Asha Sharma, the recently installed chief executive officer of Microsoft Gaming and the new head of Xbox following Phil Spencer's retirement, has just teased the next-generation Xbox console in a post on her personal X (formerly Twitter) account, which we now know is codenamed Project Helix. Sharma shared the codename and what appears to be a new look for the Xbox logo, while also teasing that this new console will "lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games," confirming reports that the next generation of consoles from Xbox will bea hybrid between a PC and console, capable of […]

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Embark Studios' latest update for ARC Raiders isn't your bog-standard fixes or new content release. Instead, it's an update that the team rushed out the door this morning after a report from tech blogger and systems engineer Timothy Meadows pointed to an incident where two ARC Raiders players' private Discord DMs (direct messages) appeared in a game log file. Per Meadows report, the game's Discord SDK captured private messages between two users and a Discord Bearer token. It was a massive over-extension of the data that Embark collects through ARC Raiders' Discord SDK, an issue that is thankfully now fixed […]

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Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games' parent company, Take-Two Interactive, is also the owner of 2K, the massive publisher and developer behind several titles, though most notably the annual basketball series, NBA 2K. Today, Rockstar announced that it would be combining the two franchises, with players subscribed to GTA+, which grants special bonuses in-game Grand Theft Auto V, getting access to NBA 2K26 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles for a limited time starting next week. The latest installment in the annualized basketball franchise will be accessible to GTA+ subscribers on March 10, and the full game, on top […]

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After layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle just last week, the remainder of the team at EA's studio continues to work on updating the game with new content, the latest of which is Season 3: Fluid Flashback, which begins on March 10, 2026, and promises to bring skaters "back to skateboarding's first major era," which it describes as a time when "polyurethane wheels replaced clay and metal ones," and when the sport began to grow and evolve rapidly. That means elements of San Vansterdam will be taken back to the 1970s, "with vibrant colors and bold designs." Areas like Rolling […]

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Yesterday, the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the United States White House published a video promoting its ongoing strikes on Iran, which contained footage and UI elements from Microsoft and Activision's popular shooter franchise, Call of Duty. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran this past weekend, which recent reports estimate have resulted in 1,230 casualties. Amidst the responses to the video, which began with Call of Duty footage followed by real-life footage of the strikes, Chance Glasco, one of the original founders of Infinity Ward and developer on Call of Duty said that the video was […]

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VR developer and publisher nDreams, the studio behind VR titles like Reach, Vendetta Forever, Synapse, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, and more, have just announced "a significant reduction in overall staffing levels," resulting in the closure of two of its internal studios, Near Light and Compass studios. Confirmed in a statement on the company's LinkedIn page, the layoffs will impact studios across nDreams' suite of teams as the company gets restructured to put nDreams Elevation at its core, though only the aforementioned Near Light and Compass will be shuttered. Between the studios, 78 developers are impacted by the closures. […]

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Build a Rocket Boy, the studio co-founded by Mark Gerhard and Leslie Benzies, the latter of which was a long-time producer at Rockstar who worked on several Grand Theft Auto titles, has announced another round of mass layoffs after its debut project, MindsEye, was one of 2025's catastrophic disasters. In a statement posted to the studio's LinkedIn page, Gerhard calls the layoffs "a deeply painful decision," and that "letting colleagues go is never something any leader wants to do, and I know the impact this will have on individuals, families, and our wider community." That said, in the face of […]

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EA and Respawn are trying to bring the hammer down hard on cheaters in Apex Legends by making some changes in how it'll respond to players caught using devices like Strikepacks, Cronus, and XIM. If you are caught using any of those devices or devices like them, you will be permanently banned from Apex Legends. Moreover, Respawn has said that it "will not entertain appeals for leniency on accounts confirmed cheating." So if Respawn confirms that you've been cheating, you will have no recourse for getting back into the game, and just creating a new account will simply just restart […]

