“The things that we based our assumptions on have changed fundamentally”: Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani on the games industry’s rapid transformation | Gaming
The CEO of Helldivers 2 maker Arrowhead Game Studios, Shams Jorjani, has said that the games industry is in a “transitional phase at the moment”. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz at Gamescom,…
Read moreWhat Free Gifts Does Xbox Give You On Your Birthday? | Gaming
Esolex/Getty Images Birthdays are great. Cake! An increasingly sprawling number of candles! Microsoft Rewards points! Wait… come again? Yup, you can indeed claim birthday gifts from the Xbox…
Read moreElden Ring’s Tarnished Edition is exciting enough on its own, but it’s also our last chance to properly experience the game’s launch day hype | Gaming
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think…
Read moreFable Will Officially Be 20 Hours Long, Xbox Confirms In New Interview | Gaming
At Gamescom, Polygon learned just how long it will take players to beat Fable, the upcoming RPG from Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios, when it launches next year. Unlike…
Read moreMarvel Mangaverse: Web of Blood #1 Preview: Magic Beats Wi-Fi | News World
Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: Marvel Mangaverse Marvel Mangaverse: Web of Blood #1 celebrates 25 years of Mangaverse as Miles, Laura, and Illyana battle apocalypse with forbidden…
Read moreMultiple developers report equipment stolen from their Gamescom booths | Gaming
Multiple exhibitors at Gamescom have reported thefts of laptops and other equipment from their booths in Cologne, with one indie developer saying the loss has effectively ended his show early….
Read moreThree Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In September 2026 | Gaming
A new month is once again upon us, so it’s time to look at the upcoming server shutdowns on Xbox in September 2026, and fortunately there aren’t too many to…
Read moreNewzoo: 2026 console revenue would be flat year-on-year without Grand Theft Auto 6 | Gaming
Without the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 this year, console revenue would be flat compared to 2025. That’s according to Newzoo’s director of market intelligence, Emmanuel “Manu” Rosier, who…
Read moreActivision serves cease and desist to infamous Call of Duty cheat maker—and films the whole thing: ‘We will find you’ | Gaming
Activision has employed many different tactics in its unending battle against cheating in Call of Duty, from suing cheat makers for millions of dollars to employing complex technical solutions to…
Read moreWhen Should You Clear The Cache On Your Xbox Series X? | Gaming
Arto Tahvanainen/Shutterstock When unexplained technical hiccups happen, like a game not loading as fast as it should or you’re seeing it lag…
Read more10 Masterpiece Comics By Women Every Fan Should Read At Least Once | News World
When thinking of comics, most would think of DC and Marvel or other superhero stories, but the medium encompasses every genre imaginable, from thrilling action to introspective memoirs. Through visual…
Read moreI don’t like cozy games, but this Xbox Game Pass freebie has changed my mind | Gaming
I’m not a huge fan of ‘cosy games’. While I have enjoyed Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I’ve basically skipped all of the other major cosy game releases…
Read moreGTA 6’s gameplay reveal pulled in 3.97 million peak viewers, overwhelming Twitch and Netflix in the process | Gaming
Reaction streams to Grand Theft Auto 6‘s first gameplay presentation peaked at 3,970,738 viewers across livestreaming platforms, making it the biggest gaming stream of 2026 so far. That’s according to…
Read moreStar Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn’t coming to PC yet | Gaming
There is a big part of me that doesn’t really believe any aspect of Star Citizen is real. It’s never really a game I’ve given all that much of…
Read moreThe Long Dark sequel Blackfrost hasn’t been cancelled, but developer Hinterland are shifting a bit more focus onto the original’s survival mode | Gaming
Things are shifting around a bit over at The Long Dark developer Hinterland Studio. Earlier this year, The Long Dark’s story mode wrapped up with the release of Wintermute’s…
Read moreXbox Disc-to-Digital: Insiders Test Aug 31, Discs at 4% | Gaming
