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The class-action lawsuit, branded as "PlayStation You Owe Us", filed by consumer rights champion Alex Neill against Sony's PlayStation has finally kicked off in earnest today, with the plaintiff's legal counsel, Mr Palmer, delivering the opening statement (the proceedings were livestreamed on the Competition Appeal Tribunal's official website). The legal action was filed in 2022 to challenge Sony's monopoly over the PlayStation Store digital platform, which, according to the plaintiffs, led to higher game prices for consumers. The damage figure sought by the plaintiff has changed, though: it initially stood atΒ $5 billionΒ in 2022 and rose to Β£6.3 billion in November [β¦]
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As they do pretty much every month, thanks to the same reliable source, Billbil-kun at Dealabs, the monthly PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalog titles have leaked. Or at least, some of them have, and there will likely be a few more revealed tomorrow when the official announcement is live. According to the report, while players won't be able to expect Dragon's Dogma II, we will get Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, Metal Eden, Persona 5 Royal, and more. The note about Dragon's Dogma II is regarding a rumor that gained some traction regarding the March 2026 batch of [β¦]
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Sucker Punch Productions has released Ghost of Yotei Legends as free DLC for all owners of Ghost of Yotei today on PS5. It's a welcome return of the surprise multiplayer mode that players loved digging into in Ghost of Tsushima, but its arrival on PlayStation today, days after we learned more about Sony's evolving strategy with its PC ports, makes the strategy pivot sting even more. When Ghost of Tsushima arrived on PC, it set new records for concurrent player counts on Steam amongst PlayStation's current suite of PS5 to PC releases and was the best-selling game in the US [β¦]
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Monster Hunter Stories 3 proves that it's not just about the thrill of the hunt, but setting up the ecology to support it for generations to come.
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Publisher and developer ProbablyMonsters have revealed a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming third-person stealth-action brawler, Nekome: Nazi Hunter, a game that looks like what you'd get if you took some of the cinematic brawling of Sifu and mixed it into a story where you play as a a young Romani man on a war path against the Nazis for killing his family. The trailer introduces us to the game's protagonist, Vano Nastasu, who is seeking revenge for the aforementioned homicide. There's no release date or early release window for the game yet, but we do know it'll be arriving [β¦]
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The last general Nintendo Direct event took place in September 2025, and while we've had several Nintendo Direct events this year (like two Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct events), we're still waiting for 2026 to get its first big Direct event. Unfortunately, this year's iteration of Mario Day so far has not included a surprise Direct announcement, but we did get a release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on the Nintendo Switch 2, the game that closed out September's Direct. It's frankly still a bit shocking that the Direct event that revealed several ways Nintendo was celebrating the [β¦]
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Today, Pearl Abyss has revealed detailed PC, console, and macOS specifications for its highly anticipated upcoming open world action/adventure game Crimson Desert. The minimum and recommended system requirements for PC were actually first announced (and then lowered) months ago, but this time the South Korean development team has provided much more in-depth information for gamers on how the game powered by the BlackSpace engine will run on their systems. Minimum Low Recommended High Ultra Graphics Preset Minimum Low Medium High Ultra Performance Specs Upscaled 1080p (from 900p) 30 FPS 1080p 30 FPS 1080p 60 FPS 4K 30 FPS 1440p 60 [β¦]
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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Remake could be setting out to be an impressive game, contrary to what its long stay in development hell suggests. X user and known insider Luke "100% Star Wars" claims to have seen the remake, and believes canceling Aspyr's version of the remake and starting from scratch was the right choice. While the insider, who was among the first to talk about the game's troubled development, did not reveal any specifics about the remake, which was just confirmed to still be in development last week by Saber's CEO Tim Willits, they did suggest [β¦]
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NVIDIA's GDC 2026 announcements also include updates for the RTX Remix remastering platform. The biggest news is the new Advanced Particle VFX system, which will be released some time next month. With this new system, NVIDIA is directly responding to the RTX Remix's open-source community's top feature request: a substantially more powerful and expressive particle system. The Advanced Particle VFX system introduces three distinct capability areas: The other news is the availability of a Quake III RTX early access (version 0.6) made by modder Woodboy, who took it upon themselves to remaster several levels of the original game by id [β¦]
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Today may be Mario Day for Nintendo fans, but it's Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2026 week for the rest of the video game industry. On top of B2B-focused announcements from companies like Razer, this week also brings us plenty of insights into the video game industry and some of the biggest games from the past year, like 2025's Game of the Year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Developer Sandfall Interactive is one of many hosting talks during GDC 2026, and during a talk it hosted, it revealed a significant aspect regarding how the studio put the game together, and for a [β¦]
