139 articles tagged with “Gaming News”
Version 1.2 'At the Wake of Spring' hits Arknights: Endfield on April 17, bringing a new playable Operator, a boss fight against Nefarith, and expanded factory-building systems.
A $300 million loss in potential sales from Black Ops 6 is reportedly forcing Microsoft to rethink whether Call of Duty belongs on Game Pass at launch.
Hacking group ShinyHunters has set a Monday deadline for Rockstar Games to pay up, or watch its financial records, marketing timelines, and studio contracts go public.
Wit Studio has confirmed generative AI appeared in the Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4 opening, violating the studio's own internal policy. The affected sequence will be redrawn from scratch.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home early Friday morning. A suspect was arrested near OpenAI's headquarters less than an hour later.
Shiro Games finally has a date locked in for SpaceCraft's Early Access launch after slipping out of 2025. Mark May 20 on your calendar.
NetEase's creative director has laid out a wild vision for Marvel Rivals' future, and 'moving anime' is genuinely the phrase he used.
Console players get more time with the Invincible VS open beta, but PC players are sitting this one out completely until the game launches on April 30.
Danish YouTuber Mongo TV is playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS on an aging laptop, and the numbers are genuinely staggering. The opening chapter took 12 hours. A full run would take 471.
Level-5 has announced Snack World: Reloaded, a full remake of the 2017 3DS dungeon-crawler that most Western players never got to touch, heading to Switch 2, PS5, and PC.
Windrose sets sail for Early Access on April 14, and if you've been sleeping on this one, now is the time to pay attention.
Pete Hines is done letting Bethesda take jank criticism without context. His argument: nobody else in the industry is even attempting what the Creation Engine pulls off.
Level-5 confirmed during its Vision 2026 Craftsmanship event that both DECAPOLICE and Inazuma Eleven RE are dropping last-gen and original Switch support in favour of Switch 2.
Taiwan's ratings board has outed what looks like a native Switch 2 port of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the 2021 Eidos Montreal game that deserved a much bigger audience than it got.
HoYoverse partnered with MAPPA on a 2:52 concept animation for Honkai Star Rail's third anniversary, and the studio's own iceberg metaphor makes it pretty clear this isn't where the collaboration ends.
Fumi Games' black-and-white noir cartoon shooter MOUSE: P.I. For Hire launches in less than a week, and the voice cast behind it is genuinely impressive.
After years of silence, a new Metro game is reportedly set to be revealed at a PlayStation State of Play on April 16, with two reliable insiders now backing the claim.
Level-5 is bringing its 1.5 million-selling RPG to mobile this summer, and it's doing it the right way: premium price, no microtransactions, and full cross-save with every other platform.
A legitimate-looking Steam page for Rust 2 appeared out of nowhere, a Facepunch developer said 'you saw nothing', and then the studio's founder flatly denied the whole thing. It's been a morning.
Amazon Luna has quietly gutted its third-party store support today, giving customers until June 10 before their purchased libraries go dark on the platform.
The FAA is running a recruitment campaign aimed directly at video game players, arguing that hours spent in Fortnite and Rocket League translate to real skills in the cockpit tower.
Gunzilla Games CEO Vlad Korolev has responded to serious allegations of unpaid wages by calling the accusations a 'new narrative from haters', a response so tone-deaf it almost defies belief.
Evil Empire's indie showcase returned for 2026 with 40 announcements in a single event, and the sheer density of it is starting to make major publisher showcases look sluggish by comparison.
Ten years of internet mythology, killed in one sentence. Jeff Kaplan confirms Blizzard never actually nerfed Tracer's butt, they just changed a pose.
S-Game's CEO has publicly declared Phantom Blade Zero will not use AI visual tech, in a statement that reads as a direct rejection of Nvidia's DLSS 5 after the tech was widely mocked for distorting NPC faces.
Pearl Abyss is essentially admitting that players broke Crimson Desert by being too good at it, and the fix is enemies that fight back for their territory.
The studio behind 1000xResist has revealed its next game, and it wants you to use CAPTCHAs to convince a sentient AI that she isn't human.
Ten years after the original, Klei Entertainment's next Don't Starve game is adding the one thing players have wanted since 2013: the ability to jump.
