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The business behind the games: publishers, sales, studios, lawsuits and the money that moves them.
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Two Point Studios’ 10 Years Handed Sega a Surprise Win
Two Point Studios paid back Sega’s advances in two and a half days. Not 18 months, which is what the team had budgeted for. Two and a half…
Nintendo Says Physical Games Are Still 38.5% of Software Sales After Sony’s PS5 Disc Cut
Nintendo just put a number on how much boxed games still matter to it: 38.5% of software sales. That figure lands in the middle of an industry quietly…
Take-Two’s CEO Defends the Discless GTA 6, Compares Physical Games to Vinyl
Strauss Zelnick has a theory about why nobody should mourn a GTA 6 disc, and it involves record stores. The Take-Two boss was asked about the decision to…
Nintendo’s 2026 is going great thanks to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and a $300 million tariff refund
Nintendo got a $300 million check back from the U.S. government this quarter, and it turned into a 150% profit increase. That’s the headline number in the company’s…
Xbox layoffs reach Halo Studios even after Campaign Evolved’s success
Nick Treitman spent six and a half years at Halo Studios watching layoff rounds come and go without touching him. That streak ended this week. “After 6.5 years…
The 3 Square Enix RPGs That Defined The PS2 Era
The PlayStation 2 ran on RPGs, and nobody fed it like Square Enix. Here’s the wrinkle most people forget: the PS2 era started before Enix and Squaresoft merged…
AMD’s data center revenue doubled to $6.7 billion while gaming dropped 31 percent
AMD’s gaming business lost 31 percent of its revenue year-over-year, falling to $779 million. Its data center business more than doubled in the same period, hitting $6.7 billion.…
The next Xbox could run every Xbox game ever made, if publishers say yes
Five generations of Xbox games on one machine. That’s what a leaked Microsoft memo obtained by The Verge’s Tom Warren describes for Project Helix, the next Xbox: the…
Xbox lost $1.7 billion and gained 200 million players in the same year
Xbox added more than 200 million new players in fiscal year 2026. It also lost $1.7 billion in revenue. Both of those things are true, and Microsoft would…
