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Xbox: The State of Every First-Party Developer - Summer 2025 Update

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2025 has not been the best year for Xbox. Microsoft’s recent massive company-wide layoff impacted up to 9,000 employees, nearly half of whom worked at Xbox. Multiple games were cancelled, “AAAA” studio The Initiative was shut down, and countless talented staff lost.It’s a strange and uneasy contrast, then, to see that Xbox has actually had a pretty good year when it comes to games. Its biggest first-party releases so far this year have been Obsi…

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The beginning of the week started as a fanfare for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, who learned of the arrival in shadow drop of Descenders Next. English publisher No More Robots is already satisfied with this new collaboration with Microsoft's on-demand gaming service by accounting for more than 100,000 players on this title that follows the friendly Descenders. And this is obviously far from being finished since it is already two new titles that ha…

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Pure Xbox broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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