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Kojima’s Shock: Zoom Call Ends 30-Year Sony Bond [2026]
Hideo Kojima says the call that ended a 30-year working relationship with Sony arrived over Zoom, not in a boardroom. In interviews published September 20, 2026, the Kojima…
Steam Frame Invites Go Out: 72-Hour Buy Window [2026]
Valve’s Steam Frame reservation window slammed shut at 10 AM Pacific on September 17, 2026, and the first wave of purchase invitations is landing in inboxes today, September…
Bungie Denies Merging 2 IPs: Marathon, Destiny Split [2026]
Bungie spent September 16, 2026 doing damage control on a rumor it says never had a factual basis. Hours after an anonymous post claimed the studio planned to…
Valve: Steam Buyer Data Safe After CEVA Hit 10 Firms [2026]
Valve told European Steam hardware customers on September 16, 2026 that a cyberattack on its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics, did not reach the systems that processed their orders.…
Epic Kills MetaHuman Creator Web App: Nov. 5 [2026]
Epic Games has set a hard shutdown date for MetaHuman Creator, the free browser tool that let anyone build a photorealistic digital human without touching a line of…
Heart Machine Guts Staff as 2026 Layoffs Hit 14,259 [2026]
Heart Machine, the independent studio behind Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, laid off nearly its entire staff on September 16, 2026, after a publisher walked away from…
Sweeney Blasts EU’s Under-13 Social Media Ban [2026]
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney used his personal X account to attack the European Union’s newest child-safety proposal on September 16, 2026, calling the plan a threat to…
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…
