Activision's decision to drop support for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has reduced its potential marked by 5.6%, according to a new report from analysts S&P, which says that the corresponding launch on Switch 2 – the first time the franchise has been available on a Nintendo console since 2013 – will not make up for the loss of users on legacy consoles.
In October 2025, Rockstar dismissed 34 employees across the UK and Canada for what parent company Take Two Interactive described as "gross misconduct".
Rockstar employees have formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union (RGWU), which operates as a subsidiary of the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB).
The indie conference Nordic Game returned to Malmö this week, and although the event naturally has a big focus on Scandinavian developers, there was a multinational flavour to the event booths. Germany, Ukraine, and Moldova were among the countries represented on the show floor, and in fact the Moldovan game Lootbound scooped the People's Choice Award, which is voted for by conference attendees. But my personal highlight was DDoD, a roguelike shooter from Ukrainian developer The Future Entertainment Company. I came for the giant mutant snails, but stayed for the tense, loot-based gameplay in a huge industrial wasteland, which felt like a tantalising cross between Stalker and Diablo.
Playstack, the publisher behind games including Balatro, Abiotic Factor, and The Rise of the Golden Idol, is set to be purchased by Integrated Media Company (IMC), the owner of Fandom and Gamespot, among numerous other brands. The news was initially reported by Game Developer.
The extent to which the ongoing crisis in cost and supply of digital storage – primarily meaning RAM and SSDs – is going to impact the games business can be hard to grasp. It's been the subject of headlines for months, but it can feel quite abstract. It's one thing to read about the entire world's supply chain for memory chips being rerouted into gigantic data centre projects, leaving only the thinnest of trickles for consumer devices; it's quite another thing to really internalise what that means at a consumer level.
NetEase published its first quarter financial results, reporting a 6.9% rise in gaming revenue to RMB 25.7 billion ($3.7 billion), while overall revenue increased 6.1% to RMB 30.6 billion ($4.4 billion).
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream was the top new release by revenue in 2026 to date, according to Newzoo. It also ranked first on the firm's overall console revenue chart for April.
As CD Projekt announced the third expansion for 2015's The Witcher 3, the developer reported a slight 6% increase in overall revenue to PLN 191 million ($52.5 million) during its first quarter.
Football governing body FIFA has announced a new gaming strategy called Digital Football, formalising its shift to working with multiple developers and publishers following the breakdown of its long-running partnership with EA in 2022.
