Ninja Theory closure rumors and profound changes

In the last Xbox Games ShowcaseNinja Theory announced ‘Senua’, the third installment of ‘Hellblade’. Eight days later, according to Bloombergthe company is negotiating its closure. They are not the only ones: at least three studios under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella would be negotiating with Microsoft to avoid closure. It is just the tip of the iceberg of an environment with traces of apocalypse at Xbox: the same Monday that the news came out, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Craig Duncan, and the chief of staff, Louise O’Connor, left the company. They are hacks in the structure of the company whose origins and consequences go back a long way. Who closes? The three studios that have been leaked so far are Compulsion Games, which released ‘South of Midnight’ in April 2025, winning a Peabody; Double Fine, founded by LucasArts veteran Tim Schafer in 2000, has recently focused on small games like ‘Keeper’ and ‘Kiln’ in the last year, following a career that includes ‘Psychonauts’, ‘Brütal Legend’ and ‘Broken Age’. Ninja Theory is the studio behind the entire ‘Hellblade’ saga, and before that, high-quality blockbusters like ‘Heavenly Sword’. As other media have also confirmed, like VGCCompulsion and Double Fine are in negotiations to buy themselves and become independent (just as Toys for Bob did in 2023, after which they announced the return of Spyro). Ninja Theory has a more complicated scenario: The studio is being closed directly by Xbox, and its only alternative would be to find an external buyer to acquire it. And in any case, independence is not an easy way out: even if the studios manage to buy themselves, they will lose many employees in the process. Who are these people. Regarding departures from the management team, Craig Duncan arrived at Xbox in 2011 and directed Rare for more than 13 years, a period in which ‘Sea of ​​Thieves’ was released and the Kinect peripheral was developed. He assumed leadership of Xbox Game Studios in October 2024, when under that umbrella there were studios such as Halo Studios, The Coalition, Playground Games, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games, Double Fine and a dozen more. His duties will be temporarily assumed by Matt Booty. Louise O’Connor also came to Xbox through Rare, where she joined in 1999 as an animator. This is her second discharge: she obtained the position of chief of staff in September 2025, shortly after leaving Rare following the cancellation of ‘Everwild’. These two simultaneous departures, in the positions that mediate between the CEO and the studios, point to internal turbulence. “This cannot continue.” Less than a week ago, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Matt Booty published a internal memo that was also made public in which they described the situation in the company with considerable crudeness. The fiscal year that ends June 30 will leave Xbox with a profit margin of around 3%. The division spent $20 billion on studio investments over the past five years (not counting, of course, the purchase of Activision Blizzard for 69,000 million) while its annual income fell almost 500 million in the same period. Not everything is bad management, but a situation, in general, very complicated for the sector: the company currently pays four times more for hardware components than last fall (as they all do), and that cost is expected to rise even more heading into Christmas 2027. The memo called the studio system “overextended” and admitted that Xbox had tried to “balance too many different strategies” without funding its studios enough to be competitive. “This cannot continue,” they even said. What is coming. It is expected that Xbox will announce things after the close of the fiscal year, on June 30 (the same day of the memo, in a coincidence that is difficult to see as coincidental, Bloomberg advanced that the company is going to suffer massive layoffs). Sharma said that the new Xbox will prioritize “the biggest franchises”, that is, ‘Halo’, ‘Gears of War’, ‘Fable’ or ‘The Elder Scrolls’. It is possible to think that studies with lower IPs or that minimally deviate from the mainstream They are left out of the plans. What undoubtedly increases the feeling of unleashed chaos and profound earthquakes within the company is the timing: This all takes place right after the Summer Game Fest, when Xbox presented a showcase on June 7 with very precise and careful plans, which included Ninja Theory’s own ‘Senua’, the return of ‘Fable’, the long-awaited new ‘Gears of War’… A week later, one of the studios that starred in that showcase He is negotiating his survival. In Xataka | Xbox lowers Game Pass and backs down with Call of Duty: the bet of “Everything on subscriptions” has not turned out as Microsoft expected

The rumors placed the power of Nintendo Switch 2 at the height of PS4 Pro. ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ arrives to solve doubts