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As part of its GDC 2026 news, NVIDIA also provided some updates for GeForce NOW users. Two upcoming games have been confirmed to be available for streaming on day one: Remedy's CONTROL Resonant and Samson: A Tyndalston Story from Liquid Swords. There's little surprise when it comes to the former game. Remedy has always worked closely with NVIDIA on its most recent games, Control and Alan Wake 2, adding NVIDIA RTX like DLSS and ray tracing/path tracing to the PC version and also making the games available on GeForce NOW. Indeed, today, NVIDIA confirmed that CONTROL Resonant will also support [β¦]
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Embark Studios has pushed a new patch to ARC Raiders today, which adds a new outfit set and two new haircuts for players to customize their characters with, on top of several bug fixes. But it's not what's added with today's patch that makes the latest update from Embark significant. Last week, major server issues caused players to lose their loadouts in ARC Raiders, even after they had successfully extracted from the Rust Belt and made it safely back to Speranza. While being adamant that the studio does not normally compensate players for every incident where players lose their loot [β¦]
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Apparently, Epic Games hasn't been making enough money on Fortnite, and needs to raise the price of its premium in-game currency, V-Bucks, to "help pay the bills." "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and weβre raising prices to help pay the bills." That's what Epic tells players right at the top of a new blog post, which announces that the base price of the premium currency will be going up. The change goes into effect on March 19, 2026, after which every dollar you spend on V-Bucks will earn you less than it did before. After [β¦]
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The comic book series turned Emmy award-winning TV series, The Boys, is making its first foray into video games later this month. Initially announced back in December 2025, The Boys: Trigger Warning is a VR adventure from publisher Sony Pictures VR and developer ARVORE, and it'll arrive on Meta Quest 3 headsets on March 26, 2026. The news comes with a new release date trailer, which shows off more gameplay compared to what we saw in December and includes a few more characters from the show that'll be featured in the game. It doesn't, however, confirm if any more of [β¦]
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Resident Evil Requiem is getting additional content soon, including an unspecified surprise coming in May that sounds a lot like the engaging Mercenaries mode features in past entries in the series, as confirmed in a new video message by director Koshi Nakanishi. But that is not all: the rumored story expansion has also been confirmed to be in the works. In today's video message, Nakanishi-san commented on the current state of the game while thanking players for their support. "We released an update the other day to fix a variety of issues, and we will continue to address any other [β¦]
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Fallout 3 Remastered is one of gaming's worst-kept secrets. While the game has yet to be announced, a new McFarlane toy listing spotted on the series subreddit leaves little doubt that the iconic third entry in the series is indeed coming at some point. The listing spotted by the Fallout subreddit, originally shared by Toy News International, features, among DC and Marvel toys, an "ELITE EDITION 7IN β FALLOUT 3 REMASTERED β #13 T-45B NUKA COLA." As noted on the subreddit, "while there's no confirmation from McFarlane themselves, this comes from a new set of toy listings via an online [β¦]
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Not even a couple of weeks after the New York state's Attorney General announced a lawsuit against Valve for their gambling-like loot boxes in games such as Counter-Strike 2, the Steam owner is about to be hit by another lawsuit, this time on the other side of the "pond" (where it already faces a Β£656 million class-action lawsuit directed to the 30% fee it collects from each game and software distributed on the platform). The Performing Rights Society (PRS), a UK-based music licensing and royalty collection organization that works on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers whenever their music [β¦]
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By all accounts, Nioh 3 is a great success for Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo. It was lavished with praise by critics (such as our own Francesco De Meo, who rated it 9.8/10 and called it the best game the Japanese studio has ever made) and fans alike, as confirmed by the fact that it's the fastest-selling game in the trilogy so far. That said, the development team is aware there's further room for improvement. Fumihiko Yasuda, producer for Nioh 3 and studio head of Team Ninja, confirmed as much in a candid interview with Gamesradar: Nioh 3 is a [β¦]
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Independent Polish game developer Bloober Team has recently updated its investors on the studio's upcoming lineup, including the freshly announced Layers of Fear 3. The game was teased in mid-February during the franchise's tenth anniversary livestream. Now, though, we have learned that the game won't be developed by one of the internal Bloober Teams; the studio will instead work alongside a partner (although it will still provide significant input, being the franchise holder and creator). The studio was not mentioned explicitly, but odds are they might be fellow Polish studio Anshar, which already worked on Layers of Fear, the "collection" [β¦]
