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Paradox Interactive CEO Ebba Ljungerud Steps Down

Paradox Interactive CEO Ebba Ljungerud has stepped down from her position and will be replaced by Fredrik Wester, the man who held the title before her.

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Hell is Us and Styx publisher Nacon files for insolvency

The French company is seeking to restructure its debts under court supervision.

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again."

Windows Central: "We caught up with incoming CEO Asha Sharma and newly promoted CCO Matt Booty to learn about what the future holds for Microsoft's gaming operation."

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Christopher18h ago

Technically, they've never brought it back. It's been downhill since Xbox One, which was its zenith. It hasn't 'gone back' since nor did it decline in such a fashion before.. We're dealing with a single peak company here, not multiple.

Yapps8813h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Only Nintendo can “bring it back”. WiiU to SW and SW2 is a crazy turnaround.

Sony and Microsoft have just been going more and more downhill.

Profchaos4h ago

PS3 early vs late gen did comeback

DarXyde4h ago

Are you too young to remember the PS3?

The console launched a year later, more expensive, and with the worse version of multiplatform games and a weak online infrastructure. GTA IV also had the dlc exclusive for about a year.

Add in that X360 had a much better controller (and with force feedback), PS3 was painfully slow without installs, lacked a trophy system for a while, and came out within days of Gears of War and Wii...? Sony mounted a crazy comeback. And this is WITH Xbox having some killer exclusives including JRPGs like Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia, and Lost Odyssey. To say only Nintendo can "bring it back" is just ignoring history.

It was absolutely Microsoft's generation for a while.

darthv7241m ago

What about after they dropped the kinect and added in BC, and then later the One X? That was definitely better than when it launched. That gen had many peaks and valleys for XB. This gen... not so much.

-Foxtrot17h ago

When? Xbox to Xbox 360?

They’ve been pretty much on a windy slope since the Xbox One reveal but even then s*** started to hit the fan with TV, Sports and Kinect at the end of the 360 days.

Yi-Long1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

I’d argue Xbox completely lost their major advantages over the competition halfway through the 360 era. They came out of the gates, swinging and winning, with 360 being a HUGE success, especially in the West. Then, Nintendo had a hit with Wii & motion-controls, and Microsoft looked at that and said; “Hey, we’d like a piece of that pie as well!”. That’s when they changed course and started shifting towards Kinect. Which obviously was a huge flop.

That decision/change in direction pretty much was the exact same moment when Sony course-corrected their many errors with the PS3, so suddenly Sony made a bunch of good decisions to take advantage of Xbox dropping the ball. Lower console-price, free online MP, and PS+ which was offering 6 (or more) ‘free games’ each month.

By the time that generation ended, PS3 had won back a huge amount of gamers, plus they had the momentum.

Then, obviously, XBO was announced, and I think we all know how that went. They never recovered, and they keep making just absolutely terrible decisions.

Yapps8813h ago

Sony fanboys won’t like this, not one bit

They wanted her to shut Xbox down 😂

Profchaos4h ago

Sony fans should want competition

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Resident Evil Requiem 'Creator's Voice' Video Dives Into The Switch 2 Release

"I feel like GameChat was made just for Resident Evil'

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