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Riot has confirmed that active development on 2XKO will end soon, less than a year after the League of Legends fighting game launched. While the title drew early interest, Riot says it never reached the player retention needed to support long‑term live‑service development.

Since the launch of their PlayStation 4 swan-song back in 2020, Naughty Dog have yet to release a new original game, with their only output coming in the form of a Last of Us 1 Remake and a TLOU Part II Remaster. While it is known that the team are currently hard at work on new IP Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, insiders have now explained why it’s taking so long.

Nintendo raised the price of the Switch 2 in the US earlier this year. Now a few months on from that announcement, the company has confirmed that the console will also be getting a price increase in the UK and Ireland.

Over the years, developers have consistently claimed that DRM has no impact on game performance, despite growing evidence to the contrary. Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls is the latest title to fall into this trap, with a cracked version of the game now showing much better performance results, even on lower-end …

It sounds like Guerrilla Games hasn’t even begun production on Horizon 3, with the sequel described as being “far, far away”...

Immersive sim icon and ex-Arkane head Harvey Smith has announced the opening of a brand new studio: Black Pony Immersive.

Fallout 76 is finally getting its full current-gen update next month, bringing with it VRR support, improved visuals and more.

Coming back with another update, Gran Turismo 7 is set to receive 4 new vehicles; 3 additional events and more later today.

A total of 10 games are set to leave PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium next month, including a suite of Disney Toy Story classics.

It's using the same Penta Tandem QD-OLED panel as the MSI 322UR X24 - but is it as good?

There haven't been many GTA 6 leaks over the course of development but there have been a few. Back in 2022, the first gameplay clips leaked from an alpha build, revealing key details, such as two playable main characters, and the larger Vice City map. Now, more gameplay footage has started leaking this week ahead of the exclusive Netflix gameplay premiere next week.

Rebel Wolves has released updated PC system requirements for The Blood of Dawnwalker ahead of its launch next month. The new specs are lower than previously announced, but the studio still recommends using upscaling across all tiers, leaving some uncertainty over how demanding the game will be without it.

Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that he advised the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 not to describe the game as a turn‑based RPG, citing the negative stigma surrounding traditional JRPG combat systems during the 2010s.

Sony is reportedly rebooting Horizon Hunters Gathering following poor reception from fans of the series, prompting a major shift in direction for the project. The game, originally pitched as a live‑service multiplayer title, is now being reworked into a more traditional co‑operative experience.

Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have now locked in the release date for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, confirming that the new horror title will arrive this October. Alongside the date, the studio has also released a new trailer to set the tone for the game’s twisted take on the Hellraiser universe.

Ampere Analysis has issued a new forecast warning that next‑generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft could see sales drop by as much as 40% over their first five years. The decline would be driven primarily by expected price hikes, with analysts increasingly anticipating launch prices above $1,000.

With 6 weeks to go until its official release, pre-orders for S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero have reportedly “far exceeded expectations.”

We used the G Pro X2 Superstrike for 3 months to see if haptic triggers actually improve your aim

Alongside the announcement that the game had gone GOLD, Remedy revealed that the physical edition of Control Resonant will be delayed slightly into October.

Another classic has now been preserved, with 2003’s Prince of Persia The Sands of Time officially joining GOG’s game preservation program.

According to analysts, GTA VI has reportedly already made almost half a Billion Dollars from pre-orders alone - 77% of which was on PlayStation.

For a while now, Thermal Grizzly has been selling delidded processors, allowing direct-die cooling without undergoing the risky delidding procedure yourself. Thermal Grizzly even backs these CPUs with their own warranty in case anything goes wrong. As of this week, Thermal Grizzly is now offering delidded versions of the Ryzen …

Asus has released its GPU Tweak III V2.1.8.0 update, introducing an auto-shutdown feature designed to protect graphics cards from damage caused by 12V-2×6 power cables. Brought to our attention by Videocardz, the new feature automatically powers down a system when it detects persistently high current on supported hardware. According to …

Microsoft has announced the next wave of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass, headlined by Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, which arrives as a day‑one release later this month. A number of other new titles will also be joining the library across console, PC and cloud.

Following leaks earlier this Summer, it appears as though LEGO Skylines will be officially announced during this year’s Gamescom.

Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls is set to be officially delisted from Apple Arcade later this week, with the exclusive being entirely unplayable by September.

Following its last limited-time PvE mode, Marathon has announced ‘Ordnance Heist’ – a PvPvE experience “built around a multi-run chase across different Zones.”

Initially expected to be launching next year, Sony has revealed that it currently does not have a fixed release date for the PlayStation 6.

A peer-reviewed IEEE study reanalysing 12 years of Backblaze hard drive data has revealed that HGST drives recorded the lowest failure rate, followed by Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba. In the IEEE study named “Are There Manufacturer Differences in Hard-Drive Reliability?” (via Tom's Hardware), economists Christoph Siemroth and Yeomyung Park …