Game Releases

Former Volition design director Chris Stockman, best known for 2006’s Saints Row and a vocal critic of the 2022 reboot, says Embracer Group has requested a formal pitch for a prequel tentatively called "Saints Row 0," which he envisions as a return to the series' 1970s-rooted, gang-origin story.

In an interview with The Escapist, Jay Klaitz, the voice of GTA V’s Lester Crest defended reports that Grand Theft Auto VI will carry a $100 price tag, arguing Rockstar’s years-long development, intensive motion-capture work and ongoing post-launch updates effectively deliver “multiple games” in one purchase.

Aspyr’s Deus Ex Remastered, revealed during Sony’s State of Play, has provoked widespread backlash over updated textures and reportedly “blocky” character models, a reaction amplified by original art director Jerry O’Flaherty’s blunt denunciation on the FRVR Podcast.

Embark’s new extraction shooter Arc Raiders launched to a strong reception, hitting 100,000 concurrent players within 30 minutes and peaking at 264,673 on day one while holding a 90% Steam user rating even as the developer claims to have a 10-year plan on the cards for the title.

Amazon Games has quietly canceled its long-gestating Lord of the Rings MMO amid large-scale corporate layoffs that heavily impacted its gaming division, a move confirmed by a now-deleted LinkedIn post from senior gameplay engineer Ashleigh Amrine.

The numbers on Steam only tell part of the story for the title; however, it was released on PlayStation and Xbox at the same time as PC.

Tecent seems to be channelling a different kind of legal defense when it comes to its upcoming title, Light of Motiram in response to Sony's claims that it has 'ripped off' on its Horizon franchise

Delibird in Wild Zone 12 in Legends ZA has low spawns and a high flee rate, which turns a simple capture into an endurance test, one that not all gamers appreciate in 2025. Here's how you can potentially make the process easier for you.

An Azure-related outage knocked out Xbox Live sign-ins, matchmaking, and the Microsoft Store earlier this week, Microsoft says fixes have been rolled out, and services should be back to their ‘pre-incident state’.

Escape the Backrooms’ 1.0 launch has sent players streaming into an eerie maze, and co-op fans are already raving, calling it a must-try for jump scares and chaotic teamwork.

Amazon has confirmed that New World will receive no further content updates beyond Season 10, but the game will remain playable through 2026 even as it offers refunds to recent purchasers of the title.

Danny Russell, the former Senior Global Community Manager for Sega of America and the architect of the Sega Forever initiative, confirmed on LinkedIn that he left Sega after 7 years. He was a key figure in Sega's launch of the 2017 program, which evolved from mobile re-releases into a full-blown preservation and archival effort for titles.

The failure of FBC: Firebreak to meet expectations despite repeated patches and a new content update titled 'Breakpoint' has heavily eaten into Remedy Entertainment's bottom line for the quarter, even as management remains optimistic about its future prospects.

Doom and Quake co-creator John Romero said Romero Games is in talks with multiple publishers to revive an unannounced AAA FPS after Microsoft abruptly withdrew funding in July, leaving the project in limbo.

An unofficial fan project that blends the gameplay of Vampire Survivors with the world of Halo has taken off quickly – just two days after launch, Spartan Survivors has already earned a 91% positive rating on Steam. The game is completely free to play.

Amid increasingly heated debates on Reddit, rumours of a next‑gen or Switch 2 port for Red Dead Redemption 2 have failed to materialize around the game's seventh anniversary, with Rockstar issuing no official confirmation on the matter.

The Trump administration’s social post repurposing Halo imagery, which used an AI-generated image of President Donald Trump in Master Chief armor and a DHS/ICE recruitment graphic urging “Destroy The Flood,” has elicited different responses from the community and creators of the Halo franchise.

Japan’s Patent Office provisionally rejected Nintendo’s patent application for “monster‑capturing” mechanics, finding the claim lacked novelty in light of prior art from older games and mods. This is a ruling that bolsters Palworld developer Pocketpair’s defense in its ongoing lawsuit, in which Nintendo is also a plaintiff.

In Ye Guild Clerk!, players don’t take on the role of a hero but that of a guild secretary in a fantasy world. Instead of slaying monsters, you chat with animal adventurers and assign quests from the comfort of your desk. The free cozy game launched on Steam on October 28 and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback since its release.

Peter Molyneux, the famed designer behind Black and White, Fable, and Dungeon Keeper, says his upcoming game, Masters of Albion, is his final redemption story.

The free-to-play Battle Royale mode is available across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series. Here's how to jump in and where to download it.

A 40-minute unfiltered PS5 build of Wreckreation leaked a day before release, showcasing Burnout‑inspired high‑speed arcade racing with loops, big jumps, track‑building, and destructible elements, even as viewers pointed out inconsistent performance and bugs that could perhaps be attributed to an earlier build.

Warner Bros. has launched a "For Your Consideration" awards campaign for A Minecraft Movie after its mammoth $957 million global box-office haul, targeting major categories including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

In the Shacknews documentary 24 ’Til Launch: The Making of Borderlands 4, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford recounts how EA’s cancellation of his Rebel Boat Rocker project Prax War and the subsequent founding of Gearbox led to an unexpected call from Valve’s Gabe Newell, who invited Pitchford to pitch an expanded Half‑Life storyline.

After Halo: Campaign Evolved’s 13‑minute Silent Cartographer demo at the Halo World Championship 2025, former Combat Evolved designer Jaime Griesemer took to X to criticize changes. He focused most of his ire on the ability to steamroll Hunters in a Warthog, movable obstacles, and added trees, all of which he says wreck the pacing in the game.

