Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This feels like Microsoft giving Xbox one last chance to reach the ridiculous level of profit it wants. Once it becomes clear that this ludicrous target is unachievable, Xbox will be sold off for a big pile of money to throw into the AI quicksand. And yet more innocent people will lose their jobs.

I didn't stay up to silly hours to watch England. Did they play well this time, or did they just get lucky again?

I can't believe I have to say this but the point is not "corrupt World Cups are not new". It's that this specific World Cup has been a succession of "f**k yous" to various parts of the global football community, and this is the latest one. And I doubt it will be the last.

Crikey, yet another upset. This World Cup is full of exciting drama, but again, everything surrounding it stinks.

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AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Paraguay look like they're planning to hold off for penalties for 120 minutes.

The sooner the ENTIRE game industry manages to unionise the better, I say it all the time but holy crap the way workers are treated here is atrocious. Be a part of a companies best ever selling game and fired just a few days later, this behaviour should be criminalized

That's heartbreaking. Cape Verde put in a spectacular performance. To get that far, and force the champions to extra time, *in your first World Cup appearance*? They'll be holding that trophy aloft in future, calling it now.

I think this Cape Verde goalkeeper is one of the Avengers.

I've never been massively into football, but man, this World Cup is very enjoyable already. Full of drama, surprises, and historic firsts.

Work smarter, not harder

He needs Harry Kane

I'm really looking forward to Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, and will probably pre-order. The game is £49.99 on Playstation Store, but (for example) £42.99 at Currys, who are *also* offering an additional 10% off for pre-ordering. Result: physical version 22% cheaper than digital version.

Not only wrong, but grossly insensitive. Tim Sweeney can fuck all the way off. Then, when he's finished fucking off, he can fuck off some more. Then jump in a lake. www.gamesradar.com/games/destin...

people on this app: "nah you don't get it man, gen z are only into franchises like mega man, doom, and sonic" almost everyone i know under the age of 25: "hey do you want to play some dress to impress tonight"

PSN in 2028 when you buy a new game

It doesn't seem fair that one of the best World Cups in recent memory is being co-hosted by one of the most fascist countries on Earth.

I mean, have people who think England are playing well watched... any other team?

Tuned in to the last ten minutes of the Senegal-Belgium match. Well, what everyone *thought* were the last ten minutes. What a turnaround!

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Honestly don't understand how the hell England have stumbled this far through the tournament.

They should announce this in the stadium at the beginning of every match.

Great stuff from DR Congo already.

Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

Sony abandoning physical media and a significant proportion of their userbase, meanwhile Nintendo will probably go from cartridges to floppy disks for the Switch 3.

incredible of playstation to announce the end of physical disc production the week after they deleted all the movies you bought digitally from your account

The PS6 may cost more than a month's rent, but at least it won't have a disc drive or any way to purchase games outside of Sony's direct price control.

I'm going to use this mouse pad for my grown-up job on the days I have to go into the office, and you can't stop me.

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Is this as simple as the greed and gullibility of politicians, or do these AI companies have access to horrendous blackmail material on British politicians? Because this government is taking things dangerously far, further perhaps than any other.

If you like point and clicks, you need Wadjet Eye in your life. Unavowed? Amazing. Technobabylon? Soaked in atmosphere. And although there are a few there that are on The List and I haven't yet played, Old Skies is going to take some beating, it's beautifully designed and superbly written.

Obsession is an extremely American film, because a gun appears out of nowhere and we're not supposed to wonder how or why.

Years ago my mom really wanted to watch Downton Abbey because the new season hadn’t come out in the US yet. Showing my mother how to navigate Pirate Bay while porn ads flashed at us is an experience I will never forget. She decided to just wait for it to come out on BBC America. :)

This is a bit wild. If you've got a spare minute, a vote goes a long way.

DRAMA!!

It was only really incredible luck that prevented Japan from losing by another couple of goals, but they played very, very well. Much better than England, that's for sure.

Tuned into the Japan-Brazil match at 32 minutes in, and woah, did not expect to see that score.

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My reaction to this is caught between "Wait, the country's *president* joined in the criticism??" and "Why hasn't this happened in England at least fifteen times?". www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

Boring question: are you with EE for your broadband? If so, what's the WiFi signal from their router like? We're being moved to them within the next few weeks, and I work from home upstairs, so...

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Our first Under the Radar feature is looking at a gory indie FPS that's shaping up to be the Kane & Lynch 2 successor true sickos like me have been waiting for. P.S. It's discounted in the Steam Summer Sale!