games news

• Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Would Cost Jeff Bezos $4.1 Billion in First Year

  24-01-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Amazon.com Inc. founder and the other 174 Americans on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, would collectively owe $61 billion.Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, plans to propose a tax of 2 percent on those with assets of $50 million to $1 billion and 3 percent on all fortunes exceeding $1 billion, the Washington Post reported Thursday.Almost all of Bezos’s net worth is tied up in Amazon stock, and such a tax bill could force him to sell s
  
  Read more

• Square Enix scores an own goal: Octopath Traveler Switch 2 ports revive 2 great JRPGs, but with no upgrade path or save data transfer

  13-07-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix has announced Nintendo Switch 2 Edition versions of two of its beloved RPGs, and it still refuses to offer upgrade paths or cross save.Square Enix has been one of the best supporters of the Switch 2 so far, with ports of the likes of Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth – not to mention Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will be the first mainline title to release on a Nintendo platform on day one since the original Final Fantasy 7 jumped ship to PlayStation. But unfortunately, when it c
  
  Read more

• Palworld devs have "a few other little secret things in development" amid plans to "keep expanding" the survival game's universe

  13-07-2026 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's all go for Palworld right now. The monster-hunting survival game just went 1.0, to absolutely incredible results, and a dating sim spin-off is currently in the works. According to developer Pocketpair, more is coming, including some surprises you may want to watch out for."We're thinking carefully about what we might do next," John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Pocketpair, tells Game8. "We've got some spin-offs we're experimenting with, and hopefully we'll be
  
  Read more

• Palworld was originally a "factory game like Satisfactory" until it evolved into an open-world survival crafting hit, lead says

  13-07-2026 18:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Palworld 1.0 is finally here, over two years on from its monumental early-access launch, but once upon a time, Pocketpair's creature-collecting survival game could have fallen into a very different genre – albeit still with all the cute Pals that fans have grown to love.While often compared to Pokemon when it comes to its creature collecting aspects, and the likes of Ark with its survival gameplay, speaking in a recent interview with Game8, head of communications and publishing at Pocketpa
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• PlayStation is ditching a $402 million market and destroying consumer "freedoms" by abandoning physical games, says major UK retail association

  13-07-2026 18:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can add the UK retail organization The Entertainment Retailer's Association (ERA) to the bloated shelf of enemies PlayStation has collected since announcing it would stop producing physical game discs by 2028. The association representing major UK game retailers like Amazon and Sainsbury's can't believe PlayStation wants to leave so much money still swaying on the tree. "ERA consumer data shows that 25% of under 25s use discs for gaming and the total [UK] disc-based games market was valued a
  
  Read more

• Meccha Chameleon awarded Steam's highest honor: a fast-follow AI ripoff that even uses the same name in some regions

  13-07-2026 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Meccha Chameleon, the latest "friendslop" hit on Steam to take over our social media feeds, is officially so popular that it's spurring shameless clones.It's no secret that Meccha Chameleon has absolutely dominated the web for the past month or so, with its unique Prop Hunt-esque hide-and-seek gameplay. Flying by seven million sales in under two weeks on Valve's PC platform, it was only a matter of time before the new indie gem would spur copies from other developers – and that it has.
  Scr
  
  Read more

• Baldur's Gate 3 devs take urgent action after My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way admits he hasn't played the critically acclaimed D&D RPG: "I did play the Icewind Dale expansion, I just ran out of time"

  13-07-2026 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gerard Way, the frontman of My Chemical Romance and known multi-hyphenate, made a detrimental confession to his street cred during one of his band's shows at Wembley Stadium. Apparently, he hasn't yet played Baldur's Gate 3, a crime Larian Studios is eager to remedy as soon as is humanly possible.There are less conspicuous places to announce the gaps in your video game knowledge than to around 90,000 fans in a sold-out concert, but Way has never been one to do things by half. A question emerged
  
  Read more

• Leaked Lego Donkey Kong set looks like it might continue a trend I'm loving so far

  13-07-2026 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Another day, another leak, as it seems as though the new Lego Donkey Kong has been shown off early.After new Pokemon kits leaked last week (followed by their subsequent reveal), the Lego community is at it again with a sneak peek of yet another Nintendo-themed model via Reddit. This takes us back to the beginning with an arcade version of Jump Man, and by the looks of it, this Lego Donkey Kong set could be playable. To be precise, the leak (which shows off supposed box art for this model) shows
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The Witcher lead isn't "ashamed" of the RPG's infamous sex cards, but admits they "did not work"

