Bungie is shifting Marathon’s design by adding a permanent PvE mode called Symbiosis and delaying a planned update to December, marking a broader evolution of the extraction shooter.
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs argued at PAX West and SLICE 2026 that video games can serve as a form of cultural 'soft power,' contrasting it with military 'hard power' in geopolitics.
Bohemia Interactive has taken a minority stake in Polish studio Enjoy Studio, the developer behind Everwind, marking its first investment in a Polish game company.
Polyarc, the Seattle-based VR studio behind the Moss franchise, has shut down after nearly twelve years, confirming the closure in a LinkedIn post.
Worker-run studio KO_OP confirms layoffs of 13 roles, citing a financing drought and radical changes in the games funding landscape.
Rockstar and fired GTA developers present opposing arguments in a Glasgow tribunal over the dismissal of 34 workers, accused of union busting after alleged Discord monitoring.
Two former id Software veterans founded indie studio Turnkey to ship Apart, a third-person horror game, after Microsoft’s layoffs underscored the fragility of AAA security.