Video games, esports, gaming industry, and interactive entertainment
Warface: Clutch, once Crytek's flagship bid to compete with Call of Duty, will shut down in May 2026. The closure exposes deeper questions about sustainable game design and resource management in live-service publishing.
Daniel Kovac 
Solasta 2 enters early access on March 12, offering a fundamentally different take on D&D video gaming than Baldur's Gate 3—one built by a 40-person studio prioritising tactical combat over cinematic storytelling.
Tom Whitfield 
Australian games journalists are reviving print journalism with Continue, a defiant new magazine funded within hours on Kickstarter. The project signals hope for a scene ravaged by industry-wide closures.
Sophia Vargas 
A reliable Lego set leaker claims Sony's original PlayStation is getting the brick treatment this year, joining Nintendo's growing collection of retro console sets.
Jake Nguyen 
Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb, the public face of Xbox for nearly two decades, has joined the newly revived Commodore brand as Community Development Advisor, helping the company reconnect with its passionate fan base.
Tom Whitfield 
Epic Games is making Save the World free on April 16, reversing a six-year paywall. The timing, though, obscures a less generous announcement: V-Bucks are getting more expensive starting March 19.
Jake Nguyen 
Marathon's first major patch improves ammo and med spawns for newcomers while making thermal scopes less powerful and combat louder, striking a balance between accessibility and challenge.
Jimmy O'Brien 
A new developer diary for Clive Barker's upcoming survival horror game shows how the Genesis Configuration puzzle box will serve as a supernatural weapon, letting players harness powers beyond conventional firearms and melee combat.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Overwatch players can now buy a bundle of five Nier: Automata skins for $70, more than double the cost of the actual game the skins are based on.
Sophia Vargas 
Facepunch Studios, creator of the hugely popular survival game Rust, has fielded multiple acquisition offers but has no intention of selling. Studio founder Garry Newman explained the decision comes down to freedom and financial security.
Sophia Vargas 
Palworld's developer faces a hard question about game longevity. How many updates can a survival game sustain before it collapses under its own weight?
Daniel Kovac 
Save the World, Fortnite's original PvE campaign from 2017, will become free-to-play next month, ending nearly a decade of paid access across supported platforms including the Nintendo Switch 2.
Oliver Pemberton 
A week after launch, Bungie is making substantial changes to its extraction shooter to help solo players and smaller squads manage the punishing difficulty curve.
Megan Torres 
A former Wildlight technical artist has reactivated his X account and reflected on his now-deleted post blaming online toxicity for the game's swift failure.
Mitchell Tan 
Microsoft has shown early developer kit images for Project Helix, its next-generation console that will run both Xbox and PC games, amid broader leadership changes at the gaming division.
Tom Whitfield 
A month after Highguard's shutdown, technical artist Josh Sobel apologised for his heated criticism of gaming culture, acknowledging he was overwhelmed but standing by his frustration with online negativity.
Jimmy O'Brien 
Minecraft Live returns on 21 March with behind-the-scenes content, guest appearances, and reveals of upcoming game drops for the year ahead.
Mitchell Tan 
AdHoc Studio's breakout superhero game Dispatch uses hidden probability adjustments during its dispatch missions, automatically guaranteeing success on high-percentage actions and protecting players from bad luck.
Megan Torres 
A small Milan-based studio led by popular Pokémon streamer Cydonia has raised over $800,000 in record time, signalling growing appetite for fresh takes on beloved gaming genres.
Yuki Tamura 
RuneScape's developer has hiked subscription fees for the second time in less than two years, just months after scrapping the game's controversial loot box system that generated substantial revenue.
Mitchell Tan