Critics have had a field day debating why retail video game sales have been on the decline lately. As a visit to any GameStop reveals, though, the slump may have less to do with quality, price or new-fangled distribution methods than helping fans understand exactly just what they're buying.
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."
Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.
This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.
I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.
Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?
Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.
Check my comments, over a year ago I was calling out videogamer and N4G on their AI articles pushing slop 24/7
It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.
Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.
nice that they used castlevania as an example, i had the same exact thought when i saw it. bring back good screenshots and gameplay "bullet points", save the legal mumbo jumbo for the manual.
castlevanias manual is also probably the worst i've ever seen. it's useless.
I would think Digigal Sales are taking over, which is why retail is hurting. Havent bought a retail game asides Star Craft 2 in 3 years. Over 90 games bought on steam now and growing.
Besides going digital is very environment friendly:
Packaging costs eliminated,
Transport costs none,
More profit for the developer,
Space saved at my place.
The Digital revolution started as early as 2006. Consoles are now getting onboard too. Once console makers see more and more people buying online, i wouldnt be surprised if new games are available for sale on launch day.