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A more optimistic expedition
At the DICE Summit, I checked in with video game industry leaders about the state of things. And I handed my phone to two of the co-founders of Clair…
Feb 14
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"Vince was the real deal." Gaming leaders mourn Vince Zampella in Las Vegas
An hour of today's annual DICE Summit that would usually be reserved for a keynote address was instead devoted to eulogies for the Call of Duty and…
Feb 11
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Stephen Totilo
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A good joke about game launches
Plus: PlayStation's recent win against counterfeiters
Feb 11
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Stephen Totilo
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20 very up and down hours with Mewgenics
A review of a long-awaited tactical game about cat warfare. Plus: PlayStation sales, Roblox results, a Raven complaint, the Baldur’s Gate HBO show and…
Feb 6
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Stephen Totilo
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Epic’s plans for its game store include launching on the next Xbox
Plus: Horses' Epic Games Store roadblock, revisited. And how EGS did in 2025.
Feb 5
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Stephen Totilo
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Nintendo actually showed me the Virtual Boy
I had the best and worst of times. PLUS: Switch breaks a sales record, a key Nintendo stat declines, three labor complaints are withdrawn, Ubisoft fires…
Feb 3
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January 2026
Meet Gertie
Video games have let you play as a space marine, a world-saving teenager and a god of war. An upcoming adventure proposes a riskier role: an old lady.
Jan 30
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Stephen Totilo
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"Oh, this is gonna be very different": An ex-Blizzard developer's eye-opening year
My visit to Dreamhaven to talk about Sunderfolk, an unusual RPG with one of last year's worst-timed release dates. Blunt talk about what went wrong…
Jan 29
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Stephen Totilo
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44 hours (unexpected!) with a gorgeous game called MIO
PLUS: Battlefield tops U.S. sales charts, GameStop gets sued, a Wii connects to Domino's and more
Jan 24
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Game File, two years in
What’s going well, what keeps me up at night, and which countries and states love Game File the most
Jan 23
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Stephen Totilo
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Interview: As Arc Raiders surges, Nexon CEO eyes the west (and is dreaming of gaming's "third wave")
Plus: A big shake-up at Ubisoft, and...what was the best video game made in New York?
Jan 21
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Stephen Totilo
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Video game layoffs also look like this
Via public records requests, some long lists of gaming jobs cut by Microsoft, Sony, Warner Bros. and Amazon in the state of Washington.
Jan 16
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Stephen Totilo
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