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This morning, KONAMI Digital Entertainment announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has surpassed two million units sold as of February 17, 2026, as shown in the celebratory screenshot. The game became a million seller on day one when it launched on Thursday, August 28, merely on the heels of pre-orders. The game took 173 days to get to the second million, though, which isn't great. Still, the fact that KONAMI bothered to send out a press release about it means they must be reasonably happy with the figure. It all depends on the budget of the game; we [β¦]
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The survival-horror genre has been in a great spot in the past few years. With Resident Evil returning to its former glory with the seventh entry in the series and every game that has followed it, culminating with Resident Evil Requiem, the Silent Hill series returning with a remake of the second entry in the series and the first brand new game in years, and a wealth of solid indie titles, fans of the genre have had plenty of scary experiences to immerse themselves into. While it doesn't enjoy the same level of popularity as the CAPCOM and Konami series, [β¦]
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Nintendo hosted its fifth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, which was an event dedicated to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of its premiere this coming April 1, 2026. The event showed off the final trailer for the film, and revealed some of Nintendo's plans for Mario Day tomorrow, and the lead-up to the film's premiere. The trailer for the film showed off a couple of the characters the recent poster revealed, like the character Wart, who is being played by Luis GuzmΓ‘n. We also learned that Honey Queen will be in the film, and voiced by Issa Rae. The [β¦]
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Marathon has been out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series for its first weekend, and just like the Server Slam, developer Bungie is doing its best to respond quickly to issues players are noting as they spend more and more time on Tau Ceti IV. The game's first major update with those fixes will arrive sometime this week, and Bungie is already looking to tackle three of the biggest issues players have spotted with the game. Firstly, and arguably most importantly for all players, you'll be able to know where your objective is for a contract from further away. Instead [β¦]
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Today is officially the start of Game Developers Conference 2026 (GDC 2026), a week where a huge portion of the video game industry joins together in San Francisco to discuss the latest happenings within the video game industry, and in the case of companies like Razer, showcase the B2B-focused initiatives it has coming down the pipeline. After first unveiling its AI QA companion tool and its Project AVA AI companion in 2025, Razer showcased both products at GDC 2026, with Project AVA now simply called Razer AVA, which it describes as "a more capable agentic assistant with the ability to [β¦]
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Game engine maker Unity has published its 2026 Unity Game Development Report, which surveys developers who use Unity software to make their games. That includes developers like The Game Bakers, who recently released the mountain-climbing game Carin, the team behind Outbound, Square Glad Games, and Mega Cat Studios, the developers behind God of War Sons of Sparta. The report, which draws its data from developers across PC, mobile, web, social, XR, and console game makers who use Unity, as well as direct responses from over 300 game developers, includes five key takeaways while providing an insight into the section of [β¦]
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Publisher EA has laid off an unknown number of developers from across Battlefield 6 development studios, including Criterion, DICE, and Motive Studios, according to a new report from IGN. These layoffs appear absolutely unjustified by the game's sales performance, as the sixth entry in the series was among the best-selling AAA PC and console games of 2025 and the best-selling game in the United States. At the time of writing, the reason behind the latest, sad new wave of layoffs is unknown, as is the number of impacted staff. However, IGN reports that individuals are being informed that layoffs are [β¦]
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When Palworld was first announced back in 2021, the internet immediately clocked it as 'PokΓ©mon with guns,' and it was the least surprising thing for Nintendo to initiate a lawsuit against the game's developer, PocketPair, even if it meant trying some "Hail Mary" tactics by going after patents for game mechanics, rather than attempting to catch PocketPair on copyright infringement with the design of the Pals coming very close to the design of popular PokΓ©mon. But even amidst the lawsuit, Palworld has been a smash success - it may never arrive on a Nintendo console, but it doesn't have to [β¦]
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"For 20 years, Cyrodiil belonged to heroes walking aloneβ¦ Not anymore!" announced the reveal teaser trailer for an Oblivion Remastered multiplayer mod which promises to shake up the remake's experience considerably with community-driven features. In development by ReadyM, the development team behind the WukongMP mod, which brought PvP and co-op to Black Myth Wukong, this mod will deliver community-driven multiplayer, allowing users to run massive community servers and "experience roleplaying scenarios, battle arenas, establish player guilds, and crawl dungeons with friends." Although short, the teaser trailer shows just enough for fans of last year's remake to get excited about a [β¦]
