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Xbox is Kojima Productions' new partner on Physint. PlayStation Studios says it has stepped away, Kojima says he was told in mid-June the project would be cancelled, and development is continuing.
CD Projekt Red has given The Witcher 4 its first release window. Joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski is targeting 2028, with no exact date and no showing at Gamescom 2026.
PlayStation owners boycotting the PS Store entered day two with organisers extending the protest indefinitely, and no new answer from Sony.
Rebel Wolves has confirmed a Performance Mode targeting 60fps for The Blood of Dawnwalker's console launch, delivered in the day-one patch on 3 September after Friday's specs topped out at 40fps.
Weekend one of the Modern Warfare 4 beta ends at 6pm BST on Tuesday 25 August: level 20 is the ceiling and only cosmetic rewards carry over. Weekend two opens on Friday 28 August, free for everyone, including Switch 2.
Riot is ending active development of 2XKO at the end of 2026. Purchases on or before 20 August are being refunded. Cosmetics stay in accounts, and servers stay on past 2026 on the current plan.
Modern Warfare 4's Early Access beta runs 21-25 August for pre-orders on PS5, Xbox and PC. The open beta is 28 August to 1 September, including Switch 2, with no pre-order required.
The Narada from the 2009 Kelvin timeline film arrives as a Tier 6 Miracle Worker Juggernaut, bringing hybrid Romulan-Borg technology, a hull regeneration console, and a weapon-cycling starship trait.
War Thunder's latest patch tackles several long-standing missile guidance issues that have caused weapons to detonate late or miss entirely, alongside fixes for naval turret alignment and interface display errors.
Hotfix 14.1 targets underperforming weapons with meaningful buffs while addressing a punishing enemy ability and a string of Siege Mode progression issues.
Vanguard enemies are getting a substantial health cut, a new stagger method, and reduced spawn rates in events. Skitarii Blitz abilities see sweeping changes to balance and consistency.
Hands-on previews of Patrice Désilets' long-awaited passion project paint a picture of a gorgeous, historically obsessive world let down by combat that isn't ready for prime time.
PUBG's first Meta Rotation season puts Light Machine Guns centre stage with substantial buffs and a new 7.62mm LMG, while vehicle combat gets significantly harder.
The official event quest schedule for Monster Hunter Wilds is now live, covering the week of 4-11 August 2026 across all timezones.
IllFonic's Halloween: The Game has been refused classification in Australia and New Zealand. The reason? Not the brutal kills or the masked serial killer. It's because players can smoke weed for a gameplay advantage.
Starbreeze has signed Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson to executive produce a Payday screen adaptation alongside Vice Studios. Beyond that, almost nothing about the show is confirmed.
Kazuhisa Wada, the producer behind Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival, says remaking the original Persona games isn't just something he'd like to do. It's something he believes Atlus has to do.
Hideki Kamiya responded to a fan's lore question by teasing a return to Devil May Cry. With his studio already partnered with Capcom on an Okami sequel, the tease carries more weight than his usual trolling.
Cold Iron Studios shut down the cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Switch, leaving anyone who paid up to $59.99 with a game they can never play again and zero compensation.
Cu Chulainn arrives with a rage system that flips Smite's resource economy on its head, while Conquest's minion wave structure gets its most significant restructure in months.
The latest Paralives update addresses a critical lifespan problem that could trigger social services removal, while overhauling how babies enter the world and how Paras get intimate.
The Mascot Party arrives on August 13 with new EventLab props and a four-week limited series. More pressing: the patch finally addresses the garage full bug that has locked players out of their collections.
Rikers have seized a hydroelectric dam in Pennsylvania. The Broken Rain Incursion goes live tomorrow, bringing a new exotic rifle and the season's first endgame grind.
Valve is warning European Steam hardware customers that a cyberattack on its shipping partner CEVA Logistics likely exposed their names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.