Game Cookies — Gaming Trends, One Bite at a Time https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 🍪 No Man’s Sky didn’t win people back with PR, it won because Hello Games kept shipping 🍪 New York Sues Valve, And the Loot Box Gray Zone Is Finally on Trial 🍪 Analyxyz: Marathon Cost Like GTA V. That’s the Part Sony Should Be Panicking About 🍪 Gaming Isn’t Getting Expensive by Accident. It’s Being Repriced on Purpose. 🍪 PlayStation turns fandom into a feature, Playgama proves the boring fixes still work, and Star Wars Eclipse keeps drifting 🍪 XDS 2026: External Dev Is Core, Friction Is Rising 🍪 GDC Got Smaller… And Now Everyone’s Asking Why 🍪 Kishimoto built the hits, today’s industry keeps cutting the people who still know how 🍪 Epic just cut more than 1,000 jobs, and the real story is what Fortnite stopped being able to carry 🍪 Nintendo Just Spoiled Fox McCloud, and Trailer Culture Keeps Mistaking Exposure for Hype 🍪 Fortnite Is Back, Meta Steps Back, and Ubisoft Cuts Deeper Than It Says 🍪 NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Looks Less Like Progress and More Like an AI Filter for Games 🍪 Mario Galaxy did its job, and a chunk of the press still reviewed the wrong movie 🍪 Nintendo Stumbles, Ubisoft Gets Sued, Rec Room Dies, and Mikami with SHIFT UP Shows Where the Industry Still Places Its Bets 🍪 Epic, Unity, Sony, and Warhorse just spent the weekend showing how much meaner the games business is getting 🍪 Marvel Rivals’ $40K meltdown was never about “toxicity”. It was about mismatched expectations. 🍪 NetEase Pulls Funding from Yakuza Creator’s Studio, Voice Actors Push Back on AI Contracts, and Fortnite Quietly Raises Prices 🍪 Slay the Spire 2 didn’t just beat Marathon at launch. It exposed what players trust now. 🍪 Tencent Under Fire, ROM Archivists Race the Clock, and Sony Reconsiders PC 🍪 Fortnite was never supposed to look mortal, and that is exactly why this matters 🍪 Crimson Desert sold the fantasy, then launched a debate about what was actually finished 🍪 Jeff Kaplan Says the Breaking Point at Blizzard Came When Overwatch Was Turned Into a Revenue Threat 🍪 Independence, Layoffs, Lawsuits, and Year-Long Heroes 🍪 Layoffs Did Not Kill the Studio Dream. They Turned LinkedIn Into a Founders’ Group Chat 🍪 Pickmon Might Be the Most Shameless “Inspired By” Game the Internet Has Seen 🍪 A Discord Leak Bug, Fake War Videos, and the $1000 Console Rumor 🍪 Pokémon 10 (Winds/Waves) Looks Better. That’s the Problem. 🍪 Blizzard redraws a face, Krafton doubles down on AI, and studios keep pretending layoffs were a surprise 🍪 The GDC Survey Sounds Like Panic. The Release Calendar Still Looks Delusional. 🍪 Why Phil Spencer Left Xbox and What’s Really Changing 🍪 The day Wall Street thought AI killed AAA games 🍪 ByteDance Is Selling Moonton. Saudi Arabia Is Building Something Bigger. 🍪 Yoshi didn’t just sound different. The new Mario movie trailer showed how fragile game sound identity really is. 🍪 The Industry Mourns a Craftsman While AI Promises to Generate Games on Command 🍪 Horizon Hunters Gathering Is Sitting in an Uncomfortable Space 🍪 Valve Didn’t Settle. They Fought Back. And the Patent Troll Model Might Be in Trouble. 🍪 Steam Isn’t Being Sued for Hurting Players. It’s Being Sued for Working Too Well. 🍪 The Future of AI in Game Localization Is Getting Real 🍪 Return to Office, Loot Boxes, Xbox Doubts, and a Tired Industry Running on Fumes 🍪 Discord Just Rewrote the Rules on Age and Privacy Contact 🍪 Prestige adaptations, rare wins, and one studio completely losing the plot 🍪 Ok, We Need to Talk About Highguard: When Players Leave and the Industry Pretends Nothing’s Wrong 🍪 Localization isn’t just translation anymore. It’s narrative, audio, and trust under pressure. 🍪 We’re Not Going to GDC Festival… Are You? 🍪 Big Deals, Quiet Cracks, and the Cost of Control 🍪 Ubisoft Is Splitting Itself Into Five Studios Because the Old Machine Stopped Working 🍪 Steam Reviews Are Not A PR Department 🍪 Highguard Closed The Game Awards and Paid the Price for It 🍪 Overwatch Rush arrives late to a mobile market that already cooled down