The gaming world got a nasty surprise in July 2025 when Collective Shout, an Australian anti-porn group, teamed up with Visa and Mastercard to pressure platforms like Steam and Itch.io into removing hundreds of adult games, sparking a backlash hotter than a DOOM plasma rifle overheat.

The gaming community is buzzing like a Destiny 2 raid boss alert over rumors that Playground Games' Fable reboot, originally slated for 2026, might slip into 2027.

Ubisoft's latest financial report, released on 21 July 2025, dropped a bombshell that's got gamers raging harder than a Dark Souls noob facing Ornstein and Smough for the first time.

NCAA Football 2026, EA Sports' latest gridiron grind, dropped on 10 July 2025 like a Halo plasma grenade, but gamers are calling foul faster than a Madden challenge flag.

Microsoft’s gaming division got hit with a Halo plasma grenade in July 2025, with 9,000 layoffs—4% of its 228,000 workforce—sparking chatter of a seismic realignment, per Bloomberg.

The Stop Killing Games movement, sparked in April 2024 by YouTuber Ross Scott after Ubisoft axed The Crew, is storming the gaming scene like a Halo Warthog on a rampage.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, unleashed by Kojima Productions on 26 June 2025, hit the gaming world like a Halo plasma grenade, polarizing players faster than a Super Smash Bros. roster debate.

Light No Fire, unveiled by Hello Games at The Game Awards 2023, sparked gamer hype like a Halo plasma grenade, promising an Earth-sized fantasy planet brimming with adventure, survival, and multiplayer magic, per hellogames.org.

Blood Message, unveiled by NetEase Games and 24 Entertainment at Summer Game Fest on 06 June 2025, hit the gaming scene like a Halo plasma grenade, promising a cinematic action-adventure set in the Tang Dynasty’s final days.

The gaming world’s buzzing like a Destiny 2 raid night, but not with hype—it’s the sound of gamers clashing with game journalists like a Super Smash Bros. grudge match.

The new Fable game, a reboot of the beloved Xbox RPG series, was meant to storm Albion like a Zelda rupee spree, but its journey has been bumpier than a Skyrim cart ride.

Sony’s rumored interest in scooping up Warner Bros. Games (WB Games) hit the gaming scene on 18 June 2025 like a Halo plasma grenade, sparking X posts and Reddit threads hotter than a Super Mario fire flower frenzy.

Game of the Year (GOTY) awards, once the holy grail of gaming glory, are now caught in a Dark Souls fog gate of controversy, with gamers on X and Reddit crying foul over political agendas.

Gamer journalism has been throwing shade at games featuring sexy female characters faster than a Dark Souls boss locks onto a noob without a shield, with Stellar Blade’s Eve taking the brunt of the heat.

Sony’s dropping hints about the PlayStation 6 (PS6) like Zelda breadcrumbs in Hyrule, sparking gamer buzz louder than a Halo Warthog’s engine

Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare’s long-awaited RPG, crash-landed on 31 October 2024 like a Skyrim dragon with a broken wing, selling 1.5 million units against Electronic Arts’ (EA) 3 million target, per PC Gamer.

The video gaming industry, once a pixelated playground of Super Mario jumps and DOOM demon-slaying, now feels like a Cyberpunk 2077 dystopia where ideology sneaks in like a glitchy NPC.

Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s open-world survival MMO, crash-landed on PC via Steam on 10 June 2025, with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions slated for later, per Steam.

MindsEye, the sci-fi action-adventure thriller from Build A Rocket Boy, hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 10 June 2025, promising a Grand Theft Auto vibe with a Cyberpunk 2077 twist, per IGN.

The Nintendo Switch 2, launched on 05 June 2025, stormed the gaming scene like a Super Mario star power-up, but its $449.99 price tag—$150 more than the original Switch—has gamers clutching their wallets tighter than a Zelda rupee hoard.