Ubisoft has just reported its third-quarter financial results for its 2025 fiscal year, which covers the last three months of 2025, ending right at the end of the year on December 31, 2025. This is an important distinction to make, only because these results do not include all of the layoffs and restructuring that happened at the start of this year when the company announced its "major reset." This means that Ubisoft went forward with its plan to reorganize the entire structure of the company and layoff hundreds of workers across multiple of its global branches and its own headquarters […]

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Three years ago this coming April, Wccftech's Alessio Palumbo caught up with Kwalee Labs (formerly Bonsai Collective) to talk about their debut game, Luna Abyss. A UK-based game studio co-founded by Harry Corr, Benni Hill, and former Team17 producer, Hollie Emery, they started working together in 2019, setting out to create what would become a story-driven, first-person bullet-hell shooter (FPBHS) set in a dystopian world where you play as Fawkes, a prisoner stuck not just in the dreary prison of Luna, but in the middle of a mysterious prophecy. While we still don't have an exact release date, back in […]

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While 1,200 Ubisoft employees are on strike this week in response to the company's recent "major reset," yet another piece of evidence regarding the heavily rumoured Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag remaster has appeared online. Spotted by IGN, an Amazon UK listing for an Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Remastered art book is up and available for pre-orders. It also, interestingly, has a March 24, 2026, release date attached to it. What makes the art book seem legit, beyond the fact that Ubisoft is listed as the book's author, is that Titan, the publisher behind several Assassin's Creed artbooks, is […]

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After a bombastic launch that saw Battlefield 6 become the best-selling shooter of 2025 and the best-selling game in the US overall in 2025, enthusiasm waned around EA's successful Call of Duty-killer as the assembled team of developers known as Battlefield Studios was unable to keep up with players' thirst for new content. It went from a game that had a chance of cracking 1 million concurrent players on Steam alone to one that has been struggling to hit 100K concurrent players. Thankfully, though, after an unwelcome delay, EA and Battlefield Studios may finally start to have better luck, as […]

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Nexon has just reported its fourth-quarter 2025 financials, and, unsurprisingly, the company recorded "record-high Q4 and full-year revenue." The thing that makes it no surprise is the fact that Nexon is the parent company of Embark Studios, the team behind the hottest new extraction shooter, ARC Raiders. Which we now know has officially sold 14 million copies since it launched in October 2025. This official sales update comes after a recent report that ARC Raiders was the top-selling game across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation for a third consecutive month. It also means that the game sold just under 2M copies […]

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As GeForce NOW continues to celebrate its sixth anniversary, NVIDIA's cloud gaming platform is arriving on more platforms to turn "every screen into a gaming machine." The GeForce NOW app is officially live on Amazon Fire TV devices, and eight games join the cloud gaming library. Including Warhorse Studio's medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and REANIMAL, the latest release from the original team behind the Little Nightmares games, Tarsier Studios. The news comes as part of yet another GFN Thursday, with a Capcom-dominated batch of games entering the cloud streaming service this week. Half of the eight games joining the […]

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Blizzard Entertainment hosted its final spotlight announcement in its flurry of spotlight showcases over the past two weeks with the Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight, a peek into everything coming to the Diablo franchise in the coming milestone year. Like previous spotlights for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone, plenty was left off today's agenda to be revealed at BlizzCon 2026. But we now know of one major element that's coming to Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo II: Resurrected: Warlocks. The Warlock class is being added to all three aforementioned titles, the most significant of which perhaps is its inclusion […]

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It's happened again. Highguard, the latest free-to-play live service first-person shooter to enter the fray, this time from developer Wildlight Entertainment, a team made up of former Apex Legends and Titanfall 2 developers, launched just two weeks ago on January 26, 2026. Today, February 11, 2026, a little more than two weeks since launch, the studio confirmed it had a round of layoffs. Individual developers across multiple branches, including principal and senior members of staff, shared the news on their LinkedIn accounts before the studio made a statement of its own on the official Wildlight Entertainment X (formerly Twitter) account. […]

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CI Games is getting ready to release its third Lords of the Fallen game with Lords of the Fallen 2, sometime later this year, which we last got a look at during The Game Awards 2025 with a new gameplay trailer. Outside of CI Games' chief executive officer, Marek Tyminski, promising that this fantasy action game won't be "politically correct" and that it will feature female characters in revealing armour, in a new developer deep-dive, game director James Lowe promises that the combat will be "bolder, braver, bloodier." A quick rundown on the series, if you're confused as to why […]

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For the second year in a row, Xbox has revealed the games awarded with its signature stamp of excellence in the Xbox Excellence Awards. The awards list 20 titles in four categories, though several of them are repeats, which means only 55 individual titles have made the cut this year. Of those 55, included are titles like ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, Helldivers 2, and Hollow Knight Silksong, all of which made the cut as some of the best-selling games on the Xbox platform in 2025. The games are listed alphabetically in the Xbox Wire post announcing the winners, so we […]

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We have another film adaptation of a video game to look forward to, and it's once again another PlayStation franchise to add to the list of adaptations under the belt of Sony and PlayStation Productions. This time, it's Fast & Furious director Justin Lin taking on an adaptation of Arrowhead Games' Helldivers, with Dune's Duncan Idaho, Jason Momoa, starring in the film. The news comes from a report from Deadline, which adds that the film will premiere next year, on November 10, 2027, with Lin's Perfect Storm Entertainment and PlayStation Productions producing the film. Other adaptations, whether they're set to […]

