Matthew

[Matthew @MattMan278]

Oh btw, shadows of evil is the best zombies map

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

PLAY NOW: https://t.co/iIs2UKdPLc

The wait is over.

🚇 5 BOROUGHS is live.

The city is yours… if you can win it.

#5BOROUGHS #newyorkcity #mayor #city

[CharlieIntel @charlieINTEL]

BREAKING: Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 ports for PS4 and PS5 are AVAILABLE NOW

• $40 each game
• PS4 & PS5 versions
• No updates to the core games

PlayStation Plus subscribers can get each game for $20 for limited time

[Treyarch @Treyarch]

They're here. 🫡

The original Black Ops and Black Ops II are now available on PS4 and PS5, ported by @IronGalaxy.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Leaving out the Italian, Jewish, and Irish enclaves in NYC is like leaving out Mexican and Persian enclaves in LA.

It’s not an “oopsie!” This is deliberate subversion. The communist must erase your history so he can demolish your home and make it his own.

[ASHA @asha_shar]

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX:

Team,

We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.

I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.

First, we will reset our content portfolio.

Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.

Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.

We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.

In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.

Second, we will reset our platform.

We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.

We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.

Third, we are resetting how we operate.

As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.

For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.

Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best.

These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.

History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them.

Asha

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

Your pub's flag isn't on the moon

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

🚇 The campaign begins now.

We took one extra day to make sure your first campaign was worth the wait.

If you played the demo or got an early sneak peek, you’re about to discover just how much has changed.

Win endorsements.
Survive scandals.
Earn every vote.

5 BOROUGHS is officially live.

Will the city be yours?

➡️‼️ OUT NOW: https://t.co/FCVYmPvPnb

#5boroughs #nyc #gametime #newyorkcity #mayor

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

🚇 SERVICE UPDATE

Good games take time.

Great games take one more stop.

Over the past few weeks we’ve continued adding, refining, balancing, and polishing 5 BOROUGHS because we believe the first experience matters.

If you played the demo or got an early sneak peek…

You’re about to see a very different game.

The extra time has made a huge difference, and we can’t wait for you to experience everything that’s changed.

Thank you for sticking with us and riding this journey from the very beginning.

🚉 Next stop: Sunday, July 5.

See you at City Hall.

#5Boroughs #IndieGame #GameDev #NYC #SimulationGames

[Vicer Exciser @VExciser]

@KCXKami

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services.

Understand where we are.

[Jerm 🇭🇹🇵🇸 @RevolverJerm]

Sony is currently charging $70 for God of War Ragnarok digitally. It is $32 at Wal-Mart. The game is 4 years old.

People will no longer have options after 2028 and will HAVE to go directly to Sony’s digital storefront and pay whatever PlayStation says.

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

BROOKLYN BRIDGE–CITY HALL

You’ve followed the route.

Now it’s time to begin the campaign.

5 BOROUGHS is a political strategy game where every decision shapes your path to City Hall.

Build coalitions.

Win endorsements.

Survive debates.

Earn every vote.

🚇 Current Station: Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall

🎟️Arrival: July 4th

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

PlayStation is currently facing multiple lawsuits alleging the PlayStation Store operates as an illegal monopoly

(via @Chris_Dring)

[Seal Examines Games @TheTrueSealYT]

@PlayStation Then stop selling digital games for the same price as physical ones too. You're removing the printing, box, and shipping prices from the equation completely so I shouldn't be paying $70 for digital games anymore.

[Hüseyin Karakurt @vekilkarakurt]

80 yıl boyunca her yıl 120 gün ve günde 24 saat 12.000 btu bir klimayı çalıştırırsanız ömrünüz boyunca doğaya yaptığınız co2 salınımı 100 ton olacaktır.

bir süperyat haftada 109 ton
bir özel jet yılda 810 ton
co2 salınımı yapar.

yani ömrünüz boyunca yazları terleyerek geçirirken bir milyardar sadece bir haftada sizin ömrünüz boyunca kaçındığınız zararı doğaya verebiliyor.

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

Union Square.

Every movement starts with an idea.

What if running for Mayor of New York was a strategy game?

Built by a former political operative and data scientist.

The journey continues…

🚇 Next Stop: Times Square

🎟️ Arrival: July 4th

#nyc #5boroughs #july4th #major #city #comingsoon #game #NYC

[El Jefe @ChaseEnCashe]

This lawsuit is gonna have dawg making the same kind of money that Manny Machado makes

[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

If you come from the future you can apply

[scryo @scryocat]

just pack a punched my fucking cat

[5 BOROUGHS @5_boroughs_game]

Every campaign starts somewhere.

Before the speeches.

Before the debates.

Before the endorsements.

Before City Hall…

…there’s just one person walking into the station, wondering if they have what it takes.

🚇 Next stop: Grand Central.

🎟️ Arrival: July 4th

#NYC #Mayor #Comingsoon #July4th #5BOROUGHS #Newyork #City #Boroughs