Xbox CEO Asha Sharma insists Microsoft’s gaming business is ‘not for sale’ | VGC

October’s ‘free’ PlayStation Plus games include F1 25 | VGC

‘We’ve heard you’: Silent Hill Townfall studio says a patch is coming to make The Weight stealth sections less frustrating | VGC

Suda 51’s Grasshopper officially regains independence from NetEase, avoiding studio cull | VGC

Modder who taunted ‘try me Rockstar’ with GTA 5 Switch port is ‘thankful for Take-Two’s mercy’ as lawyers shut it down | VGC

Mario Kart Tour has now officially shut down, after earning Nintendo an estimated $270 million | VGC

Shuhei Yoshida says Sony and Nintendo should ‘keep the current generation as long as possible’ as Xbox goes next-gen | VGC

Halo’s former creative director urges Activision to hire laid off Bungie, Halo Studios devs | VGC

After being tested by Insider members, Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature is now rolling out to all players | VGC

GTA 6 map officially twice as large as GTA 5, features hurricanes and tropical storms | VGC

CD Projekt says it overhauled Witcher 3 gameplay because it was ‘obviously’ the weakest part | VGC

Diablo 4 will still get seasonal content once Diablo 5’s out, just like Diablo 2 and 3 do, game director says | VGC

The Witcher 3: Developers talk remastering a classic and creating Songs of the Past | VGC

Zelda 40th Anniversary Concert tickets go on sale in Europe this week, as Nintendo says more countries are coming | VGC

After playing the Evercade Nexus, it’s clear that Blaze’s retro line-up is preparing to step up a level | VGC

34 video game Lego sets are retiring at the end of the year, including Animal Crossing, Horizon and Sonic sets | VGC

Sonic boss believes the series is only halfway to its potential | VGC

The clamshell C64 and ZX Spectrum handhelds have been delayed by six months because of production quality | VGC

The Witcher 3 Remastered is now the highest-scoring game of 2026 on Metacritic | VGC

Xbox reveals Gears of War Lancer pizza cutter, immediately sells out | VGC

Sony is officially skipping CES for the first time in decades | VGC

Naughty Dog will fully reveal Intergalactic in 2027 | VGC

Season 3 of The Last of Us TV show will add John Goodman, Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander to the cast | VGC

Path of Exile designer says he ‘desperately’ wants Diablo 5 to be good for the sake of the genre | VGC

Sony details God of War Laufey’s Digital Deluxe Edition contents and pre-order bonus | VGC

Tour dates and pre-order times officially confirmed for Castlevania 40th Anniversary concert | VGC

The Elder Scrolls never got a spin-off like Fallout: New Vegas because Todd Howard is protective of the IP, former dev says | VGC

Disgaea creator says he sees AI’s benefit as a tool but has ‘absolutely no interest’ in using it to write stories | VGC

Sony patents PlayStation controller that accepts credit card payments | VGC

Minecraft is officially getting its first new dimension in 15 years | VGC

Microsoft CEO says ‘streamlining’ of Xbox business is ‘great to see’ | VGC

Konami is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Castlevania with a big retro sale and a free game | VGC

Court orders Reddit moderator who widely pirated Switch games to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in damages | VGC

Bethesda president tells Obsidian staff that the studio will keep its ‘creative identity’ after its move | VGC

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is free to play in its entirety on Switch for the next week | VGC

This week’s free Epic Games Store titles are Astrea and Mechabellum | VGC

Grand Theft Auto 6 is getting a $400 box of merch with 11 items including a figure, sunglasses and New Era hat | VGC

Starfield 2 will likely never happen because the first wasn’t ‘anywhere near successful enough’, former dev says | VGC

Capcom announces a new Ace Attorney game, but it’s a VR remake instead of an entirely new adventure | VGC

The day before EA Sports FC 27 is released, Konami’s Switch 2 rival eFootball Kick-Off gets a major new update | VGC

A mixed reality ‘reinvention’ of Tetris Effect is coming next year | VGC

‘I just assume someone is being greedy’: Double Fine’s Tim Schafer says he doesn’t know why the industry isn’t recovering | VGC

Controller maker CKRD releases the Atom+, a keychain sized controller promising no stick drift | VGC

The producer of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and Weapons is reportedly working on a new Silent Hill film | VGC

The next classic polygonal Namco arcade game getting a home release is Xevious 3D/G | VGC

Rainbow Six Siege boss says players who stick around during GTA 6’s launch will be served ‘like kings and queens’ | VGC