Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble is shutting down less than a year after it was announced, and before it ever got a global launch. Developer Oh BiBi and Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed on the game’s official website that development on the free-to-play mobile hero shooter has ended, with the final planned update arriving today, November…

Back in May, Owlcat Games confirmed it was recasting the male protagonist of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, saying the original performance felt less expressive than the team wanted after more than 7,000 players filled out its closed beta survey. Today, the studio revealed who is taking over. Blythe Melin is the new voice of the…

IO Interactive has released a free Starter Pack for 007 First Light on Steam and XBOX Series X|S that covers the game’s opening mission in Iceland, where players take their first steps as a young James Bond. PlayStation 5 owners get the same Starter Pack on November 10, and in the meantime, PlayStation Plus Premium…

The Switch 2 has now reached 26.35 million units sold since its June 2025 launch, though the 2.67 million consoles Nintendo moved during the quarter ended September 30 is down 41 percent from the 4.54 million it sold in the same quarter last year, when the console had just passed 10 million. The first half…

Shift Up’s live-action trailer for Stellar Blade Complete Edition went up today alongside the game’s Switch 2 launch, and it’s built around a single idea: you can now take EVE with you everywhere you go. Rather than focusing on gameplay, the trailer has a live-action EVE appearing alongside people going about their day, including a…

The Switch 2 has now reached 26.35 million units sold since its June 2025 launch, though the 2.67 million consoles Nintendo moved during the quarter ended September 30 is down 41 percent from the 4.54 million it sold in the same quarter last year, when the console had just passed 10 million. The first half…

AMD FSR Upscaling 4 is now available to XBOX developers, bringing machine learning upscaling to XBOX Series X|S just over two weeks after AMD first announced it was headed to the consoles. The October 20 announcement brought FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards and supported Ryzen-powered devices, including the ROG XBOX Ally handhelds,…

Forza Horizon 6’s seventh series update, City Life, adds two permanent race routes in Tokyo City: the Edo Circuit Road Race and the Shuto Charge Street Race. The update went live on November 2 at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern) on XBOX Series X|S, the XBOX app on PC, and Steam, with the City…

XBOX Insiders can start testing an updated XBOX PC app today that Microsoft says launches up to 60 percent faster, with pages like Home, Store, and Game Pass loading up to 50 percent faster and in-app windows opening up to 65 percent faster. Those figures come from Microsoft’s own testing and may vary by device…

Unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 took the top spot on both PlayStation 5 charts in October after launching on October 23, while Marvel’s Wolverine, which led the U.S. chart in September, dropped to 14th in the U.S. and out of the EU top 20 entirely. BeamNG.drive made its PlayStation 5 debut on October…

Santa Monica Studio is delaying God of War Laufey from February 16 to May 20, 2027, a little more than three months past the date it set at San Diego Comic-Con in July. The studio announced the change in a short statement, saying that since the reveal at June’s State of Play, it has been…

Lords of the Fallen II will ship with almost 30 fully distinct weapon movesets, nearly twice the 15 in the 2023 game, according to the latest episode of CI Games’ Lifting the Veil development series. Episode 11, titled Steel & Sorcery, is what the studio calls its most extensive gameplay reveal for the sequel to…

Warhammer Survivors was probably the game I was most excited about from the Warhammer Skulls showcase back in May, and it arrives as a day one release on November 10, right in the middle of a 15-game first wave for November. The wave runs from today, November 3, through November 17 and includes six day…

Rockstar has confirmed that digital preloading for Grand Theft Auto VI begins on November 10 for PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X|S, giving players a little over a week to get the download done before the game launches on November 19. The exact start time depends on which console you’re playing on. On PlayStation 5,…

Eight years after a brief teaser at E3 2018 that showed little more than a mountainous landscape and a logo, The Elder Scrolls VI finally has a full name: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The title appeared at the very end of a video Bethesda posted to YouTube today called Celebrating 40 Years of Bethesda…

Just over a year after Borderlands 4 launched on September 12, 2025, Gearbox has published a thank you post to players celebrating the Borderlands franchise passing 100 million copies sold. The series started with the original Borderlands in 2009, and Gearbox notes there aren’t many franchises that have ever reached that number. I went into…

Nintendo now has an official Pikmin Day, and it’s November 1, a date Shigeru Miyamoto explained at the start of a dedicated Pikmin Day Direct over the weekend. Written as 11.1, the date is meant to resemble the original Red, Blue, and Yellow Pikmin standing in a line. Nintendo also showed a new trailer for…

Phantom Blade Zero has sold over four million copies across PlayStation 5 and PC in its first 72 hours, according to developer S-GAME, which shared the milestone on the game’s official social media account. The wuxia action RPG launched on October 28 at 7:00 PM Pacific (10:00 PM Eastern), which was October 29 in Beijing,…

Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold is no longer a January 2027 release. During the Fan Festival 2026 keynote in Tokyo, Square Enix confirmed the sixth expansion will launch on February 23, 2027, with early access for those who preorder starting on February 19. That’s roughly a four-week delay from the window announced in Anaheim back in…

Look Outside, the survival horror RPG from developer Francis Coulombe and publisher Devolver Digital, is now available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 as well as Switch and Switch 2 for $9.99. The game originally launched on Steam on March 21, 2025, and it has since earned an Overwhelmingly Positive rating, with 98 percent of…

Quick Verdict A lot of the conversation around Star Wars: Galactic Racer has focused on its Burnout DNA, which makes sense considering developer Fuse Games was founded by Criterion veterans who worked on Burnout and Need for Speed. I enjoyed the Burnout franchise back in the day, especially Burnout Paradise, but after a few hours…

Nearly a year after Death Stranding Isolations was announced for Disney+, Kojima Productions has shared the first teaser and a proper story synopsis for the animated series at its 10th anniversary event, Beyond the Strand: The Odyssey of Creation and Endeavor, at Azabudai Hills Gallery in Tokyo. The series is still on track to stream…

Bungie has shared a rough timeline for the Destiny 2 unvaulting effort it announced in September, and the porting work alone is expected to take about a year once full production starts in early 2027. The details come from a new Bungie Community Update blog, which the studio says won’t be a weekly series like…

Ubisoft currently has no other Assassin’s Creed remake in active development, according to the franchise’s Fall 2026 update from head of content Jean Guesdon, even after Black Flag Resynced sold over three million copies in its first week and beat the company’s annual forecast within weeks of launch. The post follows the March update that…

FromSoftware has pushed The Duskbloods out of 2026 and into 2027, which means the Switch 2 is losing one of its biggest remaining exclusives for the year. The studio says the August network test showed active interest in the game’s direct combat, strategic depth, and player expression, and it wants more time for final adjustments…