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Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass turn developers into 'wage slaves', says former PlayStation boss

Former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden thinks subscription services like Xbox Game Pass are a "danger" to the ...

My new bedtime Steam Deck go-to is a cozy bookshop sim where everyone loves hearing my opinion

There was an era when my bedtime rituals were dominated by screentime—usually doomscrolling online or fighting for my life ...

A game was unintentionally listed as 'Sh***y Dungeon' on Steam in Japan thanks to goofed-up machine translation

After presumably enjoying a series of sensible chortles, Japanese users contacted developer Fix-a-Bug on X and its Discord ...

Meta's AI rules permitted 'sensual' chats with kids until a journalist got ahold of the document and asked what was up with that

Meta says its guidelines about children were "erroneous," but hasn't commented on the one that allows statements like "Black ...

Konami fumbles the ball ahead of MGS Delta's release, says the Fox Hunt multiplayer mode won't have crossplay with zero explanation

Based on my time with it last August, it's a fanatically faithful remake of the OG game, but bad news: Konami said that Fox ...

The MMOs we grew up with are gone, and it's all our fault because we loved them to death

We collectively beat the MMOs of the 2000s to death, but even the MMOs of the 2025s look different to those of the 2015s.

Dawn of War: Definitive Edition may be a sparing remaster, but it's still the best way to revisit one of the greatest RTS series ever created

The HUD has also been tweaked for modern displays—rather than the original's somewhat claustrophobic banner which took up the ...

We're joining Frosthaven's party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot

Led by Julian Gollop, head of Snapshot Games and creator of X-COM, Frosthaven aims to replicate the dark fantasy tactical RPG ...

Windows on Arm gamers will be able to download Xbox app games locally but cloud gaming might still be a better option

Arm users have been able to play supported games via Xbox Cloud Gaming for a while now, but a new Windows Insider build ...

New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size

One confounding takeaway from the data is that the games market in Japan is bigger than ever, with the PC space nearly matching consoles for economic impact, while there are slightly fewer gamers⁠ in ...

After adding yet another tiny map, Battlefield 6 players are rightfully clowning on its definition of 'all-out warfare'

Even still, the way Battlefield 6 labels its modes has some questioning if EA has a different definition of "large" than the rest of us. The new Attack & Defend playlist, consisting of Rush and ...