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has come out on top once again in his dispute with how platform holders dictate the relationship that developers have with their users. After starting disputes with both Apple and Google years ago, which initially took popular Epic Games titles like Fortnite off Android and iOS mobile platforms, Epic and Sweeney's dispute with Google has finally come to a close. To be clear, Fortnite has already made its return to iOS and Android when Epic was finally able to launch a mobile version of the Epic Games Store worldwide back in 2024 (though Australians had […]

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Ubisoft has provided a major update on what's coming next in the Assassin's Creed franchise as we near the one-year anniversary of its last major release, Assassin's Creed Shadows. Firstly, we can finally stop calling the Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake a 'rumoured' game, because Ubisoft has finally officially confirmed the remake to be on its way and that it is indeed titled 'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced,' which was the title that leaked in December 2025. In a blog post on the official Ubisoft website titled 'Assassin's Creed: Into 2026,' recently named head of AC content, Jean Guesdon, appears […]

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In a little more than two months, we'll be able to jump into IO Interactive's latest major game, 007 First Light. The storied Hitman developer taking on a James Bond story felt like a match made in heaven when it was first revealed all the way back in 2020. As we wait to find out if we were right about IO and James Bond being as good as peanut butter and chocolate, IO Interactive has just released a new deep-dive into the game, with the studio focusing in on its version of Bond and the cast of classic 007 characters. […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 really did a number on how players look at major upcoming games. Yes, it's now an incredibly successful RPG, but its launch is an event that no one will soon forget, and CD Projekt RED's blatant misdirection regarding how the game ran on last-gen consoles has made players incredibly weary of any big game that doesn't put console gameplay footage front and center, and now, Crimson Desert, one of the most anticipated titles of 2026, seems to be feeling the ripple effects from that launch. To be clear, we have seen footage of Crimson Desert running on consoles, […]

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After Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier initially pointed to PlayStation, "backing away from putting their traditional single-player games on PC" on a podcast, he's now published a longer report, which digs a bit deeper into the situation. Essentially, it seems Sony has decided to pivot its strategy of putting its more traditional single-player games on PC, shifting back to keeping them as PlayStation console exclusives. Now, both Ghost of Yotei and Saros won't make the jump to PC as a result. That means PC players who loved Returnal or Ghost of Tsushima on PC will have to buy a PS5 if […]

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Resident Evil Requiem is finally here, and you can join the 159K people currently playing it on Steam at the time of this writing if you want to. From everything we've seen and heard since its release at the end of last week, it's been a huge hit, and while thousands of players are still digging their way through it, plenty of players are already looking towards what's next. Which, if the rumors are true, will be a Leon-focused DLC. That's at least what reliable Resident Evil leaker, Dusk Golem, is pointing towards. In an extended thread on X (formerly […]

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Well, the moment we all felt was coming has finally arrived. Highguard, the maligned live service raid shooter from former Apex Legends developers at Wildlight Entertainment, is permanently shutting down next week, on March 12, 2026. When the servers go offline, it will have lasted for only 45 days between its January 26 launch and March 12. The news was announced via the game's official X (formerly Twitter) account, with a statement from the studio that begins by saying, "Today we're sharing difficult news. We have made the decision to permanently shut down Highguard on March 12." It continues to […]

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Bandai Namco has dropped a curious teaser on X (formerly Twitter) announcing that it'll be revealing "a new RPG" later this week on March 5, at 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm BT. The post is also accompanied with a short video that includes an T for Teen ESRB rating, a shot of a forest with a tower in the distance that reaches into the sky, followed by a character walking with a sword and shield on their back. At that point, the teaser cuts, showing gold text that reads "New RPG reveal" with the March 5th date and […]

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On top of the two Fallout TV series adaptations, the upcoming God of War TV series, the Mass Effect series, and the Wolfenstein series that Amazon has in the works, in September 2025, it confirmed that it is working on a Life is Strange TV series adaptation. The show is set to be written and led by Kaos writer, Charlie Covell, and today, in a new report from Variety, we learned who Amazon has tapped for the show's two lead roles, Max and Chloe. In the case of both casting choices, Amazon and Covell have opted to go for two […]

