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Jul 14, 2026
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Sales Reach 2 Million On Day 1
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has made a strong start, which is good news for Ubisoft. The remake sold 2 million copies on its first day, giving the publisher a strong launch around one of the ...
Jul 14, 2026
New Look At Kingdom Hearts 4 May Be Coming Next Month
Kingdom Hearts fans may not have to wait long for the next update on Kingdom Hearts IV. Disney’s D23 event is happening in August, and a Kingdom Hearts panel on the schedule has made players wonder if...
Jul 14, 2026
Octopath Traveler 0 free update adds new foe and resident
Square Enix is preparing a free Octopath Traveler 0 update for later this year, with a new Monster Arena foe and a new resident for Wishvale among the first confirmed additions. The publisher has not ...
Jul 14, 2026
Astarion mod adds a new Baldur’s Gate 3 ending scene
Baldur’s Gate 3 players can now give Astarion a smoother ending through a new fan-made cutscene mod. The mod, called Follow Astarion - New Endgame Cutscene, lets players go after him during the game’s...
Jul 14, 2026
Games Done Quick cancels SNK streams after Saudi backlash
Games Done Quick canceled a sponsored SNK speedrunning stream roughly two hours after announcing it, following backlash over the fighting game publisher’s ties to Saudi Arabia. The charity speedrunnin...
Jul 14, 2026
The First Descendant targets power creep with Serena and Ines changes
The First Descendant is making another balance pass, with Nexon preparing changes for Serena and Ines in the July 15 update. Both Descendants have become major parts of the power creep debate, especia...
Jul 14, 2026
The GTA IV Cold Case: Why Rockstar Would Rather Leave a Masterpiece in 2008
Ask the man who played Roman Bellic and you get the same question millions of fans have been asking for years. In a recent interview, Jason Zumwalt, the voice and motion capture actor behind Niko's co...
Jul 14, 2026
The Success of Classic Black Ops Is a Lesson for Activision
The success of these decade-plus-old ports doesn't prove players will buy anything wrapped in nostalgia. It shows what modern Call of Duty left behind along the way. Black Ops and Black Ops 2 landed o...
Jul 13, 2026
EA Removes Microtransactions from College Football 27 After Player Backlash
EA is pulling paid progression out of College Football 27's Dynasty and Road to Glory modes less than a week after players discovered it had been added. The company announced the reversal on July 10 t...
Jul 13, 2026
Atelier Yumia Switch 2 update improves performance
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land has received a new update on Nintendo Switch 2, adding a performance settings option and fixes aimed at frame rate drops. The patch b...
Jul 13, 2026
Edward Kenway skin returns in Rayman Legends Retold
Ubisoft is bringing back the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Edward Kenway skin in Rayman Legends Retold. The publisher confirmed the crossover costume through the official Rayman account, giving fans...
Jul 13, 2026
The Cost of Perfection: How $300M Budgets Killed the Weird Video Game
At Gamescom Asia, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden described a games industry with less room for risk. His phrasing was blunt: "AA is gone." He linked the loss of mid-budget games to rising p...
Jul 13, 2026
Warframe: Tau leads a packed TennoCon reveal
Digital Extremes has revealed Warframe: Tau, the next major narrative chapter for its long-running free-to-play action game. The update will take players beyond the Origin System and into the Tau Syst...
Jul 13, 2026
The EU Will Not Save PlayStation Discs
With Sony setting an end date for new physical PlayStation games, players have started looking to the EU for possible intervention. Brussels has forced hardware changes before, most visibly with USB-C...
Jul 13, 2026
Diablo 4 Season 14’s Best Class Is A Huge Surprise
Diablo 4 Season 14 has an early favorite, and it is not the class many players expected to lead the season. Rogue is looking like one of the strongest picks in Season of Death Awakening, helped by fas...
Jul 13, 2026
Helldivers 2 Counters Exploiters With New Cheat Detection System
Helldivers 2 is now facing a new problem that has nothing to do with battles on the battlefield. Arrowhead is taking action against players who have been using cheats, automation, and duplication expl...
Jul 13, 2026
Underrated 2020 Soulslike Officially Getting A Sequel On August 20
Fans of Mortal Shell finally know when they will be able to play the sequel. Mortal Shell II will launch on August 20, giving one of 2020’s more overlooked Soulslike games a second chance to reach a m...
Jul 13, 2026
Donkey Kong 64 Is Coming To PC
Donkey Kong 64 is finally getting a PC version, but this is not a new release from Nintendo. A fan project called DK64 Recompiled is bringing Rare’s Nintendo 64 collectathon to Windows, macOS, and Lin...
Jul 13, 2026
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 1 And 2 Support Crossplay Between PS4 And PS5, Activision Confirms
Activision has cleared up one of the biggest questions around the new PlayStation versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Players on PS4 and PS5 can matchmake with each oth...
Jul 13, 2026
Xbox disc-to-digital feature could enter testing next week
Xbox’s rumored disc-to-digital conversion system could enter public testing as early as next week through the Xbox Insider program. The feature, reportedly codenamed Project Positron, would let player...