Microsoft saving PC gaming again
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MannyK




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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Jun 2022 22:39    Post subject:
Hello neighbor 2? who is going to play this
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Aug 2022 09:23    Post subject:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/07/14/join-5-various-xbox-insider-previews-of-classic-games/

Hopefully Hexens/Heretic are remakes (e.g. old code logic running inside Unity, as it currently does in Doom 1/2) and not just old data slapped on top of DosBox like the old Steam releases...
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Aug 2022 12:01    Post subject:
nope, its running in dosbox
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PostPosted: Thu, 19th Jan 2023 01:27    Post subject:
Aaaaaaand the other shoe drops:
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-reportedly-set-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs

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At least 11,000 jobs are expected to be lost at Microsoft this week, as the technology and gaming giant undergoes a fresh round of cost cutting.

Microsoft currently employs around 220,000 people worldwide. These latest job losses will equate to around five percent of its overall workforce, Sky News reported last night.

In response, Microsoft stated it "does not comment on rumour or speculation".
It's currently unclear which jobs will be lost and whether any UK-based positions will be affected.

Microsoft previously cut "hundreds" of positions in October last year, including some team members working in the company's Xbox division.

This week's reported job losses far exceed the numbers lost then, and come ahead of Microsoft's next financial results briefing, due on 24th January.

Various technology companies - including Amazon, Meta and only just today Unity - have been cutting jobs over the past few weeks, in response to forecasts of a global economic slowdown later this year.

Microsoft's Xbox division is set to lay out its plans for the first half of 2023 in its upcoming Developer_Direct broadcast, due to air on 25th January. Expect to see updates on the new Forza Motorsport, Redfall and Minecraft Legends. Don't expect to see Starfield or get an update on the company's never-ending attempts to buy Activision Blizzard.




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UPDATE 2.30pm UK: Microsoft has now confirmed today's earlier report that it will shed thousands of jobs this year.

10,000 positions will go, with some employees told today. The job losses will continue through until the end of the year and ultimately result in nearly five percent of the company's employee total gone.

In a public statement on the matter, Microsoft boss Satya Nadella blamed changing customer spending habits and the looming threat of a new global recession.

There's no word in that statement on specific divisions or brands within Microsoft targeted by the layoffs. A company spokesperson declined to comment further to Eurogamer on how Xbox and its studios may be impacted.




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UPDATE 11.00pm UK: Following Microsoft's confirmation of plans to cut 10,000 jobs by Q3 this year, details have started to emerge of the game teams impacted by the layoffs, with Kotaku and Bloomberg reporting Bethesda Games Studios, Gears of War developer The Coalition, and Halo maker 343 Industries are all affected.

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier says the scale of redundancies at these studios is "not yet clear", but reports that 343 - particularly its Halo Infinite campaign team - has been "hit hard". Schreier adds that today's 343 layoffs come "in the wake of a long-running hiring freeze and a lot of contractor departures". We'll have more as the story develops.

Yeah, I'd absolutely nuke 343 industries in the first place, then whoever took to kill FO76 somehow.


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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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PostPosted: Fri, 20th Jan 2023 11:45    Post subject:
Don't worry. Todd and Pete's jobs are still secured.
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PostPosted: Fri, 20th Jan 2023 12:06    Post subject:
Hopefully it's the slacking people drinking 20 coffee cups a day and keeps walking around strking up conversations instead of working, who got fired. But the world is often not a fair place
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PostPosted: Tue, 28th Feb 2023 12:23    Post subject:
PC Game Pass coming to 40 more countries:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/02/28/pc-game-pass-preview-40-new-countries/

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PostPosted: Tue, 28th Feb 2023 21:46    Post subject:
yay finally Smile Very Happy


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PostPosted: Mon, 27th Mar 2023 06:37    Post subject:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/26/23657627/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-trial-offer-stopped

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Microsoft has stopped its $1 trial offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. The trial has been available for years, with brief periods where it wasn’t always available in certain markets, and it now looks like Microsoft is considering new promotions instead.

“We have stopped our previous introductory offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass and are evaluating different marketing promotions for new members in the future,” says Kari Perez, head of global communications at Xbox, in a statement to The Verge.

The $1 trial has allowed people to sign up to Xbox Game Pass for a month, before the full Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription kicks in at $14.99 per month or $9.99 a month for the PC- or console-only subscriptions. It’s been a great way to recommend the service to a friend or family member, but we’ll now have to wait to see what these “different marketing promotions” are for new members.


