Персонаж должен появиться во втором сезоне.

«Мы не сервисная студия, каждый апдейт — бонус, а не привилегия»: разработчики Peak отреагировали на обвинение в «лени»Недовольный игрок получил в свой адрес столько критики, что аккаунт в соцсети X пришлось сделать приватным.

Драмеди «Приглашение» с Сетом Рогеном и Эдвардом Нортоном вышло в «цифре»

11 августа в Overwatch начался четвёртый сезон, который получил название «Герои Пусана».

С ним в игре появились новый герой, переработанная система боевого пропуска и дополнительный ранг.

Движ в Париже.

В компании Valve поделились информацией о самых продаваемых играх и устройствах в Steam по выручке с 4 по 11 августа.

Bethesda планирует выпустить апдейт для ремастера The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion на основе порта для Switch 2

Профили с метками AI Persona по умолчанию не будут включать в рекомендации.

Игра доступна на ПК, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, а также на Switch 2.

«Иногда ощущается как эволюция для жанра, а иногда — как шаг назад»: главное из превью и геймплей Star Wars Zero Company

Появилось несколько свежих скриншотов.

Это уже вторая лента на основе персонажей Тревора Хендерсона.

Предзаказы стартуют 19 августа.

В случае успешной краудфандинговой кампании авторы начнут работу над игрой и анимационной короткометражкой.

Хронометраж — полтора часа.

Глава Saber Interactive Мэтт Карч (Matt Karch) подтвердил, что в трейлере Rideshare «Stimulator» студия действительно спрятала насмешку над эксцентричным руководителем Gearbox Software Рэнди Питчфордом (Randy Pitchford).

По словам Карча , так Saber ответила на выпад в адрес бывшего владельца компании, Embracer Group, который ранее появился в Borderlands 4.

Мэтт КарчНапомним, Embracer приобрела Gearbox в 2021 году за $363 миллиона, а спустя три года продала компанию Take-Two Interactive за $460 миллионов.

Saber Interactive также входила в состав Embracer, но в 2024 году Карч выкупил её обратно.

Поводом для шутки со стороны Saber Interactive стала Borderlands 4.

Без каких-либо предварительных анонсов сотрудники Aspyr Media объявили о релизе The Lord of the Rings: War in the North — Legacy Edition — переиздания кооперативного приключенческого экшена по вселенной «Властелина колец» от Snowblind Studios.

В один момент его убрали из онлайн-магазинов, так как у издателя Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment истёк срок действия лицензии.

Проходить игру можно не только в одиночку, но и в кооперативе на троих — как локально, так и по Cети.

Вперёд и не страшитесь тьмы!

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Японская студия Nippon Ichi Software опубликовала анонсирующий трейлер своего нового экшен-платформера GOBBLE.

В дебютном ролике игроки могут оценить качество анимаций и динамику геймплея.

GOBBLE повествует историю отважного героя, стремящегося спасти свою семью и покарать любого, кто встанет у него на пути.

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На неделе с 4-го по 11 августа в топ-10 еженедельного чарта Steam залетели сразу несколько новинок, и одна из них заняла первую строчку в перечне с платными тайтлами.

Вместе с Big Walk из числа свежих релизов у вершины оказались симулятор военной техники IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator, файтинг MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls и симулятор ремонта техники ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs.

IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator — 17 599 человек.

Топ-10 по выручке среди платных продуктов (в скобках — место на предыдущей неделе):Big Walk (новинка).

IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator (новинка).

В Сети появились сведения касательно предстоящего релиза It Takes Two на флагманской консоли Nintendo.

За находку следует благодарить портал Nintendo Everything, сотрудники которого покопались в документах китайского дистрибьютора игр Prowell Asia Holdings и обнаружили дату релиза пока ещё неанонсированного порта.

Вероятно, версию It Takes Two для Switch 2 официально представят в рамках одной из грядущих презентаций, вроде gamescom или Tokyo Games Show.

На сегодняшний день It Takes Two доступна на Switch 2 по обратной совместимости с оригинальной Switch, где игра вышла в 2022 году — спустя всего год с момента релиза на ПК, PlayStation и Xbox.

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Похоже, британская студия Supermassive Games, ответственная за серию The Dark Pictures, Until Dawn и The Quarry, оказалась в неважной финансовой ситуации.

В компании сообщили, что начали консультироваться по вопросу сокращения своего штата.

По предварительным оценкам, увольнения могут затронуть до 75 сотрудников Supermassive Games.

Ранее Supermassive проводила сокращения в июле 2025-го.

Тогда работу в студии потеряли примерно 36 человек и тогда же стало известно о переносе ужастика Directive 8020.

В Blizzard понимают, что с таким обширным ростером героев в БП не всегда будут находиться награды для тех персонажей, которые занимают особое место в сердце геймеров.

«Мы просто даём вам больше свободы в том, какие награды и в каком порядке вы открываете», — подчеркнул руководитель по продукту в Blizzard Крис Маккейб (Chris McCabe).

В четвёртом сезоне в список включили двенадцать легендарных обликов, и каждый сезон этот перечень будет обновляться.

Кроме того, в грядущем сезоне обновят интерфейс БП, а в середине апдейта появится возможность получать награды из предыдущих боевых пропусков.

Добавят эпохальный облик для Гэндзи и эпохальный скин оружия для Соджорн.

Приключение Lost & Found прибудет не только на ПК (Steam), но и на консоли, объявил разработчик-одиночка из филиппинской студии ShaggyBearGames.

В поисках работы он переезжает из мегаполиса в свой родной городок и устраивается в бюро находок.

Работа в бюро находок кажется простой только на первый взгляд.

Некоторые люди пытаются присвоить чужие вещи — нужно собрать все доказательства, чтобы выяснить, кто лжёт, и вернуть находки владельцам.

Чтобы это подчеркнуть, автор использовал самые разные художественные стили, включая 2D, 3D, пиксель-арт и пластилиновую анимацию.

В рамках квартального отчёта гендиректор Take-Two Штраус Зельник (Strauss Zelnick) рассказал, что компанию устраивает текущее распределение продаж по изданиям Grand Theft Auto VI.

Сперва напомним: GTA VI можно предзаказать в двух изданиях — стандартном за 80 долларов и премиальном за 100 долларов.

Последнее включает в себя эксклюзивную коллекцию транспортных средств, оружия, одежды, магазинов и так далее.

Зельник вновь не стал говорить, сколько уже накопилось предзаказов, так как не все из них могут в итоге конвертироваться в полноценные продажи.

Я верю, что так и будет.

Обложка: Resonance: A Plague Tale LegacyВ свежем дайджесте собрали самые интересные новости о видеоиграх за 11 августа: от превью Star Wars Zero Company и нового сезона Overwatch до GTA 6, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, 1666: Amsterdam и не только.

Журналисты опубликовали превью Star Wars Zero Company и ролики с геймплеем тактики.

Создатели Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy обновили список ответов на самые распространённые вопросы о приключенческом экшене.

Камия общался с подписчиками в социальных сетях и ответил на вопрос о незакрытых сюжетных линиях в истории Devil May Cry.

Источник: видеоигра Battlefield 6Режиссёр экранизации «Мортал Комбат» Саймон Маккуойд ответил на вопрос о возможном …

В Overwatch (2023) начался четвёртый сезон, получивший название «Герои Пусана».

Вместе с ним в игру добавили новую героиню-танк D.Mon.

Это бывшая киберспортсменка по имени Юна Ли — она стала пилотом военного меха и теперь эффектно расправляется с противниками в ближнем бою (не брезгуя уроном на расстоянии).

Кроме того, Blizzard добавила в игру новую косметику, изменила систему боевого пропуска, а также обновила три карты:

Разработчики Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 выпустили ещё один ролик из сцен сюжетной кампании шутера.

Следом за «взрывным» видео Losing Ground нам показали капитана Прайса, выполняющего задание в Париже.

Разумеется, всё будет не так просто — игроков ждут погони, стрельба из автомобилей, взрывы, перестрелки на улочках города, вражеский вертолёт и не только.

Остаётся только догадываться, как одна сцена шутера будет перетекать в другую — и как герои из преследователей превратятся в преследуемых.

Напомним, что в Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 будет несколько сюжетных линий, а к самой кампании можно будет получить ранний доступ с 16 октября.

Журналисты опубликовали превью Star Wars Zero Company и ролики с геймплеем тактики.

Авторы разных изданий провели в новинке около 10 часов и поделились впечатлениями.

Да, Star Wars Zero Company не идеальна, здесь хватает неприятных багов — и довольно обидных.

Это касается и геймплея, и сюжета, и визуала, и развития навыков персонажей.

К слову о персонажах: даже за несколько часов в Star Wars Zero Company журналисты оценили, как реализовали отношения и химию между героями.

Создатели Battlefield 6 выпустили новый трейлер — трёхминутный геймплейный ролик, посвящённый сражениям на новой для шутера карте, легендарном «Острове Уэйк».

Как и положено, напряжённые битвы между двумя командами происходят как в воздухе, так и на земле — в том числе с использованием тяжёлой техники — и на воде.

Причём одна из команд, как и положено, стартует на кораблях.

Обновление четвёртого сезона, который стартовал 21 июля и значительно увеличил онлайн шутера в Steam, выйдет 18 августа.

Тогда же в Battlefield 6 стартует кроссовер с «Топ Ган».

Valve опубликовала свежий чарт Steam, товары в котором упорядочены по выручке за неделю.

Лидер прошлой недели в лице Counter-Strike 2 теперь расположился на второй строчке, а на первую взлетела Apex Legends.

Чуть ниже находится ещё одна новинка — файтинг Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, который встретили смешанными отзывами.

При этом в топ-10 находятся ещё два свежих релиза.

Это симулятор артиллериста IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator и симулятор владельца мастерской по ремонту техники ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs.

Зомби-экшен No More Room in Hell 2 наконец покинул ранний доступ на PC и добрался до полноценного релиза — теперь игра также доступна на PS5 и Xbox Series.

Игра о выживании в одиночку или в команде до 8 игроков была доступна в раннем доступе с октября 2024 года.

No More Room in Hell 2 страдала от многочисленных проблем, в том числе технических, но с тех пор получала периодические обновления.

К выходу игры из раннего доступа и на новых платформах разработчики No More Room in Hell 2 опубликовали релизный трейлер — ролик посвящён сражениям во тьме, выбору экипировки и внутриигровым локациям.

Игроки, купившие экшен в раннем доступе на PC, получили крупное обновление с новым контентом.

Создатели Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy обновили список ответов на самые распространённые вопросы о приключенческом экшене.

Благодаря этому стало известно, что пройти игру можно будет примерно за 20 часов.

Кроме того, стал известен размер Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy на отдельных платформах:PC — около 76 ГБ;PS5 — около 58 ГБ;Xbox Series — около 66 ГБ.

К сожалению, системные требования новинки до сих пор не раскрываются — ими должны поделиться в ближайшее время.

Руководитель Take-Two Штраус Зельник рассказал о ценообразовании Grand Theft Auto VI и возможных скидках на игру.

По его словам, ждать предложений по сниженной цене, вероятно, придётся годами.

Издатель уже сформировал цену, а дальше всё будет зависеть от конкретных магазинов.

Правда, никто не станет продавать ожидаемый блокбастер дешевле.

По его словам, Take-Two слишком долго удерживала цену на GTA 5, тогда как в игровой индустрии ценники меняются гораздо чаще.

«Они наняли несколько талантливых и опытных руководителей в сфере интерактивных развлечений, и мы заключили с ними ряд сделок, распространили множество игр на платформе Netflix», — сказал Зельник.

Он пояснил, что Netflix подобное сотрудничество даёт возможность предоставить пользователям больше развлечений, а Take-Two это позволяет привлечь большую аудиторию.

При этом Зельник не считает, что Netflix должна покупать Take-Two — компания как никто другой заслуживает независимости.

Зельник добавил, что в этом году Take-Two ожидает доход в 8 миллиардов долларов, показатель растёт из года в год.

Ранее он рассказывал, что геймеры чаще заказывают Ultimate-издание GTA 6, чем обычную версию.

Соавтор Assassinʼs Creed Патрис Дезиле снова поднял вопрос об использовании генеративного ИИ при создании его новой игры 1666: Amsterdam.

Фанаты заметили в экшене материалы, созданные нейросетями.

Дезиле, который уже извинялся за это, отметил, что команда действительно упустила генерации, которые появились на ранних этапах разработки.

Он заверил, что с тех пор создатели игры позаботились о том, чтобы ничего подобного не происходило.

На China Game Innovation Awards 2026 её отметили в номинации «Лучшая международная игра», а на Develop: Star Awards 2026 она получила награду «Лучшая техническая инновация».

Приключенческий экшен Crimson Desert доступен на PC, PlayStation 5 и Xbox Series с марта этого года.

В настоящее время для игры разрабатывают порт для Nintendo Switch 2.

В начале августа игра получила обновление, с которым появились 133 новых торговых поста, новые товары и многое другое.

Создатели Crimson Desert уже рассказывали, что будут выпускать бесплатные патчи, пока сообщество в этом заинтересовано.

Ник Апостолидес, известный по роли Леона Кеннеди в последних играх Resident Evil, не согласился с фанатом, который назвал Аду Вонг худшим персонажем серии.

Апостолидесу пришлось защищать Вонг в свежем ролике Fall Damage, где были представлены «хот тейки» (провокационные мнения) фанатов Resident Evil.

Актёр назвал Аду очень сложным и загадочным персонажем, которого не так легко понять.

Поэтому она и собирает такие разные реакции и мнения.

А ещё она спасла много жизней, в том числе, конечно же, Леона.

Генеральный директор Saber Interactive Мэтт Карч подтвердил, что в трейлере Rideshare “Stimulator” есть отсылка на руководителя Gearbox Рэнди Питчфорда.

Питчфорд рассказывал, что однажды оставил флешку с видео для взрослых в ресторане Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament.

В трейлере же пассажир садится в такси с номерами Техаса (там расположен реальный ресторан) и просит отвезти его «на средневековый пир до того, как луны сойдутся».

«Мы расскажем историю разработки изнутри: о первых идеях и прототипах, сложных решениях, технических вызовах, провалах и успехах.

