• Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ Biggest Secrets Are Already Online

    Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ Biggest Secrets Are Already Online
    August is shaping up to be a fun month with the release of games like Beast of Reincarnation and Pro Jank Footy, and if you're a fighting game fan, you can also grab Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. Officially out next week, physical copies of the game have managed to break their street date, and naturally, there are plenty of spoilers online.While we won't be listing them here, please start fine-tuning your filters for specific keywords. From what we've seen online, details include vario
  • Want A Modern Warfare 4 Beta Code? Just Talk Trash

    Want A Modern Warfare 4 Beta Code? Just Talk Trash
    The creators of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 are trying to prove one trash-talking player wrong by giving them a free code to the game's upcoming early-access beta.In response to a Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer trailer posted by CharlieIntel on X, one skeptical player going by TristanSpoof didn't have kind words for what they saw."This s*** looks awful ngl," they wrote in a quote repost. "Won't be planning on buying until I see it live."
    https://twitter.com/CallofDutyCM/status/20901280381554649
  • GTA 6 Has Already Made $400 Million+ From Preorders, Apparently

    GTA 6 Has Already Made $400 Million+ From Preorders, Apparently
    According to a third-party research company, GTA 6 has already brought in more than $400 million in revenue from preorders.Sensor Tower's sales tracker for GTA 6 states that Rockstar sold 4.38 million copies, including any returns, through August 18, generating $429 million. The research firm said the sales mix is 77% PS5 and 23% Xbox Series X|S.
    This data is not confirmed, but it would not be a surprise to learn that GTA 6 is performing exceptionally well already given the massive hype behind i
  • Xbox’s Latest Console Update Will Finally Let You Choose Old Saves To Delete

    Xbox’s Latest Console Update Will Finally Let You Choose Old Saves To Delete
    Xbox's latest console update is rolling out now to Xbox Insiders, giving players more control over the home screen and saves, as well as improvements to profile customization.As part of the update, which will first roll out to Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insider members starting today, tiles can now be more easily removed from the Recent Games and Apps list at the top of the Home page, including the entire Play History tile. For those who want to hide the home screen and bask in the glory of
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  • Army Unit Gives Soldiers 4-Day Pass To Play GTA 6 If They Re-Enlist

    Army Unit Gives Soldiers 4-Day Pass To Play GTA 6 If They Re-Enlist
    In an effort to encourage soldiers to re-enlist, one US Army unit in Georgia is offering a four-day pass around the time GTA 6 launches in November.The incentive is only for soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia in the Army's 9th Brigade Engineering Battalion. So far, 20 people there have agreed to the incentive in exchange for re-enlisting, an Army spokesperson told CBS News.
    "The idea was to have a unique incentives program that connects to what soldiers are interested in," spokesperson Lt. Col.
  • The Original Xbox Is Back, And This Time You Have To Build It Yourself

    The Original Xbox Is Back, And This Time You Have To Build It Yourself
    The original Xbox is still one of the best-looking consoles ever: a big black box that's instantly recognizable thanks to some clever design choices. If you've ever wanted to own and build one of these, you're in luck, as Mattel has just opened up preorders for a 1:1 replica that you can put together alongside several accessories. It's a bit pricey at $330, but it includes a few neat features that make it a cool display piece.The Lego-like build includes 3,509 pieces, and you can use those to bu
  • New GTA 6 Leak Features Shocking Gameplay Footage, And We Mean That Literally

    New GTA 6 Leak Features Shocking Gameplay Footage, And We Mean That Literally
    The second day of apparent Grand Theft Auto VI leaks has started with a new gameplay clip focused on Jason Duval. There's bad driving, a well-known pop song, and multiple people shot by a taser-like weapon. The video even ends with a cutscene in which Jason has a beer on a boat with his buddy, Cal Hampton.Kotaku spotted the most recent presumed leak of GTA 6, noting that it's titled "Taser Video." However, the weapon Jason picks up from a person after stomping on them is generically called
  • Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Game Development Will Have A “Tough Future” Because Of AI

    Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Game Development Will Have A “Tough Future” Because Of AI
    As a veteran of the industry, former PlayStation Studios boss Shuhei has a lot of thoughts about where things are currently headed. And with AI infiltrating just about every major developer under the sun, he is both fascinated by and worried about artificial intelligence's overall impact on game development.In an August 18 Gamerbraves interview, Yoshida said AI tools are "allowing almost anybody to become a game developer." Because AI can do things like write code for you, an artist or a designe
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  • Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Offers These Rewards As You Climb The Ranks

    Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Offers These Rewards As You Climb The Ranks
    The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta begins this Friday, August 21, and everyone who takes part will have a chance to earn special rewards.As with previous Call of Duty betas, Activision is encouraging people to play by offering rewards for progressing through the ranks. The first reward, an emblem, is unlocked at level 4. The next, a charm, is unlocked at level 8, running all the way up to level 30. People who reach that cap will get a weapon blueprint.Beta rewards
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  • $1,000 Consoles Could Have This Dramatic, Negative Effect On Gaming – Report

    $1,000 Consoles Could Have This Dramatic, Negative Effect On Gaming – Report
    While we don't exactly know when the next PlayStation and Xbox consoles will arrive, the working theory is that they may come with a $1,000 price tag attached. An analytics firm is suggesting, however, that should this happen, Microsoft and Sony would be shooting themselves in the foot and costing their business billions by 2031.According to an August 17 breakdown, the market-research firm Ampere Analysis has published an examination of the $1,000 console price consideration. The group said that
  • James Pond’s New Trailer Has AI Alarm Bells Ringing, Comments Turned Off

    James Pond’s New Trailer Has AI Alarm Bells Ringing, Comments Turned Off
    It's a good time to be a fan of retro video games, thanks to all the various compilations hitting the scene, and for the James Pond enthusiasts out there, their time has finally come. Developer System 3 has announced the James Pond Legacy: The Pond is Not Enough collection, but the reveal trailer is being dragged over claims that it features generative AI art and assets. Comments on the video quickly started pointing out the telltale signs of AI images, prompting System 3 to shut
  • James Pond’s New Trailer Has AI Alarm Bells Ringing, But Dev Says Otherwise

    James Pond’s New Trailer Has AI Alarm Bells Ringing, But Dev Says Otherwise
    It's a good time to be a fan of retro video games, thanks to all the various compilations hitting the scene, and for the James Pond enthusiasts out there, their time has finally come. Developer System 3 has announced the James Pond Legacy: The Pond is Not Enough collection, but the reveal trailer is being dragged over claims that it features generative AI art and assets. Comments on the video quickly started pointing out the telltale signs of AI images, prompting System 3 to shut
  • Redfall Bosses Explain What Happened With The Failed Xbox Exclusive

    Redfall Bosses Explain What Happened With The Failed Xbox Exclusive
    Former Arkane bosses Harvey Smith and Ben Horne have opened a new studio, Black Pony Immersive, which is now working on "imaginative first-person action-RPGs." The last game they worked on was the ill-fated Xbox-exclusive vampire game, Redfall. Both Smith (Redfall director) and Horne (Redfall producer) have now discussed that project and what went wrong.Horne told The Game Business that Redfall was born during the live-service boom, and the team had to figure out, "How do we do this?"Smith added
  • Pokemon Krispy Kreme Boxes Are Being Listed For Ridiculous Sums Of Money

    Pokemon Krispy Kreme Boxes Are Being Listed For Ridiculous Sums Of Money
    The Pokemon franchise is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with various promotions, and the Krispy Kreme collaboration is easily the sweetest team-up. Like all things related to Pokemon, a box full of pocket monster doughnuts has attracted the eyes of resellers looking to make a quick buck on used--and sadly, empty--boxes from the promotion.On eBay, you can find several listings for the Pokemon Krispy Kreme doughnut boxes, with some users asking for up to $100 per box. While the doughnu
  • Dishonored Director Announces New Studio, And Fans Should Be Very Excited

    Dishonored Director Announces New Studio, And Fans Should Be Very Excited
    The fate of Arkane Studios is in limbo and the Dishonored franchise may be permanently on ice, but franchise co-creator Harvey Smith isn't giving up on immersive sims. The veteran game director has founded a new studio focused on games that sound a whole lot like Dishonored. "Today, veteran game developers Harvey Smith and Ben Horne revealed Black Pony Immersive, a new game studio built to design and develop imaginative first-person action-RPGs set within well-realized worlds, where players
  • Horizon Multiplayer Game Being Rebooted To Remove Live-Service, Next Mainline Horizon Game “Years Away,” Report Says

