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The long awaited sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres on Paramount Plus July 25...

Lego Reveals 5 New Pokémon Sets Featuring Rayquaza, Arcanine, And More
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Critical Role unveils the bone-chilling Age of Umbra: Sallowlands trailer Polygon ⚡ 39m ago

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The director of The Witcher 3 returns with one of 2026's most promising RPGs...

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We're going back to 2409....

PlayStation finally breaks silence amid physical disc fury Polygon ⚡ 41m ago

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The game is great, but so is its anime adaptation...

The Furious, the best action movie of the year, gets surprise early streaming release Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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And that's before mentioning workarounds....

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Doom dev id Software reportedly halved following Xbox's mass layoffs Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader gets Eurogamer ⚡ 1h ago

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2025's best puzzle game Blue Prince is now a competitive esport Polygon ⚡ 1h ago

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Granblue Fantasy: Relink's Endless Ragnarok expansion makes an over-the-top RPG even more spectacular....

RPG That Earned Over A Million Dollars On Kickstarter In 2013 Provides First Update In Seven Years: ‘Aiming To Finish Production At The End Of 2031’ Kotaku ⚡ 1h ago

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The long wait for Project Phoenix continues......

Resident Evil Meets FNAF In This Horror Game Arriving Before Halloween GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

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Xbox Layoffs Included 37-Year Veteran Who Designed One Of Xbox’s Best Features Ever GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

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IO Interactive regains full ownership of Project Fantasy following end of Xbox deal, shuts down Istanbul studio and lays off developers Eurogamer ⚡ 1h ago

IO Interactive regains full ownership of Project Fantasy following end of Xbox deal, shuts down Istanbul studio and lays off developers "to find a new balance"

It's one of those weeks. After Xbox pulling out of a publishing and funding deal for Project Fantasy - IO Interactive's next game - the deve...

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In the wake of mass layoffs at Xbox and several studios exiting the company, Microsoft's gaming division has outlined it plans for growth. S...

Creator of infamous $1m Kickstarter Project Phoenix says he ‘deserved the backlash’ – and insists it’s still coming VGC ⚡ 1h ago

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Project Phoenix dev explains what went wrong, and why it’s still coming...

After split with Xbox, Hitman developer IO will RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 1h ago

After split with Xbox, Hitman developer IO will "continue to develop" Project Fantasy independently, but they're closing their Istanbul Studio

Last week brought the news that Xbox had dropped their support for Project Fantasy the, er, fantasy project in development at IO Interactive...

Obsidian Hit Hard By Xbox Layoffs, With 25% Of Devs Cut From Studio GameSpot ⚡ 1h ago

Obsidian Hit Hard By Xbox Layoffs, With 25% Of Devs Cut From Studio

Microsoft's mass layoffs had a heavy impact on the Xbox division, and Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds, is one of ...

IO Interactive Regains Ownership Of Project Fantasy Following Xbox Split
GameInformer ⚡ 2h ago

IO Interactive Regains Ownership Of Project Fantasy Following Xbox Split

IO Interactive has announced it has regained full ownership of its in-development online RPG Project Fantasy following its split from an ext...

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According to Dan Callan, former Xbox lead Don Mattrick wanted a real-money auction house added to Halo 4...

RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 2h ago

"I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team

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You've heard of two-faced, now get ready for three-faced....

Bond and Hitman Developer Closing a Studio and Laying Off Staff After Xbox Pulls Funding IGN ⚡ 2h ago

Bond and Hitman Developer Closing a Studio and Laying Off Staff After Xbox Pulls Funding

Hitman and 007: First Light developer IO Interactive will close one of its studios and lay off an unknown number of staff, after Xbox pulled...

 John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left PCGamer ⚡ 2h ago

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"I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."...

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Xbox Game Pass New Games For July Revealed GameSpot ⚡ 2h ago

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Doom co-creator John Romero weighs in on Xbox's cuts to id Software, underlines the importance of digital preservation and the studio's history Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

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Xbox's recently announced, division-wide layoffs are a disaster, and Doom studio id Software has been hit particularly hard right as it's la...

