Behind D. Deck

God with a human complex. RIP Dienda❤️🕊

[Behind D. Deck @danknad_]

@decksmusic @goodbeanaltalt

[Behind D. Deck @danknad_]

@secksmusic

[Ballsack Sports @BallsackSports]

Love you, Dad. I’m tired. I have work in the morning. I’ve learned in the past 6 months especially that everything you do matters. So do it with love. Every smile, every laugh, conversation…

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

Love, empathy. They’ve rippled through humanity forever. They’re why we’re here.

They are the most powerful tools we have.

Choose love and empathy. Water the ground where you walk. Watch what blossoms.

The answer to it all has always been right in front of us, but we dismiss it as childish, the pain from a bitter world bearing down on us.

Just go out and do something kind for someone tomorrow. That’s it.

[Smartly Dressed Games @SDGCentral]

If you love something, set it free: Unturned's Source Code Released!

https://t.co/LjrLi5f78i

#unturned

[Casey Evans @Casey_Evans_]

‘What a win for England’

Jordan Henderson (unused substitute):

[Liam Fennessy @LiamFennessy_]

Mexico’s strategy in the last 30 minutes for some reason

[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

[On God News @OnGodNews_]

🚨BREAKING🚨

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[⟲ @unotfbg]

console wars ending with both sides committing suicide

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Cooper Tomlinson describes Curry Barker's next film ‘ANYTHING BUT GHOSTS’ as “if Key and Peele walked into ‘Hereditary’”

The film follows 2 con artists whose fake ghost hunting business spirals after encountering a real dark entity.

(Source: https://t.co/tlqugUDOOi)

[Game Hunter @imgamehunter]

Guns of Eschaton is a soulslike FPS set in an occult Wild West and it looks INCREDIBLE

🔹World created by the late Viktor Antonov (Half-Life 2, Dishonored)

🔹Learn tricks from legendary gunslingers and iconic figures of the Wild West era

🔹Wield an arsenal of more than 20 weapons built around the feel, limitations, and brutality of 19th-century firearms

🔹Every weapon has a character of its own—and if you fail to master it, some weapons may kill you

🔹Active and passive abilities, custom bullets, talismans, armor, consumables, and the powers of three sacramental paths

🔹Use a hand-drawn Cherokee Codex to study enemy behavior, weak points, anatomy, rituals, and hidden rules.

🔹Full solo and co-op progression gameplay

🔹PvP that let's you become a threat to others, making their road to salvation more difficult

Coming to Steam, PS5, and Xbox

[IO Interactive @IOInteractive]

Dear gaming community,

For a good while, it has been all positive news from IO Interactive. We remain humbled and honored by the response to our latest outing with a young, unproven Bond. A bold new story and a take on one of the most famous characters in entertainment, which the world has embraced with love.

However, today we have to share some more downbeat news. A relationship with an external partner on our own IP, Project Fantasy, has come to an end. This means we have to adapt to this new reality and its short-term consequences, including staffing decisions, which is what is happening as we write this update, and we are fully committed to supporting those affected through this challenging transition.

Project Fantasy is a game, a world, and an IP that we absolutely love and remain 100% committed to, now and in the future. This wonderful universe will see the light of day.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

Brutal

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya jokingly pitched an idea for a cozy game starring Leon Kennedy

It would follow him as he "goes fishing in the countryside" and "invites old buddies over for a barbecue"

[Mark Duplass @MarkDuplass]

I had to look up yaoi

[SugarRatio @SugarRatio]

BRO

[JayO D. Sama @LikelyTarnished]

Official word from Unc. It’s over.

[Dyan - Playing CS3 @not_rly_human_x]

Is this not the beauty of minecraft

[NilahMeow 🌸 @NilahMeow]

The average killer main experience during the dbd 10th anniversary gamemode:

[Blight Yoakam @BlightYoakam]

Delay GTAVI one more time and increase the price

#DelayGTAVIOneMoreTimeAndIncreaseThePrice