Amongst the ashes of E3 remains Geoff Keighley and the season of announcements built around his Summer Game Fest. Recent years have been an inconsistent, if at least admirable, attempt to emulate the E3 showcases of old. This year, in its muted nature, might be a sign of things to come.
Outrage just forced Frontier Developments to pull generative AI from their next game, but the same trick might not work on everyone.
It's the end of Microsoft's financial year, and that means that Xbox staff are going to be sacrificed to make the line go up.
Their ARPG formula earned them 5+ GOTY contenders within a decade and their own subgenre. Now? FromSoft, they who defined the "Souls-like", have ditched much of their formula to drop a pseudo-roguelite, PvE co-op title with Battle Royale elements? It's certainly one way of building for the future.
Two messy launches, two rounds of layoffs, as the people who made MindsEye and Splitgate 2 suffer for their leadership's decisions.