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Build A Rocket Boy reportedly cut around 170 staff after MindsEye's collapse. The game already became a joke. Now the workers are paying the invoice.

The studio cut its community manager and key designers to keep the game running. That's not a sign of health - it's the specific kind of signal live service players have learned to read.

Krafton fired the entire development team to stop this game from shipping. A Delaware court ordered the CEO reinstated. Subnautica 2 hits early access May 14. Other games literally moved their release dates out of its way.

A dev update confirms GTA 6 won't be content-complete when it launches November 19. That's after two delays, both framed as being for polish. The Cyberpunk 2077 comparisons have already started.

Saros launched April 30 at an 88 on Metacritic — Housemarque's career high. In a week when the industry has been burying studios, this is the other thing that happened.

Developer JRickey shipped a native PC port of Smash Bros. 64 in 25 days by acting as project manager for Claude and GPT-5.5. The AI got the co-author credit. The humans who did the foundational work did not.

Sony raised PS5 prices across the US, Europe, and now Southeast Asia — and quietly jacked up the price of refurbished units too. Six years into a console generation, prices aren't supposed to go up. Sony did it anyway because nobody can stop them.

Roblox cut its 2026 bookings forecast by nearly $1 billion and watched its stock fall 24%. The cause wasn't a bad quarter — it was making the platform safer for children. Wall Street's response was immediate and unambiguous.

Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to draft a hostile takeover of Unknown Worlds after his lawyers told him not to. Now he's losing the game, the studio, and his reputation.

Eighteen years of development ended Tuesday night as the lights went out at Spiders, a victim of Nacon's collapse and an industry that no longer has room for the middle class.