
Stealth Is Dead in A Plague Tale's Action-Driven Reinvention
Asobo Studio has gutted A Plague Tale's stealth identity for Resonance, replacing it with full melee combat, and early hands-on impressions suggest the gamble is paying off.
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Asobo Studio has gutted A Plague Tale's stealth identity for Resonance, replacing it with full melee combat, and early hands-on impressions suggest the gamble is paying off.

After a week-long playtest drew overwhelmingly negative feedback, Blizzard has restored guaranteed stats to Unique items in Diablo 4's upcoming Season of Death Awakening.

Activist investor Oasis Management argued that Elden Ring's overseas publishing deal with Bandai Namco constituted 'material profit leakage,' and nearly convinced shareholders to oust Kadokawa's CEO over it.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds sold below Sega's expectations, but the publisher keeps shipping free characters and has committed to a full Year 2 of DLC. Three more Sega icons join the roster through September.

Valve engineers revealed they have zero negotiating power with RAM suppliers, who offer monthly prices on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The result: a Steam Machine that costs roughly $300 more than Valve originally planned.

Producer Masayuki Hirano says Toriyama's involvement in Xenoverse 3 went far beyond consultation, shaping the game's entire Age 1000 setting, characters, and narrative foundation.

Bethesda's boss says he saw Marvel's Blade in May and was impressed, but given Xbox's track record of shuttering studios it publicly praised, words only go so far.

Bungie's upcoming Vault Breaker mode opens Cryo Archive to solo and duo players, but strips out the one thing extraction shooters are built around: keeping your loot.

A swipe-based dating plugin launched inside Final Fantasy 14, and the community's response has been less about romance and more about the existential threat to the game's entire modding ecosystem.

The teleport arrow panels in Dancing Mad (Ultimate) no longer fling you in random directions. Square Enix quietly fixed one of the most frustrating bugs in FF14's hardest content.

CI Games has pushed Lords of the Fallen 2 out of fall 2026 and into early 2027, dodging a release calendar that GTA 6 has turned into a minefield.

A half-hour Capcom Spotlight on Thursday will focus on Dragon's Dogma 2's Dark Arisen expansion, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Monster Hunter Stories 3. Don't expect surprise reveals.

CD Projekt Red's co-CEO has acknowledged the studio's Cyberpunk 2077 launch permanently damaged trust with some players, and hopes The Witcher 4 can begin to repair it.

Valko, a werewolf clan leader and tech CEO, joins Love and Deepspace on July 9. The fandom is split on whether he fits the game's vibe or was designed to court Western audiences.

The 540-piece Lego Super Mario Piranha Plant is down to $37.97 at Amazon, its cheapest price ever, and it's rumored to be leaving shelves for good at the end of July.

Activision swore off wacky brand collabs after the Beavis and Butt-Head backlash. Now Nicolas Cage is suiting up as a Black Ops 7 Operator, and honestly, I'm not even mad about it.

A new FAQ from Halo Studios confirms several missing features in Campaign Evolved, including no Photo Mode, no Theatre Mode, and no post-launch content of any kind.

A solo developer's $6 paint-based hide-and-seek game has sold 7 million copies in 12 days, outpacing every major AAA release this year.

Dbrand's Portal-themed Companion Cube shell for the Steam Machine is finally real and up for pre-order, complete with a test chamber diorama and a cake-themed suede cloth.

A total conversion mod called Heartland strips GTA 4 of its urban chaos and replaces it with eerie small-town Wisconsin, complete with crop fields, a pizza delivery protagonist, and 30 missions of suburban unease.

Star Fox doesn't launch until June 25, but pre-load purchases alone were enough to put it at #1 on the Switch 2 eShop chart, beating every playable game on the platform.

Halo Studios published co-op requirements that would have forced both couch co-op players to pay for PS Plus on PS5. A day later, they called it a mistake.

Remedy's Lead Gameplay Designer reveals the studio almost included a melee form for the Service Weapon in Control, but pulled it because 'it would be too different of a game.' Seven years later, that scrapped concept is the entire foundation of Control Resonant.

Riot is halving ranked rating losses on Valorant's new Summit map for two weeks, a surprisingly generous move to get competitive players experimenting without fear. Act 4 also brings a 3v3 Retake mode that might pull lapsed players back in.