
FC 27's The Grounds Revives Alex Hunter as a Mentor
Alex Hunter, the protagonist of FIFA's The Journey story mode, is back in FC 27 as a mentor in The Grounds, EA's ambitious new social hub that replaces and expands the old Clubs experience.
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Alex Hunter, the protagonist of FIFA's The Journey story mode, is back in FC 27 as a mentor in The Grounds, EA's ambitious new social hub that replaces and expands the old Clubs experience.

The $55 billion deal has closed, and despite the 'consortium' branding, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is the overwhelming majority owner of one of gaming's biggest publishers.

Game Freak's non-Pokémon action RPG has landed, and critics can't agree on whether it's brilliant or mediocre. A 3.5-point gap between the lowest and highest review scores tells the story.

Microsoft's August Game Pass wave brings 11 games including the Gears of War: E-Day beta, Grounded 2 in early access, and a surprise Game Freak RPG. The Gears beta starts August 6, but there's a catch.

Someone paid $10,100 for a single misdelivered copy of the Hatsune Miku Commander deck. Wizards of the Coast's response? Print enough for everyone who orders one.

Hangar 13's $10 expansion finally gives Mafia: The Old Country's Sicilian map the open-world content it lacked at launch, with Salieri handing out jobs, races, and assassination contracts across the Valle Dorata.

ProbablyMonsters' gothic action RPG Crimson Moon launches September 1 at just $19.99, dropping into one of the most stacked release windows of the year with a price tag that dares you to take a chance on it.

Dave Bautista spent years chasing Marcus Fenix. Now he's reportedly in negotiations to play a different GoW icon entirely.

Former Rockstar San Diego designer Kris Roberts says the team had prototype cities, including London, for Midnight Club 5 before the project was cancelled and the franchise was shelved for good.

Mistfall Hunter launched last week and players are already carving out the meta. Here's what's working across every class so far.

Two months after fans spotted Donald Duck with five fingers on the Kingdom Hearts Collection artwork, Square Enix has finally responded, calling it human error. Not everyone's buying it.

Netflix praised FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition as one of its biggest cloud game launches. Weeks later, Delphi Interactive pulled funding and the entire studio was reportedly let go.

Street Fighter 6's long-awaited Year 4 balance patch has arrived, and the community is not happy. Buffing Ryu while gutting Ed is just the start of the problems.

Garena has announced Palworld Online, a mobile MMO arriving on iOS and Android before the end of 2026. No screenshots, no trailer, and fewer than five months to ship.

Nintendo is giving Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave its own dedicated Direct presentation tomorrow, with 20 minutes of new details ahead of the game's September 17 Switch 2 launch.

EA's FC 27 Ultimate Team team has done something rare: publicly admitted they dropped the ball. Here's what they're changing and why it matters.

Showrunner Andrew Guest says contracts were signed, schedules cleared, and the writers' room was about to start. Then Marvel pulled the plug anyway.

Microsoft's EU and UK Xbox price hikes are now live, pushing the disc-equipped Series X to €799.99. That's roughly $900 for hardware that launched in November 2020.

EA Sports is gutting the chemistry system from Squad Building Challenges in FC 27, replacing it with a simple score threshold. Combined with the new FUT Gallery collection mode, this is the biggest structural shake-up Ultimate Team has had in years.

After yet another round of price increases, the Xbox Series X disc model has climbed from its original $499.99 launch price to $799.99. UK and European buyers are getting hit even harder.

Kratos, Atreus, and Thrud will all be played by different actors when God of War's second season begins production. That's three of the show's most important characters changing faces before a single episode has aired.

The full UK and European Xbox price increases have landed, and they're even steeper than the US hikes suggested. A disc-drive Series X now costs £670.

Director Naoki Hamaguchi says the graphical demands of modern game development made it impossible to match the 20+ job systems of classic Final Fantasy games, limiting each character to four classes in Revelation.

Peter Parker and Bruce Banner accidentally invented the MCU's version of mutant inhibitor collars in Brand New Day, and the implications for the X-Men's future are massive.