COVER REVEAL: Ninja Gaiden 4, the upcoming revival of the iconic action franchise, graces the cover of the next issue of Game Informer! Subscribe now to secure your copy! gameinformer.com/cover-reveal...
— Game Informer (@gameinformer.com) 26 August 2025 at 17:04
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July 2025 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
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2025 Year-to-Date Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
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Content - July video game content spending increased 4% when compared to a year ago, to $4.5B. The increase was driven by growth in the mobile (+7% in July vs a year ago, to $2.3B) and non-mobile subscription (+21%, $0.5B) segments, which offset a 9% drop in spending on Console.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
Content - Year-to-date spending on non-mobile video game subscription services is now 19% higher than a year ago, at $3.6B.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
Content - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 ranked among the top 4 best-selling games of the month on each of the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and aggregated PC platforms charts.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
Content - July 2025 Top 10 Best-Selling Premium Games on PlayStation Platforms - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 27 August 2025 at 14:00
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Content - July 2025 Top 10 Best-Selling Premium Games on Xbox Platforms - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
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Content - July 2025 Top 10 Best-Selling Premium Games on PC Platforms - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
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This does include compatible games that you own.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard, being able to play cloud playable games included with their subscription or select cloud playable games they own.
— Klobrille (@klobrille) August 27, 2025
Select titles in these tiers also soon playable on PC.https://t.co/mPMUHst77I pic.twitter.com/KSW6kGBPgP
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We’re expanding the ways players can experience PC gaming through Xbox Game Pass. As part of testing, Xbox Insiders subscribed to Game Pass Core or Standard will for the first time gain access to PC versions of select titles, giving you even more flexibility and the choice to play on a PC or Windows handheld.
Here comes the console integration!
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Well, that’s certainly an unexpected announcement!
Heads up Xbox Gamers! @GOGcom calls on Xbox Gamers to start building their 'DRM-free' Game Libraries on the platform, by linking their Xbox account.
— XboxEra (@xboxera) August 28, 2025
Details:https://t.co/4OYugKKNA8
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"The union will represent a wide variety of disciplines across Blizzard Entertainment including designers, engineers, artists, and support staff. A Diablo game producer and organizing committing member said that the mass layoffs at Microsoft were a major factor in rallying the unionization drive. "With every subsequent round of mass layoffs, I've witnessed the dread in my coworkers grow stronger because it feels like no amount of hard work is enough to protect us," they said. "This is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of living in fear.""
450 Diablo Developers Vote To Unionize Under CWA
Love to see it, every single developer under Microsoft needs to unionise, it won't stop the firings but they can make it as painful as possible for Microsoft and maybe make them think twice about certain ones.
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| Ryuu96 said: "The union will represent a wide variety of disciplines across Blizzard Entertainment including designers, engineers, artists, and support staff. A Diablo game producer and organizing committing member said that the mass layoffs at Microsoft were a major factor in rallying the unionization drive. "With every subsequent round of mass layoffs, I've witnessed the dread in my coworkers grow stronger because it feels like no amount of hard work is enough to protect us," they said. "This is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of living in fear."" 450 Diablo Developers Vote To Unionize Under CWA Love to see it, every single developer under Microsoft needs to unionise, it won't stop the firings but they can make it as painful as possible for Microsoft and maybe make them think twice about certain ones. |
Its not about making things painful to MS because this isn't a MS thing, this is how businesses work in the US. What they should concentrate on is making sure they are fairly treated and that when layoffs does happen they are well compensated with insurance and severance pay. Believing they are going to punish MS for deciding to move in a different direction if they so choose will not only not work but will be a sure fire way for MS to punt the whole division away.
Machiavellian said:
Its not about making things painful to MS because this isn't a MS thing, this is how businesses work in the US. What they should concentrate on is making sure they are fairly treated and that when layoffs does happen they are well compensated with insurance and severance pay. Believing they are going to punish MS for deciding to move in a different direction if they so choose will not only not work but will be a sure fire way for MS to punt the whole division away. |
Which is exactly what they are doing and why it makes it painful for Microsoft, it's well know workers rights in America are far worse than those in Europe, or in the case of Japan, a reason why Japan has far fewer layoffs is because their employees actually have strong rights and protections, these unions will add to those protections which American workers desperately need, something obviously a company like Microsoft would prefer not to happen, I'm pretty sure at this point that Microsoft regrets signing a contract with the CWA to get the ABK acquisition through.
Recently we had the example of the Zenimax union workers, they were laid off but due to their union, they were still employed by Microsoft weeks later, receiving full pay and full compensation despite being laid off, essentially being fully paid for doing nothing, because as per the legally binding agreement with the CWA they had to negotiate better terms for the workers they were laying off under the Zenimax union. Hence why everyone under Xbox should unionise. They'll be thousand more MS Gaming layoffs next year. Glad to see more Xbox employees preparing.
Boohoo Microsoft has to work with unions, if they shut down the entire division because of that then fuck them forever, Lol.
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