Subnautica 2 has been out for just about an hour and a half at the time of this writing, and as you might've expected from the game that had over 5 million wishlists, its launch has been an incredible success for developer Unknown Worlds as it has already reached over 1 million copies sold and is nearing half a million concurrent players on Steam. Unknown Worlds confirmed the sales milestone about an hour after the game officially went live in Early Access, and its concurrent player count of over 450K players on Steam alone was practically its starting baseline, with […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/subnautica-2-1-million-copies-sold/

Last year, when Amazon made massive cuts to its gaming division, one of the losses was the Lord of the Rings MMO that had been cancelled, rebooted, and then ultimately cancelled again. Now, a new report from Eurogamer that digs into one of the previously unknown projects that also got cancelled also revealed some insight into Amazon's plans for future Lord of the Rings games, which is that there's still something coming, just not an MMO. Though the report mainly centers on a game called Project Trident, which was made in part by leaning heavily on Generative AI (GenAI) tools, […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-game-in-the-works-not-an-mmo/

Days after a Canadian retailer seemingly spilled the beans on Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition's release date on the Nintendo Switch 2, developer FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa, published its earnings results for its 2025 fiscal year that ended this past March 31. Though Kadokawa didn't spill the beans on an official release date, it did reaffirm that both the Tarnished Edition, and The Duskbloods are due to arrive at some point this year. Though both games have been slated to arrive at some point in 2026 for some time, it's encouraging to see Kadokawa reiterate that release window once again. Particularly […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/kadokawa-reaffirms-elden-ring-tarnished-edition-the-duskbloods-launching-in-2026/

When Marathon launched back in March, and after the launch of Cryo Archive, outside of dwindling player numbers, the dark cloud hanging over the game has been the question of how players will deal with Bungie's promise of seasonal resets. Of course, we don't know how that'll go until it happens, but we now know when it'll happen, as Bungie reveals that Season 2: Nightfall will start on June 2, 2026, and makes some significant changes for the remainder of Season 1. Beginning with what's changing for the rest of Season 1, arguably the biggest change is that Cryo Archive […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/marathon-season-2-release-date-bungie-prepares-for-reset/

ARC Raiders was one of 2025's biggest games, with 16 million copies sold across all platforms and, for a time, hundreds of thousands of players diving into the Rust Belt every day on Steam alone. While some of its momentum has waned, developer Embark Studios is looking to address the problems the community has recently had with the game, and has announced a new strategy for how ARC Raiders will evolve going forward. The long and short of it is that Embark is moving away from its previous cadence of updates for ARC Raiders, and that the third-person extraction shooter […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/arc-raiders-embark-studios-building-for-long-term-major-changes/

PlayStation has revealed May's batch of PS Plus Extra and Premium games joining the Games Catalog and the Classic's Catalog, and it's a pretty solid list of seven games joining the service, headlined by Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2, with an eighth title joining the Classic's library. This batch is arguably a better offering than what we had last month, especially considering that one of the bigger titles from April's PS Plus Extra games, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, was a game that was previously available in the PS Plus Extra library, only to be removed and then […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/ps-plus-extra-premium-may-2026-star-wars-red-dead-redemption/

IO Interactive's long-awaited James Bond adventure, 007 First Light has officially gone gold, the developer announced today ahead of the game's release in two weeks. It's a milestone that we've been waiting a while for, after it was delayed from its initial March 2026 release date to its May 27, 2026, release date. Now we have an official marker that the game is ready ahead of its launch, with the rest of the remaining time left for IO to continue fixing as many bugs and tidying things up as much as possible before it's live for all players. 007 First […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/007-first-light-gone-gold/

Saros, the new third-person bullet-hell shooter from PlayStation Studios' team Housemarque arrived right at the tail-end of the past month on April 30, and while it's undoubtedly a hit with critics (our own Kai Tatsumoto included), it doesn't appear to be making the same impact on the sales charts, at least according to the latest estimations from Alinea Analytics. The firm's latest report focused on the new first-party PS5 exclusive title, estimating that it has been able to sell over 300,000 copies in its first two weeks on PlayStation store shelves, with an estimated $22 million in gross revenue earned […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/saros-off-to-slower-start-than-returnal-300k-copies-sold/

NVIDIA's latest GeForce drivers are now available for players to download ahead of a couple of major releases within the week, including Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020, and Subnautica 2 all arriving with support for DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and DLSS with Multi-Frame Generation. Beginning with Directive 8020, which just released yesterday, Supermassive Games' latest horror adventure arrives with support for DLSS 4.5, as mentioned, and it also supports DLSS Ray Reconstruction and Path Tracing at launch. If you're curious about Directive 8020 but have yet to jump in yourself, you can check out Kai Tatsumoto's review for Wccftech, and […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/nvidia-dlss-drivers-forza-horizon-6-directive-8020-subnautica-2/

