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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At the time of this writing, Heart Machine, the studio behind games like Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, and more recently, Hyper Light Breaker, is less than two weeks from releasing its next game, Possessor(s). It's also reportedly just had its second wave of layoffs in less than a month. Spotted by Game Developer, after the studio confirmed a wave of layoffs at the beginning of October, along with halting further development on Hyper Light Breaker, more former developers from Heart Machine have taken to social media to confirm that they've been laid off in a second wave this month. […]

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Update 30/10/2025: It's official, ARC Raiders' launch on Steam is bigger than The Finals, as it reaches 243,386 concurrent players on Steam. Original Story: Embark Studios' third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders, is now live and available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S and, at least on Steam, we know that the game is having a massive launch. It's even on track to surpass what The Finals accomplished in 2024, as ARC Raiders has over 200K concurrent players on Steam at the time of this writing. Per SteamDB, an hour after it went live, it had reached 140K concurrent players […]

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launched late this summer on August 28, 2025, on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, without its announced multiplayer mode, Fox Hunt. We learned a little before Snake Eater's release that Fox Hunt would not arrive alongside the rest of the game, and now that day is finally here, marked with a new gameplay trailer showcasing the mode. The PvP stealth-action mode leans on all the stealth mechanics in the core Snake Eater campaign, and challenges players to make use of everything in Snake's toolbox as they try to be the sneakiest Fox Unit […]

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While EA is all-in on Battlefield 6 right now after it had a massive launch at the beginning of October and earlier this week launched its battle royale mode, Battlefield REDSEC, Respawn is still chugging away at Apex Legends, with its 27th season set to arrive next week, titled 'Amped.' The new season arrives with a refresh to one of the game's more popular maps, Olympus, and buffs for a few Legends, specifically Valkyrie, Rampart, and Horizon. This season also adds new mechanics that'll make the game even faster than it already is, with a new mantle boost giving players […]

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Amidst a massive layoff at Amazon, which cut 14,000+ employees and killed further development of New World: Aeternum, has also reportedly killed (for a second time) the Lord of the Rings MMO that was in production at Amazon Game Studios. Spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, a now former Amazon Game Studios senior gameplay engineer, Ashleigh Amrine, confirmed in a post on her personal LinkedIn page that the "fledgling Lord of the Rings game" was part of the cuts at Amazon. "This morning I was part of layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our […]

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ARC Raiders is out today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S consoles, but more importantly for PC players, Embark Studios' latest arrives with support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation and NVIDIA Reflex. Furthermore, if you have an RTX 50 Series graphics card in your PC, then you'll be able to multiply the frame rates you see in ARC Raiders by an average of 3.6X, even when playing at 4K. According to NVIDIA, when playing ARC Raiders on an RTX 50 Series card, with DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation while also using DLSS Super Resolution, you can "multiply […]

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Today, Nintendo announced that its second-best-selling Nintendo Switch game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 version, with graphical updates and features that take advantage of the Switch 2 and its improved hardware. Today's Animal Crossing news isn't just for Nintendo Switch 2 players; a new 3.0 title update is also on its way, which will be available to players on both Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. The new Switch 2 version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons leans on the updated hardware for several updates, each shown off in a new trailer, which also goes over the […]

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Developer and publisher DON'T NOD has published its latest financial release which goes over its half-year results for 2025, which includes a few notable updates from the studio, like how its most recent release, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage performed "below expectations," and that the studio signed a deal with Netflix to make a narrative game based on "a major IP." It's definitely a disappointing result for DON'T NOD, particularly considering the fact that its last major releases last year, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Jusant, also fell below expectations. The studio's total operating revenue took a 5% dip […]