  13-07-2026 17:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before The Witcher 3 came two predecessors from CD Projekt Red: The Witcher 2 and the series original RPG – an RPG that features one heck of a, erm, unique romance system.In case you've never played the first Witcher game, the 2007 gem boasts a certain set of cards you can collect that act as… well, sex trophies, basically.
  While more modern genre giants like Baldur's Gate 3 have elaborate romantic cutscenes (many of which are indeed NSFW), The Witcher had these romance cards instea
  
  Read more

• You can now use the Steam Controller with your PS5, Xbox, and Switch thanks to an open-source puck

  13-07-2026 17:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Valve's new Steam Controller is unsurprisingly a PC gamepad, but not if you swap out its puck. Yes, the dongle included in the box is designed to pair the pad specifically to ordinary rigs or the Steam Machine, but OpenPuck project aims to break down platform walls and enable compatibility with the PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.Serving as a bridge between Valve's Steam Controller and other platforms, the OpenPuck uses a Pro Micro NRF52840 board to emulate the default receiver's abilities. (chee
  
  Read more

• Dragon's Dogma 2 fans had given up, but Capcom says work on the RPG's Dark Arisen expansion started six months after launch to answer "incredibly passionate feedback"

  13-07-2026 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  For six months after the March 2024 launch of Dragon's Dogma 2, Capcom had all hands on deck, mostly responding to issues and complaints via patches. Ever since, the RPG's dev team has been working on Dark Arisen, a major expansion meant to answer the fans who wanted to keep playing. Dragon's Dogma Online head and original Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen director Kento Kinoshita joined the sequel's team around the middle of the project, and toward the later stages, he began to wonder what an expansi
  
  Read more

• GameSir's getting in on the Xbox nostalgia, with a retro translucent green T7 Pro lighting up those memories in more ways than one

  13-07-2026 17:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  GameSir may have some of the best PC controllers under its belt, but it's taking square aim at Xbox fans with its latest T7 Pro drop. The Retro Green colorway has just dropped on the brand's site, yet another callback to that OG Xbox aesthetic we've all been yearning for amongst... well... everything that's happened this year. The $49.99 / £55.99 Hall effect controller blasts that translucent aesthetic with its primary-colored face buttons and a whole bunch of ambient LEDs. That gives it a
  
  Read more

• The Odyssey star Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan didn't know how to solve the Trojan Horse scene until the day of filming: "We're just going to cram in there and figure it out"

  13-07-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Odyssey's Matt Damon has revealed how a scene 'inside' the iconic Trojan Horse was brought to life in surprising fashion on set.So, how do you film such a suffocating sequence with bodies stacked on top of bodies? As it turns out, we aren't the only ones who wanted to know."It was the question I had the day before we shot," Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus, recalls to GamesRadar+. "I said, 'We're doing the Trojan Horse tomorrow. How are you going to do that?' And Chris [Nolan] just goes, 'I do
  
  Read more

• GTA 6 isn't coming to PC at launch, but not because Rockstar doesn't "care about PC," says GTA 5 producer: "If you're working on that, you're not working on something else"

  13-07-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  As we get closer to GTA 6's launch with no PC port in sight, it'd be understandable if you were wondering why Rockstar Games is choosing to ignore such a massive chunk of fans at release, especially when it seems very likely to bring the game to the platform eventually. Well, according to one Rockstar veteran, the studio isn't opposed to releasing games on PC – it just might not be worth the time or effort when it could be focusing on something else first.Speaking in a new interview with R
  
  Read more

• Capcom returns to its divisive RPG with Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, and the dev leading the expansion says its friction will be preserved – "That is something that we offer so that players can make a decision on how to play"

  13-07-2026 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even after several updates adjusting features like fast travel, Dragon's Dogma 2 remains a pretty exacting game. Capcom's modern RPG series is known for an eclectic mix of ideas that results in a texture that some players find irresistible, while others outright hate it. Director Hideaki Itsuno previously called the sequel a game that wasn't designed for everyone, and Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen director Kento Kinoshita seems to be of a similar mind as the long-awaited expansion approaches an
  
