Video games, esports, gaming industry, and interactive entertainment
MLB The Show 26 delivers the sport's most authentic digital experience, but critics increasingly question whether the annual refresh formula is sustainable when everything beyond the gameplay feels recycled.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Tekken 8's Season 3 launch descended into crisis after the much-anticipated balance patch failed to meet player expectations, triggering a wave of negative reviews and forcing Bandai Namco to commit to immediate fixes.
Tom Whitfield 
Three weeks after launch, Bungie's new extraction shooter has sold 1.2 million copies and generated $55 million in revenue, but analytics suggest the game fell short of Sony's expectations.
Megan Torres 
The volunteer team behind the acclaimed Fallout: London mod has pushed back its second major DLC, Last Orders, beyond an April 2026 target date. Only a skeletal crew now works on the project.
Mitchell Tan 
Slay the Spire 2 enters Early Access on March 5 with a surprise feature: 4-player co-op that rewrites the roguelike deckbuilder formula with team mechanics and shared challenges.
Yuki Tamura 
NetEase Games has no plans to introduce original characters for Marvel Rivals in the near future, citing the enormous pool of Marvel properties already available.
Daniel Kovac 
Hideo Kojima directed his team to help more players finish Death Stranding 2, yet wrestled with making the experience too palatable. The sequel's design reveals an auteur torn between commercial viability and artistic provocation.
Oliver Pemberton 
Slay the Spire 2 has become the most successful deckbuilder of all time, reaching 575,000 concurrent players and generating $92 million in revenue within two weeks of launch.
Zara Mitchell 
Marathon is an excellent game that's built a devoted following, but sales figures suggest most players want nothing to do with it. Sony must decide whether to keep investing or cut its losses.
Tom Whitfield 
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies treats failure not as punishment but as narrative opportunity, making mistakes integral to the espionage RPG experience.
Priya Narayanan 
As Rhianna DeVries returns to voice Chloe Price in Life is Strange: Reunion, her personal brush with mortality has deeply informed her performance in a game centered on survival and impossible choices.
Tom Whitfield 
SkyUI, one of Skyrim's most popular mods, has returned with a major update and open-sourced code, allowing community developers to maintain and improve the project indefinitely.
Priya Narayanan 
Payday is jumping into virtual reality with Aces High, a four-player co-op heist game built from the ground up for VR headsets. The move signals Starbreeze's effort to recover from Payday 3's troubled launch.
Jake Nguyen 
Blizzard released a new music video featuring Norwegian artist AURORA that walks players through World of Warcraft's entire history, from the night elf starting zone to its newest expansion.
Jake Nguyen 
1047 Games has announced plans for a new movement-focused shooter inspired by Titanfall and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, even as its flagship title works to rebuild player trust after a troubled launch.
Oliver Pemberton 
Disney's gaming boss outlined ambitious plans for original games and Fortnite-integrated experiences at SXSW, even as the company's biggest digital partner announces massive layoffs.
Andrew Marsh 
Dark Outlaw Games is shutting down after just one year, part of broader cuts affecting 50 PlayStation employees. The studio, led by Call of Duty designer Jason Blundell, had never released a game.
Meg Hadley 
A solo developer who lost his job at an Xbox studio created a shop sim that authentically captures the emotional weight of industry layoffs, resonating with thousands of affected developers.
Jake Nguyen 
Marvel Rivals is officially heading to Nintendo Switch 2. NetEase has confirmed development is underway, though a release date remains unclear.
Jake Nguyen 
Behaviour Interactive, the Canadian studio behind Dead by Daylight, has acquired The Fun Pimps in a bid to build a major horror gaming portfolio. The move pairs one of gaming's biggest indie successes with the resources of an established powerhouse.
James Callahan