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  1. IGN22

    The 18 Best Prime Big Deal Days Gaming Deals — Hand-Picked by Our Deals Experts

    Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is live from October 6-7, offering Prime members discounts on games, accessories, and storage across PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox, and PC. Star Wars: Zero Company drops to $47.99 and The Blood of Dawnwalker to $59.49, both first-time discounts, while Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hits $16.99 on PS5. The Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle saves $37.97, and Best Buy lists a Gears of War E-Day Xbox Series X bundle at $819.97.

  10. Reddit · Gaming Leaks and Rumours48

    New Xbox Elite controller appears in Xbox Design Lab backend: Hall-effect/TMR sticks, advanced haptics, audio scroll wheel and new paddle designs

    Configuration records and 16 3D component models for a new Xbox Elite controller, codenamed Edessa and linked to an accessory product called Beatrice, have appeared in the Xbox Design Lab backend. The listings point to Hall-effect and TMR stick module options, "Impulse Triggers (ERMs) & Advanced Haptics (VCAs) Motors," a dedicated audio scroll wheel color setting, and standard, classic and doublewide paddle designs. Beatrice has 27 mapped topper/paddle configurations, and the Elite Complete SKU package adds a case and charging dock.

  11. PC Gamer66

    Industry layoff watch: Supermassive, Ninja Theory, The Coalition, and a warning from Warhorse

    PC Gamer rounds up the latest layoffs and studio closures in the games industry. Supermassive Games completed layoffs affecting more than 70 employees after announcing up to 75 roles at risk three months after Directive 8020's release, while Microsoft is moving toward closing Ninja Theory after two failed divestment attempts. Multiple sources at The Coalition told Eurogamer that staff fear cuts around Gears of War: E-Day's launch, and Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima predicted in a September PC Gamer interview that cost pressure could push studios to cheaper regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, China, India, or East Asia.

  13. IGN25

    Best Buy Techtober Sale: Preowned Asus ROG Xbox Ally X From $789.99

    During Best Buy's Techtober Sale, preowned Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds are available from $789.99, down from the $1,000 retail price. The Geek Squad verified units are graded "Fair" at $789.99, "Good" at $819.99, and "Excellent" at $849.99, and include a 15-day return policy. The handheld packs an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a 1TB SSD, running Windows with Xbox integration.

  14. Kotaku22

    Gears of War: E-Day's New Floating Ballsack Enemy Keeps Kicking My Ass

    Gears of War: E-Day is out now on Xbox and PC, a prequel to the original trilogy set during the early days of Emergence Day with a 12-15 hour campaign. The new floating enemy known as spore maidens, nicknamed floating ballsacks, takes 200+ lancer bullets to down on standard difficulty and spits out needle-shooting spores. The author finds them frustratingly tanky and wonders why they never appear in later Gears games.

  15. Pure Xbox22

    Five Months Later, Xbox Player Voice Feels Stuck Between Useful and Cluttered

    Five months after Xbox launched Xbox Player Voice as a feedback portal, Microsoft has implemented several player suggestions, including the return of console exclusives, Mythic Achievements, Achievements for Original Xbox games, voice chat recording in clips, and switching playtime from days to hours. However, Microsoft has only posted a few official responses, and the top requests on the portal all date from its first couple of weeks, making it nearly impossible for new suggestions to reach the front page.

  16. Eurogamer24

    Halo Studios says "it is absolutely our intent" to release new Halo book, despite layoffs and a rumored lore reboot from Activision

    Halo Studios writer Alex Wakeford said it is "absolutely our intent" to finish Troy Denning's Halo: Fireteam Noble and Kenneth Peters' Halo: Burn the Road Home novella, despite mass layoffs and the series moving under Activision's supervision. Fireteam Noble was previously set to release next year and takes place after Halo 5's story, while a pre-layoff blog post said Burn the Road Home is "dropping out of slipspace next year."

  17. IGN44

    Hideo Kojima Shares New Physint Details: Casting, Story, and Development on His Metal Gear Spiritual Successor

    Hideo Kojima revealed on his revived Koji10 podcast that Physint, his next-generation action-espionage game and Metal Gear Solid spiritual successor, already has its plot finished and all its actors pitched by Kojima himself, about 70% of whom are Kojima fans. Filming starts next year, with Bill Skarsgard, Charlie Fraser and Minami Hamabe already scanned. Kojima's other Microsoft game, the PT spiritual successor OD, is expected to release before Physint, which he said last year was 5-6 years away.

