After the release date announcement at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, Playground Games also shared 30 minutes of new Fable gameplay footage a few days ago. The video was dedicated to demonstrating the game's simulation layer, but toward the end, the developers also showcased some combat when they switched to "evil hero" behavior. However, many viewers noticed that the guards did little to counter the player character's mayhem in the farming town of Silverbrook, largely standing aside and being easily picked off by the player. Thankfully, the official X account reassured fans that, as some had surmised, the demo was [β¦]
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival may not have been what players expected Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games to reveal last July, but considering Saber's eclectic portfolio, it's hard to expect anything from it, really. Regardless, less than a year from the first-person horror game's reveal, we have a release date to look forward, perfectly timed for Halloween with an October 8, 2026 due date. The news came with a brand new trailer, which capped off the immense amount of gore you see in the minute-and-a-half-long trailer. Whether you're a particularly squeamish person or if you're a horror geek that loves [β¦]
The gaming industry has made a wide space for GTA 6 (save for one brave developer), electing to release games either well before or after the November 19 launch date chosen by developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two Interactive. With the release date now seemingly rock-solid, speculation is shifting to the launch sales levels the long-awaited game can achieve. Popular core gamer board ResetEra recently started a poll on this very topic, and out of 1,283 voters, the majority (over 56%) believes day-one sales will be between 12 and 20 million units. However, Piper Sandler, an investment bank with [β¦]
Pudgy Penguins will halt development of Pudgy Party and focus on Pudgy World, as another Web3 gaming project shuts down after failing to find a sustainable business model.
The governing body of world motorsport, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA to most people, has announced it is looking for a partner to produce an officially sanctioned sim racing championship.
In an announcement post released earlier today, the FIA has requested proposals from interested parties for new sim racing championships that would be officially sanctioned by, and run in collaboration with, the FIA.
The FIA has dabbled in the world of esports before, with some sanctioned events running around the world, but few have been truly global championships that feature the very best sim racing talent in the world. Now, it seems that the organisation is looking to change that, with a request for tournament operators to come up with ideas for major championships and events.
While full details of the scale the FIA is looking to achieve are a little thin on the ground, it is clear this is a bigger project than most FIA sanctioned events we have seen before. The call for proposals mentions LAN finals, and hints at a global format which many would interpret as an invitation for a major LAN event with drivers from all corners of the world.
βEsports represents one of the most accessible and rapidly growing forms of competition, creating new pathways for people around the world to engage with motor sport,β said H.E. Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the FIA. βThis Call for Proposal marks an important milestone in the development of the FIAβs Esports strategy as we identify opportunities that will support sustainable growth and attract new audiences and competitors.β
Unsurprisingly the announcement post mentions multi-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen, who has long been a sim racing fan and has helped grow the competitive scene through his own racing and his sim racing team. With Verstappen, and other top racers, increasing the profile of sim racing it is no surprise that the FIA wants to increase its involvement in the esports world, and it could be a big area of growth in future.
As someone who spends a lot of time watching sim racing, I am hopeful this could result in a larger, more centralised circuit for sim racers. For a long time the larger games such as iRacing have mainly focused on large on off events rather than a regular circuit, and other titles tend to run smaller leagues with no LAN portion and small scale broadcasts. This means the best way to watch a lot of sim racing is to find a driver you like and watch their personal stream, rather than any official broadcasts. Hopefully the scale of this FIA event, whatever format it may take, may change that.
This article was originally published on Forbes.com
Update 15/06/2026: A report from The Verge claims that Ninja Theory is being shut down by Xbox, and that the next-best hope for the studio's future would be for it to find another studio to acquire it. The report reiterates that Compulsion and Double-Fine remain in negotiations to spin-off as independents, though that is seemingly not an option for Ninja Theory. This comes a little more than a week after Ninja Theory revealed the next entry in its Hellblade series, Senua, a game that we may never get to play, if the studio is ultimately shuttered. Original Story: The scale [β¦]
Ever since Bloomberg's report that there would be layoffs at Xbox at the end of the month, the entire video game industry has been on high alert. Waiting in horror to see how bad the layoffs would be this time, with initial claims pointing to them being potentially as bad as when Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees at Xbox and shuttered Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin in 2024. Or perhaps even as bad as the layoffs last year, which cut 9,000 employees across Microsoft and also drastically impacted the Xbox division. Today, we're hearing more bad news that is starting [β¦]
Update 15/06/2026: Kotaku's report (linked below) has been updated to claim that leadership at Compulsion is "in negotiations" with Microsoft over the studio's fate, though any details and decisions have not been shared. Original Story: Shortly after a report from Bloomberg claimed Xbox was planning more mass layoffs for the end of June 2026, a report from The Verge added that those layoffs could also include studio closures. Now, a new claim from Mike Straw, a reporter at Insider-Gaming, adds that at least two of the studios concerned for their safety are Compulsion Games in Montreal, makers of last year's [β¦]
GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing 'a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++' with no emulation involved.
