It's been twelve and a half years since Irrational Games launched BioShock Infinite, the last installment in the immersive single player first-person shooter franchise. Franchise creator Ken Levine notoriously decided to disband the studio and form the much smaller Ghost Story Games, which is now working on Judas. Levine recently stated that Judas shares some similarities with the BioShock franchise, but it is also different in many ways. Meanwhile, Take-Two's publishing label 2K announced in late 2019 that a brand new studio called Cloud Chamber, headquartered in Novato, California, would take stewardship of the BioShock IP. Cloud Chamber had its […]

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A few hours ago, Rockstar Games announced the second GTA VI delay. Originally slated to launch in Fall 2025, the game was moved to May 26, 2026 on May 2, 2025. However, the studio has now requested more time to polish the game, which will launch on November 19, 2026. The news came just before Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, announced its Q2 2026 financial results. Predictably, investors questioned Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick on the matter during the earnings call; the executive stated that this new GTA VI delay will allow Rockstar not only to surpass but also to exceed the […]

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It's not often that a developer comes out to publicly criticize another's work, and yet that is precisely what Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Game Director Daniel Vávra did yesterday via his X account. The game he targeted was Obsidian's latest roleplaying game, The Outer Worlds 2, which he scored 7 out of 10. Arguably, the most scathing bit was that, even with 'Microsoft's money' (Obsidian was acquired in November 2018 by Microsoft, alongside inXile), they haven't managed to innovate in the last fifteen years following the release of Fallout: New Vegas, which Vávra ranks among his favorite games. Here's the […]

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On the first GeForce NOW media blast of the month, NVIDIA has outlined the planned roadmap of PC games that will be added to the cloud gaming service throughout November 2025. Chief among them is, without a doubt, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The game developed by Treyarch Software will be available from day one via GeForce NOW. Granted, its PC specifications are definitely not too demanding, and playing a competitive first-person shooter isn't something I would advise even with the latest upgrades brought by the new RTX 5080-class servers, but having the option is always nice. Other highlights […]

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Throughout its 21 years on the market, World of Warcraft has often been subject to rumors that it would be ported to consoles. A couple of years ago, for the first time, franchise VP Holly Longdale admitted they had been talking to Microsoft about the possibility following the former company's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. However, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas has now denied fan theories that some of the accessibility changes coming with the next expansion, Midnight, are geared toward eventually porting the MMORPG to consoles. Answering a question from Jez Corden on the Unshackled Fury podcast, Hazzikostas […]

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Last week, Rockstar fired between thirty and forty GTA developers across its offices in Canada and the United Kingdom, triggering accusations by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) that the game studio sought to prevent their attempt to unionize. The IWGB claimed that all those developers were working to that end, and vowed to defend their rights through 'every legal claim possible'. Initially, Rockstar Games only stated that they had been fired due to a rather generic 'gross misconduct'. Now, though, Bloomberg has received a more detailed statement from a company spokesperson. The GTA and Red Dead Redemption […]

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A few years ago, NetEase Games helped fund several game development studios based in Western countries and Japan. Over the last year, though, many of those were abruptly shut down in the middle of developing those projects that NetEase had expressed interest in the first place. This includes Worlds Untold (spearheaded by a Mass Effect writer, who was working with his team on a sci-fi action/adventure game), Jar of Sparks (founded by former Halo Infinite developers), Ouka Studios (the only one to actually release their game, Visions of Mana, before being shut down), and more recently T-Minus Zero Entertainment and […]

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As usual following a new Nintendo quarterly report, President Shuntaro Furukawa and 'Fellow' Shigeru Miyamoto (the man behind Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, and other Nintendo classics) answered a series of questions fielded in Japanese by investors. When asked about the company's growing efforts in film and visual media, Shuntaro Furukawa said that movies are 'very well-suited' to Nintendo games. Following the success of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," I feel that film and visual media are a form of entertainment very well-suited to our games, and we can make unique proposals in this area as Nintendo. As stated in the […]

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Today, Blizzard announced that tickets for BlizzCon 2026 will go on sale on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 9 AM Pacific Time through Sunday, November 9, at midnight Pacific Time. These will be 'Early Bird' tickets available for $249.99 (a price that includes all taxes and fees) while supplies last. The organizers also confirmed that the maximum number of purchasable passes per account has been increased from two to four. The second wave of tickets will go on sale starting Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9 AM Pacific Time, for $289.99. A ticket grants two-day weekend admission to BlizzCon 2026 […]