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A new report from GamesIndustry.Biz, based on data provided by Alinea Analytics, shows that in the lead-up to launch, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 trails "far behind" the numbers that Battlefield 6 was able to pull. Setting the parameters here: this is based on data from Steam pre-order sales for Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, 18 days ahead of their respective launches. Within that 18-day lead-up period, Battlefield 6 was able to sell close to a million copies in pre-orders. Black Ops 7 has only managed 200K pre-order copies sold. These numbers start to look […]

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Pathea Games, the studio known for games like My Time at Portia, My Time at Sandrock, and the upcoming My Time at Evershine has just shadow-dropped something you'd be more likely to expect from Velan Studios after its game Knockout City, or even Psyonix as a spin-off from Rocket League with Superball, a new free-to-play 3v3 arcade hero football game that's out now on PC and Xbox Series X/S. Announced during the ID@Xbox and IGN Showcase, Superball is described as a mash between Rocket League, something that's made extremely obvious with its giant ball and arena style, and Overwatch with […]

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Amazon is laying off more than 14,000 corporate jobs today, and per a report from Bloomberg, the video games division, Amazon Game Studios, is not immune to the cuts. While Amazon doesn't specify exactly how many people from its video games division will be laid off, a statement from Steve Boom, Amazon's head of audio, Twitch, and games, does call the cut "significant," and says that the cuts are happening despite Amazon being "proud" of the success it has had. While the studio's MMO, New World, isn't mentioned by name, the statement does say that Amazon is halting its game […]

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It's a big day for Battlefield 6, with both its Season 1 update now live for players to jump into, and its new free-to-play battle royale mode, Battlefield REDSEC, also now available. EA and Battlefield Studios confirmed yesterday what was already rumored, that REDSEC would be revealed and launched today, and now it's here for all players on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Once the gameplay trailer that was teased yesterday was over, the mode and the new season was officially live for all players to jump into, and we got our first major question of the day answered. […]

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Wrekcreation, the sandbox open-world arcade racing game from Three Fields Entertainment, a studio founded by former Criterion developers who worked on the Burnout series, is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Published by THQ Nordic, Wreckreation gives players the freedom to create whatever kinds of tracks they want, from the kinds of things you'd only expect to see in Hot Wheels Unleashed to something super realistic if that's more your speed, and race the wide variety of vehicles on them to your heart's content. With more than 400 square kilometres of space to create tracks in and […]

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Developer ArenaNet has launched the sixth major expansion for Guild Wars 2 today, with Visions of Eternity now available to players on PC. Visions of Eternity adds a new island to explore called Castora, with two new maps to explore, a new storyline, and plenty more. The new storyline kicks off with whispers and rumors of the island of Castora, with the Tyrian Alliance stepping in to uncover more about the magical island once they discover that the Inquest has begun sniffing around for Castora. Alongside two new maps included with the new expansion, Shipwreck Strand and Starlit Weald, players […]

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Halo: Campaign Evolved marked the official confirmation of something that felt like it would never happen just a short few years ago, with Halo officially coming to PlayStation. Following that announcement, GameStop, the retailer that was initially known for selling physical video games that's now more known for turning into a glorified Pop Funko and merch store called the 'Console Wars' over. Of all entities, the White House, which would normally have more important things to post about, responded with an AI-generated image of President Trump in Spartan armor with the caption "Power to the players." GameStop's original post comes […]

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Anchor is a new underwater survival game from developer Fearem, which essentially mashes the kind of harsher survival crafting that players love in Rust with the underwater setting of Subnautica to create a new experience. Set in a dystopian world where a nuclear apocalypse has sent humanity into the ocean to try and find a new way to survive, you'll be able to join up with other players in the 150-player servers or lone shark your underwater journey as you try to survive on your own. It'll also feature PvE modes for those who don't want to deal with the […]

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The Battlefield 6 battle royale mode has finally been revealed and will officially be called Battlefield REDSEC. As rumoured, it'll launch tomorrow, and it'll be free-to-play. EA and Battlefield Studios revealed the mode with a short post on the official Battlefield X (formerly Twitter) account, which included a link to a gameplay trailer that'll go live tomorrow, alongside the mode itself going live. We'll have more official knowledge on the mode tomorrow when the gameplay trailer goes live, which will likely be followed by a blog post on the Battlefield 6 website, though for now we do have other claims […]