The petition against Sony's decision to kill PlayStation physical discs has over 170,000 signatures Eurogamer ⚡ 2h ago

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You may scoff at how little real-world change petitions typically produce, but you can't deny that this particular campaign has a lot of use...

PlayStation Breaks Six-Day Silence After Announcing The End Of Discs And Gets Immediately Roasted: ‘Physical Forever You Cowards’ Kotaku ⚡ 2h ago

PlayStation Breaks Six-Day Silence After Announcing The End Of Discs And Gets Immediately Roasted: ‘Physical Forever You Cowards’

The company has gone mostly silent since the controversial news broke...

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PlayStation has published its first tweet since it announced the end of physical discs on PlayStation consoles — and it’s going about as wel...

New games and updates coming to Xbox Game Pass in July 2026 VGC ⚡ 3h ago

New games and updates coming to Xbox Game Pass in July 2026

Everything coming to Xbox Game Pass' various tiers in July 2026....

Doom Designer John Romero Says He Hopes People Are Preserving id Software’s History Amid Reported Xbox Bloodbath Kotaku ⚡ 3h ago

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The veteran dev shared his condolences a year after his own studio reportedly faced cuts from Microsoft...

Xbox Makes First Game Pass Lineup Announcement Following Layoffs — and CEO Asha Sharma's Admission That Microsoft's Gaming Strategy Failed to Work Out IGN ⚡ 3h ago

Xbox Makes First Game Pass Lineup Announcement Following Layoffs — and CEO Asha Sharma's Admission That Microsoft's Gaming Strategy Failed to Work Out

Microsoft has announced the July lineup of games for Game Pass in its first announcement following the layoffs that ripped through the Xbox ...

IO confirms it will continue Project Fantasy independently after Xbox split VGC ⚡ 3h ago

IO confirms it will continue Project Fantasy independently after Xbox split

The game was previously being funded by Microsoft...

Aion 2 Is an MMO That Gives You Wings and the Cutest Pets You’ve Ever Seen | IGN Preview IGN ⚡ 3h ago

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We also got a glimpse of Aion 2's four-player party-based content, which looks similarly fast-paced, and the team told us that there’s also ...

Xbox Wants To Entertain 1 Billion People Every Day. It Can’t Even Explain How GameSpot ⚡ 3h ago

Xbox Wants To Entertain 1 Billion People Every Day. It Can’t Even Explain How

1 Billion DAU! Following the announcement that Xbox will cut its workforce by 20%--with 1,600 employees already laid off in the first wav...

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Burnout creator Criterion has been re-branded as "A Battlefield Studio", but we should never forget its 30-year legacy of making phenomenal ...

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The Outer Worlds and Fallout New Vegas studio Obsidian is reportedly losing a quarter of its staff in Xbox layoffs Eurogamer ⚡ 3h ago

The Outer Worlds and Fallout New Vegas studio Obsidian is reportedly losing a quarter of its staff in Xbox layoffs

Obsidian, the legendary RPG studio behind The Outer Worlds, Avowed, Fallout New Vegas and other acclaimed games, is losing about a quarter o...

What exactly is going on with Marvel's Blade? Arkane Lyon's fate remains unclear in the wake of Xbox's controversial 'reset' Eurogamer ⚡ 3h ago

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Yesterday, we officially heard what has been rumoured for the past few weeks: Microsoft is set to lay off thousands of people from its Xbox ...

Xbox CEO Says Healthy Console Is ‘Necessary But Not Sufficient’ For Success Kotaku ⚡ 4h ago

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Microsoft's gaming ambitions still go way beyond living room hardware...

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Moths are better than butterflies, change my mind....

While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 4h ago

While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future

Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring, with...

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Here's hoping the expected price drop isn't just wishful thinking....

State of Decay 3 may no longer launch into Game Pass, now that Microsoft is letting developer Undead Labs go Eurogamer ⚡ 4h ago

State of Decay 3 may no longer launch into Game Pass, now that Microsoft is letting developer Undead Labs go

State of Decay 3, the once first-party Xbox game, may not launch into Game Pass after all. The game's developer, Undead Labs, is among the s...

