xbox / You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated. By Chris Person / 6 Jul 2026
News / Xbox Will Lay Off 3200 Workers And Cut Four Studios Loose CEO Asha Sharma called it "the most significant restructure in XBOX history" By Riley MacLeod and Nicole Carpenter / 6 Jul 2026
Podcasts / What Is The Point Of A Video Game Console Now? "I’m just like ehhhh. That new Naughty Dog game will probably be good, but I don’t need to buy a now-$900 PS5 Pro to play it" By Nathan Grayson / 3 Jul 2026
Blog / Asha Sharma Is Microsoft’s Pain Sponge Succesion is a documentary By Gita Jackson / 2 Jul 2026
Feature / With Layoffs Looming, Microsoft Unions Plan To Battle To The Bitter End: ‘It’s A Fight For Dignity And Respect’ “This fight, in my opinion, is not just a fight for unions, but a fight for working people" By Nathan Grayson / 2 Jul 2026
News / Xbox Cuts, Which Haven't Even Happened Yet, Are Already Causing Turmoil In The Games Industry IO Interactive announced it lost Xbox funding for an upcoming game, and a new report suggests Arkane and its Blade game could be on the chopping block By Riley MacLeod / 30 Jun 2026
News / Microsoft Raising Xbox Price For A Third—Third!—Time As Mass Layoffs Loom They're axing the 2TB model, too By Nicole Carpenter / 25 Jun 2026
Media / Outlets Don't Have To Do Xbox's Work For It A glowing profile of Xbox in Entertainment Weekly is just PR in a different hat By Riley MacLeod / 23 Jun 2026
Hardware / Computer Was A Mistake Using a Bluetooth controller on my PC has broken 007 First Light, which is apparently just how things work By Riley MacLeod / 22 Jun 2026
Podcasts / Microsoft Runs The Rake Factory "People aren’t gonna buy three consoles, because nobody has money, because of AI—because of Microsoft" By Nathan Grayson / 19 Jun 2026
News / Despite Awards, South Of Midnight Studio Becomes Latest Victim Of Microsoft’s Implosion Compulsion Games could be on the chopping block, months after Xbox hyped up its award wins By Riley MacLeod / 15 Jun 2026
