Sega’s newly launched Sonic Discord server is off to a rough start with questionable content, bans and a lockdown
New users are currently blocked from posting messages on almost every channel
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6th Oct 2026
State of Decay studio boss says he was ‘irresponsibly transparent’ to staff to make layoffs easier to take
Undead Labs is now self-owned with employees as shareholders
Two months after announcing layoff plans, Supermassive Games has laid off ‘more than 70’ staff
The studio's latest game, Directive 8020, was released earlier this year
Xbox Elite Series 3 controller details have reportedly leaked, including a choice of Hall effect or TMR sticks
Options have reportedly been spotted in the Xbox Design Labs backend
Star Wars Galactic Racer’s single-player campaign is available to play on Amazon Prime Luma for ‘free’
Players with a Prime subscription can play the game at no extra charge
Sega claims it’s being ‘very cautious’ about AI and won’t use it for creative work
Sega says it won't entrust the creative aspects of games to AI
Nintendo releases free Hello, Peach! and Hello, Luigi! apps for children, joining its Mario and Yoshi ones
The four apps let children use a touch screen to interact with the characters
‘If you don’t own it, what are you buying?’ Former PlayStation boss says dropping discs is ‘a significant brand hit’
"If you can't sell a thing, that means you don't own a thing," Shawn Layden says
Watch Dogs is ‘important’ to Ubisoft says Yves Guillemot, but don’t expect a new one soon
The last Watch Dogs game was released in 2020
5th Oct 2026
The Coalition used the SSD on Xbox Series S as makeshift RAM to help Gears of War E-Day run smoothly on it
Other game teams are reportedly already interested in learning the method, it says
Hellblade studio Ninja Theory has started laying off staff, following Xbox’s announcement that it faces closure
Two separate agreements with the studio "fell through", Microsoft said
AI game mashup videos on social media spark debate and backlash among players and modders
The Claude-created videos overlay one game on top of another to make a rudimentary 'mashup'
GTA 6 is deliberately avoiding direct political references, says Rockstar
Rockstar writer says it wants to avoid recreating ‘the exact world we live in’
NBA 2K25 is being delisted later this month, servers (including single-player story mode) shut down at the end of the year
MyCareer, MyTeam and all other online game modes will end in December
Although he vowed to never work on one without Kojima, Snake’s Japanese voice actor wants to see another Metal Gear game
Akio Otsuka says that now Kojima has other projects, Konami should give fans what they want