  18. GameSpot42

    New Gears of War: E-Day Patch Addresses Giant Vomiting Frog Error Codes

    Gears of War: E-Day launches worldwide on October 6, and The Coalition has released the game's first patch focused on stability and performance across campaign, multiplayer, and Horde Siege modes. The update fixes the "Bilefrog-Kalona" error, a split-screen multiplayer issue triggered when a player is signed out after suspending their console or PC and then uses Quick Resume. It also addresses Versus Social matches stuck in a waiting lobby, certain Siege Blitz Secure objectives that couldn't be completed, and several issues in Act 2 of the campaign.

  19. GamesIndustry.biz71

    Ninja Theory has begun layoffs, according to employee posts

    Ninja Theory has begun laying off employees, according to posts from affected staff on LinkedIn. Xbox said on September 22 that it was proposing to close the studio and start a consultation process after two separate agreements to sell it fell through. IGN reports that gameplay programmer Katrin Mair, who spent four years at the studio, said she was sad not to finish what the team was working on, while technical director Loong-Wei Ding and performance capture specialist Xoe Suvari are also listed among those affected and technical sound designer Alessio Mellina is at risk of redundancy; the number of staff affected is unclear. Ninja Theory was working on Senua, the third Hellblade game announced at Xbox's June showcase.

  20. Xbox Wire42

    How The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival Builds a Tactical Brawler

    The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival is available now on Xbox Series X|S and PC with XPA support and shared saves for $19.99. Rick, Daryl and Michonne each have a signature weapon, separate animations and their own skill tree, and after the credits players can replay levels with any character including unlockable Negan. Higher difficulties are not damage multipliers but turn chaotic encounters into tactical puzzles where positioning keeps you alive.

  21. IGN42

    Gears of War: E-Day Runs Smoothly on Xbox Series S By Using SSD as RAM

    The Coalition tapped into the Xbox Series S SSD to boost performance in Gears of War: E-Day when the console ran out of memory, studio technical director Kate Raynor told Digital Foundry. The Series S has only 10GB of RAM versus 16GB on the Series X, so the team offloaded data not used in a frame or over a run of frames to the SSD while keeping constantly needed data in RAM, and also dropped Lumen reflections. Gears of War: E-Day launched into early access last week.

  22. Game Developer66

    Report: Ninja Theory lays off workers after failing to spin off from Xbox

    Ninja Theory is reportedly laying off workers after Xbox leadership could not find a way to keep the studio running, either under Xbox or separately, according to a LinkedIn post from a developer there cited by VGC. The studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 as a first-party Xbox Game Studios developer for $117 million, per FTC filings. In July, Xbox announced 3,200 job cuts and named Ninja Theory and Undead Labs as studios to be spun off; Undead Labs completed its divestiture, while Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty said last month that efforts to find a buyer for Ninja Theory fell through. Game Developer has reached out to Xbox for comment.

  24. Xbox8

    Xbox FanFest Seattle Green Ticket Giveaway

    Next objective: enter the Green Ticket giveaway. You have the chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to #XBOXFanFest Seattle for you & a friend: https://xbx.lv/4B4EDn4 18+. No purchase necessary. Ends 10/11/26. Void where prohibited. Rules: https://xbx.lv/4APKz2Y

  25. Xbox Wire12

    Hello from Seattle: XBOX FanFest Comes Home November 12

    XBOX FanFest will be held at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle on Thursday, November 12, 2026, as the final stop of this year's eight-city FanFest Tour. The event coincides with the celebration of 25 years of XBOX on November 15, and will feature hands-on gameplay, XBOX history and artifacts, chances to meet the people behind the games, trivia, collectibles, fan activities, and an XBOX Gear pop-up shop. XBOX is also running the FanFest Seattle Ticket Sweepstakes and the Green Ticket Trip Sweepstakes, both ending October 11, 2026, for eligible U.S. residents 18 and older.

  26. Pure Xbox22

    Lots of New Games Are Charting Surprisingly High on Xbox to Begin October

    Several new games are charting surprisingly high on Xbox's "Top Paid" charts to begin October, including Halloween: The Game at #6, Valheim at #10, Active Matter at #12 and Samson - A Tyndalston Story at #17. NASCAR 26 sits at #38 and Gladio Mori at #45. Xbox updates its charts slowly, so the data should be taken with a pinch of salt, but the high placements suggest strong launch sales.

  27. Pure Xbox48

    Gears of War: E-Day Multiplayer Preview: Horde Siege and Versus Make Me Feel Like a Kid Again

    Gears of War: E-Day entered Premium Advanced Access last week, giving the author hands-on time with the final builds of Versus and Horde Siege. Versus launches with four modes, including Conquest, where teams claim zones to reach four points, and Demolition, built around planting and defusing a bomb. The 12-player Horde Siege adds a mod system for weapon-altering attachments, and the author says playing as Marksman with the Longshot has fully converted them to the mode.

