Video Games / Gamers Sue Sony For Allegedly Breaking California Digital Purchase Law “Consumers who ‘purchase’ digital games through PlayStation do not obtain ownership of those products” By Nicole Carpenter / 18 Jun 2026
Video Games / Game Developers Neither Surprised Nor Delighted To Learn That Unreal Engine 6 Will Be Filled With AI Garbage “All of the UE6 stuff is really exciting news if your idea of a video game is turning it into shitty Roblox-core slurry for Fortnite" By Nathan Grayson / 17 Jun 2026
News / Despite Awards, South Of Midnight Studio Becomes Latest Victim Of Microsoft’s Implosion Compulsion Games could be on the chopping block, months after Xbox hyped up its award wins By Riley MacLeod / 15 Jun 2026
News / Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension Blizzard shut down a different, popular player-run server, Turtle Wow, in April By Nicole Carpenter / 13 Jun 2026
Labor / IGN Lays Off Tech Workers Following Summer Game Fest, Where Pro-Union Messages Were Erased Layoffs affected four tech workers who were potentially eligible to join the IGN Creators Guild, as the union continues to bargain its first contract By Riley MacLeod / 11 Jun 2026
News / Ubisoft Embargoes Journalists Reporting On Latest Round Of Layoffs This is not typically what embargoes are for By Nathan Grayson / 10 Jun 2026
Video Games / That Was The Most Dragon's Dogma Way To Announce DLC We all kinda knew that Dragon's Dogma 2 was getting an expansion, but this is the most Dragon's Dogma way to announce it. By Chris Person / 9 Jun 2026
Video Games / Nobody Is Happy That Yakuza Studio’s Next Game Is Performing Digital Necromancy On Tupac "I love RGG, and I love hip-hop, and I absolutely hate everything they're doing with this angle" By Nathan Grayson / 5 Jun 2026
News / Gamers Sue Microsoft, Claiming It Colludes With Valve On Store Pricing A new lawsuit filed Sunday in Washington court claims Microsoft is in cahoots with Valve By Nicole Carpenter / 2 Jun 2026
News / SXSW Responds To Hasan Piker UK Ban With Nothing Statement, Speakers Pull Out In Protest “There's an obvious irony in hosting a conference about the future of media, democracy, dissent, and political power while responding so cautiously to the banning of one of the most influential political commentators from even entering the country" By Nathan Grayson / 1 Jun 2026
Media / Workers At TheGamer Say Site’s New Pay-Per-Session Contract Is ‘Heartbreaking’ Under a new payment system, writers at Valnet-owned TheGamer would no longer be guaranteed consistent pay for their work By Riley MacLeod / 25 May 2026
Video Games / Devolver Digital Suing Toy Maker Who Keeps Saying He's Making A Hotline Miami Spinoff Game The two parties did once have an agreement for toys and pins By Nicole Carpenter / 21 May 2026
