Black Ops 7 devs have opened up about controversial Call of Duty skins, mentioning how they’re considering feedback from the community. Much like any other shooter, the Call of Duty franchise offers a plethora of different skins that players can use, some of which are part of limited-time crossovers from different franchises. Black Ops 6, for example, has its share …
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Beavis and Butthead. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. An eyesore of a glowing rainbow unicorn thing. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has seen its fair share of “goofy” skins during its nine-month lifetime. The reception to those has been mixed to say the least, with the lines between player expression and competitive gameplay often being blurred by the equipping …
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Following the release of Drag x Drive, fans are diving into the game’s credits, which includes Hisashi Nogami – who previously worked on Animal Crossing and Splatoon. Drag x Drive is one of Nintendo’s smaller teams in recent years. Looking at the core development team, it looks like there were just twenty people involved. The full lineup is as follows: …
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Image: Push Square A sprawling – and quite insightful – article about the current state of the games industry has been published by GamesIndustry.biz, featuring interviews with the likes of Circana’s Mat Piscatella. But it’s former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden’s thoughts that are going viral, as he’s chimed in with his opinion about Xbox Game Pass. As part of a …
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Former Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah has discussed pitching remasters of the first three games in the series to EA, and made clear in the same interview that he’s encourage the developers of the next Mass Effect game to “scapegoat” Dragon Age: The Veilguard “as much as they need to”. Darrah’s offered a lot of insight into life at …
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Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the South Korean publisher undermined the game’s release to avoid paying them a bonus. In its response, Krafton claims that the three plaintiffs, Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire, had “lost interest in developing …
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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 …
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· · 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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