О том, как создавались механики, локации, оружие и атмосфера Таркова — и что происходило за пределами экрана», — Battlestate Games.

«Всегда начеку»: рабочее название «Бэтмена. Часть 2» намекнуло на появление Суда СовПоклонники продолжают искать подсказки о сюжете сиквела «Бэтмена» Мэтта Ривза.

Дэвид Теннант пока не возвращается в «Доктора Кто» — Electric Entertainment опровергла переговоры с BBCСтудия планирует побороться за производство сериала, но пока не обсуждала проект с британской корпорацией.

Судьба «Мортал Комбат 3» оказалась под вопросом после слабых сборов сиквелаСценарий третьей части был готов ещё в марте, но Warner Bros. пока не спешит давать продолжению зелёный свет.

Моддеры трудятся над переносом Xbox и PC Game Pass на LinuxПроект получил название Xodus.

Директор Take-Two посоветовал игрокам не ждать скидок на GTA VI в обозримом будущем100 долларов за полноценное издание — это прекрасная цена, считает Штраус Зельник.

Saber «отомстила» создателю Borderlands 4 в Rideshare "Stimulator" — они не забыли подколку Рэнди ПитчфордаНекоторые игроки сразу поняли, на кого намекали создатели Rideshare "Stimulator".

Спустя 20 лет фанат Star Wars Battlefront II обнаружил пасхалку с новым контентомОказалось, что при выборе специфического имени профиля можно открыть бонус.

Спустя много лет в Steam вернулась The Lord of the Rings: War in the North — переиздание доступно с поддержкой кооперативаТеперь для покупки доступна новая версия The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Legacy Edition.

В Steam раздают цифровые подарки в стиле The Wolf Among Us, новинки авторов Disco Elysium и Esoteric EbbTelltale Games организовала мероприятие и теперь привлекает игроков в Steam.

Никита Буянов показал «сочный» тизер Escape from Tarkov, новую карту и одеждуСкоро в «Таркове» появится новая соревновательная система.

Спустя 20 лет классический инди-платформер вышел в Steam — игру доработали и раздают бесплатноИгроков в Knytt Classic ожидает множество локаций для исследования.

Российскую «Спарту 2035» запретили покупать в Steam за пределами СНГ — теперь выпустили новую версию для международного рынкаWarhounds привлекла на старте гораздо больше внимания, чем смогла в своё время «Спарта 2035».

Amazon is running a back-to-school sale on LEGO sets for kids today, and there's one Duplo deal that I had to grab for my 2-year-old son.

The Stop Killing Games movement is officially suing Sony, claiming the company’s “monopoly” over the video game market is blatantly “against the law.”

Now on sale with an extra 37% off coupon code.

The Xbox Elite Series 3 Wireless Controller hasn't even been officially announced yet, but a purported prototype has seemingly found its way into the hands of someone who thought they were buying an Elite Series 2 controller on the retail website OfferUp.

Lucy Davis, best known for her roles in the original U.K. version of The Office, Wonder Woman, and Shaun of the Dead, has revealed that she’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Pearl Abyss has detailed its plans for smash hit action role-playing game Crimson Desert, confirming it is exploring multiplayer modes. Meanwhile, we have a target launch window for the Nintendo Switch 2 version, and talk of potential sequels.

These aren't some no-name games, they'll otherwise cost $59.99 apiece at launch.

House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal reveals which character he believes is best suited to sit on the Iron Throne and bring stability to Westeros.

The Japan Football Association is bringing Blue Lock to life with a free, exclusive training camp directly inspired by the popular sports anime.

Paralives' latest update is here, and with it comes an improvement (?)

to the life sim's babies after a number of people complained at how they looked.

And clicking on a bed, or on a Para, can initiate saucy acts like smooching or getting intimate, wink wink, nudge nudge.

Also, dead Paras should "no longer remain lying down in the street for days on end."

And quite cutely, Dorfromantik has been added to the list of games your Paras can play.

It's the kind of game where you stumble out into a blinding field of blossoms, with a radiant black slab nearby.

You walk around the slab and it turns white while the field turns black.

You walk into the now-white slab and find yourself in a room with a padlocked door and a television set.

You are upset and confused and wish you'd grabbed that other news story, about how a lot of people really, really want to buy GTA 6.

This is a weird looking and strange game and I put my whole heart in to it and I hope you love it.

The game now has a massive mish mash of features that have kept people coming back year after year, and according to Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray, he could keep going as long as they do.

"If people keep playing it, I could work on this forever.

"We don't really have much of a management structure at Hello Games," he explains.

The developer does acknowledge that there "probably is some end date" for No Man's Sky, but notes that if he was asked when work on the game would end five years ago, he'd have thought they would have finished it by now.

It's strange to reflect on how long this game has stuck around for, and how much it's changed over the years.

That, too, followed a previous round in early 2024, in which an estimated 90 workers at the UK-based studio lost their jobs.

"This is a necessary step to help ensure the sustainability of the company," the most recent livelihood-axing JPG argues, while assuring that it was a "difficult decision" to begin the consultations.

Last year’s announcement called it a "very difficult decision," mind, so I guess it must have been slightly easier this time around.

A statement from Supermassive Games.

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In Bit Reactor's XCOM-style tactics RPG Star Wars: Zero Company, you play a custom character called Hawks who is referred to using they/them pronouns.

In closing, he reiterated that "the thought behind it is to allow players to express themselves, however they want, and whatever you relate to as your thing - again, it's your Star Wars story."

But as a parting gesture, I've enjoyed the few hours I've played of Zero Company, though I find its story and writing rather plodding.

Bit Reactor's publishing deal with EA pre-dates the Saudi-led acquisition by several years.

But given Bit Reactor's interest in letting people 'tell their own story', has the acquisition made them think twice about work…

Solo dev Nifflas has long since moved on, but Knytt itself has just been reborn as Knytt Classic: a "pixel-perfect port" for modern hardware, developed by Wolfhound makers Bit Kid and freshly launched on Steam.

One of these, Knytt XH, is the work of Baba Is You developer Arvi "Hempuli" Teikari, in a nifty bit of indie supergroup-ing.

There’s also controller support and compatibility with handheld PCs, the Steam Deck included.

Valve haven’t yet bestowed Knytt Classic with a Verified or Playable badge, but I’ve had a quick squizz round those blocky alienscapes on my Steam Deck OLED, and all seems well.

If you’re still sore about Luxembourg losing part of its televisual heritage, give this a w…

While Soulslike Mortal Shell 2 doesn't feature traditional difficulty modes, developersCold Symmetry have included a set of special items that let you tweak the challenge to your liking.

In Mortal Shell 2, you step into the soon-to-be-bloodsoaked shoes of The Harbinger, a warrior trying to track down a sacred egg that's been stolen from the Undermether.

There is a cost to using the Slayer Seal, however: you can't gain achievements.

Talking to them, you can switch Mortal Shell 2 to Night Mode, turning off the sun and activating a set of new challenges.

(I'm increasingly realising that there may not be a 1-to-1 comparison between Mortal Shell 2 and cycling.)

"It’s time to sue Sony," game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and "Sony Tax" on digital games.

For Stop Killing Games, it’s also the latest in a string of non-preservation-specific causes the organisation have amplified, possibly indicating a widened advocacy mandate after failing its key goal of securing new European Commission legislation to keep discontinued games playable offline.

Both Stop Killing Games and fellow preservation activists Does It Play?

Either way, this is another instance – following their work opposing the UK’s proposed VPN ban and social med…

The game puts you in the driver's seat on a train rattling along the tracks of a deep space mining operation.

A mining operation under assault from thousands of space bugs.

Drilling stations are dotted around each map, linked together by train tracks.

As the drills dig up valuable ore, they emit vibrations that disturb the local population: thousands of great big space bugs.

Thank goodness you're driving a great big train that carves through space insects like fist through a house made of butter.

Over the Hill, Funselektor and Strelka Games' off-roader which takes the hardcore trail-running you get in a sim like SnowRunner and sands off the edges a bit to make for more chill countryside-roaming, finally has a release date.

It's set to motor onto the scene in October, following a Steam Next Fest demo which I dug.

As with Funselektor's previous works like Art of Rally and Absolute Drift, it mixes minimalistic visual vibes and calm atmosphere with mechanics still capable of biting you if you relax too much and start to get careless.

I've had my eye on it for ages, so will almost certainly don my cargo shorts to give it a go in some form around release.

If you like the look of it, you c…

Now they are making The Carcass, a text-based roguelike in which you carve out a colony inside the corpse of a spacegod.

Still, I'd love to hear that some Lepidarium writer just went a bit screwy after researching 160,000 varieties of moth.

"The corpse is your world," explains the Steam page.

In general, it feels like a good pick if you like overripe "hand-written" descriptions (incidentally, there's no generated AI usage disclosure on the Steam page).

Perhaps I will buy that Lepidarium game and run them side by side – apparently, there's the option to release your butterflies and moths from the app, so they can flutter around your desktop.

I don’t know whose dreams Memoirium warps into action-RPG soulslike levels - it may not even be the player character’s - but whoever they are, they need to lay off the post-10pm Babybels.

Such was just one of my deaths in Memoirium’s generously proportioned demo, which is available now on Steam ahead of the game’s launch this Thursday.

Mundane respite, however, is available through Memoirium’s unusual take on bonfire rest spots: a bedroom that, resources permitting, you can furnish and decorate to your liking.

Some of these strikes can’t be blocked or parried, for example, but will stress out the attacker if you time a dodge through it.

So far, I’ve found this can encourage an overly defens…

Wardogs, the ambitious shooter from Battalion 1944 and The Turing Test developer Bulkhead, will soon arrive on Steam early access.

The game is priced $40 during early access, but the plan is to raise that to $60 at full release.

Early access won't include any in-game monetisation but Bulkhead said you should expect paid cosmetics after release.

At early access launch, only the Supporters edition cosmetics will be available.

It's worth watching the video for an idea of what to expect from early access.

Speaking at a preview event I recently attended in Amsterdam, Patrice Désilets shed more light on the issue.

Panache Digital is an approximately 70-person team that's been working on 1666: Amsterdam since 2020.

1666: Amsterdam is a game about a witch called Noa living in Amsterdam in 1666, perhaps obviously.

It's a refreshingly unique concept, as I wrote in my 1666: Amsterdam preview, though its implementation is sometimes scruffy right now.

1666: Amsterdam launches into PC early access (via Steam and the Epic Games Store) on 25th August priced $30.

It's exactly the kind of bombastic opening you would expect to find in a Wolverine game, and true to Insomniac's words, you soon find yourself right in the middle of the fray, doing very Wolverine things.

It's an introduction that's cinematic, highly polished, and dedicated to getting you into the feeling of being Wolverine as quickly as possible.

In this world, the X-Men don't exist, which Fitzgerald says was a deliberate decision to give Wolverine the full spotlight.

That sense of flow from cutscene into gameplay is one of the most impressive elements of Wolverine's early hours.

Wolverine's early hours don't produce the same mind-exploding feeling of picking up Spider-Man for the first ti…

Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September.

"Marvel's Wolverine will come out in digital and physical [versions] and the game will be fully playable on the disc when you purchase it," senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed told Eurogamer at a Marvel's Wolverine preview event - our preview from which you can read now.

Our reporter at the Wolverine preview event, Emma Kent, asked Insomniac how it felt about this but was steered back to talking about the game.

Marvel's Wolverine deviates somewhat from the template Insomniac used for its Spider-Man games in that it's a much more linear exp…

This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do all of that, but it's Star Wars.

"It's just XCOM Star Wars" is a bit reductive, I'll admit.

Starting with that exterior Star Wars layer, the standout feature is a properly linear narrative.

And that, in a sense, is all Star Wars: Zero Company needs to do.

It's XCOM Star Wars.

Supermassive - the UK studio best known for its cinematic horror games including Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the Dark Pictures Anthology series - has announced more layoffs, this time affecting as many as 75 employees.

In July 2025, it announced layoffs affecting up to 36 employees, saying the move was necessary to "adapt our team structure to better align with recent industry changes".

That followed confirmation of a "reorganisation" in February 2024, which the company said would impact "some" of its team.

Supermassive most recently released its cinematic sci-fi horror adventure Directive 8020, the fifth entry in its Dark Pictures Anthology series, which launched to mixed reviews in May.

T…

This time, it's an old favourite: is movement in Gears of War: E-Day good?

You can still bounce between waist-high cover, but E-Day's additions mix things up just enough to keep things refreshing.

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Gears of War has always battled against the belief that its online movement techniques were for scrubs.

Ultimately, it's down to personal preference if Gears of War E-Day movement shenanigans are great or gristle.

Remedy Entertainment has revealed updated sales data for Alan Wake 2, which has now exceeded 3 million copies.

The developer-publisher shared the news in its half-year financial report covering January to June, where it announced the investigative horror shooter reached the 3 million sales milestone during the second quarter of the year.

The last time Remedy offered an Alan Wake 2 sales update was in February last year, when the company announced it had passed 2 million copies sold and started turning a profit.

Positive as the Alan Wake 2 news may be, the financial report shows declines almost across the board for Remedy.

Control Resonant is, unsurprisingly, the developer's main focus at th…

Though many may baulk at the idea of paying $100 (£90) for a game, a lot of the people who pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto 6 bought the more expensive Ultimate edition rather than the $80 (£70) Standard edition.

Zelnick told CNBC that pre-orders overall are "much better than expected", and that the split skews more towards the Ultimate edition.

He believes that might simply be because players who pre-order are more likely to be the type who values what's included in the more expensive edition.

The Ultimate edition features exclusive vehicles, stylised weapon variants, outfits, tattoos and hairstyles.

The bulk of the package, however, is in the inclusion of five exclusive shops, ranging from ve…

Developer House House's collaborative puzzle-solving and hangout game par excellence, Big Walk, has found encouraging commercial success.

"In just six days, over one million of you have bought Big Walk, our co-op adventure all about talking and walking," Panic wrote.

Big Walk received a big fat five golden stars in Eurogamer's review.

Worry ye not, because this is why I've organised a group session of Big Walk this evening (Tuesday 11th August) with Eurogamer readers, which you're welcome to join, numbers allowing (and currently, they do).

Head to the Eurogamer Discord and to the Big Walk channel if you're interested.

