Kareem Choudhry has reportedly left Microsoft amid a wider Xbox brand shakeup

Xbox users are reporting that the new quality mode in Fallout 4 isn’t working. For years, fans of the post-apocalyptic franchise have been waiting for Bethesda to release Fallout 4’s next-gen update for Xbox Series X/S and PS5. That day finally arrived on April 25, though not without a fair few issues.

For a while now, the identity of Shadow the Hedgehog's voice actor in the upcoming Sonic movie has been a complete mystery, with Paramount and Sega happy to let that mystery sit to drum up excitement around the movie. Actors such as Hayden Christensen, Robert Pattinson, Christian Bale, and many other edgy actors were banded around for the role, but it looks like The Matrix and John Wick star Keanu Reeves has landed the role.

The highly anticipated game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second installment in the ambitious Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy, received widespread critical acclaim when it launched in late February.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is one of the best 3D platformers in recent memory, but there’s been strangely little information out there on how the game has performed from a commercial perspective. Activision hasn’t ever provided any sales figures for the title- though one developer’s LinkedIn profile may have revealed new details on that front.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth enjoyed widespread critical acclaim upon its launch earlier in the year on a level that no game in the series has in a long, long time- though it seems that critical acclaim isn’t quite translating to commercial success in the manner that Square Enix would have hoped for.

Possibility Space, the studio founded by State of Decay producer Jeff Strain, has reportedly shut down — with Strain blaming the closure on confidential leaks by employees.

Ascendant Studios has reportedly been hit with another major blow. The studio, which released its debut title Immortals of Aveum last year, seems to have furloughed the “majority” of its staff, which means they have been placed on indefinite leave without pay, but continue to be employed by the company on paper.

Palworld has officially gotten its next update for Xbox. Many players keep having different complaints with the game on console as it either has glitches or causing other issues where players are deeming it as almost unplayable. Just a few days ago, there was a issue where Xbox players were recommended to not log onto multiplayer due to it losing players save progress.

Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff.

Many users report that their Amazon pre-orders for physical copies of two anticipated Nintendo remakes, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, have been unexpectedly canceled. Fortunately, Amazon users still have time to pre-order physical copies of the games through other retailers before they release later this year.

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Long-time Microsoft staffer Kareem Choudhry is leaving the company.