I finished Avowed last night, and despite all the tense battles and carnage and explosive effects and beautiful colours on display during the game's closing hours, I'
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 inventive touches.
Microsoft today unveiled 'Muse', the company's latest attempt to try to convince the world--and the video games industry in particular--that generative AI has a use case
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
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,
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
This week, both Microsoft and EA embraced the rot economy, purposefully enshittifying Xbox Game Pass and Apex Legends’ battle pass, respectively, in hopes that some number somewhere will continue to
It’s been a big week for bad ideas: Fans are pissed at both Xbox and Apex Legends developer Respawn for unveiling new, complicated pricing schemes that tapdance frantically around
Another Summer (One Week) Of Video Games has come and gone, and while companies like Microsoft brought out the big guns, it remains undeniable that Keigh-3 isn’t quite E3.
Microsoft, a behemoth with near-limitless resources that’s nonetheless spent the past few years lost in the woods, needed a win over the weekend. By most measures, it got one.
A fantastic part of my existence at Aftermath is that, freed from the need to know about every single game coming out on every platform at all times, I can
