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2026-09-24 25 stories

• Microsoft Culled Age of Empires Studio Before Handing It Over to Activision, With Nearly Half of All Staff Gone 5 sources
• Bethesda says that Obsidian's 'creative identity' will be preserved, just months after multiple projects were cancelled and it was told to make a Fallout game 5 sources
• "It genuinely breaks my heart"- Confusion and frustration reign as gaming communities react to Xbox's drastic restructuring this week 5 sources
• March 2027 Could Be Make-Or-Break For Marathon 4 sources
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Story Comes to an End With Final DLC This December 3 sources
• The Blood of Dawnwalker's divisive time mechanic was once much stricter, but it was loosened because of "fear" around the game 2 sources
• The Best News For Saw: Genesis Is We Have To Wait Longer To Play It 2 sources
• Don't expect regular Destiny 2 updates to return, despite the surprise "unvaulting" of game additions 2 sources
• Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Still Alive, and Just Added an Assassin's Creed Shadows Writer 2 sources
• Thief 2 Remastered should be Thief 2 Gold
• Supercell’s monster hunting game Mo.co is going ‘back into beta’
• Stranger Than Heaven Studio Made The Tupac Resurrection Less Weird By Not Using AI
• Put Remedy’s Immortality Toggle In All Games
• Irish Game Fund expands with additional funding pathways
• Injustice 3 Rumor Sparks Response From NetherRealm's Ed Boon
• Halo Fest Is Still Set for December 2026
• Former Avalanche Studios chief Natalie Francis joins Massive Entertainment as managing director
• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s Platinum Trophy is Easier than Rebirth’s
• Experimental RPG developer Summer Eternal: 'We're giving away 5% of our studio to you, the Players' in order to 'mend the trust broken in this industry a thousand times over'
• Counter-Strike Co-Creator Says Gabe Newell Got So Obsessed With Mongolian Throat Singing at Valve HQ That Staff Started Closing Their Office Doors to Escape the Noise
• 8 Best BioWare Games That Aged Like Fine Wine
• "I assume someone is being greedy somewhere" - Tim Schafer discusses current game industry woes following Double Fine's split with Xbox
• 'We all thought we were bringing extraction to the masses, and we didn't'
• 'One of the Very Few Games I'm Going to Be Buying': Control Resonant Has Leaked, But There's a Push Among Some Pirates to Pay For It Anyway
• 'It's Not Great Content': Ex-Dragon Age Exec Says He'd Now Change or Ditch Several Key Moments From the Series

2026-09-23 25 stories

• As Halo goes to Activision, fans are worried about this year's Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher 7 sources
• Arc Raiders’ Battle Pass Won’t Be Totally Free Anymore, But It’ll Pay For Itself 6 sources
• Obsidian's "creative identity and strengths" will remain intact, promises Bethesda, as it takes control of Fallout: New Vegas studio 5 sources
• State of Decay studio Undead Labs goes independent after Xbox restructuring, but lays off "a significant number" of the team in doing so 4 sources
• Star Wars Zero Company finds success in passing 1m sales, so can the furloughed development team be reinstated and paid now? 3 sources
• Microsoft’s XBOX Layoffs Will Fall Short of Previously Stated 3 sources
• Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lost "nearly half" of its staff during yesterday's Xbox cuts and move to Activision 3 sources
• Lords of the End Times is 'not the end' for Total War: Warhammer: 'You can't get rid of us that easily' 2 sources
• Former Halo leaders lament effective closure of Halo Studios, as one employee finds themselves promoted and fired in same week 2 sources
• Double Fine Founder Tim Schafer Questions Economics of the Game Industry Amid Mass Layoffs and Studio Closures 2 sources
• Blizzard to take "a somewhat different approach" to level-scaling in Diablo 5, suggesting more influence from Diablo 2 than Diablo 4 2 sources
• Wistful about Myst VI
• The producer behind Cregger's Resident Evil film is working on an unnamed Silent Hill project and players are asking for just one thing
• Stellar Blade is a success now but once came close to the brink: "We could only pay salaries for about three months"
• OneState maker ChillBase is quietly making millions by meeting the demand for GTA-likes
• On the podcast: Oakever Games shenanigans, King and the Xbox cuts, Hipster Whale, One State, Monopoly Go, more
• George Lucas Says His Changes to The Original Star Wars Trilogy Were Justified as Movies Always Get 'Yanked Out of Your Hands' For Release
• EXCLUSIVE: Breakaway Hockey League Doesn’t Want To Be the Next NHL
• EXCLUSIVE: Amy Hennig’s Uncharted 4 Was Very Different, Former Naughty Dog Dev Reveals
• Ed Boon Says Injustice 3 Testing Rumors Are False
• Dreamwork's Near-Perfect Fantasy Adventure Flips a Classic Movie Trope On Its Head
• Bombanana Surpassed 1 Million Sales in 10 Days
• Arc Raiders’ Cheating Epidemic Is Being Dealt With 'Quietly and Continuously'
• ARC Raiders Quietly Got a New Creative Director
• 'I Had 3 More Star Wars to Make' — George Lucas Reveals What He Left Behind When He Retired From Making Movies