What started as an ambitious initiative now faces growing uncertainty. Six years ago, Phil Spencer introduced Xbox Game Studios as the cornerstone of Microsoft Gaming’s first-party strategy. Backed by ...

The games industry has seen round after crushing round of layoffs over the past few years – a consequence largely of an over-extended industry recoiling from dramatically higher interest rates, though ...

Microsoft is hiring a new finance manager to keep track of first-party studio expenses, including game budgets and gross and accountability margins.

TL;DR: Xbox Game Pass remains profitable according to internal sources, despite concerns over first-party game development costs and lost sales revenue. While Game Pass excludes these costs from its ...

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Microsoft and Xbox have been the topic of much discussion lately, mainly because the publisher and brand have been going through serious changes in their gaming distribution plan. Specifically, ...

It hasn’t even been a week since Microsoft dropped a bombshell in the worst way by letting go of numerous people within its company, including many within its gaming division, and even shut down some ...

Double Fine, the first-party Xbox game developer behind Psychonauts, is forming a union. As Aftermath reports, the studio has ...

On top of these concerns, sources for Engadget also took issue with plans for AI. Microsoft has been making a big push to embrace AI across all facets of the company, and one Halo Studios employee ...