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Nintendo’s Switch 2 cleared the GameCube’s entire lifetime total in about thirteen months. In the same report, quarterly sales fell 34% — and a $50 US price rise lands on 1 September 2026. Both numbers tell the same story.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 cleared the GameCube’s entire lifetime total in about thirteen months. In the same report, quarterly sales fell 34% — and a $50 US price rise lands on 1 September 2026. Both numbers tell the same story.
A new console, one big game and a subscription now clears $600 in year one. Here is the full 2026 price breakdown — the $80 game, the September Switch 2 rise, the subscription hike that got reversed — and the tier that still costs nothing.
Valve’s January 2026 rewrite drew a line between AI tools used to build a game and AI content that ships inside it. Thousands of games now carry the tag, Epic’s CEO calls the rules irresponsible, and discovery is the real battleground.
The campaign got 1,294,188 verified signatures and a formal review. In June 2026 the European Commission declined to propose binding law, opting for an industry code of conduct instead. The campaign did not fold — it changed target.
Gamescom 2026 takes over Cologne from 26–30 August, and for the first time in the show’s history every square metre of floor space sold out before the doors opened. Here is the schedule and what it is likely to bring.
On 4 August 2026, Electronic Arts stopped being a public company. A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund took it private for $55 billion — the largest leveraged buyout in history. Here is what that actually changes.
WebGPU reached production in every major browser, and Safari 26 brought it to iOS. For browser games that is not an incremental update — it is the removal of the ceiling that kept the web a tier below native.
A five-minute break needs a game that ends on its own. These ten free arcade games are grouped by how long one round really lasts, so you can pick one that fits the time you have.
A one-button game cannot hide behind its controls. Here is what that forces a designer to get right, with concrete examples from how our one-button flyer, Neon Glide, actually works.
On July 1, 2026, Sony confirmed it will end physical disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. It is the clearest signal yet that "install nothing, play instantly" has become the default — and browser games got there twenty years early.
You have five minutes and no patience for a 60 GB install. These 20 free browser games start in seconds, need no account, and work on whatever device is already in your hand.
Instant-play games load in a browser tab and start in seconds — no store, no install, no account. Here is how the format actually works in 2026, backed by current market data.