Lazy Bear Games has announced Graveyard Keeper 2, and to celebrate, the original is free to claim on Steam until April 13. Here's what the sequel is bringing to the table.
Sunset Visitor, the Vancouver studio behind 1000xResist, has revealed Prove You're Human, a first-person narrative game where you play a digital copy of a person tasked with shattering an AI's belief that it's flesh and blood.
Google removed Doki Doki Literature Club from the Play Store on April 8, citing its 'depiction of sensitive themes', the same quality critics and players have celebrated for nine years.
Sony has signed new directors for the Metal Gear Solid movie after more than a decade of development, and the casualty is the self-described MGS superfan fans were quietly rooting for.
A Halo dataminer hid the game's alleged release dates inside two Roman numeral math equations. The community solved them in minutes.
NateTheHate, the leaker who called the Switch 2 reveal date, is now putting a hard deadline on the Star Fox announcement: April.
The full Forza Horizon 6 map is here, and it's a sprawling vision of Japan from snowy mountain passes to coastal highways. Tokyo shows up, but it's not dominating the picture.
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the designer who directed Double Dragon and Renegade and in doing so defined the rules of an entire genre, passed away on April 2, 2026. He was 64.
CD Projekt Red's long-awaited PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077 is live today, and the headliner is a Performance mode that pushes up to 90fps on VRR displays. Here's what each of the three new graphics modes actually means for how the game plays.
Microsoft's April Game Pass lineup is genuinely impressive, headlined by Hades 2 landing day one on April 14. The catch: GTA V is gone the very next day.
Sony wants to put a real fan inside Gran Turismo 7, but getting there involves questionnaires, video interviews, and signing over your likeness. The real question is what Sony gets to keep.
The 2020 State of Decay 3 reveal trailer was pre-rendered concept work made by an external studio, with only four or five people at Undead Labs and no actual game in development. Studio head Philip Holt has now confirmed it on camera, and yes, that means no zombie deer.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opened to $372.6M worldwide, falling just $2.4M short of its predecessor's record. That's not a failure, it's one of the biggest animated debuts ever.
Max Hejtmánek, the Czech-to-English translator and editor on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, says he was called into a meeting on March 27th with no prior warning and told his job no longer exists. Warhorse is replacing him with AI.
The player count data for Rocket Racing, Ballistic, and Festival Battle Stage tells a bleaker story than any corporate statement could. These modes weren't killed, they were already dying.
Square Enix has partnered with Google to inject Gemini AI into Dragon Quest X, turning one of gaming's most iconic mascots into a chatbot. The slime deserved better.
FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has openly admitted that Final Fantasy's slow release cadence is pushing younger players away. The comment came in a promotional video, which makes it even harder to ignore.
Sony has swept two more shovelware publishers off the PlayStation Store, pulling over 1,000 listings from Nostra Games and CGI Lab. It's the second major purge in two months, and the scale suggests this isn't a one-off cleanup.
Mojang Studios and Merlin Entertainments have announced Minecraft World, a dedicated theme park coming to Chessington World of Adventures in 2027, complete with a world-first Minecraft roller coaster.
Red Storm Entertainment, the North Carolina studio that created Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, has been permanently reassigned to IT and engine support by Ubisoft. 105 developers have lost their jobs.
Netflix's Assassin's Creed adaptation has finally started filming, and it's not going anywhere near the Renaissance. The show is set in ancient Rome, 64 AD, right in the middle of Nero's reign.
The first full trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out, and while Peter Parker's mutating DNA is the headline, Sadie Sink's heavily obscured character is the conversation everyone's actually having.
Pearl Abyss's first singleplayer game drops tomorrow. Here's exactly when Crimson Desert unlocks in your time zone and how to get preloading done before it hits.
Jensen Huang's response to widespread DLSS 5 criticism wasn't a clarification or a concession. It was a dismissal, and that's the problem.
Bethesda has moved to reassure players after Nvidia's DLSS 5 reveal turned Starfield characters into something resembling an Instagram filter gone wrong. The studio says the tech is 'totally optional' and that artists will have full control over the final look.
