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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jul 07, 2025
Microsofts Xbox gaming division took the brunt of the most recent round of layoffs, which resulted in 9,000 job cuts. It has lead many to question every aspect of the Xbox business, including the future of CEO Phil Spencer. More fuel has...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Oct 03, 2024
Despite adding quality game studios such as Bethesda, Arkane, Obisidian, and Ninja Theory through mulitpleacquisitions over the years, Microsoft's Xbox is still struggling to make headway against Sony's PlayStation this console...
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Ryan Whitwam - Thu, Jun 20, 2024
Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to acquire game publisher Bethesda Softworks, giving it access to a raft of popular franchises and whatever the company was working on. To Microsoft's dismay, it owns Redfall first-person shootercrashed and...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, May 08, 2024
In a surprising move, Microsoft's Xbox division is closing several Bethesda studios, with Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty stating that these moves are based on a reprioritization of titles and resources. The affected studios include...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Nov 02, 2023
Alan Wake 2has been impressing gamers since its release, with its gripping story and visuals. PC gamers had to rummage through a rough year of gnarly, unoptimized titles such as Arkane Studio'sRedfall. The subsequent release of...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jun 13, 2023
Back in the mid-1990s, a fellow named Jason Schreiber said something very clever to a gaming magazine: "a good game is only late until it ships, but a bad game is bad forever." To some degree, that's still truefirst impressions are...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, May 03, 2023
We want to love Arkane Studio's highly-anticipated FPS vampire-themed game Redfall, but it seems like poor early reviews for the Xbox and PC releases might just give us pause. That can't be good for a company with Arkane's...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Apr 14, 2023
Bethesda has gamers biting mad after it announced that its upcoming title Redfall will launch on the Xbox Series X/S with a limited frame rate. The Xbox Series X will be limited to 30fps at 4k, while the Series S will be limited to 30fps...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 16, 2023
The GPU wars are heating up with game bundles coming back in style. Last week we wrote about AMD gifting codes for The Last Of Us Part I with select Radeon RX graphics card purchases, and not to be outdone NVIDIA has followed suit with a...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Jan 26, 2023
The "not like Left 4 Dead" undead fighting thriller Redfall,by Arkane Austin and Bethesda Softworks, has a new trailer we are very excited about. We now know when we'll get to visit the fictional island village of Redfall...
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Lane Babuder - Sun, Jan 08, 2023
Quick, when you think of Arkane games, what do you think of? You're likely picturing titles like Dishonored, DeathLoop, and Prey. Which are all amazing titles and series in their own right. However, people don't typically think that...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 13, 2022
Maybe you missed out on Prey when it first came out all the way back in 2006, and then again when Bethesda released a reboot developed by Arkane Studios (which it acquired in 2010) in 2017. Five years later, the Prey reboot still...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Mar 23, 2022
AMD's FSR 1.0 was a solid first effort by the company, but as is the case with any new technology, there is always room for improvement.FSR 1.0 is mostly a post-processing filter that attempts to make a blurry, low-resolution image look...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 24, 2021
Why pay for a PC game when you get it for free, right? To be absolutely clear, no, that's absolutely not an encouragement to pirate software. Please don't. You don't need to resort to such measures to bolster your games catalog, you just...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Jun 17, 2021
Bethesda finally revealed a trailer for its upcoming game Starfield during E3. The reveal was accompanied by a few details about the game's aesthetic, play style, and release date. Unfortunately, it was also noted that Starfield will not...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Mar 08, 2021
Late last year, Microsoft announced a deal to buy ZeniMax Media and subsidiary Bethesda Studios with IPs such as Fallout, DOOM, and The Elder Scrolls franchises. The $7.5 billion deal would also include id Software, Arkane...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Sep 21, 2020
Microsoft has just announced a blockbuster deal in the gaming world by announcing its intent to purchase ZeniMax Media. If the ZeniMax name doesnt sound familiar to you, maybe this one will: Bethesda. Thats right, were talking about the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 05, 2017
It is finally time to fight the invasion. Again. Fans of the original Prey released in 2006 were teased with a sequel for several years, but as the IP rights changed hands and development shifted from one studio to another, the long-awaited followup seemed increasingly unlikely. It was...
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