Today, publisher Perp Games and South Korean developer Project Cloud Games announced the release date of the Soulslike game The Relic: First Guardian. The game, previously planned for a 2025 launch, is now set to be available from July 31 on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5, with ports for Xbox Series S and X and Nintendo Switch 2 coming later in the Summer. PS5 will also get an exclusive retail version, though it'll only be available on September 4. The game takes place in Arsiltus, a once-peaceful world now overrun by a creeping blight that players must push back as [β¦]
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: The Claw and stadium seating risers for the UFC Freedom 250 fight are seen on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump is hosting a series of Ultimate Fighting Championship matches on his 80th birthday, which the White House is calling "a once-in-a-generation celebration of the American fighting spirit.β (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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The day the MMA world has been waiting for is here. The UFC is in Washington D.C. for UFC Freedom 250. I have all of the results for all seven fights.
Here are all of the matchups. As the fights finish, Iβll fill in the result and the highlights from the bouts.
UFC Freedom 250 Fight Card
Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje
Lightweight Championship
Alex Pereira vs. Ciryl Gane
Interim Heavyweight Championship
Sean O'Malley vs. Aiemann Zahabi
Bantamweight
Derrick Lewis vs. Josh Hokit
Heavyweight
Michael Chandler vs. Mauricio Ruffy
Lightweight
Bo Nickal vs. Kyle Daukaus
Middleweight
Diego Lopes vs. Steve Garcia
Keep refreshing for the latest results.
This article was originally published on Forbes.com
During Summer Game Fest 2026, CI Games confirmed what we had already assumed when the publisher announced it had purchased back the publishing rights for Lords of the Fallen 2: it's no longer an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. Moreover, the studio also revealed that a Nintendo Switch 2 version is in the works and will be released later this year alongside the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X versions. Today, in the tenth episode of the Lifting the Veil videocast series, the developers provided a deep dive into the latest news and other aspects of [β¦]
Summer Game Fest 2026 has come and gone, leaving us with two incredibly busy periods in the game release schedule: September-October 2026 and February-March 2027, which publishers big and small have identified in their not-so-disguised attempt to avoid a collision with Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI when it makes its debut on November 19, 2026. To fans of the roleplaying games genre, though, the recent flurry of game announcements has brought the near-certainty that next year will be memorable and perhaps unparalleled even in the future, thanks to the return of several beloved franchises/IPs and studios. Also, unlike recent years, [β¦]
In a totally unpredictable turn of events (sarcasm), one of the many games that was set to arrive in September 2026 will now try to avoid what has quickly become the most stacked month of the year and launch in October 2026 instead. Valor Mortis, the first-person melee action game from Ghostrunner makers One More Level, has pushed the game's release date from September 24 to October 13, 2026. The September date was revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase this past Sunday, though according to a report from Game File, by the time the trailer had aired, the developers already [β¦]
Hot off the heels of a new story trailer featuring the game's antagonist and a release date reveal, developer Playground Games has suddenly dropped a 30-minute gameplay demo for Fable. The demo takes players through the town of Silverbrook in the game's magical setting of Albion, and shows off a bit of how its morality and reputation system works based on your actions. The demo mostly shows what it's like when you're trying to develop a character with a reputation for kindness, though narrators William Kennedy and Craig Littler, both associate game directors on Fable, emphasize throughout the demo that [β¦]
The European Union's new directives for easily user-replaceable batteries will force Nintendo to update its Switch 2 console with a revised model. The law goes into effect from February 18, 2027, which means an updated Switch 2 that complies with these new regulations needs to come out before that deadline.
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