Diego Sommier

[Crunchyroll.es ✨ @crunchyroll_es]

La historia continúa ✨ ¡Atelier of Witch Hat Temporada 2 ya está en producción y llegará a Crunchyroll!

[Sarcastrophe @Angearl91]

Se venden dos entradas para My Chemical Romance en general back https://t.co/47GEBHtfAs

[Nintendo España @NintendoES]

Desde este verano, como preparación para los próximos cambios en las regulaciones europeas sobre baterías, se empezará a remplazar una selección de productos de Nintendo en Europa por versiones con una batería sustituible por el usuario.

Más info: https://t.co/cBmcwXr2ck

[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

[Diego Sommier @DiegoSommier]

@ggezn00b En mis tiempos venían con tazo en su lugar.

[Dant321 @Dant3211]

Después de un fin de semana de torneos, hay mucha gente que quiere empezar en el mundo de vpets pero no sabe por donde empezar así que aquí viene hilo con lo básico muy resumido para comenzar:

[KAMI @Okami13_]

Hideo Kojima comments on the end of physical game production today in Italy:

"Today you can still download data. But at one point games will make into streaming services like Amazon or Netflix and companies will decide if you can play a game or not [...] At this point I won't have anything of my own [...] the data will be somewhere in a company and I will have the right to access it or not depending on how much this data tap is opened.

The fact that the initial data is not in my possession but is somewhere held by a private company means that I will always have that risk that for any reason, whether commercial or political, the company could prevent access to that data and therefore I will no longer be able to see that film, I will no longer be able to play that game.

This is what's happening next for the world of video games and I fear it will also happen for cinema."

[Digimon World Spain👾🔜#TIMESTRANGER 10.07🎮SWITCH @DigimonWorldEsp]

🇪🇸Bandai Namco Shop España comparte la foto de los primeros semifinalistas del Torneo Digimon Original que se celebra estos días en sus tiendas de Madrid y Barcelona por el lanzamiento de la New Wave 1.

📌PODÉIS PARTICIPAR
https://t.co/4ddlLQojKo

#Digimon29th
#Digimon

[デジモンウェブ公式 @digimonweb_net]

／
集英社が発行する人気の漫画雑誌「最強ジャンプ11月号10月3日発売」にて
新連載『デジモンエッグズ』の掲載が決定！
みなと歩先生が描くデジモンたちの新たな冒険が今、始まる！
＼

#デジモンエッグズ
#最強ジャンプ
#デジモン
#Digimon

[Shuhei Yoshida @yosp]

Thoughts after a few hours of playing with Steam Machine.

- 3D performance is just…meh.
- The system recommends to default to 1080p - am I going back to PS4 days?
- Some games take a looooooong time to boot, what is it doing?
- System UI is easy to use.
- Being able to boot up by pressing a button on Steam Controller is a killer feature.
- Changeable face plate is nice.
- Random boot up videos is a nice touch :)
- Sticks on Steam Controller is a bit looser than my taste.
- Having touch pad is nice, but it is very “touchy” and hard to use.
- It allows me to play Steam games on my living room TV, which is a reason enough to keep it.
- But the price was very unfriendly. Hard to recommend to people unless for research.

[Diego Sommier @DiegoSommier]

Añadiendo más lecturas a la pila.

[Netflix Anime @NetflixAnime]

Things only keep ramping up in Ranma1/2 Season 3! Coming exclusively to Netflix this October.

[スター・ウォーズ公式 @starwarsjapan]

🎬今日（7/1）は
1978年に日本で『スター・ウォーズ』が劇場公開された日
⠀
48年前の公開当時、
日本劇場（現・有楽町マリオン）の
巨大手書き看板が大きな話題に。
⠀
"遠い昔、はるかかなたの銀河系"の物語は
日本中を熱狂の渦に巻き込み
今もなお、時代を超えて人々を魅了し続ける─
⠀
#スターウォーズ

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[CAPCOM公式 @capcom_official]

7月1日は『ディノクライシス』(1999年/PS)の発売日です！

[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.

[The Verge @verge]

Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane https://t.co/q9tlhU4C6E

[Disney+ España @DisneyPlusES]

Bienvenidos al d-d-d-d-d-duelo. La primera temporada de #YuGiOh ya está disponible.

[HAMSTER Corporation @HAMSTER_Corp]

Arcade Archives 2 TEKKEN is now available! It's a 3D fighting game released by NAMCO LIMITED in 1994. Available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S!

🟥Arcade Archives
https://t.co/E09y8xUJJj

#ArcadeArchives

[Crunchyroll.es ✨ @crunchyroll_es]

¡La temporada 2 de Atelier of Witch Hat ya está en producción, y llegará a Crunchyroll! ✨