  30. GameSpot40

    How Bill Skarsgard Became The Face Of Hideo Kojima's Physint

    Bill Skarsgard will play the lead role in Hideo Kojima's Physint, a role he landed after Death Stranding 2: On the Beach composer Woodkid introduced the two. Kojima traveled to Sweden to meet Skarsgard, a Metal Gear fan who accepted the part, and says the actor's scan is already complete while he eagerly awaits the script. Kojima also cited Skarsgard's on-screen chemistry with co-star Charlee Fraser as a key factor in the casting.

  32. VGC47

    The Coalition used the Xbox Series S SSD as makeshift RAM to help Gears of War: E-Day run smoothly

    Gears of War: E-Day studio The Coalition has revealed it used the Xbox Series S's internal SSD as makeshift RAM to get the game running smoothly on the 10 GB RAM console. Technical director Kate Rayner said a couple of gigabytes of SSD storage can add around a gigabyte of usable system memory, with only Lumens-based reflections removed to maintain 60 frames per second. Other game teams are already interested in replicating the technique.

Oct 5Mon
  1. Push Square71

    Microsoft's proposed Ninja Theory closure moves into layoffs

    VGC and journalist Chris Kerr report that layoffs have begun at Ninja Theory as Microsoft moves forward with a proposed closure. Microsoft said last month, in its second wave of job cuts, that it could not find a path forward for the studio and had started a consultation process with employees. Gameplay programmer Katrin Mair said it is sad not to finish what the team was working on, four months after the studio revealed its new game Senua at the Xbox Showcase.

  2. Kotaku80

    Ninja Theory begins redundancy process after two rescue deals fall through

    Hellblade developer Ninja Theory has started letting employees go after two deals to save the studio fell through, with multiple former staff posting on LinkedIn about redundancy risk or seeking new roles. Xbox announced last month that the two deals had failed and the studio would enter the UK consultation process ahead of mass layoffs and a presumed shutdown. Xbox's restructuring is expected to cut about 3,200 jobs over a year, with Double Fine, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games and Arkane Lyon also separating from Xbox.

    Same story, shown on the selected item Hellblade studio Ninja Theory has started laying off staff after Xbox said it faces closure

  3. Rock Paper Shotgun71

    Ninja Theory developers say redundancy process appears to have begun, with a Senua game left unfinished

    After Microsoft previously revealed that Hellblade maker Ninja Theory faced closure and that two deals to buy the studio following its split from Xbox had fallen through, the studio appears to be telling staff they are at risk of being let go. Several developers posted on LinkedIn that their roles are at risk of redundancy or that they are looking for new opportunities, including technical sound designer Alessio Mellina, performance capture tech Xoe Suvari and gameplay programmer Katrin Mair. Mair said the Senua game the studio had in the works will not be finished, though its fate has yet to be formally confirmed.

  4. IGN71

    Layoffs Begin at Ninja Theory as Staff Bid Farewell and Say They Won't Finish Their Project

    After Xbox announced last month its intention to close Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, staff have begun posting farewells on LinkedIn. Gameplay programmer Katrin Mair said the saddest part is not getting to finish what they were working on, while technical director Loong-Wei Ding, technical sound designer Alessio Mellina and performance capture expert Xoe Suvari are also affected. Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty said the changes bring the planned restructures three quarters of the way through, suggesting more job losses in the coming months.

  5. Pure Xbox74

    Multiple Ninja Theory employees announce departures as Senua faces cancellation risk

    After Xbox said in late September that Ninja Theory could be closed and that it would begin consultation with employees on a proposed closure, multiple team members have now announced they have left or are at risk of leaving, with VGC listing names including technical sound designer Alessio Mellina, gameplay programmer Katrin Mair, technical director Loong-Wei Ding and principal sound designer Daniele Galante. Ninja Theory's most recent project, Senua, was announced in June with a 2027 release window, and its cancellation is looking increasingly likely.

  6. Eurogamer71

    Ninja Theory developers say they face redundancy as studio heads toward closure in Xbox restructuring

    After a second wave of Xbox cuts last week, Ninja Theory's consultation process appears to have resulted in layoffs, with multiple employees saying on LinkedIn that their positions are at risk. Xbox announced a business "reset" in July with 3,200 planned job cuts and several studio cuts, and its attempt to transfer Ninja Theory's ownership to another company failed after two sale-related agreements fell through, according to a letter from Xbox COO Matt Booty. Booty said Xbox would continue to explore other paths forward, while staff including principal sound designer Daniele Galante and principal programmer Stefano Prosperi, who spent 13 years at the studio, posted about the situation.