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Newell’s Throat-Singing Phase Ran 5 Months, Says Le [2026]
Gabe Newell has run Valve for three decades without a press office, a public org chart, or much patience for interviews. So when a story about his personal…
Control Resonant Hotfix 1.3.3 Fixes Review Gripe [2026]
Remedy Entertainment shipped Control Resonant on September 24, 2026, and within hours of launch, the studio had already patched the exact combat complaints reviewers were writing about. Hotfix…
EA’s $55B Buyout, 51 Days In: What Changed [2026]
Fifty-one days ago, Electronic Arts stopped being a public company. On August 4, 2026, the maker of EA Sports FC, Battlefield, and The Sims closed a $55 billion…
Starfield 2 Doubted by Ex-Bethesda Dev, 3 Years On [2026]
A former Bethesda Game Studios designer has thrown cold water on the idea of a Starfield 2, telling the outlet FRVR that the original game did not sell…
Activision Inherits Halo Plus 4 Xbox Studios [2026]
Halo is changing hands again, and this time the move comes with a warning label attached. On September 23, 2026, PC Gamer‘s Morgan Park published an analysis arguing…
5 Critics Say Townfall’s Décor Beats Its Monsters [2026]
September 24, 2026 — Silent Hill: Townfall is out today, and the early conversation around it has taken a strange turn. Developer Screen Burn Interactive built a game…
Control Resonant Release Date Delivers 84 Score [2026]
Control Resonant arrived on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 24, 2026, and the first wave of review scores tells a messier story than Remedy…
Xbox Merges Playground, Turn 10 Into 1 Studio [2026]
Xbox spent September 22, 2026 tearing down a wall that had stood since the first Forza Motorsport shipped in 2005. Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios, the two…
Bethesda Adds Obsidian, Its 2nd Fallout Studio [2026]
Microsoft confirmed on September 23, 2026 that Bethesda’s remit now extends to Obsidian Entertainment, the Irvine, California studio best known for building Fallout: New Vegas back in 2010.…
CS2 Kills Map Veto, Ships First New Mode in 3 Years [2026]
Valve pushed a Counter-Strike 2 update on the night of September 23, 2026 that tears out one of the game’s oldest competitive rituals: the map veto. Premier matchmaking…
