In December 2023, Ubisoft’s decision to shut down servers for its decade-old racer The Crew ignited a grassroots outcry over the impermanence of today’s online-only games. What began as player frustra...
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Amazon Games has confirmed that New World, its once‑ambitious MMORPG, will go dark on January 31, 2027, giving players just one final year in Aeternum before the servers shut down permanently. The announcement marks the end of a t...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons just pulled off something it hasn’t done in years: it surprised the entire community. Version 3.0.0, a free update for both Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 players, landed with a long list of new feature...
For years, Square Enix’s biggest franchises — especially Final Fantasy — lived inside a walled garden of timed exclusivity deals, most often tied to PlayStation. But 2024–2025 marked a dramatic shift in the publisher’s strategy. A...
Resident Evil has reinvented itself many times, but Resident Evil: Requiem marks the first time the series leans fully into emotional storytelling without sacrificing its trademark tension, survival horror, and grotesque bio‑exper...
Bobby Kotick may have exited Activision Blizzard with the Microsoft acquisition, but he’s proving he has no intention of fading quietly into the background. In a new legal filing responding to the ongoing AP7 shareholder lawsuit, ...
When Anthem’s servers finally went dark, the moment felt less like the end of a live‑service game and more like the closing of a long, complicated chapter in BioWare’s history. To mark the occasion, the game’s former executive pro...