Are We Entering a New Golden Age of Single-Player Games?
For a long stretch of the last decade, it felt like the gaming industry was chasing a single goal.
Every publisher seemed to be searching for the next live-service phenomenon. Battle passes became standard. Seasonal roadmaps became marketing bullet points. Endless engagement, daily logins, and recurring revenue often felt just as important as gameplay itself.
Why Showcase Season Still Matters in Modern Gaming
For a few weeks every summer, the gaming world collectively stops what it is doing and watches. Group chats light up. Twitter timelines become chaos. YouTube reacts explode. Discord servers move at light speed. Everyone suddenly becomes an analyst, a detective, and a hype machine at the same time.
And honestly? I love it.
Bungie, Destiny 2, And Why Sony’s Gaming Strategy Suddenly Feels A Lot More Fragile
Seeing Bungie — the studio behind Halo and Destiny 2 — effectively move on from Destiny 2 while reportedly preparing for another wave of layoffs feels surreal if you have been gaming long enough to remember what Bungie once represented.
PlayStation Pulling Back From PC? I Don’t Think It Lasts
The budgets for modern AAA games are enormous now. Some projects take six or seven years to develop. Teams are massive. Marketing costs are staggering. Eventually, older exclusives sitting only on PlayStation hardware start looking less like strategic assets and more like untapped revenue opportunities.