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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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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 8: Ben Starr, winner of the Debut Game Award for 'Balatro', poses backstage during the BAFTA Games Awards 2025 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 8, 2025 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images)

To celebrate 2 years of Balatro, creator LocalThunk reflected on dropping out of an engineering program to make games: 'Even if I could warn myself I’m not sure what I could have said to prepare for the insanity'

By Justin Wagner published

News "Thank you to everyone for allowing this terrible student to keep staying up too late."

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A space shark attacks the player in an interdimensional void. To his left, a fellow player floats toward him in front of a parked steam engine on railtracks

Interdimensional railway sim Voidtrain gets a patch that expands your inventory, a 50% discount and new DLC that's free until Monday

By Rick Lane published

News Welcome alien pets aboard your train in Voidtrain: Tour de Void.

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a nuclear mushroom cloud blooms over a sci-fi city in Heart of the Machine

Heart of the Machine, the strategy game that lets you be the fun kind of evil AI, leaves early access in March with two possible endings: 'One is focussed on committing ALL the war crimes'

By Rick Lane published

News Full heart.

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A wizard electrocutes himself in a room filled with green goo.

Turn water into goo and yourself into a cloud in this fantasy adventure with 102 million spell combinations: 'The core ethos when it comes to solving puzzles is to do it your way'

By Rick Lane published

News Learn to spell well in Rhell: Warped World & Troubled Times.

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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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battlefield 6 season 2

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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