February 23, 2026

Phil Spencer’s surprise retirement announcement last week, coupled with the equally unexpected resignation of Xbox president Sarah Bond and elevation of former Instacart exec Asha Sharma to Microsoft Gaming CEO, left a lot of unanswered questions. Was Phil forced out? Why didn’t Bond, his presumed successor, get the job? Who’s this new boss, who only…

Amazon announced today that King of Meat, one of the more disastrous outcomes of its ill-fated effort to be a big-time PC game publisher, is officially throwing in the towel and going away for good in April. “Despite the creativity and innovation Glowmade brought to King of Meat, the game has unfortunately not found the…

One completely unexpected side-effect of the pandemic: I got really sick of sea shanties. When everyone was stuck at home clinging to Tiktok for their sanity, it seemed like at least one out of five people recorded some sort of shanty-related content, and it didn’t take long before the idea of hearing yet another spirited…

When Palworld sold 12 million Steam copies in under two weeks, two things felt like they’d become inevitable: First, that Nintendo’s lawyers would take any opening they could find to punish Pocketpair for daring to release what many had been calling Pokemon: Gun Version well before its launch, and second, that we’d eventually see Palworld…

As reported by IGN, Neon Genesis Evangelion is getting a new anime series with some serious talent at the helm: Yoko Taro, the creator of Drakengard, Nier, and the 2017 breakout hit, Nier: Automata. Taro will be in charge of the series’ writing and overall composition. The news was announced as part of “Evangelion:30+”, the…

If you’ve been on the hunt for a new game to play, then my friend, your problem is solved—at least for a week. Because this is the week of the Steam Next Fest, the week-long extravaganza of way more game demos than any single person could get through in seven short days. You probably know…

Ubisoft’s big restructuring has left the Assassin’s Creed series under the control of Vantage Studios, one of five “creative houses” (and still the only one with a name) charged with carrying its brands into the future. What that means in practical terms is unclear: The only concrete impact up to today was the loss of…

Embark just published details about the next Arc Raiders update that’s landing tomorrow: A new hurricane map condition will ping your shields with debris and send your grenades tumbling with wind gusts, two new Arc enemies will unleash new kinds of automated terror in air and on ground, a new project brings some fresh rewards,…