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Indie devs. Play the free demo "MR DONALD” now on Steam. We came to save gamedev. Contact: [email protected]

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@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump - VALVE is canceling our game "MR DONALD" on Steam, right after we took the 2nd place at NORDIC GAME People's Choice Awards

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A little bit of content from Nordic Game 2026

We were genuinely happy to meet so many people there who already knew MR DONALD.

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If anyone from @Xbox got hit by the layoffs and actually likes our game MR DONALD..

please dm us — we are hiring

[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

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we need to make gamedev great again

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This should not be possible @Steam

Would be cool if you could finally do something about your refund policy... Got dozens of reviews like that and 21% refund rate even though the Reviews are 90% very positive...

Thats over 55,000 Refunds btw...

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> make a satire game about a president
> 9k overwhelmingly positive reviews on steam later
> censored

We will do everything to ensure players can once again try the old, uncensored version of "MR DONALD"

[james @jamesy_pamesy]

@scott_sleepy @RSKTEAMGG i played the version before it was censored is PEAK

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> this video got 136,518 thousand views on youtube

ignore elon musk on the back pls

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average cutscene in our game btw

[DFF @DumbFxckFinder]

Happy 250 America 🔫🇺🇸

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> should we drop our official merch for MR DONALD?

gng, what do you think

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We need help @Asmongold liked our game

> and we want to give him access to the uncensored version of MR DONALD

X, do your thing. Indie devs trust you

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> this video got us 217,084 views on youtube

guess why

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How we got 160,000 wishlists for MR DONALD or simple guide for indie developers

> TikTok and YouTube shorts: up to 5 vids per day
> сollect feedback from demo (google forms)
> optimize your steam page (once a week)
> сreate a patch post for every update
> use Steam Next Fest only when you already have at least 10k wishlists
> usefull tools: steamdb, vginsights, sullygnome

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This trailer was REMOVED from Steam

- you can deport liberals
- satirical boomer shooter
- fight the AAA devs and make games great again

It's called MR DONALD, сheck the pinned post to see why the game was censored

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this trailer was REMOVED from Steam

> this is what the game's original concept looked like before censorship
> we are working with lawyers to bring the content back to the MR DONALD

сheck the pinned post to see why the game was censored

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this is a real update btw

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@FullHOLI2000

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> this video got 4,960,268 million views on youtube

guess why

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Eagles. Happy 250th birthday, United States! 🇺🇸

We, RSK TEAM, are proud to celebrate this historic milestone with you.

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> this video got 95,247 views on tiktok just in 24 hours

games are so back