Industry tracking of Games as a Service (GaaS), including seasonal updates, battle passes, concurrent user tracking, and server shutdowns.
Epic Games is pulling the plug on three Fortnite modes—Rocket Racing, Ballistic, and Festival Battle Stage—in the wake of layoffs affecting more than 1,000 employees. Two of those modes are disappearing on April 16, 2026, with Rocket Racing lasting a little longer until October 2026. It’s a sharp,…
Pokémon Pokopia is about to roll over from its first limited-time event into its second—and players have already found a way to jump the queue. With the current “More Spores for Hoppip” event ending tomorrow, impatient (or just curious) trainers on Nintendo Switch 2 can access the next event right…
Bungie’s Marathon just dropped its fourth map, Cryo Archive, and it’s the rare competitive shooter space that genuinely feels new: a raid-like, puzzle-box labyrinth that fuses PvE pressure with PvP threat in a way the genre almost never even attempts. The catch? It’s currently weekend-only, demands…
Minecraft’s first Live showcase of 2026 didn’t just tease another content drop—it put a flag in the ground for a genuinely new kind of sandbox toy. Mojang revealed Chaos Cubed, a forthcoming Minecraft game drop that introduces the striking new Sulfur Caves biome and an adorable, potentially…
A full year after Assassin’s Creed Shadows landed, Ubisoft is taking a victory lap—and, crucially, drawing a line under the game’s era of major post-launch investment. The team is proud of what it shipped, candid about what it learned from player feedback, and clear that the tech built for feudal…
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2: Showdown is built around one simple promise: pick a side, pick a fight, and get paid in power. Epic has refreshed the loot pool and dropped a tight set of Mythic and Exotic weapons into Battle Royale—some tied to bosses and POIs, others locked behind the new Rivalry…
CyberNest Entertainment has officially unveiled Prism 2033, a “next-generation futuristic parallel-universe MMORPG” built on Unreal Engine 5 and headed to PC (Steam, Epic Games Store) plus iOS and Android. The pitch is big, bold, and unabashedly ambitious: a fractured virtual universe of parallel…
HoYoverse has officially dated Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.1, titled “Unraveled for Daybreak,” for March 25, 2026 on PS5, PC, iOS, and Android. The update pushes the Planarcadia arc forward with the big, fan-service-forward Star Rail FEST, introduces new playable five-star Ashveil, and brings back…
Embark Studios is quietly walking back one of Arc Raiders’ most controversial launch decisions: AI-generated voice lines. Studio head Patrick Söderlund says the team has re-recorded some lines with real actors post-launch, meaning the extraction shooter now contains fewer AI text-to-speech lines…
PEGI is finally treating loot boxes and other modern monetisation hooks like the real consumer-risk flashpoints they’ve become, not just a footnote slapped on the back of the box. Starting in June 2026, newly submitted games with paid random items will default to a PEGI 16 rating, while a wider set…
