Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings (www.bloomberg.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/e7Fgt
Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Xbox’s Shift To ‘High-Impact’ Games Is Misguided At Best, Reckless At Worst (kotaku.com)
What’s Even The Point Of Xbox Game Pass Now? (kotaku.com)
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios (www.pcgamer.com)
Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game (arstechnica.com)
Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance (aftermath.site)
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown (kotaku.com)
Redfall's devs were reportedly building out its massively delayed Hero Pass content 'very recently'—before Microsoft closed Arkane Austin for good (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda - IGN (www.ign.com)
Nintendo makes first Switch 2 announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is (kotaku.com)
Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda’s Failure To Capitalize On The Fallout Renaissance Has Been So Very Bethesda - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours' (www.pcgamer.com)
Helldivers 2 Community At War Over Controversial PSN Requirement (kotaku.com)
'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players (www.pcgamer.com)
The U.S. video game industry's unemployment rate is likely far higher than the national average (www.gamefile.news)
Government Response - Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state (petition.parliament.uk)
tl;dr: we will do nothing about it...