'My Heart's With All of You' — John Romero Says id Software Has 'Done a Great Job' Moving the Studio's Legacy Forward and Hopes Someone Is Working to Preserve It All Amid Xbox Layoffs IGN ⚡ 4h ago

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John Romero has commented on the layoffs that have impacted Microsoft-owned id Software as part of sweeping cuts to the Xbox business....

Former Xbox boss Don Mattrick once reportedly suggested Halo 4 should have a real-money auction house like Diablo 3 infamously did Eurogamer ⚡ 4h ago

Former Xbox boss Don Mattrick once reportedly suggested Halo 4 should have a real-money auction house like Diablo 3 infamously did

As the games industry grapples with Xbox laying off 3200 workers and dropping five studios, more voices are surfacing to tell tales about co...

 Logitech Mobi Fold review PCGamer ⚡ 4h ago

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Is that a mouse in your pocket or do you need to see a doctor?...

Xbox Game Pass subscription numbers are reportedly well below where Microsoft wants them to be Eurogamer ⚡ 5h ago

Xbox Game Pass subscription numbers are reportedly well below where Microsoft wants them to be

The total number of Game Pass subscribers has dropped back down to 30 million, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. This is a loss...

 After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again. PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.

Dell's stock price has risen significantly since his investment....

 Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***' PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

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This is no way to treat the heir of Rattay....

Staff at Fallout: New Vegas Developer Obsidian Reportedly Left Unsure How 'Huge List of Projects' Can Continue After Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard IGN ⚡ 5h ago

Staff at Fallout: New Vegas Developer Obsidian Reportedly Left Unsure How 'Huge List of Projects' Can Continue After Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard

Staff at Obsidian Entertainment are reportedly concerned about the studio’s future projects after it was hit hard by Microsoft’s Xbox layoff...

First LEGO Pokémon Minifigures Revealed, Including Professor Oak and Red, Plus Pikachu and Eevee IGN ⚡ 5h ago

First LEGO Pokémon Minifigures Revealed, Including Professor Oak and Red, Plus Pikachu and Eevee

The first LEGO Pokémon set to include minifigures, featuring Professor Oak and Red, will debut later this year, images have revealed....

 It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027 PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

I'm sure this is great for morale....

 Asus ROG Strix XG129C review PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

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This fun-sized sidekick touchscreen monitor isn't exactly a value proposition, but it's still kinda fun....

 A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix PCGamer ⚡ 5h ago

A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix

That's about $100 worth of space in the current memory crisis....

'She'd Be Great as Mystique': Obsession Star Inde Navarette Confirms Meeting With X-Men Director Jake Schreier, as Marvel Fans Discuss Who She's Likely to Play IGN ⚡ 6h ago

'She'd Be Great as Mystique': Obsession Star Inde Navarette Confirms Meeting With X-Men Director Jake Schreier, as Marvel Fans Discuss Who She's Likely to Play

Obsession star Inde Navarette has revealed she recently met with X-Men reboot director Jake Schreier, and Marvel fans are already discussing...

Latest Xbox layoffs hit id Software as Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC launches, around half of the staff potentially cut Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

Latest Xbox layoffs hit id Software as Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC launches, around half of the staff potentially cut

Xbox is cutting 3200 jobs between now and the end of financial year 2027, with studios like Undead Labs and Compulsion Games going independe...

Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 6h ago

Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff

Xbox laid off around 1600 people yesterday, July 6th, as mass cuts accompanied by the decision to part ways with five studios were set in st...

As layoffs continue to ravage the games industry, a union across North America establishes a fund to help those impacted by it Eurogamer ⚡ 6h ago

As layoffs continue to ravage the games industry, a union across North America establishes a fund to help those impacted by it

The United Videogame Workers union (UVW-CWA) has launched a new fund to help laid off workers across the US and Canada. The Game Worker Hard...

Xbox layoffs reportedly gut Id Software’s coding team and cut 60-70 developers from Obsidian VGC ⚡ 6h ago

Xbox layoffs reportedly gut Id Software’s coding team and cut 60-70 developers from Obsidian

The scale of Microsoft's cuts are becoming clear...

