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Blizzard banned WoW Forever beta players for violating its Code of Conduct with offensive character names. After senior producer Tom Ellis posted 'No Sympathy' defending the bans, players threatened and doxxed Ellis until they deleted their Twitter account.
Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, has entered administration in September and is effectively shutting down. The trigger was MindsEye — 2025's lowest-rated Metacritic game (PC 39) — followed by a split with publisher IO Interactive and repeated layoffs. It stands as a symbol of the industry's 2026 downturn.
505 Games parent company Digital Bros confirmed in its September 24 earnings report that Armed Fantasia: To the End of the Wilderness has been discontinued, four years after the JRPG raised over $2 million on Kickstarter. The fate of partner project Penny Blood remains unclear.
Rockstar's $399.99 'Goodtime State Vice City Collection' for GTA 6 contains Oakley sunglasses and a cartoon alligator figure — but not the actual game. The internet responded by producing a free 3D printable version of the mascot before the week was out.
Capcom's Ace Attorney got a new announcement at Meta Connect 2026 — not a seventh mainline game, but a VR port of 2013's Dual Destinies, built by AMATA K.K. and exclusive to Meta Quest and Meta VR Glasses. Fans who have waited nearly 10 years are not impressed.
Microsoft's Xbox division has announced 268 additional layoffs, transferred Halo development to Activision, and begun closure proceedings for Ninja Theory after two buyout deals fell through.
Bungie's new leadership publicly admitted removing paid Destiny 2 content was wrong and announced every vaulted campaign, destination, and raid will return — free for all players.
The 2026 Asian Games esports program runs September 23–October 2 in Aichi. Esports is a medal sport for only the second time, with 13 titles across 11 events — and Korea sends a stacked League of Legends roster led by Faker.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 has cancelled its fifth and final day, Monday, September 21, as Typhoon Dujuan approaches Japan. Organizer CESA said in a September 19 notice that forecasts of intensifying wind and rain from the afternoon, plus the risk of transit disruption, put attendee, exhibitor, and staff safety first. Sunday, September 20 went ahead as planned; Monday ticket holders will be refunded. Some stage events may move to official online broadcasts. This year marked TGS's 30th anniversary and its first-ever five-day run.
Sony dropped Physint funding in June 2026; Xbox stepped in by September. Skarsgård leads the cast. Why Bloomberg's claims about missed deadlines and revenue shortfalls haven't been denied.
Valve revealed pricing and reservations for its wireless streaming VR headset, the Steam Frame, on September 14. It's $1,059 (256GB) and $1,299 (1TB), sold through a randomized reservation lottery rather than first-come, first-served. Signups closed September 17, and the first purchase emails began going out September 18 with a 72-hour checkout window. The kit ships with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB of RAM, dual 2160x2160 displays, and a copy of Half-Life: Alyx.
Level-5 issued a formal apology on September 17 for AI use in its VISION 2026 II presentation. The studio says the Yo-Kai Watch 2 trailer's odd visuals were human errors, not AI — but fans remain skeptical.
Blizzard's BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony (September 12) unveiled Diablo V for spring 2029, an open-world StarCraft shooter for 2030, a new persistent server called WoW: Forever launching November 4, and the Midnight update Eclipse. Diablo IV hits Switch 2 on September 15.
The Glasgow employment tribunal hearing Rockstar vs. 34 fired GTA VI developers entered testimony phase on September 11. Workers allege union-busting; Rockstar claims gross misconduct over a Discord server. GTA VI releases November 19.
Level-5's CEO apologized Sept 12 for AI visuals in the VISION 2026 II showcase — then confirmed the studio will keep using generative AI regardless.
PlayStation cancelled Physint in mid-June 2026 without public word. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the new deal one minute after Sony's statement went live — and the industry comparison writes itself: this is Final Fantasy leaving Nintendo all over again.
Sony cancelled Hideo Kojima's action-espionage game Physint in June and told him nothing publicly for three months. On September 10, both PlayStation's exit and Xbox's takeover were announced simultaneously — Kojima Productions says development continues.
Sony's August 21 court filing argues it is 'not plausible' for consumers to believe they own digital game purchases — a legal position that lands just as Sony finalizes its plan to end physical disc production for PlayStation in January 2028. The California case is one of four simultaneous legal challenges Sony faces across four countries.
