It's no secret that Xbox has had a rough time in 2026. With nearly 2,000 staff cut as part of sweeping layoffs and studio closures, Microsoft's gaming business is in the middle of one of the most significant restructures in video game history. But what led Xbox to this point? According to CEO Asha Sharma, Game Pass played a key role.
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Published Oct 6, 2026, 2:10 PM EDT
Chris is a writer and editor with well over a decade of experience, with gaming – and especially card games – among his main areas of focus. The Pokémon TCG first introduced him to collectible card games before Magic: The Gathering became a full-blown obsession in the early 2000s. He remains immersed in those fields while also dabbling in RPGs and roguelikes (especially roguelike deckbuilders), and writing on topics related to gaming, music, sports, and entertainment for a variety of outlets including EDHREC, CardSphere, ComicBook.com, FanSided, TheGamer, MTGStocks, ClutchPoints, and more. His interests tend to circle back to the same things: strong design, memorable games, interesting history, and the occasional absurdly expensive piece of cardboard.
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Great cover-based shooting with terrific multiplayer. Shame the main campaign is an exhausting, endless firefight that outstays its welcome.
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It wasn't long ago that RTX 5060 gaming laptops could be found for under $1,000, or somewhere near it. These days I'm regularly finding low-wattage versions for $1,500+ on discount, a sign of our memory crisis-afflicted times.
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Coming (not too) rune
A fourth entry in the RuneScape series of MMOs has been announced by developers Jagex at this year's RuneFest. It's going by the obvious placeholder name of RuneScape 4 for now, is being developed using the Unreal Engine, and is still a decent way off.
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2026 has been a truly astonishing year for Quake mapping, with both fans and professional game developers delivering some incredible death arenas for id Software's 1996 FPS. We've had the enormous Quake Brutalist Jam 3, numerous map packs celebrating Quake's 30 anniversary, and even a new official campaign called Dawn of the Machine.
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Published Oct 4, 2026, 10:21 AM EDT
Tomas Franzese is the Weekend News Editor at Polygon, following and reporting on the latest goings-on in the gaming and entertainment spaces. During the week, you can find him working on Remastered, his newsletter about video game history and retro gaming, or contributing to GameSpot and other publications. Previously, Tomas was the Gaming Segment Lead at XDA and a Staff Writer at Digital Trends.
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Published Oct 4, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
Disc-to-digital is either a genuine players-first initiative or a swipe at Sony. Either way, I'll take it
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Verity is out in theaters. Starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, the film follows Lowen (Johnson), a struggling writer presented with a life-changing opportunity: ghostwriting the unfinished novel of Verity Crawford (Hathaway), one of the world's biggest authors. She accepts and soon finds herself living in Verity’s home and entangled with her husband, Jeremy (Hartnett). The snag is that Verity, left incapacitated from an accident, lies in a bed upstairs.
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