Microsoft Expected Game Pass Would Have 77 Million Subscribers by Now but It Reportedly Only Has 30 Million, as Xbox Boss Admits the Strategy Has Failed IGN ⚡ 7h ago

Microsoft Expected Game Pass Would Have 77 Million Subscribers by Now but It Reportedly Only Has 30 Million, as Xbox Boss Admits the Strategy Has Failed

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has admitted Game Pass has failed to grow as Microsoft had expected, with reports indicating it is tens of millions of ...

Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is RockPaperShotgun ⚡ 7h ago

Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts

Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the ...

Nintendo Confirms Switch 1 Global Availability After Announcing European Withdrawal IGN ⚡ 7h ago

Nintendo Confirms Switch 1 Global Availability After Announcing European Withdrawal

Nintendo has confirmed its plans to continue selling Switch 1, after yesterday announcing that sales would be suspended in Europe....

Sony goes quiet as ‘Don’t Kill the Disc’ petition reaches 165,000 signatures VGC ⚡ 7h ago

Sony goes quiet as ‘Don’t Kill the Disc’ petition reaches 165,000 signatures

'Don't Kill the Disc' petition amasses thousands of signatures as Sony stays silent....

The Elder Scrolls Online studio reportedly suffers a second large wave of layoffs in a year, with Eurogamer ⚡ 7h ago

The Elder Scrolls Online studio reportedly suffers a second large wave of layoffs in a year, with "up to half" of the team impacted

A second wave of massive Microsoft layoffs has reportedly hit Zenimax Online Studios, with some sources claiming "up to half" of the studio ...

State of Decay 3 no longer needs to release on Game Pass following Xbox split VGC ⚡ 7h ago

State of Decay 3 no longer needs to release on Game Pass following Xbox split

The game was announced in 2020, and reappeared last month...

Bethesda boss tells staff it will restructure around ‘our strongest franchises’ after cuts VGC ⚡ 7h ago

Bethesda boss tells staff it will restructure around ‘our strongest franchises’ after cuts

Bethesda will reportedly rebuild around Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein...

Hatsune Miku: Starry Party is a new video game starring the virtual singer and her friends coming to Switch 2 and PC Eurogamer ⚡ 7h ago

Hatsune Miku: Starry Party is a new video game starring the virtual singer and her friends coming to Switch 2 and PC

Good Smile Company has announced Hatsune Miku: Starry Party, a new "party action" game with chibi character designs coming to Nintendo Switc...

Acclaimed PS5 roguelike shooter Saros gets a substantial free trial, but there's a catch Eurogamer ⚡ 8h ago

Acclaimed PS5 roguelike shooter Saros gets a substantial free trial, but there's a catch

Saros, the latest game from the arcade-loving game creators at Housemarque, is getting a new two-and-half hour trial for anyone interested i...

 How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier PCGamer ⚡ 14h ago

How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier

"It's an easy thing to do when you build the answer to the question in the lore of the game."...

Original Nintendo Switch Will Be Discontinued In Europe GameSpot ⚡ 16h ago

Original Nintendo Switch Will Be Discontinued In Europe

Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the original Nintendo Switch, which remains in active production despite the debut of Switch 2 i...

The First Reactions To Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Call It ‘Clunky,’ ‘Astonishing,’ And Like Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings Kotaku ⚡ 17h ago

The First Reactions To Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Call It ‘Clunky,’ ‘Astonishing,’ And Like Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings

IMAX screening are already sold out for days...

Walmart Has a Decent 512GB Nintendo Switch 2 Memory Card Deal Despite the Price Hikes IGN ⚡ 17h ago

Walmart Has a Decent 512GB Nintendo Switch 2 Memory Card Deal Despite the Price Hikes

You can hold out for as long as you want, but sooner or later you'll need more space....

The Outer Worlds And Grounded Studio Obsidian Losing Around 25 Percent Of Its Staff To Xbox Layoffs Kotaku ⚡ 18h ago

The Outer Worlds And Grounded Studio Obsidian Losing Around 25 Percent Of Its Staff To Xbox Layoffs

Roles impacted spanned all disciplines, and included employees with over a decade of experience at the studio...

