Sega sold 13% more games and booked 23% less revenue
Revenue per full game fell to ¥1,934 in the six months to September, down 32% from ¥2,854, because 99% of the copies sold were catalogue titles.
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Editors' Picks
Nvidia's 300 fps in Hogwarts Legacy counts frames the headline leaves out
The 6X multiplier sits in the same sentence as the 300, so at best one frame in six was actually rendered. Independent testers measured the cost of those rendered frames and got 20 to 42 percent, which is a different number for a different question.
Nintendo profit fell 16% and Sony profit rose 83% in the same three months
Switch 2 shipments fell 41.2% and PS5 shipments fell 35.0%. Most of the gap between the two profit lines comes from what each number is measured against.
CHOICE names Sony in its 2026 Shonky Awards over digital ownership
Australia's consumer group says PlayStation sells a licence it can cancel, and the 2028 disc shutdown takes away the alternative.
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SCSKiller: the free tool taking on shader compilation stutter
A single-developer open-source Windows app pre-compiles your games' shaders into the driver cache before you play, and Digital Foundry and Hardware Unboxed both put it through real tests within two weeks of each other.
Hardware
Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 measured: 125ms input lag, more than double the PS5
Digital Foundry measured Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer on Switch 2 at 81ms docked and 100ms average in handheld mode, against 49.1ms on PS5, with the worst handheld reading reaching 125ms.
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GTA 6's map is roughly GTA IV, GTA V and RDR2 combined, per Rockstar
Rockstar told Edge that the total landmass of Leonida is nearly as large as the playable maps of GTA IV, GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 put together, and that the map is roughly twice the size of GTA 5's.
Wire
EA shut BioWare, cancelled the next Mass Effect, and N7 Day is still happening
EA closed BioWare on October 21 and cancelled the next Mass Effect, and now the publisher is selling N7 Day merchandise for a series that no longer has a studio.
Wire
The Elder Scrolls VI is officially Sentinel, 3,068 days after its E3 teaser
Todd Howard revealed The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel in the Bethesda Game Studios 40th anniversary video, five days after The Verge leaked the same name, and the studio says the game is set in Hammerfell. There is still no release date.
Wire
Sam Altman says your idle RAM is 'terrible'. Gamers disagree
The OpenAI CEO called home PCs a bad allocation of scarce DRAM, spent four days in a meme storm for it, and answered by renaming himself Ram Altman on X.
Hardware
RTX 5090 and 5080 vanish from Nvidia's own store as prices explode
Nvidia denies the cards are discontinued, yet neither high-end GeForce is listed in its own US store, and tracked street prices keep climbing.
Tech
A mod proves DLSS frame generation works on RTX 30 cards. Nvidia's excuse is falling apart
Hardware Unboxed ran multi frame generation on a stock RTX 3090 through a community mod, and the hardware excuse Nvidia has used since 2022 no longer matches what the video shows.
Wire
Nagoshi Studio is dissolved, and the Gang of Dragon Steam page still says coming soon
The dissolution notice is in the Japanese official gazette, and the Steam page for Gang of Dragon still lists a developer that no longer exists.
Wire
The Game Awards 2026: GTA 6 makes the eligibility cutoff by one day
The Game Awards FAQ puts the nomination cutoff at November 20 at 9 p.m. PT, and GTA 6 launches November 19, so the biggest release of the year qualifies with one calendar day to spare.
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Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake lands on Switch 2 with a 95 on OpenCritic
The Switch 2 remake of the 1998 classic opened at 95 on OpenCritic and 96 on Metacritic, though a wave of Amazon preorder delays kept some physical copies from arriving on launch day.
Hardware
AMD says FSR frame pacing is fixed. What the driver update actually promises
AMD shipped driver-assisted frame pacing for FSR frame generation in SDK 2.4 and Adrenalin 26.10.1, and it only reaches RX 9000 cards, with no independent slow motion verification yet.