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2026-10-21 18 stories

• EA cancels unannounced The Sims project, trims the Skate team and reportedly plans to lay off 400 workers: "We're the number one publisher in Western HD gaming" 5 sources
• Prospective Buyers Reportedly Value Xbox As High As $150 Billion 4 sources
• Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs, with the first wave coming as early as this month 3 sources
• Xbox Game Pass Heading For A Massive Shakeup, Report Says 2 sources
• Poison Ivy Show in Early Development with Penguin Showrunner in Talks to Produce 2 sources
• Wargaming cofounder’s Mika Games raises $10m to back studios beyond soft launch
• Vivrato: 97% of studio leaders use AI in some form during development in EU and North America
• The next Mass Effect would have had 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match', according to BioWare veteran
• Sony Said Xbox Game Pass Isn't Sustainable, Now It Seems the Gravy Train Is Almost Over
• Resident Evil: Requiem made more money from PlayStation discs than on Xbox in total, reportedly, as Sony's march to a discless future continues
• PS5’s Biggest Physical Games Look Very Different From Its Biggest Digital Hits
• Here's another gizmo to prevent your graphics card from melting - wouldn't it be nice if 12+4-pin connectors weren't a cause for concern at all?
• Games like Call of Duty and EA Sports FC most at risk of losing players during GTA 6 launch, according to new data
• Data digest: Scopely, Century and Dream lead publisher list, Block Blast and Arrows top download chart, more
• Chinese repair centre has received 7 melted 12+4-pin Nvidia GPUs in just the past two days alone
• Brandon Sanderson Wants to Know Who Really Wrote the Mr. Beast Book
• 80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come
• "I want room to make a wrong turn": Following Samson dev's bankruptcy, its founder is considering how AI might factor into new studio plans

2026-10-20 20 stories

• Ex-Call of Duty designer "who survived the crunch" in order to launch Black Ops 1 & 2 calls out executives "raking it in" from sales of remasters 4 sources
• Sensor Tower data shows the yawning gap between GTA 6 and everything else 3 sources
• European age-ratings body PEGI begins raising age-limit of loot box games, like EA Sports FC, to 16 3 sources
• Xbox Game Pass Reportedly Getting 'Major Overhaul,' Will Feature 'À La Carte' Options 2 sources
• Sony Boss: “Creativity Is For Humans, Not AI” 2 sources
• Griffin Gaming Partners, Entertainment 360 jointly unveil production company Hitpoint Entertainment 2 sources
• 'Haven't Played Your Console in a While?' Trade It in, Xbox Tells Customers Amid Stock Shortages 2 sources
• Xbox 'Business Strategist' Claims Video Game Industry Is 'Pretending to Not Use AI,' Deletes Twitter Account After Deluge of Replies
• TP-Link says it will start making Wi-Fi 8 routers in the US, dodging government soft ban in one easy step
• PS Store Must Copy Steam If PC Players' Campaign Against AI Content Succeeds
• Netflix’s Push Into Gaming Continues To Fall Short
• Japan Actors Union announces guidelines addressing unauthorised use of generative AI to replicate voice performances
• Innersloth co-founder warns devs: 'there are some very bad deals out there'
• I have neither the budget nor the inclination for a crystal encrusted RTX 5090, but Galax is releasing one anyway
• GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 moves to four-day format to "create a higher quality, more focused and valuable experience"
• Free $5 Reward Certificate for Signing Up for the New Best Buy Gamers Program
• Founder of bankrupt Samson studio mulls how to use AI for his next attempt: 'Cutting corners in game development has a habit of coming back to bite you in the ass'
• App Store review times are being dragged down by a flood of AI-made apps and games
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent's co-founder explained the 'the dynamic of Steam' to Red Barrels after Outlast's sales slowed down
• A New PlayStation Promo Suggests Sony's Bought the Kena IP from Ember Lab

2026-10-19 12 stories

• Moonlighter dev delays Steam playtest for its "Tower Defensevania" ReVamp over concerns that AI copycats might clone it before launch 5 sources
• RTX 5090 not dead, says Nvidia—but it's mysteriously vanished from the company's official marketplace
• PSA Responds After More Than $100,000 Worth of Graded Trading Cards Stolen from FedEx Truck
• PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"
• PEGI begins moving existing digital-only games with loot boxes up to a 16 rating
• No publishers wanted Outlast because they'd 'rather invest $50,000 in 10 mobile games' so Red Barrels relied on public investment programs and their own savings instead
• Life has once again found a way in Athanasia, an "immersive" dinosaur FPS that feels like comfort food for Dino Crisis and System Shock players alike
• Japanese acting union fights back against AI-generated voice use, proposing strict new guidelines, especially regarding the use of a deceased actor's voice
• GDCA 2027 moves away from nominations-based system, publishers and devs can now submit games for consideration
• Dune: Awakening studio faces layoffs as it restructures following console release
• Around 60 Netflix Games staff affected amid company-wide layoffs
• Arc Raiders player numbers hit a six-month high following the release of the extraction shooter's huge Frozen Trails update