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Video game industry news: layoffs, acquisitions, Game Pass, market trends. An independent look behind the scenes of gaming.
Six years after the announcement, Fable releases in autumn 2026 on Xbox, PC and PS5 day one. Playground Games built something ambitious. The real question is whether we'd have preferred a sequel in the lineage of Fable 2.
Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Detroit, launched a MOBA hero shooter that nobody saw coming and almost nobody played. 83 days after launch, servers close June 19. The postmortem is brutal.
Amazon just confirmed the cancellation of its Lord of the Rings MMO. Breakaway, Crucible, New World on its deathbed, two failed LOTR attempts: the track record of a studio that should never have touched this franchise.
Krafton tried to cheat its devs via an illegal plan advised by ChatGPT, lost the lawsuit, and Subnautica 2 launched in Early Access anyway.
Asha Sharma, Xbox's new boss, admitted in an internal memo that Game Pass has become too expensive for players. A brave statement. About six months late.
Behind the official press releases and stated ambitions, a more fragile, more human, and above all more troubling reality is taking shape around Nacon. A chronicle of a European player caught between growth and its limits.