In October, I noted that Microsoft had cut the word "diversity" from 2025 versions of multiple annual filings

For this story, MS head of comms, Frank Shaw, told me: "Our mission and commitment to our culture and values remain unchanged: empowering every person and organization to achieve more"

Microsoft, like many companies, has pulled back from talking publicly about diversity since the start of a U.S. presidential administration that has threatened to investigate corporations over their diversity initiatives

A year ago, Microsoft touted its D&I filing as "our most global and transparent report to date."

This year, there just isn't one

(This is a chart from the 2024 report)

kotaku.com/just-be-a-ki...

I don't know how many people he sees who have visible disabilities. Hard to say.

But he and his twin sister were very interested when I told them that wheelchair basketball is a real sport. They were curious if everyone plays it, which I found to be a sweetly innocent question.

Is not fully against the idea of a kind of Polymarket-for-kids on Roblox. Says it'd need to be money-free.

Company says Tencent deal is on track, Assassin's Creed franchise overperformed, Rainbow 6 suffered a cheating wave and that a mystery game is set for early 2026 (Black Flag remake?)

CEO Yves Guillemot also teased generative AI plans

I got up to listen to a 3:30am ET earnings call just in case!

Similar, for sure, but this one wasn’t showing major regions, yet had some marked locations. I’m very curious how it will work

I was early in the game, so it was largely unmarked. The area I explored lined up with 3 or 4 hexes

Here's the rest of that preview...

www.gamefile.news/p/metroid-pr...

News Tower is, among other things, an argument for making games about topics video games don't usually cover. And it was inspired by an article from a decade ago showing photos of how The New York Times was made in 1942.

More here: www.gamefile.news/p/news-tower...