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Back on the saviour's path Dude Cool
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https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-remix-xbox-controller-is-partly-made-of-recycled-water-jugs/



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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Apr 2023 22:49    Post subject:
Buy trash for a premium
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Apr 2023 22:56    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
Buy trash for a premium
Nailed it


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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Feb 2024 21:43    Post subject:
so apparently xbox is trying to go full third party and so cannibalize their console hardware Laughing Laughing

https://twitter.com/IdleSloth84_/status/1754361009215541532

- Tim has heard that Call of Duty may not be coming to game pass.
- Hardware sales have not met the projected sales and the CFO got spooked.
- In the last three months of last year, they had consoles for $350 and no one cared.
- Xbox One was more wanted than Series consoles.
- They said the hardware is dead, and they are seeing declines in hardware year over year.
- Game pass is unsustainable; the market they have is not enough to offset the cost.
- Tim heard from someone at Microsoft that you may not like Xbox when they get Activision. They want ROI.
- He heard that Xbox has an insane showcase with tons of games, but everyone is going to be saying asterisks.
- The leaks happened because a Microsoft employee who didn't want this to happen leaked it, so there would be a public outcry.
- Microsoft now has no problem buying more companies in the future if all games go to all platforms.
- Tim thinks they will go all-digital, with ads on game pass (pre-roll or at the end of a chapter e.g. Like a Dragon) and AI community managers.

https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/1754598552548904973

interesting times ahead Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Feb 2024 21:48    Post subject:
xbox prolly gave up on the console war it seems. I wouldnt be surprised if there wouldnt be a next gen console. So consolists are prolly stuck with ps6 or switch 2 in the future.
intereting times indeed.
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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Feb 2024 22:01    Post subject:
would be shit if they shut down hardware, and probably wouldnt happen but who would buy an xbox now when you can play them all on playstation? and would give sony monopoly on aaa hardware

all that acquiring of companies with fail after fail game was bound to come crushing at some point. seems to go the netflix way

where are the retards now that said playstation is dead cuz xbox has gamepass? LaughingLaughingLaughingLaughingLaughingLaughingLaughing
i just hope this dosent stop sony from porting games to pc now Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Feb 2024 22:02    Post subject:
Well, with them canibalizing their software sales (that rarely turn a profit, even in the most favorable scenarios) and shit like Starfail bombing as it did (they absolutely expected it to sell a shit ton of copies, at least on PC due to peeps wanting to mod it without all the gaymepass restrictions) now they have to drop that wreck at derpstation too.
Lots of salt from some of the derpsole fanbois online, good times ahead Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Feb 2024 22:39    Post subject:
Microsoft will just en up as a service like valve and epic it seems. They might or might not give up on game development, but given the trends in similar cases, they likely will.
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PostPosted: Tue, 6th Feb 2024 11:55    Post subject:
And I was going to bu this turd for $300 during the holidays Laughing Laughing Laughing


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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2024 12:00    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
Microsoft will just en up as a service like valve and epic it seems. They might or might not give up on game development, but given the trends in similar cases, they likely will.

tbh microsft i and has been mainly service company for years now ... its just that the Xbox side of microsoft is lagging behind on that


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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2024 12:56    Post subject:
Laughing



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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2024 14:17    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
Microsoft will just en up as a service like valve and epic it seems. They might or might not give up on game development, but given the trends in similar cases, they likely will.


valve laughs from afar that they get all the exclusives Laughing even from nintendo games with their emulators


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@headshot
Sometimes you watch the cringiest stuff Razz Only way I can describe it is sometimes your taste in youtube content is like friewald's choice in music...lol


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Ooof, being compared to frietard in any aspect… That's rough, man Laughing Poor derpshot Crying or Very sad Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2024 20:54    Post subject:
DXWarlock wrote:
@headshot
Sometimes you watch the cringiest stuff Razz Only way I can describe it is sometimes your taste in youtube content is like friewald's choice in music...lol


LeoNatan wrote:
Ooof, being compared to frietard in any aspect… That's rough, man Laughing Poor derpshot Crying or Very sad Laughing


Laughing After reading this I had to go take a look inside those specific threads in the "Music Waves" sub-forum.



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Headshot. Please take a screenshot of your youtube feed.
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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2024 22:51    Post subject:
4treyu wrote:
DXWarlock wrote:
@headshot
Sometimes you watch the cringiest stuff Razz Only way I can describe it is sometimes your taste in youtube content is like friewald's choice in music...lol


LeoNatan wrote:
Ooof, being compared to frietard in any aspect… That's rough, man Laughing Poor derpshot Crying or Very sad Laughing


Laughing After reading this I had to go take a look inside those specific threads in the "Music Waves" sub-forum.


Please sir, how can you not appreciate masterpieces like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/jk2f0i/lil_b_disses_artist_on_his_own_song/


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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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OrignalSpaceJockey wrote:
Headshot. Please take a screenshot of your youtube feed.


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2024 00:07    Post subject:
DXWarlock wrote:
@headshot
Sometimes you watch the cringiest stuff Razz Only way I can describe it is sometimes your taste in youtube content is like friewald's choice in music...lol


LeoNatan wrote:
Ooof, being compared to frietard in any aspect… That's rough, man Laughing Poor derpshot Crying or Very sad Laughing


OrignalSpaceJockey wrote:
Headshot. Please take a screenshot of your youtube feed.




TBH I dont subscribe to that guy and that video wasn’t on my YouTube feed. I saw that video on an Asmongold video after he was reacting to an article on Video Games Chronicle. I then found that video, thought it was equally amusing and cringy and posted it for you guys lol.



https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/major-xbox-influencers-pull-support-over-multiplatform-rumours/


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