Software & Gaming

Details about the mysterious Nintendo Switch Online Playtest have leaked just days after being announced. Those who signed up were required to accept an NDA.

Remedy has a surprise update in store for Alan Wake 2. On the 22nd of October, a free anniversary update for the game will roll out to all owners. 

Long-time Halo support studio, Certain Affinity, acquired by Keywords Studios. The acquisition follows the cancellation of a Halo Battle Royale game.

Insomniac Games has no plans for additional story content for Spider-Man 2. The game launches on PC in January after just over one year of PS5 exclusivity.

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania is set to be the game's biggest DLC yet, available for all platforms on October 31st.

With the Steam Deck finally launching in Australia, Valve have reiterated the fact that they won’t be doing annual hardware upgrades for the handheld.

With Call of Duty Black Ops 6 mere days away from release, leaked details for COD 2025 have begun to be further finalised.

Following multiple delays and more than a year after its initial planned release, Phasmophobia is finally coming to consoles later this month.

As has been the case for a decade, the total number of games released on Steam this year has hit a new record – with over 14,000 titles having launched so far.

Following the success of the Silent Hill 2 Remake, Bloober Team have discussed their future plans as a studio and horror game developer.

Sony has been slowly but surely accelerating how quickly they bring their PlayStation 5 console exclusives to PC, with the likes of God of War Ragnarök arriving just under two years from its initial release. The next game coming to the platform is Spider-Man 2 – set to drop onto Steam and Epic this upcoming January.

The Nvidia App has been available in beta for months now. By the time RTX 50 GPUs arrive, the app may be ready to leave beta.

During a Bohemia Interactive 25th Anniversary concert, the studio surprisingly teased Arma 4. The Military Sim will return, but not until 2027.

Years on from the initial announcement of a God of War TV show, the Amazon / PlayStation production is reportedly starting from scratch.

Less than two weeks after its launch, the Silent Hill 2 Remake has already surpassed more than 10% of the entire franchise’s sales.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has gotten a new update on console, bringing further enhancements to the graphics mode toggle alongside greater clarity.

With Microsoft seemingly exiting the console sales market in some regions, the Xbox maker looks to be doubling down on its xCloud game streaming services.

Remedy's long in-development multiplayer game set in the Control universe has now been revealed as FBC: Firebreak, coming in 2025.

The second expansion for Alan Wake 2, The Lake House, is finally on the way. The game will be launching next week, just in time for Halloween.

Last night during the Xbox Partner Preview, Subnautica 2 was officially announced, and it will be a day-one Game Pass release. 

Project 007, the new James Bond game from Hitman studio, IO Interactive, could be the first step in a trilogy. The game will feature a Bond 'made for gamers'.

It has been a while since Insomniac Games first announced its plans for Wolverine. Through leaks last year, we learned that Wolverine is intended to lead into a series of X-Men games. Now, Insomniac is reportedly gearing up to finally reveal more about the game. 

More characters planned for the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero! season pass have been revealed, including new characters from the latest anime, Dragon Ball: Daima.

Cooler Master is going all-in on Sim Racing this year, with a new partnership with Simucube, as well as three new Dyn X racing simulator systems.

Starting today, ten new games are joining the cloud library, including the newly released Steam version of Assassin's Creed Mirage. 

Capcom has announced that the Resident Evil 4 Remake, released in March 2023, has achieved a new sales milestone, surpassing eight million copies since launch.

35 years on from the franchise’s first entry, the Final Fantasy series is about to hit a massive milestone – nearing 200 million copies sold.

Filming for the Until Dawn adaptation has now officially wrapped, with the film set to premiere next year on the 25th of April 2025.

The 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two has continued to surpass all expectations – having now sold over 20 million copies. 

Unfortunately, as they do every month, a whole bunch of games will leave PlayStation Plus Extra in November - 18 in total.