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    League of Legends Classic Ends Its Permanent Run Just Three Months After Launch

    Oct 15, 2026

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    Sega Pulls Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition After AI-Upscaling Backlash

    Oct 15, 2026

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    Rockstar's GTA 6 Developer Tribunal Now Ends One Day Before Launch

    Oct 14, 2026

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    Ubisoft Plans to Close Trials Studio RedLynx, Cut 70 Jobs in Singapore

    Oct 14, 2026

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    EU Regulators Open Formal Enforcement Over In-Game Currency at Activision, Riot, Ubisoft and 7 Others

    Oct 13, 2026

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    Gears of War: E-Day Launch Recap: Weak Raw Sales, Huge Game Pass Numbers, Then a DDoS Attack

    Oct 13, 2026

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    GTA 6 PC Release Reportedly Targeted for Q1 2027, Far Sooner Than Rockstar’s Usual Gap

    Oct 13, 2026

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    RimWorld Drops Unity for an In-House Engine, Says It Runs Up to 4x Faster

    Oct 13, 2026

  • Monster Hunter Rise Hits 20 Million Sales, Then Quietly Appears on Netflix for Mobile

    Oct 7, 2026

  • Steam Released Over 19,000 Games in 2026 — Peter Molyneux Says That's the Real Problem

    Oct 7, 2026

  • Karmine Corp Accused of Owing Rocket League Stars Vatira and Atow. Over €300,000 in Back Pay

    Oct 6, 2026

  • Warner Bros. Games Changes Hands as Paramount Skydance Closes $111 Billion Merger

    Oct 6, 2026

  • Jagex, Arc Raiders, and the Week Generative AI Backlash Became Studio Policy

    Oct 5, 2026

  • Ninja Theory Layoffs Begin as Hellblade Studio's Closure Consultation Moves Forward

    Oct 5, 2026

  • OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Was Caught Swapping In a Human Coder's Bot Mid-Match

    Oct 4, 2026

  • RuneScape 4 Is Real: Why Jagex Is Now Running Four Live MMOs at Once

    Oct 4, 2026

  • Capcom's REX Project Will Turn RE Engine Into an AI-Assisted Game Engine

    Oct 3, 2026

  • Skyrim's Lead Designer Reveals 30% of Players Ignored the Main Quest Immediately

    Oct 3, 2026

  • Activision Reportedly Weighing a Full Halo Reboot, With Sledgehammer Games Involved

    Oct 2, 2026

  • Steam Is on Pace to Top $20 Billion in Revenue for the First Time in 2026

    Oct 2, 2026

  • Reigns and Card Shark Developer Nerial Shuts Down After 13 Years

    Oct 1, 2026

  • Ubisoft Folds Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, and The Division Into Massive Entertainment

    Oct 1, 2026

  • Deadlock Breaks Its Steam Player Record With City Never Sleeps Update

    Sep 30, 2026

  • Alleged ShinyHunters Leader Behind Rockstar Data Breach Arrested

    Sep 30, 2026

  • Mexican Lawmakers Propose Digital Game Ownership Disclosure Rules

    Sep 29, 2026

  • The Witcher 3 Remastered Breaks Steam Concurrent Player Record on Launch Day

    Sep 29, 2026

  • Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Studio Cut a Third of Its Staff Weeks After Launch

    Sep 28, 2026

  • Discord Relaunches Age Verification Globally, and Gamers Are Furious Again

    Sep 28, 2026

  • Armed Fantasia, the Crowdfunded Wild Arms Successor, Cancelled After $2.4M Kickstarter

    Sep 27, 2026

  • Minecraft Still Gets 300,000 New Players a Day - Why Microsoft Just Built It a New Dimension

    Sep 27, 2026

  • NIS America CEO Says Sony Talks on Physical Game Discs Are Ongoing

    Sep 26, 2026

  • Resident Evil Requiem Passes $500 Million as Xbox Share Falls to 8.6%

    Sep 26, 2026

  • King Signs Collective Agreement, Averting Candy Crush Strike in Sweden

    Sep 25, 2026

  • MindsEye Studio Build a Rocket Boy Formally Enters Administration

    Sep 25, 2026

  • Quake Champions Drops Free-to-Play, Becomes a $9.99 Paid Game on Steam

    Sep 24, 2026

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered Release Date, Platforms, and What Changed

    Sep 24, 2026

  • Twitch Agency Drops Streamer FrostPrime Over Criticism of Army-Sponsored Stream

    Sep 23, 2026

  • Star Wars Zero Company Hits 1 Million Sales While Its Furloughed Staff Wait

    Sep 23, 2026

  • Rockstar Publishes Strict New Modding Rules Weeks Before GTA 6 Launch

    Sep 22, 2026

  • Xbox Hands Halo to Activision, Merges Obsidian Into Bethesda in New Restructuring

    Sep 22, 2026

  • Bethesda Pursues Legal Action Over Unofficial Doom Memecoin Tied to Original Level Designer

    Sep 21, 2026

  • Indie Devs Say YouTube Channel Best Indie Games Sold Coverage That Went Nowhere

    Sep 20, 2026

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Hits 40 Million Sales as CD Projekt Posts 37% Profit Growth

    Sep 20, 2026

  • Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Falls From Record Beta to Under 1,000 Players

    Sep 20, 2026

  • WoW Forever Beta Overwhelms Blizzard Servers Ahead of November 4 Launch

    Sep 20, 2026

  • Marvel's Wolverine Sells 1.9 Million Copies in 3 Days Despite Mixed Reviews

    Sep 19, 2026

  • Video Game Cheating Is Now an $8.5 Billion Industry, New Report Finds

    Sep 18, 2026

  • Black Ops 2 Is Outranking Black Ops 7 on PS5, and Activision Has a Real Problem