    A major development has come to light regarding Guerrilla's long-in-development live-service Horizon game, Horizon Hunters Gathering. After negative player feedback from the game's various tests, the Amsterdam-based studio has been "working to reboot the game since June," Bloomberg reported.The plan to reboot the game involves removing its live-service elements and shifting it to become "more of a traditional cooperative multiplayer game with a story mode andfar smaller scope," the report said.
  • The Biggest Surprise About The Blood Of Dawnwalker Is How Little RAM It Needs

    The Biggest Surprise About The Blood Of Dawnwalker Is How Little RAM It Needs
    Ahead of its release next month, the official PC requirements for The Blood of Dawnwalker have been revealed. The game is shaping up to be a good-looking dark fantasy adventure, but fortunately, it only requires a modest amount of power to run at 1080p and 60 frames per second. The biggest surprise here is the amount of RAM you'll need to hit various presets (specifically, GPU VRAM) as developer Rebel Wolves doesn't expect players to need more than 16GB of the precious PC resource to run the gam
  • GTA 6 Leakers Say They Acted For Gamers’ Rights, While Pushing A Memecoin

    GTA 6 Leakers Say They Acted For Gamers’ Rights, While Pushing A Memecoin
    The consumer rights group Stop Killing Games has addressed this week's Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks, urging people not to support the hackers claiming responsibility for leaking footage of the game ahead of its November release. The group released several minutes of what appears to be GTA 6 gameplay, and while developer Rockstar Games hasn't officially commented yet on the footage that has spread online, its owner, Take-Two Interactive, wasted no time in issuing DMCA takedown notices.This
  • Epic Mickey Brought An Icon Back To Disney, And Warren Specter Doesn’t Want You To Forget

    Epic Mickey Brought An Icon Back To Disney, And Warren Specter Doesn’t Want You To Forget
    After over four decades in video games, developer Warren Specter is retiring from the industry. But as Specter moves towards the door, he wants to make sure that the team behind his 2010 game Epic Mickey gets their due for bringing one of Walt Disney's earliest creations back home to Disney.In 2003, the development document for Epic Mickey reportedly spurred then-Disney president Bob Iger to eventually regain the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a breakout animated character created by Disney
  • Apparent GTA 6 Footage And Map Leak As Rockstar Issues Takedowns

    Apparent GTA 6 Footage And Map Leak As Rockstar Issues Takedowns
    New footage and details about Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 6 appear to have been leaked online. While the full veracity of the intel has yet to be confirmed, Rockstar's DMCA takedown requests suggest that some of it could be legitimate.. And the person or persons behind the leak has issued some biblical demands if the company wants to avoid any additional unauthorized disclosures.The leaker, who goes by Cyberleek, has issued the following "commandments" to Rockstar and other game publishers:
  • Surprise Xbox Game To Be Announced At Gamescom, Insider Says

    Surprise Xbox Game To Be Announced At Gamescom, Insider Says
    Microsoft is gearing up to announce a new game at Gamescom this month, it appears, and it could be from an established series.Insider NateTheHate 2 said, "I've heard of a neat Xbox announcement that should be at Gamescom." He said it will be a "new game in a series" as opposed to a new IP. And no, it's not a new Banjo-Kazooie game, he said.He added that, whatever the project is, it's from a franchise that Microsoft owns, but it's not being made by a studio that Microsoft owns. That leaves open a
  • Don’t Boycott GTA 6, Help Win Justice Instead, Fired Devs Say

    Don’t Boycott GTA 6, Help Win Justice Instead, Fired Devs Say
    A group of former Grand Theft Auto 6 developers accusing Rockstar Games of union busting and currently engaged in a legal battle with the studio doesn't want players to boycott the game.In a video posted by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, fired members of the union made clear how they would like fans to support them in their ongoing legal dispute with Rockstar."We're going to make this easy for you," the former devs state. "Don't boycott GTA 6. Win justice for the people who hel
  • PlayStation Plus Is Removing 10 Games Soon, So Finish Them While You Can

