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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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Short factual notes on what shipped: releases, cancellations, studio changes and the numbers behind them.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GTA 6 preloads start November 10 at 212GB, and PC is still waiting
Rockstar confirmed preload windows and a 212GB install for the November 19 console launch, and a reported Q1 2027 PC release would be the fastest PC port Rockstar has ever done.
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Itch.io deletes terabytes of AI slop and adds a No AI filter
The indie storefront wiped mass-produced AI uploads, doubled down on disclosure, and gave buyers a filter that Steam has never offered.
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Stellar Blade 1.5.0 is a Bayonetta costume drop with one quest fix
Four Nanosuits, two pairs of glasses and two pairs of earrings. The only fix listed is a side quest that could stall after two Memory Sticks.