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The current generation of Xbox and PlayStation consoles is now more than five years old, making it well past the time we would start hearing about what the next generation of consoles will look like. We've seen several rumours on what the next-generation Xbox hardware will include, and on top of comments from Xbox president Sarah Bond, a picture of Xbox's next console is starting to form. Now, a new report from Windows Central seems to piece it together a bit more clearly, framing the next Microsoft console as a best of both worlds between the PC and console experience. […]

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Just as Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 finally arrives on the scene after years of development, another Vampire: The Masquerade game disappears for good. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt, the free-to-play battle royale that initially launched in its 1.0 state on April 27, 2022 (after an early access release on September 7, 2021), is shutting down its servers on April 28, 2026, almost exactly four years since its 1.0 arrival. Developer Sharkmob confirmed the shutdown in a statement on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt's official website, citing the dwindling player population as "no longer sustainable" to keep the game […]

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Obsidian Entertainment's latest role-playing game, The Outer Worlds 2, is here, and there's a lot to do in this new space-faring adventure. The planets you visit have bigger maps to run through, there are more weapons to use and modify, people to meet and talk to, and plenty more. But there are five things that you should absolutely do first, right when you get off your ship, the Incognito, and touch down on the planet Eden and on Paradise Island. They'll make your playthrough run a lot smoother, and start you off on the right foot. The Outer Worlds 2 […]

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The Halo: Combat Evolved remake we've all been anticipating today, as part of the Halo WCC, has finally been announced. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a remake that Halo Studios and Xbox describe as "a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign." It'll arrive on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and PlayStation 5 sometime in 2026. We've officially seen it all now, with all of Microsoft and Xbox's biggest first-party franchises making their way to PlayStation. It was the inevitable endpoint we all saw when Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) confirmed that it would be dropping the Slipspace Engine and […]

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It's been a decade-long journey so far, and it'll have been over a decade by the time its finished, but we're nearing the completion of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy. With Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 currently in development, we're on the lookout for any bit of information we can get, and in a recent interview with VGC, game director Naoki Hamaguchi provided a little more insight into the game's development. Recently, Hamaguchi spoke about how he's looking to provide "a new gaming experience" for players with Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3, by which he meant Part […]

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The Outer Worlds 2 is finally here, and before you jump into Obsidian Entertainment's new space-faring adventure in its dystopian world, this guide will help give you a leg-up with some tips and tricks to survive and thrive in The Outer Worlds 2. It should go without saying that I won't be delving into any story spoilers, but incase it needed to be said, there it is. If you want to check out more about The Outer Worlds 2, then go look at my full review for the game. The Outer Worlds 2 Tips and Tricks Guide ABL: Always Be […]

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Silver Pines is a Twin Peaks-inspired 2D survival horror metroidvania game (how often does one of those come along) that'll arrive on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and PS5 sometime in 2026 from developer Wych Elm Games and publisher Team17. The game follows Red Walker, a private investigator who has been hired to find Eddie Velvet, a musician who has mysteriously vanished, though, as you might already suspect, while looking for Velvet, Walker begins to uncover a deeper plot and darker mystery behind Velvet's disappearance. Its art style and survival horror gameplay make it seem like […]

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Now that Battlefield 6 has been out and in players' hands for a full two weeks at the time of this writing, EA and Battlefield Studios have begun updating, tweaking, and refining the experience to squash bugs and address player feedback. The latest update, which went live today in preparation for Season 1, includes tweaks to the Custom Search queue option and a fix for a vehicle spawn bug. What's more intriguing about the update is what's still to come, as Battlefield Studios lists changes and refinements to player movement and continued changes to player progression that Battlefield Studios began […]

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