Gaming & Entertainment

Mega Crit's sequel hit 574,000 peak concurrent players on Steam and generated an estimated $75 million in its opening week, nearly matching the original's entire lifetime sales.

Microsoft announced Project Helix at GDC 2026, a next-gen Xbox on a custom AMD SoC that plays both console and PC games natively, with developer kits shipping in 2027.

NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, a 6X mode for RTX 50 Series GPUs, and RTX Mega Geometry launching with The Witcher 4.

Valve's cube-shaped SteamOS console faces component shortages that have already shifted the release window twice, but the company insists all three new hardware products will ship this year.

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.

After 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading Xbox, Phil Spencer retires. Xbox president Sarah Bond simultaneously resigns, replaced by CoreAI division head Asha Sharma.

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.