Xbox’s president of game content and studios, Matt Booty, told The New York Times that it is pursuing a multiplatform strategy and now views competitors as broader entertainment like TikTok and movies rather than rival consoles, as Halo: Campaign Evolved and other former exclusives head to PS5.

At the Halo World Championship 2025 Community Stage, Halo community director Brian Jarrard wore a PlayStation t‑shirt while announcing that Halo: Campaign Evolved, a complete Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved, will launch as a day‑one release on PlayStation 5 in 2026.

Shawn Layden, the former chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, told The Ringer he views live-service titles as "a repetitive action engagement device," arguing that actual games require a story, a character, and a world rather than looped engagement mechanics designed to keep players hooked.

GameStop has poked fun at decades of platform rivalry that allegedly started and ended with Halo becoming and then unbecoming a platform exclusive with a single post: 'The Console Wars are over.'

Pokémon Legends: Z-A shifted 5.8 million copies in its first week after the October 16, 2025, launch across Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, with half of them selling on the latter console, placing it as the franchise’s fifth-best debut.

Dataminers on X have uncovered files including maps, UI strings, and event scripts suggesting Battlefield 6's unannounced battle royale "RedSec" may be built into the live build and could shadow-drop as early as next week, even as EA and DICE remain mum on the topic.

GDC executive director of innovation and growth Mark DeLoura publicly criticized Epic Games, Sony, and Unity for scaling back or skipping GDC 2025 altogether, saying their absence sends a message to independent developers that they "don’t care" about building community ties and new connections.

Bethesda’s Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition arrives on November 10, 2025, on PC, PS4/PS5, and Xbox One/Series (with a reported Switch 2 port in 2026) and bundles the base game with all six DLCs, 150+ Creation Club add-ons in a singular package for users who have yet to play the title.

An update to Counter‑Strike 2 allows players to trade five covert-rarity skins for a knife or gloves, instantly crashing the skin market cap from about $6 billion to around $4 billion, according to trackers.

In Dorothy's Job, you play as a tough housekeeper tasked with keeping a supervillain’s sprawling mansion spotless. The game combines twin-stick shooter action with procedurally generated levels to keep every run fresh and unpredictable. It launched on Steam on October 24 and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from players.

A Bloomberg investigation reports that Microsoft finance chief Amy Hood had imposed a 30% profit-margin "accountability" target on Xbox in late 2023. The goal, which is nearly double the industry average, seems to have directly contributed to waves of subsequent layoffs and studio closures that have plagued its game divisions since

Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Remake may get another game director change soon, based on updates on LinkedIn, as well as a now-deleted job listing on Ubisoft's website.

Pocketpair’s newly launched publishing arm has taken a hard stance on generative AI, saying it will not back games that rely on it, Web3, or NFTs, with communications director John Buckley telling Game Developer: “We don’t believe in it.”

Marcus Lehto, the co‑creator of Halo and former game director at EA’s now‑defunct Ridgeline Games, publicly criticized EA after numerous Ridgeline contributors to Battlefield 6 were left out or relegated to a brief “Special Thanks” credit, posting a corrected unofficial list of names omitted on LinkedIn.

Fans of Souls-like action RPGs will have to wait longer to see an Elden Ring Switch 2 port. FromSoftware has bumped the Elden Ring Tarnished Edition release date to 2026. Developers have been unable to address performance issues discovered during the Gamescom demo.

On October 23 and 24, Microsoft is adding three new titles to Xbox Game Pass – all available on their launch day.

While Battlefield 6’s Engineers are supposed to keep vehicles running, many players have been using their Repair Tool for something else entirely: in-game wall art. Players are sharing scorch-mark drawings and mini masterpieces made with the Engineer gadget across X and Reddit, sparking amusement across the community.

A somewhat suspicious entry in actor Jon McLaren’s online resume is the latest in a series of hints that Capcom has effectively already greenlit a remake of Resident Evil 0, even as it refuses to officially comment on the matter.

At a time when most video game developers are embracing AI for multiple workloads and laying off workers, the composer behind much of Final Fantasy's iconic soundtracks has an averse view of technology, saying it lacks emotional depth.

The event, backed by Microsoft's Xbox division, set a new Guinness World Records title for the largest video game display flown by helicopter as Ninja Gaiden 4 hit multiple platforms on the 20th of October.

Former Build A Rocket Boy staff have renewed accusations that MindsEye’s development was undermined by chaotic leadership and persistent micromanagement under ex‑GTA producer Leslie Benzies, citing ignored feedback, rushed feature changes and avoidable bugs that contributed to poor reviews and mass layoffs.

Embark Studios’ Arc Raiders drew impressive player numbers during its recent Server Slam playtest, with design director Virgil Watkins calling the limited-access playtests of Bungie’s Marathon an inadvertent “A/B test” that allowed teams to compare player reactions to markedly different designs across multiple platforms.

A nine-member volunteer collective called Slurm Team has released a playable demo of Futurama: Hit and Run, a total-conversion mod that transplants The Simpsons: Hit and Run into a meticulously recreated New New York with four story missions, a bonus mission, ten side gags, and a full custom soundtrack.

Embark Studios’ Server Slam playtest for Arc Raiders, which ran from October 17 as the final free weekend before the October 30 launch, peaked at 189,668 concurrent players on Steam.

Former Sledgehammer Games co-founder and ex-Modern Warfare director Glen Schofield warned that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard could dilute Call of Duty’s creative identity, citing cultural assimilation, changes to performance-linked bonus structures, and the departure of veteran talent.