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Minecraft Live 2026: 6 Reveals, Dungeons II Sept. 29
Mojang Studios closed out its September showcase with more reveals than most fans expected from a single broadcast. Minecraft Live aired on September 26, 2026, and inside roughly…
10 Best Games to Play After Control Resonant [2026]
Remedy Entertainment shipped Control Resonant on September 24, 2026, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and three days later it’s sitting at the center of the gaming…
Steam’s Age Check Hits 2nd Country, No ID Needed [2026]
Steam stopped taking photo ID as proof of age in Australia this week. Instead, Valve is asking players to hand over a credit card. Starting around September 23-24,…
World’s Edge Loses Half Staff in Xbox’s 268 Cuts [2026]
Microsoft’s September 22, 2026 round of Xbox layoffs cut 268 jobs across the gaming division, and the studio that took the deepest hit wasn’t one of the marquee…
Nadella Calls Xbox’s 268 Layoffs ‘Great to See’ [2026]
Satya Nadella called Xbox’s latest round of job cuts “great to see” during a podcast interview published this week, and the line has traveled faster than almost anything…
Mobile Gaming Nets $6.57B as Roblox Tops Downloads [2026]
Mobile gaming pulled in $6.57 billion worldwide in August 2026, according to fresh data from mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower. That figure dropped 1% from July, even as…
Blood of Dawnwalker’s $40M Budget Reopens AAA Debate [2026]
A $40 million line item just reopened one of gaming’s oldest arguments. Bloomberg’s September 18 report on The Blood of Dawnwalker, the dark-fantasy open-world RPG from Polish studio…
Super Mario 64 Turns 30: 2M Copies Sold, No Remaster [2026]
Thirty years ago this week, a plumber jumped into a painting and changed how video games move. Super Mario 64 launched in North America on September 26, 1996,…
Nvidia RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 Streams Detail, Cuts VRAM 1GB [2026]
Nvidia pushed out RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 to developers on September 22, 2026, and the update targets a problem that has quietly limited ray tracing since it arrived…
Minecraft’s Sift Ends 14-Year Dimension Drought [2026]
Mojang Studios used Minecraft Live: September 2026 to confirm the game’s biggest structural change in over a decade: a fourth dimension called The Sift. It is the first…
