Category: Gaming

Do You Need to Play the Old GTA Games Before GTA 6?
Gaming • September 30, 2026

Do You Need to Play the Old GTA Games Before GTA 6?

Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026, which leaves potential newcomers with a slightly intimidating problem. Rockstar has been making GTA games for nearly three decades, several of them take place in cities that appear more than once, and the new game returns to Vice City, one of the most famous locations in […]

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GTA VI Has Become Bigger Than a Game for Take-Two
Industry • September 17, 2026

GTA VI Has Become Bigger Than a Game for Take-Two

Take-Two Interactive is holding its annual shareholder meeting on September 17. Under normal circumstances, that would be a corporate event of limited interest to anyone who does not own the stock or enjoy reading proxy statements. These are not normal circumstances. GTA VI launches on November 19, and the gravitational pull of Rockstar Games’ next […]

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Electronic Arts Leaves Wall Street as the $55 Billion Buyout Finally Closes
Gaming • August 5, 2026

Electronic Arts Leaves Wall Street as the $55 Billion Buyout Finally Closes

Electronic Arts is no longer a publicly traded company. After months of regulatory reviews and shareholder approvals, the $55 billion acquisition led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has officially closed, ending EA’s decades-long run on the NASDAQ. For the gaming industry, it’s one of the biggest corporate stories […]

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PlayStation’s Digital-Only Future Is a Warning Shot for Ownership
Gaming • July 8, 2026

PlayStation’s Digital-Only Future Is a Warning Shot for Ownership

Sony has made the move the games industry has been circling for years: from January 2028, new PlayStation games will no longer be produced on physical discs. According to Sony’s own PlayStation Blog announcement, new releases after that point will be available through the PlayStation Store and retail digital formats only. Existing disc releases are […]

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Hasbro Stock Slides: Why Wall Street Still Sees Upside
Finance • July 7, 2026

Hasbro Stock Slides: Why Wall Street Still Sees Upside

Hasbro is having a weird 2026. The company behind Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, Transformers, Nerf, Play-Doh and a galaxy of licensed toys delivered a strong first quarter. Revenue rose, profit improved, and Wizards of the Coast kept printing cash like a well-shuffled Commander deck. And yet, Hasbro stock has been sliding. That […]

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Why Riot Platforms Stock Dropped After Its AI-Driven Rally
Industry • July 6, 2026

Why Riot Platforms Stock Dropped After Its AI-Driven Rally

Riot Platforms has been one of the louder crypto-infrastructure stories of 2026. The stock rode a powerful rally into late June, helped by Bitcoin exposure and growing excitement around its AI data center strategy. Then reality bit back. As of July 3, 2026, RIOT was trading around $22.11, down sharply from its late-June highs. The […]

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The Pixelated Boardroom: How Utopia on Intellivision Forged the Capitalists of Tomorrow
PC & Consoles • June 5, 2026

The Pixelated Boardroom: How Utopia on Intellivision Forged the Capitalists of Tomorrow

In 1981, while most teenagers were twitching their thumbs to the repetitive rhythms of Pac-Man or Asteroids, a select group of Intellivision owners was discovering a software of unprecedented complexity: Utopia. More than just a game, Don Daglow’s masterpiece was the world’s first “god game” and city-builder. Looking back, it served as a profound laboratory […]

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Games Workshop Stock: Warhammer’s Tiny Empire Trades Like a Giant
Gaming • May 27, 2026

Games Workshop Stock: Warhammer’s Tiny Empire Trades Like a Giant

Games Workshop is not a toy giant. It is not a video game publisher. It is not a Disney-scale licensing machine. And yet the company behind Warhammer trades with the confidence of a business that knows exactly what it owns: a niche, obsessive, high-margin universe that fans keep funding one miniature, codex, paint pot, and […]

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Take-Two Stock Hits New Highs as Wall Street Bets on GTA VI
Industry • May 22, 2026

Take-Two Stock Hits New Highs as Wall Street Bets on GTA VI

Take-Two Interactive is back in Wall Street’s favorite position: sitting on a monster franchise, a hot stock chart, and a market that desperately wants to believe the next Grand Theft Auto will be worth the wait. The publisher behind Rockstar Games reported fiscal Q4 2026 results that beat expectations, narrowed its loss, and — most […]

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