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Was Riot Games’ fighting game, 2XKO, revealed too early? “There was a cost for sure,” admit senior developers

AuthorAugust 11, 20250

On 9th September, Riot Games’ fighting game 2XKO will release into its closed beta. The game, first announced officially in February 2024, would appear to the layperson as a quick turnaround. The reality for those who have kept their eyes peeled for any crumb of info about the game couldn’t be further from the truth. […]

Sega Q1 net sales decline 22.7% to $548m

AuthorAugust 11, 20250

Sega Sammy published its financial results for its first quarter, reporting a decline in net sales to ¥81 billion ($548 million), and an operating loss of ¥519 million ($3.5 million). The firm noted that despite “few new titles” in its portfolio for the three months ended June 30, 2025, overall net sales “exceeded expectation” and […]

Battlefield 6 Open Beta is the series’ most popular Steam game

AuthorAugust 11, 20250

Battlefield 6 Open Beta is officially the series’ most played game on Steam, having reached a peak concurrent player count of 521,079 during its first weekend. The first Battlefield 6 Open Beta weekend took place from August 9 to August 10, letting players with an early access code play the next entry in EA’s long-running […]

Bithell Games announces layoffs, “majority of full-time staff” made redundant

AuthorAugust 11, 20250

Bithell Games has announced the “majority of [its] full-time staff” have been made redundant. Studio boss Mike Bithell shared a statement on Bluesky, confirming eleven roles had been affected after the developer was unable to secure funding for a “new larger scale project”. “It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent […]

Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson announces departure from Blizzard

AuthorAugust 11, 20250

Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson has announced his departure from Blizzard. Sharing the news on social media, Fergusson said “it’s time for me to step away […] and see what’s next”. “After five years of driving the Diablo franchise forward with four big launches, it’s time for me to step away from Blizzard/Microsoft, sword in […]

Battlefield 6’s anti-cheat system has already prevented 330,000 attempts to “cheat or tamper with anti-cheat controls”

AuthorAugust 10, 20250

If you’ve been wondering just how Battlefield 6’s Secure Boot requirement and anti-cheat system Javelin have been holding up during Battlefield 6’s gargantuan open beta test, AC from EA’s Anti-Cheat team has revealed that during the Open Beta alone, Javelin has blocked over 300,000 attempted cheat efforts and reviewed 100K+ potential cheaters. “Your reports help […]

Microsoft stresses it will “continue to support Forza Motorsport and Horizon 5” despite cuts at studio Turn 10

AuthorAugust 10, 20250

Microsoft has “assured players that Turn 10 and Playground Games will continue to support Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5”. In the wake of brutal cuts which saw over 9000 employees laid off from Microsoft last month, including across its gaming divisions, the likes of Rare’s Everwild, The Initiative’s Perfect Dark reboot, and a new […]

“This is Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta ever,” says EA

AuthorAugust 9, 20250

Battlefield 6’s open beta has been the series’ biggest beta test ever. On Steam alone, the shooter has clocked up 473,632 concurrent players – that’s simultaneous players, not total – making it one of the weekend’s most-played games, behind only Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG. It’s also now the twenty-second biggest game on Steam […]

A Far Cry TV show that “doesn’t shy away from the darkest, most absurd parts of humanity” is reportedly in development at FX

AuthorAugust 9, 20250

A TV show based on Ubisoft’s Far Cry franchise is allegedly in development at FX. Confirmation came not via a leak but apparently from Ubisoft itself, which posted about the show on its own site before quickly redirecting it back to the main page again, albeit not quite quickly enough to have escaped the notice […]

Tencent quietly updates “slavish Horizon clone” Light of Motiram’s Steam page

AuthorAugust 9, 20250

Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of Motiram, just days after Sony filed a copyright lawsuit. Towards the end of last year, Tencent’s development studio, Polaris Quest, revealed Light of Motiram, a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafting game featuring mechanised animal-like creatures that […]

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