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After Xbox laid off 1,600 employees over the summer, Microsoft’s gaming division followed up with more layoffs and studio closures this week. In the wake of these events, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is taking a look at the bright side and praising Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s actions as a necessary step. „There’s some amount of […]

Diablo 4 players are decking themselves out in full sets of Mythic Unique gear as part of Season 15, resulting in characters that are more powerful than ever before. Whether that was Blizzard’s goal, or this is simply a mistake of some kind, is currently up for debate. It’s about as big of a change […]

No news is good news, they say. They also say that some news, however little, is good news, too, and girl, do we have some news: Ubisoft’s struggling action-adventure game Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still alive despite remaining in development hell. Ubisoft Bordeaux’s lead writer and associate narrative director Rik Godwin took to […]

Castlevania celebrated its 40th anniversary this week–an impressive milestone in video games and a terrifying pair of numbers for anyone who was born in 1987. Konami marked the occasion with a new video paying tribute to the original whip-slinging hero of the 1986 Famicom game, as well as all of the other influential entries in the Castlevania series […]

Bungie has admitted that extraction shooter Marathon failed at launch because it was too hard to attract a mainstream audience.

Punks are taking over Steam starting on October 9 with the Punk Games Showcase, a week-long, curated digital festival celebrating games made with and expressing a punk spirit.  Over 400 games were submitted for consideration, and the final list includes over 100, with the intention of filtering out any that included generative AI, among other […]

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has officially announced that fans of the popular extraction shooter will soon have a more cooperative-focused way to enjoy exploring topside, as a long-awaited PvE mode will be available to test from October 13-20. The announcement comes three months after news that Embark was testing a unique PvE map condition […]

It’s no secret that Marathon has had a rough time since launching in March 2026, but Bungie is hard at work on new game modes that it’s hoping will breathe new life into the game.

Strange New Worlds ends a frustrating season on a high note, with a Uhura time-travel story that helps to wash away some of the memories of the high-concept episodes that have preceded it.