Save 50% Off the Lokithor J2250 Pro Cordless Car Jump Starter With LiFePO4 Batteries IGN ⚡ 18h ago

Save 50% Off the Lokithor J2250 Pro Cordless Car Jump Starter With LiFePO4 Batteries

LiFePO4 jump starters are safer, last longer, and work better in cold weather than traditional lithium models....

 The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point' PCGamer ⚡ 18h ago

The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'

3,200 employees are being put out of work, and people have thoughts....

Xbox Lays Off FanFest Guy Three Months After Bringing Back Xbox FanFest Kotaku ⚡ 18h ago

Xbox Lays Off FanFest Guy Three Months After Bringing Back Xbox FanFest

Chris Munson was a 15-year veteran of Microsoft...

Steam Machine vs PS5: How Does Valve's New Mini PC Stack Up? IGN ⚡ 18h ago

Steam Machine vs PS5: How Does Valve's New Mini PC Stack Up?

Click Alt-Tab to read the full gaming story.

 CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly' PCGamer ⚡ 19h ago

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Arasaka-level discipline...

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GKIDS Reveals 3 New Collector’s Editions of Beloved Films and Blu-ray Remaster of Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop at Anime Expo 2026 IGN ⚡ 19h ago

GKIDS Reveals 3 New Collector’s Editions of Beloved Films and Blu-ray Remaster of Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop at Anime Expo 2026

Media distributor GKIDS announced four new home video releases "built specifically for collectors" during its 2026 Anime Expo panel....

Fake Eyelashes And Street-Walking: How The Cast Of You And I Are Polar Opposites Got Into Character Kotaku ⚡ 19h ago

Fake Eyelashes And Street-Walking: How The Cast Of You And I Are Polar Opposites Got Into Character

The voice cast of the popular anime found their characters in the recording booth...

Meccha Chameleon Hits an Astonishing 15 Million Sales, Teases Collaboration With Famous Japanese Star — and Fans Have Theories for Who It Might Be IGN ⚡ 19h ago

Meccha Chameleon Hits an Astonishing 15 Million Sales, Teases Collaboration With Famous Japanese Star — and Fans Have Theories for Who It Might Be

Skyrocketing Japanese indie hit Meccha Chameleon just surpassed 15 million sales, despite launching on Steam less than a month ago. Now, the...

Disney Lorcana TCG: Attack of the Vine! Set First Impressions IGN ⚡ 19h ago

Disney Lorcana TCG: Attack of the Vine! Set First Impressions

Get an early look at Disney Lorcana’s upcoming Attack of the Vine! expansion, featuring more Pixar characters from the Monsters, Inc. franch...

 Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career PCGamer ⚡ 19h ago

Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career

Harada says the Souls series "was the result of everything Miyazaki and his team had built up through their previous titles."...

Game Collectors Mourn The Death Of The PlayStation Disc: ‘It Will Feel Like I’m Starting Over From Scratch’ Kotaku ⚡ 19h ago

Game Collectors Mourn The Death Of The PlayStation Disc: ‘It Will Feel Like I’m Starting Over From Scratch’

The end of physical games is affecting every side of the community differently...

Overwatch Finally Achieves Mixed Reviews Three Years After Being Steam’s Lowest-Rated Game Kotaku ⚡ 20h ago

Overwatch Finally Achieves Mixed Reviews Three Years After Being Steam’s Lowest-Rated Game

Hey, it’s better than when it was the lowest-rated game on the platform...

Diablo 4’s Massive Mythic Item Changes Aren’t Finding Many Fans GameSpot ⚡ 20h ago

Diablo 4’s Massive Mythic Item Changes Aren’t Finding Many Fans

Diablo 4 Season 14 dramatically reworked Mythic items in Blizzard's ARPG going forward, and judging from early feedback, it's a change that ...

“Catastrophic Mismanagement” And AI Gambits Led To Mass Xbox Layoffs, Expert Says GameSpot ⚡ 20h ago

“Catastrophic Mismanagement” And AI Gambits Led To Mass Xbox Layoffs, Expert Says

Microsoft has announced sweeping layoffs and other dramatic changes resulting in 4,800 layoffs across the company, including 3,200 at Xbox s...