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While the Baldur's Gate 3 modding scene might not be quite as thriving as that of a Bethesda game like Skyrim, there are still a couple of major projects to follow, such as the Path to Menzoberranzan mod. Modder Lotrich, with the help of over 1,300 Patreon supporters, has established a team of more than 130 contributors. According to a project update shared this week on the Path to Menzoberranzan Discord channel, the team operates under a centralized structure. There is a group of project directors for each branch of development, and each project director is assisted by leads (coordinators) […]

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Following Nintendo's excellent quarterly and half-year results, President Shuntaro Furukawa shared a 61-page document with investors detailing the Japanese game and console manufacturer's strategy going forward. Nintendo is mainly focused on keeping the momentum after the launch of the Switch 2 with a schedule filled with first-party releases, such as Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (which we just reviewed), Kirby Air Riders, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, Mario Tennis Fever, Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park, Yoshi and the […]

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This morning, the official Nintendo Store app launched on the App Store and Google Play. The app allows Nintendo fans to browse Nintendo systems, accessories, games, and merchandise. Chief among the potential use cases is the ability to shop on the My Nintendo Store, browsing Nintendo Switch systems and accessories, physical and digital games, and other Nintendo products. Players can also use the Nintendo Store app to stay up-to-date with the latest news on Nintendo games and events, as well as receive notifications about sales. The app allows users to enable push notifications, alerting them when items on their wish […]

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Epic Games and Google have announced they have reached a settlement on their longstanding legal feud, which began in August 2020 and was filed at the same time as Epic's lawsuit against Apple. The Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker challenged both mobile giants for their monopolistic practices and scored a complete victory against Google in December 2023, which was subsequently upheld in appeals. Earlier this month, Google even appealed to the Supreme Court, but with no avail. A few hours ago, Google's President of the Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, wrote on X that a proposed set of changes, devised in […]

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Hideo Kojima attended Lucca Comics 2025 this past weekend and was featured in a special panel with two actors from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Luca Marinelli (who played Neil Vana) and Alissa Jung (who played Lucy). A lot of the panel focused on the experience of working on the game, including having to shoot remotely during the pandemic. However, Kojima also shared that he makes games partly with the hope of giving people the energy to live on and be happy. I grew up watching movies or reading books. When you're a child, you feel so dark about […]

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Today, NVIDIA has released a new Game Ready driver (version 581.80) for its GeForce graphics cards. This one is optimized for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, by far the biggest release scheduled this month. The game will launch on November 14, with Activision finding itself in a bit of a pinch following the releases of two highly successful shooters: Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders. The new Game Ready driver is also optimized for Europa Universalis V, the latest entry (following a hiatus of twelve years) in Paradox Interactive's premier grand strategy game. Europa Universalis V is out today on […]

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Following a successful final beta event, Embark's ARC Raiders launched to excellent initial figures, easily surpassing the concurrent user peak reached by the studio's previous game, The Finals, which is even more impressive given that the latter is a free-to-play game, whereas the former is not. This past weekend, the third-person PvPvE extraction shooter even surpassed that peak, settling around 354K concurrent players two days ago, an absolutely respectable figure that currently places the game at the 38th spot in Steam's all-time chart. What really matters to game developers is sales, though, and there's good news on that front, too. […]

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Obsidian announced that the cRPG Pillars of Eternity will receive the fan-requested turn-based mode tomorrow. It will be a public beta going live on Steam and the Xbox PC app. As you already know if you played the game, Pillars of Eternity is currently available only as a real-time with pause (RTwP) game, whereas its sequel, Deadfire, eventually introduced an optional turn-based mode. Fans had long requested this option in the first installment, and now Obsidian is delivering. The announcement came directly from Josh Sawyer, the project director (also known for Fallout: New Vegas and, more recently, Pentiment), who said: […]

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Two NetEase-funded companies founded by MMO veterans, T-Minus Zero Entertainment and Fantastic Pixel Castle, shared the fate of losing NetEase's support, just like many other studios. Both have scrambled to find alternate publishers and ways to stay alive, and now, they have two announcements - one of hope and another of (almost) defeat. T-Minus Zero announced in a press release that a small group of veteran directors and founders has decided to acquire the studio name to carry the team's spirit forward, and they are relaunching as an independent production company. The studio now aims to create high-quality gaming experiences […]

