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Bungie Explains Destiny 2’s Recent 20-Hour Outage
Two days ago, Bungie turned off the Destiny 2 servers while the studio looked into a problem that had players apparently losing progress on in-game challenges. This outage lasted a bit longer than everyone expected, with the free-to-play loot shooter remaining offline for nearly 20 hours. So what happened? Today Bungie pulled back the curtain…
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Everything We Saw At Today’s Xbox Developer Direct
Today Microsoft held its Developer Direct presentation, focusing on a number of new games coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass. We got a fresh look at some anticipated titles, as well as a neat little rhythmic surprise from the developers of The Evil Within. But enough chatter, let’s get into what Microsoft showed off…
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343, Hit By Layoffs And Key Departures, Says It Will Keep Making Halo
When Microsoft — a company that made “$US198 billion ($AU283.7 billion) in revenue and $US83 billion ($AU118.9 billion) in operating income” in 2022 — made the decision to axe 10,000 workers last week, a number of those came from their video game operations, particularly 343 Industries, the overseers of the Halo series.
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Microsoft Slashes 10K Jobs, Including At Xbox And Halo Studios
Following rumours earlier this week from the UK’s Sky News, tech giant Microsoft has announced a slew of layoffs affecting 10,000 workers, some within its game studios, blaming slowing e-commerce sales and a potential economic recession. Kotaku has confirmed that a number of developers at 343 Industries, The Coalition, and Bethesda Game Studios are being…