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China Rules That Gaming Account Use Rights Can Be Inherited
A Beijing court has ruled that the right to use a gaming account, not the account itself, can be inherited after death.
A Starfield Developer Just Said the 1,000 Planets Was the Wrong Call
A developer who spent years working on Starfield says he would have built the game's planets completely differently, and the reason he gives lines up with exactly what players have been complaining about since launch.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Is Becoming a Real Restaurant in 2027
American Dream Mall and Scott Cawthon's ScottGames just confirmed a permanent, real-life Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is opening in New Jersey in 2027, and this time it's not a seasonal haunted house.
id Software's Chris Hays Says Xbox "Fundamentally" Doesn't Understand Art
A 16-year id Software veteran spent a recent podcast appearance explaining exactly why he thinks Microsoft doesn't understand the business it just gutted, and Doom's own director publicly disagrees with him.
A Missing Underscore in a Skyrim-Inspired Username Put an Innocent Man in Prison for 18 Months
Brandon Klayme served 18 months in a Canadian prison because investigators requested the wrong Kik username by one underscore, and Nova Scotia's Attorney General is now asking how that happened.
Zelnick Calls GTA 6's $80 Price an "Incredible Bargain." Read the Fine Print.
Strauss Zelnick spent part of Take-Two's August 7 earnings call defending GTA 6's $80 price tag, and landed on calling it an incredible bargain.
Rockstar Isn't Ready to Talk About GTA Online Yet, and It Shows
Jason Schreier says Rockstar and Take-Two aren't planning to talk about GTA Online anytime soon, and he's careful to say that's not a leak, just an observation anyone paying attention to the marketing could make.
ByteDance Quit Gaming in 2023. It's Back, and AI Is the Whole Pitch.
ByteDance walked away from the video game business almost three years ago and sold off its last hit specifically to fund an AI push. Now it's back with a game whose entire pitch is how much generative AI is packed into it.
PlayStation Leads US Console Use, but Its Own Sales Numbers Are Falling
PlayStation tops a new survey of US console use with 46%, the same year its own shipment numbers took a sharp drop.
Zelnick Won't Talk About Sony's Disc Decision. He Just Made the Same Argument.
Take-Two's CEO spent Friday's earnings call declining to comment on Sony killing PlayStation discs, then explained why GTA 6 isn't getting one, using almost exactly the same logic.
That $1.39 Billion GTA VI Number Isn't What You Think
Take-Two's headline quarter is getting reported like it's a GTA VI preorder haul. It's actually the entire company's total, and GTA VI was only open for preorders five days of it.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Launched on PC With a Stutter Problem That Won't Go Away
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is out now, and its PC version showed up with a stutter that even a top-end rig can't shake.
Single Player Tarkov Is Shutting Down After a Trademark Notice From Battlestate Games
Battlestate Games sent Single Player Tarkov's team a trademark notice, and shutting down instead of just renaming is the part nobody involved has actually explained.
Nintendo's Physical Sales Are Holding Steady, Even With Sony Walking Away From Discs
While Sony packs away its disc drive for good, Nintendo just showed the industry that physical games still carry real weight.
Xbox's Outage Blocked Disc-Based Games Too, and Microsoft Says That Was a Bug
Xbox says a bug blocked its own physical discs during last week's outage, and its explanation covers how that happened without touching why an online system could reach offline entitlements at all.
Xbox's Next Limited Edition Controller Is Storm King, Themed to Gears of War: E-Day
The next limited-edition Xbox controller already has a name, a price, and a design, all tied to Gears of War: E-Day, weeks before Microsoft has said anything official.
Halo Studios Lays Off Staff One Week After Campaign Evolved's Launch
Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything officially, but three named Halo Studios employees, a producer, a scrum master, and a software engineer, say their jobs ended this week.
GTA VI's Next Trailer Is Premiering on Netflix First
Grand Theft Auto VI's next big look at the game is premiering on Netflix, six hours before it hits YouTube.
Devolver Digital Wants to Go Private Again, Five Years After a $950 Million IPO
Devolver Digital's stock has dropped 96% since it went public in 2021, and the publisher now wants out of the stock market entirely.
Arctic Turns Its Tariff Refund Into a US Price Promotion
Arctic got its tariff money back from a Supreme Court ruling, and it's turning that money into discounts instead of profit.