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Jun 17, 2026
Xbox Game Studios boss exits as studio fears keep growing
Xbox did not need another reason for developers to feel nervous. The company is already dealing with layoff fears, studio closure reports, and a first-party lineup that looks more uncertain every week...
Jun 17, 2026
South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games is reportedly in trouble at Xbox
South of Midnight was the kind of Xbox game people kept asking for. It was not another giant shooter, another racing sequel, or another safe franchise bet. It was strange, stylish, rooted in Southern ...
Jun 17, 2026
Xbox’s studio crisis now reportedly reaches Ninja Theory and Double Fine
Xbox’s big studio-buying era was sold as protection. Smaller teams would get money, stability, Game Pass visibility, and enough room to make the kinds of games that usually struggle inside a blockbust...
Jun 17, 2026
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is free right when it needs new players most
The easiest time to ignore a huge Ubisoft RPG is before you have played it. Maybe the map looks too big. Maybe the discourse got tiring. Maybe Assassin’s Creed Shadows looked interesting, but not inte...
Jun 17, 2026
Assassin’s Creed Shadows gets one last shot at a proper goodbye
Ubisoft has one last opportunity to make Naoe and Yasuke’s ending feel complete. Assassin’s Creed Shadows already gave players a huge version of Japan to stalk, climb, burn through, and argue about, b...
Jun 16, 2026
Zelda fan spots a clever link between Ocarina of Time and later games
Zelda fans can make a whole week out of three seconds of footage, and honestly, that is part of the fun. Nintendo barely showed young Link in the new The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, but p...
Jun 16, 2026
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is finally ditching the paid shortcuts players hated
Dragon’s Dogma 2 was built to make travel awkward, danger inconvenient, and bad decisions memorable. Then players opened the store at launch and saw Capcom selling shortcuts beside a $70 single-player...
Jun 16, 2026
Ghost of Yōtei is winning the PS5 sales fight by a huge margin
PlayStation had two very different prestige games carrying its single-player image last year. One sent players across a snowy, blood-soaked revenge story with a sword at the center. The other asked th...
Jun 16, 2026
Dead by Daylight saved Art the Clown for one last anniversary scare
Dead by Daylight spent its 10th anniversary acting like a horror fan who knows exactly when to turn the lights off. The stream had already thrown plenty at players, from Jason Voorhees finally steppin...
Jun 16, 2026
007 First Light gets its first patch, but the bugs are not very Bond-worthy
007 First Light has its first post-launch update, and the patch notes are almost disappointingly normal for a James Bond game. IO Interactive has fixed crashes, NPC pathing issues, dialogue problems, ...
Jun 15, 2026
Fallout 76 fans should not expect another big trip beyond Appalachia soon
There was a fun promise behind Expeditions in Fallout 76. Appalachia was still the place players logged into every night, but the vertibird made the world feel wider. The Pitt brought back an old scar...
Jun 15, 2026
New co-op Witcher leak sounds like the series’ riskiest spin-off yet
A co-op Witcher game sounds wrong until you picture the contract board. One monster, a village full of bad information, a swamp nobody wants to enter, and a group of witchers arguing over who brought ...
Jun 15, 2026
Tekken 8 Season 3 backlash has Bandai Namco patching fast
Tekken 8 did not need another messy season launch. After months of players arguing that the game had become too aggressive, too swingy, and too exhausting to defend against, Season 3 was supposed to b...
Jun 15, 2026
Red Dead Redemption 2 actor says he is in GTA 6
Rockstar fans can turn the smallest loose thread into a full detective board, and this one gives them just enough to start pinning red strings again. A familiar face from Red Dead Redemption 2 has sai...
Jun 15, 2026
Sony reveals God of War Laufey, and Kratos is not the lead this time
Sony just gave God of War fans the kind of reveal that makes the whole series feel new again. God of War Laufey is a new PS5 game from Santa Monica Studio, but the surprise is not just that the franch...
Jun 15, 2026
The Witcher 3 is dragging Geralt back onto the Path
Geralt got one of the rare goodbyes video games almost never allow. Blood and Wine let him slow down, drink in the sun, and leave players with the feeling that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had closed the ...
Jun 12, 2026
Valor Mortis turns the Napoleonic Wars into a first-person soulslike
Most soulslikes send players into ruined kingdoms, cursed castles, or dying fantasy worlds. Valor Mortis is taking a stranger route: it drops the genre into an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars...
Jun 12, 2026
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse gives Konami another 2D comeback
Konami has spent years rebuilding trust with players who wondered if some of its classic franchises would ever feel alive again. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is the kind of reveal that makes that come...
Jun 12, 2026
Persona 6 was the surprise JRPG reveal Xbox needed
Xbox needed one reveal that made JRPG fans sit up immediately, and Persona 6 did exactly that. Atlus finally confirmed the next mainline entry during the Xbox Games Showcase, turning years of rumors, ...
Jun 12, 2026
State of Decay 3 finally showed gameplay, and it looks like the wait may have mattered
For years, State of Decay 3 was the Xbox zombie game fans kept hoping would reappear with something real. That finally happened at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, and the difference is hard to miss. The...