Activision releases report on anti-toxicity tools for Call of Duty: 45M text messages blocked
Activision released a report on its anti-toxicity tools for Call of Duty, including the upcoming launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 coming...
Microsoft’s 343 Industries rebrands as Halo Studios, adopts Unreal Engine
Microsoft’s 343 Industries has rebranded as Halo Studios and it has adopted Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Halo Studios made the announcement in a video...
The contrast between reality and simulation in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | David Dedeine interview
For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, this is a reasonable question. Is it a game, a simulation or reality? On the reality side, the previous...
The metaverse didn’t die. It moved inside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Jorg Neumann interview
The scale of the ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is pretty astounding. Made with 800 game developers over four years, the title has...
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets extended reveal and release date of December 9
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle got an extended reveal in a demo before thousands of game fans at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. The...
Keywords Studios integrates into Microsoft’s Community Sift
Creative and technology solutions provider Keywords Studios has announced a deeper partnership with Microsoft’s AI-enabled content moderation tool, Community Sift. Through this partnership, the...
Microsoft reports Xbox’s revenue is up 61% in Q4 FY24 thanks to Activision
Microsoft today released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, which included details on how Xbox is performing. According...
World of Warcraft’s 500+ person dev team votes to unionize
The developers behind Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft have officially voted to unionize. The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild, or WoWGG, which includes...
Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America
Bethesda Game Studios workers have voted to join the Communications Workers of America, forming the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio....
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta arrives August 30 — on all platforms
Activision announced the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta kicks off on August 30. While under previous ownership of Activision Blizzard, Sony’s...