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Cory Barlog Fired Himself From God of War
Barlog directed the game that won Game of the Year. For the sequel, he handed the wheel to someone whose whole toolkit he didn't understand.
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Updated Sep 16
Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA) has now run in October, December and November across three straight years. Each move followed a venue upgrade, not the calendar settling into a rhythm.
The Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS) 2026 Global Championship drops trios for duos and adds two new LAN stops nobody asked for by name. The format didn't get simpler. It got more places to qualify.
DEVO and The B-52s both ran farewell tours in the early 2020s. A joint SNL appearance in 2025 reignited demand hard enough that the encore run is now bigger than the goodbye.
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The Studio That Kept the Name Wasn't the One That Stayed
Aug 31 · 6 min read
4A Games won Best Visuals for Metro 2039 at Gamescom 2026 on a story about Ukrainian wartime survival. The studio that actually stayed in Kyiv the whole war gave up that name a year earlier.
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WIT Studio Banned Generative AI: Nobody Checked the Opening
Aug 19 · 6 min read
WIT had a stated no-AI rule, a president who called AI a threat and no step in the pipeline where anyone verified either one.
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Valko's 8-Day Cancellation Didn't Fix What Broke Love and Deepspace
Aug 17 · 5 min read
Infold Games cancelled Love and Deepspace's newest character eight days after revealing him and banned new characters forever. The resourcing complaint that caused the backlash is still unresolved.
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