Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems | Gaming
Unreal Engine 5.8 Feature Highlights | State of Unreal 2026 – YouTube Watch On It’s probably fair to say that Unreal Engine is probably the most comprehensive tool around for…
Read moreHow Forever Ago Intends to Make Every Stop Feel Heartfelt and Personal | Gaming
Growing up, there was a gas station down the street from my house that was always well-supplied with candy and snacks. It was a perfect pitstop between my elementary school…
Read moreFrom its electric melee fights to its surprise Firewatch nods, Control Resonant’s radical sequelcraft looks like it might just pay off | Gaming
It seems appropriate that Control Resonant drags the Remedyverse back away from Alan Wake II’s screeching horror, as it’s spent the past few weeks – and as of yesterday, about…
Read more“Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They’re wrong” – tribunal rules against GTA 6 developer’s request to remove union’s blacklisting claims from ongoing legal dispute | Gaming
An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games‘ request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio. Rockstar…
Read more“The world is built”: Skyblivion devs call for extra quest-making hands to help overcome the massive mod’s “final roadblocks” to release | Gaming
A couple of months on from pushing to make some vital veteran additions to their team in order to get their massive Oblivion remake mod over the line, Skyblivion‘s developers…
Read moreImpressive New Xbox Game Loses Its Entire Dev Team After A Month | Gaming
The release of that game was back on May 21st, and as of yesterday (June 16th), it’s already lost its entire development team. Kwalee Labs CEO Hollie Emery confirmed this…
Read moreOUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine #493 | News World
Comics 17th June 2026 Judge Dredd Megazine #493 out now Judge Dredd Megazine #493 is OUT NOW! We welcome Genetic Infantryman and imminent movie star Rogue Trooper to the Megazine…
Read more“How dare we use something like that on someone’s dream?” – Why generative AI artwork is a no-go for The Scroll of Taiwu | Gaming
Long before the global success of Genshin Impact and Black Myth: Wukong, The Scroll of Taiwu from ConchShip Games pointed towards the potentially huge market for Chinese-developed titles. The game,…
Read moreMicrosoft reportedly only announced Ninja Theory’s new game at Summer Game Fest to try and attract a buyer for the studio | Gaming
Hellblade developers Ninja Theory are one of the numerous Microsoft-owned studios currently facing a very uncertain future, as the company look to either spin off or shutter a bunch of…
Read moreWhy Microsoft Announced Ninja Theory’s New Game While Planning to Shut the Studio Down | Gaming
At Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month Microsoft announced Senua, the next game in Ninja Theory’s Hellblade series. At the time, there was little concern about the game’s release. Indeed,…
Read more‘Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB’: RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents | Gaming
If you’re on a budget, now is really not the time to upgrade your gaming rig’s storage. The memory supply crisis is driving up the price of SSDs, meaning many…
Read moreLife is Strange creator Don’t Nod look to be in hot water as a financial report says they’ll be out of cash by November | Gaming
It’s not a good week to be in the games industry (again). As Xbox reportedly prepare to either shutter or spin off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion, Don’t…
Read moreFeeling Lucky? Grand Vegas Casino Opens Its Doors On Xbox, PlayStation, Switch And PC | Gaming
Grand Vegas Casino – now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC You don’t need a tuxedo, a plane ticket to Nevada or a particularly healthy bank balance to enjoy Grand…
Read moreIn a week of Xbox leadership changes, longtime Treyarch boss Mark Gordon is retiring from the Call of Duty studio to “focus on his next chapter” | Gaming
Treyarch, the Xbox-owned studio behind Call of Duty’s Black Ops games, has announced studio head Mark Gordon is retiring from his role after 22 years with the company. Gordon’s influence…
Read moreCopa City is a sweet and sweaty mix of city-building and tycoon game in which you manage armies of football fans | Gaming
Copa City is a football game in which you do everything but play football. The playing of football is the empty centre of this strategy gaming doughnut – the…
Read moreComic Strip Squibs – The Daily Cartoonist | News World
Comic History Comic Strips Skip to comments Big Nate’s relief pitchers, a true comic strip crossover, not a boring Van Boring collection, the comic strip bad guys, and valuable comic…
Read moreXbox's reverse-2018 | Gaming
Several weeks ago, while looking for an official source for some facts that I needed to cite, I found an official Xbox article with an awkward chart. The article was…
Read moreTIGA appoints nine industry veterans to board of directors | Gaming
UK video games trade body TIGA has added nine new members to its board of directors. The organisation says that these new additions will help strengthen its “ability to advocate…
Read moreThere’s no such thing as the Matt Mercer Effect | Gaming
RPG rulebooks sometimes open with an “example of play” where players with whitebread names like Arthur and Samantha go through a scripted scene and probably some combat to give you…
Read moreSaber open the Hellraiser: Revival release date box and show it’s coming in October | Gaming
About a year ago, Saber Interactive offered up the fairly surprising reveal of a Hellraiser game in the form of Hellraiser: Revival. It’s a singleplayer joint, one that sort…
Read moreMicrosoft (MSFT) Closes Xbox Studios As It Weighs A Spin Off | Gaming
Make better investment decisions with Simply Wall St’s easy, visual tools that give you a competitive edge. Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) is restructuring its Xbox division, closing studios such as Ninja Theory…
Read moreNaoki Hamaguchi explains why Final Fantasy 7 Revelation has that subtitle even if the game’s central theme is “Resolve” | Gaming
When Final Fantasy 7 Remake part two was officially revealed to be titled Rebirth, an immediate question arose for pretty much everyone: what will part three be called? That…
Read moreNearly a decade later, the original Switch finally has an eShop that isn’t painfully slow, thanks to a new system update | Gaming
Switch 2 production may be ramping up after approaching the 20m units sold mark, but that doesn’t mean the original Switch is going anywhere. And in seeming acknowledgement of that,…
Read moreMy Adventures with Superman 3×01 Review: “Into the New World” – The Geekiary | News World
Kara and Clark visit the Fortress of Solitude in ‘Into the New World’ (Image via My Adventures with Superman Season 3 Episode 1) My Adventures with Superman season 3 episode…
Read moreXbox Shoots Down Rumors That Gears Exclusivity Is A Fake Out | Gaming
A “reset” is underway at Xbox. Rapid changes and rubber-banding vibes have left a lot of people feeling confused and shaky about what comes next for the console maker. The…
Read moreLess than a month after launch, the entire Luna Abyss team has been laid off | Gaming
Last month, publisher Kwalee released their first game made in house as part of their studio Kwalee Labs, Luna Abyss, a first-person bullet-hell platforming adventure game about a prisoner…
Read moreThatgamecompany’s 20-year journey from anti-Columbine school project to a celebration of Van Gogh | Gaming
Jenova Chen, the co-founder of Thatgamecompany, never seriously considered making video games when he was younger. “Where I grew up, video games were seen as gambling, and oversexualized kind of…
Read moreAll active Grow a Garden 2 codes in June 2026 | Gaming
It’s time to abandon your old flowerbeds and plant something fresh—one of Roblox’s most popular games officially has a sequel in Grow a Garden 2. The new Roblox experience is…
Read moreThe European Commission will not legislate Stop Killing Games, but the campaign isn’t dead yet, say its organisers | Gaming
Last month the European Commission promised that they would provide a response to the Stop Killing Games campaign that seeks to gain more protections around online game server shutdowns into…
Read moreOri Creator Shares His Take On The Future Of Xbox’s First-Party Strategy | Gaming
It’s no surprise that multiple people in the industry are sharing their thoughts about the state of Xbox Game Studios and Xbox’s other first-party teams, as the rumours have been…
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