosure.
Since January 2024, Valve has required games that use pre- or live-generated AI to divulge this as part of the Steam Distribution Agreement. This includes art, code, sound, and more that have been created with the help of AI tools. At the time of writing, The Alters has made no such disclosure.
In one example, an in-game screen that's presumably there to look all sci-fi-y and scientific begins with: "Sure, here's a revised version focusing purely on scientific and astronomical data".
Another commenter who'd played through with subtitles on Brazilian Portuguese noted "several times the subtitles go crazy", which was later backed up with a screenshot that evidenced it. The subtitle read: "Sure! The text translated to Brazilian P
