Microsoft claims the annual "January Purge" is cancelled this year, calling the rumors of 22,000 job cuts "100% made up." Given their track record, I'll believe it when February starts.

The gaming industry is set to break revenue records in 2025, mostly because they decided to charge us $80 for Mario Kart and $30 a month for Game Pass.

Console sales have absolutely cratered this November, and looking at the new price tags for an Xbox or PS5, it is not hard to see why.

PS5 won Black Friday so hard it wasn't even a fight, but the real comedy is a motion-control cube for toddlers beating Xbox in sales.

The weirdest custody battle in gaming history has finally borne fruit: you can now stream Call of Duty through a Ubisoft subscription.

Phil Spencer sat down with Famitsu to give the most corporate-spun answers ever. I'm reading between the lines on Halo's "rest," OD's release, and the "next console."

Ah, a new Microsoft feature. Gamers are already accusing the new Gaming Copilot of spying on them for AI training. Classic.

So this is why Xbox is on fire. Microsoft is demanding an insane 30% profit margin, and the fallout is everything we've been seeing: layoffs, price hikes, and canceled games.