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Microsoft 'resets' Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Microsoft's gaming division will cut 3,200 jobs throughout FY27 and is spinning out studios but not canceling any games.
PS5 Disc Drive purchase cap predates Sony's disc cutoff
Meanwhile, the largest petition against the disc cutoff sat beyond 74,000 signatures on the morning of July 4th, closing in on its 75,000 goal.
Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project
Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.
Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes
Here we go again.
Digital archivists rush to save PS3 game data before Sony shuts down the store forever in 2027
Sony is shutting down PSN for PS3 consoles next year, so preservationists are being asked to wake up from their slumber to archive everything before it's too late.
Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games
Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.
Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028
While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming.
PlayStation is removing over 500 movies from UK customers' accounts with no refunds
The movies will be removed by September 1, 2026.