    Sep 17, 2026

  • Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West Vanish From Steam in the UK

    Sep 17, 2026

  • King Faces Sweden Strike After Candy Crush Maker Rejects Collective Agreement

    Sep 17, 2026

  • Hyper Light Drifter Studio Heart Machine Nears Collapse After Publisher Pulls Funding

    Sep 16, 2026

  • MindsEye Studio Build a Rocket Boy Guts Staff Again, Nears Total Shutdown

    Sep 16, 2026

  • RTX 5090 Vanishes From US Retailers as AI Buyers Push Prices Toward $9,600

    Sep 16, 2026

  • Wardogs Developer Bulkhead Defends Crunch Culture After Studio Near-Collapse

    Sep 16, 2026

  • Wardogs Earned More in Week One Than Marathon Has Made on Any Platform

    Sep 16, 2026

  • EU Kids Act Draft Would Force Steam, Epic and App Stores to Age-Gate Every Game

    Sep 15, 2026

  • IGN Layoffs Hit Multiple Departments, Including Longtime Hosts Brian Altano and Seth Macy

    Sep 15, 2026

  • Valve Says Steam Deck 2 Plans Are Unchanged Despite the Global RAM Shortage

    Sep 15, 2026

  • Wardogs Hits 2 Million Copies Sold in 5 Days, Outgrows Its Own Servers Again

    Sep 15, 2026

  • Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset Launches at $1,059, Squeezed by the Global Memory Shortage

    Sep 14, 2026

  • Diablo 5 Gameplay Panel Reveals Plague Knight Class, Regenerating Dungeons, and Diablo 2-Style Loot

    Sep 13, 2026

  • World of Warcraft: Forever Announced at BlizzCon 2026, Launches November 4

    Sep 13, 2026

  • Diablo 5 Announced for Spring 2029, Set a Century After Diablo 4 in a Fallen Sanctuary

    Sep 12, 2026

  • Saber Interactive Says It Has "No Real Development" Left in North America

    Sep 12, 2026

  • StarCraft Returns in 2030 as an Open-World Shooter, Not an RTS

    Sep 12, 2026

  • Over 40% of Game Pass, PS Plus and Switch Online Cancellations Now Cite Cost

    Sep 11, 2026

  • GTA 6 Online Gets First Real Detail: 32-Player Format Surfaces in Court Filings

    Sep 11, 2026

  • Why Take-Two Stock Is Down 16% in 2026 Even With GTA 6 on the Way

    Sep 11, 2026

  • Moss Developer Polyarc Shuts Down After Failed Funding Search

    Sep 11, 2026

  • Roblox Will Let Creators Ship Standalone Apps Outside the Roblox Platform

    Sep 11, 2026

  • Rockstar Had a Mole Inside Fired Developers' Union Discord, Filings Show

    Sep 11, 2026

  • Dave the Diver Passes 10 Million Copies Sold Ahead of Mobile Launch

    Sep 10, 2026

  • Life Is Strange Studio Dontnod Warns It May Not Survive Past January 2027

    Sep 10, 2026

  • PIF Reportedly Weighs Merging EA Into Its Savvy Games Empire

    Sep 10, 2026

  • Xbox Becomes Physint Publisher After Sony Canceled Hideo Kojima Project

    Sep 10, 2026

  • DOJ Investigates Whether Nvidia Structured Its $20 Billion Groq Deal to Dodge Antitrust Review

    Sep 10, 2026

  • Rockstar Games Faces Employment Tribunal Over 31 Fired GTA 6 Developers

    Sep 10, 2026

  • Wardogs Sells 1 Million Copies on Day One, Overwhelms Steam Servers

    Sep 10, 2026

  • Blizzard Workers Ratify Union Contract Covering 1,900 Employees at Microsoft

    Sep 9, 2026

  • Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Console Sells Out in Hours, Resells for $900

    Sep 9, 2026

  • Valheim Hits 1.0 on September 9 After 5.5 Years in Early Access, 17 Million Copies Sold

    Sep 8, 2026

  • Onimusha: Way of the Sword Sold 1 Million Copies on Launch Day, Ending a 20-Year Wait

    Sep 7, 2026

  • Xbox's 2026 Reset: Inside the 3,200 Job Cuts and Four Studio Spinoffs

    Sep 6, 2026

  • Paramount Beat Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery — Here's What It Means for WB Games

    Sep 5, 2026

  • EA Is Private Now: Inside Gaming's Biggest-Ever Leveraged Buyout

    Sep 2, 2026

  • PlayStation Live-Service Games: Every Cancellation and Closure in 2026

    Aug 26, 2026

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    Aug 24, 2026

  • Xbox Game Pass vs. PS Plus in 2026: Who Actually Won the Price War

    Aug 20, 2026

  • AI in Game Development 2026: Half the Industry Is Already Using It

    Aug 18, 2026

  • Record Profits, Record Layoffs: Gaming's 2026 Paradox, Explained

    Aug 15, 2026

  • Indie Games Are Booming in 2026 — But It's Increasingly Winner-Take-All

    Aug 12, 2026

  • GTA 6 Release Date: Everything We Know Going Into November 19, 2026

    Aug 10, 2026

  • Nintendo Switch 2's 2026 So Far: 23.68 Million Units and Still Outselling PS5

    Aug 8, 2026

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