Highguard is the latest free-to-play first-person shooter to hit the market, and if things keep going the way they are now, it'll also be the latest free-to-play first-person shooter that was shut down after being unable to break through as a massive hit right at launch. After its trailer at The Game Awards failed to land with players, and the weeks of silence that followed did nothing to help, when it arrived, before players even made it through the tutorial, they were leaving negative reviews on Steam. Even though it had over 97K concurrent players on Steam when it launched, […]

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Leaked earlier in the week by Dealabs and confirmed at yesterday's State of Play, the latest web-swinging adventure from Insomniac Games, 2023's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is the headlining title for the February 2026 batch of PS Plus Extra games entering the Game Catalog. It enters the library of games that players have access to through their subscription, alongside eight other games, including several of the more notable indie releases from the last few years. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 wasn't the only game that was leaked ahead of this batch's official confirmation. Neva and Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown were also part […]

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SEGA has just released its third-quarter financials for its current fiscal year, and while some of its numbers don't look as strong as the company may have hoped, like having to incur $200 million impairment by devaluing Rovio, the Angry Birds maker that it acquired back in 2023, its future outlook has a lot for players to look forward to. In the segment of its presentation regarding its initiatives for the next fiscal year, SEGA lists that it plans "to release four major new titles for mainstay IPs." The next fiscal year will take us all the way to March […]

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There's a new game bundle on Steam that lets you pick up what are arguably two of the best RPGs in the last few years on one discount. Developers Sandfall Interactive and ATLUS have joined together to form a bundle including both Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Metaphor: ReFantazio. Both games are currently on sale separately, but you can grab them together in a bundle for 10% off their combined price, and it's a bundle that both sides are proud to be a part of. Metaphor: ReFantazio creative director and writer Katsura Hashino said that he was "very pleased" to […]

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Marathon is set to arrive on PC and PS5 on March 5, 2026, and just ahead of its arrival, Bungie is looking to stress-test its servers with a Server Slam Test that'll run from February 26 to March 2. The test was announced with a new gameplay trailer at yesterday's State of Play, after which game director Joe Ziegler showed off more of the game by streaming it with popular Twitch streamers TheBurntPeanut and Gingy. The new trailer was another showing of Marathon's narrative elements with a few more snippets of gameplay, before Ziegler began narrating and announcing the server […]

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The Game Awards might have the words 'awards' in the title, but anyone who has seen Geoff Keighley's annual show knows that it's more about the announcements than the awards. The DICE Awards, however, are the absolute opposite. It's all about the awards, and it's all about the people who make the games that win those awards. With the nominees and winners selected by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS), it's arguably the closest thing the video game industry has to The Oscars, if only because every winner gives thanks to "the academy." Leading into this year's show, […]

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Sony hosted its hour-long February 2026 State of Play today, and while plenty of the announcements were surprises, some of them, like the new Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls reveal, we had a heads up on. After its Steam page was accidentally updated to include additional information, like how the game will feature 20 characters at launch, it seemed like a safe bet that it would be featured during today's event. Not only was it shown off, but we got another look at more gameplay with this trailer, specifically featuring the Unbreakable X-Men, with Storm, Magik, Wolverine, and Danger all joining […]

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With Saros getting an April 30, 2026, release date confirmation during The Game Awards 2025, it seemed like a lock to be included during today's February 2026 State of Play, and it was. Housemarque did not disappoint, making a major show of more gameplay from Saros as we get closer to its release. Today's trailer dug deeper into the game's systems and focused more on what Housemarque means by its "come back stronger" mantra for Saros' gameplay style. We got a look at how you'll upgrade your armor via the Armor Matrix with resources you gather on your runs, and […]

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Out of all the announcements included in today's February 2026 State of Play, the one that will potentially be the most remembered is Saber Interactive's reveal of a AAA John Wick game, featuring Keanu Reeves in the titular role, and the confirmation that the game is being made in collaboration with Chad Stahelski, director of the recent films and one of the key visonaries behind their success (who is also directing a Ghost of Tsushima film). You might recall that last month, almost right at the beginning of the year, Lionsgate teased that it was working on a major John […]

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer made its gameplay debut during the February 2026 State of Play, with a short trailer from Fuse Games to showcase its podracing in action after the developer confirmed we'd have podracers alongside speeders and other vehicles from the Star Wars universe. The gameplay shown did its best to showcase how Fuse is trying to convey how insanely fast these vehicles are going. As much as the studio needs to hit the mark on the look of the world, the track design, and the handling for each of the vehicles, it'll all be for nought if it […]

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As we predicted when Sony announced the State of Play, one of the PlayStation Studios reveals for tonight's showcase was the gameplay and release date reveal for Ghost of Yotei Legends, after it was initially announced during Gamescom 2025. Just like Ghost of Tsushima Legends, this new co-op multiplayer mode will be available as free DLC for players who already own Ghost of Yotei, and it'll arrive on March 10, 2026. Showcased with gameplay captured on a PS5 Pro, the new trailer showed a bit of the kinds of missions you'll get to play in Ghost of Yotei Legends, which […]

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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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