PlayStation State of Play June 2026: Sony Can't Afford to Phone This In
Two price hikes. Studios closed. Sales cratering. Tomorrow Sony gets 60 to 90 minutes to convince everyone the PS5 is still worth buying. Wolverine headlines but one game isn't enough.
PlayStation State of Play June 2026: Sony Can't Afford to Phone This In
Two price hikes. Studios closed. Sales cratering. Tomorrow Sony gets 60 to 90 minutes to convince everyone the PS5 is still worth buying. Wolverine headlines but one game isn't enough.
Hell Let Loose Vietnam Open Beta Is Live. And War Is Hell!
The open beta is live. But this isn't Black Matter's game anymore. The team that took over gets their shot at proving they can build something new, not just maintain what somebody else made.
007 First Light: IO Interactive Bet Everything on Themselves and Just Won
The last Bond game killed the studio that made it. IO Interactive just broke the 14-year curse.
Mina the Hollower Is a $20 Game With a 93% Metacritic and It's Not Even Out Yet
The best rated game of 2026 costs $20 and was made by the Shovel Knight team. 93% Metacritic. Yacht Club Games just proved it wasn't a fluke.
Thick As Thieves Is a $5 Stealth Game From the Creator of Deus Ex. It Needs More, But What's Here Is Good.
Warren Spector's studio shipped a $5 stealth game that was supposed to be something much bigger. What's there is good. What's missing is the story.
Clockwork Ambrosia: 14 Years in the Making and Finally Here
14 years. One game. 150+ weapon mods that change how your guns actually behave. This is what passion projects look like.
Best Selling Indie Games of All Time and What the Numbers Actually Mean
64 million copies. 50 million copies. 25 million copies. Built by teams of one to five people. The best selling indie games of all time aren't underdog stories anymore. They're the receipts.
Best Indie Horror Games You Need to Play in 2026
AAA horror plays it safe. Indie horror plays for keeps. 15 games, all under $30, that will do more damage to your nerves than any $70 release this year.
PS5 Sales Dropped 46%. Sony's Answer Is More AI.
A $900 console, a collapsing install rate, and an earnings call that talked to shareholders instead of players.
Steam Deck Prices Just Jumped 44%. Gaming's Pricing Bubble Is About to Pop.
A Steam Deck now costs more than a PS5. More than an Xbox. The 1TB model is $949. When a hobby costs too much, people find other hobbies. The industry hasn't figured that out yet.
Steam Controller Sold Out in 30 Minutes: Scalpers, Crashes, and What It Means
Sold out in 30 minutes. Store crashed. Scalpers at $300. Valve built a great product and fumbled the launch.
Steam Controller 2026: Valve Just Solved Stick Drift for $99
TMR sticks that won't drift. 35+ hours of battery. $99. Valve just solved a problem the big three won't touch.
Bungie Just Killed Destiny for a Game Nobody Wanted
Sony paid $3.6 billion. Destiny is dead. Destiny 3 doesn't exist. More layoffs are coming. And the developers who built the franchise are being funneled into a game that 10,000 people play.
Slay the Spire 2 Review Bomb: Stop Telling Consumers What Counts
Three review bombs in two months. 80,000 negative reviews. And the only debate anyone wants to have is whether or not it's fair. We're asking the wrong question.
Eidos Montreal Spent Hundreds of Millions on a Game Nobody Will Ever Play. Then They Fired 124 People.
Seven years. Four game engines. Hundreds of millions of dollars. A Deus Ex sequel killed to fund it. Then Embracer canceled Wildlands and fired 124 people. Full breakdown with receipts.
Week of June 1-7, 2026