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Don’t expect to play with your Nintendo and Microsoft-owning chums soon
Read More »Sony talks cross-play: ‘Fortnite on PS4 is best for users’
Xbox All Access: console on contract officially announced
Just in the US for the time being, but the potential to launch elsewhere is there
Read More »Xbox One may be adopting mobile phone-style contract system
‘Xbox All Access’ provides console & subscriptions for monthly fee over two years
Read More »The Initiative announces numerous senior talent acquisitions
Microsoft’s new first-party studio isn’t messing about with hires
Read More »Selective memories: How We Happy Few’s developers dealt with growing up in the spotlight
We Happy Few is about self-deception, but was its fanbase also guilty of only seeing what they wanted in the game? We talk to Compulsion Games' narrative director Alex Epstein about the game, its evolution in public and the studio’s acquisition by Microsoft
Read More »Head of Minecraft wants more ‘off-ramps’ from work for employees
‘We need more opportunities for people to take a break’
Read More »Rare confirms Sea of Thieves has had over 5 million players
UK dev passes huge milestone on the high seas
Read More »Microsoft shift royalty and digital rights payments to the blockchain
Welcome to 2018
Read More »Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all respond to the Fortnite account locking fracas
Two of the three platform holders reiterate their devotion to player-first cross-play policies
Read More »Xbox Game Pass sizzles at E3: day-and-date third party titles, FastStart and new library titles all announced
Microsoft pushes Xbox Game Pass to the fore of its console gaming strategy with a raft of new announcements
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