Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is in a weird place: the company is reportedly debating fundamental changes to the service’s structure and even whether Call of Duty should remain a day-one Game Pass staple. At the same time, Microsoft is pushing one of its most aggressive Game Pass promotions in years,…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just added another crown jewel to its already absurd trophy case, taking Best Game at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards in London. The bigger story, though, is that BAFTA didn’t turn into yet another one-game victory lap: Dispatch matched Expedition 33 with three wins, while…
Crimson Desert is officially a monster hit. Developer-publisher Pearl Abyss has announced the open-world action adventure has now sold over five million copies worldwide, hitting the milestone less than a month after launch. For a game that’s been both praised and picked apart in equal measure,…
A messy Rockstar Games security breach has produced one of the strangest market reactions you’ll see all year: leaked GTA Online and Red Dead Online financials hit the internet, and Take-Two Interactive’s stock promptly climbed instead of cratering. The numbers—showing GTA Online still pulling in…
Xbox Game Pass may be heading for its biggest rethink in years. In a leaked internal memo reportedly sent to Xbox staff, new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says Game Pass has become “too expensive for players” and argues Microsoft needs a “better value equation,” while also signaling the…
Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by a third-party data breach—and now the hacking group ShinyHunters has reportedly dumped the stolen files publicly after Rockstar refused to meet its demands. Early scrutiny suggests the leak is heavy on financial and metrics data tied to GTA Online and Red…
A serious security flaw tied to Indonesia’s game ratings system has reportedly exposed private classification materials for a huge number of titles—resulting in spoiler-heavy footage from IO Interactive’s 007: First Light circulating online, potentially including the ending. The same incident has…
A new rumor suggests Microsoft could pull Call of Duty from Xbox Game Pass later this year. The twist: the chatter isn’t centered on the usual “Game Pass is cannibalizing sales” argument—it's about Call of Duty potentially warping Game Pass’ own business math so badly that it undermines the…
Microsoft may be rethinking one of its loudest, most expensive promises: day-one Call of Duty on Xbox Game Pass. A new claim says Xbox is considering pulling this year’s Call of Duty from Game Pass at launch—an about-face that would immediately test subscriber trust and expose the brutal economics…
Rockstar Games has confirmed it suffered a third-party data breach after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it accessed Rockstar-related data and issued a blunt ultimatum: pay a ransom or the files get leaked. The studio says only a “limited amount of non-material company information” was…