  Read more

• Pokemon Pokopia was bioengineered to be the "best selling spin-off" according to Koei Tecmo CEO, but he had no "real expectations" for the cozy game until it became an international hit

  13-07-2026 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pokemon Pokopia developers created the game hoping it would eventually become the best-selling spin-off title in the now 30-year-old series, and it seems pretty inevitable it will be. Speaking to Famitsu (with translation provided by Simon Griffin and SatsumaFS on behalf of Nintendo Everything) Koei Tecmo president and CEO Hisashi Koinuma was asked about Pokemon Pokopia – developed by Koei Tecmo studio and Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force. "From among our spin-off titles I do feel a
  
  Read more

• Blizzard responds to Diablo 4 Season 14 Mythic complaints by making them easier to craft and fixing a bug that stopped bosses from dropping them

  13-07-2026 16:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hopes were high that the latest Diablo 4 patch would address the problems around Mythics introduced in Season 14. Alas, this isn't the case, as the update, coming tomorrow, July 14, only addresses a sliver of the issues, leaving players hoping for more systemic change in the weeks to come.Essentially, the new season, Death Awakening, made Mythic Uniques a general pain in the backside. Crafting them is trickier; the drop rate for the items as loot is staggeringly low, and even using them isn't as
  
  Read more

• House of the Dragon season 3 finally fixes one of George R.R. Martin's biggest complaints about the Game of Thrones show

  13-07-2026 16:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  The latest episode of House of the Dragon season 3 addresses one of George R.R. Martin's complaints about the show. Spoilers for season 3, episode 4 follow. Turn back now if you're not up to date! In the episode, Alicent discovers that Helaena is pregnant. This is quite a big problem for both green women, considering they're currently (very well treated) prisoners in the Red Keep, which is now under the control of Rhaenyra and Team Black. In Martin's Fire and Blood, Helaena has three children &n
  
  Read more

• These new Hori pixel art Switch 2 accessories are after my aging Pokemon-loving heart

  13-07-2026 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hori has been the brand to watch as far as it comes to pumping out the best Nintendo Switch 2 accessories for Pokemon fans, but these upcoming Pixel Art designs are more fabulous than I could have imagined.The upcoming line-up has yet to be officially announced by Hori, yet two brand new Switch 2 cases, Game Card cases, and two matching wireless controllers have appeared in the wild, just like the Pokemon they're covered in. What makes these special is that they aren't just coated in boring repu
  
  Read more

• Lenovo just refreshed its most powerful gaming laptop, but a CPU boost can't justify a $2,000 markup

  13-07-2026 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i has always been an absolute unit of a machine, so it makes sense for the brand to pump as much power as it can into this 16-inch chassis. The mid-2026 refresh that hit the shelves this week only makes a minor change to its specs under the hood. Rather than the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX that previously headlined the best gaming laptops on the market, the 2026 iteration has opted for an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. For the hefty MSRP of $5,478.99 (currently $4,463.99 at L
  
  Read more

• As Elder Scrolls Online fans fear for the MMO, Bethesda reportedly confirms its team is the same size it was when it delivered some of its best content

  13-07-2026 15:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Elder Scrolls Online team is unfortunately part of Microsoft's ongoing plan to cut 3,200 employees at Xbox, leaving the developers behind the Bethesda MMO far fewer in number than before.In fact, the team is apparently as small as it was about a decade ago, when the game only really began to take off after its shaky launch – or, at least, that's what prominent community figure Baratron, who helps run the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages and its Discord, reports.He reveals as much in a ne
  
  Read more

• Tom Cruise unwittingly kickstarts an apocalyptic disaster in seriously odd first trailer for black comedy Digger

  13-07-2026 15:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first trailer for Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise's next film, is here, and it's a seriously odd tease for the black comedy film.In the footage, which you can watch above, Tom Cruise (transformed as his character Digger Rockwell) spends his time in a luxurious mansion taking care of his strange-looking cat. However, disaster strikes when he ignores a warning from an employee about an iceberg, which kickstarts a chain reaction that looks likely to destroy the planet
  
  Read more

• The Future Games Show returns next month with 3 shows and dozens of announcements

  13-07-2026 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Future Games Show is coming back next month for not one, not two, but three exciting shows serving up the best of what Gamescom 2026 has to offer.The Future Games Show at Gamescom will see the return of the main event. That means world premieres, exclusive trailers, developer deep-dives and possibly even a few demo drops. Back in June, the Future Games Show Summer Showcase featured more than 40 games, so you know you're in for something good.The fun doesn't end with the conclusion of the mai
  
