
Phil Spencer News
Phil Spencer tells Xbox employees layoffs were ‘painful’
As part of Microsoft-wide cuts, staff at Bethesda, 343 and marketing lost their jobs this week
Phil Spencer says game companies must ‘turn away from dividing players and creators’
"Honour our differences" and "practice empathy"
Phil Spencer claims PlayStation wants to grow ‘by making Xbox smaller’
The exec continued the war of words over Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition
Xbox claims it held off price rises as long as it could but ‘something had to give’
Microsoft recently confirmed plans to increase first-party game prices to $70
Microsoft claims Sony is more interested in talking to regulators than Xbox about Activision deal
Phil Spencer thinks he has a “good idea of how to build a win-win relationship” with Sony
Microsoft says it offered Sony a 10-year deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation
PlayStation denies it has been overstating the importance of the series in talks with regulators
Xbox boss wants to hit $99-$129 price point for its game streaming device
Project Keystone is still in the works, but it could be years from release
Phil Spencer says the Xbox business will become ‘untenable’ if it remains ‘irrelevant’ on mobile
The Xbox boss claims the Activision Blizzard deal is primarily about Candy Crush, not CoD
Phil Spencer wants to talk to Blizzard about classic RTS games like StarCraft
The Xbox boss wants to “talk about back catalog and opportunities that we might have”
Phil Spencer acknowledges ‘it’s been too long’ since Xbox’s last big first-party game
But the exec claims 2023 will be stronger for its first-party output