
85 Million Sold, RDR2 Just Had Its Best Year Since Launch
Red Dead Redemption 2 just had its strongest sales year since it launched in 2018, pushing past 85 million copies and overtaking Wii Sports on the all-time best-sellers list.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 just had its strongest sales year since it launched in 2018, pushing past 85 million copies and overtaking Wii Sports on the all-time best-sellers list.

Bloomberg reports Bungie has no approved projects beyond Marathon, no Destiny 3 in the works, and significant layoffs coming. The studio that Sony paid $3.6 billion for is running out of road.

Pearl Abyss keeps stacking features into Crimson Desert at a pace that's hard to believe. Patch 1.08 gives Kliff firearms, adds a baby wyvern pet that will eventually become a mount, and quietly slips in ray-traced sun and moon shadows.

Infinity Ward's new studio heads have posted a mission statement promising the "definitive Modern Warfare" experience, with a full reveal likely coming during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7.

Despite raising Switch 2 prices across the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe, Nintendo has reportedly bumped its production target to 20 million consoles by March 2027. Japanese sales are already spiking ahead of the hike.

After seven years of total silence, the official Crazy Taxi social media accounts flickered back to life with a five-second teaser clip. A full reveal at an upcoming summer showcase looks almost certain.

Take-Two's FY2027 guidance projects $8 billion in revenue on the back of GTA 6, but the three questions fans keep asking remain unanswered.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick accuses big tech companies of lying about why they laid off thousands, calling it pandemic overhiring rather than AI displacement.

Stig Asmussen's Giant Skull had a D&D action-adventure in the works with serious talent behind it. Wizards of the Coast killed it anyway.

Quantic Dream's first multiplayer game never broke 888 concurrent players on Steam. Now 95 jobs are on the line, and a French labor union is calling for management to resign.

Take-Two's FY2027 revenue guidance jumps by over $1 billion compared to this year. Nearly all of that rides on a single game shipping on time.

Take-Two's fiscal year earnings call confirmed what millions of anxious fans needed to hear: GTA 6 is still launching November 19, and marketing kicks off this summer.

Dotemu and Old Skull Games have announced Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster, a 2D stealth-action platformer starring a Skaven assassin named Vihneek. It's coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2 in 2027.

Unknown Worlds' underwater survival sequel hit 4 million copies sold in under a week, and the studio is already responding to community pushback on creature encounters.

King Art Games locked in a September 17 release date for Dawn of War 4 during Warhammer Skulls, alongside a DLC roadmap that includes a mystery fifth faction and the return of Crusade Mode.

Bungie announced that Destiny 2 will receive its final live-service content update on June 9, 2026, ending nearly a decade of active development on the MMO shooter.

After more than a year of hints, failed scheduling, and one CEO's very expensive Warhammer miniature habit, the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 crossover is officially happening.

Scalping has gotten so bad that The Pokémon Company is weighing government-issued ID scans just to buy certain card products in Japan. The system could go live as early as August 2026.

Keiichiro Toyama, director of the original Silent Hill, stepped outside into Tokyo and thought he was still playing Forza Horizon 6. He's far from the only Japanese local blown away by Playground Games' recreation.

Hasbro has poured nearly $1 billion into game development since 2018 and deliberately avoided live service. The same week, Quantic Dream's MOBA died after three months.

IO Interactive's narrative director says Bond's outdated attitudes toward women won't survive the jump to 2026, but the flirting and romance are very much still there.

Harry Krueger, the director behind Returnal and Nex Machina, has launched a new Helsinki-based studio called Cosmic Division. Its first project is a single-player IP targeting consoles and PC.

After being publicly told to stop by fellow Square veteran Akitoshi Kawazu, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi responded by sharing even more AI-generated game concepts.

Warhorse Studios just confirmed two projects at once: an open-world Middle-earth RPG and a new Kingdom Come game. The studio behind one of the most detail-obsessed RPG series in years is now tackling Tolkien.