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Laura Bennett edits and fact-checks shattered.io security and privacy coverage, making sure each piece is clear, current, and grounded in primary sources.
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EA Tells Creditors It Will Cut $700M a Year [2026]
Electronic Arts closed the largest leveraged buyout in corporate history on August 4, 2026. Three days later, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier revealed…
GameStop Calls Games ‘Irrelevant’ in $55.5B eBay Bid [2026]
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told Bloomberg television on July 16, 2026 that physical video game sales are “totally, totally irrelevant” to his…
Switch 2 OLED Rumor: 75% Probable, Price a Hurdle [2026]
Nintendo is reportedly evaluating whether to build an OLED version of the Switch 2, according to a July 13, 2026 report from…
Xbox Exclusives Return as Hardware Revenue Sinks 33% [2026]
On June 7, 2026, at its annual Games Showcase, Xbox did something it had spent more than two years telling players it…
PlayStation Store Sued in 4 Nations, $2.7B at Stake [2026]
Sony’s PlayStation Store is being contested in courtrooms and consumer-protection agencies on four continents at once. Over roughly six weeks in mid-2026,…
Steam Frame vs Quest 3: 16GB RAM, 2x the GPU [2026]
Valve’s next VR headset finally has real specs on paper, and they read like a direct answer to Meta’s biggest weaknesses. The…
Loot Boxes Get PEGI 16 as EU Probes $23B Market [2026]
Two formal investigations into Activision Blizzard. A rewritten European age-rating system that just added its biggest category in over a decade. A…
Enshrouded Dedicated Server: 16 Slots in 12 Steps [2026]
An Enshrouded dedicated server is the difference between playing on someone else’s rented world and owning the whole map. Keen Games’ voxel…
Esports World Cup Leaves Riyadh for Paris: $75M [2026]
The Esports World Cup opened its third edition on July 8, 2026, in a city its organizers never planned to use. For…
Batocera vs RetroPie vs Recalbox: 200+ Systems [2026]
Retro gaming has never been bigger, and in 2026 the question is no longer whether you can turn a Raspberry Pi, an…
