Video games, esports, gaming industry, and interactive entertainment
Remedy Entertainment is ending content updates for FBC: Firebreak, its underperforming multiplayer spin-off, but introducing a Friend's Pass system and permanent price cut to keep the game alive.
Samantha Blake 
Mega Crit's decision to abandon Unity for open-source Godot, in protest of the engine maker's 2023 fee fiasco, has yielded a lesson in corporate accountability: three million copies sold in one week.
Priya Narayanan 
Pre-order data indicates Crimson Desert is tracking substantially above recent major releases, with nearly 400,000 copies sold three days before launch.
Oliver Pemberton 
Marathon receives a major content update with the addition of Cryo Archive map, a limited-time duos queue test, and significant balance changes including shotgun adjustments and expanded exfiltration options for downed players.
Zara Mitchell 
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed criticism of DLSS 5, insisting the technology gives developers artistic control despite widespread concern that the AI is 'yassifying' game characters.
Oliver Pemberton 
IO Interactive has ended its publishing partnership with MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy, cancelling a planned Hitman crossover mission in the process.
Tom Whitfield 
Phil Spencer's 38-year career at Microsoft Gaming is ending this summer, but not before Bethesda's Todd Howard shares his thoughts on the leadership transition reshaping Xbox.
Jake Nguyen 
Developer Arrowhead has released its first public content roadmap for Helldivers 2, detailing planned updates through June and promising new enemies, biomes, and missions.
Yuki Tamura 
Take-Two Interactive's CEO argues that hype around AI in game development glosses over a fundamental truth: no algorithm can replace the genius required to build a blockbuster.
Jimmy O'Brien 
Former Bethesda developers are open to the idea of outsourcing Fallout 5 to another studio, given the company's current workload and the Fallout TV show's unprecedented success.
Tom Whitfield 
GameStop has officially declared that the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U are now retro consoles, opening its trade-in programme to defective hardware for the first time.
Jake Nguyen 
Digital Sun Games has announced ReVamp, a tower defence roguelite where players take control of Dracula and defend his castle from waves of invaders using monsters and blood magic.
Oliver Pemberton 
Baby Steps' developers drew inspiration from an unconventional source: a skateboarding video and a custom Mirror's Edge map that changed how they think about exploration and player agency.
Patrick Donnelly 
A new trading card game based on CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk franchise has raised $3.6 million on Kickstarter in under an hour, smashing its modest $100,000 target and highlighting explosive growth in the TCG market.
Andrew Marsh 
Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon has released a major update that lets downed players activate extraction beacons, alongside a two-week experimental duos mode and a new map unlocked by community effort.
Patrick Donnelly 
Capcom's Pragmata uses an inventive hacking system to force players beyond reflexes into tactical decision-making, reshaping what third-person action combat can be.
Victoria Crawford 
Strauss Zelnick has drawn a clear line: ads in premium games 'would seem unfair.' But with rising costs and stagnant consumer spending, pressure to monetise full-price releases is intensifying.
Sarah Cheng 
Starfield arrives on PlayStation 5 on 7 April alongside major gameplay overhauls and new DLC that address long-standing community complaints about space exploration and inventory management.
Tom Whitfield 
Bethesda is delivering what many consider the biggest update to Starfield since launch on April 7, with a free overhaul to space exploration and a new paid story expansion.
Tom Whitfield 
After two and a half years as an Xbox exclusive, Starfield finally reaches PlayStation 5. But the real story is the overhaul happening on the same day.
Jake Nguyen