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Gaming

the Xbox outage stopped physical discs from working — and quietly proved you don't really own your games

A 16-hour outage of a licensing service blocked sign-ins and game launches across three Xbox generations. The uncomfortable part: even physical disc games refused to start. Here's what happened and why.

Diego Santos · Jul 30 · 9 min

Gaming

Xbox is quietly becoming a publisher that happens to sell a console. I don't think that's the mistake everyone says it is

3,200 jobs cut, four studios let go, Halo shipping on PlayStation, and a 2027 super-console still being funded. everyone's reading that as collapse. I've been staring at it for a week and I think it's a deliberate — and defensible — bet.

Diego Santos · Jul 20 · 9 min

Gaming

for the first time in 25 years, Master Chief is on a PlayStation. Halo's exclusivity era is over

a ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign that sold the original Xbox, launching July 28 on PlayStation 5 the same day it hits Xbox. I've been trying to work out whether that's a triumph or a surrender, and I've landed somewhere annoying.

Diego Santos · Jul 20 · 8 min