News / Riot Spent A Decade Developing A Fighting Game Then Laid Off Around 80 Developers Less Than One Month After Release 'Overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size long term' By Luke Plunkett / 9 Feb 2026
News / Discord Leadership Only People On Planet Who Think Adding Age Verification To Discord A Good Idea 'As part of this update, all new and existing users worldwide will have a teen-appropriate experience by default' By Luke Plunkett / 9 Feb 2026
recap / Baldur's Gate 3 Heads To TV, An Assassin's Creed Gets Cancelled & Nvidia Cards Delayed Because Of You Know What: All The News From February 4-6 Also: a Ubisoft town hall goes very poorly By Luke Plunkett / 6 Feb 2026
valve / The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails 'The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing' By Luke Plunkett / 4 Feb 2026
overwatch / Nobody Needs This Man, We're All So Tired There's jokes and then there's whatever this was By Luke Plunkett / 4 Feb 2026
recap / The Ashes Of Ashes Of Creation, Iron Lung & Project Genie Bullshit: All The News From January 31-February 3 Also: AI podcasts, because we live in hell By Luke Plunkett / 3 Feb 2026
News / Adobe Is Ruthlessly Killing Off Software That Animators Around The World Are Using Every Day [Update] 'The entire toolshed is being demolished' By Luke Plunkett / 3 Feb 2026
ubisoft / Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate Sharing a YT video about labor and working from home is enough to get you terminated, it seems By Luke Plunkett / 2 Feb 2026
pokémon / Pokémon Company Apologises After Advertising Event At...Controversial War Crimes Shrine 'Brands that disregard history and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people will ultimately be abandoned' By Luke Plunkett / 1 Feb 2026
recap / Censored Hogs, GDC Cancellations & Amazon Layoffs: All The News From January 28-30 Also: Valve is facing a $900 million lawsuit By Luke Plunkett / 30 Jan 2026
AI / We Need A Word That Goes Beyond 'Slop' For This One We've gone way past the bottom of the barrel By Luke Plunkett / 29 Jan 2026
News / Warhammer Takedowns, EB Games Closures & Ubisoft Embarrassment: All The News From January 22-27 Also: Capcom's AI bullshit and 1,294,188 verified signatures By Luke Plunkett / 27 Jan 2026
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