Category: Microsoft Games

How To Unlock Pro Goals In Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4

July 11, 2025

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 has a lot of goals to complete across its many levels, whether it’s collecting the S-K-A-T-E letters, saving guy’s from a shark, or releasing a prisoner from Alcatraz. But did you know there are also Pro Goals to complete as well? And even some Platinum […]

Multiple Fallout Games Are In Developement, Including “The One You’re All Wanting”

The Fallout series has been weirdly quiet with the last mainline entry being a decade or so ago, which is odd because you’d think Microsoft would have fast-tracked something Fallout related to go with the hugely successful Amazon show of the same name. But there is at least some news […]

Romero Games Denies Closure, Seeks New Publishing Partners

Just last week, Romero Games, founded by DOOM co-creator John Romero and his wife Brenda Romero, was in serious trouble following its publisher pulling funding. Staff members were laid off, and the game the team was developing was cancelled. The future of the studio was left in doubt, and since […]

Former Employee Claims Turn 10 Is Now A Forza Horizon Support Team

A few days ago, we learned that Microsoft had gutted one of its longest-running studios, laying off roughly 50% of Turn 10, the stewards of Forza Motorsport. The writing was already on the wall, but now a former employee is alleging what we feared: Forza Motorsport is no more. That’s […]

Layoffs at Zenimax: The Shocking End of Blackbird, The Game So Good Phil Spencer Couldn’t Stop Playing

During yesterday’s bloodbath, it was revealed that multiple people at Zenimax Online Studios had been laid off, and that the company’s unannounced game, codenamed Blackbird internally, had been cancelled. Now, we know Blackbird was a sci-fi looter shooter, and just a few months ago had “blown away” both Phil Spencer […]

Helldivers 2 Announced For Xbox, As Hell Probably Freezes Over

Well, this wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025: Helldivers 2, a game developed by Arrowhead and published by Sony, is officially coming to Xbox Series X/S on August 26th. That’s right—Sony is bringing one of its own live-service hits to Microsoft’s console. It feels surreal, like catching Kratos with […]

Zenimax Online Studios Unannounced Project Blackbird Reportedly Cancelled

As news of Xbox’s latest round of layoffs continues to trickle, it seems that Zenimax Online Studios planned MMORPG has been cancelled. Internally referred to as Project Blackbird, the project was never formally revealed to the public but has reportedly been in development since 2018 and was going to be […]

The Initiative Has Been Closed, Project Dark Cancelled

After 7 years, Xbox studio The Initiative has been shut down without releasing a single game. As part of the closure, the game they were working on, a reboot of classic franchise Perfect Dark, has been cancelled. Jez Corden of Windows Central shared the news as part of ongoing coverage […]

The Next Round Of Layoffs Have Begun At Xbox

As was reported as far back as last month, and reiterated just a week ago, Microsoft has begun its latest culling and if the reports are accurate layoffs could be substantial, including entire studios potentially being in danger. I’ll update this article where and when I can as news continues […]

Halo Studios Will Show “”what they’re working on” This October

Halo Studios have directly commented on the recent report from Rebs Gaming, a very reliable source of all things Halo, that a big Halo announcement is coming this year, with the reveal being due “Over the past few weeks, there’s been a fair amount of speculation about when and where more details might emerge about any of the multiple projects Halo Studios is actively […]