
The Witcher 4 Is Targeting a 2028 Release Window
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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

A patch meant to improve image quality in Silent Hill 2 Remake has turned trees into featureless black blobs and rooms into voids on PS5 Performance Mode. Konami says it's investigating.

Leaked internal emails reveal Blizzard is Xbox's best-performing studio, posting its third-highest revenue year ever. Meanwhile, 3,200 people across the rest of Xbox's gaming division are losing their jobs.

A player got their $109 back after EA silently pulled Rush mode from Battlefield 6's matchmaking, and the kicker is that EA's own website still advertises the mode.

A new playtest for the Asobi: Remote Play app brings PS Plus Premium cloud streaming to Steam Deck and Steam Machine, cutting the PS5 out of the equation entirely.

Dirge of Cerberus - Lost Episode has been completely unplayable for years. One preservationist spent $900 building a brute-force program and GPU farm to crack its encrypted SD card data and pull it back from oblivion.

The Marvel Tokon PC port is so broken that players are trying anything to fix it, including running Epic's launcher in the background while playing on Steam. It's as desperate as it sounds.

Marvel Tokon launched to nearly 25,000 concurrent players on Steam. Three days later, that number has nearly halved, and the weekend isn't helping.

Ten years and 45+ updates later, No Man's Sky is a radically different game. But its original psychedelic art direction might have been the version that best understood what it was trying to be.

Nexus Mods creator kamzik123 has added unarmed combat back into Black Flag Resynced, solving in weeks what Ubisoft inexplicably chose to cut from its remake.

Profiles for Tai Yasue, Haley Joel Osment, and David Gallagher appeared in the D23 app before being pulled, pointing to a major Kingdom Hearts 4 showing next week.

Naoki Hamaguchi isn't just sending a trailer. The FF7 Revelation director is heading to Gamescom's Opening Night Live to personally show off the trilogy's grand finale.