Tag: gaming industry

Xbox bet that Game Pass would be the future of gaming, and we’re all paying for it

Xbox bet that Game…

By all appearances, 2025 was going to be the year Xbox turned things around. Doom: The Dark Ages, no…
EA Japan exec laments Microsoft’s crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for ‘short-term results from large-scale investments’

EA Japan exec laments…

Microsoft’s latest round of brutal layoffs and studio closures have garnered more attention than usual—possibly because Phil Spencer had…
Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders

Summer Games Done Quick…

Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2025 has officially fired the starting gun, meaning dozens of speedruns, goofs, and charity…
At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country’s military dictatorship

At the request of…

First reported by Korean gaming website This Is Game, and in English by Automaton, Valve acquiesced to a South…
Arkane Studios founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus: ‘At some point reality has to hit’

Arkane Studios founder slams…

Xbox Game Pass might be popular among gamers, but if you ask Arkane Studios founder Raphael Colantonio, it’s bad…
European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims ‘These proposals would curtail developer choice”

European game publisher group…

This weekend, the Stop Killing Games movement reached a critical milestone to become a European Citizens’ Initiative, but not…
In the wake of Perfect Dark’s cancellation, Joanna Dark’s voice actor urges fans to help save the series: ‘Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you’

In the wake of…

Perfect Dark was one of the biggest projects gutted by Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs, which is really saying…
Hideo Kojima’s mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft

Hideo Kojima’s mysterious OD…

Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees earlier this week, cancelling games Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO…
Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from ‘internet enshittification’ for nearly 30 years

Out of the blue:…

You’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you? You try to scroll up on a gaming news article and the…
Valve’s reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3

Valve’s reported profit-per-head from…

Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per…