College Football 27 microtransactions are the story nobody wanted, buried under one of the sharpest football games EA’s made in years. Read on to catch our view on this hot
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Gaming revenue hit $201.6 billion in 2025. The highest it has ever been. The same industry that posted that number cut nearly 50,000 jobs since 2022, shut down studios mid-award
Here’s what nobody wants to admit about Toy Story 5: it’s good. Not “good for a fifth installment” or “good considering nobody asked for it.” Actually good. And it earns
Cheap video games and hidden gems don’t get front page treatment. That’s kind of the point. Keeping up with modern gaming feels less like a hobby and more like a
Catch our State of Play recap or our Xbox Showcase Recap for more summer gaming news! Summer Game Fest has gotten a reputation for being a lot of things in a
Xbox Games Showcase 2026: Everything Announced, Ranked in Your Brain by How Loud You Yelled Sunday’s Xbox Games Showcase was the kind of show that makes you remember why you
It’s that time of year again. The week where gaming Twitter becomes ungovernable, sleep schedules get sacrificed on the altar of trailer drops, and everyone has a “Game of the
Alright, Chat—let’s be honest for a second. When you hear a new LEGO Batman game is coming out, you pretty much know what you’re getting into before you even open
In 2021, Ashley McBryde fell off a horse in Montana and landed on her head. Not a metaphor. She ended up in an emergency room with a concussion and scalp
Broadsword just dropped a massive developer livestream, and if you’re a Star Wars: The Old Republic player, the roadmap just got a lot more crowded. What started as a deep
The official Star Wars gaming pipeline has been a slow-motion car crash for fifteen years. EA held the exclusive license for a decade. Their total output? Two Jedi games, one
We’ve been inside Pywel for over 100 hours now, and we are not done. That’s the review. You can close the tab. Still here? Good. Because this one deserves more
Marathon’s player count tells a story Bungie doesn’t want to tell for them… One month. That’s how long it took for the wheels to visibly wobble on what was supposed
Resident Evil Requiem Review: The Best Resident Evil Game in Years, Even If It Still Trips Over Itself There is a very specific kind of dread that Resident Evil does
Marathon Didn’t Bomb. That Might Be Worse for Bungie. So Bungie finally did it. After years of Destiny 2 going sideways, layoffs that gutted entire teams, a plagiarism scandal involving
There’s this panic happening online right now where everyone’s like “Why is Lucasfilm so quiet about The Mandalorian & Grogu?” People are acting as though we should be inundated with
The Ashes of Creation shutdown finally happened. We spent years watching developer streams where every blade of grass was treated like a monumental achievement. Now that grass is dead, the
Category: Industry Rant | Read Time: Unskippable Disappointment It is officially over. The Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake has been cancelled. Ubisoft just did the thing again. You
World of Warcraft is finally doing the thing MMO players have been yelling about since 2004: real player housing—none of that “here’s your phased base, now go manage chores” energy.
You know how Star Wars works: disappear for five minutes, come back, and suddenly there’s a movie, two animated shows, and a racing game that might finally scratch the “Episode
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