BlizzCon returns to Anaheim after a three-year gap. A September 12 opening ceremony at 10:30 AM PT leads into WoW, Overwatch and Diablo developer streams, with a new Overwatch hero reveal and YOASOBI headlining the first-ever esports halftime show. The full program streams free on YouTube and Twitch.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 runs September 17–21 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba. For its 30th anniversary the show stretches to five days for the first time under the slogan 'Longest Five Days of Nonstop Play,' with 759 exhibitors (484 domestic, 275 overseas) and 3,946 booths as of July 8, and roughly 300,000 visitors expected. Square Enix headlines with a Final Fantasy VII Revelation demo plus Kingdom Hearts IV and Dragon Quest VII Reimagined; Konami brings Castlevania: Belmont's Curse and a Silent Hill: Townfall stage; Capcom teases a September 16 Spotlight broadcast.
Nintendo's dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct airs Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 7am PDT / 10am EDT / 3pm BST, followed by a general Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Ocarina of Time remake details, live-action movie news, and possible Switch 2 anniversary hardware are all on the table.
Deck Nine Games, the studio behind Life is Strange: True Colors and Double Exposure, is on the verge of closure. Over ten former employees have gone on record, and the founding executives have already moved on to a new company.
Sony argues it owes nothing of its $508M illegal tariff refund to PS5 buyers. Microsoft does the same. Nintendo leads the same defense. Only Panic has pledged to share refunds with consumers.
Bit Reactor's XCOM-like Star Wars debut topped Steam and scored 85 on Metacritic, but reports show roughly 80% of the team was furloughed weeks before launch — with a co-founder lawsuit exposing the studio's financial edge.
Sony filed a court argument on August 21 claiming 'reasonable consumers' know digital PlayStation games are licenses, not property. With physical discs ending in January 2028, the stakes for players everywhere have never been higher.
On August 29, a publicly accessible Valve server exposed 12–13TB of internal Steam builds from 2003 to 2013. Portal 2's deleted bullet-time mechanic, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets, and the long-rumored F-Stop are among the finds. Dozens of third-party publishers are affected.
Iron Man game test trailer leaked August 28, showing Chicago open world, villain roster, and suit customization. EA's official response tweet reached 14.8M views in 48 hours.
Cyberleek leaked GTA 6 footage under a consumer-rights banner, then cashed out $268K in meme coins and went quiet. Take-Two has subpoenaed four platforms. Here's how the scheme worked and why it failed.
IO Interactive's new Elusive Target 'The Herbalist,' starring Snoop Dogg as eccentric entrepreneur Dr. Cyrus Cane, is playable free from August 27 to September 26. New players can try it through the Free Demo, and Snoop's son Cordell C. Broadus appears in-game too.
Rockstar's 'GTA VI: An Extended Look' premieres exclusively on Netflix today at noon PT, arriving on YouTube six hours later. Set against a week of leaks and a 'heartbreaking' Rockstar statement, the subscription paywall has triggered a wave of fan backlash.
Amazon Prime Video's live-action 'God of War' series has recast its lead. Ryan Hurst, cast as Kratos in January, exited after tearing a bicep on set — and Dave Bautista, the fan-favorite pick fans championed for years, steps in. The four episodes already shot with Hurst will be entirely reshot.
A persona called 'CyberLeek' released nine GTA 6 gameplay videos over six days, each stamped with memecoin ads. Take-Two obtained a federal court subpoena against Microsoft and filed against Discord and X — while Rockstar still hasn't identified the source.
Five months after a launch that wiped 30% off Pearl Abyss's stock, Crimson Desert has crossed 6 million global copies, topped US sales charts, and earned an invited engine-tech talk at Gamescom Dev. The comeback arc, by the numbers.
Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live airs August 25. Here's the confirmed lineup — Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Gears of War: E-Day, The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, Monster Hunter Outlanders, Path of Exile 2 — plus start times and how to watch.
The 2026 Overwatch World Cup Group Stage runs August 20–23 at the Busan Esports Arena. Sixteen teams split into four groups play a single round-robin in best-of-five series, with the top two from each group advancing. Host nation South Korea sits in Group D alongside France, Denmark, and Colombia.
Riot Games has confirmed active development on tag-team fighter 2XKO will end in December 2026, less than a year after launch. All in-game purchases before August 20 will be refunded and every champion is being unlocked for free.
