Feature / With Call Of Duty Release Near And No Union Contract In Sight, Activision Workers Authorize Strike "There could be more bugs. There could be server issues. There could be missing features. ... No QA, no games" By Nathan Grayson / 15 Oct 2026
Politics / Microsoft, Nvidia Among Top White House Ballroom Donors A report by The Washington Post provides new details about ballroom donors By Nicole Carpenter / 15 Oct 2026
Video Games / Xbox Launches New Initiative Inspired By Vibe Coded Nonsense Inspired by people vibe coding a bunch of stuff online, Microsoft has launched an ill-defined project. By Chris Person / 13 Oct 2026
News / Ninja Theory Laying Off Employees Ahead Of Possible Closure Microsoft announced it would close Ninja Theory after a divestiture deal fell through By Nicole Carpenter / 5 Oct 2026
Podcasts / Why It Took Years For A Story About Bobby Kotick Sending Journalists Legal Threats To Come Out "It wasn’t about pulling together the evidence. It wasn’t about doing the research. That was done pretty early on" By Nathan Grayson / 25 Sep 2026
News / Bethesda President Says Obsidian Will Retain ‘Creative Identity’ Despite Becoming Part Of Bethesda "The Obsidian leadership team will continue to lead Obsidian" By Nathan Grayson / 23 Sep 2026
News / Xbox Lays Off More Workers, Combines Studios Xbox cut 268 additional jobs, and brought Obsidian under Bethesda alongside other changes By Riley MacLeod / 22 Sep 2026
Video Games / Blizzard Announcing Games For 2029 And 2030 Seems Nuts Who says video games will still exist by 2030? By Luke Plunkett / 14 Sep 2026
Feature / After Years Of Company Stalling, Blizzard Workers Win Mega-Contract That Applies To All Unionized Teams "Really strong" layoff protections are just the tip of the iceberg for a contract that covers 1,900 workers By Nathan Grayson / 9 Sep 2026
News / Microsoft Just Found Yet Another Way To Enshittify Xbox Game Pass Monthly time limits are coming to Microsoft's cloud gaming service, and they... aren't great By Nathan Grayson / 3 Sep 2026
News / Psychonauts Developer Double Fine Gets Rights To Games Back, But Union Future Uncertain Good news and bad news By Nathan Grayson / 21 Aug 2026