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id Software has posted a brief statement on social media, thanking players and well-wishers "for the support" and insisting that despite the recent job cuts, "we still have the crew we need to build the games." Read more

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is off to a "strong start", selling two million copies on launch day. Read more

Xbox has lost a legal battle in Brazil after a gamer "sued their asses and won" for suspending their account, along with all of their digital games, after it was hacked. Read more

The European Union has confirmed it cannot prevent Sony from scrapping physical discs, stating "companies are free to offer games and services in the manner that they see fit". Read more

A director at Obsidian Entertainment has shared their thoughts about the "extremely difficult week" at the studio, stressing how hard it's been to see "a bunch of cold take artists coming out of the woodwork" and "spouting off" about "what Obsidian is or what it isn't". Read more

Criterion, a legendary UK development studio, is going through something of a re-brand. Its legacy is built upon a foundation of classics, Burnout Paradise and Star Wars: Battlefront to name but a few. However these days, it now finds itself one of many Battlefield Studios , a collective of separate studios all collaborating on EA's premier military shooter. Read more

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, everyone's hot again. Nice of you to notice, Bertie. Kelsey's getting into embroidery with Silksong providing artistic inspiration; Bertie's banging on about the time system in The Blood of Dawnwalker; Marie's got a crush on Death; and Matt thinks he's found an ingenious bit of fou…

Robert Yang, the award-winning designer behind the likes of The Tearoom and Rinse and Repeat, is battling increasingly restrictive rules adopted by digital storefronts to launch an "ongoing re-remaster" compilation of his short experimental games. It's called Radiator Forever and is available now for free - although it might take a bit of hunting to find it. Read more

Valve's PC storefront Steam continues to go from strength to strength. In the first half of 2026, it recorded its highest-ever results, generating an enormous $11.1bn in revenue, which is more than it made during the game-heavy end of last year, and considerably more than it made during the first half of 2025. Read more

Few people know more about helping run a successful console business than Shawn Layden. He was there at Sony when the PlayStation dream was first dreamt , and over the course of three decades he helped realise it and shape it. He was there for PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and 4. He helped lead the Japanese side of the business, the American side of the business, the European side of the business. By the …

Bethesda Game Studios union workers have announced plans to protest the recent mass layoffs impacting Microsoft's Xbox division, telling members, "The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear. We won't let that happen." Read more

John Carmack, the co-founder of legendary Doom and Quake developer id Software, has shared his thoughts on the reported "bloodbath" of layoffs at his former studio, following Xbox's devastating "restructuring". Read more

Last night Pokémon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary by fulfilling the final promise of the game's original trailer : giving players the chance to battle Mewtwo in Times Square. Read more

The remake of Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Resynced, is off to a flying start. Before it even launched, the game was already on track to out-perform,Assassin's Creed Shadows, pulling in "roughly $14m in gross revenue" for publisher Ubisoft. Not bad! Read more

After spearheading a restructuring of Xbox that resulted in 3200 job losses , Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been asked to be an advisor to the US Federal Reserve for Productivity and Jobs, where she will seemingly lead a task force related to, ironically, employment. Read more