A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve's next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports: On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast that "everybody I've talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine." Straw -- who has a long history of reporting gaming rumors from anonymous sources -- said this Half-Life 3 information is "not [from] these run-of-the-mill sources that haven't gotten me information before. ... These aren't like random, one-off people." And those sources are "still adamant that the game is coming in the spring," Straw added, noting that he was "specifically told [that] spring 2026 [is the window] for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, [and] for Half-Life 3." [...] Timing specifics aside, Straw said his sources have him convinced that the long wait for Half-Life 3 is coming to an end in the near future. "The game's real," he said. "At the end of the day, the game is real. There's no denying it. It's just a 'when' and not an 'if' at this point."

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Une liste des jeux qui seraient offerts en décembre 2025 sur l'Epic Games Store circule sur Internet. Elle se termine par l'un des titres les plus marquants de ces dernières années : Red Dead Redemption 2. Peut-on y croire ?

The Game Awards, which broadcasts tonight on Twitch, YouTube, and Prime Video, has become the biggest night on the video game calendar since launching in 2014, but the show's treatment of developers has drawn increasing criticism. At the 2023 ceremony, acceptance speeches were often cut off after roughly 30 seconds while Hideo Kojima received five minutes to discuss his upcoming game OD -- enough time for 13 acceptance speeches, Aftermath calculated. That year's show also ignored the industry's mass layoffs entirely; host Geoff Keighley acknowledged the labor crisis only at the 2024 ceremony. The show's Future Class program, launched in 2020 to celebrate game makers representing an inclusive future for the industry, has quietly ended. No new class has been named for two years. "At this time, we are not planning a new Future Class for this year," organizer Emily Weir told Game Developer.

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Les fans pourront très bientôt retrouver Hunger Games sur grand écran, avec le futur film Lever de soleil sur la moisson, prévu pour le 18 novembre 2026. Et son casting, déjà impressionnant, vient d'être complété par deux noms bien connus de l'univers.

Le licenciement de 31 employés chez Rockstar Édimbourg n’est pas passé inaperçu et continue de ternir la réputation du studio derrière GTA 6. Après les manifestations devant les locaux et les lettres de soutien, c’est désormais le Premier ministre britannique, Keir Starmer, qui s’en mêle.