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18 May, 2026
The AA Game Had a Definition Problem Before It Had a Money Problem
AA is a category that the industry invented to describe games that were neither indie nor AAA...
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Category: Patch Notes
The flagship weekly series. Each issue covers a specific topic through the lens of what changed, broke, got fixed, or never got addressed.
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11 May, 2026
The PC Storefront War Is Over and the Loser Refuses to Admit It
Epic Games has spent over two billion dollars trying to dislodge Steam. Steam's market share has not moved in any direction that matters. At some point, continuing to describe this as a…
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4 May, 2026
What GTA VI’s Price Actually Decides
GTA VI launches on 19 November 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The price has not been officially confirmed. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told The Game Business that it would…
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27 April, 2026
The Studios That Closed in 2025 and the Decisions That Put Them There
Over 9,175 game industry workers lost their jobs in 2025. That is down from 15,631 in 2024, which is not the reassurance it sounds like because 2024 was the worst year on…
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20 April, 2026
The RAM in Your Next Build Is Going to Cost You Twice What It Should
DDR5 32GB kits were selling for $95 in mid-2025. By early 2026 the same kit costs between $400 and $450. Analysts project prices reaching $550 to $600 by Q2 2026. That is…
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13 April, 2026
The Live Service Graveyard Is Still Accepting Residents
The format was supposed to be the future. In 2026, more than half of the live service games that launched in 2025 have already lost over 90% of their players. The industry…
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6 April, 2026
Games That Got Worse After Launch
No Man's Sky gets brought up every time someone needs proof that a live service game can turn it around. It's the exception. People treat it like the rule.