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The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, one of the Lovecraftian games set to arrive this year from French publisher Nacon, the same publisher that is on the brink of liquidation, has an official release date. After Nacon and developer ACE Team revealed it would arrive sometime in Summer 2026 back in November 2025, we now know it'll arrive on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on July 15, 2026. Last week, Nacon was supposed to host its annual Nacon Connect showcase, which would've likely included today's release date announcement for The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, along with looks at other games [β¦]
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Steve Downes, the voice actor behind Halo protagonist, Master Chief, is the latest to call out a recent video posted by the official White House X (formerly Twitter) account, which uses clips from several popular film, TV, and video game franchises mixed together with real-life footage of the United States bombing Iran. The video in question reuses a lot of the footage included in the video that Chance Glasco, one of the original developers of Call of Duty, called out just last week, when Glasco shared that the video was not a surprise for him. Not because videos like this [β¦]
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Flying on the Highwind airship will be a big part of Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3, according to what game director Naoki Hamaguchi told Bloomberg in a new interview. Likely to be one of the highlights of the experience still being built in Unreal Engine 4, the Highwind's role suggests a massive shift in how players will interact with the game world, although the status of other iconic late-game mechanics from the original remains a mystery. The Highwind "gameplay experience" has been expanded for the third and final entry in the Remake trilogy, although precisely how it has been [β¦]
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Microsoft remains fully committed to its gaming division, with CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma affirming that the company is "long on gaming" during a recent internal Q&A. The session provided reassurance to employees, coming at a time when the brand is undergoing yet another significant change with the upcoming Project Helix, which will bring PC and console gaming together in a single system for the first time. During the discussion, as reported by Windows Central, Nadella highlighted how gaming is not just a side business for Microsoft but a core pillar of the company's identity. βWeβre long [β¦]
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[UPDATE - March 8, 9:48 AM] As some pointed out, UWP was deprecated in 2019, and Xbox Series X|S use containerisation technology to manage backward compatibility and system resources and enable features like Quick Resume. As such, SneakersSO may have provided inaccurate information, unless the Xbox Project Helix handles software differently than its predecessors. Original story follows. [Original Story] The next-gen Xbox Project Helix will reportedly abandon a native console SKU in favor of a specialized PC architecture designed to run games released on the Windows Store. New insights from well-known insider SneakersSO (who correctly revealed Xbox going multiplatform before [β¦]
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Late yesterday evening, Valve posted a 2025 Steam retrospective that also included some small but significant tidbits on the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller shipping. As you will certainly recall, their original goal was to ship all three products in early 2026, as confirmed even by AMD CEO Lisa Su. However, shortly after that statement, Valve told consumers that it was forced to delay the timetable on the heels of the ongoing memory and storage crisis and was now targeting the first half of 2026. The new blog post appears to quietly push the shipping window even further. [β¦]
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After confirming that South of Midnight would be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in Spring 2026 a few hours ahead of The Game Awards 2025, developer Compulsion Games has confirmed that its previously Xbox Series console exclusive will arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this month on March 31, 2026. The release date for the new versions of the game came with a new trailer, which you can see below. After Avowed, Compulsion Games' South of Midnight was the next major release from an Xbox Game Studios team to hit shelves last year. Now, it'll [β¦]
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Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales. In all that discussion, the idea that Nintendo, despite its litigious nature, would respond with a lawsuit aimed at the US Government was not what you would call a popular guess. Well, Aftermath's latest report is a reminder to never underestimate Nintendo's willingness to go to court. Nintendo is officially suing the US Government, specifically Scott Bessent, Secretary of [β¦]
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This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off next Monday, and a controversy has already emerged following today's LinkedIn outburst by industry veteran Greg Costikyan. First things first, though: context. While not a household name among gamers like Hideo Kojima or Todd Howard, Costikyan is a renowned game designer whose career spans tabletop roleplaying games, board games, wargames, video games (he worked from 2019 to 2023 on Stars Reach, the upcoming sci-fi sandbox MMO by Playable Worlds, as Game Design Lead), and more. He also wrote four novels. A friend of Warren Spector (Ultima, System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief, Epic [β¦]
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PC players are still reeling from Bloomberg's report earlier this week that Sony will be pulling back on its strategy of putting its first-party PlayStation titles on PC. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are the first two that seemingly won't be making the jump, and it doesn't seem like any PlayStation Studios titles (at least the single-player ones) will get PC ports in the future. The key element as to why Sony is backing off from putting its single-player games on PC fell on claims that it simply wasn't worth it. Despite the first batch of PlayStation titles selling well [β¦]
