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Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring, and his replacement is an AI executive who joined Microsoft in 2024
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Asha Sharma
New Xbox boss promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division
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Arc Raiders Trophy Display: Key art showing three characters. The one on the left is wearing a blue pincho and holding a pistol ready at their hip. The middle figure is wearing a brown poncho and cowboy hat, facing the camera with a pistol across their chest. On the right is another character in a brown poncho and hat but facing away.
Arc Raiders design director says players 'never worked together' in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies 'encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions' Catering to both PvE and PvP-heavy audiences is a "precarious position".
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Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets yet another massive update adding a new line of warships and 'significant changes' to naval mechanics

By Rick Lane published

News The Last Chieftains DLC is also available now.

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Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios at Microsoft Corp., speaks during a Bloomberg interview at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 11, 2019.

No layoffs at Xbox as a result of leadership shakeup, new chief content officer Matt Booty says: 'My focus is on supporting the teams and leaders we have in place and creating the conditions for them to do their best work'

By Andy Chalk published

news We'll see how long that lasts.

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Asha Sharma

New Xbox boss promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division

By Tyler Wilde published

news "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," said Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

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Four Roblox player avatars jumping toward the screen, all in various art styles to show user avatar options

Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined

By Lincoln Carpenter published

News Roblox alone accounted for 67% of the games industry's growth outside of China in 2025.

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A screenshot of the warlock class in Diablo 2: Reign of the Warlock. A grizzled man holds up a tome that is emanating purple energy.

Warlocks have taken the throne as Diablo 2's best class 26 years later, and Blizzard seems to be OK with letting them have their fun for now

By Tyler Colp published

news The older classes aren't as far behind as you might think, though.

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DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are 'death traps' and is planning a Labs test dedicated to 'vehicle improvements'

By Morgan Park published

NEWS Will the jeep finally be worth using?

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Phil Spencer

Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring, and his replacement is an AI executive who joined Microsoft in 2024

By Andy Chalk published

news Sarah Bond, who was widely expected to take the reins one day, has instead resigned from the company.

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Yves Guillemot, CEO and co-founder of Ubisoft, speaks at the Ubisoft Forward livestream event in Los Angeles, California, on June 12, 2023. The event features a look at upcoming Ubisoft games. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Ubisoft CEO confirms new Assassin's Creed and Far Cry games are coming, denies that putting his son in charge of them was nepotism

By Andy Chalk published

news Well what did you expect him to say?

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An orc politician using a "harness anger" power

Imagine if politics were full of monsters! Haha, no, I mean fun monsters like vampires, orcs, and goblins who use cards to hurl insults and smears at each other

By Christopher Livingston published

Fight your way to the top of the government in card-based roguelike Prime Monster.

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Thrifty Business - A character celebrates buying a plate from a shelf full of secondhand items.

Nothing beats putting all my little stuff on my many little shelves in a super cozy shop sim like Thrifty Business

By Lauren Morton published

News I love to organize my hoard of junk.

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