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This morning, Nintendo reported its quarterly and half-year results for 2025, covering the period from April to September, and revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 is already outselling its predecessor. As of September 30, the new hybrid handheld console has sold 10.36 million units, significantly outpacing the original Switch (which took about ten months to sell a similar amount of units). When it comes to Nintendo Switch 2 software sales, they have reached 20.62 million units, meaning that there's an average of nearly two Switch 2 games per unit. Mario Kart World, the big launch exclusive, predictably secured the lion's […]

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Bill Roper, a Blizzard veteran who worked on the first games in the Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo franchises in various capacities (producer, design, voice-over, etc.), has announced that his studio has secured funding for Innsmouth Mysteries. The studio, Lunacy Games, was actually supposed to produce Hellgate: Redemption, a sequel to Hellgate: London, a cult classic Diablo-like game that Roper created after departing from Blizzard, and a game called Skinwalkers, which would merge the Weird West and Cthulhu settings, with players acting as cowboys. However, speaking to GamesBeat, Roper said the studio couldn't find anyone who would fund this project, which […]

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Just Cause creator Cristofer Sundberg left Avalanche Studios, which he had co-founded, in late 2020 to create his own company, Liquid Swords. The studio is working on a GTA-like open world game that was first shown to the world last year. Recently, it has shared around ten seconds of new in-game footage to keep players intrigued about the untitled project. However, a few hours ago, Sundberg returned to the topic of Just Cause. In a series of tweets published on X, he stated that it is unlikely we'll see a fifth mainline installment from Avalanche Studios. Me and my team […]

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So far, GTA London 1969 remains the only installment in the franchise to take place outside of the United States. Fans have long wondered if Rockstar would ever return to London or perhaps even bring the series elsewhere in the world. However, based on the statement relayed by Dan Houser (who wrote all the games in the series save for the upcoming sixth), that seems unlikely. Speaking to the Lex Fridman podcast, he explained that the franchise is intrinsically linked to American culture. We made a little thing in London 26 years ago, GTA London, for the top-down for the […]

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GTA creator Dan Houser, a co-founder of Rockstar Games, famously left the company in early 2020 after a twenty-two-year career. The following year, he founded a new company called Absurd Ventures, which has so far released a podcast series, a graphic novel, and a novel, with games also in development. Houser, who wrote all Rockstar videogames from GTA London: 1969 to Red Dead Redemption 2, was recently featured in a massive, nearly three-hour-long video interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. As you'd imagine with such a lengthy conversation, it spanned a myriad of topics, from games to films to the […]

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The Skywind team has released a new teaser for Halloween 2025. In the footage, which runs for nearly four minutes, we get a glimpse at the spooky side of Vvardenfell, such as skeletons, ghosts, and demons, or more accurately, Daedra and followers of the Daedric princes. The teaser is narrated by the following voice actors: Dom “Hentus” Tromans, Harry Frost, Anna Pluta, Kit Cambridge, James Cattle, Sara Dunham, CommanderXander, MoonWorks, Ryan Cooper, Argyle, and LacunaFish. However, do note that the voiced lines were created specifically for this teaser and will not be found in the game. Skywind, a fan-made remake […]

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The Fortnite X The Simpsons crossover is now live, bringing the game to Chapter 6, Season 5. Battle Royale players will find themselves dropping into Springfield Island, which according to the developers will provide a fast-paced experience that returns the game to basics. As usual with a new season, each week will introduce new Simpsons-themed gameplay additions and, of course, cosmetics to purchase in the shop. Each week, the map updates will be previewed through original animated shorts The Simpsons shorts, which have been co-produced by Gracie Films and Epic Games. The first one is already live; you can find […]

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Grand Theft Auto (GTA) developer Rockstar Games has been mostly exempt from the rounds of layoffs that have rocked the industry throughout the last three years or so. This week, they have fired between 30 and 40 employees across offices in the United Kingdom and Canada, but not due to financial problems (which they do not have). According to the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB), this has been an act of 'union busting', as all the developers fired were attempting to unionize. Alex Marshall, president of the IWGB, said in a statement: Rockstar has just carried out the […]

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