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Following Itch.io’s mass delisting of adult games in response to pressure from payment processors, a new report includes claims from LGBTQ+ devs that safe-for-work titles with lesbian or yuri themes have also been affected. Both Itch and Valve changed their rules on adult content last month, with the issue evolving into a complex pointing of fingers which traced from the …

· · August 11, 2025 The principal game designer at DICE is asking players to share video examples of unexpectedly fast time-to-death (TTD) during the Battlefield 6 open beta. Battlefield 6’s first open beta was a resounding success, becoming the franchise’s largest open beta yet and also beating Call of Duty’s concurrent record on Steam. However, players encountered several bugs …

Microsoft’s wave of game cancellations continues today with the news that Just Cause developer Avalanche’s day-one Game Pass release Contraband has been cancelled. Citing sources, this was first confirmed by reporter Jason Schreier. The game was planned for PC and Xbox Series X|S. Game File’s Stephen Totilo, meanwhile, said Avalanche has “stopped active development” on Contraband but didn’t use the …

Battlefield 6’s Open Beta has launched into early access, but players are having to wait to get in, being met with server queues of over 270,000 in some cases. The beta went live at 1 AM PT on August 7, and the devs addressed the server queue issue a couple of minutes before. “Since this is Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta …

Several veteran developers who worked on the original Guitar Hero games have founded a new studio, RedOctane, and are working on a rhythm game inspired by their past work as well as what the community has created in the decades since plastic guitars ruled video games. The new game is expected to be announced later this year. On August 6, …

Call of Duty is looking to crack down even harder on hackers with Black Ops 7 by making Secure Boot required to launch the game going forward. The battle against hackers is seemingly endless in Call of Duty. Although systems like RICOCHET Anti-Cheat are in place to fight back against cheaters in both multiplayer and Warzone, software is always evolving, …

Are you the sort of player that would rather drop a game altogether than simply bump the difficulty down (if such an option exists?) If so, then you might be in better company than you think – at least that’s what the developer of The First Berserker: Khazan has deduced from poring over its player data, anyway. In an update …

Warner Bros. Games aren’t pushing the brakes on games with live service elements any time soon, despite the whole Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League debacle. A new job listing at Gotham Knights studio WB Games Montréal suggests their upcoming game will have at least some of those long-term servicey bits to it. Or, at the very least, its executive …

Nicolas Guérin of Thunder Lotus, best known for 2020’s Spiritfarer, likes viewing things differently. “Maybe it’s my contrarian nature, but Spiritfarer was meant to be kind of a counterpoint to what death is usually perceived as, which is gloomy, dark, terrible,” he told Polygon recently over video call. “But there is a silver lining. There is some way to talk …

Image: Square Enix / Sandfall Interactive Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded many fans of the golden-era of PlayStation 1 JRPGs they still pine for. Some have even gone so far as to argue that the next Final Fantasy game should be more like …