Game Releases

Sony and Microsoft might be tempted to delay their next consoles, and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI may be one of the key reasons why.

The game, set in the 10th century, will allow players to explore a vast, open world inspired by ancient China and will launch on PC and PS5 simultaneously on the 14th of November.

The developer had previously partnered with a publisher to bring out the full potential of the project before announcing their game on Steam on the 4th of November.

From hyper-detailed Nanite foliage to the new MegaLights system, the Epic’s update to Unreal pushes real-time graphics even closer to film-quality realism.

The Chinese open-world game Where Winds Meet is set to launch worldwide on November 14 and will be free to play. This RPG is set in 10th-century China and promises enormous freedom. With more than 40 million players, it’s considered a major hit in China.

A release date has been announced for the remake of this Fatal Frame series game. Fans won't be pleased to realize they have to wait several more months before being able to play it.

Former Bungie product director Chris Sides told the Shooter Monthly podcast the label "extraction shooter" is "dumb" and reductive, arguing it names a genre after a single mechanic and fails to capture the divergent pacing, tone, and complex mechanics of games like Escape from Tarkov and Helldivers 2.

In a GQ interview, Bethesda director Todd Howard said the studio “has hundreds of people on Fallout right now,” a remark that has brought reports, including prior Microsoft legal leaks and recent leaker claims that a Fallout 3 remaster may be underway, into focus yet again.

Marketing firm Trap Plan published now-deleted case studies claiming it had seeded roughly 100 “organic-style” posts and comments across major gaming subreddits to simulate player reviews for War Robots: Frontiers, a campaign unearthed by users on the platform and reported by Kotaku.

Bitmap Bureau and Reef Entertainment have pushed their 16-bit retro platformer Terminator 2D: No Fate to December 12, 2025, marking the 3rd delay for the title, citing production hurdles related to tariff uncertainty for the physical edition, even as digital copies are also pushed back.

While Age of Empires IV: Dynasties of the East has mixed reviews on display, many of them indicate that players are fascinated by what they feel is a fresh take that boosts replayability for the title considerably, even as some decry bugs that continue to plague it post-release.

Arc Raiders, a PvPvE extraction shooter by the studio behind free-to-play sensation The Finals, has gone from strength to strength since its launch on the 30th of October 2025.

GSC Game World has issued a DMCA takedown against indie PS1‑styled co‑op shooter Misery, prompting Valve to delist the title from Steam amid allegations that the game's visuals and assets closely replicate elements from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise.

In what can be seen as possibly the most damning pieces of criticism from an elected public official, the Texas AG recently laid into Roblox's perceived lack of adequate safety measures on its platform.

Chris Stockman, the design director of the original Saints Row, told the FRVR podcast that Grand Theft Auto VI faces unprecedented expectations and warned a major launch failure could be an industry-defining disaster comparable to Atari’s E.T.

Insomniac Games has reiterated that Marvel’s Wolverine remains slated for fall 2026, activating PlayStation Store wishlists and confirming the project as the first entry in upcoming X‑Men trilogy, though no exact release date has been set.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick conceded that Borderlands 4’s launch sales were “a little softer than we would have liked,” blaming PC performance problems for tempering demand even as critics praised the game and Gearbox posted record launch-month figures.

Obsidian co-founder Chris Avellone said on X that the studio currently has no plans for The Outer Worlds 3 while reportedly moving forward with Avowed 2, a statement that arrives just weeks after The Outer Worlds 2’s release and amid ongoing post-launch support for the title.

NetEase has closed Toronto-based Bad Brain Games, founded in 2023 by former Ubisoft developers, after the studio failed to secure external funding for its retro-themed action-adventure project, The Midnight Riders. Operations will cease on November 17, 2025, and the roughly two dozen staff now face a challenging job market amid broader industry layoffs.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's director Daniel Vavra, took to X to provide what many might find to be a scathing review of Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2, ranking it 7 out 10 as part of his feedback.

Embark Studios’ Arc Raiders has sold an estimated 2.5 million copies since its October 30, 2025, launch, grossing over $100 million at a remarkably lower $39.99 price point, with Steam accounting for 69.2% of sales, concurrent peaks above 350,000 players, and a 90% “Very Positive” rating from 56,000 reviews.

The Japanese publisher continues to seek greater profitability through efficiency in an industry already reeling from multiple layoffs, amid the threat and promise of generative AI.

Greenheart Games' most recent title was released in early access over 12 years after their first title was a huge hit. Its newest game, Tavern Keeper, just got a large Early Access discount at launch.

The company has reported beats on revenue and earnings while exhibiting an incredible increase in daily active users and hours played on the platform.

During a recent public event, Andrzej Sapkowski discussed his involvement in the development of the 4th Witcher game and his disapproval of certain aspects of its lore.

Sega’s long-awaited Sonic Rumble launched globally on November 5, 2025, for iOS, Android, and PC (Steam/Steam Deck) with cross-play and over 10 million pre-registrations, offering 32-player, Fall Guys–style arena races starring mini-toy versions of Sonic characters - and somewhat ironically, heavy criticism about its approach to monetization.

Sega Sammy's 2025 Integrated Report shows the Persona 5 series has topped 13 million copies worldwide, led by Persona 5 Royal's rise to 7.25 million, and the broader Persona franchise has surpassed 23.5 million units following Persona 3 Reload's 2.07 million shipments.

