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The 10 Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2025
24.12.2025
AI slop infected more games, cool stuff was canned, people lost their jobs, and other horrible video game news from 2025
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The State Of Xbox And Game Pass In 2025
15.12.2025
Xbox had great games in 2025, but everything else is bad, bad, bad, bad
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Amazon Multiplayer Game Reportedly Got 10x Fewer Players Than It Was Hoping For
9.12.2025
New report suggests King of Meat did not meet expectations
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Layoffs Are Approaching 1.2 Million, the Worst Since the 2009 ‘Great Recession’
8.12.2025
The data was provided by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday, and may partly explain the recent bitcoin downturn. Layoffs Climb to a Grim Milestone: Nearly 1.2 Million…and Counting A Chicago-based outplacement firm quietly announced a rather dire metric that...
Dragon Age Day Comes And Goes In Complete Silence Just One Year After Veilguard
5.12.2025
This comes after a ton of internal strife before, during, and after Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Burnout Paradise Director’s Studio Faces Shutdown After 12 Years
4.12.2025
Three Fields Entertainment's most recent game, Wreckreation, has struggled to build a playerbase
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Meta Plans 30% Cut to Metaverse Budget as Reality Becomes Less Virtual: Bloomberg
4.12.2025
Horizon Worlds and Quest are facing layoffs as Meta retreats further from its $70 billion bet on virtual reality, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg
Hard To Unlock Battlefield 6 Skin Seemingly Makes You Easier To Kill
3.12.2025
Also: Horses banned again, MLB The Show gets a mobile port, and more video game industry layoffs
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Another Long-Time Game Studio Is On The Chopping Block
26.11.2025
Splash Damage, the studio behind Gears Tactics and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, announced possible layoffs
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Expedition 33 Star Uses Award Speech To Say What Everyone’s Thinking
20.11.2025
‘This industry is hard…there are many people who should be here who aren’t because they are laid off’
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Crystal Dynamics Says ‘Painful’ Layoffs Required To ‘Optimize’ Development For Next Tomb Raider
13.11.2025
We still haven't seen anything of the Amazon Games sequel
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Subnautica 2 Publisher Encourages Voluntary Layoffs As It Goes ‘AI First’
13.11.2025
Also: 220 GTA 6 devs blast Rockstar for alleged union busting
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Just Defeated The Best-Selling Mario Kart Ever
7.11.2025
Also: Square Enix layoffs and Fortnite's deadliest neighbor
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Looks Like Xbox Is Finally Getting The Silent Hill 2 Remake
31.10.2025
Plus: Fortnite gets pets, Turok 2 gets some new ports, and more layoffs hit the industry
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Angry Fans Are Review-Bombing Amazon’s Now Abandoned MMO: ‘F*** Corporate Greed’
29.10.2025
The company is sunsetting New World: Aeternum amid 14,000 layoffs
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Amazon’s Once Massively Popular MMO Is Going On Life Support
28.10.2025
New World at one point had over a million concurrent players on Steam, but will no longer get new content updates in 2026
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Report: Amazon Scales Back Gaming Ambitions Amid Mass Layoffs
28.10.2025
The tech company had previously announced a Lord of the Rings MMO
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Report: Microsoft Has Pushed Xbox To Make Much Higher Profits For The Past Two Years
23.10.2025
A push for 30 percent profit has led to layoffs, project cancellations, and price increases
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Ubisoft Asks Devs At Star Wars Outlaws Studio To Lay Themselves Off
22.10.2025
Massive gets downsized
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Alan Wake Studio CEO Steps Down After Co-Op Shooter Flops
22.10.2025
Also: Ryan Gosling in Half-Life , bad news for folks looking to shoot cartoon mice, Mortal Kombat is trying to avoid Star Wars , and more
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