A group called Cyberleek dropped alleged GTA 6 footage while promoting a Solana coin. The same day, 34 fired Rockstar developers told fans: skip the boycott, fund our court case instead.
Sony silently terminated indie developer Ternox Games' PlayStation publisher agreement. Fourteen titles leave the PSN store on August 23, and a planned PS5 version of the beloved STONKS-9800 is permanently shelved.
Nexon posted Q2 2026 revenue of about 121.1 billion yen (+2% YoY). The MapleStory franchise grew 63% year-over-year to a record quarter and ARC Raiders landed in the West, but operating profit fell roughly 17%. Dungeon & Fighter remains a recovery project.
Netflix shut down Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Finnish studio Moonloot on August 13, just 43 days after Unhinged launched and 28 days after Netflix's co-CEO publicly praised it as a top-performing cloud game.
The Calamity Mod development team ceased all work on August 10 after grooming allegations against lead developer Ozzatron left the project unable to continue. With asset removal requests piling up and Ozzatron holding sole ownership of the GitHub repository, the future of the mod's code and content remains legally uncertain.
Former lead writer Stella Sacco says Saber Interactive replaced her with ChatGPT on Rideshare Stimulator. Saber denies swapping writers for AI, confirms the game's Free Ride mode uses generative AI, and has now promised to add an AI disclosure label to its Steam page.
Terraria's Calamity mod has shut down following sexual misconduct allegations against lead developer Ozzatron. The team rejected streamer xQc's offer to buy and continue the project, choosing a full shutdown over an ownership transfer.
Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital is seeking to delist from the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. After a 96% share-price fall since its 2021 IPO, a September 8 general meeting will vote on the move; if approved, trading ends September 16. Devolver cites roughly $1.6M in annual savings and the poor fit between indie publishing and public markets.
A 15-year id Software veteran says Xbox's mass layoffs have made AAA game development at the studio 'impossible,' accusing Microsoft of fundamentally not understanding art or game-making.
Gamescom 2026 runs August 26–30 in Cologne, Germany, opening the night before with Geoff Keighley's two-hour Opening Night Live world-premiere show on August 25. Nintendo, Xbox, Ubisoft, CD Projekt Red, Capcom, Krafton and Bandai Namco are confirmed, with Samsung, NC, Krafton, Pearl Abyss and Ocean Drive Studio flying the Korean flag. Sony and a playable GTA 6 are absent once again.
Multiple Halo Studios employees have confirmed layoffs just one week after Campaign Evolved's acclaimed debut — the latest impact of Xbox's sweeping 3,200-job restructure that began in July 2026.
Game Freak's first major original IP lands at 73 on Metacritic and Mixed on Steam. The studio pledged camera fixes, larger text, story pacing improvements, and a performance-mode default — all within seven days of launch.
Battlestate Games sent a trademark notice demanding SP Tarkov remove 'Tarkov' branding. The team chose full shutdown. Forge closes Aug 12; source code stays forkable.
Electronic Arts is going private in a $55 billion deal led by Saudi Arabia's PIF alongside Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, with completion expected August 4. The all-cash $210-per-share transaction tops the 2007 TXU deal ($45B) as the largest leveraged buyout in Wall Street history. Days before closing, EA cut jobs across customer support, IT and trust and safety — its third round of layoffs in 2026.
FromSoftware's cryptic Siofra River post (4.3M views, 16K likes) fuels Godwyn DLC theories as Elden Ring Tarnished Edition heads to Switch 2 on August 28.
Sony CFO Lin Tao confirmed at today's earnings call that PlayStation will end physical disc production for all new games starting January 2028, dismissing months of fan pushback. A week-long PSBlackout boycott is scheduled for August 23–30, with a petition surpassing 345,000 signatures.
Blue Archive blindsided players during its 5.5th anniversary stream by announcing a gacha pity system overhaul effective three days later. Steam reviews dropped to Overwhelmingly Negative, and executive producer Kim Yong-ha issued a public apology — but the changes went live on JP servers anyway.
Double Fine laid off 23 people — roughly a quarter of its staff — just weeks after Xbox spun it off. Founder Tim Schafer cited studio survival in a candid Bluesky statement.