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ARC Raiders wouldn't be an extraction shooter if Embark Studios didn't have people asking you to bring stuff back from your trips Topside. That's why there are plenty of quests you'll be asked to complete for each of the traders featured. Though the actual tasks these quests require you to complete are relatively simple, they're not always simple to complete. Besides avoiding other players and ARCs to make it to your destination, if you're not thorough, you run the risk of needing multiple visits Topside just to get one objective completed. This guide will run you through how to complete […]

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At the start of 2026, Ubisoft didn't just announce layoffs at one of its studios (which is how it started 2025). It announced a "major reset," which included layoffs at multiple studios, the shuttering of Ubisoft Halifax, the cancellation of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, and significant changes to its operating structure, alongside some unpopular new policies like a return-to-office mandate. The response to these changes has not exactly been positive, both internally within Ubisoft and externally across the industry. On the stock market, the announcement of the restructure saw the company's stock price drop 34%, which […]

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Arkheron, the interesting and ambitious blend between Diablo, PUBG, and Dark Souls from Bonfire Studios, which we first got a look at last September. It will have its first public playtest via the launch of a brand new demo arriving on February 20, 2026, just ahead of the first Steam Next Fest of 2026, which will officially kick off three days later on February 23. The news of the new demo also came along with a new trailer, where Bonfire Studios takes players through some of its plans for Arkheron as the team gets closer to launch, and some of […]

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MercurySteam, the developer behind the critically acclaimed 2D action game, Metroid Dread, followed up its beloved Nintendo-exclusive outing with something completely different last year. Blades of Fire was a new 3D action-adventure game that saw you take the role of Aran de Lira, the last blacksmith capable of wielding and forging true steel, who is tasked with killing the Queen to save humanity. When it launched in May 2025, Wccftech's Francesco De Meo reviewed it, and despite it lacking in originality with its fantasy setting and narrative, he praised the weapon variety and forging mechanics, giving it an 8.5/10. A […]

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Warframe, the popular free-to-play action RPG from Canadian developer Digital Extremes (that's also the MMO model that other MMO developers should be looking to), is rounding out its list of available platforms by finally arriving on Android mobile devices today. That said, it's a Canada-exclusive release today, and for the coming week, before it arrives on Android devices globally on February 18, 2026. With Warframe being one of the most successful live-service titles to come out of Canada that's currently active, this first week of exclusivity is a way for Digital Extremes to prioritize its Canadian players and give them […]

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This coming Thursday, February 12, 2026, is when Sony and PlayStation will host the first State of Play event of 2026. It is set to air at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BT, and we now know that it's not the only showcase event of the evening. Konami has revealed that it will host a Silent Hill Transmission event that same night, featuring news about what's next for the Silent Hill franchise, including Silent Hill: Townfall. And it'll kick off approximately an hour after the State of Play ends. The news was announced in a short post on […]

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Last week, Blizzard Entertainment hosted the second of its flurry of showcases to kick off 2026 with an Overwatch Spotlight, digging into the future of the game and everything players can expect for the coming year. Outside of the official name change back to just 'Overwatch,' we got a look at everything coming in Season 1: Reign of Talon, which has officially gone live. The showcase clearly reinvigorated the Overwatch community, because not only did the game have its "biggest weekend by player count in over a year," according to a press release after the showcase, but the launch of […]

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The number of wishlists a game has is never a one-to-one for how many copies it'll see when it finally releases, but you can't say those wishlists count for nothing, especially when there are millions of them, which is exactly what Subnautica 2, Forza Horizon 6, and Resident Evil Requiem have on Steam. Instead of its usual sales reporting, analyst firm Alinea Analytics' latest report digs into which upcoming titles have the most wishlists on Steam. Now, it's worth noting that the report clarifies that Valve's own ranking for the 'Top Wishlists' games on Steam also accounts for how quickly […]

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Later this week, Sony is set to host its first State of Play event of 2026. This hour-long showcase will include several announcements we could guess at, and many we won't be able to, but a new report from Billbil-kun at Dealabs has pretty much cemented one of the announcements that we'll see at Thursday's show (if we don't see it tomorrow): the games entering the PS Plus Extra Catalog for February 2026. Which, according to the report, will be headlined by Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The first of Insomniac's Spider-Man titles, Marvel's Spider-Man (the remastered variant, that is), entered the […]

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Supermassive Games, the studio you'll recognize as the team behind games like Until Dawn and The Quarry, has announced the release date for their next narrative-driven horror adventure, Directive 8020. This new sci-fi entry in Supermassive's Dark Pictures anthology will arrive on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S this coming May 12, 2026. The news was announced with a new release date trailer, which also ushered in the launch of pre-orders going live on both PS5 and Xbox Series. Pre-orders for the game on Steam will go live "soon" according to the video description, so just keep an eye on […]

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Update 11/02/2026: Following the publication of this article, it's been discovered that the ESRB rating for Resident Evil 5 identified in this article is not brand new, and is in fact a year old, dating back to February 2025. You can see the initial post through the Internet Archive. That said, the ESRB rating being old doesn't mean we can throw out any idea of an RE5 Remake. Besides the fact that Capcom has made its plans clear to continue remaking the RE games, it's unlikely that a new ESRB rating would be referring to the backwards compatible versions of […]

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Monster Hunter Wilds will be getting a "large-scale expansion" later this year, with Capcom set to reveal the expansion at some point in Summer 2026, the company confirmed today in its update regarding what's coming to the game in February 2026. After digging into what players can look forward to in Monster Hunter Wilds' new update, which is set to be out on February 18, 2026, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto concluded by looking ahead to what's next for Wilds as we move deeper into the year. "Now, I'd like to talk about what's next for Monster Hunter Wilds," Tsujimoto began. "We […]

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