Ben Starr won Best Supporting Performer at the Golden Joystick Awards for Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and used his acceptance speech to address the gaming industry’s brutal layoff epidemic, praising developer Sandfall Interactive for respecting their employees while the game tied Baldur’s Gate 3’s record with seven awards.

To celebrate the Xbox 360’s 20th anniversary, Eurogamer selected the 10 most important games from Microsoft’s legendary console, highlighting titles like Halo 3, Gears of War, and surprisingly Viva Piñata and Geometry Wars as the games that truly mattered beyond just being critically acclaimed.

Hypixel Studios revealed three pricing tiers for Hytale’s early access with the standard edition at $19.99, deliberately priced as aggressively low as possible because founder Simon Collins-Laflamme admits the game running on four-year-old code isn’t good yet after buying it back from Riot Games.

Leenzee released version 1.7 for Wuchang Fallen Feathers adding a highly requested boss rechallenge feature and Deluxe Edition expansion content, offering quality-of-life improvements months after the controversial patch 1.5 that made historical figures unkillable sparked massive backlash.

Team Ninja announced the Bakumatsu period as Nioh 3’s fourth playable era, marking the first time in the franchise players will face enemies wielding firearms and gatling guns as they battle the legendary Shinsengumi military police in a corrupted 1860s Kyoto.

TiGames clarified that Zoopunk was built by human artists after the game’s appearance in an Nvidia generative AI tech demo sparked concerns about AI-generated content, stating AI will only be used for player-created customization tools in the upcoming action game sequel to FIST Forged in Shadow Torch.

Bandai Namco dropped a new character trailer for Code Vein II introducing Josée Anjou, a guilt-ridden Revenant queen who protects humanity’s last survivors while haunted by her past failures, wielding devastating two-handed sword attacks ahead of the game’s January 30, 2026 release.

PUBG Black Budget is an upcoming extraction shooter that drops players on an island trapped in a time loop with supernatural anomalies, combining tactical PvPvE combat with base building and persistent character progression across 30-minute sessions starting its closed alpha in December 2025.

IGN’s final hands-on preview of Nioh 3 reveals how Team Ninja is transforming the series with open-field exploration, instant Samurai and Ninja style switching, and separate Crucibles in every zone, making it the most ambitious entry yet ahead of its February 6, 2026 release.

Ubisoft reported strong Q2 earnings with the Assassin’s Creed franchise driving growth through 211 million session days, but the company continues to avoid revealing actual sales numbers for Shadows, instead focusing on player counts that include subscription users.