News / Microsoft Layoffs Hit Bethesda, Obsidian, And Id Hard As Workers Brace For More “It was already excruciating [to wait] over the long weekend—which made it impossible to relax. Now we have it indefinitely, and nobody knows who it will hit” By Nathan Grayson / 6 Jul 2026
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
