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Epic Games lays off roughly 20 percent of its workforce, citing a Fortnite engagement downturn that began in 2025 and over $500 million in targeted cost savings.
GDC 2026 revealed a game engine industry converging on neural rendering: Microsoft added ML to DirectX shaders, Unreal shipped production Nanite foliage, Unity previewed unified GI, and Godot battled AI-generated pull request spam.
Poncle's card-based turn-based spin-off Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard has a playable demo on Steam ahead of its April 21 launch at $9.99 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and mobile.
Bungie's extraction shooter drew strong initial interest during its open beta but shed half its peak players in 48 hours as complaints about UI, ammo scarcity, and sparse PvP mounted ahead of the March 5 release.
Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 finds a $195.6B industry where record revenues mask falling margins, a funding drought, and China's growing dominance over global growth.
Five French unions led a three-day walkout at Ubisoft after the publisher cancelled six games, closed two studios, and imposed a five-day office mandate as part of a 200 million euro restructuring.