The State Of Xbox’s 25+ Game Studios And What They’re Up To In 2026 Kotaku ⚡ 20h ago

The State Of Xbox’s 25+ Game Studios And What They’re Up To In 2026

Xbox owns a lot of studios across the globe; here's which ones are still active and which are not as of July 2026...

 Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months PCGamer ⚡ 20h ago

Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months

No news was not, in fact, good news....

Nintendo Will Stop Selling The Original Switch In Europe Next Year Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

Nintendo Will Stop Selling The Original Switch In Europe Next Year

New regulations regarding replaceable batteries mean the OG Switch will be discontinued while a compliant Switch 2 model will be available l...

Xbox CEO Reflects On Massive Cuts: “We Simply Spread Ourselves Too Thin” GameSpot ⚡ 21h ago

Xbox CEO Reflects On Massive Cuts: “We Simply Spread Ourselves Too Thin”

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared new details on the significant changes at Xbox, including mass layoffs, studio spinoffs, and more. In an in...

The Cyberpunk TCG That Crowdfunded More Than $7.5 Million In Just A Couple Of Hours Is A Blast To Play Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

The Cyberpunk TCG That Crowdfunded More Than $7.5 Million In Just A Couple Of Hours Is A Blast To Play

The Cyberpunk TCG is fast, fulfilling, and respects your time...

Xbox Can’t Meet Ridiculous New Goal Of ‘Entertaining’ 1 Billion A Day Even If We All Boot Up A Call Of Duty Right Now Kotaku ⚡ 21h ago

Xbox Can’t Meet Ridiculous New Goal Of ‘Entertaining’ 1 Billion A Day Even If We All Boot Up A Call Of Duty Right Now

One-eighth of the earth's population isn't so many, right?...

The Steam Machine’s Red Line Of Death Is Less Scary, And More Useful, Than You Might Think GameSpot ⚡ 21h ago

The Steam Machine’s Red Line Of Death Is Less Scary, And More Useful, Than You Might Think

With the Steam Machine starting to land in some lucky buyers hands, a few of the gremlins in Valve's compact living-room PC have started to ...

Game Pass Is Reportedly Back Down To 30 Million Subscribers Kotaku ⚡ 22h ago

Game Pass Is Reportedly Back Down To 30 Million Subscribers

The decline comes after a very unpopular price hike in 2025...

World Of Warcraft Just Got A Sequel To Its Most Literally Viral Moment GameSpot ⚡ 22h ago

World Of Warcraft Just Got A Sequel To Its Most Literally Viral Moment

A deadly plague spread through World of Warcraft's Moonguard server over the weekend, making it the second time in WoW history a horrific vi...

Here’s What’s Going On With Marvel’s Blade And Its Developer Amid Xbox “Reset” GameSpot ⚡ 23h ago

Here’s What’s Going On With Marvel’s Blade And Its Developer Amid Xbox “Reset”

Microsoft is undergoing a major shakeup that involves mass layoffs, studio sell-offs, and other significant changes as part of a "reset" of ...

 French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs PCGamer ⚡ 23h ago

French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs

"Videogames are not mere merchandise—they are cultural assets."...

 Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center PCGamer ⚡ 23h ago

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center

'Microsoft prides itself on being a good neighbor in the communities where we operate.'...

 Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result

A grim outcome from Xbox's latest round of reaping....

Xbox Layoffs “Heavily Impact” The Accessibility Team, Too GameSpot ⚡ 1d ago

Xbox Layoffs “Heavily Impact” The Accessibility Team, Too

As part of the 1,600 people being let go by Xbox during its big reset on July 6, it appears that the company's Accessibility division has be...

 Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union PCGamer ⚡ 1d ago

Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union

ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software have survived the latest bloodbath at Microsoft, but it sounds like they've been cut deeply....

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"It's much further along than we originally planned": Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going "swimmingly", despite DLC delays

Though Last Orders, the second DLC for massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, is taking longer than Team FOLON originally planned, the modde...