Jay Peters
Amazon could lay off “thousands” of employees next week.
They could start as early as Tuesday, Reuters reports. The cuts would follow Amazon laying off 14,000 corporate jobs last October.
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Big games are getting bigger, Xbox edition.
Forza Horizon 6 and Fable look promising, but they continue the trend I just wrote about of big publishers leaning more on familiar franchises. (Xbox’s 2026 also includes a new Gears and the Halo remake.) Happy Double Fine is doing its thing, though, and Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation seems right up my alley.
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Who is really in charge of design at Apple?
The company’s design team technically reports to CEO Tim Cook, but hardware chief John Ternus — reportedly the leading candidate to replace Cook — is now the design group’s “executive sponsor” internally. In that role, Ternus “represents the design organization in executive team gatherings and manages the group’s leaders,” Bloomberg reports.
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Breaking pots, the game.
Double Fine just announced a new multiplayer party game called Kiln where you can make and play as pots. It all looks quite silly. Kiln will be available this spring on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, and there will be a closed beta.
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The next Xbox Developer Direct starts in 30 minutes.
You can catch the show on YouTube starting at 1PM ET. The event will feature the Playground Games’ Fable and Forza Horizon 6 and Beast of Reincarnation from Game Freak. We’ll be watching the livestream and covering what’s announced.
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Microsoft wants to build 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
Leaders of the village approved plans for the data centers on Wednesday, FOX6 News Milwaukee reports, and the Mount Pleasant Village Board could give final approval “as soon as Monday night.” The data centers would go on land formerly owned by Foxconn.
Mount Pleasant advances Microsoft expansion project with little opposition
[FOX6 News Milwaukee]