The free-to-play MMORPG Sword of Justice launches on Steam on November 7 and has already climbed to the top of the “Free and Trending” charts ahead of its official release. Featuring a unique NPC system – where characters remember how players interact with them – the game has already sparked strong interest within the community.

Toby Fox said in a Bluesky post that he’s begun private playtests of Deltarune Chapter 5, sharing a friend’s positive reaction even as he acknowledges personal doubts about whether the chapter will meet expectations even as the October 31, 2025 release of Chapters 3 and 4 earned an “Overwhelmingly Positive” Steam rating.

After The Outer Worlds 2’s launch, director Brandon Adler urged a return to risk-and-reward RPG design, arguing the genre has long “coddled” players by ensuring every build and choice leads to a safe outcome.

UK MPs held a Westminster Hall debate on November 3 in response to an e-petition calling for publishers to be prohibited from permanently disabling games they have already sold, with members urging clearer ownership rights and mandatory disclosure for server-dependent "live service" titles.

AdHoc Studio, founded by ex‑Telltale veterans including co‑founder and CCO Pierre Shorette, has rapidly revived episodic, choice‑driven games with Dispatch, a superhero comedy that launched on PS5 and PC on October 22 and sold one million copies in ten days.

At Lucca Comics & Games’ Death Stranding World Tour 2 panel, Hideo Kojima outlined the pandemic-driven production hurdles behind Death Stranding 2, including remote green‑screen shoots with actors Luca Marinelli and Alissa Jung, and set out the philosophical aims of his work, including making his player base happy.

The post-apocalyptic MMO PIONER has entered open beta on Steam. Developed by Serbian studio GFA Games – founded by former developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Atomic Heart – the ambitious shooter now opens its doors to a wider audience for the first time.

Electronic Arts' planned $55 billion all-cash buyout by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and partners, slated to close in Q1 2027, has triggered a wave of protests from prominent The Sims creators, including LilSimsie, Plumbella and James Turner who have left EA’s Creator Network and revoked creator codes over fears the new ownership could undermine the franchise’s long-standing LGBTQ+ inclusivity.

A sneaky, completely legal way to get past the credit card requirement on the popular gaming platform Steam.

Showrunner Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich claims there are different kinds of fans, and the show brought in fans who, otherwise, would not have been introduced to the world.

Embark Studios’ sci‑fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders rocketed to 1.5 million sales in three days and a Steam peak of roughly 355,000 concurrent players, but the surge overwhelmed servers, causing hour‑long queues, matchmaking errors, and occasional disconnects that the studio termed a “wobble.”

Fantastic Pixel Castle confirmed it will close on November 17, 2025, after NetEase cut funding and first‑party support for its in‑development fantasy MMO codenamed Ghost, studio head Greg Street announced on LinkedIn.

Avalanche Studios’ prospects for Just Cause 5 look bleak after co‑creator Christofer Sundberg called the project a “no‑go,” citing a sustained talent drain worsened by the cancellation of Contraband, major layoffs, and office closures.

Evil Egg marks the digital return of a long-forgotten arcade classic. The fast-paced twin-stick shooter launched on Steam on October 30 and has already earned a 100% positive rating just days after release. Even better, it’s completely free to play.

Former Rockstar co‑founder Dan Houser told the Lex Fridman Podcast that Agent, the studio’s long‑teased Cold War spy game, underwent five major iterations but never came together because the spy genre’s beat‑driven, time‑sensitive storytelling clashed with Rockstar’s open‑world design principles.

Digital Eclipse's Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, released on Steam, Xbox Series S|X and Nintendo Switch for $50, has drawn mixed reviews, with only 45% of them being positive on Steam, after players reported high input lag, restrictive quick-play-only matchmaking, weak netcode, and audio and cutscene issues.

Arc Raiders has emerged as Embark Studios’ breakout extraction shooter, peaking at 354,836 concurrent Steam players shortly after launch. However, the flood of users has strained servers, resulting in long login and matchmaking queues, mid-match disconnects, and unwanted party joins, which have somewhat underwhelmed users.

Epic Games' Fortnite x The Simpsons crossover converts the Battle Royale map into a compact, nostalgia-packed "Springfield Island" with nine themed POIs, a Simpsons-themed Battle Pass, Sidekicks, Victory Cup tournaments, timed Twitch and account-link rewards, and a four-episode weekly miniseries driven by a Zero Point shard storyline.

Former Rockstar lead writer as well as co‑founder Dan Houser has told Lex Fridman he feels a greater sense of loss at the prospect of Red Dead Redemption continuing without him than he does about Grand Theft Auto VI, citing the Red Dead duology’s cohesive, thematically consistent narrative.

An Italian indie developer may have pulled off one of the funniest marketing surprises of the year in Japan. A mistranslated game title sparked plenty of laughs – and sent the game’s wishlist numbers soaring.

The developers put the fate of the much-hated monetization approach to a vote; if the players could hit 100k, the system would be taken down. The community did it well ahead of the poll's stated deadline.

RV There Yet? is a fun little game that uses proximity-based voice chat, and players are loving it, with as many as 86% of its reviews being positive.