GAMING

  Japan just became the second major market, after the European Union, where iPhone users can download Fortnite through a competing app store. But five months ago, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney publicly declared that return impossible. The story behind how it happened anyway, and why it is still far from a clean win, is […]

  Microsoft has quietly reversed one of its most controversial gaming decisions. On April 21, 2026, the company slashed the price of Game Pass Ultimate by 23%, bringing it down from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, effective immediately. PC Game Pass followed, dropping from $16.49 to $13.99. The announcement came directly from Asha Sharma, the

  There are patches, and then there are patches that quietly reshape an entire game. The biggest CS2 update of 2026 falls firmly into the second category. Within just a few weeks, Valve pushed two landmark changes to Counter-Strike 2 that touched everything from how bullets behave when you reload to how player models look,

Image: Rockstargames   The moment Rockstar confirmed GTA VI for November 19, 2026, on consoles, every PC gamer on the planet had one question: when do we get our turn? Rockstar has said absolutely nothing official about a PC release, and for a studio with a long history of making PC players wait, that silence

  May 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most loaded gaming months in recent memory — and the reason most people haven’t fully registered that yet is because everyone is still staring at the GTA 6 hype machine pointed at November. While that countdown runs in the background, May 2026 games are

  The number appeared in a post, got shared a few million times, and most people assumed it was just social media exaggeration. It is not. Gamers have collectively logged over 25 billion hours of COD playtime across every title in the franchise since 2003 — a figure that translates to approximately 2.85 million years

  Most gaming updates promise big changes and deliver small ones. The Free Fire OB52 update, officially titled “Jujutsu Awakening,” is the rare exception. Released on January 14, 2026, this patch does not simply add a new weapon or tweak a few numbers — it restructures how matches play out from the very first second

Image: Minecraft   Some stories in tech are about empire-building. This one is about the opposite — and honestly, it’s far more interesting because of that. Markus Persson, known to the world by his alias “Notch,” coded the prototype for what would become the best-selling video game in history while juggling a full-time job. He

  April 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most stacked months for AAA action games in recent memory—and what makes it different from most big gaming months is that the best titles are almost entirely brand new intellectual properties. No safe sequels, no lazy remakes. Capcom’s six-year passion project finally launches. Housemarque