Nintendo's latest firmware update quietly delivers something Switch 2 owners didn't know they were getting: a free visual upgrade for hundreds of original Switch games, no upgrade pack required.
IO Interactive has cut ties with Build a Rocket Boy, handing full publishing control of MindsEye back to the developer. The Hitman crossover mission announced last June is gone with it.
Eight years after that famous title card, Todd Howard openly regrets the Elder Scrolls 6 reveal. The good news: he also just confirmed the game is finally in full production.
Nathan Fillion announced a Firefly animated continuation at Awesome Con, with the original cast back and Joss Whedon pointedly kept at arm's length.
For years, Pokemon Go players scanned PokeStops and Gyms thinking they were earning in-game rewards. Turns out they were also building a navigation system for commercial delivery robots.
Bethesda has confirmed Starfield news is coming next week, and with a rumoured PS5 launch date of April 7 already circulating, the announcement almost writes itself.
Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman has acknowledged the demand for a Hit & Run revival and refused to rule one out, and the timing is hard to ignore.
Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura says the team's next project will probably inherit ideas from Bananza, continuing a creative lineage that traces back to Super Mario Odyssey.
Epic Games is reducing the amount of V-Bucks players get for their money starting March 19, and their official explanation is that they need to 'pay the bills.' From a company that makes billions.
Square Enix just dropped Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster on PC and Xbox with no announcement, no countdown, no warning. One less reason to buy a Switch 2.
Aspyr's classic Lara Croft collection arrives on Switch 2 on March 18 with 120fps in handheld mode, and existing Switch owners get the upgrade for free.
Sony has confirmed the PS Plus Extra and Premium lineup for March 2026, and Space Marine 2 is the headliner. Eight games go live on March 17.
Valve's GDC numbers quietly dismantle the indie saturation panic: nearly 6,000 games cleared $100K on Steam last year, double the count from five years ago.
Sandfall Interactive's legal team went after a French graphic novel author whose book shares a name with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The studio has since pulled the action and apologised, but the whole episode is a case study in how corporate legal reflexes can contradict a studio's own stated valu
Director Koshi Nakanishi confirmed in a video message that a story expansion is in development for Resident Evil Requiem, with photo mode and a surprise minigame also on the way.
Ben Diskin voiced Mega Man in the best-selling entry in the series. Capcom asked him back for Dual Override, then refused the one condition that would have made it work.
Bethesda hasn't said a word, but a $51 action figure just did. A McFarlane Toys listing explicitly naming 'Fallout 3 Remastered' is the clearest signal yet that the remaster is happening.
A class-action lawsuit filed in Washington state doesn't just argue that Steam loot boxes are gambling, it argues Valve engineered them to work like slot machines, down to the spinning animations and near-miss effects.
Goro Abe, the man behind WarioWare's gloriously chaotic microgame formula, has left Nintendo after more than 25 years. He's not joining another studio. He's going to teach.
Ballistic Moon, the UK studio behind the 2024 Until Dawn remake, has been officially dissolved after a catastrophic commercial failure that reportedly underperformed Concord's launch on PlayStation 5.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection launches March 13 with glowing reviews across the board. With no mainline Pokemon this year, Capcom may have accidentally filled the gap.
Bungie hid the Cryo Archive map behind a community-wide puzzle, and players just cracked the first stage. The reward is a set of eerie surveillance feeds from aboard the Marathon ship, one of which has something moving in it that nobody can explain.
Battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in three days and topped the US sales charts for all of 2025. EA's response was to cut staff at every single studio that built it.
Satya Nadella joined new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma for an internal Q&A and told staff Microsoft will 'always' invest in gaming. The timing is deliberate.
Steve Downes didn't give the White House permission to use his voice as Master Chief in a war propaganda video. He's making that very clear.
Modder Andy Nguyen got Linux running on a PS5 Slim, booted GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing at 60fps, and immediately hit the thermal wall that explains why Sony has never flipped this switch officially.
Three months after Gang of Dragon's reveal at The Game Awards, NetEase is walking away from Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio over a $44.4 million funding gap. The game's future is now entirely uncertain.
The latest Switch 2 eShop listings are out, and WWE 2K26 is sitting at a jaw-dropping 92.8GB. For context, Monster Hunter Stories 3 and the Fatal Frame 2 remake combined don't come close.
