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Xbox says it has "record-breaking interest in our I.P." and points to upcoming Minecraft and Diablo animated series with Netflix. Gears of War, The Elder Scrolls and Sea of Thieves are reportedly being pitched.
A commenter who works through deal terms said the headline number says almost nothing.
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The outage was temporary; the dependency it exposed is not. A physical disc can still rely on online checks, account services, updates and a working console ecosystem.
HN readers treated it less as a bad afternoon than as a preview of what game preservation looks like when the authentication server is gone for good.
Buried under the layoffs, Microsoft is handing studios back: Compulsion and Double Fine return to independence with their IP and catalog, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs move to new owners funded to finish Senua and State of Decay 3.
One Halo watcher read the same word, "reset," as the move that hollowed out 343 Industries into an outsourcing shell.