What generation belongs Nintendo Switch 2. That was one of the unresolved questions about the new Nintendo console. Since the company left the Power War After the disaster of Game Cubeit has gone free and, although technically it would be the first tenth console, it is also logical to put it in the sack of the ninth generation (PS5, Xbox Series x and SERIES s). Perhaps this generations has ceased to make sense when they exist Consoles ‘Pro’but it serves to get an idea of ​​what are the like, at least in terms of power, which each machine has. Answering this in the case of Switch 2 is even more complicated because … we don’t know almost anything about your processor. But with the console in hand, we can get a better idea of Where is Nintendo Switch 2 next to its rivals. And the game that best exposes the power of the new switch is’Cyberpunk 2077‘. It is also the one that surprised me the most and the one that demonstrates what can be done with this hardware if the weapons it offers well Nvidia and its image reconstruction. “The Switch 2 chip does not resemble anything we have created before” From the announcement of the console on April 2 with A GAME RETA among which there were versions of other consoles such as’Final Fantasy VII Intergrade‘,’Yakuza 0‘,’Hitman‘, a better version of’Hogwarts Legacy‘,’Street Fighter 6‘And the aforementioned’ Cyberpunk 2077 ‘, began to tote about the power of the console. After several comparisons, it was speculated with the possibility that Switch 2 be like a Ps4 pro. This, although it may seem little, is considerable because we are talking about A very low consumption machine which is compatible with state -of -the -art technologies (VRRfor example) and that can work without being connected to the current. Based on the filtered and speculated characteristics of the Nvidia chip that mounts the console, a GMLX30-A1 manufactured by Samsunga user in Reddit He created a very interesting thread by renovating the estimated power of the machine and comparing it with other consoles. While Gflops are very similar to those of a PS4 Pro, the bandwidth was considerably less than that of the Sony console. It is something that gave rise to that perhaps Switch 2 would not be so powerful, but even without concrete data of the processor’s frequencies, you have to trust the tests of these first games and what has recently commented Jensen HuangCEO of Nvidia. Nintendo has been creating videos in which developers and members involved in the system share their impressions of Nintendo Switch 2. All are quite vaguewithout much concrete data, and Huang’s is no different. However, it does leave some pearls. Beyond that claim of “the Nintendo Switch 2 chip, it does not resemble anything we have done before”, the interesting thing is that it confirms that the console can handle rays of hardware and the SOC has AI processors “dedicated to improving the sharpness in real time.” That is, although the generation of this Soc It is not the most leading, Nvidia has introduced the necessary processes to climb the image from a lower native resolution in the personalized chip (what the DLSS) and the processors for the Hardware Raytraction. ‘Cyberpunk 2077’, Switch 2 exponent Ok, that says the CEO of the company that created the Switch 2 soc and we already know that there are always inflated statements and marketing in these things, but … What do the games say? In the video we leave at the beginning of the article, you can see the first minutes of ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ running in ‘quality’ mode when the console is connected to the dock. The sensations are very good and it shows that CD Projakt, the study responsible for the game, has done a great job These weeks. Because? Because in the demo that We could try a month ago in Paristhe performance in desktop mode was quite poor, with constant falls in the rate of Frames For the second. In the final version, it is much more stable and, above all, it looks very good on both TV and, above all, on the console screen. It is where it shines, in my opinion, due to the enormous difference between this version of switch 2 and, for example, that of a similar system: Steam Deckalso Use image climbing technologiesbut with a more blurred result in general. But a good way to really appreciate where Nintendo Switch 2 is about its rivals, is this video of the channel ‘THE BIT Analyst‘. In it, compares Nintendo Switch 2 with PS4 Pro and with the weakest console of this generation, Xbox Series S. does it in ‘performance’ mode and ‘quality’ on all platforms and conclusions are very interesting. The first, the resolution. Thanks to DLSS, it reaches 1080p In both desktop and laptop mode in ‘quality’ mode, recessing from different base resolutions already 3 fps. In ‘Performance’, the 1080p are maintained in desktop, but on the lower screen to 720p. The frame rate in this mode rises to 40, but is not entirely stable. In consoles, yes, it goes to 60 in this way. The user states that, thanks to DLSS, Switch 2 maintains an image quality comparable to the versions of PS4 Pro and Xbox Series S, with better textures and effects such as the Environmental occlusion in the Nintendo console with respect to these two competitors. It also compares with PS5, the Nintendo hybrid is quite well stopped, although with notable differences in the quality of some parameters and, above all, a higher resolution in the Sony console. The summary is that it is a very solid versionsomething that can also be seen in other games launched for the machine such as the aforementioned ‘Yakuza 0’ or ‘Street Fighter 6’, both a midpoint between PS4 and PS5, and superior When seen in the version of Xbox Series S. Said this, I am clear that Nintendo Switch 2 … Read more

Spacex has finally made public why the last Starship exploded. All rumors were wrong

