14 articles on gaming
La Guilde's first Buy a Québec Video Game Day lands November 14 with a 400-game portal. New research on acquired studios shows why ownership decides which Canadian studios survive.
EA closed BioWare after more than 30 years, less than three months after its buyout closed. Data on acquired studios, Alberta's tax credit history and Quebec's contrasting approach show what Edmonton is up against.
Console sales are sliding while GTA VI pre-orders near 8 million, Nebraska rejected online sports betting, and young voters swung hard. What the midterms mean for gaming.
Google and Unity launched prompt-based game tools the same month Ubisoft shut RedLynx and Epic told a Disney team to go "AI first." The tools are going to everyone. The jobs are not.
Nyamakop, a Johannesburg studio of roughly 30 people, built Relooted around 70 real African artifacts held in Western museums. The game launched on Xbox Game Pass and won at the Games for Change Awards. When the developers tried to attend Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, their visa applications were denied. The artifacts in the game are real. The irony is real. Ninety percent of Africa's cultural heritage is held outside the continent.
Since 2022, the gaming industry has eliminated more than 45,000 positions while global revenue climbed to a record $201.6 billion. Xbox divested four studios in a single day. Sony closed the team behind the Demon's Souls remake. Netflix shut down a studio six weeks after praising its game launch. Meanwhile, a solo Australian developer made $151 million from a $20 drug dealing simulator, and a poker roguelike built by one person who dropped out of engineering school won Game of the Year.
Rockstar confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI will never have a disc. Sony announced it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games by January 2028. A Dutch court is hearing a 435 million euro class action alleging PlayStation Store games cost 47% more than physical copies. A UK trial over a separate 1.97 billion pound claim has already concluded. The fight over what 'buy' means in gaming is playing out in courtrooms across three countries.
A volunteer team led by a programmer known as KholdFuzion finished reconstructing every line of GoldenEye 007's source code after nine years. The same year, Nintendo removed nearly 9,000 emulation-related repositories from GitHub across multiple DMCA purges. Eighty-seven percent of classic video games are commercially unavailable. The question of who owns gaming history has never been louder.
Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch told the press he would have been happy to replace lead writer Stella Sacco with AI. By the time he said it, 52% of game developers surveyed by GDC called generative AI a negative force, anti-AI clauses had become boilerplate in development contracts, and games that disclosed AI use were receiving 53% fewer Steam reviews.
The Stop Killing Games petition cleared 1.29 million verified EU signatures, forcing the European Commission to formally respond by July 2026. Four concrete policy demands could reshape how publishers handle game shutdowns.
Sony raised the PS5 to $649.99 in March 2026, a 30% increase in under a year. AI infrastructure demand has repriced the memory and chip supply that consoles depend on.
Gaming generated a record $195.6 billion in 2025 while eliminating 44,000 jobs since 2022. Revenue concentration in live-service titles and ballooning AAA budgets explain the paradox.
In 2012, a Turkish entrepreneur made a prediction that sounded absurd: Istanbul would become a global mobile gaming capital. By 2023, according to industry analysis compiled by Anadolu Agency, that vi
Grand Theft Auto 6 is on track to generate $3.2 billion in its first year — more than double what GTA 5 earned at launch, according to industry analysts tracking pre-order momentum and historical fran