A third-party licensing service failure paralyzed Xbox for nearly 20 hours on July 27, blocking sign-ins, game libraries, and even disc-based games. Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet's unusually candid post-mortem reveals a structural single point of failure — and raises the right questions.
Former Santa Monica Studio writer Alanah Pearce reveals Sony issued its strictest-ever internal social media guidelines after announcing its 2028 PlayStation disc phase-out — a gag order on a decision Sony knew, and planned for, to trigger consumer outrage.
Former PlayStation dev reveals Sony issued 'strictest ever' staff gag rules over the disc ban. 335K petition signatures; analysts say no reversal is coming.
The Avatar fighting game launched July 23 on PS5 and Steam, but the Xbox version was delayed hours before release. A developer with a 2020 harassment history was confirmed on the team.
Nintendo filed to dismiss a class-action lawsuit demanding it pass tariff refunds on to Switch and Switch 2 buyers, arguing each completed sale is a closed transaction with no retroactive obligation — even as the company simultaneously seeks those same tariff dollars back from the US government.
The JPO formally rejected Nintendo's touchscreen monster-catching patent, citing a fan-made Pokémon video as prior art despite Nintendo's copyright objection. The ongoing Palworld lawsuit continues on separate patents.
Eat Pant Games, a two-person New Zealand studio, had their first game Teeto's launch trailer swamped with Sony disc protest comments — even though the devs support physical media themselves.
ZA/UM, the UK studio behind Disco Elysium, has announced layoffs affecting up to 32 staff just two months after launching Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. The game earned an 83 on Metacritic but its sales were not enough to sustain the studio at its current size.
Rockstar has confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI for November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Pre-orders opened June 25 ($79.99 Standard, $99.99 Ultimate), and a third trailer is widely expected between late July and mid-August.
Bethesda officially confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, an Obsidian collaboration, and Fallout 5 entering pre-production — hours after Xbox cut 1,600+ jobs. The studio's union is calling it a distraction, and the gap between announcement and execution is wider than it looks.
Bethesda's July 17 franchise statement — issued amid the Xbox mass layoffs — confirmed long-rumoured Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, hinted at a mystery Fallout project with Obsidian, and revealed Fallout 5 has entered pre-production.
The CWA filed federal unfair labor practice charges against Microsoft on July 15 over the Xbox 3,200-job cut, alleging it bypassed union bargaining entirely. A laid-off id Software dev warns id Tech could be headed to 'the trash can.'
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed 3,200 layoffs and the spin-off of Double Fine, Compulsion, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs — but no announced games are canceled.
A Ubisoft Connect server crash on July 12 locked PC players out of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's single-player campaign — including its advertised offline mode.
Square Enix's mobile and PC RPG Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis shuts down on October 6 (PDT) / October 7 at 3:00 PM KST. Before it closes, the long-locked Before Crisis story finally goes live in three parts.
EA Sports College Football 27 launched July 9, 2026 — the franchise's first PC debut — and earned a 'Mostly Negative' rating on Steam within 24 hours. The flashpoint: Dynasty and Road to Glory modes lost their XP speed sliders, replaced by paid 'College Football Points' boosts.
Sony confirmed all new PlayStation games will be digital-only from January 2028. The announcement outpaced GTA 6's debut trailer on social media, a Change.org petition hit 180,000 signatures, and Hideo Kojima called the move 'frightening.'
Christopher Barrett, the former Destiny 2 and Marathon director who spent 25 years at Bungie, has settled his $200 million wrongful termination lawsuit against Sony and Bungie. Terms weren't disclosed, but Barrett's name has been restored to Marathon's credits as original game director.
Following Xbox's mass layoffs, DOOM studio id Software lost roughly 90 employees — about 50% of staff — with reports that most or all coders were cut and the QA team decimated, all on the day DOOM's Revelations DLC launched.
Microsoft's Xbox announces its largest restructure in history: 3,200 jobs cut (20% of staff), four studios sold or spun off, and Arkane Lyon's future left unresolved.
Valve has filed a motion to dismiss New York Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit over Counter-Strike 2 loot boxes, arguing in a 42-page brief that 'people enjoy surprises' and rejecting comparisons to gambling. The court has not yet ruled on the motion.
