The announcements, launches, and business moves shaping the gaming industry, with the context to understand why they matter.
Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23. GTA 6 lands November 19. Then the biggest industry on earth releases nothing for fifty-seven days. We mapped every dated release either side of Rockstar's launch, and the crater turns out to be lopsided in a way that explains how this business actually works.
GTA 6 costs $80, NBA 2K27 costs $70, and both come from the same publisher in the same year. Zelnick says pricing hasn't kept pace with inflation and that he could have charged more. The real shift isn't the base price — it's the $100 tier buyers are choosing.
When you "buy" a digital game, you really rent a license. California's AB 1921 tried to change that — until it stalled in the state Senate.
Most RTX 5090s are 4-slot bricks. ASUS's ProArt OC Edition squeezes the full 575W flagship and 32GB of GDDR7 into 2.5 slots — here's who it's really for.
Ryan Cohen called physical game sales "totally, totally irrelevant" and was pilloried for it. But software is under 12% of GameStop's revenue, collectibles are over half, and the company just tried to spend $56 billion on eBay. He was reading his own income statement.
The Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't out-muscle the PS5 — it out-thinks it. How Nvidia's DLSS upscaling lets a handheld punch far above its teraflops.
Discord Nitro now bundles Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition at no extra cost: 50+ games, 10 hours of cloud gaming, same $9.99. And contrary to how it was widely reported, Game Pass Ultimate was cut to $22.99 from $29.99 — funded by pushing Call of Duty off day one.
GTA 6 at $80, NBA 2K27 at $70, Mafia: The Old Country at $49.99 — three prices from one publisher in a single year. The $60-to-$70 shift moved the whole industry together. This one didn't, and the company that set it proved why.