Microsoft reported its fiscal year 2026 third-quarter earnings today, and when it comes to Xbox revenue, while new chief executive officer Asha Sharma has been making a lot of noise and a bit of change about a brighter future for Xbox, her tenure hasn't started to impact Xbox's numbers yet, as hardware revenue declined again by over 30%, and Xbox revenue overall saw a 5% decline. "Xbox content and services revenue declined 5% (7% CC) on a prior year comparable that benefited from strong first-party content performance," the report reads. That's three quarters of decline in a row for the […]

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Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is weeks away from releasing his latest game, Thick as Thieves, made by his new team at Otherside Entertainment. The stealth action game that began as a PvPvE game before it went full co-op and PvE is due out on May 20, 2026, and in a new developer deep-dive released today, we found out a pretty significant detail about its impending launch, which is its bargain bin price. While we'll likely continue to be concerned about how much we'll have to pay for GTA 6 until the price is finally revealed, no one looking to […]

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Spotted by MP1st, it seems that a small misstep by an artist at WB Games confirms that Injustice 3 is the next game we'll see from fighting game studio NetherRealm. The next entry in the superhero-charged fighting game is a project that we've seen teased for months now, and this latest mention adds fuel to the Injustice 3 fire. Last year, a MultiVersus dataminer teased they had found evidence of Injustice 3, and a few months after that, two of the game's voice actors, George Newbern and Phil LaMarr, who provided the voices for Superman and the Green Lantern, respectively, […]

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PlayStation has revealed the three games that'll be made available for free to PS Plus subscribers at the PS Plus Essential tier for the month of May 2026. While April's games included one title that can be connected to the action games sub-genre of Soulslikes, May's entries include two popular Soulslikes on top of another annual sports title in EA Sports FC 26. The big headliner game for subscribers to kick off April 2026 was Lords of the Fallen, which is the aforementioned Soulslike game for this month. May, on the other hand, has two popular Soulslike titles: WUCHANG: Fallen […]

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Yesterday, we reported on a claim that Spiders, the studio behind the Greedfall series and Steelrising, would be shutting down "soon" after it filed for insolvency last month. The shutdown was allegedly a result of its parent company Nacon being unable to find a buyer for the studio after the insolvency filing. Today, Spiders finally spoke out via its official X (formerly Twitter) account, and while it didn't confirm anything about the failed sale, it did confirm that yes, "Spiders is being liquidated." The studio's statement began with an apology for the team's silence over the last couple of months, […]

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Mass layoffs have been, and will unfortunately likely continue to be an issue that plagues the video game industry in the short and long term. After the influx of investment that flooded the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic dried up, the thousands of layoffs we've seen over the last few years have decimated the video game industry and driven developers away from games due to the lack of job security. But, according to Maria Sayans, the chief executive officer of Ustwo Games, the team behind the Monument Valley games, job security is the price the industry needs to pay to […]

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A little more than a week after unionized members of the Build a Rocket Boy staff took legal action against the studio's leadership for installing spy software on work devices that allegedly violated data protection laws, Chris Wilson, a former animator who worked at the studio for the last six years and has worked in the video game industry for more than two decades has come forward to share just exactly what it was like working on MindsEye under former Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies and his co-chief executive officer, Mark Gerhard. In a massive interview with Kotaku, Wilson is very […]

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We're not even a calendar month away from the release of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it looks like Nintendo and Illumination already have a third movie set for 2028, according to an updated version of Universal's schedule on its Spanish website. Spotted by VGC, the updated schedule now lists "Untitled Illumination/Nintendo Event Film (April 2028)" on April 12, 2028. That could, of course, be the next Super Mario movie after Galaxy, or it could be the start of a new series like the rumoured Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and Metroid films. While we've not yet seen Samus appear […]

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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers was one of several Soulslike action games to hit the market since the sub-genre became incredibly popular within the last decade. While it didn't set the world on fire, it didn't bomb either, so players were fairly shocked at reports earlier this month that the core development team at Leenzee Games had been dissolved. Now, however, after it looked like we wouldn't see another game in the series, hope for a sequel is slightly renewed, as the rights for the WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers IP have been purchased by Digital Bros., the parent company of the game's publisher, […]

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Yesterday, we got the official confirmation from Valve that the first of the three new hardware products it revealed last year, the Steam Controller, will launch in just a few days from the time of this writing on May 4, 2026, and it'll retail for $99 USD / $149 CAD / €99 / £85 / $149 AUD. While that price isn't entirely outrageous for modern premium controllers, Valve did confirm that it is higher than initially intended, and according to a well-known insider for information on Valve, the Steam Controller's $99 price tag is the least of our worries, and […]

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Rebel Wolves, a studio made up of former CD Projekt RED developers, is getting ready to launch their debut game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, which sees players step into the shoes of Coen, a human recently turned vampire who retains the ability to walk in sunlight. Today, Rebel Wolves dove into the game by showcasing more of its open-world gameplay, and revealing a new story trailer that is capped off by the reveal of the game's release date, set for September 3, 2026. You can check out the full livestream event to watch Rebel Wolves talk in detail about their […]

