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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 …

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 …

PEAK’s devs are sneaking into live games, controlling a talking stuffed animal, and casually trolling players on stream. PEAK exploded onto the scene in June 2025, selling 5 million copies in less than a month. The game hit 102,799 concurrent players on Steam and became a viral hit almost overnight. It was built in a single month during a game …

Just under two weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was laying off 9,000 employees across its workforce and revealed it had cancelled ZeniMax Online Studios’ new MMORPG codenamed Blackbird (along with Rare’s Everwild and the Perfect Dark reboot, with the latter’s development studio The Initiative shuttered). Now, a report suggests ZeniMax devs who worked on the game will soon be affected …