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has struggled with some serious technical problems on PC ever since its release last week, resulting in a disparity between console owners and desktop diehards.

This patch, announced on the official Marvel Tōkon social media page and broken down at-length in the official Marvel Tōkon Discord server, attacks the most common performance problems players were experiencing.

The developers have also suggested two things PC players can do to further improve performance of the game on that platform.

That second one was a popular community fix prior to this patch, though the setting itself has also been improved..

Another player, FChampRyan on X, wrote: "Marvel Tōkon ac…

In yet another example of a successful film or TV show raising the profile of a related game, Hollywood blockbuster Spider-Man: Brand New Day has brought new players to the years-old Marvel's Spider-Man 2 game.

Sony and Insomniac's 2023 open-world action game has reportedly sold an impressive 316,000 copies since Brand New Day arrived in cinemas worldwide on 30th July.

Incidentally, 20 percent of the copies sold were physical, according to the report.

This reinforces the power of Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man franchise for Sony.

It's also a much more linear game than the Spider-Man games were, as we discovered speaking to Insomniac earlier this year.

It was a glimpse of 1666 Amsterdam that left me with as many questions as it did answers, such as 'What will the combat be like?

I recently travelled to Amsterdam to play more of 1666: Amsterdam, and to talk to Patrice Désilets about it.

And it's here 1666: Amsterdam finally comes fully into view, I think, and shows what kind of game it will be.

Whether or not 1666: Amsterdam will have been worth the protracted wait, I can't yet tell, but I'm encouraged by its difference.

This piece is based on a trip to Amsterdam to see 1666: Amsterdam.

1666: Amsterdam, a game that's survived years of legal battles between Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets and Ubisoft, has an early access release date.

1666: Amsterdam was re-revealed to the world earlier this summer in an eye-catching trailer that showed a witch walking through the streets of old Amsterdam, fighting enemies with magic and her broomstick.

Nevertheless, I've seen much more of the game now and a clearer image of 1666: Amsterdam has come into view.

1666: Amsterdam casts you as the witch Noa in 1666, plus as a more regular civilian called Aaron in 1999, and as a descendent of Noa in the modern day.

Check out my still-warm 1666: Amsterdam preview for our latest look at t…

A lead developer at id Software has spoken out about Microsoft's decision to make major cuts at the developer, and has said it's "impossible" to make triple-A games like 2016's Doom with half the staff.

Chris Hayes, lead services provider at id Software, was speaking to Andre Peschke on the Well Played podcast.

The roughly 90-minute conversation was focused entirely on the studio's recent layoffs, covering the events leading up to the job cuts, as well as the push for unionisation at id Software.

Hayes also shared his belief that those responsible for the cuts don't understand the business, saying: "They don't understand art, they don't understand games, they don't understand the business m…

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В общей сложности Supermassive Games намерена сократить до 75 человек.

Directive 8020Сейчас Supermassive Games проводит консультации с сотрудниками.

На протяжении всего процесса нашим приоритетом станет поддержка тех, кого затронут увольнения», — написала Supermassive Games в социальных сетях.

Отметим, что для Supermassive Games 75 человек — это значительная часть штата.

Согласно профилю в LinkedIn, на данный момент в студии работает порядка 200 специалистов.

По их подсчетам, всего за январь-июль 2026-го о банкротстве объявили как минимум 10 японских студий, разрабатывающих мобильные игры.

Для сравнения, за весь 2025 год банкротами стали только три мобильные студии в стране.

Пока худшим годом по количеству обанкротившихся мобильных студий в Японии остается 2015 год — тогда разорились сразу 12 команд.

В Teikoku Databank добавили, что в общей сложности за последние пять лет в Японии обанкротились 29 таких студий.

Как считают аналитики, отчасти сложившаяся ситуация вызвана ростом затрат на разработку и поддержку мобильных игр, а также дефицитом опытных специалистов.

По условиям сделки, Webtoon достанется 60% акций RI Games.

Она объяснила, что теперь будет плотно сотрудничать как с RI Games, так и с двумя его дочерними студиями — GrayGames и Offbeat.

Любопытно, что в будущем Webtoon потенциально сможет выкупить RI Games целиком.

Стороны договорились, что если холдинг достигнет неких определенных показателей, то он получит возможность потребовать у Webtoon приобрести оставшиеся 40% акций.

А вот есть показателей достичь не удастся, то уже Webtoon будет иметь право продать часть доли обратно.

В ходе разговора он не стал углубляться в детали, но некоторыми своими мыслями насчет ситуации все же поделился.

По мнению топ-менеджера, сейчас GTA VI покупают прежде всего ярые поклонники серии, которые согласны заплатить больше ради большего же объема контента — ультимативное издание игры предложит им дополнительный транспорт, оружие, магазины и многое другое.

Также во время интервью Зельник намекнул, что скидок на GTA VI вскоре после релиза ждать не стоит.

Ранее Зельник сообщал, что GTA VI предзаказывают «беспрецедентно» хорошо.

GTA VI выйдет 19 ноября 2026-го на PlayStation 5 и Xbox Series.

Подоспел отчет Remedy Entertainment за первое полугодие 2026-го.

В документе финская компания не только раскрыла финансовые показатели, но и поделилась успехами отдельных игр.

Полтора месяца назад польская группа компаний CD PROJEKT объявила о планах немного скорректировать свое название.

Теперь формальности улажены, и она превратилась в CD PROJEKT RED.

В сообщении для инвесторов CD PROJEKT RED подчеркнула, что у нее изменилось только название, тогда как юридическое лицо и все остальные данные остались прежними.

В июне CD PROJEKT RED объяснила «ребрендинг» желанием избежать путаницы в коммуникации.

Ранее название CD PROJEKT RED относилось исключительно к подразделению разработки игр, но, вероятно, так много людей считало его именем всей группы компаний, что ей оказалось проще смириться с этим.

Нелегальный сегмент американского рынка онлайн-гемблинга стремительно растет, об этом говорится в исследовании компании Gaming Compliance International.

По оценкам аналитиков, в прошлом году его выручка достигла отметки в 97,4 млрд долларов.

Тем временем легальный сегмент растет не так быстро, и его выручка существенно меньше.

Сообщается, что в 2025 году официально регулируемые в США азартные онлайн-игры заработали на территории страны 28,3 млрд долларов.

Общая выручка всего рынка онлайн-гемблинга в США относительно 2024 года выросла на 39,4%.

Теперь стало известно, что его бывшие сотрудники не стали сидеть без дела и запустили собственную независимую студию.

Puzzle MageВ беседе с порталом GamesIndustry глава Dark Ritual Studios Майлз Кервин (Myles Kerwin) рассказал, что работа в Ubisoft показала ему, насколько сложно в крупных организациях сохранять гибкость и оперативность при создании игр.

«В Dark Ritual Studios мы выбрали противоположный подход — у нас небольшая, опытная команда с четко определенными зонами творческой ответственности, быстрым принятием решений и фокусом на качестве, а не масштабе», — пояснил Кервин.

Дебютным проектом Dark Ritual Studios станет игра в сеттинге темного фэнтези под названием Puzzle Mage.

Dark Ri…

4 августа 2026-го студия House House и издатель Panic отправили в релиз Big Walk — кооперативное приключение, в котором игрокам надо исследовать открытый мир и решать головоломки.

Как сообщили авторы новинки, всего за дебютные шесть дней ее купили по всему миру более миллиона раз.

Big WalkУчитывая, что Big Walk с самого релиза доступна в подписке PlayStation Plus, общее число ознакомившихся с игрой человек должно быть еще больше.

Предыдущая игра House House — стелс про несносного гуся Untitled Goose Game — продавалась заметно медленнее.

Сыграть в Big Walk можно на ПК, а также на консолях PlayStation 5 и Nintendo Switch 2.

Epic Games внезапно избавилась от двух активов: площадки для художников ArtStation и платформы для публикации 3D-моделей Sketchfab.

Как пояснила Epic Games в пресс-релизе, она решила продать ArtStation и Sketchfab, поскольку теперь хочет уделять приоритетное внимание своему основному бизнесу.

Прежде всего ее интересует развитие движка Unreal Engine, цифрового магазина Epic Games Store и игры Fortnite.

Отдельно глава Epic Games Тим Суини (Tim Sweeney) уточнил в социальной сети X, что запущенная два года назад торговая площадка Fab останется под крылом у его компании.

Сама Epic Games приобрела ArtStation в апреле 2021-го, а спустя три месяца стала владельцем и Sketchfab.

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Гостями нового выпуска стали Платон Фомичев и Ростислав Михеев из аутсорс-студии Elverils.

Плотно с ними поговорили о трудностях создания ремастеров.

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Гостями нового выпуска стали Платон Фомичев и Ростислав Михеев из аутсорс-студии Elverils.

Плотно с ними поговорили о трудностях создания ремастеров.

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Europa Universalis VВ записке для инвесторов Paradox Interactive рассказала, что собирается потратить в рамках программы не более 200 млн шведских крон — это 21 млн долларов по текущему курсу.

Согласно законодательству Швеции, в общей сложности таким образом она сможет приобрести до 10,5 млн своих акций.

Причем при желании у Paradox Interactive будет возможность как за один раз выкупить эти ценные бумаги, так и разбить их на несколько покупок.

Но учитывая стоимость акций на бирже, на все выделенных денег у нее не хватит.

На момент написания новости акции Paradox Interactive отдают на бирже по цене в 135,6 шведских крон (14,3 доллара) за штуку.

Cartel Pilots WantedСудя по графику, которым поделился Орешкин, чаще всего Cartel Pilots Wanted добавляли в список желаемого сразу после анонса в середине весны — 18 апреля игра за сутки собрала 116,9 тысячи вишлистов.

Сейчас ей интересуются меньше, но в ближайшем будущем авторы Cartel Pilots Wanted готовятся запустить первый плейтест, что может снова подстегнуть активность.

Наибольшее количество вишлистов Cartel Pilots Wanted обеспечили геймеры из США (116,7 тысячи), Германии (44,5 тысячи) и России (33,8 тысячи).

Напомним, Cartel Pilots Wanted — это кооперативный симулятор, в котором предстоит играть за пилотов, внезапно попавших на службу к наркокартелю* и вынужденных примерить на себя ро…

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Gamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact team structure or productivity.

30% of respondents prefer minimal AI involvement in development, down from 33% last year.

Regarding AI’s impact on jobs, 36% believe it will change roles rather than reduce team sizes, while 33% expect smaller teams.

Looking ahead, 37% of respondents view smaller development teams as the greatest opportunity, followed by community building and new publishing models (both at 15%).

Respondents expressed mixed views on what business or monetisation model would dominate the market over the next three years.

Supermassive Games has announced a third round of layoffs in three years, potentially impacting up to 75 positions.

In a statement, the developer said the decision was a "necessary step to help ensure the sustainability of the company."

Directive 8020 received mixed reviews and, according to Video Game Insight, sold approximately 447,000 units across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox.

In February 2024, about 90 employees were affected by layoffs as Supermassive Games entered a period of consultation.

"We're committed to focusing our efforts on our core strengths and upcoming titles to ensure the continued sustainability of the company."

Reforj developer 4J Studios has debuted a technology called Rixels that offer an alternative way to provide textures using a fraction of the memory requirements.

"The Rixel was our response to a problem with texture size," 4J Studios chairman Chris van der Kuyl tells GamesIndustry.biz.

"Now, when you zoom in, it doesn't get fuzzy anymore," says Van der Kuyl.

4J has applied for a patent for Rixels, and van der Kuyl is surprised the technology hasn't been used already.

Rixels allow developers to store higher resoultion pixels with a smaller amount of memoryThe memory saved by using Rixels means that Reforj can avoid performance dips, says van der Kuyl.

Remedy reported revenue declines in the first half and second quarter of 2026 while increasing marketing efforts for Control Resonant.

CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon said these results were expected and expressed confidence in Resonant's early reception before its September 24 launch.

Revenue from game sales and royalties totaled €3.8 million, down from €9.5 million in the same period last year, which included contributions from Firebreak and initial subscription service accruals.

Sales of 2019's Control increased in Q2, supported by ongoing marketing for Control Resonant.

Development fees from Resonant and the Max Payne 1 & 2 remake totaled €6.4 million, compared to €7.4 million in the previou…

GamesAid has appointed six new trustees to its board and raised £82,000 for four charities in 2025/26.

The £82,000 raised was distributed among four charities: AFK, Autistica, Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity, and Solving Kids' Cancer UK.

GamesAid also recently raised £30,070 at Develop:Brighton through events including Stand Up for GamesAid and Mark Ward's Charity Poker Tournament.

"We are incredibly proud of what the GamesAid community has achieved this year," said GamesAid chair Sara Veal.

The charities we support do extraordinary work for children and young people across the UK, and this funding will help them reach even more."

Net sales in this subsegment increased 98.8% to ¥17.7 billion ($111.1 million), up from ¥8.9 billion ($5.8 million) in the prior year period.

These gains were driven by the strong launch of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and the Microsoft Store.

Sales were also boosted by The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, alongside increased sales in catalog titles.

Other titles released during the quarter include Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2 for Switch 2, Star Ocean: The Second Story A on Switch 2, and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster.

Square Enix said these numbers reflected "improved user activity" following the announcement of an expansion pack f…

IllFonic's asymmetric horror title Halloween: The Game has been refused classification by the Australian Classifications Board, barring its sale in both Australia and New Zealand.

"Despite every effort on our part, the Australian Classification Board has denied Halloween: The Game a rating," the studio confirmed in response to a player.

"Unfortunately, to our disappointment (and certainly yours) this means that we cannot sell the physical or digital product in both Australia and New Zealand."

IllFonic has not confirmed this detail directly, and the refusal has yet to appear on the Classification Board's public register.

Australia's classification board has a history of refusing game ratings…

Valve has begun notifying European customers who ordered Steam hardware that their personal information may have been exposed following a cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the company that handles Steam hardware deliveries across the region.

News of the breach first surfaced on ResetEra and Reddit, where affected customers began posting screenshots of Valve's notification email earlier today.

CEVA confirmed the breach in a statement to TechCrunch, saying the intrusion affected part of its European contract logistics operations.

