Redmond is in full-blown crisis mode, trying to spin a devastating wave of studio closures and layoffs as a strategic pivot. But the damage control doesn’t stop there. Studio heads are telling employees to shut up about layoffs.
Microsoft is complaining about RAM prices for Xbox when its own AI datacenters are the reason for the memory shortages.
Of course we can’t just have a party about Microsoft and not invite Sony and Valve. So we have stuff about them, too.
I show off Dollar Tree headphones. Is it worth the budget price?
Also some news about the future of the channel.
Here are the news articles referenced in this podcast:
Sony
- Gamers fed up with sony’s terrible playstation decision making
- PS5 emulator
- Sony patent hints at a possible cooling change for the PS6
- PlayStation 5 update quietly adds a new feature
- Sony killing physical media started an arms race for PS5 emulators—and one just achieved a major breakthrough
- Sony delays PS5 FlexStrike fight stick indefinitely before launch
Valve
- Valve adds Steam Machine ratings as it fixes warning bug
- Steam deck tips to boost slow downloads
- Valve to fix flase red overheating alerts
Valve to fix Steam Machine’s false red overheating alerts
- Steam and major publishers roll out mid-July game wave
- Enthusiast reverse-engineers Steam Controller, creates DIY OpenPuck that works without Steam Input
- OpenPuck firmware lets Steam Controller work across consoles
Other tech news
- Star Wars jedi 3 teasuer surfaces
- MSI afterburner update
- Tuning your gpu with linux
- Lenovo’s SSD swap raises performance and transparency concerns
- Disney’s Moana live-action remake officially sets all-time Rotten Tomatoes audience score record
- Qinux BittOne
- The RTX 3060 is back at its 2021 price, and somehow it’s a better deal than Nvidia’s newest budget GPU
- I gave Claude Fable 5 my CPU sensor logs to explain random throttling, and it pointed at a setting I hadn’t checked
- Asus confirms standalone OLED ROG Xbox Ally X20 release
Microsoft Layoffs
- Compulsion games is looking for work after going independent f4rom xbox bloodbath
- Bethesda HR made staff take down memorial for laid-off coworkers
- Obsidian director slame people for running their mouths
- ‘You’ll never get another World of Warcraft or Morrowind,’ id Software producer says amid layoffs
- Xbox
- How long do owners say Xbox consoles typically last?
- ‘Halo: Campaign Evolved’ has officially gone gold, says Xbox—what does this mean?
- Brazilian xbox player wins lawsuit agianst microsoft over deleted digital games library
- Xbox cancels Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 Game Pass release
- Xbox reportedly testing disc-to-digital conversion system amid PlayStation controversy
Windows