
90% of Gamers Oppose It, But Sony's Stock Climbed 3.2%
Wall Street loves what players hate. Sony's stock climbed 3.2% the day it announced the death of physical PlayStation discs, even as overwhelming player polls show near-universal opposition.
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Wall Street loves what players hate. Sony's stock climbed 3.2% the day it announced the death of physical PlayStation discs, even as overwhelming player polls show near-universal opposition.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2's final DLC drops next week, capping off nearly ten years of post-launch content for a game that just refused to stop.

A shareholder directly asked Square Enix what caused Dragon Quest 12's costly reboot from The Flames of Fate to Beyond Dreams. The company's response was a masterclass in saying absolutely nothing.

A Reddit user's Steam Machine bricked itself after a firmware update, displaying a red line that signals GPU failure. The community has already christened it the 'red line of death.'

Frictional Games says Ontos is its biggest game ever. Now it needs another year to prove it.

Frictional Games' sci-fi mystery Ontos has been delayed from 2026 to 2027, adding to a pattern of slipping release windows that's turning next year's calendar into a traffic jam.

Nintendo's music streaming app gets a small but perfectly timed update with seven tracks from Rhythm Heaven Groove, continuing a pattern of launch-day soundtrack drops.

The director of the Video Game History Foundation has publicly agreed that piracy is now the only functioning form of game preservation, after Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation discs in 2028.

Over a decade since the last entry, Rhythm Heaven Groove has arrived on Switch to widespread critical praise, earning scores as high as 10/10 and a Metascore of 82.

Five years after Sony backed down from killing the PS3 and Vita storefronts, the company is pulling the plug again. This time, there's no fan campaign that's going to save them.

Battlefield Studios sent every player an in-game message celebrating a switch to in-game XP Booster timers, then yanked it back and called it an error. Sound familiar? It happened three weeks ago too.

Krabworks Game Studios dropped a new gameplay trailer for Hermit, a hardcore open-world RPG where your most important companion is a donkey carrying all your stuff.

Ted Gill was fired, reinstated by a judge, and has now voluntarily stepped down as Unknown Worlds CEO. Krafton will pay the entire studio even more than originally promised.

Matt Ryan allegedly faced legal threats from Ubisoft after accidentally leaking the Black Flag remake. Now the company has recreated the moment as a promotional video.

Sony co-invented the compact disc in the 1980s. Now it's pulling the plug on physical media for all new PlayStation games starting January 2028.

Microsoft is actively pushing Game Pass subscribers toward a $70 purchase for Modern Warfare 4, which won't join the service until Holiday 2027.

Knockout Tour launched with only eight routes and stayed that way for over a year. Update 1.7 finally adds two more, with Nintendo promising additional routes in future patches.

During a California Senate hearing on the Protect Our Games Act, the ESA's VP called Minecraft community servers illegal piracy. Mojang literally provides the download link on its website.

Fans reportedly sent cow dung and funeral flowers to Infold Games' offices over a fictional werewolf boyfriend. Now the studio has killed the character and vowed never to add another love interest.

Viktor Antonov, the artist behind City 17 and Dunwall, passed away in 2025. His final game is a soulslike FPS set in a dying, supernatural version of the American frontier.

The Cerebral Bore, one of the most disgustingly memorable weapons in FPS history, has been confirmed for Turok: Origins. And this time, you can upgrade it.

Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains is out now, and Chewbacca's ability to zip forward to the nearest enemy player can send him around the entire board twice in a single turn. He needs a ban.

Weeks after shipping one of 2026's biggest hits, IO Interactive faces layoffs as Xbox pulls funding from Project Fantasy.

Saber Interactive's Turok revival just got a bloody new gameplay trailer, and it's looking far more impressive than early hands-on impressions suggested.