Amazon will discontinue support for third-party game stores, individual purchases, and external subscriptions on Luna starting June 10, 2026.

Amazon stated it is changing its approach to third-party content and is "transitioning away from certain subscription, game store, and à-la-carte purchasing models in favour of approaches we believe work better for our customers long term."

As of June 10, only players with a standard or premium subscription will be able to play games in their Luna library.

The EA, Ubisoft, and GOG stores will no longer be available on Luna. Additionally, Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions through Luna will end.

The 'Bring Your Own Library' feature, which allowed users to play games purchased elsewhere on Luna, will also be removed.

Games acquired through these channels will remain playable on Luna until the shutdown date, after which they will be removed. Players can continue to access these titles through their linked third-party accounts. As a result, Amazon will not issue refunds.

Players can download their game saves for 90 days after June 10. However, Amazon cannot guarantee that these files will be compatible with other gaming services.

Amazon Luna launched in 2020, competing with other cloud gaming offerings from Google, Microsoft, and PlayStation.

Previously, Luna required a separate subscription. The standard service is now included with Amazon Prime, with a premium tier available for a broader game selection.

Netflix Playground features exclusive games for children aged eight and under, including titles from Peppa Pig, Sesame Street, Dr Seuss's Horton, and Bad Dinosaurs.

Netflix Playground is included with a Netflix membership and is available as a separate app in app stores. It does not include in-app purchases, fees, or ads, and games can be played offline.

The app is currently available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand, with a global launch scheduled for April 28, 2026.

"A lot of kids games are optimised around paywalls and getting paid subscribers, that first user experience. We're thinking about engagement, which is transformative because developers can focus on making a fun game and a great game rather than the paywall part."

"What's most specific is that when kids get into an IP, they will want to watch it and play it," she explained. "That connection is tighter than it is for adults. With adults, just because you watch something doesn't mean you want to play that style of game. With kids, it often does."

"It's a harder audience. By six, some kids are already on Roblox and Minecraft, and the ecosystem gets more competitive, though not impossible."

Death Stranding 2 launched on Steam on March 19, bringing Kojima’s surreal vision of a fractured Australia to a new audience nine months after its console debut. This marked the fastest PS5-to-Steam port for any single-player PlayStation Studios game, overtaking fellow second-party game Stellar Blade (14 months from PS5 to PC).

The Death Stranding 2 port has boosted the game’s lifecycle, with the Steam version selling 425K copies in its first week. Adding this to the 1.6M copies sold on PS5, the game’s total volume now sits at over 2M.

This means the Steam version of Death Stranding 2 already accounts for 21% of copies. In terms of revenue, Death Stranding 2 has generated over $110M on PS5 and $32.6M on Steam. With Epic included, it’s safe to say Death Stranding 2 has now passed $150M.

Steam can clearly be a timely second act for Sony’s more hardcore, auteur-led projects. Sony is reportedly pulling back from PC single-player releases, adding some tension to Sony’s choice of safeguarding its value proposition (sick single-player exclusives).

Krafton is shutting down PUBG Blindspot, a free-to-play PC spinoff of its hit PUBG Battlegrounds, after only two months in Early Access. The news comes despite the PUBG franchise powering the firm's best-ever annual revenue, but is in line with its previously stated policy of using Early Access releases to validate games before committing development resources.

PUBG Blindspot was a top-town tactical shooter which launched into Early Access in January with a promise of monthly updates and close community engagement. The game peaked at 3,251 players shortly after launch, according to SteamDB, but had dwindled to a few hundred in recent weeks despite broadly positive player reception.

The firm continues to work on PUBG Black Budget, an extraction shooter that was announced in 2022 and completed a closed alpha in December 2025, and 2021 mobile release PUBG New State.

It has previously stated that it plans to expand the PUBG IP "through cultural collaborations and long-term service improvements" alongside new game releases while extending the core PUBG Battlegrounds into a "content platform" with "sandbox-oriented UGC that leverages PUBG’s core gunplay, mechanics, and physics engine, consolidating an ecosystem where players can create and share their own content."

Krafton recently lost a legal battle with the leaders of its studio Unknown Worlds over the release of Subnautica 2. The final judgement stated that the firm fired the studio leadership in an effort to avoid paying bonuses, after its CEO turned to ChatGPT to find a reason to dismiss them. The publisher said it disagreed with the ruling, which restored ousted CEO Ted Gill to his former position.

The price changes are as follows:

• United States
  
• PS5 – $649.99 (was $549.99)
  
• PS5 Digital Edition – $599.99 (was $499.99)
  
• PS5 Pro – $899.999 (was $749.99)
  
• PS Portal – $249.99 (was $199.99)
  
• United Kingdom
  
• PS5 – £569.99 (was £479.99)
  
• PS5 Digital Edition – £519.99 (was £429.99)
  
• PS5 Pro – £789.99 (was £699.99)
  
• PS Portal – £219.99 (was £199.99)
  
• Europe
  
• PS5 – €649.99 (was €549.99)
  
• PS5 Digital Edition – €599.99 (was €499.99)
  
• PS5 Pro – €899.99 (was €799.99)
  
• PS Portal – €249.99 (was €219.99)

This could mean the PS6 may launch in 2028 or 2029, causing "major upset to a carefully orchestrated strategy to sustain user engagement between hardware generations."

The component crisis has also led Valve to delay the launch of its next-gen Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR headset, and new Steam controller. Steam Deck OLED stock has been affected as well.