The breach has also reportedly affected several banks and retailers that similarly rely on CEVA for shipping alongside Valve.

The exact number of customers affected has…

HandyGames has rebranded as THQ Nordic Mobile, with the publisher shifting its focus toward bringing premium PC and console titles to mobile platforms.

The German-based company – which has previously published mobile versions of Wreckfest, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, and Titan Quest – said the move consolidates its publishing operations under the wider THQ Nordic umbrella so it can expand into mobile adaptations from established franchise.

The company's internal development studio, also based in Giebelstadt, Germany, will continue operating under the HandyGames name, working on original titles and supporting THQ Nordic Mobile's technical porting work.

THQ N…

Blizzard closed Microsoft's 2026 fiscal year as the best-performing studio within Xbox Game Studios, according to internal emails obtained and verified by Windows Central.

"In FY26 Blizzard ended the year as the top-performing studio in Xbox's studios division, and this past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard's history," Faries wrote.

She also singled out Overwatch as having delivered "its strongest quarter since 2022".

Microsoft does not break out studio-level revenue in its public financial disclosures, and neither the company nor Blizzard has publicly confirmed the figures cited in the leaked emails.

Blizzard is expected to detail its upcoming slate…

So lead designer Luke Wintflint and I worked with Luca and Poncle to evolve that idea into what became Vampire Crawlers.

Playing the paper prototype of Vampire Crawlers in the pub | Image credit: Nosebleed InteractiveThe fundamentals of Vampire Crawlers came together very quickly.

We had the bones of a great game, but it wasn't clear to Poncle that we had a good Vampire Survivors game.

It's easy enough to say "we are making a card game based on Vampire Survivors," but how should the game feel, and why?

Conventional deckbuilding would never have suited the Vampire Survivors IP.

Xbox will begin rolling out age verification for users in Australia later this month.

PC Gamer reports that London-based tech company VerifyMy will manage age verification in Australia.

Previously optional, age verification became mandatory in June 2026.

Sony uses Yoti for age verification, the same service Microsoft uses for Xbox in the UK.

Valve introduced age verification for Steam users in the UK last August to enable access to mature content on the platform.

Now, a group of former employees, led by Myles Kerwin, has established Dark Ritual Studios.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Kerwin says that working at a large organisation like Ubisoft showed "how difficult it can be to stay agile."

By launching an independent studio, the team aims to remain "small enough that ideas can move quickly from discussion to implementation."

He adds: "At Dark Ritual Studios, we're embracing the opposite approach – a small, experienced team with clear creative ownership, faster decision-making, and a focus on craftsmanship over scale."

Based in Barcelona, Dark Ritual Studios has secured funding to complete its first game, the dark fantasy Puzzle Mage, set for PC re…

However, its Digital segment, which includes gaming, experienced significant declines due to fewer title releases compared to the same period last year.

Bandai Namco's Digital segment, which includes games, experienced declines in both sales and profit.

Sales dropped 15.6% to ¥90.9 billion ($573 million), while profit fell 30.9% to ¥15 billion ($94.5 million).

Sales are now expected to increase by 10% from the previous forecast to ¥200 billion ($1.2 billion), representing a 31.5% decrease year-on-year.

Operating profit is projected at ¥26.5 billion ($167 million), up 11.5% from the previous forecast but down 10.8% compared to last year.

Sega Sammy reported a 17.3% increase in net sales for its first quarter.

The Entertainment Contents segment, which includes games, exceeded expectations at ¥68.4 billion ($432 million).

Full-game sales and revenue from licensing and Rovio performed well, while free-to-play games "fell slightly short of expectations," and the company plans to "strengthen operations of existing titles."

Sega expects licensing revenue in this segment to grow in the coming quarters, supported by anniversaries, adaptations of key IP, and new Rovio titles.

The company recorded a $200 million impairment loss on Rovio earlier this year, following its 2023 acquisition of the Angry Birds developer.

Whether you’re running a Switch on the go, playing Xbox in another room, or extending your gaming laptop setup, a secondary display changes everything.

In other words, sharp images regardless if you’re gaming on the Switch, connecting a PS5 or extending your PC setup for extra workspace.

Plug it into your console and you’re good in an instant for big-screen console gaming in a hotel room.

You’re able to game in landscape orientation for hardcore gaming, switch it up into portrait orientation for livestream conversations, coding sessions, or reading files.

It’s the type of display that transitions from gaming into productivity and does so without losing anything.

EcoFlow’s best‑selling Delta 2 hits a record‑low $429 on Amazon as the brand clears stock after launching the Delta 3.

EcoFlow built its reputation on one device: the Delta 2.

It became the go‑to power station for campers and anyone who needed quick and reliable energy without the fumes or noise of a gas generator.

See at AmazonSimilar Performance Than Delta 3Although the Delta 3 has some improvements, the Delta 2 still meets the same sweet spot in terms of power, speed, and reliability all at a significantly lower price.

With a 1024Wh capacity and peak output of 1800W, the station can power most household devices, tools, or entertainment equipment.

Here’s my ranking of the toughest battles in Final Fantasy Tactics and some tips for how to beat them.

Fovoham WindflatsWhy it’s hard: Any fight against a character with Holy Knight abilities is bullshit, and the game throws this one at you super early.

What to do about it: This is the one battle I’ve never tried to beat without cheese.

Final Fantasy Tactics loves these little duels but they completely subvert the normal strategies the game usually incentivizes.

What to do about it: Not to sound like a broken record but you can try to break Wiegraf’s sword.

Well, a big ol’ Yakuza franchise sale, happening now on Steam, might help you finally check out this popular series.

And (almost) all of those games are currently on sale on Steam as part of a big Yakuza franchise sale that ends on October 23.

The other odd duck here is Yakuza 3 Remastered, which isn’t on sale despite being included in the sales event page.

Perhaps Sega made a mistake, and it will be marked down to $11 like most of the other Yakuza games in the sale.

Here are all the games currently on sale as part of the ongoing Yakuza/Like A Dragon sales event:

A major revelation for Pokémon fans is tucked in a corner of Lumiose CityI’m very early in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but I just found something in Lumiose City I had to tell somebody about, or I might explode.

That’s what nearly happened to me, but luckily, I did stumble upon the Lumiose Museum in the northeast corner of the city.

If you’ve played Pokémon Legends: Arceus, you’re gonna want to stop by this place and check out one of this museum’s exhibits.

Arceus players will know that Hisui is the previous name of the Sinnoh region from Diamond and Pearl, and the historical setting of the last Legends game.

So one way or another, history has not forgotten them and what they accomplis…

And while many are excited to hop in and start catching pocket monsters, many fans aren’t happy with Z-A‘s small and boring map, which lacks the environmental variety found in past Pokémon games.

This location first appeared in 2013’s Pokémon X and Y. In those games, Lumiose City was just one of many locations included in the large open world.

However, in Z-A, Lumiose City is essentially the entire playspace, and that’s proving to be a disappointing fact for some players.

However, Z-A’s map isn’t just small, it also lacks visual variety.

At least if you buy the game on Switch, it mostly looks the same as the Switch 2 version.

Players have tested this on Pokémon they’ve found in the overworld, and it seems like, unless you defeat it in battle, Shiny Pokémon don’t despawn.ÂI found a Shiny Magikarp.

Enjoy pic.twitter.com/tA42rUM9iv — SBCoop (@SBCoop89) October 15, 2025LZA has special behavior to keep shiny Pokémon from despawning!

The game stashes up to 10 shiny Pokémon and keeps them from despawning if you leave the area.

Missing out on a Shiny can feel devastating, and fucking it up may lead to viral moments, but would you rather have a funny story or a Shiny Pokémon in your collection?

Now, if a Shiny Pokémon spawns nearby, you’ll hear a short jingle to signal to you that it’s somewhere in your vic…

Schofield’s last big game was 2022’s Dead Space-like The Callisto Protocol.

But the last time Schofield went to the publisher to talk Dead Space, it wasn’t interested.

“I went to [EA] recently and they’re like no, we’re not interested anymore,” Schofield told IGN.

“I said, ‘I can get back the leadership team.’ I need the models from [Dead Space remake developer] EA Motive, and I can save you 30 to 40 million dollars on the idea that I have.

'”But now that EA is set to be bought up by Saudi Arabia, assuming the United States government doesn’t get involved and block the deal, Schofield thinks there’s a chance for Dead Space 4 to happen, or at least for the franchise to be sold off and …

Treating yourself to a brand new pair of Beats earbuds costs less than $100 now.

One of our favorite in-ear options, the Beats Studio Buds, is back on sale.

See at AmazonTwo Listening Modes, Both Equally GreatThis pair gets you two listening modes: Active Noise Canceling mode and Transparency mode.

These also play nicely with both Apple and Android devices, so compatibility won’t be an issue, even though Beats is owned by Apple.

All things considered, the Beat Studio Buds can be a great investment for anyone looking for better sound, different listening modes, and a solid battery life.

The massively discounted bundle goes toward supporting charityThe Destiny 2 2025 Charity Bundle is almost too good to pass up.

At the same time, the bundle includes every paid piece of content for the game, including the upcoming Star Wars Renegades expansion, for half the price of a new game.

That’s infected the rest of the loot shooter with changes to the grind, gear, and progression that make the entire game a drag right now.

The Star Wars-themed expansion is teasing some interesting ideas and new modes.

So if nothing else, consider the charity bundle a super cheap ticket to witness the rebirth of Destiny 2.

Space Marine 2 will let you play multiplayer as much as you want for a limited timeWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is getting a free demo for anyone who hasn’t already played one of the best shooters of 2025.

The free demo will be available from October 16-20 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S and until October 23 on PC via Steam.

Space Marine 2 is a sequel to the cult-favorite Xbox 360-era third-person shooter that delivers an old-school emphasis on meat and potatoes gunplay but with the impressive visuals of a modern blockbuster.

If you choose to take the plunge, Space Marine 2 is currently half-off on console ($35) and 55 percent off on PC ($30).

But don’t forget, you’ll need a Game P…

Save 37% on two of the Govee pro gaming light bars over at Amazon for a limited time.

Specifically, these pro gaming light bars come in a two-pack and have been discounted by 37%.

Each pro gaming light bar has three sides of illumination to cast colored light all across your gaming desk and room.

See at AmazonControl your Govee pro gaming lights bars via the smart companion app on your phone.

These Govee pro gaming light bars can be just the decor your PC gaming desktop needs.

Not only is it still, allegedly, developing a Star Wars game, but the studio known for single-player story-focused games is now also working on a competitive multiplayer game called Spellcasters.

Quantic Dream has had quite the odd last few years, perhaps driving its desire for radical change.

Then, for one final surreal twist, Quantic Dream won part of this case but without ever disproving the allegations.

But what about Star Wars: Eclipse?

And that’s also, we are led to believe, still making Star Wars: Eclipse.

SanDisk’s SSD hits a record‑low price for ultra‑fast, durable storage on the go.

Speed, reliability, and toughness: that’s what really matters when you’re juggling files between your laptop or camera.

The SanDisk 2TB Extreme portable SSD checks all those boxes while hitting its lowest price ever on Amazon.

Right now, it’s down to $149 from $209 which is the cheapest it’s ever been for this storage powerhouse.

On top of the existing 29% discount, it’s probably the lowest price-to-performance ratio available from SanDisk in years.

Your laptop shouldn’t slow you down, whether you’re using it for work or studies.

Thankfully, grabbing a new machine right now doesn’t break the bank, as Amazon just dropped the 16-inch Dell touchscreen laptop to $1,000, a massive 62% off its original price.

And as if that wasn’t enough, you’re also getting a 4-in-1 accessory bundle worth almost $400 thrown in for absolutely free with your purchase.

Windows 11 Pro comes pre-installed as part of the accessory bundle, meaning you will have instant access to a bunch of productivity and security features right out of the box.

You’re saving a whopping 62%, plus getting a free accessory bundle of all the essentials that make it easier…

His first title, Un Pas Fragile, won the Pégase 2020 for best first video game, followed by Buissons and Larcin Lazer.

As an early result of the partnership, the leading Asian video game trade show is currently exhibiting five games selected by SAGA Barcelona Game Fest.

The event is expected to welcome more than 20,000 visitors and aims to establish Barcelona as a leading meeting point for the video game community in Southern Europe.

It brings together players, creators, studios, publishers, investors, educators and other industry professionals in a single programme.

“SAGA Barcelona Game Fest is taking a major step forward.

Amazon Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced Batman: Caped Crusader — Chronicles, a brand-new interactive experience developed in collaboration with Blazing Griffin, the Glasgow-based independent studio behind detective and mystery games Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin.

The project also marks a significant milestone for Scottish games development — and one that reflects years of investment in the sector.

Batman: Caped Crusader – Chronicles represents Blazing Griffin’s first title on Amazon Luna and its largest collaboration with a major streaming platform partner to date.

It shows what Scottish creative studios are capable of on …

CodeDev Group today officially announces the launch of its new studio, Full SpectrumInteractive (FSI).

Full Spectrum Interactive is directed by an impressive line-up of well-known industrynames who bring decades of combined development experience to the table.

“Full Spectrum Interactive is a game development studio making games thoughtfully,with personality, craft, and the utmost care, by people who have spent years learningwhat works and what doesn’t, across indie, AA, and AAA in many genres.

Full Spectrum Delivery: FSI provides end-to-end full game creation from theground up, as well as taking on substantial, full-project co-development work.

“From day one, making games has always been a …

Research from Poki – conducted by Atomik Research – shows that 37% of gamers play web games “multiple times per day”.

Meanwhile, 46% of developers say that web games are appealing as a means of addressing the discoverability issue facing creators across the industry.

There’s also the simple fact that HTML5 games can be played on pretty much any device without friction.

The future of the web games market is bright: Statista, drawing on research from Inkwood Partners, predicts the web games market to grow from $19.28 billion in revenue this year to $28.44 billion by 2032.

Poki’s Janssen says that far from being an outlier, web games will become more of a default for games companies.

The Ukraine Pavilion will return to gamescom 2026 in Cologne, bringing together leading Ukrainian game development companies and independent studios to showcase their projects, services and expertise to the global games industry.

Organized by VG Entertainment, Games Gathering and Burny Games, the Pavilion will highlight an industry that continues to evolve despite wartime pressure.

