The Latest Breaking News from Seamus Blackley

Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

At least one Xbox culture is thriving.

PC Gamer · May 5

Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix because Nintendo hardware is "at least really interesting and cool, even when it fails"

"Even Wii U was interesting and cool," Seamus Blackley argues

GamesRadar · Apr 14

Xbox co-creator says Project Helix is stuck between Microsoft investors "psychotically interested" in AI and "a games division that's allergic" to it

"You're going to get a lot of pressure as the guy running that games division to use AI," Seamus Blackley says

GamesRadar · Apr 14

Former Xbox head hopes original co-founder's prediction the brand will be "sunsetted" is "a little misguided"

"I get that the operating margins aren't what productivity and cloud are for Microsoft, but it's an important part of their business"

GamesRadar · Feb 26

"This isn't an insurgency": Xbox co-founder says Phil Spencer exhausted himself "managing the beast" at Microsoft to "try to do the right thing for games," and he feels "worst" for Sarah Bond

The good fight had to end

GamesRadar · Feb 24

Xbox is not "dead" after CEO change, says original co-founder: "It's literally something I nearly died to bring into existence" and "seeing it struggle and being unable to act is hard"

"The distress it's in kills me"

GamesRadar · Feb 24

Ready for War?

Plus: Trump's trade trouble, a long SOTU, and more gunboat diplomacy

Reason · Feb 24

Goodbye Xbox? Xbox co-creator suggests Microsoft Gaming will be 'sunsetted' under new CEO as the company pivots to pushing AI — 'The job of all these people is to just gently usher all of these business units into the new world of AI'

The original Xbox console designer, Seamus Blackley, says Microsoft will eventually sunset its gaming business following the retirement of Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and the replacement of CoreAI division executive Asha Sharma.

TechRadar · Feb 24

'Father of the Xbox' predicts the end following Phil Spencer's exit: The new CEO will be 'a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night'

Seamus Blackley says Microsoft's focus is on AI, and all else will be subsumed into it.

PC Gamer · Feb 23

Xbox co-founder says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has "a hammer called gen AI" and "there's a nail with an Xbox logo on it"

Nadella "believes that games are going to be driven by AI," which is why he just "put a gen AI person in charge" of Xbox

GamesRadar · Feb 23