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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has described the ongoing restructuring of Xbox as “great to see,” even as another 268 positions are being eliminated across the gaming business. The latest cuts follow roughly 1,600 Xbox job reductions announced in July. Microsoft’s broader restructuring plan has targeted around 3,200 roles across fiscal 2027, although more recent reporting suggests the final number could end up below that

Obsidian Entertainment employees are reportedly unhappy about the studio being placed under Bethesda as part of Microsoft’s wider Xbox restructuring, with some staff concerned that the change could reduce the creative independence they previously enjoyed. The report claims employees at Obsidian had become accustomed to considerable freedom in choosing and developing projects. That has created anxiety about what the new organizational structure could mean

A new PlayStation 5 project called AnyPS5 is taking a different approach to running PS5 games on PCs by using a translation layer instead of traditional console emulation. The project is designed to convert PlayStation 5 executables into a form that Windows or Linux PCs can use, following a concept closer to Proton than to conventional emulators. AnyPS5 remains at a very early stage

New high resolution die photographs have provided a detailed look at Intel’s Panther Lake compute tile, offering a clear view of the structures inside the company’s latest Core Ultra Series 3 laptop processors. The images were captured from uncut processor wafers shown at Computex 2026, rather than by physically delidding or chemically stripping retail chips. That approach allowed the silicon structures to be photographed

Two Xbox games are set to lose online access across October and November 2026, with Rocket Racing shutting down completely and Call of Duty: Warzone ending support specifically on Xbox One. Rocket Racing, which is available inside Fortnite, will go offline on October 1, 2026. Once the servers close, the mode will no longer be playable in any form. Call of Duty: Warzone is

ASUS has opened preorders for the ROG Xbox Ally X20, its first gaming handheld with an OLED display, ahead of an October 15 launch in the United States. The handheld is priced at $1,299.99 and is available to preorder through ASUS and Best Buy. It builds on the existing ROG Xbox Ally X with a larger 7.4 inch OLED screen, new controls, and a

A custom fanless mini PC built with a solid 24 carat gold chassis has pushed the price of a compact desktop to roughly $1.7 million. The machine is a special version of the Kubb Fanless PC and measures about 120 x 120 x 120mm. Despite its compact dimensions, the use of solid gold increases its weight from around 2.1kg for the standard version to

A group of thieves reportedly targeted trailers marked with Nvidia branding in what appears to have been an attempt to steal valuable computing hardware, only to discover that the cargo was 40,000 pounds of ballast sand. The incident is notable because Nvidia hardware, particularly high end AI accelerators and flagship graphics products, can be worth enormous sums when shipped in volume. According to the

PlayStation 5 emulation on PC has reached another technical milestone, with a recent test showing six games running at a playable 60 FPS. According to the supplied report, developers tested 55 PS5 titles in total. Of those, 12 were able to run, while six reached a playable 60 FPS. The progress is linked to continued work on shader translation and Vulkan support, two areas

Flock is seeking to have a security researcher’s map of its camera network taken down after an unauthenticated flaw reportedly exposed the locations of 335,701 cameras across the United States. The issue is particularly sensitive because the exposed location data could reveal where large numbers of license plate readers are installed. According to the supplied report, that information could potentially be used to identify