LulzSec may have caught the media’s eye as it turfed through Sony’s underwear drawer, but it is an atypical hacking outfit. Hacking isn’t just the purview of mischievous lone wolves or tech-literate politicised malcontents, it’s big business. It’s organised, corporate and run out of countries such as China and Russia, where there are few means of legal recourse. And hackers are going after the players of games like MapleStory, a pirate from which is pictured above.
Its creator eliminated components that were not essential to speed up its development, such as the Bluetooth of the controls.
LLC: "With an art style that could have been straight from the worlds of Mike Mignola, The Séance of Blake Manor is a game that I fell hook, line and sinker for."
The previously rumored mass layoffs at Xbox are expected to happen on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, according to a new rumor.
They will have fired close to 20,000 people all up after this round of lay-offs coming, since the ABK deal announcement in January 2022. Shocking really
January 2023:
Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees, which was a significant workforce reduction.
January 2024:
Approximately 1,900 gaming employees were laid off following the Activision Blizzard acquisition.
May 2025:
Microsoft announced a further 6,000 layoffs as part of an organizational shift.
June 2025:
Additional layoffs, including 650 in the gaming business, focused on corporate and support functions
Let's hope its not as bad as socials are making it, good luck to those that unfortunately lose their jobs.
Could be not as bad could be horrible. But it's Ms so I'm expecting the absolute worst.
Sometimes I feel like they brought in Sarah to take the heat away from Phil.
Phil has always stuck his nose into everything Xbox related when it's something positive or at least neutral but as soon as they went the multiplatform root he's stood back and let Sarah do most of the talking in terms of PR. Now they are doing the same with layoffs.
The person who should be let go is Phil himself.