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Game security, anti-cheat systems, platform integrity and the wider gaming industry. Reporting and analysis on how games stay fair and where they break.
CESA: 85.8% of Japan Game Devs Use Generative AI [2026]
Japan’s game industry just put a hard number on something developers have been saying anecdotally for two years: generative AI has stopped being a side experiment and become…
Build A Rocket Boy Shuts MindsEye After 300 Cuts [2026]
Build A Rocket Boy has stopped work on MindsEye and moved into what staff and reporters are describing as a full studio wind-down, marking the third disclosed contraction…
Level Up! Orchestral Game Music Set for MIGW 2026 Oct. 10
A community orchestra in Melbourne’s outer south-east just landed one of the more unusual bookings in this year’s Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) 2026 calendar. The Casey Philharmonic…
Nintendo Switch Exploit: Update to 23.0.0 Now [2026]
Nintendo is telling every original Switch owner running an older system version to update immediately after confirming a security flaw that lets a nearby attacker run unauthorized code…
Xbox Game Pass 2027 Leak: Day-One Games at Risk
A leak claiming Microsoft will strip day-one releases out of Xbox Game Pass starting sometime in 2027 has spread across gaming press this week, and by September 16,…
Spirit Wins $250K as CS2 Players Hit 2-Yr Low [2026]
Team Spirit beat MOUZ 3-1 in the grand final of BLAST Open Porto 2026 on September 7, closing out the Portugal event with a $250,000 top prize and…
Polyarc Shuts Down After 12 Years, Cuts 29 Jobs [2026]
Polyarc, the Seattle studio behind the VR platformer series Moss, told its staff and fans on September 11, 2026 that it was closing for good. The announcement landed…
Marvel’s Wolverine Scores 77, Insomniac’s Weakest Yet [2026]
Insomniac Games shipped its fourth Marvel-licensed PlayStation exclusive on September 15, 2026, and the reception broke a five-year streak. Marvel’s Wolverine landed on Metacritic at 77 out of…
007 First Light Hits 3rd Switch 2 Delay: March 2027 [2026]
The Nintendo Switch 2 version of 007 First Light just took its third hit to the release calendar. IO Interactive confirmed this week that the Switch 2 edition…
Game Pass, PS Plus Cancellations: 40% Blame Cost [2026]
More than 40% of players who cancel Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, or Nintendo Switch Online now name price as the main reason they walked away, according to…