  Read more

• The last retro console I'd expect to run DOOM is the girly pop Casio Loopy, and yet, it can now run DOOM

  13-07-2026 14:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's easy to see why the Casio Loopy, a Japanese console with a built-in sticker printer, didn't get an official port of DOOM. That hasn't stopped enthusiasts in the past, though, and the '90s 32-bit system that once targeted girl gamers with its lilac getup and library of "cosy" and romantic cartridges now runs id's ultra-violent boomer shooter.I'm well used to seeing absurd DOOM ports, but the 1995 Casio Loopy wasn't on my bingo card (cheers for highlighting, Hackaday). You've got developer Th
  
  Read more

• Kevin Feige all but confirms a major Avengers: Doomsday character is showing up in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

  13-07-2026 13:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thanks to the Thunderbolts post-credits scene and the major cast announcement, we already know that Florence Pugh's Yelena is set to play a major role in Avengers: Doomsday. However, before she returns to the big screen in December, it sounds as though the anti-hero may dip into the MCU a little sooner than expected. "If you're a fan of Yelena, wait until Avengers: Doomsday, Yelena plays a big part in that. But if you don't want to wait until then, you might see Yelena a little bit sooner in the
  
  Read more

• Former PlayStation head tells Xbox to either be a good publisher or make a good platform with exclusives: "Nintendo needs its Mario and its Zelda"

  13-07-2026 13:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Former PlayStation head Shawn Layden has urged Asha Sharma at Xbox to decide whether it wants to be a publisher or a platform holder.Speaking to Eurogamer, Layden says, "There's two roads," when it comes to what Microsoft can do, that is "be a competitive platform rival in the marketplace with PlayStation, or the biggest game publisher in the world, which based on all their acquisitions, they're either there or they're very close to it." However, Microsoft's inconsistent decision making has seen
  
  Read more

• Razer's new cute Cinnamoroll headset is available to pre-order, and this puppy is giving me the cosplay itch

  13-07-2026 13:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Razer announced its brand new Cinnamoroll Edition Razer Kraken Kitty V2 BT wireless headset on July 9, and it's one of the most adorable pairs of cups the brand has unveiled so far.The Kraken Kitty V2 BT, which is set to launch on July 20, 2026, has swapped its usual pointy, RGB Chroma-powered cat-ears for Cinnamoroll's adorable puppy dog ones instead. While other Razer collabs result in headsets that are simply covered in officially licensed art, this partnership with Sanrio has resulted in a p
  
  Read more

• "We were shooting it like a documentary": The Odyssey cast learned to sail for real as Christopher Nolan admits it was "tough" on his actors

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Christopher Nolan's next epic, The Odyssey, follows the journey of a Greek warrior trying to make his way home across the ocean after the Trojan War – so, naturally, it involves a lot of sailing. However, as you might expect from a film of this scale, nothing was done by halves, meaning the cast had to actually learn to sail for real. "When I was writing the script, every time I’d write something on a boat, I thought, 'Ugh, do we have to be on boats?' Because I know what it takes to
  
  Read more

• The Batman 2's big new villain rumor may have been teased a year ago by the movie's co-writer

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Much like Marvel's tactic with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, DC Studios is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to The Batman: Part 2's villain, but an old post from writer Mattson Tomlin could hint at who it could be.Although it's only a little over a year before Robert Pattinson's caped crusader returns to our screens in The Batman 2, we still don't really know what the highly anticipated sequel will entail, or who Gotham's new big bad is. However, rumors of Scarlett Johansson's mys
  
  Read more

• Live-action Moana sinks at the box office, and it's almost doing as badly as the Snow White remake

  13-07-2026 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, this isn't welcome news for Disney. The live-action Moana remake, starring Catherine Laga'aia and Dwayne Johnson, has sunk to new depths at the box office.Moana has taken $95 million worldwide, with Deadline reporting that it's now on track to lose over $100 million – if it reaches $250 million total.Whichever way you spin it, 2026's Moana is a near-historic low for Disney's band of live-action remakes. Its $43 million takings at the US domestic box office pales in comparison to The
  
  Read more

Follow @Newslockergames on Twitter!