Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

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Bethesda Game Studios reportedly suffered “significant” cuts during this week’s Xbox layoffs, which put 1,600 employees out of work across Microsoft’s gaming division as the initial wave of a sweeping reorganization scheme aiming to achieve 3,800 layoffs by the end of the company’s 2027 fiscal year. In the aftermath of Xbox’s bloodletting, the Bethesda Game … Read more

Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’

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The scale of Microsoft’s brutal Xbox layoffs become clearer by the day. Among the studios that Xbox hasn’t decided to dump from its portfolio entirely, we now know one of the outfits hit hardest by CEO Asha Sharma’s “Xbox reset” was id Software. The Doom studio, which just released a massive expansion for Doom: The … Read more

Super variants of the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 have cropped up in Seasonic’s PSU calculator, suggesting we may see Nvidia’s long-lost GPUs yet

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If you thought Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super cards were completely MIA at this point, think again. Seasonic’s online PSU calculator tool has listed the RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5070 Super among its entries, with increased wattages ranging from an extra 10 to 17% depending on the card. Granted, it’s not … Read more

Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y’know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS

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There’s something almost endlessly endearing about the wee Steam Machine box. It’s beautifully designed, beautifully small, and it’s a gaming PC that you wouldn’t mind sticking in/on whatever furniture your TV sits on. But it’s also hard to buy, was manufactured in small numbers, and commands an incredibly high price for a PC with a … Read more

WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn’t enough, does a naked run for good measure

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No matter how good at questing in World of Warcraft Classic you think you are, I’m pretty sure we’ve found someone better—a singularly determined madlad has hit level 60 on every single class in the game’s hardcore self-found mode. For the uninitiated, that means that they’ve gotten to level 60 without dying and without any … Read more

Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores

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Two brothers have been caught trying to steal £62,000 worth of Pokémon TCG by Cheshire police who aptly commented: “gotta catch ’em all!”—true, but I’m not sure Ash Ketchum envisioned it quite like this. Keith Johnson, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary with intent to steal at a hearing which took place earlier … Read more

GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says ‘a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them’

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As a documented remaster liker, it was a real black day for me when Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition came out, back in 2021. It was a complete mess, filled with bugs, shoddily upscaled textures, weird models, and at least one alarmingly smooth hexagon. It was shoddy treatment for a series … Read more