Okay, let's check what XBox has to offer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySygveWfuKE

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Forza Horizon 5 is coming to XBox! The white one... some call it PS5.

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Yay, new meme has arrived!

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It seems like HALO marketing is now led by ex-Concord marketing director. I have some questions...

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After the official release, Avowed was unable to reach 20 000 concurrent players on Steam. The results are devastating for such a big game with all the advertisements they have done during the last couple of months.

Yes, I'm sure, millions are playing via XBox subscription (no), but keep in mind that even The Veilguard managed to reach 5+ times more players.

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Split Fiction XBox makes me curious: did someone at XBox just figured out that they need marketing?

A huge campaign for Avowed, custom XBox for soulful new games. It all looks exceptionally cool and may really affect the audience.

Giveaway: http://discord.gg/Hazelight

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Microsoft shared their promo image with a very interesting piece: Steam filter on XBox.

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🤯 Microsoft hired David Fincher and Romain Chassaing to film a promo video for XBox: it features rats driving soviet cars and working on horrible dystopian jobs to become humans only by playing games… WUT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEv-s1dWGEQ
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The official PlayStation Blog mentioned XBox for the first time! The console war is officially over...

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Microsoft is raising XBox prices (up to $80-100), and games prices will follow soon (they will cost $80 instead of $70).

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XBox + Windows + Asus + AMD? A unique beast, but they made a white version with extremely slow CPU and people will confuse them all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3njzvmkEZGo
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New prices are kinda bad...

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As it was previously told, Microsoft has begun firing people (again). It has about 20 000 people in gaming divisions and want to cut this workforce by thousands.

King, Bethesda, and many other companies are among these cuts. It's the fourth big wave of layoffs in the last 18 months.

The total cut among Microsoft's teams (beyond gaming) is expected to be around 9100 employees out of 228 000. They were already planning to cut 7000 people in May (and it's unclear if these are two cuts or an extension).

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And here's the email from Phil Spencer: yeah, we make more money than ever, but it's all possible thanks to firing people who previously did a great job and helped us to establish this foothold in the industry. Very ugly phrasing, IMO.

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If you've been fired from Microsoft, just use their AI to control your emotions...

Microsoft has loudly embraced AI, having announced plans in January to invest $80 billion into AI infrastructure prior to this latest wave of job cuts.

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Microsoft gave up on $80 games and switched back to $70 (for now). The initial announcement was done in response to Nintendo, but apparently it didn't work well.

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