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Today marks 25 years since the launch of the original Xbox. CEO Asha Sharma marked the occasion with a new blog post looking back at the legacy of gaming at Microsoft and teasing what the future might hold for some of the biggest challenges big-budget game development now faces. Sharma never says the words “artificial intelligence,” but it’s hard to imagine what else she could be gesturing at.
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In honor of the console’s 25th anniversary, and to give people something to do in the midst of the current Outlook outage (and to potentially take the heat off Asha Sharma’s memo that seemingly pushes for genAI in development without mentioning genAI), Xbox has released another 21 games for its PC backward-compatibility project. These new titles join the four games already released back in July, bringing the grand total of OG Xbox games on PC to 25. 25 years of Xbox, 25 games.
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Oh, and a not-so-subtle hint that either the Hermit or the Watcher will be the next new characters
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Say goodbye to two-factor authentication, and perhaps remove your credit card info
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There's no official word on a release date, but 2027 is looking very likely
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Skydance owning the IP of both Warner Bros. and Paramount opens the door to them possibly doing crossover films one day, a future where $300 million glorified fan fic films could be the next big thing.
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Kevin Feige has confirmed that Doctor Doom is not a variant of Tony Stark in Avengers: Doomsday.
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At Xbox's 25th anniversary celebration at its Fan Fest event in Seattle, id Software confirmed that it is working on a new game, wrapping up last year's Doom: The Dark Ages with the release of the upcoming Slaughter Mode on November 16.
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Producer Hidemaro Fujibayashi explained why the development team behind the Ocarina of Time Remake toned down the ReDeads to make them less scary.
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Rockstar has released yet another in-game clip from GTA 6, and like yesterday's footage, fans can't quite believe it's real.
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Four minutes of new Fable gameplay has been released by Xbox, showing off more of the game's combat.
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After 33 years, Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia, following a scandal involving a suspected Chinese spy. And while this has all kinds of implications for the economy as a whole, in our own little world of PC gaming, it's looking increasingly unlikely that GeForce is going to get much attention going forward, now that CFO Colette Kress has stepped up as interim CEO.