Microsoft made it official on August 26, 2026: Xbox owners can start turning their physical game discs into permanent digital entitlements, starting with Xbox Insiders on August 31. The feature,…
Read morePSA: Swap the radial ability menu in Star Wars Zero Company for more of a trad XCOM-style experience | Gaming
Star Wars Zero Company is enough like XCOM that everyone’s been calling it ZCOM, but there are some ways it isn’t quite XCOM enough for me. For starters, the radial…
Read moreEuropean games industry revenue reached €30bn in 2025 | Gaming
The European games industry generated €30 billion in 2025, with digital purchases accounting for 91% of total revenue, according to Video Games Europe (VGE). This year, VGE expanded its All…
Read moreSony Reconsidering Digital-Only Plans as Xbox Pushes Physical | Gaming
Much has been said about Sony’s announcement that they are pulling back from physical game releases for PlayStation on January 2028. Gamers have called for a blackout, but even then,…
Read more40 Years Ago, Frank Miller Tore Daredevil Down To Build Him Back Up | News World
Whenever people discuss superheroes who have it rough, there are a couple of names that usually stick out. Spider-Man’s day-to-day life is notoriously bad, so the term “Parker luck” was…
Read moreMortal Shell 2 gets its first major update, adding in extra beacons, useful new items, and making riposte damage scaling actually work | Gaming
We’re a little over one week on from the launch of Mortal Shell 2, a game that Jeremy liked quite a lot. But the work of a developer is…
Read moreUsual June mixes Hades-esque action, crystal crabs and ghosts to make for a game that’ll do well in your Halloween rotation | Gaming
I’ve been hungry for an action adventure game recently. In this modern era of live service and infinite roguelikes and deckbuilders (seriously, I know they’re popular genres, maybe try…
Read moreSee SNES carts in an Xbox Ally and Doom on a Canon PowerShot, hear hot handheld news. | Gaming
Posted Aug 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM UTC See SNES carts in an Xbox Ally and Doom on a Canon PowerShot, hear hot handheld news. I guest-starred on the Expedition:…
Read moreEA breaks its silence after Iron Man gameplay leak, admitting “well, that didn’t go as planned” | Gaming
EA has broken its silence on the leaked Iron Man footage that surfaced yesterday, admitting, “well, that didn’t go as planned”. The footage, as we reported yesterday, showed roughly two-and-a-half…
Read moreElden Ring players are hard at work putting the new Tarnished Edition DLC’s gear to the test | Gaming
Hand Elden Ring players a handful of new armor sets and weapons and they’ll spend the next week or more experimenting and crunching the numbers to find out how they…
Read moreSensor Tower: Netflix US mobile viewership increased 35% during GTA 6 extended preview | Gaming
Netflix US mobile viewership rose 35% hour-over-hour during Grand Theft Auto 6’s extended preview yesterday, according to data from Sensor Tower. As reported by GamesBeat, mobile app users went up…
Read moreWhat Will Be In Xbox’s Announced Project Helix ‘Family’ Of Devices? | Gaming
A gamer plays with a ROG Xbox Ally at the Gamescom Asia X Thailand Game Show 2025 in Bangkok. NurPhoto via Getty Images Xbox CEO Asha Sharma made news on…
Read moreMetro 2039’s return to the underground plays like the sneaky FPS you’d expect, but there are still good reasons to leave the beaten track | Gaming
Since I’m apparently now RPS’ Radioactive Eastern Europe correspondent, I recently spent a couple of hours in Metro 2039, the gloom ‘n’ grit FPS sequel that Ukrainian developers 4A Games…
Read moreThe One Force That Can Actually Change Gotham City Has Finally Been Unleashed (And It’s Not Batman) | News World
Gotham City has been in some tough scrapes over the years and Batman has helped the city survive them all. Back in the ’90s, the city had a deadly viral…
Read more“That is a lot of work”: Persona 4 Revival producer says there’s no plans for a Yosuke romance option, even if the team did think about it | Gaming
While it’s never been confirmed, some cut voice lines from the original release of Persona 4 indicated that once upon a time, the protagonist’s right-hand party member Yosuke was…
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