With HBO and Paramount under the same owner, Skydance boasts more than 180 television shows in a market that now has one fewer independent company deciding what gets made next.

Steam is heading for another record year, October alone is ridiculous, and my library contains enough acclaimed games to survive several minor apocalypses. The problem with gaming in 2026 is no longer...

2K is shutting down NBA 2K25’s servers at the end of December. Plenty of the basketball game will survive. The player you spent two years building will not.

I spent 52 days building an internet mystery about AI, complete with a countdown, a website and its own mythology. The finale got nine views.

The company behind ‘Resident Evil’ wants an engine that AI can read, test and help program. That is a much more interesting problem than whether Leon’s jacket was generated by a prompt.

GiocoNews had spent years reporting on Italy’s gambling industry. After its sale, the print magazine disappeared, the newsroom shrank and the regulator said the site was directing readers towards oper...

A month after Cologne, one indie has doubled its wishlists, contacts made on the show floor are still alive and the games industry is still laying people off. So what did Gamescom 2026 actually change...

‘The Transformers: The Movie’ killed Optimus Prime to make room for the next toy line. Forty years later, Hasbro is still apologising.

Studio Ghibli has restored ‘Whisper of the Heart’ in 4K. Yoshifumi Kondō directed it, and never got to direct another feature.

Lucinda Syson cast ‘Children of Men’. Twenty years later, the film shows why casting is part of writing a movie.

Laika spent 231 weeks animating ‘Wildwood’, built more than 230 puppets and printed 140,000 faces. The better it gets, the easier the handwork is to miss.

ROTxBLAU brought its strange family thriller to Gamescom with a playable build, a dying grandmother who controls the story and more than €10,000 riding on people noticing.

At Gamescom, Evoc8 studio head Dick Stanley gave me a one-word reason for building a co-development company: joblessness. He wants finishing a project to stop meaning starting another job hunt.

At Gamescom, the AI and Games founder showed why a process can run 25 per cent faster and still leave the people doing it with a worse job.

At Gamescom, the ‘Zoo Tycoon’ veteran kept coming back to the same problem: everybody wants the player’s time now.

At Gamescom, ‘The Alters’ actor Alex Jordan explained how one word can separate two versions of the same man — and why the voice jobs disappearing to AI matter far beyond adverts and TV announcements.

At Gamescom, VP Production co-founder Ruslana Kruchek explained what happens when indie studios remember audio after the budget is already gone. Audio branding paid for her ticket to tell me about it.

At Gamescom, Runoi Games founder Jussi Meriläinen showed me a visual novel where character trouble reaches the hex grid. Unfortunately, Gamescom is also where a game like that gets about ten seconds b...

My first Gamescom begins on Monday, 24 August, at gamescom dev, where a keynote asks what the industry’s ‘reset’ has done to the people inside it. The public arrives on Thursday to halls full of peopl...

Europe never received Nintendo’s red 3D machine. Thirty years later, its lost games arrive with a subscription and some assembly required.

Rick Moranis came back, Mel Brooks found the money, and 'Spaceballs' arrived at Comic-Con with an eleven-phase cinematic universe. The flamethrower now looks restrained.

The Stuart spinoff premiered last night, at the end of day one of San Diego Comic-Con, and the laughter is gone at last. The new show gets a fair hearing here. The old one has run out of appeals.

This will make you question reality in the happiest way possible. A true story about the moonwalk, Tom Bombadil, and why you're on the clock right now.

Yesterday, developers marched at six Xbox studios at once, against the one Microsoft product that never slips its date. On the layoff as an annual release, the accounting that files hits as losses, an...

Twenty-two months into Nintendo's lawsuit, 'Palworld' has just put the same game into Steam's all-time top 15 for the second time. The most Nintendo can now win: about $30,000.

AI-generated 'ghost' reporter revealed as tactic of 'parasite SEO' specialists.

Duolingo gave its cartoon owl a funeral and a resurrection. Its translators got a form email ten days before Christmas. On the streak as the cheapest loyalty a company ever bought.

Summer Games Done Quick 2026 opened on Sunday with 'Donkey Kong Country 2' and runs until Saturday, a week of speedrunning for Doctors Without Borders. From Stockholm, the best seats are the ones an o...

Sleep gummies, a five-year criminal record at forty-eight, and the cocaine Sweden's lawmakers can't keep out of their own parliament.

In Germany they were the Hero Turtles, the censored cut with the nunchaku edited out. A love letter to the Turtles and the 1990 film, and a wary eye on the 2028 reboot.

The price is not about games. It is about who is bidding against you for memory.

A free YouTube cartoon topped cinema charts across Europe, then posted its finale online for nothing. How The Amazing Digital Circus beat the studios at their own game.

Grand Theft Auto VI is the most valuable entertainment product of the decade, and it does not exist yet. How anticipation became an asset class you can bet on.

The villain of 'Toy Story 5' is a tablet. The studio warning your kids about screens is the one that taught a generation to sit still and watch.

Dead by Daylight turned ten and is bigger than ever, the live-service game that lived while the blockbusters died. On how a cheap horror game outlasted the lot by renting everyone else's monsters.

Martin Scorsese has become an adviser to the German AI firm Black Forest Labs, and the film unions are furious. A note on what a famous name actually buys.

Nintendo announced an 'Ocarina of Time' remake for Switch 2. A note on why remaking the game with a Metacritic 99 is a different kind of risk entirely.

A lost Tolkien work has surfaced in the Bodleian: an unpaid translation of an 800-year-old sermon, done for no one, and worth more than another saleable myth.

How the games industry turned the promise of AI into an alibi for layoffs, reported from Stockholm, where two studios sit at the centre of it.

Eighteen showcases in eight days, all on Los Angeles time. The right answer, or just the available one.

Balatro's publisher just got sold to the company that owns Metacritic. What happens when the scorekeeper starts owning the games.

EA is about to be owned by the Saudi PIF. A note on the most-played football game on earth, from someone who does not play it.

Stan refused to laugh at a Trump question. Four days later, Cannes gave the Palme d’Or to a film about “left-wing fundamentalism.”

Musk called the finale of 'The Boys' "pathetic." He didn't notice it was about him.

On reading The Lord of the Rings the way the slow-reading communities now read it, and what the book does that adaptations cannot.

A review of Sam Raimi’s Send Help: the first one in twenty years where his actual signatures are back.

An essay on how the entertainment industry spent twenty years pre-building the pipeline AI is now walking into.

Festival dispatch from London Games Festival 2026: five indie games from New Game Plus that stuck three weeks later.