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This is probably the oddest way for what appears to be a fairly major leak to appear. RoboCop: Rogue City developer Teyon seems to have accidentally leaked its next project, or an early build of a project that never got off the ground, or an early build of its next project. That's all unclear, but what's happened is that someone at Teyon accidentally swapped RoboCop: Rogue City out with an entirely different game when updating it on Steam, revealing what could potentially be a new 3D Hunter: The Reckoning game. First noted by X (formerly Twitter) user Silent, an update [β¦]
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Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted its fourth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, and considering that we're only a few days into March at the time of this writing, that's a pretty condensed window for the Mario company to be setting up what players can look forward to for the year. Today, Nintendo has already announced it will host a fifth Nintendo Direct event next week, but it's not the kind you were hoping for. Instead of following up Tuesday's Indie World Showcase Direct with a larger, general Nintendo Direct like Nintendo has in the past, the very next Direct event [β¦]
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Update 06/03/2026: Following the publication of this article, the co-founder of MegaCrit and one of the main developers behind Slay the Spire 2, Casey Yano, has further clarified that the sarcastic jab the studio took at Bungie's Marathon really was just a joke, and has apologized for it now seeming "a bit meaner than it was intended." "This seems a bit meaner than it was intended...To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users." At least two of the developers on Marathon, UI designer Elliot Gray and Marathon's community manager, Cozmo, responded to the post with [β¦]
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The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is officially "still in development," as confirmed by Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits in a new interview with IGN. The statement provides a rare moment of reassurance for a fanbase that has spent years wondering if the project had quietly joined the list of canceled projects of the past few months. Unfortunately, this is where the good news ends today. Willits did not provide any additional information on the remake, saying that confirming its development status is all that he could say. βYes, it is still in development. Thatβs all I [β¦]
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There's been a major development in the ongoing Ashes of Creation legal battle: Intrepid Studios founder and CEO Steven Sharif has obtained his first legal victory against the board, obtaining a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) from a judge. As a reminder, following the sudden implosion of the game and its removal from Steam, not to mention the fraud accusations levied by one of the game's investors, Sharif was targeted with a lawsuit filed by TFE Games Holdings on February 9, 2026, in the Nevada District Court, Clark County. However, he quickly filed his own lawsuit againstΒ Robert DawsonΒ (the major investor behind [β¦]
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The PlayStation 6 will reportedly stick to its 2027/early 2028 launch window despite rising component costs, as the financial penalty for delaying TSMC 3nm production far outweighs the current "RAMmageddon" price hikes. Despite recent rumors suggesting a push to 2029, insider Mooreβs Law Is Dead argues that Sonyβs production contracts with TSMC and the massive development costs already sunk into the system's Orion APU would make a significant delay extremely problematic. According to the report shared in a new YouTube video, Sony has reportedly already secured its 3nm manufacturing allotment from TSMC for Q2 2027. Pulling out now would be [β¦]
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The next-generation Xbox, codenamed "Project Helix," will reportedly deliver a 6x jump in rasterization and a massive 20x increase in ray tracing performance over the Series X. According to a new technical analysis from Mooreβs Law is Dead, the consoleβs AMD Magnus APU will bridge the gap between console and PC gaming with a massive performance leap, but it will come with a significant catch: early estimates suggest a target price between $999 and $1,200 for its possible 2027 launch The Xbox Project Helix Will Deliver More Than 120 FPS Gameplay While the Magnus APU reportedly features only 30% more [β¦]
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A few hours ago, IGN kicked off its Forza Horizon 6 IGN First coverage with a 9-minute gameplay video of "scenic driving" across the game's stunning rendition of Japan. The footage covers a cruise from the south of the map through various biomes, into the outskirts of Tokyo, around its fringe, and back north, ending at one of the game's permanent race circuits. These multiple distinct biomes blend into each other nicely, based on the video. IGN clarified that the traffic in the gameplay video was deliberately toned down by Playground Games to help viewers absorb the surroundings and biomes [β¦]
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During yesterday's Diablo IV livestream, Blizzard provided a deep dive into the Warlock class coming with the Lord of Hatred expansion and also shared details on the Season of Slaughter that will go live next week. In this article: Everything About The Warlock Class The Warlock, the game's eighth class, was designed as a dark, frontline demonologist rather than a traditional back-row caster. The Warlock is someone who has been through hell (literally), uses demons as brutal tools rather than allies, and isn't above collateral damage. Visually, the main inspiration was the heavy metal culture. The class uses two resources: [β¦]
