In a move equal parts surprising and totally expected (for literal years), Microsoft shadow-dropped its not-so-secret The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster today. Cool, great. Also, it
On Thursday, April 3, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement made Microsoft a “priority target” of its call to boycott companies it identifies as complicit in the unlawful occupation
Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Communications Workers of America (CWA) – the union that represents over 2,000 workers across companies like Microsoft, Activision, Bethesda, and Zenimax
Few series continue to influence entire industries three decades down the line – fewer still if we’re talking about relatively obscure Japanese role-playing games. Suikoden, however, fits that bill.
What a week Microsoft has had. On one hand, it published a clear game of the year contender in Avowed, a fantasy role-playing game jam-packed with surprises and
Avowed is a vast game with some weirdly complicated progression elements about which the jury’s still out, but I want to praise a moment of pure, perfect simplicity. Near
There’s been a flurry of unions at Microsoft-owned studios this year, and now we have a new one: yesterday, workers at ZeniMax Online Studios announced their union, ZOS
Today, Xbox revealed a new marketing campaign titled “This Is an Xbox,” a strategy that focuses on calling various things that are not Xboxes Xboxes in an effort to… well,
This week, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two – whose CEO, Strauss Zelnick, six months ago denied closing two studios for what could best be described as no apparent reason – confirmed
Nothing is more important than learning from your elders. As part of Back To School week, we decided to swap notes with the best: 404 Media, a website that’s
Microsoft will lay off about 650 people from its gaming division, largely in "corporate and support functions," according to an email from Xbox head Phil Spencer sent to
