20 June 2026
Platform & Hardware
- "I was one of the biggest skeptics on the team": An original Xbox founder says the fears they had in 2001 are coming back stronger than ever
- "It helped": Years of Xbox Series S game optimization probably made life much easier for Nintendo Switch 2 developers
- After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)
- Epic Games Store Roadmap Promises 5x Faster Boot Times, User Reviews, and More
- Nintendo's Switch eShop update arrives 9 years too late
- Sony Aims to Drive PS Plus Profits by 'Improving Service Proposition'
- Sony say goodbye to PC and hello to AI in their annual business report, which must be a good thing, right?
- Switch Online's June Game Trial Kicks Off With EA Sports FC 26
Publishers, Studios & Industry
- Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dead at 69 After Plane Crash in France 4
- Doom soundtrack composer Bobby Prince dies aged 81 2
- The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year 2
- The Witcher 4 dev still not convinced it's fully redeemed for Cyberpunk 2077 2
- "I leave feeling grateful, proud, and excited": After 31 years, Age of Empires veteran Earnest Yuen retires
- 5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft
- Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene "moves forward with a smaller team", as Prologue: Go Wayback! studio struggles to find funding
- Cheers Co-Creator James Burrows Dies at 85
- Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
- Hermen Hulst Allegedly Said Sony's PC Ports Didn't Make Enough Money
- Kenan and Kel hunt for classic games and find their childhoods
- The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release
- The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025
- WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out
Game Coverage
- Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 players will require an Xbox account and gamertag to play – as well as PS Plus to play split-screen co-op 7
- Capcom Created a ‘Diana Police’ Team for PRAGMATA 2
- Hot off the Guild Wars 3 reveal, the long-running MMO series is getting its first-ever CCG in Mistbound 2
- 9 best detective games with crime mysteries you really solve
- Cavity Crushers Codes (June 2026)
- Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction
- Dead Space, one of the best video game remakes ever, is just $6 on Steam right now
- Diablo 4: Lord Of Hatred Has Been Rated For Switch 2 In Taiwan
- Feature: Going Platinum: This PS5 Game Gave Me Something Better Than a Platinum Trophy
- Feature: The 10 Best PS5 Games of 2026 So Far
- Feature: These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (June 22-26)
- Gallery: Nintendo Shares Multiple Screenshots Of Nintendo Switch Sports Resort
- Guide: These 5+ PS5 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (22nd-28th June)
- Kevin Conroy Featured in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
- Knife Arena Codes (June 2026)
- Lucky Block Rush Codes (June 2026)
- Meccha Chameleon Surpasses 5 Million Sales
- MonCraft 199X is a creature collecting survival game where the Y2K apocalypse actually happened
- Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
- Murder Duels Codes (June 2026)
- My Favorite Baseball Team Can Make Me Love MLB The Show, Or Absolutely Hate It
- NYT Connections Hints Today (#1106)—Answers for Sunday, June 21
- NYT Strands #839 Hints and Answers for Today, June 20, 2026
- Opinion: 30 Years On, I've Finally Come Around On The N64 Pad
- Opinion: No, the Vitality Era is Not “Over”
- PS5's Marvel Fighter Begins New Video Series, Starting with Cap
- Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (PS5) - A Safe But Delightful Take on Classic Action RPGs
- Rope Battles Codes (June 2026)
- Spear Fishing Codes (June 2026)
- Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount
- Talking Point: How Well Do You Expect GTA 6 To Run On Xbox Series X|S?
- Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th June)
- Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 20-21)
- The best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga
- The Police’s Stewart Copeland Confirms He Isn’t Working on New Spyro
- This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes
- Where to find the Temple of Nachi Falls in Forza Horizon 6
Other
- kyousuke Outshines donk as Falcons Make IEM Cologne 2026 Major Grand Final 2
- Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language' 2
- Amazon Prime Day: The best gaming discounts of the year officially start in 3 days
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's underrated '90s action masterpiece required 3 key scenes, says director
- Celebrating KPop Demon Hunters, the animated masterpiece that united the world
- I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet
- Microsoft’s AI strategy feels like a beta test — at the expense of Windows and Office
- Spider-Man Brand New day won't ever beat the best Spider-Man movie ever
- Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 638