After the release date announcement at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, Playground Games also shared 30 minutes of new Fable gameplay footage a few days ago. The video was dedicated to demonstrating the game's simulation layer, but toward the end, the developers also showcased some combat when they switched to "evil hero" behavior. However, many viewers noticed that the guards did little to counter the player character's mayhem in the farming town of Silverbrook, largely standing aside and being easily picked off by the player. Thankfully, the official X account reassured fans that, as some had surmised, the demo was […]

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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival may not have been what players expected Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games to reveal last July, but considering Saber's eclectic portfolio, it's hard to expect anything from it, really. Regardless, less than a year from the first-person horror game's reveal, we have a release date to look forward, perfectly timed for Halloween with an October 8, 2026 due date. The news came with a brand new trailer, which capped off the immense amount of gore you see in the minute-and-a-half-long trailer. Whether you're a particularly squeamish person or if you're a horror geek that loves […]

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The gaming industry has made a wide space for GTA 6 (save for one brave developer), electing to release games either well before or after the November 19 launch date chosen by developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two Interactive. With the release date now seemingly rock-solid, speculation is shifting to the launch sales levels the long-awaited game can achieve. Popular core gamer board ResetEra recently started a poll on this very topic, and out of 1,283 voters, the majority (over 56%) believes day-one sales will be between 12 and 20 million units. However, Piper Sandler, an investment bank with […]

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Update 15/06/2026: A report from The Verge claims that Ninja Theory is being shut down by Xbox, and that the next-best hope for the studio's future would be for it to find another studio to acquire it. The report reiterates that Compulsion and Double-Fine remain in negotiations to spin-off as independents, though that is seemingly not an option for Ninja Theory. This comes a little more than a week after Ninja Theory revealed the next entry in its Hellblade series, Senua, a game that we may never get to play, if the studio is ultimately shuttered. Original Story: The scale […]

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Ever since Bloomberg's report that there would be layoffs at Xbox at the end of the month, the entire video game industry has been on high alert. Waiting in horror to see how bad the layoffs would be this time, with initial claims pointing to them being potentially as bad as when Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees at Xbox and shuttered Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin in 2024. Or perhaps even as bad as the layoffs last year, which cut 9,000 employees across Microsoft and also drastically impacted the Xbox division. Today, we're hearing more bad news that is starting […]

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Update 15/06/2026: Kotaku's report (linked below) has been updated to claim that leadership at Compulsion is "in negotiations" with Microsoft over the studio's fate, though any details and decisions have not been shared. Original Story: Shortly after a report from Bloomberg claimed Xbox was planning more mass layoffs for the end of June 2026, a report from The Verge added that those layoffs could also include studio closures. Now, a new claim from Mike Straw, a reporter at Insider-Gaming, adds that at least two of the studios concerned for their safety are Compulsion Games in Montreal, makers of last year's […]

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GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing 'a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++' with no emulation involved.

Today, publisher Perp Games and South Korean developer Project Cloud Games announced the release date of the Soulslike game The Relic: First Guardian. The game, previously planned for a 2025 launch, is now set to be available from July 31 on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5, with ports for Xbox Series S and X and Nintendo Switch 2 coming later in the Summer. PS5 will also get an exclusive retail version, though it'll only be available on September 4. The game takes place in Arsiltus, a once-peaceful world now overrun by a creeping blight that players must push back as […]

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A grease smear-induced optical disc reading quirk can save speedrunners lots of time in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom on Xbox.

During Summer Game Fest 2026, CI Games confirmed what we had already assumed when the publisher announced it had purchased back the publishing rights for Lords of the Fallen 2: it's no longer an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. Moreover, the studio also revealed that a Nintendo Switch 2 version is in the works and will be released later this year alongside the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X versions. Today, in the tenth episode of the Lifting the Veil videocast series, the developers provided a deep dive into the latest news and other aspects of […]

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The next-gen Xbox Helix is looking in trouble due to surging memory and storage costs that are forcing even a giant like Microsoft to bend down.

Summer Game Fest 2026 has come and gone, leaving us with two incredibly busy periods in the game release schedule: September-October 2026 and February-March 2027, which publishers big and small have identified in their not-so-disguised attempt to avoid a collision with Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI when it makes its debut on November 19, 2026. To fans of the roleplaying games genre, though, the recent flurry of game announcements has brought the near-certainty that next year will be memorable and perhaps unparalleled even in the future, thanks to the return of several beloved franchises/IPs and studios. Also, unlike recent years, […]

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In a totally unpredictable turn of events (sarcasm), one of the many games that was set to arrive in September 2026 will now try to avoid what has quickly become the most stacked month of the year and launch in October 2026 instead. Valor Mortis, the first-person melee action game from Ghostrunner makers One More Level, has pushed the game's release date from September 24 to October 13, 2026. The September date was revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase this past Sunday, though according to a report from Game File, by the time the trailer had aired, the developers already […]

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Hot off the heels of a new story trailer featuring the game's antagonist and a release date reveal, developer Playground Games has suddenly dropped a 30-minute gameplay demo for Fable. The demo takes players through the town of Silverbrook in the game's magical setting of Albion, and shows off a bit of how its morality and reputation system works based on your actions. The demo mostly shows what it's like when you're trying to develop a character with a reputation for kindness, though narrators William Kennedy and Craig Littler, both associate game directors on Fable, emphasize throughout the demo that […]

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Physical Steam gift cards will no longer be restocked at retail stores, though digital gifting options and existing cards will remain supported.

Either a dedicated jokester or a deranged fan has been posting advanced surveillance on Reddit in an attempt to predict the next GTA 6 trailer.

Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007.

A quirky tech enthusiast attempted to load Sega Genesis console games through a vinyl record player.

Valve Steam Machine summer release is now set in stone — company launch window and expands Verified program

The European Union's new directives for easily user-replaceable batteries will force Nintendo to update its Switch 2 console with a revised model. The law goes into effect from February 18, 2027, which means an updated Switch 2 that complies with these new regulations needs to come out before that deadline.

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ brought comfort and performance to Computex with massive prongs and Intel Arc G3 Extreme.