January 2026

It seems that troubles at Payday 3 developer Starbreeze have not abated, as multiple employees have reported on LinkedIn that the company has imposed another round of layoffs. The cuts come just three months after a previous round of layoffs, and the transfer of Payday 2 to another developer so Starbreeze can focus its efforts…

After years of near-silence, Playground Games popped up twice during today’s Developer Direct showcase: The first time to show off Forza Horizon 6 and the second (and what we’re here to talk about now) to finally give us a good look at Fable, its reboot of the famed RPG series. And it’s setting the bar…

I love rogues, bows, backstabs, silent takedowns, sneaking, and skulduggery in my games⁠—if you do too, you should pay attention to the upcoming first person stealth game Project Shadowglass, which recently began showing off its first gameplay and development details. The first thing that caught my attention with Shadowglass is its visual style, which developer…

According to Tim Schafer, every so often Double Fine Productions will hit the pause button on its current project and spend two weeks developing something new based on a pitch from members of its team. Forgetting about its main game and focusing on something different for a bit is called “Amnesia Fortnight” and this process…

At today’s Xbox Developer Direct showcase, we got a new look at Beast of Reincarnation, a surreal action RPG in development at Game Freak, who are best known as the primary developer of Pokémon videogames. In addition to revealing more details about Beast of Reincarnation’s story and gameplay, Game Freak put a date on the…

Despite being left with an incurable spiritual absence after briefly enjoying the wonder of omnipresent access to 7/11 onigiri, I do my best to avoid perpetuating the Thing, Japan phenomenon—the tendency of Westerners to romanticize everyday life in Japan. Forza Horizon 6, however, seems intent on making that difficult. With a gameplay reveal during today’s…