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Scalping has gotten so bad that The Pokémon Company is weighing government-issued ID scans just to buy certain card products in Japan. The system could go live as early as August 2026.
Keiichiro Toyama, director of the original Silent Hill, stepped outside into Tokyo and thought he was still playing Forza Horizon 6. He's far from the only Japanese local blown away by Playground Games' recreation.
Hasbro has poured nearly $1 billion into game development since 2018 and deliberately avoided live service. The same week, Quantic Dream's MOBA died after three months.
IO Interactive's narrative director says Bond's outdated attitudes toward women won't survive the jump to 2026, but the flirting and romance are very much still there.
Harry Krueger, the director behind Returnal and Nex Machina, has launched a new Helsinki-based studio called Cosmic Division. Its first project is a single-player IP targeting consoles and PC.
After being publicly told to stop by fellow Square veteran Akitoshi Kawazu, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi responded by sharing even more AI-generated game concepts.
Warhorse Studios just confirmed two projects at once: an open-world Middle-earth RPG and a new Kingdom Come game. The studio behind one of the most detail-obsessed RPG series in years is now tackling Tolkien.
Square Enix considered winding down Final Fantasy 11 in 2024. Now its servers are so full it had to stop accepting new players on some worlds.
Quantic Dream's Spellcasters Chronicles never cracked 900 concurrent players on Steam. Now it's dead, and the studio is 'reorganizing.'
Ubisoft's latest earnings report reveals the brutal math behind its next wave of blockbusters: seven cancelled projects, six delayed, 1,200 fewer employees, and a record €1.3 billion operating loss.
Embracer's new Fellowship Entertainment entity will "more actively" explore external partnerships for dormant franchises including Deus Ex, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, and Legacy of Kain.
Sony just confirmed its biggest State of Play of the year, running over an hour and leading with an extended look at Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine ahead of its September launch.
We're nearly halfway through 2026 and Nintendo still hasn't held a proper Direct. Jeff Grubb says that's about to change, with a full presentation expected by mid-June.
Embracer is splitting into two public companies and actively seeking external partners for franchises like Deus Ex, TimeSplitters, and Saints Row, the same IPs it cancelled projects for and shuttered studios around.
After 4.5 years without a salary, former Housemarque veteran Kimmo Lahtinen says Sektori's Switch 2 launch pushed total sales to 30,000 and finally let him pay himself.
With a Metacritic average sitting around 80, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is the highest-scoring Yoshi game since Yoshi's Island DS in 2006. Reviews range from a perfect 10 to a 6, but the consensus leans positive.
Firaxis has finally backed down on Civilization 7's most controversial mechanic. The Test of Time update lets you stick with one civ across all three ages.
White Owls Inc.'s Late Check-Out DLC brings two new environments, 17 enemy types, and two boss fights to Hotel Barcelona on PS5 and Xbox Series starting May 21.
Fireshine Games, riding the momentum of Far Far West's million-copy breakout, has publicly declared it won't partner with any studio using generative AI art in game development.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches on Switch 2 this week with a Metacritic score of 80, but individual reviews range wildly from a perfect 10 to a flat 6.
Fireshine Games' cyberpunk cowboy co-op shooter hit a million units in Early Access, and the publisher says it won't work with devs who rely on gen-AI art.
Nine Dots Studio revealed Outward 2's early access date and system requirements via a talking potato, confirming the survival RPG will run on hardware from 2014.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, GameSpot's 2024 Game of the Year, is leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 31 alongside Persona 4 Golden. Meanwhile, 13 new games are rolling in, headlined by Jurassic World Evolution 3 and Remnant II.
Epic Games has restored Fortnite to the Apple App Store in nearly every country, calling it "the beginning of the end of the Apple Tax worldwide" as the legal fight heads to the Supreme Court.