Play Your Way – enjoy your GOG games with Luna cloud streaming (www.gog.com)
The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away (www.theguardian.com)
While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond lands on Switch in 2025 (www.engadget.com)
Sim game Life By You canceled after 3 early access delays (www.polygon.com)
Let's Meet A Runescape Developer Who Worked On Everything From Billing To Engines To HTML5 - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table (www.pcgamer.com)
Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues (www.tomshardware.com)
Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam (kotaku.com)
A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team (www.pcgamer.com)
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Why the gradual death of the console exclusive makes business sense (www.eurogamer.net)
Microsoft backs up Geoff Keighley after he ignited console warrior outrage over the Gears of War: E-Day trailer (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize (www.404media.co)
Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value (www.pcgamer.com)
Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is)
So, really, a win for everybody.
Division 2 Players Really Hate The New Shift To Seasonal Characters (kotaku.com)
GameStop Raises $2.14 Billion on Back of Roaring Kitty-Led Rally (www.bloomberg.com)
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Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall (www.vg247.com)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 always online, including campaign, due to "continuous" texture streaming (www.eurogamer.net)
Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)
The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....