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Microsoft and Ubisoft expanded their partnership on July 27, giving Xbox console owners free PC copies of eligible titles — but the deal only works one way.
Xbox Insiders can now stream their own games for free via the cloud, but each session starts with a preroll ad and cuts off after one hour.
GSC Game World founder Sergiy Grygorovych revealed the deal covered development costs and then some — and was signed within a week of the first trailer dropping.
Xbox Game Pass adds eight titles in late July and early August, headlined by Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS5, Xbox, and PC — a series first.
Microsoft's July clearout pulls two of the highest-rated games ever on the service — one a medieval grand strategy classic, the other a beloved hardcore platformer.
Internal dissent, a price cut, and Call of Duty's removal signal Microsoft may be retreating from the subscription model it bet everything on.
Hugo Martin insists id Software is the same size it was during DOOM 2016. Former employees say that misses the point entirely.
Microsoft announced the classic skating remaster for Game Pass on July 21, then silently removed it from the schedule — music licensing is the likely culprit.
A court ordered Microsoft to restore a gamer's digital library after support told him to just rebuy his games. The ruling exposes how fragile digital ownership really is.
Xbox insists the maker of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein will keep making games, even as a wave of layoffs slashed the studio nearly in half.
136 developers have been laid off from id Software, including most of the id Tech engine team, leaving the future of DOOM and Wolfenstein deeply uncertain.
Palworld exits early access on July 10, joining a wave of over a dozen titles hitting Xbox Game Pass this month — but act fast, ten games leave on July 15.
Raphael Colantonio, who built Dishonored and Prey, posted a joking bid to buy back Arkane Lyon after Xbox confirmed it's looking for a buyer.
Undead Labs has been sold as part of Xbox's 3,200-job restructure, and the new owner gets to decide whether the zombie survival game lands on Game Pass at launch.
Microsoft's 3,200-job Xbox overhaul has landed heaviest on Bethesda studios, with DOOM maker id Software losing roughly 95 employees and the Elder Scrolls Online team cut by up to half.