EA and Battlefield Studios have officially launched the third season of Battlefield 6 with its first phase, Warlords: Supremacy, adding three new weapons, new attachments, a Ranked Battle Royale queue for Battlefield REDSEC, and most importantly, the introduction of the Railway to Golmud map. Golmud, which is now the largest map in Battlefield 6, has also helped drive the best spike in the game's concurrent player numbers on Steam in months. Battlefield 6 has struggled in comparison to its numbers at launch. The last time it held a concurrent player count of over 100K players on Steam was in January […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/battlefield-6-season-3-now-live-biggest-player-spike-in-months/

Last year, just days before we officially learned that GTA 6 had been delayed to November 2026, developer Rockstar was accused of union-busting with the firing of 34 employees, 31 in the UK, and three in Canada at its Rockstar Toronto studio. Those dismissals spurred an ongoing legal battle between Rockstar and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), one that caught the eye of UK parliament and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Now, British MPs leading the investigation into Rockstar's alleged union-busting have come forward to accuse the company of obstructing legal processes through "silence and closed doors." Per Eurogamer, […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/gta-6-makers-rockstar-accused-of-obstruction-by-scottish-mps-in-alleged-union-busting/

Dead Space is arguably one of the most enduring horror franchises in video games after its run of three games during the seventh console generation catapulted it to a permanent place in the minds of many young gamers between 2007 and 2013. A decade after Dead Space 3 failed to match the success of the first two games, the much-loved 2023 remake of the first game from Motive Studio revitalized hope that we'd see the series make a huge comeback. But that's not going to happen, according to one of the game's original writers and producers, Chuck Beaver. In an […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/dead-space-4-wont-happen-says-writer-the-numbers-arent-there/

If you were asked to name some highlight announcements from The Game Awards 2025, you might call out reveals like Larian's new Divinity game, ACE Combat 8, or Mega Man: Dual Override. But what was arguably the biggest reveal of the night, was Star Wars: Fate of The Old Republic, a new single-player RPG from former BioWare developers and legendary director Casey Hudson. Though we still have a long time to wait before we can play the game ourselves, a new report from Bloomberg revealed a few new details around how the game came to be, and what we can […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic-backed-by-former-netease-exec-greater-than-group/

SEGA just published its fiscal year 2026 full-year financials, and while some Japanese publishers like Capcom can't seem to miss lately, that's not the story for SEGA. This past year was not a gangbusters year for SEGA on the commercial side, despite putting out some excellent games like SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance and Persona 3 Reload. The company reported a significant $31.6M net loss and saw a live service game based on its flagship franchise, Sonic Rumble Party, perform far weaker than expected. But that's where all of this could be a good thing for players. If you lost over […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/sega-cancels-super-game-reports-31-6m-net-loss-moves-away-from-gaas/

On September 1, 2026, the price of a Nintendo Switch 2 console will increase across several markets as the world of consoles becoming more expensive the longer they're around instead of less, continues. After that aforementioned date, the minimum price to enter the Switch 2 generation is a cool $499.99 USD, but before that goes into full effect, you can pay that price for a Switch 2 over the summer and get one of three major first-party games to go along with it. Nintendo has announced a new 'Choose Your Game Bundle' for the Nintendo Switch 2, which gets you […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-2-bundle-mario-kart-pokemon-donkey-kong-ahead-of-price-hike/

Unknown Worlds has opened up pre-orders for Subnautica 2 as the game surpasses 5 million wishlists on Steam ahead of its early access launch later this week on May 14, 2026. Subnautica 2 has reportedly been the most wishlisted game on Steam, and it will almost definitely be one of the biggest launches of 2026 before the end of the year. Even though, technically, it probably should've been one of the biggest releases of 2025 before a legal battle between Unknown Worlds' parent company Krafton and the co-founders of Unknown Worlds overshadowed the game for the past year. After that […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/subnautica-2-pre-orders-live-5-million-wishlists/

As we all anxiously wait for Lies of P developer Round8 Studio to finish working on the upcoming sequel to its stellar 2023 action game now that the game's major DLC expansion is out, a job listing for Round8 has been spotted online that has fans concerned for the sequel. Round8 Studio is hiring for what it is calling an "AI Creator," a person whose job it'll be to "leverage generative AI technology to maximize the efficiency of the art production process and innovate the visual quality of games." Generative AI (GenAI) tech in game development is a sore spot […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/lies-of-p-studio-hiring-ai-creator-to-use-genai-to-speed-up-art-production/