Cloud gaming, XR headsets, and the platforms reshaping how we play.
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The Nintendo designer, 73, is among eight fiscal 2026 honorees and will receive the award from Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace on Culture Day.
Australia's Federal Court has given Apple until March 2027 to admit rival app stores, direct downloads and outside payments, and ordered Fortnite back on the local App Store.
Electronic Arts is shutting the Edmonton studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, cancelling a fifth Mass Effect game and cutting about 400 jobs months after a $55 billion buyout.
The Life is Strange developer secured a six month observation period from the Paris Business Court while it hunts for outside financing and weighs cuts to as many as 85 French roles.
Finland's Supercell now owns 100 percent of Metacore and will run Merge Mansion inside its live games portfolio, after cutting 159 roles in Helsinki and closing two overseas offices.
The Swedish studio behind the open city crime game has entered bankruptcy, leaving a trustee to seek buyers for its core assets and intellectual property before an October 21 deadline.
Brazil's LOUD defeated France's Team Vitality 3-1 in Shanghai to claim a second VALORANT Champions trophy and the $1,000,000 first prize, becoming the first two time world champion.
Remedy Entertainment's Control Resonant crossed one million copies sold roughly three weeks after launch, overtaking Alan Wake 2 as the Finnish studio's fastest-selling title.
Ubisoft has proposed shutting its Finnish Trials studio and cutting about a fifth of the staff behind Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the latest step in its reorganisation into six Creative Houses.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has created Xbox Labs, a small team led by CTO Scott Van Vliet to study decompiled ports, browser play and agent driven game experiments.
Epic Games chief executive Tim Sweeney says developers are being moved to retool for maximum AI acceleration, as a Marvel and Star Wars crossover shooter slips past its March 2027 date with no replacement scheduled.
SteamDB data shows Valve's platform passed 43.5 million simultaneous accounts on October 11, with Deadlock, Aion 2 and Counter-Strike 2 driving the second record of 2026.
Circana data shows US video game hardware unit sales through August 2026 fell 33% for Xbox and 25% for PlayStation, with record average prices and the weakest August since 2013.
Anonymous leaker Cyberleek posted roughly 25 minutes of alleged Grand Theft Auto VI footage on October 8, six weeks before launch, as Take-Two's subpoenas reach Microsoft and Discord and crypto proceeds draw scrutiny.
Bandai Namco says the newest Ace Combat entry hit seven figures in roughly seven days, outpacing every earlier game in a franchise that began three decades ago.
The $110 billion merger creates Skydance and puts Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat and Batman studios alongside Paramount's game team under president Tony Driscoll.
Prime members in supported regions can play the single player campaign of the new Star Wars racing game on Luna at no extra cost as it hits consoles and PC on the same day.
The Coalition's prequel scored 87 on Metacritic and 88 on OpenCritic while Microsoft kept the shooter off PlayStation, making it a defining test of Xbox's renewed exclusivity strategy.
LOVE Magazine Issue 27 puts GTA VI leads Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos on one of six covers at EUR 25 a copy, with four new screenshots and a Rockstar narrative interview inside.
Sony Interactive Entertainment's QSSR brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5 via patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei, while PSSR stays exclusive to the PS5 Pro.
The maker of No More Heroes and killer7 regains control of its own projects after a five-year run under the Chinese publisher, with board changes still underway.