Industry

Four publishers. Roughly $1.6 billion in bets quietly written off, cancelled, or cut around the edges. This isn't a streak of bad luck — it's a structural reckoning arriving on schedule.

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.

Iron Galaxy laid off up to 90 people this week and explicitly said they're "accepting current market conditions as permanent." Leenzee dissolved the entire team behind Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. The industry is still contracting.

Xbox admitted players are frustrated. The rebrand itself is cosmetic — but the candor behind it might actually be different.