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While Crimson Desert's physical game sales in the US weren't enough to make major waves on the US sales charts for its launch month, it's a pretty sure bet that with its global physical and digital sales combined, it'll go down as one of the best-selling games of the year. It's already crossed 5 million copies sold, and a new report reveals that developer Pearl Abyss is sharing a bit of the wealth from its success with the entire development team. A report from Korean publication MTN claims that every single one of Pearl Abyss' employees were given a bonus […]

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Greedfall developer Spiders will reportedly shut down "soon" after it filed for insolvency last month, as its parent company Nacon seemingly fails to find a buyer for the studio. After Nacon itself filed for insolvency due to financial issues with its major investor, it was reportedly looking to sell off two of its subsidiaries, Spiders and the motion capture studio, Nacon Tech. Now, according to a report from Origami, the publisher has been unable to find a buyer for Spiders, and the studio that has survived for nearly two decades after its founding in 2008 will have to close its […]

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The war on piracy in video games between the game publishers selling games and the parrot-companioned players who would rather not pay for those games has just seen its latest milestone, as a committed community of players known as the MKDev Collective and user DenuvOwO, who are known for cracking games, claim they have cracked all Denuvo-protected single-player games. Which has seemingly caused Denuvo and at least one publisher, 2K Games, to respond with online DRM checks with a two-week window. This all comes from a new report from Tom's Hardware, which spotted claims on X (formerly Twitter) that games […]

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This past weekend was riddled with news, and not just because Creative Assembly finally dropped a teaser for Alien: Isolation 2 after more than a decade of fans waiting for a sequel. There was a shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner, and in the barrage of information that has come up about the suspect responsible, we learned that Cole Tomas Allen, at least once in his life, dabbled at being an indie developer and even published a game on Steam before allegedly making an attempt on President Donald Trump's life. The game in question is called Bohrdom, and before […]

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Valve confirmed that the first of its previously announced hardware products, the Steam Controller, would be making its way to players next week on May 4, after several leaks had already ruined the surprise. While the aftermath of the official confirmation hasn't provided any meaningful updates on other upcoming bits of hardware like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, we did get a slight update on the Steam Deck 2, of all things. It's been over four years since Valve boss Gabe Newell confirmed that yes, the company did indeed have plans for a Steam Deck 2. Since then, Valve […]

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The first of the three new pieces of hardware that Valve announced back in November 2025 will arrive next week on May 4, 2026, and it would be a much bigger surprise if a review of the product hadn't leaked days ago. The Steam Controller, as we already learned, will arrive next week and be priced at $99 USD, and now Valve has officially confirmed the leaks. We also got an update on the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame, which is that Valve has no real updates to share for now, but programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais thinks "in general, things […]

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ARC Raiders is the latest game to add to the list of games that support PSSR 2, the latest generation of PlayStation's upscaling technology. Embark Studios confirmed that tomorrow's Riven Tides update for the extraction shooter will not only add a new map, new map condition, new items, a new enemy, a new event, and new cosmetics, but it'll also bring "meaningful" visual improvements thanks to PSSR 2 that PS5 Pro players will notice "immediately." Announced with a new PlayStation Blog post, members of Embark's technical team praised the improvements afforded by PSSR 2, with engine lead Robert Kihl saying, […]

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People Can Fly, the studio behind Gears of War: Judgement and Outriders, which is currently co-developing Gears of War E-Day has just acquired games publisher Cooldown Games for an undisclosed amount, per GamesIndustry.Biz. This acquisition is part of People Can Fly establishing its own publishing arm, and it comes after the company's 2025 was marked by project cancellations and layoffs. People Can Fly's 2025 started with players learning that the studio would be co-developing Gears of War E-Day, as previously mentioned. That was then followed with the news that the studio would develop a new game based on one of […]

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There's something in the water about Assassin's Creed Hexe. Barely two months ago, it was the project that was showing major promise and the one that "everyone at Ubisoft wants to work on," according to insider reports. Amidst the company's turmoil of the "major reset" it underwent to start 2026, Hexe seemed like one of the bright spots for the company's future. Well, that has quickly changed after it lost two major creative leads and is now losing another 50 developers while also getting pushed out of its previous 2026 release window into a potentially late 2027 release window. This […]

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Despite Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe reportedly being the game in Ubisoft's portfolio that "everyone at Ubisoft wants to work on," the upcoming project has gone through another major leadership change. After it lost its creative director, Clint Hocking earlier this year, Assassin's Creed Hexe has now lost game director Benoit Richer, who departs the company to go start his own. Richer announced his departure on his LinkedIn page, calling it "the beginning of a new chapter" in his career, as he finally moves away from working at some of the biggest publishers in the industry to be a co-founder and […]

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