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• Call Of Duty: MW4 Early Access Also Includes DMZ, Here’s How To Get In

  09-10-2026 21:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's campaign is playable a week early for people who preorder, and now we know the DMZ mode will be as well.Activision has announced that MW4's extraction-based DMZ mode will be playable starting Tuesday, October 20, which is three days before the game launches. Campaign early access, meanwhile, starts on October 16.How to get inTo access DMZ mode before everyone else, you need to preorder any edition of MW4, including the standard or Vault versions. The perk applies
  
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• Gears Of War: E-Day–How’s It Selling? Let’s Unpack Things

  09-10-2026 20:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft's latest console exclusive, Gears of War: E-Day, launched this week, and now we've gotten the first glimpse at how the game is performing commercially. Multiple analysts have weighed in, and there are numerous factors at play beyond pure sales, due to Game Pass and other factors. So let's break things down.Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics released a report that said the game has sold about 230,000 copies so far, with Steam sales accounting for 168,000 and Xbox (across console and PC) m
  
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• Battlefield 6 Is Adding Something Fans Have Wanted Since Day 1

  09-10-2026 18:21 via gamespot.com
  
  EA and Battlefield Studios have unveiled more details on Battlefield 6's upcoming Season 5, and it includes a new feature that fans have wanted since day one: a proper server browser.Battlefield did indeed launch with a server browser, but--considering how it only supported Portal mode--it wasn't the one fans wanted. One of the game's producers asked why players even want a full server browser. Now, in response to the feedback, Battlefield Studios is adding a proper server browser with the Seaso
  
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• Street Fighter Was On Death’s Door, And Its Players Weren’t Getting Any Younger

  09-10-2026 17:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Street Fighter 5 launched in 2016 in rough shape, and if things hadn't changed, the classic fighting game franchise might have been dead and buried by 2026. That's according to Street Fighter 6 producer Shuhei Matsumoto and game director Takayuki Nakayama, who recently spoke about how Capcom's signature fighting game franchise was knocking on death's door at one point, before a turnaround strategy reenergized it for a new generation of digital fisticuffs.Following Capcom veteran Yoshinoro Ono's
  
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• Is GTA 6 Coming To Switch 2? Ask Rockstar, Nintendo Says

  09-10-2026 17:01 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar's GTA 6 is the biggest game of 2026 and possibly ever, but it's not coming to Switch 2 ... or is it? Nintendo of America's new president, Devon Pritchard, was recently asked if GTA 6 is coming to Switch 2, and she didn't say yes or no. Instead, she said people should ask Rockstar and its owner, Take-Two.“That’s going to be a conversation for Take-Two and Rockstar, but nothing to announce on my end at this time,” Pritchard told Variety.
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• Is The BioShock Movie Ever Going To Happen? Director Weighs In

  09-10-2026 16:24 via gamespot.com
  
  A movie adaptation of the popular game series BioShock has been in the works for a long time, and like a lot of film projects, it appears to be trapped in Development Hell. It remains to be seen how things will shake out with BioShock, but now its director has provided a positive-sounding update.Francise Lawrence told GamesRadar that the team is "still working on a script," but he believes, "We're pretty close." He added: "I'm feeling really good about it."Hollywood is littered with stories of f
  
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• The EU Is Coming For Gaming’s Most Manipulative Monetization Tactics

  09-10-2026 16:01 via gamespot.com
  
  European consumer protection authorities have announced a series of "coordinated actions" aimed at 10 video companies, accusing several of the biggest names in the industry--like Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft--of "dark patterns" that are designed to put minors and individuals at risk of gaming addiction.If you've ever purchased in-game currency, then you're probably aware of how one of these tactics works. For example, Destiny 2's in-game currency, Silver, comes in bundles of 500, 1,
  
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• “Video Games” Singer Can’t Wait To Play New Video Game GTA 6

  09-10-2026 15:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar Games recently announced GTA 6's in-game radio stations, and one of them is co-hosted by 11-time Grammy-nominated Lana Del Rey. The singer-songwriter had a connection to video games before this, as she recorded the song "Video Games" on her 2012 album Born to Die. Now, she's set to appear in the biggest video game ever, and she's pretty stoked about that.Speaking to Rolling Stone, Del Rey said, "On so many different levels this is super special and a privilege. Can’t wait to get i
  
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• Charlie Cox Recorded 40 Hours Of Dialogue For A Sega Game He Can’t Name Yet

  09-10-2026 14:11 via gamespot.com
  
  Daredevil: Born Again actor Charlie Cox is starring in an upcoming video game, but it's not the first time he has lent his voice to one of these projects. At New York Comic-Con 2026, Cox revealed that he'd just finished recording his lines for a game that'll be published by Sega, but he didn't say which one. Hilariously, Cox mentioned that the game's crew was disappointed to find out he was English, not American."I did another one! It doesn’t have a name yet," Cox said to IGN. "I did a Seg
  
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• Ghost Of Tsushima Anime Taps Star Wars: Visions Talent For Its 2028 Release

  09-10-2026 12:52 via gamespot.com
  
  The upcoming anime adaptation of Sony's Ghost of Tsushima just took another big step forward, with Crunchyroll revealing more details on the cast and crew attached to the project, as well as a 2028 release window.
  While details are still light on what the story will be, Hayate Inc. did confirm that actors Mayumi Saco and Shinya Fukumatsu will voice characters. Saco had previously voiced Tomoe in Ghost of Tsushima, a master archer and pupil of the renowned Sensei Ishikawa
  
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