Video games, esports, gaming industry, and interactive entertainment
After 18 months in early access, Spiders' fantasy prequel shows promise but arrives at full release still plagued by bugs and pacing issues that undermine its creative ambition.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
AdHoc Studio's superhero comedy Dispatch sold over 3 million copies despite investor warnings that narrative-driven games were a dead market. The developers' gamble paid off spectacularly.
Priya Narayanan 
Bungie's new extraction shooter Marathon abandons genre conventions in favour of intense combat, cutting the menu complexity that typically defines the experience.
Sophia Vargas 
When publishers wrote off Dispatch as risky, AdHoc Studio pressed ahead anyway. The gamble paid off spectacularly.
Oliver Pemberton 
Tim Cain shares the story of how his grasp of Dungeons & Dragons mechanics helped him secure a position at Interplay Entertainment, launching one of gaming's most influential franchises.
James Callahan 
Ben Diskin, who voiced Mega Man in the franchise's best-selling entry, has declined to return for the upcoming sequel because Capcom will not work under a union contract.
Ella Sullivan 
The legendary director who shaped horror gaming now wants Resident Evil Requiem to let players skip the scares. It raises a surprising question about what modern horror games should become.
Riley Fitzgerald 
A new game called Pickmon has arrived on Steam with accusations of wholesale copying from Pokemon, Palworld, Breath of the Wild, and multiple fan artists. The brazenness suggests a cash-grab strategy with little regard for intellectual property.
Tom Whitfield 
Sega faces a troubling paradox. Its recent games earn glowing reviews, yet sales fall far short of expectations. The company is now confronting uncomfortable questions about how to convert critical acclaim into customer spending.
Daniel Kovac 
RuneScape and Fortnite have announced significant price increases, citing rising development and infrastructure costs. The moves highlight broader pressures facing the gaming industry.
Oliver Pemberton 
With Crimson Desert launching in days, Pearl Abyss has released system requirements proving the open-world epic won't require a second mortgage.
Jake Nguyen 
Garry Newman once thought his sandbox creation would make about $30,000 in a best-case scenario. Twenty years later, Garry's Mod has become Steam's best-selling PC exclusive ever.
Zara Mitchell 
Activision's new Black Ops Royale mode returns Call of Duty to battle royale basics, ditching loadouts and the Gulag in favour of pure scavenging and survival.
Mitchell Tan 
Former Xbox executive Peter Moore has admitted to deliberately orchestrating the console wars between Microsoft and PlayStation, drawing from marketing lessons learned at Reebok.
Tom Whitfield 
RuneScape's newest price increase makes its monthly membership cost equivalent to competing MMOs, but players argue the game's content and customer service don't justify AAA-level pricing.
Oliver Pemberton 
Pearl Abyss claps back at players demanding console footage, but the transparency gap reveals deeper anxieties about a high-profile game launch that feels slightly too mysterious.
Jake Nguyen 
Battlefield 6 launches its Nightfall update next week with ambitious new content, but recent staff cuts and ongoing player decline present real challenges to the franchise's momentum.
Jimmy O'Brien 
Resident Evil Requiem supports an advanced GPU decompression feature, yet testing reveals it rarely activates even on capable hardware, creating a puzzling technical mystery.
Zara Mitchell 
Nvidia has confirmed that The Witcher 4 will use RTX Mega Geometry foliage, a new ray-tracing technology designed to handle dense forests and complex vegetation at real-time performance.
Zara Mitchell 
NVIDIA is releasing Dynamic Multi Frame Generation on March 31, allowing RTX 50-series GPU owners to automatically adjust frame generation in real time. The feature promises smoother gameplay but raises questions about input latency and whether the gains justify the technology's complexity.
Helen Cartwright