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Bungie's upcoming first-person extraction shooter, Marathon, is just coming off of its open preview Server Slam, which gave players on PS5 and PC a chance to jump in and try the game themselves for free before it arrives on the aforementioned platforms later this week on March 5, 2026. The preview weekend gave players an opportunity to provide Bungie with a lot of feedback, some of which the studio has already been able to address with fixes that were applied during the server slam, while other issues will continue to be investigated and tweaked post-launch. One thing that's also come […]

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Nintendo hosted its first Indie World Showcase of 2026 and the fourth Nintendo Direct event of the year this morning, with an 18-minute presentation chock-full of indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. While the showcase lacked some of the heavy-hitter reveals we guessed at after Nintendo announced the showcase yesterday, like the release date reveal for Hollow Knight Silksong: Sea of Sorrows DLC or a Vampire Crawlers release date, it wasn't without its big indie announcements. One of the most notable announcements (and the one that closed out the show) was the reveal that Blue Prince […]

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After teasing its arrival in a post on X (formerly Twitter), an Xbox Wire blog post confirms that Cyberpunk 2077 will headline the new batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first wave of games joining Microsoft's gaming subscription service for March 2026. It's the second CD Projekt RED title to arrive on the service within the last two weeks, after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrived on February 19, 2026. However, just like The Witcher 3's arrival, the catch here is that it'll only be available to console players, so if you're a PC player who […]

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The Wolf Among Us 2 has been missing for so long that it's started to reach mythical levels of 'games in development hell.' It's been nearly a decade since it was first revealed, and in that time, a lot has happened. Now, a new rumour points to the game's development having been restarted for (at least) a second time, and that it's being co-developed with an unnamed studio in Argentina. It claims that it'll be ready by 2027, and that we may even get a remaster of The Wolf Among Us to go along with it. Firstly, a reminder of […]

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Before Call of Duty: Warzone established itself as one of the most popular battle royale games ever when it arrived in 2020, Call of Duty's first brush with battle royale came in 2018's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 with its Blackout mode. Today, Activision revealed that it is bringing Blackout back - sort of. Black Ops Royale is a new, "Blackout-inspired" battle royale mode that is getting added to Call of Duty Warzone, and just like Warzone, it will be free for players to jump in. The new mode arrives next week on March 13, 2026, and brings back […]

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Resident Evil Requiem arrived on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 just days ago from the time of this writing. It's practically an understatement to say that it's been a massive hit, with critics (including Wccftech's Nathan Birch) and fans alike loving the ninth mainline entry in the horror series, with over 340K players jumping into it on Steam alone right when it launched this past Friday. While Capcom hasn't shared any sales figures at the time of this writing, if you needed another sign pointing to how much of a hit Requiem has been, a quick […]

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Digital Extremes has revealed that the next major free update for Warframe titled "The Shadowgrapher" will arrive later this month on March 25, 2026. Which, is also the same day that Warframe will make its debut on another platform, following its arrival on Android devices last month. The official Nintendo Switch 2 version of Warframe will launch alongside the Shadowgrapher update on March 25. The news was revealed in the studio's latest DevStream with its 193rd installment, teasing a bit of what's to come in the Shadowgrapher, and showing off the game's 64th playable Warframe, Follie, along with her abilities […]

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While one of this week's upcoming showcases was taken off the calendar today, another has been added. Nintendo announced it will host an Indie World Showcase Direct tomorrow, March 3, 2026, at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BT. The showcase will be roughly 15 minutes long and provide updates on upcoming indie games heading to the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, and it is the first Indie World event since the last one took place on August 7, 2025. Last time, we were told not to expect Hollow Knight Silksong news, since the game's release date had […]

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