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The CAPCOM Spotlight livestream was pretty stacked with new trailers and even some news, such as PRAGMATA launching a week earlier than expected. Originally scheduled for Friday, April 24, 2026, the action/adventure game based on a new sci-fi IP will debut on Friday, April 17, 2026. There is a little exception to this: in Japan and across Asia, the Nintendo Switch 2 version of PRAGMATA is still launching on the original date of April 24. The CAPCOM Spotlight also debuted a new PRAGMATA trailer showcasing previously unseen locales in the game's lunar setting. These include the moon's surface and a [β¦]
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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 be a hybrid between a PC and console reportedly [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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This afternoon, independent Polish developer Reikon Games announced that RUINER 2 is in development for PC. As suggested by the title, it will be a sequel to 2017's twin-stick shooter, which was well-received by fans and critics. RUINER earned an 8 out of 10 score on Wccftech: RUINER is a no-brainer if you are interested in fast-paced action games that require real skill to truly perfect. However, RUINER 2 will be greatly expanded: it will support co-op gameplay and shift its genre to "cyberpunk action RPG". Marek Roefler, Game Director of the sequel at Reikon, said in a statement: We [β¦]
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Epic Games is officially suing former contractor AdiraFNInfo, marking a significant escalation in the industry-wide hard stance against leakers. Following Activision's recent shutdown of a Call of Duty leaker, Epicβs legal action confirms that gaming companies have had enough of confidential IP and trade secrets being shared ahead of official announcements. As confirmed today with a message on X, Epic Games "took legal action against a former contractor who repeatedly leaked confidential partner IP and trade secrets that they received while working with Epic." The publisher absolutely does "not allow this and will continue to take action when Epic team [β¦]
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Assassin's Creed Unity has received a 60 FPS patch today for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S, which may have packed an undocumented bump to 4K resolution. While a previous-generation title, this update makes the 2014 classic relevant again for those wishing to experience the series' old, more straightforward gameplay formula. According to multiple online reports, today's Assassin's Creed Unity patch increases resolution up to 4K. While no one has made an actual pixel count, the game's PlayStation 5 update history mentions 4K resolution and 60 FPS gameplay. Some users, such as ResetERA's RayCharlizard, shared screenshots captured [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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. [β¦]
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Today, California-based independent developer Ember Lab announced that Kena: Bridge of Spirits will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 this Spring. Kena: Bridge of Spirits first launched on PlayStation platforms and PC in September 2021 and went on to win several awards, including Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2021. On Wccftech, the game earned an 8 out of 10 score from reviewer Francesco De Meo, who wrote at the time: Despite featuring a very familiar experience inspired by The Legend of Zelda series, Kena: Bridge of Spirits manages to stand out from the competition [β¦]
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After celebrating its sixth anniversary last month, NVIDIA has prepared another large lineup of PC games for the GeForce NOW cloud platform in March. Throughout the month, NVIDIA is planning to add fifteen games to the library, starting with the following eight this week: The most interesting new releases are landing later this month, though, with Crimson Desert from Pearl Abyss leading the pack. The game will support NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution for GeForce NOW users with the Premium tier and also NVIDIA DLSS Multi Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction for GeForce NOW users with the Ultimate tier. Weirdly enough, [β¦]
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Remedy Entertainment has already kicked off the marketing campaign for Control RESONANT in earnest. Following the announcement at The Game Awards 2025, the Finnish studio shared the first gameplay trailer during February's State of Play showcase. This week, they've continued to reveal more footage and information about the game. Yesterday, we reported that Remedy has promised a base minimum of 60 frames per second on all platforms, and that the combat gameplay shown demonstrated fast-paced melee-focused action akin to Devil May Cry or Bayonetta. Now, YouTuber Hidden Machine reports that Remedy confirmed Jesse Faden will not be playable at all [β¦]
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Although the Steam Machine has yet to be released, the new Valve hardware has sparked quite a bit of discussion among gaming enthusiasts. While some believe it will end up being a niche system, others believe Valve's gaming system could send the console market into an upheaval, especially if it is priced right. With the current RAM prices, however, it remains to be seen how Valve will handle this critical element (and its release date), and with things unlikely to improve anytime soon, it's looking less likely that the system could be released within the price range of a traditional [β¦]
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Like many of the wrestlers the franchise lets you play as, the WWE 2K games have been on top of the world, down and out, and everything in between. Last year's WWE 2K25 was not a career high point as the game focused heavily on The Island, a new online hub in the vein of NBA 2K's The City, to the exclusion of almost everything else. Thankfully, as I described in my hands-on impressions, WWE 2K26 seems to be spreading the love a bit more with new features. Does WWE 2K26 light a fire under the franchise? Or is it [β¦]