“Ukrainian Pavilion at gamescom is about much more than having a presence at one of the world’s biggest gaming events.

It is about showing the strength, creativity, and resilience of the Ukrainian games industry and making sure Ukrainian studios and talent remain visible to the global community.

It is especially …

Frontier Developments has announced the appointment of Dan Lazarides as Chief Marketing Officer.

Dan will join the studio’s Executive Board and lead Frontier’s publishing and commercial teams across all current and upcoming projects, reinforcing Frontier’s player-first approach.

Lazarides steps into the role of Chief Marketing Officer previously held by Jo Cooke, before she became Frontier’s Chief Executive Officer in January 2026.

Jo Cooke, Chief Executive Officer – Frontier Developments“We are delighted to welcome Dan to Frontier, who brings with him a wealth of experience on some of the industry’s largest IP.

His leadership in this genre will continue Frontier’s upward momentum, and his …

Raptor PR, the B2B communications agency behind leading games industry, media & technology brands, today announces the launch of EGG (Early Gaming Growth), an integrated communications, reputation and growth-building platform designed for early-stage gaming technology companies.

EGG takes a markedly different approach, creating insight-led content grounded in real industry knowledge, original thinking and authentic executive perspectives.

Continuous engagement with credible B2B games industry creators and micro-influencers across well-known Substacks, YouTube channels, podcasts and newsletters.

Rana Rahman, Founder and CEO of Raptor PR, commented:“The games industry media landscape has frag…

Share FacebookTwitterLinkedInRedefining the Future of AA: Rebuilding Gaming’s Missing Middle at ProbablyMonstersBy David Reid, Chief Marketing Officer, ProbablyMonstersFor much of the last decade, the games industry chased scale.

Small teams with bold ideas are producing distinctive experiences that consistently surprise players and expand the boundaries of what’s possible in games.

Premium AA games represent the industry’s missing middle: a space between blockbuster productions and independent games where focused scope and premium execution can thrive.

Between those two ends of the spectrum lies tremendous opportunity, and we believe we’re only beginning to see what’s possible.

That’s the …

Into Games, the UK charity widening access to games careers, has published a new evaluation of Boost, its paid work placement programme, showing that 88% of participants went on to full-time, part-time, or major freelance work in the industry after their placements ended.

Boost gives young people three months of paid work inside real studios, across disciplines ranging from programming to community management.

Into Games describes it as the only independently funded paid placement programme in UK games.

Each placement costs £3,750 to deliver, and Into Games part-funds this through its existing charity income.

Studios, industry figures, and members of the public can donate at https://www.gof…

Share FacebookTwitterLinkedInAlan Boswell Group has been announced as a sponsor at the Women in Games Awards 2026.

Kate Walker, Account Director, Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers Ltd, said:“Alan Boswell Group is delighted to sponsor the Women in Games Awards, which celebrate the brilliant people making a real difference across the UK games industry.

The awards are a fantastic opportunity to recognise creativity, talent and leadership, while also helping to encourage a more inclusive and welcoming industry for future generations.

As a specialist insurance broker supporting technology and creative businesses, Alan Boswell Group is delighted to stand alongside an event that champions representat…

It’s no secret that the past ten years have seen a momentous shift in the games industry; with more indie games on storefronts than ever before the marketing landscape is now fiercely competitive.

However, with some developers working on razor-thin budgets, the Indie Friendly Initiative is a way for indies to see the quickest win for the smallest investment.

Available now, the Indie Friendly Initiative is part of a wider campaign seeking to tackle the decline of indie games coverage in the media, as well as combatting the ever-increasing costs of marketing in the current climate.

Reflecting on the last 10 years and looking toward the future, Game If You Are’s Client Services Director Lewis …

The Esports Foundation (EF) and adidas made sports history today, announcing a landmark partnership that will see the sportswear company outfit every national team at the inaugural Esports Nations Cup (ENC), the first nation-based esports event of its scale, set to debut November 2, 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

National team jerseys will be revealed in the coming weeks.

“National team jerseys carry identity, pride and the ambition of an entire country or territory,” said Mohammed Al Nimer, Chief Commercial Officer, Esports Foundation.

“The Esports Nations Cup gives us the opportunity to bring that experience into esports at a global scale.”The Esports Nations Cup introduces nation-based co…

Share FacebookTwitterLinkedInElectric Square has been announced as the sponsor of the Outstanding Achievement Award category at the Women in Games Awards 2026.

Charlotte Pook, Talent Acquisition Manager at Electric Square, said:“Electric Square is proud to sponsor the MCV Women in Games Awards in celebration of the incredible women who have shaped and strengthened our industry.

For decades, women in games have broken down barriers and challenged outdated perceptions.

Their contributions have not only created exceptional games but have also helped make our industry more welcoming and representative for those who follow.

By celebrating the successes of women across every discipline in games, …

[Industry news] The New Guys Launches to Help Game Publishers Identify Audience-Reception Risk Before LaunchShare FacebookTwitterLinkedInThis is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content.

The New Guys, a new audience-risk and narrative-reception consultancyfor the video game industry, has announced its launch at TheNewGuys.gg.

Founded by Matt Braynard and Joey Snyder-Kloos, The New Guys helps publishers, studios,and investors identify avoidable creative and commercial risks before games are revealed,marketed, or released.

● Executive Outside-Voice Briefings to help publishers and studios resolve sensitivecreative concerns.

The New Guys is now accepting private briefi…

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It is one of the most divisive topics in the AI sphere right now, with far-reaching geopolitical implications as a grave add-on: did Moonshot distill its Kimi K3 model from Anthropic's model?

Most detractors point to the ~2 week window between the public rollout of Fable and Kimi K3 to suggest that an expansive distillation is virtually impossible here.

These encrypted text blobs are then sent back and forth to your browser to save server memory.

Apparently, AI model providers - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google - used global encryption keys across their entire ecosystem.

As an interesting exercise, the study authors then fed just a 1 percent fragment of Claude Opus 4.8's decoded reasoning into…

NVIDIA has released some major updates for DGX & RTX systems supporting new open models such as Nemotron 3.5, LTX 2.5 & more.

Create high-quality video locally with LTX-2.5 — the open video model adds multishot generation and generative editing, with a 2x performance boost and 40% memory savings on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, DGX Spark, and DGX Station.

— the open video model adds multishot generation and generative editing, with a 2x performance boost and 40% memory savings on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, DGX Spark, and DGX Station.

The model is optimized for NVIDIA's RTX & DGX systems while also supporting NVIDIA's Jetson platforms, driving over 200 TPS on a single RTX 5090 GPU.

DGX Spark is also receiving Goog…

Well, the Bank of America (BofA) is out with an insightful report today, quantifying the dynamics between HBM4E and LPDDR5X-based SOCAMM2 modules within NVIDIA's upcoming Vera Rubin Ultra-based Kyber racks.

What's more, each 144-GPU Kyber rack will sport 216TB of LPDDR5X that costs around $2.8 million, and above the $2.5 million bill for 124.4TB of HBM4E.

In total, each Kyber rack will cost $41.6 million.

Meanwhile, as per a related report from UBS, each Rubin GPU within the Vera Rubin superchip configuration costs an estimated $9,247, which includes HBM4, packaging, interposer, and peripheral components.

The total memory pool on Vera Rubin racks, though, has swelled to 74.7 TB (HBM4 + SOCA…

Today, Sony announced a PS5 Limited Edition bundle themed around the next big exclusive, Marvel's Wolverine.

The PS5 Digital Edition – Marvel’s Wolverine Battle Yellow Limited Edition Bundle will be released globally, channeling Logan's unmistakable intensity through a striking yellow finish.

Jock said in a statement:I wanted to show Wolverine at his fiercest for Marvel’s Wolverine Limited Edition PS5 Console bundle and accessories.

If you already own a PS5 (slim) or a PS5 Pro console, you can buy the PS5 and PS5 Pro Console Covers – Marvel’s Wolverine Battle Yellow Limited Edition directly from PlayStation at direct.playstation.com, as well as in limited quantities at select retailers outs…

Chinese memory upstart CXMT is making important progress with its DDR5 memory chips, according to a report in the Chinese media.

Acer & ASUS Are Among The Top PC Makers To Use CXMT's Memory Chips In Their Products, Says ReportAccording to the details, CXMT's 17-nanometer DDR5 memory chips have achieved a 90% yield.

The report, courtesy of China's MyDrivers, adds that several PC manufacturers have started to use CXMT's memory chips.

Additionally, it adds that US firms such as Dell and HP are more restrictive in their use of the Chinese memory chips.

Specifically, Dell has completely banned the use of CXMT's chips, while HP only uses the chips in products that are used in Mainland China.

Supermassive Games, the independent UK studio behind Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced another round of layoffs that could affect up to 75 employees.

The cuts arrive less than three months after the release of Directive 8020 and represent the studio’s third redundancy process in under three years.

The announcement does not directly blame Directive 8020 for the layoffs, and the exact financial performance of the sci-fi horror game has not been disclosed.

However, the timing places the latest cuts against a difficult period for Supermassive, with the studio having already reduced its workforce twice since early 2024.

Directive 8020 reached an all-time peak…

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is trying to solve the token bottleneck problem when the real constraints lie with the orchestration layerIntroducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning⚡An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for always-on agents to complete high-volume, specialized tasks faster.

Architectural elementsNVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 4 key architectural elements:Hybrid Mamba-Transformer: Combines the deep context understanding of Transformers with the lightning-fast, hardware-efficient processing speed of Mamba (State Space Models).

Basically, a MoE model has multiple neural networks where each excels at performing a specific task.

Why NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Ligh…

The long-rumored The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is among the few games launching in 2026 still lacking a solid release date.

And the fact that they are already circulating online strongly suggests that Nintendo is preparing to launch the marketing campaign for the remake and thus reveal its release date.

It's not just The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time release date that Nintendo is keeping under wraps, but the game itself.

About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack.

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Korean chip manufacturer Samsung is planning to introduce high-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography into its production facilities to manufacture chips with the 1-nanometer manufacturing process node.

The report comes courtesy Samsung Electronics' VP of Technology, ChangMin Park, and it adds that Samsung will rely on the latest lithography machines for volume production of the chips.

Samsung VP Says High NA's Lack Of Refinement Led To Delay In ApplicationAdvances in semiconductor fabrication create limits when circuit sizes become smaller.

High NA EUV machines, through enabling smaller circuit sizes, enable printing through a single pattern.

Without the higher aperture, traditional, low…

Besides working on CONTROL Resonant, which will mark a significant shift for the franchise with the introduction of action gameplay reminiscent of games like Devil May Cry, Remedy Entertainment is working on the Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake for Rockstar Games.

Although the silence on Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake may be getting unnerving, there's no real cause to worry as of now.

As the game entered full production in 2024, we may be looking at a 2027 release if development is proceeding well.

Considering how Rockstar Games favors shorter marketing periods, it wouldn't be surprising if the game got a full reveal only a few months before its launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Since last year, SSD prices have been growing steadily, and in some months we saw a sudden sharp rise.

Considering upgrading later will cost more, it's best to grab a 4 TB SSD now.

One of the fastest Gen 4.0 SSDs is now on a deal on Newegg.

This is the Team Group T-FORCE G50 M.2 2280 SSD that gives you 4 TB of storage and usually sells for nearly $500.

The 1 TB SSD costs $189 while the 2 TB is priced at $324.

Minisforum Debuts Wildcat Lake-Powered Elite Mini M2 Air-304 Mini PC, Featuring a 0.47 Liter Chassis With Support for Up To 64 GB RAM and 2 TB StorageMinisforum is rapidly expanding its mini PC catalog by launching new mini PC models, featuring AMD and Intel's latest platforms.

The new mini PC is called Elite Mini M2 Air-304, with the name reflecting the SKU of the processor at its core.

2 of 9The Elite Mini M2 Air-304 is an ultra-compact mini PC where Minisoforum crammed all the hardware inside a 0.47-liter chassis.

Minisforum says that the mini PC is quite efficient for "long-hour" use when the system is put in Balanced Mode.

At full load, the mini PC remains quiet as well, generating as …

What is something that you are most excited for players to get to experience with Star Wars Zero Company?

How was Star Wars Zero Company born?

Do you have any particular funny anecdotes or stories from your team's playthroughs during the testing of Star Wars Zero Company?

Are there any deep-cut Star Wars elements, like characters, locations, or tech, that you are excited to see make it into Star Wars Zero Company?

Hawks aside, is there a character in Star Wars Zero Company you are most excited for fans to get to know?

Set during the twilight of the Clone Wars, Zero Company follows Hawks, a former Republic officer who now leads an elite group of operatives for hire.

That uneasy mix of personalities is central to the game's identity: Star Wars Zero Company is not simply about assembling the most statistically powerful squad.

Star Wars Zero Company also adds several systems designed to make squad composition matter.

Another of Star Wars Zero Company's new features is the Bond, which builds relationships through shared actions and unlocks Cross Training bonuses as the bond between two members reaches higher levels.

On the other hand, the overall narrative of Star Wars Zero Company can stand on its own as a g…

The recently showcased RTX 50 INFINITY graphics cards have been launched officially, including new 70 and 80-class SKUs.

GIGABYTE Announces Availability of AORUS RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 INFINITY CardsGIGABYTE has officially announced the availability of its AORUS GeForce RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 INFINITY cards, expanding the lineup after releasing the flagship RTX 5090 INFINITY card nearly three months ago.

The GIGABYTE INFINITY cards utilize GIGABYTE's new WindForce Hyperburst cooling system and a Double Flow Through configuration to allow airflow to pass through both sides of the backplate.

The INFINITY cards also take a different approach to the power connectivity.…

Specifications and Features of the ASUS ROG STRIX X870-I GAMING WIFIThe ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi integrates cutting-edge technology into a sleek mini-ITX form factor, enhanced by the ROG Strix Hive II for streamlined control.

USB Rear USB (Total 10 ports)2 x USB4® (40Gbps) port(s)(2 x USB Type-C®)5 x USB 10Gbps port(s) (4 x Type-A + 1 x USB Type-C®)3 x USB 2.0 port(s) (3 x Type-A)Front USB (Total 3 ports)1 x USB 10Gbps connector (supports USB Type-C®)1 x USB 5Gbps header supports 2 additional USB 5Gbps ports* USB Type-C® power delivery output: max.

