Vignesh Raghuram

XBOX will cut roughly 3,200 jobs, about 20% of its workforce, through FY27, with 1,600 roles eliminated immediately Double Fine and Compulsion become independent studios with their IP; Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold, and Arkane will be divested pending consultation under French law Helen Chiang becomes XBOX's first chief operating officer, with Mojang and King now reporting directly to CEO Asha Sharma XBOX will cut approximately 3,200 jobs and part ways with five of its studios,...

On July 4, inside the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, a chess final will play out a few steps from a Valorant showmatch, a Mobile Legends exhibition, a cosplay floor, rows of gaming stations and a live music stage. It is a lot to stage in one building on one day, and that is the idea. Two days later, several thousand kilometres away, the Esports World Cup opens in Paris, and JioBLAST has designed the distance between those two dates to mean something.

BGMI's 4.4 Heroes Crown update sends only the top four teams to a floating-island finale, a structure built to reward early aggression and punish passive play. Krafton increasingly leans on its own players for content and reach, with around 30,000 user-made maps, fan-designed cosmetics, and a creator network it puts at roughly 1,400 partners. The game keeps adding brand and anime tie-ins for a base Krafton numbers at 260 million, while holding one line: no pay-to-win, and the core untouched.