This Week In Games Was Bad, But Next Week May Be Worse

While it can seem like every week feels bad in the games industry, this past week felt especially awful. You also had CD Projekt Red-- the publisher, not the developer --talking about how its reputation still hasn't fully healed following the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, an Ocarina of Time fan project shutting down for fear of "Nintendo ninjas," and the announcement of the Steam Machine's $1,000 price tag-- which the internet had a lot of thoughts about . The bad news snowball On June 29, Activision began promoting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4--which drops on October 23--by reminding you that it won't launch on Xbox Game Pass during its first year. It's odd, considering Microsoft acquired Activision--and Call of Duty--for $69 billion in 2023 , but the decision could be because putting the mega-hit military shooter on Game Pass came at a loss .