At least eight laptops and a Steam Deck were stolen from indie exhibitors at Gamescom 2026. Organizers' September 4 statement admits their first response missed the mark, after CD Projekt RED, not Koelnmesse, replaced one victim's stolen gear.
Xbox Cloud Gaming adds monthly hour caps in November: 15 hours for Ultimate, 10 for Premium, 5 for Essential, then paid overage.
Chosen, the owner of Nexus Mods, has acquired SteamDB from its solo founder xPaw, a deal that shows the risk of depending on one-person tools.
Star Wars Zero Company is a critical and commercial hit, but a court filing shows Bit Reactor furloughed 80 percent of staff before launch, amid a $20M co-founder ownership lawsuit.
Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward stepped down days after its $55 billion Electronic Arts buyout closed, leaving Saudi Arabia's gaming empire without its architect.
Piko Interactive acquired 7 Raven Studios to turn its classic-game catalog into new titles in-house. The buy-versus-license choice behind the deal applies to any owner of dormant IP.
1047 Games is ending dedicated servers for Splitgate and Empulse on September 3, 2026. What the peer-to-peer switch means for players and their money.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 launches September 3 for RTX 50-series GPUs only. Its Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark shows 4K frame rates falling from 63 to 42 FPS on the RTX 5090.
A Steam server Valve retired in 2013 sat publicly reachable for thirteen years. On August 29, 2026, archivists pulled 12 to 13 terabytes from it, including unreleased betas belonging to EA/BioWare and WB Games/Rocksteady, not just Valve's own files.
MBC Game Studio, backed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund, hired laid-off veterans from BioWare, Bungie and Ubisoft and then banned generative AI outright. That combination is the real story.
A leaked DLSS 5 file found inside NBA 2K27 shows Nvidia's unreleased upscaler roughly halving 4K frame rates months before its fall launch.
Microsoft's new Disc-to-Digital program lets players claim a digital entitlement, but that entitlement follows the disc, not the buyer. What it means for the used-game resale market.
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