Minutes after we reported that Asha Sharma would be dropping the Microsoft Gaming brand and renaming the division back to just Xbox , and the significance of that change, Sharma shared a new that not only confirmed the change, but did so much more by laying out her and Matt Booty's plan for the next era of Xbox.

In a letter sent within Microsoft titled, ' We Are Xbox,' Sharma and Booty, who are credited as co-authors on the letter, begin by explaining how Xbox " has always

Another hike has been implemented, which makes buying SSDs even more difficult than ever.

Remember the Micro Center shelves, which were fully stacked by the high-end SSDs selling for thousands of dollars? Yeah, they are about to get even more expensive. This thing isn't stopping anytime soon and we don't know how long this will continue, as at hundreds of dollars for 1 TB of SSD storage, it is becoming super difficult to build a budget gaming PC. For enthusiasts, buying a 2 TB

Update 23/04/2026: Minutes after reporting on this change, a letter sent internally within Xbox, co-authored by chief executive officer Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty , was published on the Xbox Wire blog. It not only confirmed the name change and the sunsetting of the Microsoft Gaming brand but also laid out a new plan for the next era of Xbox. Read the full article here.

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Asha Sharma , the recently installed chief executive officer at Microsoft Gaming

As AI computing capacity continues to grow, an expert from computing infrastructure provider Nebius sat with AlphaSense to describe the state of the industry. While NVIDIA's leading-edge AI GPUs remain the top in the industry when it comes to performance, the expert believes alternatives are growing in popularity, particularly as the industry shifts its cost metrics . The demand for AI computing capacity also remains high, as providers can easily run at 100% utilization rates to drive down costs and earn the most from their investment.

According

Project ATOM was first revealed last year as a new cozy free-to-play party platformer from developer JNG Studio . Now, during today's ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026 event, it's still a cozy free-to-play party platformer, but it has an official title, as it is now called Totopia . Developer JNG Studio also confirmed that the game's first public beta playtest will take place next month, starting on May 7, 2026.

Totopia is

Today, Funcom announced Conan Exiles Enhanced , a free upgrade that brings the game from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 . Conan Exiles Enhanced will launch on the game's eighth anniversary: May 5, 2026.

The upgraded version was developed in collaboration with Inflexion Games , the studio behind the survival game Nightingale . Conan Exiles Enhanced introduces four specific rendering improvements:

• Lumen Global Illumination - UE5's dynamic real-time lighting system
• Nanite Geometry - virtualized micropolygon geometry for highly detailed environments
• Virtual Shadow Maps

We've been hearing rumors of Halo Studios looking to add a battle royale mode to the Halo franchise, either as a new individual title or as a game mode in a larger game , for years now. Whether it was actually the case or not, to players, the idea of a Halo battle royale always seemed like Xbox trying to chase one of the most popular genre trends in the video game industry. That seems to be the same thing driving the latest rumor about what's coming next from Halo Studios

The demand for Apple Macs is off the proverbial rocker right now, so much so that people are apparently managing to sell specific Mac Studio versions for an insane $25,000 on websites that specialize in retailing used products.

As is evident from the above X post, the 512GB variants of the M3 Ultra Apple Mac Studio devices are currently going for as much as $25,000 on websites that specialize in selling used products.