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You may have noticed that The Game Awards 2022 yesterday morning was missing a key first-party company: Xbox. Or at least, the company has been low-key about its participation. The company did not make any major game announcements because they're saving their load for 2023, according to Xbox marketing lead Aaron Greenberg. He tweeted online to r...
CEO of Microsoft Gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer made an announcement on Twitter stating that Microsoft has entered into a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty back to Nintendo consoles along with an identical pledge to continue publishing Call of Duty to Steam as well. The last Nintendo console to see a Call of Duty game was the Wii U. So yes...
Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer has stated that he is open to making a commitment to Sony so that Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation longer than currently agreed. Check out the piece we did on Sony's rejection of Microsoft's offer to keep CoD on PlayStation On The Verge’s Decoder podcast, where Spencer explained that he is open to...
Microsoft's Head of Gaming Phil Spencer just took a new office photo, complete with a possible tease of a new device. The photo on Twitter is basically to celebrate the Fallout series' 25th anniversary, but closer inspection on the top right (next to the Kojima Productions Ludus statue) reveals a device that hasn't been seen on any official Xbox...
A lot of people are worried about whether other game companies will raise video game console prices, as well as games for that matter. PlayStation has done that so far with the PlayStation 5 and its triple-A games. Xbox? Well, they have one idea: don't disrupt the status quo. Xbox brand head Phil Spencer said that it's not right in these economi...
CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan has come out and stated that Microsoft’s proposal for keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles is “inadequate on many levels”. Last week, Microsoft clarified their plans for the Call of Duty franchise should the Activision Blizzard acquisition go as planned. In a statement to The Verge, ...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer stated on the Xbox blog this morning to confirm that the next Call of Duty will be on PlayStation. Oh, and that the Diablo and Overwatch franchise will be on Xbox Game Pass. At this point in time, it's unclear whether this will include Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 (all signs point to "yes", but it's not official), though the p...
Microsoft and Xbox gaming boss Phil Spencer has said that he wants to make Bethesda's upcoming sci-fi RPG the most-played game to date. We're referring to Starfield, the next RPG from Bethesda whose last single-player RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has sold more than 30 million copies since its 2011 release. Here is Phil's plan according to an ...
Scalebound was going to be a big action RPG hack-and-slash-type title for Xbox before it was cancelled back in 2017. Fast forward to now, and PlatinumGames want to bring it back somehow. According to a new interview with IGN Japan, PlatinumGames' leads Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya revealed that they would like to revive the cancelled title. P...
Earlier this week, the games industry was shocked when Microsoft announced that they would be acquiring Activision Blizzard in one of the largest deals ever in the history of gaming. This has many PlayStation users worried if game franchises under Activision Blizzard would eventually become Xbox exclusives. Now we know at least one franchise wil...
2022 is starting out with a seismic shift in the games industry. Microsoft has announced that they have agreed to purchase Activision Blizzard. According to the announcement, this means that Microsoft will now own Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Beenox, Demonware, Digital Legends, High Moon Studios, Infinity Ward, King, Major Leag...
A December report stated Sony is working on its own version of the Xbox/PC Game Pass codenamed Spartacus, where players pay a monthly subscription fee to play a selected bunch of games for a particular console. Xbox boss Phil Spencer reacts positively to this piece of news, according to an IGN interview. "I don't mean it to sound like we've got it...
Talk about reading the room. First, it was Sony Interactive president and CEO Jim Ryan criticizing Activision Blizzard in an internal email. Now, it's Xbox boss Phil Spencer sending a similar email to Microsoft staff (via Bloomberg). Spencer said that the Xbox leadership team is "disturbed and deeply troubled by the horrific events and action" a...
Xbox head Phil Spencer likes the PS5 DualSense controller. In fact, he likes it so much that he not only praises it, he also said that Xbox will likely incorporate some of the features of the DualSense controller into the Xbox controller sometime in the future. The PS5 DualSense controller is currently one of the few controllers with unique Hapt...
If you're hoping for an Xbox Killer Instinct fighting game sequel or follow-up, certain developers & fans may need to rise up to the challenge. According to Xbox lead Phil Spencer on the Dropped Frames podcast, he said that the company needs the right team to make this work. "There are so many good games in our catalogue that we’d lo...
After a decent showing at E3 2021 earlier this month, Halo Infinite is still slated for a Holiday 2021 release date/window. According to Xbox head Phil Spencer, they have already narrowed the upcoming game's release window to a range of several weeks, but they haven't decided on a specific release date as of yet. During an interview in a video w...
Key figures from Xbox and Bethesda gathered in a roundtable live stream earlier today. They discussed what Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda will translate to in the near and far future. Xbox head Phil Spencer spoke more about what exclusivity will mean for Bethesda games moving forward. While Microsoft will continue to release Be...
The most recent Xbox podcast hosted by Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb featured a lengthy topic discussion about the recent Bethesda acquisition. The man on point in the discussion? Xbox division head honcho Phil Spencer. He said the following: The Xbox and Bethesda deal's final approval will come in 2021. Right now, Microsoft is "hands-off" w...
In September 2020, Xbox shocked the entire games industry when they announced that they have acquired ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda. What this means is that they now own franchises like Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and more. In a video interview with Bloomberg, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that the company would still be...
After the major Bethesda US$7.5 billion buyout via Microsoft Xbox, gamers are wondering if Bethesda-published titles like the Fallout, Dishonored, and Doom series will have a future outside of PC and Xbox consoles. Not releasing those RPGs and open-world games on the PlayStation means that the Xbox is looking pretty sexy if you're into those gam...