A Closer Look at the ASUS ROG STRIX X870-I GAMING WIFIThe Strix X870-I has a typical ITX motherboard layout, except for the FPS card, which …

Due to the memory crisis, RAM reviews are quite rare. However, we received the latest XPG NOVAKEY RGB memory kit from ADATA. The new memory kit is rated at 6000 MT/s and tight timings, which is perfect for AMD gaming computers. The tested memory kit has 32GB of capacity, which doesn't seem like much nowadays, but it's perfect for gaming and is the most budget-friendly option that delivers high performance to those who need it most.

Besides performance, ADATA focuses on aesthetics in the XPG NOVAKEY RAM series. The new and unique design should find its fans among gamers and modders, as it's far from the competitive solutions.

Today we present another ITX motherboard for AMD AM5 processors, and I can already share that there will be more in this tiny form factor in the coming months. The MSI MPG X870I EDGE TI EVO, on which we focus right now, isn't the latest model, but it's still the best MSI ITX motherboard for AMD processors, and since its release, it has seen multiple BIOS improvements. Since we didn't have a chance to review this motherboard earlier and it's definitely worth it, we will correct it today. ITX motherboards are mostly designed for gamers and enthusiasts, and this one is no different. The MPG X870I EDGE TI EVO is equipped with the latest controllers and designed for overclocking. I will tell you…

Since all memory products are expensive, more users are seeking a balanced solution that delivers high performance while remaining wallet-friendly. ADATA released the MARS 970 PLUS M.2 SSDs a while ago, which promise to be optimal for gamers and fit the budget.

There are only a few AM5 motherboards worth mentioning in the mini-ITX form factor. Since it's not often we see one on Overclockers, today we present the Gigabyte X870I AORUS PRO ICE. It's not the latest, but it's still quite a new model and definitely worth highlighting. The tested version is 1.1, so a few things have already been improved, including support for higher RAM frequencies. All those details count a lot for overclockers and enthusiasts. Especially those who love the ITX-size motherboards should find something interesting in our article.

The X870I AORUS PRO ICE supports the latest components, such as high-speed DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, USB4, high-end audio and WiFi 7. The list of …

Gigabyte is the first motherboard brand to introduce a fresh, eye-catching design featuring wood-like elements. The tested AERO X3D WOOD motherboard includes not only the new design, but also multiple features available in all the latest motherboard series marked as X3D. It means we can expect great hardware compatibility and performance improvements for the latest processors, including some help from AI.

Like the recently reviewed X3D ELITE motherboard, the X3D WOOD supports the latest components, including high-speed DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, USB 4, and Wi-Fi 7. The AERO X3D WOOD offers something above that, but you have to read our review to find out what I'm talking about.

We rarely get to review Colorful's products, but they're always unique and interesting. This time, we received the latest overclocking-series motherboard for AMD Ryzen processors: the iGame X870E VULCAN OC V14. The motherboard is optimized for the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 processors from the X3D series and high-frequency DDR5 memory. It's also packed with gaming and overclocking features, which we cover in our review.

Gigabyte keeps refreshing its AM5 motherboards with X3D models optimized for the latest Ryzen processors. One of the new models is the X870E AORUS ELITE X3D ICE, which will be tested today. Since it's the ICE version, the motherboard is entirely white, making it a perfect fit for bright-themed computers. Besides its aesthetics, it offers all the high-end gaming and overclocking features, improved by AI, so it should satisfy a wide range of users.

The X870E AORUS ELITE X3D ICE supports the latest components, such as high-speed DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, USB4, and WiFi 7. The list of exciting features is longer, but we won't tell you everything in the introduction.

Recently, we could see the MAG X870E GAMING PLUS MAX WIFI, while today, a higher model from the refreshed MAX series - MPG X870E CARBON MAX WIFI. The new CARBON motherboard is designed for demanding users and promises to be the best option for gamers, delivering multiple unique features, premium components, and original aesthetics.

The new MAX motherboards bring an improved experience to the already successful AM5 motherboard series. In our review, we check what we can expect of the MPG X870E CARBON MAX WIFI and share our experience based on multiple tests and games.

MSI provided us with one of the latest AMD Ryzen motherboard models for review, which is more interesting than it seems. The motherboard is from the refreshed MAX line, so we can be sure it's a mature design with multiple improvements.

The MAG X870E GAMING PLUS MAX WIFI not only has a long name, but it's a budget-friendly model based on the currently highest AMD chipset. In short, we get more for less. In this article, I will assess whether the new MSI motherboard is suitable for gamers and other demanding users.

Recently, we reviewed the XPG LANCER RGB memory kit at 6400MT/s; this time, we take a closer look at the lower-frequency version of the same series, rated at 6000MT/s and featuring a tight EXPO profile. The presented memory kit promises great results with AMD Ryzen processors, which we will test with one of the most popular gaming processors: the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

Today's review presents the ADATA XPG LANCER RGB memory, which is already well-known among gamers and overclockers. However, the tested memory kit is rated at 6400 MT/s and uses a dual-rank design, making it perfect for the most popular AMD Ryzen processors with stronger memory controllers. As expected, it's equipped with EXPO memory profiles compatible with the latest AMD chipsets.

Our next stop was down the hall at ADATA, which shared several cool items, including enterprise storage solutions under the Trusta bran,d including AI scaling software, cool new Novajey RGB DIMMs, the Cyborg power supply with the new GPU Power Guard technooogy, and the Levante View Pro 360 AIO, among other items... even two chairs (Nimbus and Nimbus Plus).

Our first stop was at the Venetian to meet with MSI. Inside the ballroom, a wide variety of products was on display. MSI Claw 8+ Glacier Blue edition, Raider 16 Max Gaming laptop, new Wifi 7 mesh system, Spatium M571 DLP SSD, among a slew of other items.

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Today, XBOX Travellers join together with the wider No Man’s Sky community as we celebrate our 10th anniversary.

As a team, we’re hardly any bigger now, but the scale of the game completely dwarfs those first tentative moments.

What if you could wake up on a planet that no one had ever seen before, not even its creator?

Some Travellers would revel in the vast beauty of the worlds that they discover and find comfort in being alone with their thoughts.

After 10 years and almost 40 major free updates, the No Man’s Sky sandbox has grown exponentially.

When we set out to make Wild Blue Skies, we knew exactly what we were taking on.

His passion for on-rails shooters is woven into the DNA of Chuhai Labs and when the team came together to make Wild Blue Skies, it felt almost inevitable.

Softer details with light, shadow, and fog to make the world feel vibrant and full of life.

The goal was always to make Wild Blue Skies feel like you’d just been thrown into a 90s action movie and Saturday morning cartoon at the same time.

This is just a glimpse of how we brought the feel of a 90s arcade cockpit to Wild Blue Skies.

The 2026 instalment of the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase took place today, offering gamers first and fresh looks at many upcoming titles.

Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest 2, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.

The original Titan Quest is now 85% off, while Titan Quest: Atlantis and Titan Quest: Ragnarök are both 75% during the THQ Nordic Showcase Sale!

Gothic II Complete ClassicThe iconic sequel to a cult classic RPG Continue the story of the Nameless Hero in Gothic II Complete Classic, the award-winning sequel that improved on its predecessor in every way.

Gothic II Complete Classic brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add…

Your inventory is limited, so you’ll need to keep finding more supplies and using what you’ve got if you hope to survive.

As you score higher on each level and beat your scores, you’ll unlock new starting weapons, abilities, and allow weapons to upgrade to higher levels during gameplay.

You’ll need to score a cumulative 36,000 points to unlock this effective firearm.

Using a higher-level sidearm yields advantages like better damage output, larger clip size, and higher score multipliers.

New threats and challenges await as you remix your experience, and opportunities to go for a higher score and unlock more abilities and weapons.

Helldivers, prepare to paint the galaxy all the colours of Freedom, one righteous basecoat of Justice at a time, as you eradicate tyranny through the historic HELLDIVERS 2 x Warhammer 40,000: Castellan’s Creed Legendary Warbond*.

Produced by ST Construction with metals mined on the lost world of Chara, overrun in the First Galactic War, every shot carries forward the legacy of those who made their valiant last stand.

Armour SetsTG-122 Demo-TrooperHeavy-tier armour built for the Helldiver who seeks the most dangerous of roles in the deadliest war zones.

Legendary WarbondsHead to your Destroyer’s Acquisition’s Panel to secure this new gear and supercharge your loadouts of sweet Liberty on Aug…

In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass!

Akatori Games Harbor ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ $14.99 Pre-orderAkatori – August 11Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play AnywhereWelcome to the vast and mystical world of Akatori, a captivating blend of classic metroidvania and intense action platformer.

Bunny Pit Berry (Xbox Series) Afil Games ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Get it nowBunny Pit Berry – August 11Optimized for XBOX Series X|SGet ready for a charming springtime adventure in Bunny Pit Berry.

Iridio KR Games ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ $19.99 Pre-orderIridio – August 11Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play AnywhereSe…

Summary Coming to XBOX with play anywhere on August 31, 2026.

I’m thrilled to announce that Puzzledorf, my chill and colourful puzzle game, will release on XBOX August 31.

If you’re eager to try the game, grab the demo now, offering a sneak peek into what’s in store.

New Exclusive ContentWith this release, Puzzledorf will bring fresh content to XBOX players first.

I hope you look forward to the full XBOX release coming on August 31.

ReadGreat Games · Great GamesEA SPORTS Madden NFL 27 Early Access Trial Available Now With EA Play

Your next season starts now in EA SPORTS Madden NFL 27.

Start shaping your legacy with an EA Play 10-hour early access trial and build a roster you’re proud of with an EA Play Welcome Pack.

Play with XBOX Cloud Gaming, PC Game Pass, or Ultimate with EA Play.

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Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites is out now for XBOX Series X|S.

Coincidentally, XBOX’s Free Play Days starts today, so players can download and play Ghost Recon Wildlands for free through August 9.

Play Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites on XBOX Series X|S.

Dive into the action with Free Play Days this weekend, where sports, strategy, and all-out firefights collide for an unforgettable gaming spree!

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint are free for all XBOX members to try from August 6 until August 9 (XBOX Game Pass Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential membership not required).

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Ten years ago, on 9th August 2016, PlayStation Travellers across the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky.

Play VideoOver the last decade, the No Man’s Sky players have joined us in another type of journey as we grew, expanded and deepened what No Man’s Sky could be.

PlayStation Travellers have been there since the dawn of this new universe; it’s kind of our Big Bang moment!

In a similar way our small team feels we have a lot left to explore in what No Man’s Sky can be.

In the background we are busy cooking on our next game Light No Fire, and big things for the future of No Man’s Sky.

Like thisIt’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts.

In July, Call of Duty: Black Ops II dominated the charts for PS5 and PS4 in the US and EU.

While I Am Cat became the number one PS VR2 game in the US and EU.

What titles are you playing this month?

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Like thisLast week, we asked you to share moments about Edward Kenway’s pirate ship, the Jackdaw, using #PSshare #PSBlog.

Here are this week’s highlights:_GenieCrazy_ shares the Jackdaw facing off against a British shipgh_holy_mash shares the Jackdaw sailing into the rising sunWarDragon989 shares a smoky view of the pirate flag waving off the Jackdaw during a battlelucaslu_ckli shares Edward crouched on the ship’s bowcrisg_art shares the Jackdaw’s sails open and sailing at full speedPhotomode_Raro shares a view of a whale breaching as Edward steers the shipSearch #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to see more entries to this week’s theme, or be inspired by other great games featuring …

Like thisFrom MachineGames in collaboration with id Software, Dawn of the Machine is available as a free update for Quake owners.

Dawn of the Machine is a celebration of Quake’s history and influence on the developers at MachineGames and id Software.

The second goal the team pursued was giving veteran Quake players a new experience.

“Christian proceeded to make a fantastic set of tracks that give the episode its own identity,” says Yoder.

“The team here owes a lot to Quake and its legacy,” he says, “Quake Club and our work wouldn’t exist without the wider Quake community and our friends at id Software.”

Like thisGhost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites is a major free update out now on PS4 and PS5.

Yossef Benzeghadi: Wildlands is a beloved gem within the Ghost Recon community, and taking down the Santa Blanca Cartel is fondly remembered.

Very early on the project, we broadly shared all insights and knowledge we gathered on Ghost Recon Wildlands during its postlaunch at the time, which was extremely valuable for the team.

Play Ghost Recon Wildlands with Ubisoft+ Classics, available as a standalone subscription, and included for PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium members.

Ghost Recon Wildlands Standard and Definitive Editions are also available for purchase at PlayStation Store.

Like thisAt the outset of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Miyamoto Musashi is fixated on freeing himself from the Oni Gauntlet.

This final gameplay preview picks up right where the Onimusha: Way of the Sword Demo leaves off.

After excising the Genma from the Oni Refuge, the clouds of Malice looming above Kyoto begin to lift.

Back in the Oni Refuge, we had a run-in with Daidara, a towering Genma with a hulking frame and bottomless appetite.

It’s one that players can look forward to experiencing for themselves when Onimusha: Way of the Sword launches for PlayStation 5 on September 4.

Day after day, from inside the toll booth she operates, she witnesses the raw human struggle for survival, all while fighting tooth and nail to keep her own baby safe and healthy.

Amidst the routine, Dewi’s toll booth becomes a sanctuary where affected citizens air their grievances, regardless of whether they support or oppose the government of that era.

View and download imageDownload the image close CloseWith the features offered by the PlayStation 5, we are confident we can make Dewi’s journey even more immersive.

The answer to this ambition lies in the Haptic Feedback technology, which will adapt uniquely to the various types of vehicles passing through Dewi’s booth.

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Earlier this year, we introduced Crimson Moon, our gothic high renaissance action RPG.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Crimson Moon is only weeks away, launching on PlayStation 5 on September 1.

Every hunt is better togetherWhile Crimson Moon is fully playable solo, every hunt can also be tackled in two-player online co-op.

Crimson Moon launches for $19.99, while Crimson Moon: Deluxe Edition will be available for $29.99.

