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ByteDance Quit Gaming in 2023. It's Back, and AI Is the Whole Pitch.
ByteDance walked away from the video game business almost three years ago and sold off its last hit specifically to fund an AI push. Now it's back with a game whose entire pitch is how much generative AI is packed into it.
PlayStation Leads US Console Use, but Its Own Sales Numbers Are Falling
PlayStation tops a new survey of US console use with 46%, the same year its own shipment numbers took a sharp drop.
Zelnick Won't Talk About Sony's Disc Decision. He Just Made the Same Argument.
Take-Two's CEO spent Friday's earnings call declining to comment on Sony killing PlayStation discs, then explained why GTA 6 isn't getting one, using almost exactly the same logic.
That $1.39 Billion GTA VI Number Isn't What You Think
Take-Two's headline quarter is getting reported like it's a GTA VI preorder haul. It's actually the entire company's total, and GTA VI was only open for preorders five days of it.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Launched on PC With a Stutter Problem That Won't Go Away
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is out now, and its PC version showed up with a stutter that even a top-end rig can't shake.
Single Player Tarkov Is Shutting Down After a Trademark Notice From Battlestate Games
Battlestate Games sent Single Player Tarkov's team a trademark notice, and shutting down instead of just renaming is the part nobody involved has actually explained.
Nintendo's Physical Sales Are Holding Steady, Even With Sony Walking Away From Discs
While Sony packs away its disc drive for good, Nintendo just showed the industry that physical games still carry real weight.
Xbox's Outage Blocked Disc-Based Games Too, and Microsoft Says That Was a Bug
Xbox says a bug blocked its own physical discs during last week's outage, and its explanation covers how that happened without touching why an online system could reach offline entitlements at all.
Xbox's Next Limited Edition Controller Is Storm King, Themed to Gears of War: E-Day
The next limited-edition Xbox controller already has a name, a price, and a design, all tied to Gears of War: E-Day, weeks before Microsoft has said anything official.
Halo Studios Lays Off Staff One Week After Campaign Evolved's Launch
Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything officially, but three named Halo Studios employees, a producer, a scrum master, and a software engineer, say their jobs ended this week.
GTA VI's Next Trailer Is Premiering on Netflix First
Grand Theft Auto VI's next big look at the game is premiering on Netflix, six hours before it hits YouTube.
Devolver Digital Wants to Go Private Again, Five Years After a $950 Million IPO
Devolver Digital's stock has dropped 96% since it went public in 2021, and the publisher now wants out of the stock market entirely.
Arctic Turns Its Tariff Refund Into a US Price Promotion
Arctic got its tariff money back from a Supreme Court ruling, and it's turning that money into discounts instead of profit.
Roblox Just Told Investors Its Bad Quarter Was Partly on Purpose
Roblox's Q3 bookings guidance implies a decline of up to 18 percent, and the company says a chunk of that is a choice it made on purpose.
Shift at Midnight: Every Monster and How to Deal With the Dentist
Shift at Midnight throws five different threats at you before the game even gets to the one thing you can't fight back against.
Marvel Rivals: How to Get the Free Ultron Skin (Age of Ultron Rewards)
Marvel Rivals followed up Loki's 1v6 duel with a full squad fight against Ultron's drone army, and there's a free skin waiting on the other side of it.
Marvel Rivals: How to Beat Ultron (Phase 7 and Phase 11)
Ultron doesn't just show up once in this mode, he shows up twice, and the second time he's got more than four times the health bar to back it up.
Marvel Rivals: Avengers Age of Ultron PvE Guide
Ultron's climbing back out of the wreckage for a second round, and this time Marvel Rivals hands you seven completely rebuilt Avengers to throw at him.
Refactor Games Lost Most of Its Staff Weeks After Shipping FIFA World Cup
Multiple reports called Refactor Games shut down this week, but the studio's own CEO says around 80 people were laid off and the company plans to regroup.
Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Is Reportedly Coming to PC Next
Microsoft isn't stopping at original Xbox games on PC. A leaked internal document reportedly shows Xbox 360 titles getting the same treatment next, timed to land right alongside Project Helix.