Loading Screen: PlayStation CFO Says "Not Everything Is Going Well"

All PlayStation wants to talk about is their great balance sheet, but all their investors want to talk about is Marathon. It's not very fair.

11.2: Winners & Losers

Which class enters K'aresh with head held high? Are any left crying in Dornogal's taverns? Let's find out.

Loading Screen: Steam Banned This Game, It Released Anyway

Steam refused to release a promising indie horror game on seemingly arbitrary terms, after being spooked by payment processors. The dev isn't letting that stop them.

Loading Screen: Are Nintendo About To Scrap Game-Key Cards?

All the drawbacks of a physical game, and a digital game - Nintendo's Game Key Cards haven't been well recieved. Which is why fans were excited about surveys where they could make their anger clear. But the story might not be so clear cut.

For Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft's About Family

Founded by Yves Guillemot and his brothers Christian, Claude, Gérard, and Michel, Ubisoft has, for nearly 40 years (30 post-IPO), maintained its family-led structure. After dodging forced privatisation, they've just doubled down with some blatant nepotism. What could go wrong?

Loading Screen: Bioshock Sent Back To The Drawing Board

Fired executives, six years of development time and threats of layoffs. But we're still far away from the next BioShock game.

Player Housing Might Be Earlier Than We Think

On the roadmap, the Player Housing icon was a bit before Midnight. We took that to mean the pre-patch. But what if it’s earlier?

Who Is To Blame For The Mass Game Delistings?

It's finger-pointing time as everyone says it's someone else's fault that we're seeing legal adult games being delisted from online stores. But an overreach of PR by one company might have given the game away...

Loading Screen: EA's Open Source Battlefield Gamble

It turns out the secret weapon for BF6 won't be anything EA builds. It'll be what you end up building for them.

Xbox's $80 Price Hike Is Dead On Arrival

The Outer Worlds was supposed to be Microsoft's wedge. If Obsidian's latest launched at $80, then of course, the next Call of Duty, Halo or Diablo from Xbox could follow suit. That wedge just broke; the $80 floodgate is staying shut, for now.

Cooldown Manager Saved!

We kind of owe Blizzard an apology. Just a little. They just posted an update promising a Cooldown Manager V2, and it looks like it could actually, seriously, be a real WeakAura killer.

Upcoming Games: An Alluring August

August sees the return of legendary game series like Gradius and Shinobi, alongside new titles from the developers behind Journey and the Oblivion Remake. Let's check it out!