If you decide you’d like to upgrade later, the Crimson Moon: Deluxe Edition Upgrade will also be available for $10, giving Standard Edition players access to all Deluxe content whenever they’re ready.

Like thisHi everyone, I’m Josh Zammit, design director at Hangar 13 working on the Man of Honor expansion* for Mafia: The Old Country.

We’re super excited to share the first look gameplay above, and I’d like to reveal a bit more about the Free Ride content included in the DLC.

With Salieri as your new point of contact for Man of Honor’s Free Ride content, you’ll drop by his hideout to pick up two types of contracts: Challenges and Jobs.

Salieri’s Challenges follow a similar format to the ones you can currently take on in Free Ride mode, but with amped-up difficulty that will test the mettle of even the most seasoned soldato.

The Man of Honor expansion for Mafia: The Old Country arrives next…

Like thisIt's time to vote for the best gaming experience from last month.

Last month was filled with adventures big and small, sports action, and spiritual battles!

Some big new releases included Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Denshattack, Halo: Campaign Evolved, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, and more.

At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month.

The PlayStation Blog editorial team will gather a list of that month’s most noteworthy releases and use it to seed the poll.

Like thisEven from its first full reveal in 2025, Beast of Reincarnation was making all the right noises.

But that’s not everything Beast of Reincarnation brings to the PlayStation 5 wilds.

The cause of all this is said to be the fabled Beast of Reincarnation, which resurrects every 100 years.

Wielding the power of corrupted natureThankfully, that’s not everything to Beast of Reincarnation’s layered combat system.

Food, systems, and skill treesThere’s a lot of hidden depth in Beast of Reincarnation, too.

Like thisLaunching September 24 on PlayStation 5, Silent Hill: Townfall marks the latest entry in the iconic psychological horror franchise.

There were times when we’d take photos outside and think, “We’re literally standing in Silent Hill right now…”Okamoto: Silent Hill frequently collaborates with development studios worldwide.

The fact that both Silent Hill: Townfall and Silent Hill: The Short Message ended up in first-person was purely coincidental.

For Silent Hill: Townfall, a first-person viewpoint was an indispensable foundation for integrating the mechanics around the CRTV device.

McKellan: The endings in Silent Hill: Townfall aren’t determined by a simple binary choice at the end.

The line between supernatural horrors and the psychological struggles of characters is often blurred between Silent Hill games, but it might never have been as hazy as it is in Silent Hill: Townfall.

He sets off into St. Amelia, trying to find out what’s going on, but it seems to be abandoned.

This town is full of monstersTownfall is the first Silent Hill game in which you’ll fight creatures in first-person, and compared to other recent titles like Silent Hill 2 or Silent Hill f, the change in perspective makes for some harrowing moments.

Though my time with Silent Hill: Townfall left me with plenty of questions and a lot of mysteries, its twisting psychological machinations captured exactl…

I’m back for the last time (…maybe) to share what to expect in the latest and final, free Ball x Pit update.

2 new charactersPlayers of Ball x Pit: The Naturalist Update will come across two new unlockable characters, each with opposite personalities.

The Ballbearer doubles down on firepower (literally), giving you double the amount of ball slots to build an arsenal at the cost of giving up passive items entirely.

They only have room for two ball slots, but make up for it with twice as many passive slots, letting powerful item Evolutions do the heavy lifting.

Ball x Pit: The Naturalist Update will be available for all PS5 players next week on August 6.

That's the thrust of the latest dev log for Wardogs, the tactical milsim FPS coming to early access in September.

But developer Bulkhead also knows Wardogs won't be for everyone—which is, coincidentally, one of the "10 reasons NOT to buy" Wardogs, according to the studio.

The price: "Right now, you can preorder Wardogs for $39.99 on Steam and get access to the beta… If the price feels too high for an early access game, please don't buy it yet.

"Right now, you can preorder Wardogs for $39.99 on Steam and get access to the beta… If the price feels too high for an early access game, please don't buy it yet.

We went dark on communication, way darker than we should've gone… If you still don't tr…

16 years ago, we used a trailer for the then-upcoming action RPG Lord of the Rings: War in the North to drop a sick burn on people who maybe take their Tolkien a little too seriously.

But now it's back, which you already knew because you read the headline, in a Legacy Edition version, with enhancements including hot-swappable characters, refined enemy-target locking, an improved interface, new autosave feature, and numerous bug fixes.

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ - Legacy Edition | Launch Trailer - YouTube Watch OnThe Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Legacy Edition follows the "untold story" of Agandaûr, a servant of Sauron who's raised a powerful army in the ruins of Forno…

"Duh duh duh duh, duh, duh duh duh duh, duh" three passengers sing in non-unison, their VOIP lagging two seconds behind the actual song.

Latest Videos From PC Gamer Watch full video here:That is Wardogs, the upcoming milsim FPS from the team behind Battalion 1944 that's entering early access in September.

I'm impressed by the ways Wardogs is both individualistic and team-focused, but developer Bulkhead might need to adjust the numbers throughout early access.

It's entering a two-year early access period with a robust core mode, strong fundamentals, and a distinctive twist.

The studio has also committed to zero monetization throughout early access, and said skins will always be earned, not b…

Fortunately, Stephen Totilo at Game File did notice, and he asked Saber Interactive CEO Matt Kartch about it—and Karch told him it's an intentional jab at Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford.

Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsIt's an amusing story, but the impetus for the references in the Rideshare 'Stimulator' trailer is less lighthearted.

"The dig is because Randy took shots at Embracer in Borderlands 4," Karch told Game File.

"Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living."

As far as I know, neither Gearbox nor Pitchford ever confirmed that the Borderlands 4 location …

There, he presented a screenshot of the moment when, after 27 months of grinding skill experience, his account OnlyShrimp99 attained level 99 in the fishing skill by exclusively fishing at the lowest-level, least-rewarding fishing spots in the game.

Congrats on the only small net 99 Fishing, @Bosby_!

🏆 https://t.co/m3SoJdzwOU pic.twitter.com/uN2Bf9xwGdAugust 10, 2026Once rumor of his triumph started circulating on social media, RuneScape developer Jagex offered Bosby its own congratulations: "Congrats on the only small net 99 Fishing, Bosby," Jagex wrote on X.

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The piece/blog post/rambling diatribe has been posted on Meta's website, under the title "The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future."

"Everyone will have a personalized tutor and coach with a PhD in every subject"Because superintelligent AI will know all, presumably.

The AI future will be created by all of us, you see.

Meta is helping to build the democratic AI future, so remember who you support in the dark times to come.

Your jobs are fine (or will change, but will still be fine) AI companies are going to protect you from tyranny by building a democratic superintelligent AI future, and we can all sleep soundly in our beds at night.

Full pictures of the Logitech G Pro X3 Superstrike have leaked pic.twitter.com/XHss2IH7KvAugust 10, 2026Last month, I reported that a leaker suggested we'll see another iteration of the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike announced during the Logitech G Play event in September.

Now, peripheral reviewer Jakeu has apparently got their hands on actual photos of the new mouse: the Logitech X3 Superstrike, in all-black apart from some smaller white stylings.

Saying that, Jakeu also links to a picture of a supposed pink 'in the flesh' version posted on Reddit.

That's Logitech's 'haptic-inductive trigger system' which gives the Superstrike analogue clicks that no other mouse has replicated.

It would eli…

Asus Armoury Crate is not my favourite bit of software.

It's also hit the headlines previously for patched security vulnerability issues—and good news, folks, here we go again.

Per the Asus security advisory board, Armoury Crate, Asus GPU Tweak III, and GPU Tweak II should all be updated to ensure "optimal protection," after the discovery of a new security vulnerability.

Listed as CVE-2026-8917, the issue has been given a score of 8.4 out of 10, with a "high" severity rating.

The CVE listing doesn't mention Armoury Crate specifically, but the Asus page mentions that "a component used" by the software is part of the update, so time to get installing.

Grand Theft Auto 6's potential price-point was a thing of much consternation in the lead-up to its reveal.

But it very much feels like GTA 6 is, in combination with the content locked off behind that paywall, basically $100.

Yes, $100 is a lot of money to spend on an entertainment product in the, uh, interesting financial times we live in.

But there is the elephant in the room that the production of big-budget games like GTA 6 has absolutely outstripped inflation.

Sure, we'll get other Grand Theft Auto games assuming we're all still around in 10+ years, but can an industry that's so hungry to chase quarterly results at the exchange of all else sustain anything else of that game's scale and …

Three months after the release of Directive 8020, Supermassive Games is laying off employees.

"This is a necessary step to help ensure the sustainability of the company," Supermassive said.

(Image credit: Supermassive Games (Twitter))The layoffs come in the wake of a mixed response to Directive 8020 (although PC Gamer's Elie Gould thoroughly enjoyed it, calling the game "one giant leap for sci-fi body horror" in their 85% review), but that reception feels almost irrelevant.

How many people will be left at Supermassive following this latest round of layoffs wasn't said.

I've reached out to Supermassive for more information and will update if I receive a reply.

Another week, another hint that the Steam Frame might be close to launch, though this time the hint comes not from leaks and rumours but directly from Valve.

According to recent official update notes, SteamOS Beta and Preview channels are to receive "preliminary support for the Steam Frame Wireless Adapter."

Valve itself had previously indicated a launch of summer 2026, and over the past couple of months we've seen signs of Steam Frame imports, a 'Great on Frame' Steam classification, and the public availability of Frame-relevant software on Steam.

So much so that the Steam Frame subreddit recently seemed to lose its collective mind in anticipation, even sharing hopeful potatoes of luck (ye…

Not so tarnished, eh?Bandai Namco had released a new story trailer for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition ahead of its Switch 2 launch on 28th August 2026.While we're well aware that publishers like to show off games in their very best light for trailers, there's no denying that it actually looks really nice. After reports of some performance issues during hands-on sessions, it seems FromSoftware has taken the time to make sure it looks and runs well on Nintendo's console.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Only a matter of Time.Rumours recently emerged that Nintendo would be producing a limited edition Zelda-themed Switch 2 and Pro Controller, and well, it seems that this is indeed true.Images of the product boxes have been posted online (thanks, Nintendo Everything), and they look extremely legit. Both contain the 40th anniversary logos for the series along with all the usual small print you'd expect to find.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Choz-oh no.First 4 Figures has revealed a sneak peek at its latest product from its Metroid range... a, uh, Metroid.Pre-orders open from 20th August 2026 and you can bag $10 off if you sign up to the website. We don't know exactly how much this thing will cost, but First 4 Figures' products are generally known to be pretty expensive.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

To Weynon Priory, then.15 years after its release, Skyrim is now well established as a household name in open-world RPGs. It captured the zeitgeist in a way that few games ever have, and is so enduring that its many re-releases are subject to memes. Yet Skyrim is just one section of the great Tamriel continent, and during the seventh console generation, the series hit its stride with Oblivion, the fourth entry in the Elder Scrolls saga.In place of wasteland tundra and skies filled with dragons, Cyrodiil offers sprawling countryside, shining imperial citadels, and burning portals into demonic realms. Oblivion Remastered gives the complete adventure a fresh lick of Unreal Engine 5 paint, offe…

Supermassive disappointment.Supermassive Games, the developer behind the likes of Little Nightmares III, Until Dawn, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced it is to be begin a "redundancy consultancy process".This, according to the studio, will result in the loss of up to 75 employees, with Supermassive calling it a necessary step to ensure the "sustainability of the company".Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Graceful ascent.The latest UK boxed charts data is in, and it's a fairly quiet week with no major new entries for the Switch 1 & 2. PS5 and PC got Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, which debuts at number 6, while Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation launched on PS5, PC, and Xbox, landing at number 5.Meanwhile, Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem saw a nice boost in sales to jump all the way up to number one, beating Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and Pokémon Pokopia. A quick search only reveals that outlets are selling Requiem at roughly £10 less than the RRP, but we're not seeing any major discounts that could explain the bump in sales.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

"You're finished".Following the announcement of Final Fantasy Resonance back in June, Square Enix has begun highlighting the game's 'Visions', which are characters that can fight alongside you during the journey. We already caught a glimpse of the Warrior of Light the other day, and now it's the turn of series legend Cloud Strife.The trailer is a pretty short one and it's admittedly low on gameplay footage, but we can see Cloud unleashing his signature moves during battle, albeit with the rather lovely HD-2D visuals utilised to full effect.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

"it was very far along".Despite Square Enix still in the trenches with development on Final Fantasy VII Revelation, rumours have persisted that a remake of Final Fantasy IX isn't too far behind.Unfortunately, according to a comment from Alex Donaldson (Editor, RPG Site) over on Reset Era, development on the remake is "no longer moving forward". He says that the game would have been a single entry rather than split across multiple releases, and that development was "very far along".Read the full article on nintendolife.com

'It Takes Two' was released for Switch in 2022.We've already had multiple Switch titles receive a Switch 2 makeover recently, and it looks like another one may have been discovered ahead of the official announcement.As highlighted by Nintendo Everything, a document by Chinese games distributor Prowell Asia Holdings features an image of a Switch 2 version of Hazelight's award-winning co-op adventure, It Takes Two. According to the same listing, the EA-published title will apparently arrive mid-October, include English language support, and is getting a Game-Key Card release. It's also supposedly about 12.1GB in size.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

"The countdown is officially on".Ahead of Opening Night Live at Gamescom later this month, Geoff Keighley has officially announced the countdown to The Game Awards is on.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

"New zone loading".Sonic the Hedgehog is currently celebrating his 35th anniversary and it seems he'll be racing into Fortnite's new chapter.The official Sonic accounts on YouTube and social media have posted a new video featuring Sonic and what appears to be the Fortnite character Peely, while showing off a new zone in the popular battle royale title.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

It launched on the system in April 2023.In case you missed it, the 2023 cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite is no longer playable on the Switch.Earlier this year, the game was delisted from the eShop, and Switch players received the following notice at the time about the shutdown date of the game's servers (via avpgalaxy.net):Read the full article on nintendolife.com

"A million thanks".Big Walk, the new co-op adventure where you hang out, get lost and solve puzzles in bushland, has hit a major milestone in less than a week.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

That doesn't stop developers from trying, however, and coming up with new and innovative takes on the genre such as Kartboard Dash!

