• You Can Make Your WoW: Forever Character Now And Be Ready For Launch

    You Can Make Your WoW: Forever Character Now And Be Ready For Launch
    World of Warcraft: Forever's character creation and name reservations are now live, letting you save some time on launch day by making your characters now rather than on launch day.To access name reservations, you'll need to have Forever preinstalled on Battle.net and have purchased at least the $30 Skyborne Heroic Pack, which grants access to the game's new optional playable race, the Skyborne elves. Once you've done that, you can simply log into the game, select the ruleset you want to play on
  • GTA 6 Developers Are About To Do Something Historic

    GTA 6 Developers Are About To Do Something Historic
    Workers at GTA 6 developer Rockstar will soon get to vote on recognizing a union.The union, IWGB Union at Rockstar, is for Rockstar's UK-based developers. Rockstar North, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of Rockstar's biggest outfits in the UK, and the lead developer on GTA 6.The negotiating process between the union and Rockstar management took months, and the union, if recognized, would give workers a stronger seat at the table for key issues like pay and bonuses, overtime, generative AI p
  • This Company Is Paying You To Play GTA 6, But It’s A Long Shot

    This Company Is Paying You To Play GTA 6, But It’s A Long Shot
    A company, Virgin Media, has announced a promotional campaign where one lucky person will get paid to play GTA 6.
    The promotion, which is limited to Ireland, requires people to explain in 100-200 words on this contest site why they deserve to get paid to play GTA 6. Virgin Media will then select a winner, and if that's you, Virgin Media will get you a copy of the game and your only requirement is to play it for eight hours and post a review on Instagram or TikTok, tagging Virgin Media and disclo
  • Official WoW: Forever AMV Will Get You Super Hyped

    Official WoW: Forever AMV Will Get You Super Hyped
    World of Warcraft: Forever is almost here, and in case players weren't already excited to return to classic Azeroth, a new animated music video highlighting the war between the Horde and the Alliance is sure to get your inner player vs. player hyped up to spill some blood for your faction. Called "Warpath," the animated trailer made in collaboration between developer Blizzard and Brunch Studio features a banger of a track performed by YouTuber turned musician Poppy, Amy Lee of Evanescence fame,
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  • GTA 6 File Size Revealed, And It’s Massive–See How It Compares To Other Huge Games

    GTA 6 File Size Revealed, And It’s Massive–See How It Compares To Other Huge Games
    Ahead of the game's release in November, GTA 6's file size has been revealed, and it is massive. PlayStation Game Size reports that the $80 standard edition will take up 210GB of storage capacity.Size details for the $100 Ultimate Edition--which includes a ton of content not in the regular version--were not made available. We also don't know the Xbox Series X|S file size, but it's likely around the same.As announced previously, preloading for GTA 6 begins on November 12, which is good news consi
  • GTA 6 File Size Revealed, And It’s Massive

    GTA 6 File Size Revealed, And It’s Massive
    Ahead of the game's release in November, GTA 6's file size has been revealed, and it is massive. PlayStation Game Size reports that the $80 standard edition will take up 210GB of storage capacity.Size details for the $100 Ultimate Edition--which includes a ton of content not in the regular version--were not made available. We also don't know the Xbox Series X|S file size, but it's likely around the same.As announced previously, preloading for GTA 6 begins on November 12, which is good news consi
  • Elden Ring Movie Might Be Extremely Long, And It Could Have Twitch Integration Eventually

    Elden Ring Movie Might Be Extremely Long, And It Could Have Twitch Integration Eventually
    New details have come to light about A24's Elden Ring movie, including how Amazon could be involved and its beefy runtime.According to Deadline, Amazon MGM is buying up the Elden Ring movie's Pay-1 streaming rights for numerous international markets in a deal potentially worth "tens of millions of dollars." The site reported that there could be "interesting activations" on Amazon's Twitch platform as part of the deal. A Pay-1 rights deal means the company gets exclusive rights to broadcast a mov
  • Check Out 46 Seconds Of New Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Gameplay (And A Pink Chocobo)

    Check Out 46 Seconds Of New Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Gameplay (And A Pink Chocobo)
    Final Fantasy 7 Revelation aims to be the biggest chapter in the remake trilogy, not only in the number of regions players can explore, but also in verticality. Square Enix had previously shown off how the game's cast will be able to skydive into new locations on the world map, but for a taste of just how much verticality the game will have in certain areas, you can check out this new slice of gameplay set in the Midgar region, which features Cloud exploring a massive chasm underneath the city--
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  • Steam Next Fest Was Flooded With Slop. These 50 Demos Cut Through The Noise

    Steam Next Fest Was Flooded With Slop. These 50 Demos Cut Through The Noise
    The October Edition of Steam Next Fest was, unsurprisingly, a complete mess. What was once a fun week-long festival of early game demos has become a dumping ground for vibe-coded AI slop, making it increasingly hard to find and wishlist good games. And if you weren't bothered by playing a game demo that was hastily cobbled together, the sheer volume--around 7,100 game demos were available this time--of what was on offer made Next Fest a nightmare to navigate. So what's a person to do when Valve'
  • Xbox Workers Are Eligible For Buyouts As Part Of Huge Shakeup At Microsoft

    Xbox Workers Are Eligible For Buyouts As Part Of Huge Shakeup At Microsoft
    Microsoft has announced a new program called the Voluntary Exit Offer that it's extending to thousands of workers at the company, including people on the Xbox team.
    Microsoft is doing this to shed employees, but the messaging is that a program like this could be appealing to someone who was already thinking about leaving and can now do so with a pay package.
    Microsoft shared the high-level details of the Voluntary Exit Offer on its blog, and Bloomberg had more insight. The report said 60,000 wor
  • Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase For October 28

    Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase For October 28
    Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase for October 28 at 7 AM PT /  10 AM ET. The broadcast will run about 15 minutes and, like previous streams, will focus on a wide range of games from third-party Nintendo partners. As usual, you can catch the showcase through Nintendo's official YouTube channel."Tune in for roughly 15 minutes of new announcements and updates on indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch," Nintendo's announcement read.Nintendo's last Indie World Sh
  • How To Watch The October Nintendo Indie World Showcase

    How To Watch The October Nintendo Indie World Showcase
    Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase for October 28. The broadcast will run about 15 minutes and, like previous streams, will focus on a wide range of games from third-party Nintendo partners. As usual, you can catch the showcase through Nintendo's official YouTube channel.When to watch the Indie World ShowcaseThe Nintendo Indie World Showcase will start at the following time:
    7 AM PT10 AM ET3 PM GMT4 PM CET5 PM AST11 PM CST2 AM AEDT (October 29)
    Where to watch the Indie World Showc
  • The Wolf Among Us Remastered Doesn’t Change Much, And That’s A Good Thing

    The Wolf Among Us Remastered Doesn’t Change Much, And That’s A Good Thing
    The Wolf Among Us 2 is finally landing in 2027, and if you want to catch up on what many consider one of Telltale Games' best exports, you can grab The Wolf Among Us Remastered on October 29. It's the original game spruced up for new hardware and enhanced with several extras, but is it a necessary purchase? Yes and no, depending on what you expect from this package.GameSpot senior video producer Jean-Luc Seipke went hands-on with the remaster, and in the video below, you can hear their thoughts
  • BioShock Movie Is Still Happening, But Director Says It’s A “Tough Nut To Crack”

    BioShock Movie Is Still Happening, But Director Says It’s A “Tough Nut To Crack”
    A BioShock movie at Netflix remains in development, its director has confirmed, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll ever be made. Francis Lawrence confirmed to The Direct that he hopes to make the BioShock movie, but "it's tricky on a couple fronts."Lawrence said he is "definitely active" in working on the BioShock movie, but "it is a tough nut to crack that world and that story.""You are the character when you play the game, and so creating that character from scratch into that world that,
  • Star Trek Enters Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair Next Month, Here Are The Cards

    Star Trek Enters Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair Next Month, Here Are The Cards
    The final Magic: The Gathering expansion of 2026, Star Trek, is sending Wizards Of The Coast's card game to the final frontier. Along with the main set and pre-constructed Commander decks will be a full set of Star Trek themed Secret Lair drops, as GameSpot can now exclusively reveal the Secret Lair X Star Trek Set Phasers To Superdrop, which launches November 9 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.Six drops will be part of the Set Phaser To Superdrop offering, each one themed around the people, places, and te
  • Call Of Duty Lifetime Revenue Surges Past $40 Billion, Microsoft Confirms

    Call Of Duty Lifetime Revenue Surges Past $40 Billion, Microsoft Confirms
    The Call of Duty franchise has now exceeded $40 billion in lifetime franchise revenue, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed.She shared this milestone following the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on October 23. "Congrats to the team. And to the players, thank you for being with us," Sharma wrote.Sharma did not, however, share any insights into how Modern Warfare 4 is performing, or if it was MW4 that pushed Call of Duty over $40 billion. All her statement says is that "now" Call of Duty h
  • Pokemon Unite Is Shutting Down After Nearly Six Years

    Pokemon Unite Is Shutting Down After Nearly Six Years
    Nintendo has announced that Pokemon Unite, its Pokemon-themed MOBA for mobile devices and Switch consoles, will be shutting down on March 23, 2027. The game will go offline just days after the Aeos Crown 2027 tournament, and Nintendo has stopped selling the game's premium in-game currency, Aeos Gems."We offer our sincerest gratitude to the many Trainers who have played since service started for the Nintendo Switch version on July 21, 2021," The Pokemon Company and developer TiMi Studio Group ann
  • One Day Out From Early Access, Emberville Has Been Delayed To 2027

    One Day Out From Early Access, Emberville Has Been Delayed To 2027
    Originally set to enter early access on October 27, action-adventure RPG Emberville has been delayed by over two months to January 7, 2027. The last-minute delay gives the team time to make "essential improvements" before Emberville reaches its fans.The upcoming game mixes Stardew Valley-like farming and community building with action-adventure RPG combat. Trapped in a magical underground dungeon, the player must uncover the truth about their cursed prison while revitalizing the ruined town of E
  • Ghost Of Yotei Was A Hit, But Its Developer Is Reportedly Cutting Jobs

    Ghost Of Yotei Was A Hit, But Its Developer Is Reportedly Cutting Jobs
    Sony-owned studio Sucker Punch Productions is losing 24 employees in another round of layoffs in the games industry. The studio is behind Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei, two first-party PlayStation titles that have been critical and commercial hits.An Aftermath report claims 24 Sucker Punch staff have lost their jobs. The studio is estimated to have between 190 and 230 staff, depending on the source, meaning Sucker Punch has lost at least 10% of its employees."After carefully observing the
  • Here’s Another Mass Effect 5 Leak To Break Your Heart

    Here’s Another Mass Effect 5 Leak To Break Your Heart
    If last week's mysterious Mass Effect: Universe trailer leak wasn't painful enough for you in the wake of BioWare's sudden closure, we've gotten yet another taste of The Game That Could Have Been, this time courtesy of award-winning video game composer Austin Wintory. Known for his beautiful and haunting soundtracks for games like Flow, Journey, ABZÛ, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Sword of The Sea, John Wick Hex, and Hades II, Wintory was also evidently working on the Mass Effect: Universe soundtrac

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