A Seoul High Court panel heard closing arguments on April 29 in Nexon Korea's appeal against an 11.6 billion won (roughly $8.9 million) fine over MapleStory's 'Cube' probability item, and set a ruling date of July 22 at 2 p.m. The case turns on whether retroactively penalizing pre-2016 conduct is lawful.
EA's Madden NFL 23 online services retire July 13, kicking off a cluster of shutdowns: New World Aeternum, Let It Die, two 2K arcade sports titles, NHL 22/23, and Media Molecule's Tearaway companion site all wind down transactions or servers across July and August. PS Stars points also expire July 31.
Krafton agrees to pay $250M+ in Subnautica 2 bonuses after settling a lawsuit. The CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge the payout is stepping down.
Nexon's long-running casual hit Crazy Arcade will end service on August 13, 2026 at 9 AM KST, roughly 25 years after its 2001 launch. Refund applications run through September 16, and a farewell event is granting 10x XP and in-game currency until shutdown.
Sony has officially announced that physical disc production for all new PlayStation games ends in January 2028. The PlayStation Blog post drew 7,385 comments — overwhelmingly negative — as players rage over game ownership, preservation, and the death of physical media.
Krafton and Unknown Worlds settle their year-long $250M bonus lawsuit. All current employees will receive bonuses in three annual installments, while reinstated CEO Ted Gill exits voluntarily as part of the deal.
Xbox plans to close or sell at least five studios — Ninja Theory, Arkane, Double Fine, Compulsion, and Undead Labs — starting July 6. Marvel's Blade faces cancellation. IO Interactive also hit as Xbox drops Project Fantasy funding.
Blizzard's collaboration with J-pop duo YOASOBI officially kicked off July 1, bringing six neon Legendary skins for Genji, Hanzo, Kiriko, Mizuki, Anran, and Juno, an original song 'Orion,' and an A-1 Pictures animated short. The event runs through July 20.
After unveiling 6th romance option Ao Yin (Valko), Love and Deepspace lost 1M+ followers, crashed to a 2.0 App Store rating, and saw offline protesters deliver mourning flowers and cow dung to the studio.
Eversoul, the subculture collection RPG developed by Nine Ark and published by Kakao Games, permanently closed its global servers on June 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM KST. The game launched January 5, 2023 and ran for approximately three and a half years before succumbing to declining player numbers and Kakao Games' ongoing financial difficulties.
Quantic Dream staff walked out on strike as the studio moves to cut 115 jobs, timing the action to a reported Lucasfilm visit and warning that Star Wars Eclipse simply cannot be completed without the people on the chopping block.
Konami has filed suit in California to unmask whoever leaked the full source code of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty — a trove that included internal dev materials and a never-shipped Wii version of Substance.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told PC Gamer that Steam's mandatory AI disclosure is 'irresponsible,' calling it a Scarlet Letter — right after Epic showcased AI in Unreal Engine 6.
The world's biggest fighting game tournament, Evo 2026, runs June 26-28 in Las Vegas with 12 titles, a $500,000 minimum guaranteed prize pool, and 5,774 competitors. But a 43% two-year drop in entrants and Saudi-backed RTS taking full ownership have split the fighting game community.
Sony confirmed major layoffs at Bungie on June 25. A Washington State filing puts the count at 292 full-time staff, and studio head Justin Truman has stepped down. Most of the Destiny team was hit just after Destiny 2's final update, leaving Marathon as the studio's only active project.
Rockstar revealed GTA VI's $80 price and Nov 19 launch date, but the physical edition being a disc-less code-in-box sparked retailer boycotts and fan backlash.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Compulsion Games (South of Midnight), Double Fine (Psychonauts), and Ninja Theory (Hellblade) are at risk of closure and negotiating buyouts from Microsoft. Xbox CEO's internal 'Xbox Reset' memo admitted the company 'overextended' itself with studio acquisitions.
Blizzard filed a federal lawsuit June 12 against Project Ascension, one of the largest WoW private servers with over 1 million players. The 9-count complaint includes two RICO racketeering charges — an unusually aggressive move that follows the May 2026 shutdown of TurtleWoW.
Niantic Spatial — spun off from the Niantic that made Pokémon GO — has partnered with defense tech firm Vantor to build GPS-denied navigation using a Visual Positioning System trained on billions of player AR scans. Here's what we know and what it means for players.
