Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the company wants to make Minecraft “the world’s creator platform”

Merge-Style Games Emerge as a Fast-Growing Secondary Engine Meanwhile, merge games emerged as a powerful secondary growth engine and the fastest-growing among the big genres. Merge games made $1.3B in H1 2026, shooting up 74% year-over-year as downloads grew by 24%. AppMagic noted that monetization is the greatest strength of this segment, with player spending…

Apple links weaker mobile gaming activity and stricter App Store rules to softer services revenue. Executives signal short-term pain but promise policy adjustments to restore growth. Apple says that the slowdown in growth in the mobile gaming segment and the changes introduced in the App Store are affecting the dynamics of the company’s services business….

33 The SCUM Into the Wild July Update (Version 1.3.2.0.134527) expands the ongoing seasonal content with a brand-new tutorial, mutant wildlife, Master Hunter questlines, and a wide range of quality-of-life improvements. The update also increases official server capacity, improves tutorials, and introduces new progression rewards. Alongside the new content, the patch delivers extensive bug fixes…

Less than six months after the release of the survival horror shooter Crisol: Theater of Idols, developer Vermila Studios appears to be in trouble. The studio has not officially closed, as one former employee had claimed, but CEO David Carrasco confirmed that employees have been let go and that a full shutdown “is a feasible…

FuRyu has has announced that the HD remaster of Exstetra, which originally released in 2013 for PlayStation Vita and 3DS in Japan, is now available worldwide for PC (Steam). Advertisement. Keep scrolling for more Exstetra is $19.99 with a launch discount until August 12. If you own Varlet, a discounted bundle is now available. The new Steam remaster features…

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Friday, July 24 (game #1642). Quordle…