Someone at Teyon pushed the wrong build to Steam today, and for about half an hour, RoboCop: Rogue City became an unannounced Hunter: The Reckoning game. The files are gone, but the screenshots aren't.
Valve published a Year in Review blog post with uncertain language about the Steam Machine's 2026 launch, then quietly rewrote it the same day. The edit tells you everything about where things actually stand.
Nintendo has filed suit against the US government demanding back every dollar it paid under tariffs the Supreme Court already ruled illegal. It also wants interest on top.
Nintendo dropped new artwork for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of a March 9 Direct, and buried in the corner is a villain nobody expected: Wart, last seen in 1988's Super Mario Bros. 2.
Capcom's sci-fi action game has spent six years collecting delays. Now, somehow, it's arriving early.
A fan-run charity challenge asking Arrowhead devs to beat Helldivers 2's hardest difficulty for a $1,000 donation ended with the creator receiving death threats, being doxxed, and watching harassers contact the horse sanctuary where they volunteer.
Mega Crit's sequel hit 156,584 concurrent players on Steam within two hours of its early access launch. The original's all-time peak was 57,025.
Blizzard's next Diablo 4 season has one mechanic that actually matters: kill enough demons fast enough and you stop being the hunter. You become the Butcher.
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma has officially named Xbox's next-gen console: Project Helix. It plays PC games, and that changes everything about what an Xbox actually is.
Ember Lab's debut game is finally coming to Nintendo hardware, nearly five years after it helped define the PS5's early library.
The National Videogame Museum has acquired the Sony MSF-1, the oldest known Nintendo PlayStation prototype ever built and the only one of its kind. It's now housed in Frisco, Texas, where it belongs.
Nine minutes of raw Forza Horizon 6 footage dropped today, and instead of generating hype, it's generating one very specific question: where are all the cars?
Final Fantasy 11 has a problem most MMOs would kill for: too many players. Square Enix is sealing off a third server in under a year.
Sony has quietly killed the PC versions of Ghost of Yotei and Saros, according to a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier. If you were waiting to play either on Steam, you're now waiting forever.
The former Humble Games staff who got laid off in 2024 just bought the entire catalogue they used to manage. It's now called Balor Games.
CS:GO has quietly reappeared on Steam as a standalone listing, three years after Valve folded it into Counter-Strike 2. The servers are still offline, the page is hidden from search, and Valve hasn't explained any of it.
Mark Gerhard says Build a Rocket Boy now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' behind MindsEye's dismal launch. He's also firing more people.
Pearl Abyss PR director Will Powers is tired of the questions. Players who bought Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 are tired of being burned.
Activision hit TheGhostOfHope with a legal demand to stop leaking Call of Duty information today. Then the official CoD account went on Twitter and twisted the knife.
Bungie has confirmed that Marathon's seasonal resets are mandatory and total. Every three months, your vault is gone. Here's what that actually means.
Ben Kingsley is reportedly joining Sonic the Hedgehog 4 in a 'key role', and the fan consensus on who he's playing is hard to argue with.
EA is launching a paid mod Marketplace for The Sims 4 on March 17, complete with a new real-money currency called Moola. The community is not thrilled.
Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed Highguard will go offline on March 12. Two million players wasn't enough to keep the lights on.
MoonHood's stop-motion horror adventure The Midnight Walk is coming to Switch 2 on March 26. It deserved more attention on PS5, and now it gets a second shot.
Amazon Prime Video has found its Max and Chloe for the Life Is Strange live-action series. One name you'll recognise; the other you almost certainly won't.
The original Cities: Skylines is getting a proper new expansion next week while its sequel limps along with creator packs. Paradox's anniversary celebrations tell you everything about where this series actually stands.
Iron Galaxy posted a company meeting photo with Fallout's 'Please Stand By' screen front and centre. The studio behind THPS 3+4 may have just confirmed the remaster fans have been screaming for.
Bandai Namco has scheduled a new RPG reveal for this Friday, March 5, and the five-year gap since Tales of Arise means speculation is already running hot.