Set to hit early access on iOS and Android come August 15th, Kartboard Dash is a homegrown game from Indian developer Zatun, and pitched as a racer built for both newcomers and veterans alike.

Aside from its distinctive 'homemade' look thanks to the cardboard environments and characters, Kartboard Dash also looks to prioritise skill-based racing.

I'm cautiously optimistic about what Kartboard Dash has to offer.

Here's hoping that Kartboard Dash finds an audience so Zatun can show us their development chops.

War Robots is getting its own summer-themed event this monthSun, Sea, Steel is now live and comes packed with new contentThat includes the newest quadruped robot, pilots and ultimate mechsAh, summer.

And the latest is none other than My.Games flagship, heavy metal-battling multiplayer game War Robots with their new Sun, Sea, Steel event.

War Robots has been carrying the flag for My.Games mobile catalogue for more than a decade now.

So be sure to jump into Sun, Sea, Steel for some truly destructive action.

Perhaps you'd rather take on one of the most challenging tasks anyone faces in their life and find love.

And Slots & Daggers is hoping to offer a similar twist on the format, with a roguelike adventure where what you spin is what you use in battle.

Set to arrive on iOS and Android later this month, Slots & Daggers sees you take on the role of an adventurer in a weird fantasy world.

But to do so you'll have to spin a slot machine-like device and make use of the equipment it offers you.

Planning and reflexes are also needed in short minigames to make use of your abilities, keeping the action engaging despite the randomness.

Slots & Daggers may not be that long, but judging by what we've seen from trailers and critical reaction to its Steam release, it could well be worth a look on release.

Fortunately, sometimes that discrepancy is addressed, as it has been with A Space for the Unbound.

Now available on Google Play, A Space for the Unbound is a surprisingly high-stakes teen drama set in 1990s rural Indonesia.

You follow the story of two teens and high-school sweethearts, Atma and Raya, as their melancholic end to their teen years comes to a head with an apocalyptic supernatural threat.

A Space for the Unbound has a mixture of melancholy and humorous adventure to be had as you explore the village, all rendered in neat retro fashion.

While it may not qualify for our 'best of' list this year, A Space for the Unbound is undoubtedly a great new release.

And their presence is no less visible in gaming, including the newly announced Little Kitty, Big City that's making its way to mobile later this year!

The gameplay and story of Little Kitty, Big City, is deceptively simple.

The mobile version of Little Kitty, Big City also comes with an exclusive AR photo mode that lets you transplant your personalised cat into the real world.

Because Little Kitty, Big City is the latest mobile game to offer a try-before-you-buy policy, letting you play through the entire prologue before deciding whether or not to buy.

It certainly looks to be an exciting new release, but Little Kitty, Big City will be up against stiff competition on mobile!

You'll have to make use of different weapons and the abilities of each hero to survive, while crafting the perfect build to take on the endgame boss Surtr.

Much like Vampire Survivors, it's a fast-paced bullet heaven where your objective is to grow stronger and eventually overcome hordes of enemies with a finely crafted build.

So if you like a mixture of Survivors-style, fast-paced combat and build crafting alongside cute characters, then Duriano may well be worth checking out.

And if you want to see what other bullet heaven games have made their mark on mobile, then you're in luck.

Because our list of the best mobile games like Vampire Survivors lists all the best releases that, much like …

Yes, as you might have seen from the headline, Digimon will arrive in the world of AFK Journey starting August 18th and running all the way until September 14th!

The collaboration sees fan-favourite characters Taichi and Yamato end up in the world of AFK Journey.

Subscribe to Pocket Gamer onSummer WarsAs you might expect, this collab also introduces two new playable characters, or pairs in this case.

Coming off the back of the launch of Digimon Up, it's clear that there's a new push to get Digimon onto mobile.

That's where we'll list all the newest additions and collabs that don't make it into our regular news cycle.

Be that their original animations, game service, or a brand-new collaboration with none other than Genshin Impact that sees the American server debut of an exclusive cosmetic!

Yes, starting August 12th through September 22nd, and tying into the upcoming 7.0 version of Genshin Impact, players who sign up for a Crunchyroll subscription will be able to claim an exclusive rewards code.

Fan-tier subscribers (new and existing) can nab themselves a character growth bundle with up to 40 Primogems and other goodies.

Well, Mega Fan tier subscribers will also be able to grab themselves the Neo Terminal: Floating Leaf Model pet that makes its American server debut as a Crunchyroll-exclusive collaborati…

Newt or gecko, you decide, but only the facts knowYou'll receive a flurry and flash of images from all sorts of artistic sourcesGet them all right or start from the beginningWelcome to Off The AppStore, a weekly feature with a twist.

Such a conundrum can come in the form of whether you can tell the difference between a newt and a gecko… and that's what Big Neko Games wants to see if you can in Imori vs Yamori: Newt or Gecko.

The goal is to get 100 correct guesses and prove that you're a newt AND gecko expert.

Imori vs Yamori: Newt or Gecko is a 2D swiping puzzle about guessing whether what you're looking at is a newt or a gecko.

Imori vs Yamori: Newt or Gecko is available to download and pl…

While classes aren't as big a deal in this idle RPG as in other MMOs in the franchise, our Ragnarok Twilight tier list can still help you start your journey the right way!

While classes in Ragnarok often follow the same six-class foundation, our Ragnarok Twilight tier list begs to differ - in that there are only five main classes here (at least, at the moment).

Since Ragnarok Twilight foregoes the typical MMORPG setup and instead lets you go questing automatically, choosing the right class doesn't really make or break your adventure.

Ragnarok Twilight tier listThat said, you're here for a reason, so I won't ramble on any further.

Or if you're still at a loss, how about taking a gander at ou…

Which is precisely what premium mobile puzzler Pight does.

About the only issue I can see with Pight in the future is that, well, it's got some very big nods to Minecraft.

Pight is a premium game, so you'll need to pay upfront to gain access.

Still, if Pight does run afoul of Mojang at some point, it might just give you a taste for training your brain with intriguing logic puzzles.

And if you wind up needing an alternative, there's no better source to check than our list of the best puzzle games on iOS!

Top Eleven 2027 has decided to actually back that up a bit, and it's roped in some proper football knowhow to help make sure your tactics hold up under pressure.

First up is a tactical rework: new tactical inputs, fresh statistical visualisations, and both in-match and post-match reports getting an upgrade.

The idea is you're not just guessing your way to a late winner - you're actually able to see why it worked and repeat it next time out.

Subscribe to Pocket Gamer onShearer for finishing, Makélélé for ball-winning, Vidic anchoring the back line, and Fàbregas pulling the strings in midfield.

If you're jumping back in for the new Mentors, grab the latest Top Eleven codes before kickoff.

But where the latter tend to flounder, Wobbly Life might just succeed despite its cartoonish looks.

The core concept of Wobbly Life is simply: you live with your grandma, and she finally has enough and kicks you out with one order: 'get a job!'

Honestly, at first blush I didn't think much of Wobbly Life.

Wobbly Life is set to release around August 20th for both iOS and Android, and with cross-platform co-op as mentioned above it may have a significant life to come.

Why not take a trip back to the early days of the World Wide Web, and check out what our App Army thought of Hypnospace Outlaw?

There's always a scale tipping somewhere behind that title, and in RuneScape's case it's Guthix, back to run the show for Leagues II: Equilibrium.

It is basically a fresh start on Gielinor with faster experience gains, new powers to unlock, and a leaderboard to climb before the season ends.

Rather than handing you the whole of Gielinor from the off, Equilibrium locks it up front, and you unlock new regions, bosses and skilling spots by completing tasks.

Go one way and you close off another, which means the path you take actually shapes what powers you end up with.

Stack those against the locked map and no two runs are likely to look the same, which is the whole point of a Leagues season exi…

HandyGames is set to change gears and become THQ Nordic MobileThe new studio will focus on releasing ports of major new releases for mobileThe HandyGames name will live on with HandyGames Studio, focusing on original developmentsIt's a bit of a red-letter day for the storied mobile developer HandyGames today, as they change gears significantly, becoming THQ Nordic Mobile.

Well, the newly christened THQ Nordic Mobile are set to switch gears significantly and focus mainly on PC and console ports for mobile.

Subscribe to Pocket Gamer onMake mine mobileFortunately, the HandyGames name will indeed live on via HandyGames Studio, which will continue work on original projects.

And it also represent…

Beat Saber's price has been reduced to $19.99 on Quest.

Beat Games and Meta have announced that Beat Saber will cost $19.99 on Meta Quest beginning today, a discount on the previous price of $29.99.

For eight years, Beat Saber has been one of the best-selling VR games on any VR platform, and was very rarely sold at a discount.

Beat Saber is an immersive rhythm experience in which you use colorful sabers to slash your way through pulsing musical beats.

Beat Saber is available now on Meta Quest, and via SteamVR for $19.99.

Crementif released the ‘BetterVR’ mod for Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) last December, bringing full 6DOF support and motion controls to the game on PC VR headsets.

Now, nearing the mod’s 1.0 launch, not only has BetterVR gotten even better, but Crementif teased a Mario Kat 8 (2014) VR mod is also now in the works.

BetterVR is a flatscreen-to-VR conversion mod for BotW, which is available for free on the project’s GitHub, including 20 updates since the first trailer was released in December 2025.

In those short eight months, Crementif has pushed out a number of improvements, fixes, and polish tweaks to the mod, which you can see in the the new trailer below.

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Walkabout Dungeon Golfer, initially presented as a fake April Fools Day game earlier this year, was formally announced in today's special Mighty Coconut Presents video.

Such is the case with Walkabout Dungeon Golfer, a roguelike dungeon crawler Mighty Coconut teased.

⚔️Introducing Walkabout Dungeon Golfer, the future of roguelike dungeon crawlers with 100% more golf!.

Walkabout Dungeon Golfer will be a hybrid title with crossplay support for flatscreen and VR platforms.

We'll share any additional news on Walkabout Dungeon Golfer as it comes along.

I left No Man's Sky off that list because it did not get VR support until the Beyond update in August 2019.

Developer Hello Games released a new video commemorating its history and growth after a legendarily disappointing launch.

Watch the full video here:0:00 / 2:06 1×The end of the video teases its next update, titled 'Cosmos' and a written statement from Hello Games' Sean Murray confirms we can expect more info on that update soon.

On the flip side, Capcom's VR support for Resident Evil Biohazard, Resident Evil Village, and Resident Evil 4 Remake was all terrific.

After years of "big" games only being playable in VR thanks to fan-made mods, Hello Games deserves credit for its support.

Friday Night Baseball is coming to Apple Immersive starting on August 28.

For those unable to attend live in Apple Immersive, full game replays and a highlights package can be watched later directly in the Apple TV app.

Apple has an opportunity to leverage its non-immersive Friday Night Baseball streams and the marketing around them to effectively showcase what premium immersive sports broadcasts like this offer to drive more engagement with Apple Vision Pro.

One game will be broadcast live each week for the remainder of this “Friday Night Baseball” season.

The games that will receive the Apple Immersive treatment are highlighted above with the Apple Vision Pro icon.

Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced they’re bringing a handful of live baseball games to Vision Pro, with livestreamed games starting on August 28th.

When Apple initially announced the number of games it had licensed in the August baseball schedule, it wasn’t clear whether Apple TV subscribers would get any immersive games to round out the 2026 season.

Now, Apple announced it’s bringing four live ‘Friday Night Baseball’ games leading up to September 18th, which will feature commentary from Paul Severino (play-by-play), Xavier Scruggs (analyst), and Michelle Margaux (sideline reporter).

Livestream games will be available to Vision Pro users with an Apple TV subscription across a …

is a new survival shooter set in a dystopian post-nuclear war America.

It releases on SteamVR in Early Access on August 21.

In actuality, it is a corrupt organization trying to exert control over a planet on the verge of death.

The game operates out of a bunker similar to the popular Into the Radius where players maintain their equipment and systems.

The Early Access period is expected to last about a year after its August 21 release.

Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design.

Today we’re looking at the game Electronauts and what it can teach us about smart VR interface design.

It was featured in the pilot episode of Inside XR Design.

Incredibly, Electronauts still has a lot to teach when it comes to VR interface design.

Check out the rest of our Inside XR Design series and our Insights & Artwork series.

China-based projector manufacturer XGIMI launched a crowdfunding campaign in June for its first smart glasses, MemoMind One, which is banking on consumer interest in display-clad smart glasses that don’t contain cameras.

Now the project just topped $1 million with 20 days left in the campaign, which closes on August 28th.

MemoMind One (Nomad) | Courtesy XGIMINotably, MemoMind One is positioning itself as one of the least expensive display smart glasses on the market, with pricing starting at $400 for the Standard Edition of all stylings: Nomad, Gotham and Archive.

While MemoMind isn’t the first to claim camera-less display smart glasses as a unique marketing proposition, it is doing it at a…

Valve quietly changed the requirements for games aiming to run natively on Steam Frame, the company’s long-awaited standalone headset.

Unsupported titles can still be downloaded and played on Steam Frame however, leaving it up to the user to decide.

My firmly held belief is that Steam Frame, like all of Valve’s recent hardware ambitions, is a long-term play for Valve.

Like Steam Deck, Valve is trying to make Steam into the premium content distribution platform for a new hardware platform.

Looking for more Steam Frame news?

I'm not sure if that's true, but I know it took less time than that for Dream Hackers VR to convince me I was playing something special.

After an hour or two with a preview demo provided by the developers, Dream Hackers VR is the VR game I'm most looking forward to in 2027.

Publisher: ARVI VR Inc.Price: To Be Announced : An upcoming VR action-adventure roguelike where players explore and shoot their way through surreal dreamscapes.Single-player: 2027 (Demo Q4 2026): ARVI VR Inc.: ARVI VR Inc.To Be Announced0:00 / 1:25 1× Dream Hackers VR's latest trailer.

What is Dream Hackers VR?

Perhaps the greatest compliment I can give Dream Hackers VR thus far is how excited the demo has left me for th…

XR Replay, the latest app from the developer of the popular Quest Games Optimizer, auto-records the last few minutes of gameplay so you can save it at any time.

Imagine you are playing a Quest game and something amazing happens.

XR Replay is designed to change that.

I am currently testing XR Replay and will write up my impressions next week.

XR Replay is available now for $3.99.