Pokémon TCG Pocket wins Apple's Best Game of the Year award
Pokémon TCG Pocket, Dredge, Cyberpunk 2077, Porta Nubi, and What The Clash? all received recognition in Apple's year-end 2025 App Store Awards.
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Ys Net considers "potential legal action" after confirming "leaked" Shenmue 4 video is fake
Ys Net is considering legal action after a video teaser, falsely claiming to be of Shenmue 4, popped up online last week.
Paramount Skydance launches $108.4bn hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Entertainment giant Paramount Skydance has kicked off a hostile takeover attempt for Warner Bros Discovery just days after the latter accepted a deal from Netflix.
PUBG and Inzoi directors offer a glimpse of Krafton's AI-first culture
In October, the Korean publisher Krafton – which is behind games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds and Inzoi, and whose studio portfolio includes Tango Gameworks, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, and Neon Giant – announced that it would be positioning itself as an "AI-first company." The firm said it would be "prioritizing AI as a central and primary means of problem-solving," a move that will involve a "complete" reorganization and the investment of 100 billion Korean won ($69.7 million) in a new GPU cluster.
Niko Partners increases 2025 MENA and Asia games market forecasts by 1.2%
The Asia and MENA game markets are on track to generate $88.97 billion in games revenue for 2025, better than was previously forecast.
Former PlayStation studio head Shuhei Yoshida says Japan cannot keep up with Chinese studios
The former head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has said that Japanese game developers are unable to keep pace with their Chinese counterparts.
Former PlayStation London devs establish new studio Twisted Works
Industry veterans from PlayStation London Studio, Disney Interactive, and Square Enix have formed a new studio.
Katsuhiro Harada leaving Bandai Namco at end of 2025
Tekken veteran Katsuhiro Harada has announced his departure from Bandai Namco after three decades.
Nex Playground is a smart play for an industry blind spot | Opinion
The affordability crisis has the industry caught in a pincer grip. With hardware priced too high to allow for healthy audience growth, even as software is often priced too low for many games to make a profit, we face the grim prospect that – for the time being at least – gaming overall is simultaneously too expensive for many consumers to tolerate, and also so cheap that much of the industry is perched on an economic knife-edge.
Netflix to buy Warner Bros, including games division, for $82.7bn
Netflix is buying entertainment giant Warner Bros in a deal valued at around $82.7 billion.
Russia blocks Roblox, partly due to "LGBT propaganda"
The Russian government has stopped its citizens from being able to access games platform Roblox, in part due to it allegedly featuring "LGBT propaganda."
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Critical Consensus
It's been 18 years since the release of Metroid Prime 3, and the long-awaited next game in the series has been dogged by delays. Two years after Metroid Prime 4 was announced at E3 2017, Nintendo said that development duties had switched to the original Prime team, Retro Studios, and development had been restarted. Six years later, the game has finally been released – but not to universal acclaim.
Report: Meta planning massive cuts to Reality Labs metaverse division
Tech giant Meta is reportedly looking to make cuts in its Reality Labs metaverse division, the home of the Quest VR headest and the Horizon Worlds platform.
Sable creative director forms new studio Eteo
Update: Gregorios Kythreotis has confirmed that he and Shedworks co-founder Daniel Fineberg "have gone [their] separate ways."
Sega says AI will make development efficient, but acknowledges "strong resistance" to the tech
Japanese publishing giant Sega has said that it will be employing AI in game development, but says it will be cautious in how it is used.
Sony to produce and publish Bad Robot Games' first internally developed title
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a partnership with Bad Robot Games to support its first internally developed game.
Stop Killing Games is a consumer-driven shake up for digital distribution as a whole | Opinion
Sam Crich, a partner at the Yorkshire-based law firm Eaton Smith Solicitors, explores potential regulations around ongoing access to online video games.
Goat Simulator creators reveal new studio Feeble Minds
Coffee Stain co-founders Oscar Jilsén and Mikael Mård, who previously worked on the smash hits Goat Simulator and Satisfactory, have announced a new studio called Feeble Minds.
Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice
Three Fields Entertainment, which was founded by the makers of Burnout and which recently launched the open world driving game Wreckreation, has notified its entire staff that they are at risk of redundancy.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 becomes 2025's top third-party release on Xbox Game Pass
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the biggest third-party launch on Xbox Game Pass this year.
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