
Gabe Newell's $71M Florida Mansion Has a Tunnel to the Sea
The Valve founder's latest purchase is a 20,000-square-foot Manalapan estate with seven bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, and a private underground tunnel connecting the property to the ocean.
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The Valve founder's latest purchase is a 20,000-square-foot Manalapan estate with seven bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, and a private underground tunnel connecting the property to the ocean.

Luna Abyss scored an 81 on Metacritic and peaked at 317 concurrent Steam players. Now the entire nine-person team that spent seven years building it is out of work.

Square Enix quietly dropped a substantial update for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles today, adding New Game+ and a stack of quality-of-life improvements after eight months of radio silence.

EA Sports FC 26 arrives on Game Pass tomorrow, perfectly timed with the 2026 World Cup in full swing. It leads a wave of seven new additions stretching into early July.

A 3x fuel regeneration penalty while carrying targets is the headline change, and it's aimed squarely at the Jetpack Cat and Bastion combo that turned the Overwatch World Cup into an air show.

Amanda Winn Lee, the original English voice of Yukiko Amagi, has publicly backed Brianna Knickerbocker as her replacement in Persona 4 Revival, calling her "an absolute doll" who will "rock this role."

The UK government's sweeping social media ban for under-16s extends directly into online gaming, with plans to block stranger communication in games like Fortnite and Roblox by spring 2027.

Mark Gordon's retirement from Treyarch after 22 years makes him the third senior Xbox figure to leave in a single week, as Microsoft's gaming division continues to shed leadership.

Ninja Theory debuted Senua at Xbox Games Showcase on June 8. A week later, staff were told the studio is being closed.

Three sources told The Information that Microsoft has considered spinning Xbox out into a standalone business unit, a move that could pave the way for a sale or joint venture.

Mark Gordon oversaw every Black Ops game ever made and spent 22 years at Treyarch. His departure leaves the studio in new hands during one of the most turbulent periods in Xbox's history.

Satya Nadella went on stage and essentially admitted that after 25 years and tens of billions in acquisitions, Xbox still doesn't know how to make money.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits Xbox has been subsidizing entertainment rather than monetizing it, with YouTube making more off Xbox games than Microsoft does.

Two months after Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called Compulsion's Peabody Award 'a well-deserved recognition for storytelling that truly matters,' the studio is reportedly being shut down.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella dropped a brutal admission during a live podcast event: YouTube is making more money off Xbox games than Microsoft is.

EA has formalised its in-game advertising push with a new platform called EA Advertising, and one of its launch partners already has a custom stadium, mascot, and playable team experience in College Football 26.

Craig Duncan and Louise O'Connor are both out at Xbox Game Studios, just days after Asha Sharma's internal letter outlined an aggressive reset of the entire Xbox division.

A 40-year-old sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. Just sold for $3 million at Heritage Auctions, doubling the previous record. The difference between this and a garage sale find? A tiny gloss sticker.

The UK government's sweeping social media ban for under-16s doesn't stop at TikTok and Instagram. It explicitly targets stranger communication and livestreaming in online games, and nobody seems sure how it'll actually work.

Takashi Iizuka draws a direct line between Disney's expensive box office disappointments and the AAA game industry's ballooning budgets, arguing both should be learning from smaller, scrappier creators.

Art the Clown, horror cinema's most gleefully sadistic villain, is joining Dead by Daylight's roster this November. He might be the most uncomfortable addition the game has ever made.

Behaviour Interactive's 10th anniversary stream revealed a Year 11 lineup so tonally wild it spans Art the Clown ripping through survivors and Scooby-Doo characters showing up in The Fog.

Capcom is finally removing the progression-skipping microtransactions that dogged Dragon's Dogma 2 from day one, two years after players made their feelings clear.

Xbox's new CEO wants Bethesda's biggest franchises moving faster. Eight years after that teaser, Elder Scrolls 6 might actually be a priority now.