White and in bottle? Milk. Two Consecutive starships that exploit In the same flight phase, practically in the same minute, in similar ways? Anyone would say that there was a common cause, but it was not so. Context. Spacex has shed light on the explosive loss of Starship During his eighth test flight on March 6. After successfully capturing the Super Heavy propeller, all expectations were set on the ship, which in the previous launch had failed during the ascent phase. After a successful separation and before reaching the necessary altitude to turn off, Spacex detected a flash near one of the central engines of the ship, followed by an “energy event” that made the engine disappear. Shortly after, two other central engines and one of the outer vacuum engines went out, which caused the ship to lose control nine and a half minutes after takeoff. The Starship 34 He disintegrated About the Caribbean. They were not the vibrations. After two consecutive explosions, everyone assumed that the problem had been the same. On flight 7, Starship 33 was lost eight minutes and 20 seconds after takeoff Because of stronger vibrations than expected, that had caused leaks of liquid oxygen and a fire In a non -pressurized area of ​​the lower part of the ship, which Spacex calls the “stern attic”. But it has not been so. “Although the ruling manifested himself at a point similar to that of the seventh flight, it is worth noting that they are clearly different,” Spacex wrote in a recent statement. “The mitigations implemented after flight 7 to solve the problems of harmonic response and flammability of the ship operated by design as planned,” added the company. What arose was a new problem. What happened on flight 8. According to the Spacex statement, the most likely cause of the loss of the ship during the eighth flight was “a hardware failure in one of the central raptor engines of the upper stage of the rocket, which resulted in a mixture and ignition not deliberate of propellents.” In essence, a engine component failed, causing a fuel leak and mixture (liquid methane) with oxidant (liquid oxygen). The consequent explosion destroyed the engine and committed the survival of the ship. Both problems originated in the lower part or stern of Starship, but the failure of flight 7 occurred in the “attic”, and that of flight 8 in the “basement”, the motor bay. All ready for flight 9. To address this new ruling for the ninth flight, Spacex has implemented reinforcements in key starship 35 joints, a new nitrogen purge system and improvements in the propellant drainage system. Later, he plans to introduce the new generation of Raptor 3 engines, with a complete redesign that addresses this type of problem. If there are no more delays, The ninth flight will take off this Tuesday, May 27 At 18:30, local time in Starbase (1:30 on Wednesday in Spain). It will be The first to reuse a super heavy propeller; Specifically, Booster 14, which flew in the seventh mission. The ship, on the other hand, will try again the objectives not achieved on flights 7 and 8, such as the deployment of eight Starlink satellit simulators and multiple reentry experiments. Image | Spacex In Xataka | “ELON, please, come back”: a week after the ninth launch of Starship, something is not going well at SpaceX headquarters

Despite the rumors, Justin and Hailey Bieber show that their love is still intact

justin bieber and Hailey are showing that their love is stronger than ever and are dispelling all rumors about an alleged divorce. Recently, The ‘Baby’ singer said on social media that his wife is the best woman he has ever met.either. A source close to the couple even told PEOPLE that the Biebers, who recently welcomed their son Jack Blues Bieber, They are more connected than ever. “They are fine. They have a great family lifebut they also enjoy and encourage each other to pursue their passions,” the source said. According to the information, Hailey, 28, is delighted with Justin, 30,’s renewed interest in music. “He loves his creative and artistic side. He continues to create with friends, and it fills her to see him inspired”commented the source. Although their relationship has been the subject of constant speculation, the same source regretted that there are “almost permanent rumors of separation.” “Anyone who spends time with them can tell how in love they are and how they are completely focused on their marriage.. They are both very mature and deeply committed. “Their marriage is truly special.” A few days ago, Justin denied rumors about having stopped following Hailey on Instagram, assuring that someone had entered your account without permission. Meanwhile, Hailey reaffirmed her love by sharing uA photo posing with a bag that said “Mrs. Bieber” and showing off her shiny engagement ring. The couple too He recently celebrated his sixth wedding anniversary with a “quiet celebration.”as revealed by another source to the same media. Since getting married in 2018, Justin and Hailey have proven to be a solid team, and The arrival of their son has only strengthened their union. The new parents In August, Justin announced the birth of his first child with a sweet post on Instagram: “WELCOME HOME JACK BLUES BIEBER”. The photo showed the baby’s tiny foot held by Hailey’s fingers, a moment that moved millions of followers. Since then, the couple has chosen to keep a low profile to adjust to their new life as parents. “They are very excited, but becoming parents and having a newborn has been a big change for them.” a source shared in November. Continue reading: –Justin Bieber reveals why he stopped following Hailey on Instagram–Justin Bieber shares photos that show him recording songs–(PHOTOS) This is how Justin Bieber and Hailey enjoy their vacation in Aspen

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