Blizzard Entertainment has filed a federal RICO, copyright infringement, and DMCA lawsuit against Project Ascension — a WoW private server with over a million players — citing servers hosted on a sanctioned Russian provider and a shell company structure designed to evade US liability.
Hidetaka Miyazaki broke his silence on the Kadokawa-Oasis Management shareholder conflict on June 12, stating FromSoftware's creative freedom is intact. He teased both announced and unannounced titles are in development.
A serious save-wiping bug is hitting Forza Horizon 6 players. Playground Games acknowledged the issue on June 12 and an Xbox system update is incoming. Here's what to do right now to protect your progress.
Panache Digital Games apologized after players found AI-generated portraits and marketing assets in the free 1666: Amsterdam prologue, just days after its Summer Game Fest reveal.
Ubisoft shuts down Winnipeg and Belgrade studios and slashes Barcelona, bringing 2026 layoffs to ~680. The bigger scandal: the company sent the layoff news to journalists under a press embargo.
Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Verge all report Microsoft is preparing major Xbox layoffs for July 2026 — up to 1,000 jobs. A leaked internal memo titled 'Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset' reveals revenue down $500M over 5 years, component costs rising 5x, and a business model Microsoft admits 'cannot continue.'
The Stop Killing Games EU petition has 1.29 million verified signatures and cleared its EU Parliament hearing. Now Video Games Europe — representing Ubisoft, EA, Riot, and 30+ publishers — has officially pushed back, calling preservation proposals 'prohibitively expensive.'
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Fans examining the Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] box art revealed at the June 9 Nintendo Direct spotted classic AI generation tells: Donald Duck has a different number of fingers on each hand, and the background architecture shows AI-typical distortions. Square Enix has not yet responded.
France's consumer protection authority DGCCRF fined Nintendo €35 million ($46M) for failing to properly inform consumers about Joy-Con drift defects and obstructing warranty repairs. Nintendo denies wrongdoing but must post a formal apology on its French homepage.
Sega's Crazy Taxi: World Tour thrilled fans at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 — until a Steam AI disclosure sparked immediate backlash. Series creator Kenji Kanno clarified that AI was used only as a 'reference' for human artists, but the controversy has lingered across gaming communities.
A federal class action lawsuit filed against Roblox alleges the platform built a multi-billion-dollar empire on unpaid child labor, citing a 13-year-old who performed 40+ hours of weekly game development work without compensation. Roblox denies the claims.
Shift Up's Summer Game Fest reveal of Stellar Blade: Blood Rain was immediately met with backlash over suspected AI-generated key art. Fans cite nonsensical Chinese characters and distorted buildings in the trailer — amplified by CEO Hyung-tae Kim's very public endorsement of AI tools.
P-Studio officially confirmed hackers breached their servers and stole early Persona 6 development footage. SEGA DMCA strikes swept social media, and with the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7, an official reveal may be imminent.
California's Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921) passed the State Assembly 43–16 on May 27. The bill would require publishers to give 60 days' notice before killing online games and offer an offline patch or full refund. It now heads to the California Senate as the ESA has lost every committee vote.
The Rockstar Game Workers Union officially launched May 28, seven months after Rockstar fired 31 unionizing developers in a single day. A court date is set. The UK Prime Minister weighed in. Here's the full story.
Players spotted an AI tools disclaimer on the Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Steam page hours after its State of Play reveal. Crystal Dynamics told Eurogamer 'all finished content is human-crafted.' The controversy has reignited the gaming industry debate around AI transparency.
Rockstar Games UK developers officially launched the Rockstar Game Workers Union (RGWU) on May 28, 2026. All 31 UK workers fired in October 2025 were union members. A tribunal date is set, and GTA 6 is still scheduled for November 19.
California's AB 1921 (Protect Our Games Act) passed the State Assembly 43–16 with bipartisan support. The bill requires 60-day notice before server shutdowns and mandates offline access or refunds. It now heads to the State Senate.
A Korean court ordered Krafton to pay Unknown Worlds Entertainment a $250 million bonus it tried to dodge using a secret 'Project X' task force and ChatGPT legal advice. The Subnautica 2 founders won everything — and the story is stranger than fiction.
Bungie has officially announced that Destiny 2's last-ever live-service content update, Monument of Triumph, will drop on June 9, 2026. The game will remain playable, but active development ends. Nearly a decade of live-service history is closing.
