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MMO Business Roundup: Microsoft Xbox’s regime change, Nexon promotes Soderlund

Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! We’ve got quite a bit to cover today, so let’s not waste too much time with a preamble and hop right into this list of headlines. Regime change at Microsoft Gaming and Xbox: According to reporting at IGN this afternoon, Microsoft Gaming CEO […]
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Bungie delays Destiny 2’s next major update to June 9 for ‘large revisions’ and ‘sizeable’ QOL

If your first thought when hearing about Marathon’s March 5th release date was how that would immediately clash with Destiny 2’s plans for a major update for Renegades on March 3rd, well good news! It’s not going to get in the way anymore because Bungie is delaying that update for nearly four months. Wait, no, that’s the opposite of […]
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Microsoft denies rumors that it’s about to lay off thousands more workers

Yesterday, an article from investor website TipRanks circulated throughout the games industry: The rumor was that Microsoft is planning to cut somewhere between 11,000 and 22,000 jobs in January, roughly 10% of its current workforce, to allay the increased cost of data center expansion as part of the company’s hard push toward AI development. If […]
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Following a goofy delay, Ubisoft’s financials arrive with a progress report on the Tencent partnership

If you happened to be holding any stock in Ubisoft, this past week might have frayed some of your nerves, as the gaming company announced that its fiscal report for the first half of the year was being delayed and that share trading would be temporarily halted. As one might expect, this ended up causing […]
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Square Enix lays off hundreds of workers, telling investors it’ll divert 70% of QA work to AI

Why let skilled quality assurance workers make sure game code is functional when an investment in AI can botch the work? That would appear to be the push by Square Enix, as it has told investors in a “medium-term business plan” presentation that it’s aiming to have QA work done by AI in the future, […]
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