In the final week of September, a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that Electronic Arts (EA) was going private in a massive $50 billion buyout, with the major investors being Silver Lake, a private equity company run by Jared Kushner, and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), among others. A few days later, the news would be confirmed, with EA officially announcing it had agreed to be acquired by this 'Consortium' of investors for $55 billion, and the video game industry has had endless questions ever since. Questions about the $20 billion of debt that EA takes […]

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It will be years before we are close to even the release date for the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Project Orion, but that hasn't stopped people from asking CD Projekt RED and anyone connected to the series about it. We know the game is in pre-production, and that it'll feature a kind of "Chicago gone wrong" setting, and as of September, we know that Hollywood star Keanu Reeves would "absolutely" love to find a way back to the series to reprise his role as Johnny Silverhand. Well, according to series creator Mike Pondsmith in a recent anniversary live stream that […]

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's game director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has been clear about a few things in 2025: that development on Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 is "coming along really well," and that Clair Obsucr: Expedition 33 is an excellent game. It's his pick for Game of the Year, and in an interview with GamesRadar, he's gone a step further to say that he "would love" to make a game at the scope and scale of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The comment came up when Hamaguchi was discussing how with triple-A development, there's so much that goes into a game […]

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At the beginning of last month, GamesRadar revealed the nominees for its 2025 Golden Joysticks Awards, though one category, the Ultimate Game of the Year Award, was left out of the list. As of today, the shortlist for the most significant Golden Joysticks Award has been revealed, and it is stacked with games from independent developers making up most of the list, including Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, and Peak. It's the first major awards event to reveal a Game of the Year list, and while it has 12 games listed in total, which is more than you'd see […]

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Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated part two of the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, is arriving in theatres on November 21, 2025, and there is reportedly a very good Mario-themed reason to go see it. According to X (formerly Twitter) user My Time to Shine, which has a reputation for publishing scoops within the movie world, the first proper trailer for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be shown at screenings of Wicked: For Good. "The Mario Galaxy trailer will be attached to Wicked For Good meaning it will release online before November 21st," My Time to […]

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Four years after the last Hyrule Warriors release, Omega Force, the studio behind Age of Calamity within Koei Tecmo, is set to release Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 later this week on November 6, 2025. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment sets players in the Imprisoning War, the events of which would lead to the story that unfolds in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Princess Zelda fights alongside King Rauru and the legendary Sages, each with unique fighting styles that players can utilize in this musou-style game. The latest trailer showcases a bit […]

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Following the reveal of Halo: Campaign Evolved, which confirmed that the longtime Xbox-exclusive series would be coming to PlayStation, GameStop posted a lengthy statement about it being the end of the console wars. The White House, of all entities, responded with an AI-generated photo of Donald Trump in Spartan armor, as if to depict him as the protagonist in Halo, Master Chief. Shortly after that, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used more Halo imagery to promote its own political agenda, and has even followed it up with a similar post co-opting Lord of the Rings. And the DHS […]

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Embark Studios just released its second major title, ARC Raiders, which launched yesterday and made quite the splash, achieving over 250K concurrent players on Steam, making it the biggest launch for an extraction shooter on the platform, and it also surpassed Embark's other major title, The Finals, for its concurrent launch numbers on Steam. Keeping up with the pace of modern-day live service games, Embark Studios has no intention of slowing down and followed up yesterday's stellar launch with the reveal of the game's roadmap for the remainder of 2025. There are no specific release dates around when the next […]

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It's Halloween at the time of this writing, which means it's the perfect day to turn off the lights and play a horror game, whether that's something new like Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill f, or a classic like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, and Alien: Isolation. Developer Broken Mirror Games and publisher Skybound Games' upcoming isometric 80s-themed horror adventure was unfortunately never going to be an option this Halloween, as it was due to come out on November 7, 2025, but now it won't even be coming out this year. A new story trailer released today […]

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Panic Stations is a new game developer formed by former Mediatonic developers who worked on the popular competitive multiplayer title, Fall Guys. The studio announced itself with a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) account in a video filled with cartoon pigeons. Joe Walsh, a game designer at Panic Stations, provides the voice over for the first pigeon you see, beginning the video by saying, "Games should be funnier and they should be stupider. Here at Panic Stations, we're going to fix that." The team is currently working on its debut game, which it says is "not about pigeons" […]

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A new report from The Game Business, backed by GSD data shows that for last week's EU video game sales (October 19-26), Battlefield 6 has taken back the top spot after Pokémon Legends Z-A had it for its launch week. Legends Z-A drops to third, with EA Sports FC 26 keeping its top-three spot on both the units sold and revenue earned sales charts. After Pokémon Legends Z-A took the top spot for its launch week, with Battlefield 6 in second and EA Sports FC 26 in third, Battlefield 6 is back on top with EA Sports FC 26 in […]

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