Loading Screen: Bungie Written Down By PlayStation For $765M
Marathon couldn't save Bungie from PlayStation's expectations. After being bought for $3.6 billion, perhaps nothing could.
No Winners Here As Nacon Butchers Their Own Dev Teams
Nacon are immune to good press. Selling pirated copies of games they have no rights to, laying off staff at solidly successful teams for their own failed book-balancing, and ignoring the business models that work for the teams they own. Yet they insist on limping on at others' expense. £#*% Nacon.
Loading Screen: "Sabotage", "Piss-Stinkers" and "Superfluous" Employees Striking At Union Dodging Publisher
Another French studio is facing layoffs under Nacon, and staff are happily airing their grievances ahead of strikes.
Loading Screen: Generative AI Copilot Dead On Xbox
Two months after an industry showcase, Xbox Copilot, as a generative AI tool, was killed by company leadership. But which leadership?
This Is Why You Don't Have A Steam Machine Yet
Steam Controllers are already out of stock, but the Machine and Frame haven't made it to sale yet. But Valve are being open about why.
Loading Screen: $80 For GTA VI Would Benefit "The Entire Industry"
If GTA VI doesn't cost $80, Bank of America thinks the games industry is really in trouble.
Blizzard's Damage Control Interview Was Secretly A Disaster
Media-trained game director giving nothing answers to the press. That's not new. What is new is that what he said actually betrayed how they think, and we really need that to change.
It Wasn't Supposed To Be Xal'atath
Xal'atath's story once belonged to someone else. Someone much more fundamental to WoW's history.
Did PlayStation Really Add A DRM Killswitch To PSN?
Their silence was deafening. For more than a moment, it seemed the very publisher who'd mocked Xbox (One) for adding DRM to physical games was going a step further and adding a ticking time bomb to every title on their platforms. What were PlayStation thinking?!
Loading Screen: GameStop Wants To Buy eBay For $55.5 Billion
You know how at GameStop you trade in a game and then put that towards another game? They want to use their own stock to do that and buy eBay.
Microsoft Desperately Wants To Convince You Xbox Is Back.
WE ARE XBOX. That's the rallying cry from the new leads of the Microsoft subsidiary formerly known as Microsoft Gaming... but after ousting Phil Spencer after his quarter-century tenure with Xbox, is this all for show, or are "are we so back"?
Why Do They Keep Review Bombing Slay The Spire 2?!
Slay The Spire's sequel was punching well above its weight when it launched earlier this year. Critically adored, the game went toe-to-toe with a new game from Bungie and came out on top! Why then has it been facing sequential review bombs to the tune of 10s of 1000s reviews on Steam?!