Video games, esports, gaming industry, and interactive entertainment
Pokémon Pokopia players have begun discovering logic gates and automated systems within the game's building mechanics, suggesting the sandbox contains surprising depth beneath its relaxed surface.
Oliver Pemberton 
Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider has disclosed that BioWare was forced to slash half of Dragon Age 2's planned quests when publishers revealed the game had just 16 months to completion, exposing a studio that didn't know how to make a small game.
Oliver Pemberton 
With development well underway, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3's director has outlined new gameplay mechanics and fan-favourite locations returning to the final chapter.
Yuki Tamura 
Amazon has raised Pokémon Pokopia's physical edition to $80 as the game sells out across retailers. The move signals Nintendo's willingness to test premium pricing on its newest console.
Tom Whitfield 
Panic Inc. has built a publishing powerhouse by making games nobody expected would succeed. Now their strategy hinges on taking bigger creative risks than ever.
Jake Nguyen 
Sony has been quietly testing variable pricing on its PlayStation Store since November, offering some players substantially lower prices for the same games. The experiment spans over 150 titles and raises concerns about consumer transparency.
Mitchell Tan 
Hytale's approach to recruiting modders from its own community challenges the traditional studio hiring model. The strategy is proving both pragmatic and sustainable.
Mitchell Tan 
The Division 2 broke its own Steam record with 26,459 concurrent players this weekend, driven by clear communication from Ubisoft about what's ahead. It's a lesson in how transparency beats empty promises.
Nina Papadopoulos 
A programmer called Will spent months reverse-engineering classic Crazy Taxi to let players explore its virtual cities freely online. The project now lives on noclip, a digital museum celebrating video game design.
Daniel Kovac 
Slay the Spire 2 has hit over half a million concurrent players on Steam, becoming a massive indie triumph and prompting its developers to walk back a cheeky Marathon joke.
Mitchell Tan 
NetEase is withdrawing funding from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's new studio in May, leaving his debut game Gang of Dragon in financial limbo after three months in public view.
Sophia Vargas 
Australia's ban on social media for under-16s has locked millions out of Twitch. But the policy risks creating worse problems than it solves.
Jake Nguyen 
Bungie has moved quickly to address complaints over Marathon's premium currency bundles, raising the $10 package from 1,100 to 1,120 Lux and promising broader changes.
Sophia Vargas 
Hannah and Joseph Games has released Banquet for Fools from early access, achieving 91 per cent positive reviews on Steam with a deliberately unconventional approach to role-playing games.
Rachel Thornbury 
A solo developer has spent years crafting Haunted Lands, a dark homage to John Romero's 1988 platformer series. The game launches March 10 as indie gaming continues to honour the legends that shaped the industry.
Yuki Tamura Australian gamers face a perfect storm of rising hardware costs, AI-driven chip shortages, and regional pricing markups that threaten to exclude millions from the hobby.
Jake Nguyen 
Valve scrambled to clarify its Steam Machine timeline on Friday after a blog update hinting at possible 2027 delays spooked gamers. The company now reaffirms a 2026 launch for its new living room gaming PC despite severe global memory shortages driven by AI data centre demand.
Jake Nguyen 
A 90% price cut and new hardcore gameplay mode have driven The Division 2's concurrent players up 400 percent on Steam, proving aggressive pricing and content can still move the needle for aging games.
Tom Whitfield 
World of Warcraft's successful redesign of Silvermoon City raises a crucial question about MMO expansion design: does adding new lands always beat reimagining old ones?
Aisha Khoury 
A 1997 Ukrainian shooter used clever tricks to run advanced graphics on underpowered machines, prefiguring later Eastern European innovation in gaming.
Tom Whitfield