Woke tech giant Microsoft has announced a round of layoffs affecting 650 employees within its Xbox gaming unit, marking the third gaming-related layoff since the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.
Microsoft’s video game platform, Xbox, is revamping its “hate speech” and “profanity” rules, introducing a strike-based system to ban gamers from games they have purchased if they use the wrong words.
Tech giant Microsoft has announced a long-term partnership with woke advocacy group GLAAD, aiming to increase the representation of LGBT characters in its first-party Xbox games.
Sony is asking antitrust enforces in the United Kingdom to either force Microsoft to sell off Activision’s flagship video game title Call of Duty, or veto its proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, as the tech giant continues to face scrutiny over the effect that the proposed merger would have on competition.
Microsoft announced earlier this month that will soon be releasing “carbon aware” downloads for the Xbox game console.
Microsoft has accused the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of violating its fifth amendment rights to due process by blocking its attempted acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, one of the world’s largest game development and publishing companies.
According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, tech giant Apple is making major moves in the video game space despite not actively developing any games itself. The Silicon Valley giant earned more profits from games in 2019 than Microsoft’s XBox, Sony’s Playstation, Nintendo, and Activision Blizzard all combined.
Microsoft has apologized and quickly reversed a price increase of its Xbox Live Gold service just hours after the company announced it was doubling the annual fee for the popular gaming service.
Microsoft’s competitor to Slack, Microsoft Teams, went down for two hours in Europe yesterday morning as thousands of housebound Europeans attempted to use it to work from home amid the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
Stop Child Predators, an organization that works to protect children from sexual predators, has sent a letter to the Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and the Senate asking lawmakers to investigate alleged violations of children’s privacy by the Masters of the Universe.
Contractors for Microsoft listened in on the audio of Xbox gamers speaking in their homes in order to improve the console’s voice command abilities. One contractor claims most of the recordings they reviewed were children.
Johnny Peluyera, 16, was murdered in front of his father during a meet-up to sell his Xbox on Wednesday.
Krystal Preston was in “complete shock” when her son, 13-year-old William Rabillo, surprised her with a 1999 Chevrolet Metro.
An Illinois man was arrested for beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old daughter to death because the toddler spilled juice on his Xbox.
A Jacksonville, Florida, homeowner’s son shot a suspect who was allegedly stealing a TV and an XBox game system on Christmas Eve.
Starting May 1, Microsoft will begin enforcing a ban on “offensive language.” To do so, they have determined that they have the right to mine private user data to “investigate.”
The device that began as an Xbox 360 curiosity is concluding the final chapter in the seven-year run of intelligent camera advancement for which it is largely responsible.
The U.S. Navy will save money and training time by giving young naval officers aboard submarines video game controllers to operate periscopes.
Microsoft announced a new subscription program that will give access to a significant portion of its back catalog, and Wall Street apparently took it as a bad omen for brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop.
The head of Microsoft’s Xbox division has apologized after the company hosted a party featuring female go-go dancers during the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week.
For the first time in gaming history, one console manufacturer is preparing to support playing with consumers on a competing platform. Xbox Live is about to open its arms not just to PC, but also PlayStation 4 cross-platform play.
Microsoft kicked off Gamescom 2015 on Tuesday, August 4 in Cologne, Germany, debuting new games like Quantum Break, Dark Souls III, and Rise of the Tomb Raider and highlighting the Xbox One’s new compatibility with Windows 10.
New Dragon Age: Inquisition downloadable content will not be coming to the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 consoles. However, players’ saved games can be transferred from these consoles to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 if they wish to upgrade to the newer console versions.
Xbox will be at the gamescom show in Cologne, Germany on August 4 at 10AM EDT for a briefing and will show off games Scalebound, Quantum Break, and Crackdown, which were absent from E3 in June.
At its E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that backwards compatibility is coming to the Xbox One. The feature is currently in beta mode with 21 titles available for gamers.
Microsoft head Phil Spencer denied the rumor that the studio would be buying Konami’s survival horror game Silent Hills, which was abandoned in late April.
A now-removed product page for the addition of the Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection was found in the Xbox Games Store on Wednesday.
Game developers are gearing up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occurring Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18. Only game creators and press are invited, but PlayStation and Xbox plan to allow gamers to experience the event via movie theater screening and Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3, respectively.
A 22-year-old man with alleged ties to the hacking group Lizard Squad, which claimed responsibility for the attack on Sony and Microsoft on Christmas Day, has been arrested in London after an investigation into PayPal thefts.
A hacker group calling itself Lizard Squad on Twitter apparently overloaded the Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks to prevent gamers from using their toys on Christmas.
