October 28, 2025

Days after a report from Bloomberg explained that Microsoft has expected unrealistic profit margins from its gaming division—one likely reason for its raft of studio closures, game cancelations and thousands of layoffs—a chipper Satya Nadella basically said as much out loud during an interview at a Github conference on Tuesday. “If we as an industry…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Fired up Halo: Combat Evolved on the Steam Deck and decided it’s the last game that needs another remake. One day is not enough time to confidently declare Blackwell Fields the worst map in Battlefield 6, but that hasn’t stopped folks from doing it anyway. I’m…

Amazon Games was hit with “significant” layoffs today, part of the massive 14,000 job cuts announced by Amazon but also reflecting “strategic changes” at the company, including “the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work—specifically around MMOs.” As it turns out, that includes the MMO New World: Aeternum,…

We’ve been expecting Vampire Survivors’ online co-op update since it entered beta branch testing in August, but Poncle’s weekly feature teases have been hinting at some extra surprises since the start of October. Today, update 1.14 has finally landed—and it brought a bonus Balatro-themed expansion with it. Considering that Vampire Survivors was one of the…

Amazon’s AI-powered layoff of 14,000 employees will see “significant” cuts made to its game division, according to a new Bloomberg report, which will result in a reduction in development efforts on big-budget games, including MMOs like New World. The Bloomberg report cites a memo sent to Amazon Games employees by Steve Boom, Amazon’s vice president…

In 1997, two young hobbyists released two pieces of software that more or less prompted a new wave of interest in “retro” games—which were, at that point, really just a few years old. The first punch was Nesticle, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that quite suddenly made it free and easy to play Nintendo’s ’80s…