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Today, Bloomberg reports an indirect threat for the Nintendo Switch 2 console coming from the ongoing memory storage crisis. As you probably are already aware of if you're a regular Wccftech reader, the global rush to build artificial intelligence hardware has brought major increases in the price of NAND flash memory: NAND contract prices are forecast to surge by up to 90% in this quarter compared with the previous three-month period, when prices had already spiked by over 30%. This is an issue for the Nintendo Switch 2 because of its limited storage. The hybrid console only has 256GB of [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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Cyprus-based game developer Mundfish has just unveiled the fourth and final Atomic Heart DLC. Titled Blood on Crystal, it will be released on April 16 for all platforms (PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S and X). According to the studio, Atomic Heart fans will experience the "thrilling, high-stakes" conclusion of the first game's narrative in this DLC, in which protagonist P-3 and their comrades must venture deeper than ever before into Facility 3826 to battle CHAR-les and make a final attempt to save humanity from total annihilation. Here's an overview provided by Mundfish: Mundfish also [β¦]
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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. [β¦]
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After having been in development for a very long time, Crimson Desert is almost upon us. Up until now, however, developer Pearl Abyss has only shown the game on PC, raising concerns over the console versions of the game and making more than a few suspect the developer was actually hiding console footage in a tragic repeat of the Cyberpunk 2077 situation back in 2022, forcing PR representatives to address the matter outright. Following the confirmation that Pearl Abyss is not hiding Crimson Desert console footage, details on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro versions have been shared online, [β¦]
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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, [β¦]
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Although it was widely known that Remedy Entertainment has been working on the second entry in the Control series for a while, the reveal of Control Resonant was still quite a surprise for fans of the Finnish studio. Right from its very first showing during last year's The Game Awards show, it was clear how the second entry in the series would be a very different game from its predecessor, closer to a character action game than to the third-person shooter formula seen in Jesse Faden's venture into the Oldest House. The first few looks at Control Resonant's gameplay gave [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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The Financial Times has published a paywalled report revealing that the US government is presently evaluating whether to compel the giant Chinese gaming publisher Tencent to divest from US gaming companies for national security purposes. Top officials have held internal meetings to assess βwhether Tencent's many investments can be allowed to continue, since they give them access to data on millions of American gamers. A cabinet-level meeting to discuss the matter was scheduled for today, but was postponed due to scheduling conflicts. US President Donald Trump is preparing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in China in April, so presumably, [β¦]
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Years after its release, Fallout: New Vegas continues to be one of the most popular entries in the series, and demand for a remaster continues to be high. Late last month, it seemed like fans' wishes would come true in the near future, as development studio Iron Galaxy seemed to tease that it was working on this highly requested project. However, the developer has now confirmed that there was nothing to see in the image they shared a few days back. On Bluesky, the development studio behind multiple ports and remasters such as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, [β¦]
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This morning, CAPCOM revealed in a press release that Resident Evil Requiem has already surpassed five million units sold globally in just six days since its February 27 launch. We already had an inkling of the game's excellent commercial performance based on how easily it smashed prior franchise concurrency records on Steam. User reviews on Valve's platform are also Overwhelmingly Positive (96% right now), and the game currently holds the best user score on Metacritic, tied with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Weirdly enough, though, CAPCOM does not boast of Resident Evil Requiem being the fastest-selling franchise entry, even though it [β¦]
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Renowned Call of Duty leaker The Ghost of Hope has revealed on X that Activision has legally forced them to stop leaking information about the franchise, likely through a C&D (Cease and Desist) letter. Activision has legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information related to Call of Duty/Activision and I am complying with their demands. Still gonna stick around and chat about Official Call of Duty info and anything not related to leaks/confidential information. Cheers for these past few years. Even the official Call of Duty X account commented on the news. When a COD creator mused [β¦]
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The WD_Black SN7100 4TB NVMe SSD is $546 on Amazon with Gen4 speeds and TLC NAND at roughly $137/TB.
