In our opinion, it's been a bit of a slow news day, but these stories are the ones that caught our attention.

VideoGameGossip

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Blizzard's story and franchise development division votes to unionize

GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed | Aug 12, 2025

Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec

GamesRadar+ | Aug 12, 2025

Simon Pegg says Quentin Tarantino's unmade Star Trek movie was "bat-s*** crazy" but isn’t sure "how would've it would've gone over" with fans: "It was everything you’d expect a Tarantino Star Trek script to be"

GamesRadar+ | Aug 12, 2025

Itch.io's mass delisting of paid adult content has also affected safe-for-work games with yuri or lesbian themes, devs claim

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed | Aug 12, 2025

Former Google exec says AI's going to lead to a 'short-term dystopia' because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it's replacing is '100% crap'

PCGamer latest | Aug 12, 2025

New Helldivers 2 Xbox trailer seemingly teases a Halo crossover

VGC | Aug 12, 2025

We missed the weekend and thought very seriously about making a weekend breakdown (we actually did compile a list for a weekend roundup), but at the end of the day, we realized that the news cycle continues, and various different outlets will parrot their competitors. Chances are if you've missed a story the first time around, you'll find someone who posts or writes about it the next day.

Here are the headlines from today that we found most entertaining.

VideoGameGossip

A curated list of video game articles.

The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so

PCGamer latest | Aug 11, 2025

Chaotic Pokémon and McDonald's collaboration in Japan ends early due to shocking food waste

Eurogamer.net Latest Articles Feed | Aug 11, 2025

Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same

PCGamer latest | Aug 11, 2025

I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time

PCGamer latest | Aug 11, 2025

Battlefield 6 Beta Reaches Series Concurrent Peak, Overtakes Call Of Duty All-Time Peak

Game Informer | Aug 11, 2025

BioWare Pitched A Dragon Age Trilogy Remaster 'Pretty Softly' At One Point, Says Former Series Producer

Game Informer | Aug 11, 2025

Marvel Rivals devs say those horny skins are based on "classic comic designs," thank you very much, and they're simply glad to "gain players' appreciation"

GamesRadar+ | Aug 11, 2025

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content

PCGamer latest | Aug 11, 2025

Today's batch of video game gossip for you! These were our favorite articles from around the web for today.

VideoGameGossip

A curated list of video game articles.

Battlefield 6 has almost 250,000 people waiting in an open beta queue

Eurogamer.net Latest Articles Feed | Aug 7, 2025

Take-Two's Strauss Zelnick on the firm's "most robust release schedule" and preparation for GTA 6's launch

GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed | Aug 7, 2025

Final Fantasy 10 dev reminds players obsessed with retro-style PS1 graphics in modern games that, back in my day, those graphics were a problem

GamesRadar+ | Aug 7, 2025

30 years later, Doom-era FPS cult classics Heretic and Hexen get "definitive re-release" on PC and consoles complete with 2 new episodes from id and retro powerhouse Nightdive

GamesRadar+ | Aug 7, 2025

The dialogue wheel was the worst thing to happen to RPGs, it's robbed us all for years, and I'm glad it's dying out

PCGamer latest | Aug 7, 2025

UFO 50 Out Today On Switch 2, Ball x Pit This October, And Everything Else Announced During Today's Nintendo Indie World Showcase

Game Informer | Aug 7, 2025

Sony says Bungie's "independence is getting lighter" as it aims to launch the Destiny 2 studio's troubled new FPS Marathon before April 2026: "We are now fixing the problems, so we believe this launch will happen"

GamesRadar+ | Aug 7, 2025

A whole year later, the Anbernic RG Cube is still the retro handheld that lives on my bedside table, and it's nothing to do with its square screen

GamesRadar+ | Aug 7, 2025