Tripwire Interactive has cut 23 jobs across multiple departments. With Killing Floor 3 pulling a 24-hour Steam peak of 300 players, the timing is hard to ignore.
Warzone's new Black Ops Royale mode strips out custom loadouts, the Gulag, and Buy Stations entirely, replacing them with a scavenge-to-survive loop straight out of Blackout. It launches March 12.
Capcom's next Spotlight showcase is this Thursday, and after six years of delays and radio silence, Pragmata is finally front and center.
The official Xbox Game Pass account posted a fake internal email stuffed with Cyberpunk 2077 references. No confirmation yet, but the hints aren't subtle.
EA responded to a press inquiry and removed one Epstein creation from The Sims 4 gallery. The others, some dating back to 2023, are still there.
Collector Keripo had one of just 50 Tsukihime Trial Edition floppy disks shipped to them from Portugal. U.S. Customs returned it in pieces.
Space Marine 2's first paid voice pack promises 450 re-recorded lines but keeps reverting to the default voice whenever the game hits an objective. Players are refunding it.
Former Highguard senior level designer Alex Graner went on the Quad Damage podcast and said what everyone who watched the numbers crater already suspected: the game built a wall around itself and called it a feature.
Hugo Martin went on a Slayers Club livestream and called the Doom: The Dark Ages DLC 'basically like a sequel.' Great news. Now if only it had a release date.
Game Freak's 10th generation Pokémon games are Switch 2 exclusives, and that means the hundreds of millions of Switch 1 owners are simply out of luck.
Netflix officially kills its PS3 app tomorrow, March 2. The genuinely surprising thing isn't that it's dying, it's that it was still alive.
Sony greenlit the numbers on a Bloodborne remake from Bluepoint. FromSoftware said no. Then Sony shut Bluepoint down entirely. The chain of events is hard to ignore.
After a bruising development cycle and skeptical fans, Marathon's open beta just posted numbers that nobody expected. Bungie might actually have something here.
The original founders of Guitar Hero are on the advisory board of Stage Tour, a new rhythm game from reformed studio RedOctane Games targeting a Holiday 2026 release. Here's what we know.
Netflix walked away from its $83 billion Warner Bros. deal rather than match Paramount's raised offer, handing David Ellison the keys to Batman, HBO, and the entire WB Games catalog.
Clint Hocking is out at Ubisoft, and Jean Guesdon is now steering Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe. Somehow, the buzz around the game is only getting louder.
Stardew Valley just turned 10, and ConcernedApe celebrated by announcing two new marriage candidates for update 1.7. One of them is Clint, the blacksmith who has been silently pining for Emily for a decade.
God of War: Sons of Sparta launched with co-op locked behind story completion. Now you can skip that with an old-school button sequence, if you know where to look.
A new third-party site promised to make Marvel Rivals griefers pay, literally. Instead, it's flooding ranked lobbies with even more intentional losses and ended up getting hacked.
Full Circle just cut an unknown number of staff from the team building Skate, framing the layoffs as a restructure that will somehow speed up development on a game that's been in early access since September.
New York's attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Valve, alleging its loot boxes are illegal gambling that endangers young gamers.
Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem merges survival horror and classic action, gaining critical acclaim and becoming a standout in the franchise.
French publisher Nacon has filed for insolvency, raising questions about the future of major upcoming titles and its financial survival.
Blizzard has officially unveiled Overwatch Rush, a new mobile hero shooter set in the Overwatch universe with a fresh top-down twist.
Sega is gearing up to drop the Tangle & Whisper update for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds next week, bringing new racers and a limited-time festival.
The creators behind Simpsons Hit & Run and Prototype have re-emerged as New Radical Games, stirring excitement about classic remasters.
Discord is pressing pause on its controversial age verification plan, pushing the rollout to later this year and promising better transparency and choices.
Sony’s multiplayer ambitions face a test as Horizon Hunters Gathering and Marathon hold overlapping betas this weekend.
The Shrouded Sky update lands in Arc Raiders, bringing intense hurricanes, mysterious UFO sightings, and a shakeup to weapons and crafting.
After years of anticipation, Marvel’s Wolverine is officially hitting PS5 on September 15, 2026, giving fans a brutal superhero fix before GTA 6 arrives.