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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One of the most interesting game reveals at The Game Awards 2025, at least in my opinion, was Neon Giant's NO LAW. The new game from the makers of The Ascent is a first person open world shooter that was easy to compare to Cyberpunk 2077, although its developers were quick to address that, clarifying that it's "a lot more intimate" in comparison to CD Projekt RED's game. In a new interview with EDGE magazine (issue 421, April 2026), Neon Giant co-founder and creative director Arcade Berg revealed the true inspiration: immersive simulations. We feel really good about putting this [β¦]
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Although CAPCOMβs RE Engine proved to be a great engine for linear games such as Resident Evil Requiem, Monster Hunter Wilds highlighted how the engine wasn't as good at handling open-world games. Its significant performance issues have now been fixed for the most part, and they may even be a thing of the past for future games from the Japanese publisher, judging from a recent statement. During a Q&A session held during the publisher's Q3 FY2025 Financial Results Conference Call, CAPCOM discussed its future PC strategy. "As of the third quarter, PC sales account for approximately 50% of total unit [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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NVIDIA confirmed today that two of the main PC releases due this month, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach by Kojima Productions and Marathon by Bungie, will support the latest second-generation transformer model, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution, via the NVIDIA app override. Kojima Productions had already confirmed support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation (AMD FSR 4 and Intel XeSS 2 are also supported). Now, we know that users will be able to switch the Super Resolution to DLSS 4.5 (which recently beat AMD FSR 4 and even native resolution rendering in a blind test conducted by [β¦]
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Ever since video games have been a thing, players have always sought the help of others to overcome difficult segments. While how they seek help has changed a lot over the years, moving from guides published in magazines to online walkthroughs and videos, the need for guidance for particularly challenging segments is as strong as it has ever been. In the future, however, there could be a massive change in how players receive their much-needed help, judging from a patent filed by Microsoft detailing a cloud-based Xbox system to let human or AI helpers take over temporarily. As spotted by [β¦]
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Last month, ahead of the launch of Resident Evil Requiem, the Resident Evil 4 remake received a surprise update on PC. While the small update did not add any content to the game, it removed the Denuvo DRM protection the game had since launch and replaced it with Enigma DRM, which had a significant impact on performance. While the community and games media such as Digital Foundry did not hide their disappointment at the practice of updating years-old games just to add DRM that ultimately ruins the experience for those who purchased the game, the lack of communication from CAPCOM [β¦]
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We might finally have a solid clue of who's working on the long-rumored Fallout: New Vegas remaster: it's Iron Galaxy, which has dropped a pretty heavy-handed tease on LinkedIn: a "Please Stand By" picture from a Fallout game with the background of a bright desert environment and the following accompanying statement: Todayβs our February company meeting. Itβs time to catch up with what the companyβs been up to and whatβs coming up next for IG. The Chicago-based game developer, which is very fond of its independence, has released a few original titles in the past, including Wreckateer, Divekick, Extinction, and [β¦]
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Today, Japanese developer and publisher CAPCOM announced that a new episode of its CAPCOM Spotlight series of livestreams will air on Thursday, March 5, at 2 PM Pacific Time. This CAPCOM Spotlight will last approximately half an hour, focusing on the following upcoming and existing games: Below, we've added a brief overview of each featured game, in release date order. Street Fighter 6 is the only game that's already out. Launched in June 2023 to critical acclaim, it marked the studio's return to form for its flagship fighting franchise after the rocky reception to Street Fighter V. It introduced a [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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Update 09/03/2026: On top of being tied with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem is now the highest-rated game on the PlayStation Store by its five-star user rating review system. Spotted on ResetEra, the game has over 51K ratings with a score of 4.91/5, while Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sits at 4.85/5 based on over 92K ratings. Its larger sample size is definitely a factor in why it has a lower score, but the point stands that Resident Evil Requiem is really resonating with players. Original Story 02/03/2026: Resident Evil Requiem arrived on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, [β¦]
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Next week, French developer Spiders (a subsidiary of the ailing publisher NACON since 2019) will launch the game GreedFall: The Dying World, originally called GreedFall II, out of early access. It's a delicate time for the company, between the mixed reception to the early access version of The Dying World and the tensions within the studio in late 2024 that led to a strike and, eventually, to higher wages for employees. A few months ago, Spiders also laid off most of the animation team, probably because there was no more work to be done on GreedFall: The Dying World in [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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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 [β¦]
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