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Gaming News Today, 03:13 PM
Dan Houser used a San Diego Comic-Con interview to argue that players should keep having the choice to buy physical game discs, even though he said he personally does not care much about them. The Rockstar Games co-founder and former writer-producer made the comments during an IGN conversation, saying there is no reason to take that option away from people who want it. -
Gaming News Today, 12:40 PM
Konami is using its latest Silent Hill updates to underline how seriously it treats the series' writing, with producer Motoi Okamoto saying the company expects a great deal from its сценарists as it keeps building the franchise. At the same time, Silent Hill: Townfall is still set to arrive on PC and PlayStation 5 on 24 September, while Silent Hill remains a key part of Konami's long-term plans. -
Players are being told to delete MECCHA CHAMELEON immediately — except that advice is coming from the hacker, not the developers
Gaming News Today, 11:54 AM
Advice to urgently uninstall MECCHA CHAMELEON within 24 hours spread across forums, chats, and news feeds — and it's coming from anywhere except the studio itself. Developers going by lemorion_1224 stated the opposite: the game itself is clean, and the incident boils down to malicious Workshop maps, one hijacked admin account, and a stolen Discord server, which is now the source of the fake warnings. -
Movies and TV Series Yesterday, 01:21 AM
San Diego Comic-Con 2026 brought a fresh look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3, along with confirmation that Simon Pegg has joined the cast as the voice of the Balrog. The series also unveiled its third-season teaser.
The Balrog will speak for the first time in the series, a notable shift for a character most viewers know as a silent force of destruction. In season 3, the demon will not just appear in the shadows of Middle-earth — it will actively participate in the story alongside Sauron. -
Gaming News July 24, 2026, 03:41 PM
In a Famitsu interview, SEGA CEO and COO Shuji Utsumi said the company still sees a place for physical game releases, even as Sony prepares to phase out physical disc production for new PlayStation games starting in January 2028. -
Gaming News July 24, 2026, 10:15 AM
During Ubisoft's quarterly earnings call, CEO Yves Guillemot addressed Sony's plan to stop producing physical PlayStation discs for new games by January 2028 and said it should not disturb the industry too much. The comments came after TD Cowen analyst Doug Crutz raised concerns that losing the used games market could create a demand headwind. -
Former GTA 5 Developer Says He Received No Share of the Game’s Profits Despite Working 80-Hour Weeks
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 09:45 PM
Former Rockstar Games employee Rob Carr, who worked at the studio from 2007 to 2016 and contributed to GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption, has criticized the way the modern gaming industry operates. According to Carr, the developers behind some of the industry’s biggest hits often receive no share of the profits, even after spending years working under intense crunch conditions. -
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 06:15 PM
At CEDEC 2026, Shuhei Yoshida revisited why Bloodborne still has no official PS5 or PC release, saying the long-running gap remains hard to explain. The former head of PlayStation Studios added that the game still has a dedicated audience around the world, which makes its absence all the more striking. -
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 03:55 PM
Rockstar Games Workers Union says its first meeting with management was productive, and the group is now pushing to turn that progress into formal recognition. The union is seeking voluntary recognition so it can negotiate on behalf of workers at GTA 6, with crunch, overtime pay, and job protections at the center of the discussion. -
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 01:05 PM
The story behind the funding of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has taken an unexpected turn. After GSC Game World founder Sergiy Grygorovych recently claimed that the Xbox deal had fully covered the game's development costs before launch, the studio itself has now publicly challenged his version of events. -
Marvel has mapped out its movies 16 years into the future — but the Avengers won't be the main characters of the new cinematic universe anymore
Movies and TV Series July 23, 2026, 08:35 AM
Kevin Feige walked out to the press straight from a meeting — and let slip something the studio usually keeps quiet. According to him, Marvel Studios leadership had just been sitting in a conference room mapping out films all the way to 2042. That's ten years further out than the horizon the studio had previously talked about, where the old plan ended at 2032. -
Movies and TV Series July 22, 2026, 05:34 PM
Adriano Goldman, the cinematographer behind HBO’s new Harry Potter series, has revealed that working with the show’s young cast has been extremely challenging due to strict limits on how long children can spend on set. According to him, the actors attend classes for most of the day, leaving very little time for filming. -
Hardware and Technologies July 22, 2026, 04:09 PM
A U.S. federal judge has given Anthropic the green light to pay about $3,000 per book under its $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers. The deal, finalized by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, is being described as one of the largest copyright settlements in history. -
Gaming News July 22, 2026, 02:23 PM
Hasbro says it is scaling back its ambitions in digital games after taking a $56 million impairment charge in the second quarter of 2026, following the cancellation of several titles planned for 2028 and beyond. The company described the move as a reset that will put more emphasis on smaller bets and lower spending. -
News July 22, 2026, 01:12 PM
After a vote in the National Assembly on Tuesday, July 21, Emmanuel Macron backed a law that would bar children under 15 from creating social media accounts in France. The measure would make France the first European Union member to impose a nationwide age ban on social platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.
Emmanuel Macron posted support for the move after the vote. -
Gaming News July 22, 2026, 09:08 AM
Hideo Kojima, the game designer behind Metal Gear and Death Stranding, made a striking remark during a public appearance that quickly spread on X via Genki_JPN. In the clip, he said that if he had a choice, he would want his final moments to come in a movie theater. -
Gaming News July 21, 2026, 11:44 PM
Old School RuneScape players have turned a roleplay idea into a player-run conflict, with Saradomin and Zamorak factions organizing their own battles while Jagex stayed out of it.
Players are arranging the battles themselves, posting meetups on social networks and gathering squads of like-minded participants. At the moment, the largest faction is the followers of Saradomin, who show up in brown robes, carry air staves, and stock their inventory with cooked lobsters before heading into battle. -
Gaming News July 21, 2026, 03:43 PM
The latest Xbox layoffs at id Software have turned into a debate over how large the Doom (2016) team still was, after Hugo Martin said the studio had not been reduced to 50 people and that id Tech was "very much alive and well." -
Gaming News July 21, 2026, 10:35 AM
Kodansha Game Creators Lab's Sweet Hamster Days launched on July 17 for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and creator Katayama says Grand Theft Auto V helped inspire its odd premise through its three-protagonist switching. The live-action romance sim takes that mechanic in a very different direction. -
A former Valve writer blamed gamers themselves for Sony killing physical discs — and the numbers back him up
Gaming News July 21, 2026, 08:27 AM
While players around the world rage against Sony's decision to wind down physical PlayStation game production by 2028, a former Valve writer has decided to voice an extremely uncomfortable take: the blame for discs dying shouldn't fall on the corporation — it should fall on gamers themselves. There's no conspiracy here, he says — consumers voted with their wallets for digital a long time ago, and now they just aren't willing to own up to the consequences of that choice. And the most frustrating part for anyone arguing otherwise is that the latest sales stats are entirely on his side.
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