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When Is A Video Game Allowed To Die?
In light of Anthem's recent shutdown, the topic of games going away for good is once again a hot-button issue. Below, we examine this reality in a feature originally published in July 2025. In a July 2025 shareholders meeting, Ubisoft CEO Yves…
What Even Is A Video Game Backlog In 2026?
We've written a lot about backlogs on this site. Those long lists of games we want to play or finally get around to finishing. I have a backlog. It's very big. It's scary to think about. And I also recently realized, after returning to Diablo 4…
Yakuza Kiwami 3 might be the most meta video game remake yet
Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake might be the flashiest example of video game remakes trying to incorporate a franchise's legacy, but Ryu Ga Gotoku's Yakuza Kiwami 3 is shaping up to be the best-executed so far. Polygon had the chance to play…
Markiplier Turns 'Iron Lung' Video Game Into Box Office Sensation
Markiplier, whose real name is Mark Edward Fischbach, is 36, having been born on 28 June 1989. He is an American YouTuber and filmmaker. His estimated net worth stands at around $45 million (around £33.5 million) as of 2025, reflecting his…
The 2020s Brought These Seemingly New Video Game Genres To Life
The list of video game genres looks completely different today than it did 20 or even 10 years ago, as many early concepts have either become obsolete or improved upon to such an extent that the original ideas are barely recognizable. Some of the…
How much video gaming is too much? Study pinpoints health limit
Video games might not rot your brain - but new evidence suggests they can have a marked effect on your health. A new study led by Curtin University surveyed 317 students from at Australian universities, with a median age of 20. The participants…
Amazon's New God of War Update Means Fallout Is No Longer the Video Game TV Show Gold Standard
The... er... um... fallout of the latest headline news surrounding the God of War live-action series for Prime Video changes just about everything for the video-game-turned-TV-series genre, including Fallout, or at least sets the stage for that to…
What does Discord's potential IPO mean for the game industry?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that Discord has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. With more than 200 million monthly users globally, Discord is among the few major social media platforms to remain private. Now, it could be about…
'One major AAA release will be built with AI-generated assets as a core selling point and succeed' - ChatGPT's bold 2026 gaming predictions
Don't let the constant chatter on X about “gaming being dead” fool you — 2025 was one of the strongest years in recent memory when you look at the sheer number of great games that launched. Add in the massive debut of the…
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Father Totally Wipes Out Coach With Brutal Tackle After Fight Breaks Out At Youth Basketball Game [VIDEO]
A youth basketball game turned ugly after a fight broke out and parents rushed in. Basketball is a contact sport, and the hardwood can be highly combustible, even when kids are involved. What you don't expect is to see a father attacking a coach…
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Old Clip Of Fernando Mendoza Dressed In Miami Gear & Sounding Very Different Goes Viral Ahead Of National Championship Game [VIDEO]
Fernando Mendoza is set to play the biggest game of his life in a few days. Unfortunately, it will be against the team he idolized growing up. The Indiana Hoosiers quarterback has deep ties to the Hurricanes. He grew up in Miami, and the city…
'The industry is trending away from crunch': Ubisoft, Naughty Dog and Remedy devs discuss the origins of overwork
LinkedIn today is a terrible den of web3+ grifters, obsolete CVs, frog-boiling pressure to buy a subscription, and scurrilous journalists hunting for leaks in job listings. But every now and then it comes good. For example, there's a discussion…
Mobile publisher Playtika cutting 15 percent of global workforce
Mobile publisher Playtika is laying off 15 percent of its workforce and reshaping its operating model around 'streamlined teams powered by AI and automation.' The Best Fiends and Dice Dreams developer has over 3,000 employees in 15 offices…
Meta ditches multi-billion dollar VR future for AI instead
In 2021, Facebook, Inc. changed its name to Meta. The rebrand was a strategic move by the company as it attempted to shift away from social media and focus on building the metaverse, which it envisioned as a digital world with the potential to be…
Amazon Prime Video hits two big game adaptation announcements in a row - Tomb Raider and God of War TV series are all go
Amazon has released the first picture of Sophie Turner as Lara Croft, from the forthcoming Tomb Raider TV series. It has also been revealed that Ryan Hurst will be playing Kratos in the God of War TV series, also heading to Prime Video. Video games…
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