Former Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor is urging Activision to hire former Halo Studios staff as it builds the team responsible for Master Chief’s future.
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Xbox Game Pass Rumored to See Huge Changes Next Year
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma recently acknowledged that Game Pass has fallen short of Microsoft’s expectations. Now, a new rumor suggests the service could look very different in 2027. The biggest possible change would be the end of day-one access to new Xbox games.
Sony Drops Big Money on Wolverine Vegas Promotion
Sony is spending heavily to ensure that nobody visiting Las Vegas overlooks the arrival of Marvel’s Wolverine.
PlayStation Gets Community Noted After Mistaking Cloud for Vincent in Final Fantasy VII Revelation Post
PlayStation managed to score an embarrassing self-inflicted L while promoting Final Fantasy VII Revelation, apparently forgetting what one of the most recognizable video game characters on the planet looks like. The official PlayStation account posted footage from...
Original World of Warcraft Lead Says AI Is Speeding His Game Development by 93X
Mark “Grummz” Kern says he spent six months using AI to rip Unreal Engine out from under his long-running project Em-8ER and replace it with a custom, AI-first engine of his own. He is now claiming that his team is developing 93 times faster than it ever did on Unreal...
Washington Post Writer Claims Outlets are “Misquoting” Article About Wolverine “Yearning” for Sabretooth
Washington Post critic Gene Park is pushing back against reports about Marvel’s Wolverine, accusing critics of “misquoting” his article after its description of Wolverine and Sabretooth experiencing “yearning” sparked considerable backlash.
Blizzard Just Saved Xbox: World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm Are Likely Coming to Consoles
Xbox was supposed to be out for the count. Sony and Nintendo were supposed to be dominating. That was the betting odds just a few months ago, but Sony's disastrous PR surrounding physical media means Microsoft has a chance to get back in the race. And after what we...
Nintendo’s Zelda 40th Anniversary Stream Doubled PlayStation’s State of Play Viewership
Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct attracted more than twice as many peak viewers as Sony’s September State of Play, according to figures reported by GamesRadar.
Insomniac Narrative Director Claims Wolverine and Sabretooth Feel a ‘Longing’ For Each Other in Marvel’s Wolverine
Ahead of the game’s PS5 release, The Washington Post highlighted an unconventional narrative choice: framing Logan and Victor Creed’s vicious relationship through shared trauma and emotional codependency. According to reporter Gene Park, a sequence in which the two attack a military installation features Creed grabbing Logan by the back of the neck in what Park characterized as a moment of mutual “yearning.”
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Inherited a Disaster — $23 Billion Business Has Just 3% Profit Margin as Game Pass Misses Projections
Xbox is a $23 billion-a-year gaming business backed by one of the richest corporations on Earth. It's also apparently making shockingly little money. A revealing new report from The Wall Street Journal paints a brutal picture of the Xbox operation inherited by new CEO...
Astra Created a 120 FPS Version of Super Smash Bros. Melee for Mac OS in 6 Hours
It took developers more than six years to fully decompile Super Smash Bros. Melee. It apparently took OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model just six hours to turn that work into a native Mac OS version running at 120 frames per second.
Mario Kart World Free Update Announced at Nintendo Direct
Nintendo is giving Mario Kart World players 10 additional courses and two new Knockout Tour routes. The new courses are all drawn from the original Super Mario Kart, bringing a selection of tracks from the 1992 SNES game into Mario Kart World as playable courses in VS Race.
Sony’s Physical Media Abandonment Is Only Predicted to Net Playstation a 3% Profit Increase
Sony’s plan to stop pressing new PlayStation game discs looks, on a spreadsheet, like a modest win. Goldman Sachs analyst Minami Munakata has told investors the January 2028 cutoff could lift Game & Network Services operating margin by about 3 percentage points in...