    PlayStation Plus Is Removing 10 Games Soon, So Finish Them While You Can
    Last week saw several new games announced for the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for Extra- and Premium-tier subscribers, and as you'd expect, a few games are also on their way out. In total, 10 more games are leaving soon, although Sony hasn't listed an exact departure date yet. For reference, nine games are leaving the Game Catalog today, so you'll likely have a few weeks left to play the ones listed below.As for what's only going to be around for a little while longer? Say goodbye to a fun Per
  • Deus Ex And Immersive Sim Founding Father, Warren Spector, Retires From Game Development

    One of the gaming industry's most notable icons, Warren Spector, has decided to retire and will no longer be actively involved in game development.Spector is credited as one of the founders of the immersive sim genre, with Deus Ex and Thief acting as his most recognisable projects while at Ion Storm. Spector went on to develop Epic Mickey and its sequel, eventually landing at Otherside Entertainment to develop a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, which he helped produce while at Looking G
  • NBA 2K27 Just Rewrote The Sports Game Story Mode

    NBA 2K27 Just Rewrote The Sports Game Story Mode
    The launch of NBA 2K27 is quickly approaching, and 2K Sports has provided a deep dive into all of the new features and additions coming in this year's game. From gameplay-specific innovations to changes to some of NBA 2K's most iconic game modes, all areas of the game have been revamped for 2K27.
    The headlining features may be what's going on in MyCareer mode, but we're covering the full spectrum of new toys coming to the series in 2K27.
    Below, you can find all the new content and changes that 2
  • Control Resonant Still Comes Out Next Month, Unless You Want It On Disc

    Control Resonant Still Comes Out Next Month, Unless You Want It On Disc
    Remedy Entertainment has announced that Control Resonant "has gone gold." In other words, main development is complete, and the action-RPG is ready to arrive on September 24--but there's an unfortunate catch here. The physical edition of the title has actually been delayed almost a month to October 15. That means people who want the game on disc are going to have to wait a few weeks to play as Dylan Faden in the sequel.The staggered release between digital and physical for Control Resonant was r
  • Battlefield 6 Free Trial Overlaps With Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta This Weekend

    Battlefield 6 Free Trial Overlaps With Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta This Weekend
    Battlefield and Call of Duty are overlapping this weekend, as the latest entries in both franchises have exciting opportunities on tap for fans.Battlefield 6 is free now through August 25 to celebrate the launch of the game's big new update, including the return of the fan-favorite Wake Island map and the debut of the Top Gun crossover. This also includes a brand-new mode, Carrier Strike. Additionally, the free week includes the Tsuru Reef, Cairo Bazaar, and Hagental Base maps, along with Wake I
  • Sony’s Oasis-Loving CEO Thinks We’re Going To Crave Human-Made Art In The Age Of AI

    Sony’s Oasis-Loving CEO Thinks We’re Going To Crave Human-Made Art In The Age Of AI
    The use of AI in creative fields has been a thorny issue, and analysts predict that the growing presence of AI-generated content will drive people to seek more authentic, human-made content. Sony CEO and Oasis superfan Hiroki Totoki is one such person, as he believes that while AI can help "enhance" creativity, the human factor is what makes people gravitate toward film, music, and video games."AI cannot replace it. AI can enhance human creativity," Totoki said to the Wall Street Journal. "It is
  • Xbox Game Pass Reveals Its Next Wave Of August 2026 Games

    Xbox Game Pass Reveals Its Next Wave Of August 2026 Games
    The second wave of games for Xbox Game Pass in August has been revealed, and this month, you can check out a few day-one releases amongst the releases. Several of these games will also be available through Game Pass Premium, as the library of that tier continues to expand.Xbox Game Pass August wave 2 gamesAugust 18Egging On (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game PassAugust 19Vapor World: Over the Mind (Cloud, Console, a
  • Former PlayStation Boss Weighs In On Sony Killing Off Physical Game Discs

    Former PlayStation Boss Weighs In On Sony Killing Off Physical Game Discs
    Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has commented on Sony's recent announcement that it will end support for physical game discs in 2028. Speaking to Gamerbraves, Yoshida said he "didn't know they were planning that." He said he feels for people who want game discs, but he believes it’s not “such a big issue” for many people because they already need to download patches, DLC, and updates."Even with physical disc games, in most cases, developers are constantly updating a

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