Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is receiving backlash online for comments he directed at fans of the new game Pragmata. In a viral clip shared by veteran game developer Mark Kern—known on X as Grummz—the controversial internet personality mocks players who feel emotionally connected to the father-daughter dynamic of the action-adventure game.
The founder of Kotaku openly mocked the death of Charlie Kirk just hours after a tragic shooting took the conservative commentator’s life.
One year ago, just two weeks after its release, the hero-shooter known as Concord was permanently shut down due to its abysmal sales and astonishingly low player count. Just a couple months later, Sony, in an attempt to cut losses, disbanded Firewalk studios, which had developed the game over the course of 8 years.
For years, gamers have debated whether subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are helping the industry or causing problems. Now, a former Xbox executive has admitted what critics have been saying all along—Game Pass is creating serious problems, both financially and creatively, across the gaming world.
Fans of Square Enix’s biggest franchises received some long-awaited reassurance this week. During a livestream celebrating the second anniversary of Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, creative director Tetsuya Nomura addressed questions about both Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 and Kingdom Hearts 4.
The video game industry has always been volatile, but the latest wave of layoffs has revealed just how much one state dominates the downturn. According to new reporting, more than 50% of all job cuts in the global gaming industry layoffs have taken place in California. For a sector that has boasted record revenues in recent years, the numbers tell a troubling story — one that some popular voices are framing as a cultural correction.
The long, horrific tale of the Perfect Dark Reboot seems to have finally come to a close.
Following seven years of development hell, the controversial Perfect Dark reboot was almost restored by Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive. When discussions around the future of the IP went sour, mass layoffs ensued.
For years, questions have lingered over the influence of Montreal-based consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. (SBI) on major AAA games like the upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine from Insomniac Studios.
The consultancy firm, which bills itself as a narrative and inclusivity consultant, was once publicly tied to the Wolverine game, a title that was, at one time, a highly-anticipated Insomniac Games project for PlayStation 5. But were they still on board all through production?
Fans of Marvel’s most popular mutant may not have to wait much longer. According to multiple industry insiders, Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game is finally ready to step back into the spotlight with a brand-new trailer.
The controversy over Take Us North, the game in which the player must illegally sneak migrants into the United States from Mexico, just grew even bigger. A resurfaced GDC panel featuring Anima Interactive founder Karla Reyes revealed that before her studio developed its illegal immigration game, she had promoted another project about illegally crossing the Texas border to terminate a pregnancy.
Nintendo has a strange problem on its hands in 2025: the hottest “new” Mario Kart game isn’t the one it just launched on its brand-new console. Instead, it’s a re-release that first showed up over a decade ago. Yes, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is outselling Mario Kart World on the Switch 2.
Star Wars Outlaws is reportedly having major issues ahead of its launch on Nintendo Switch 2. But for anyone familiar with the game, this should come as no shock.
Sometimes, products and their placement in entertainment go together like peanut butter and jelly, a cool drink on a warm summer day, or E.T. and Reese’s Pieces. Symbiosis is good — unless it feels alien, like Venom. When Insomniac Games gave Miles Morales a Spider-Man costume inspired by an Adidas tracksuit in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, gamers reacted as if someone had put sardines on their s’mores and an Ovaltine ad in their decoder ring.