Xbox is cutting hundreds of jobs and making sweeping changes to the production of its flagship Halo franchise, as its company-wide “reset” continues. Its latest reductions, forming part of a wave of ongoing layoffs, will impact staff at the studio which currently makes Halo – with Call of Duty publisher Activision to take on development
Bill Skarsgård will star as the lead in Hideo Kojima‘s upcoming video game “Physint.” The casting news comes on the heels of last week’s announcement that “Physint” would now be published by Xbox after being scrapped at Kojima Productions’ longtime partner publisher, PlayStation. Currently, Kojima is also collaborating with Xbox on “OD,” an upcoming title
You’ve just set down your Xbox controller after wiping out the final boss. Now, time for an ad! The folks at Patentlyze made me aware of a recent patent filing from Microsoft that hints at Xbox’s in-game advertising ambitions. The filing, published earlier this month, outlines a concept for a content management system that would
According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” — phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device — will actually be a “family” of devices.” “We’ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix,
Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. “Most Xbox One and
That’s when Ikea began prototyping the stool in various materials such as cork and wood. Wahl says the company did a lot of 3D printing, with different versions of the base’s radius. One had a completely round base, which made it very unstable, though Wahl thought it was fun because it required a lot of
