Gaming

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division has backed out of a deal with IO Interactive to fund and publish a new game, as the company re-evaluates investment decisions. IO Interactive, the maker…

Earlier this month, former SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden said the still-ongoing flailing at Xbox “evince a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves.” Harsh words indeed—but…

Sigh. It’s another one of those days, as layoffs are essentially imminent yet again, this time at 007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive. The studio shared a…

Posted Jun 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM UTC An Xbox version of the Echo Aviation flight sim gamepad is coming this fall. Honeycomb Aeronautical has answered the biggest question I’ve…

Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock Before the pilot for “Smallville” was filmed, series creators Al Gough and Miles Millar established a strong foundation regarding…

It’s looking like autumn will be a nice little season for the cyberpunk genre. There’s the long awaited Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which got a lush looking trailer earlier this…

Grand Theft Auto 6 is topping the PlayStation Store charts across nearly every regional version of Sony’s digital store. Since pre-orders went live on 25th June, the game has shot…

Summary  Delta Force’s new season, Meltdown, introduces the AZ3 map as a new extraction experience on XBOX Series X|S.  AZ3 is a reactive map where player actions, radiation, elite Haavk…

The newly-formed Rockstar IWGB Game Workers Union are pushing for official recognition by Rockstar ahead of GTA 6’s console release this November. Although the union publicly announced themselves at the…

Three years ago, AMD introduced a new type of CPU core for its Zen 4 microarchitecture. The idea behind them was to reduce the amount of die space taken up…

Staff at Ubisoft’s Barcelona studio are going on strike over proposed layoffs that could see 51 workers lose their jobs. Spanish union La Confederación General del Trabajo is organising the…

The co-creator of Duke Nukem has claimed that the upcoming Xbox layoffs will reportedly be the “largest” the gaming industry has ever seen. According to George Broussard, the mass firings…

As AI continues to be shoehorned into game development with more regularity, Michał Nowakowski – joint CEO of Witcher 4 developers CD Projekt – has said he “knows for a…

A Californian bill aiming to force publishers shutting down servers for online games to provide a version of the game players can keep on playing independently of said servers or…

DC has released the list of comic books and other items on sale this week. Here are the Superman comic books in that list. On sale date: Wednesday, July 1,…

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Pokémon TCG Pocket isn’t what you’d call a ‘small game’, yet the Japanese government has given developer DeNA a 1.5 billion Yen (or an eye-watering £6,997,500) subsidy to help its…

I’ve wanted to revisit Dragon Age: Origins on PC for years. I played the PS3 version back in 2009, which isn’t as bad as people say it is, though it…

It was recently revealed that Microsoft is planning a massive round of layoffs at its Xbox Gaming division, with several studios allegedly already on the brink of closure shortly after…

A roundtable workshop at this year’s Madeira Games Summit, at which executives and studio leaders spoke under the condition of anonymity, gave some insight into why funding keeps going to…

If you thought becoming deputy editor would get a man off the hook from sifting through Prime Day deals, you would be incorrect. Apparently. Still, these days I’m especially not…

So where is it? Where’s the third trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6? It hasn’t released yet, but I believe there’s a big reason why that piece of the puzzle…

Chip makers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have been accused of fixing RAM prices and supply, thereby exacerbating the effects of the ongoing memory crisis, in a US class action…

The death of trust at Xbox may be imminent, if this latest report is to be believed. One of the most hotly anticipated upcoming Xbox games is State of Decay…

While Batman is all the rage today, once upon a time Superman paid DC’s bills. The Man of Steel came out of World War II stronger than ever, with DC…

We’ve been hearing a lot recently about potential studios that could close, spin off or find a new buyer as part of the upcoming Xbox layoffs — including the likes…

Picture the kind of spannerhead who would leave their starfighter’s charging cable unplugged, the day before the big Mission to Save the Galaxy. Picture the absolute wellington who’d lift off…

A trailer for the second series of Netflix’s animated Cyberpunk television series Edgerunners has been released at long last, giving us the first proper look at the new cast of…

Have you ever played ‘comp stomp?’ When I want to arrange an RTS playdate with a mix of casual and hardcore friends with wide gaps in skill level, it’s the…