A PlayStation 5 logo appeared in official Xbox showcase footage on May 30, triggering immediate backlash. CEO Asha Sharma issued a public apology while Xbox Studios head Matt Booty defended the company's multiplatform direction — but the incident reignited long-running debates about Xbox's identity.
31 developers fired from Rockstar Games' UK studio on October 30, 2025 have publicly launched an IWGB union branch and confirmed an employment tribunal court date. Seven months after the mass layoff, the dispute is entering its public phase — with protests held simultaneously in Edinburgh, London, Paris, and New York.
Hotta Studio's gacha RPG NTE faced a wave of boycotts from VTubers and voice actors over undisclosed AI-generated assets. Here's the full timeline of what happened and where things stand.
The Rockstar Game Workers Union officially launched May 28, covering all 5 UK offices. 31 devs fired in October claim union busting. A tribunal hearing date is now confirmed.
NCSoft dropped its lawsuit against YouTuber 겜창현 after a public apology over AION 2 misinformation. South Korea's new fake news law takes effect July 1, targeting influential creators with up to 5x damages.
Xbox announces Fable will slip from fall 2026 to February 2027. The game is in great shape, Xbox insists — but GTA 6's shadow looms large over the decision.
Infinity Ward unveils Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 set on the Korean Peninsula. The reveal trailer crossed 39 million views in 24 hours as the Korean war backdrop stirs global debate.
IO Interactive quietly added Denuvo DRM to 007 First Light's Steam page six days before launch, triggering mass pre-order cancellations from PC players who say the disclosure came far too late.
Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat disabled expensive DMA cheating hardware in Valorant. Riot posted 'congrats on your $6k paperweight.' Is bricking cheater hardware the future of anti-cheat?
Take-Two issued a C&D to RAGE:MP on May 26, 2026. All 288 servers must migrate to FiveM by August 31. The second major GTA mod platform closure this year after alt:V.
Dragon Quest celebrates its 40th anniversary today. Square Enix held a 10-minute anniversary stream with series creator Yuji Horii promising to announce the 'next game.' Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been silent for 5 years.
NetEase bans 485 accounts and permanently bricks 3 devices following a cheating spike after Marvel Rivals' May 21 weekend update. Full official statement and community reaction.
Riot's Vanguard update disabled high-end DMA cheat hardware worth thousands of dollars. We break down the technology, Riot's '$6k paperweight' tweet, the real risks, and what it means for competitive gaming.
The current-gen version of Darksiders Warmastered Edition launched May 19. The game looks and runs great — but a platform upgrade pricing disparity between Xbox (free) and PS5 ($9.99) has become the story.
Speculation that Microsoft has discontinued the Xbox Series S is circulating after FCC filing changes. Here's what the evidence actually shows — and what it doesn't.
Valve's disclosure-only AI art policy has put it at the center of an ongoing conflict between indie developers who rely on AI tools and artists opposed to training data practices. Neither side is backing down.
Rockstar's GTA VI is confirmed for Fall 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Set in Vice City with dual protagonists Jason and Lucia. Full breakdown of everything known so far.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen submitted a $55.5 billion bid for eBay on May 3. eBay's board rejected it on May 12 as 'neither credible nor attractive.' The full story behind gaming retail's most bizarre pivot.
Game Science's action RPG arrives on Xbox Series X|S after months of exclusivity, and brings with it the first major DLC announcement. Here's everything confirmed.
Sony's mandatory PSN account linking for Helldivers 2 PC players triggered mass review bombing and refunds, reversed in under 48 hours.
Sony's Concord sold roughly 25,000 copies and shut down just 14 days after launch — the fastest live-service failure in gaming history.
Microsoft's February 2024 announcement that Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and Grounded were coming to PS5 redefined what 'Xbox exclusive' means.
Unity's surprise announcement of per-install runtime fees in September 2023 triggered a developer revolt, mass migration to rival engines, and a near-complete policy reversal.
EA officially admitted Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformed commercially in early 2025, triggering mass BioWare layoffs and raising doubts about Mass Effect's future.
Microsoft shut down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios in May 2024, marking the darkest day in Xbox's studio acquisition era.
Nintendo Switch 2's $449.99 price tag and $79.99 game prices sparked intense community debate about gaming's accelerating cost trajectory.
