Gaming

Seven years. \$133 million. And what does Pearl Abyss have to show for it? A game that simultaneously justifies every penny spent and every complaint lodged against it.

Jensen Huang stood on stage at GTC 2026 two days ago and called DLSS 5 "the GPT moment for graphics." He said it with the unblinking confidence of a man who has never once been told he was wrong — or at least, has never believed it.

### Another One Bites the Dust Forty-five days. That's all Wildlight Entertainment managed to keep the lights on for Highguard, their free-to-play "raid shooter" that launched January 26, 2026, and will go dark forever on March 12.

Bungie's extraction shooter *Marathon* is currently in players' hands — at least for a long weekend — and the results are about what you'd expect from a genre that has never quite figured out how to be fun for everyone.

Riot Games has never been a company content to sit still. For better or worse — and I'd argue frequently the latter — they've spent the past seventeen years turning League of Legends from a game into an entire cultural apparatus.