When it comes to console gaming, there are two companies in the world that stand above the rest of the market: PlayStation and Xbox. Both consoles have been around for years, and each has seen several ...

Nine days after Ninja Theory appeared on stage at the Xbox Games Showcase to announce Senua, the third entry in the Hellblade franchise, the Cambridge studio's employees were called to a meeting ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Compulsion Games will reportedly shut down as Microsoft adjusts the Xbox business, and othet studios may be affected including Double Fine and even Ninja ...

Several studios in Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox gaming division, including Montreal-based Compulsion Games and San Francisco-based Double Fine, are in active negotiations to spin off as they try to thwart ...

Microsoft is planning to close Compulsion Games, the Montreal studio behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few, according to a report published Monday by Kotaku and independently confirmed by Insider ...

Compulsion Games is reportedly being shut down. Compulsion Games is reportedly being shut down. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly ...

Xbox Game Studios looks set to find its third leader in the space of two years amid reports that Microsoft's gaming division is preparing another major round of layoffs. The current Xbox Game Studios ...

The situation at Xbox somehow keeps getting more grim. Following a report earlier today indicating Microsoft is considering shutting down Compulsion Games, the studio behind the award-winningSouth of ...

Jake Valentine is a Contributor at DualShockers with more than two decades of experience covering the video game industry. Since 2004, he has written about games across news, reviews, guides, lists, ...

Xbox will likely undergo studio shutdowns and consider ad-supported subscription models following newly-installed CEO Asha Sharma's blunt warning that a corporate "reset" was now necessary, gaming ...

The big talk of the weeklong event held in downtown Los Angeles was the much-anticipated release of “Grand Theft Auto 6” in November, from Take-Two Interactive. As Maas explains, everyone else in the ...

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