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• Latest news New Elden Ring trailer reveals many small grotesque creatures

  A new Elden Ring trailer showcases numerous small, malformed humanoids and other strange monsters. Design comparisons to previous FromSoftware titles are used to predict the creatures’ likely identities and roles. Those predictions imply a broader set of enemy types and worldbuilding details that could affect player expectations and theories.

• Latest news Elden Ring turns frequent deaths into environmental jokes

  Elden Ring pairs punishing difficulty with deliberate environmental humor that treats player deaths as comic beats. FromSoftware frames the recurring "You Died" moment as a punchline, using the world and encounters to generate ironic or funny outcomes. That approach reframes failure as part of the game's tone, making challenge itself a storytelling device.

• Latest news Wes Fenlon lists favorite games, gear and reads — urges playing Ace Combat 7

  PC Gamer writer Wes Fenlon published a permanent list of personal favorites spanning games, movies, gadgets, recipes and life tips. He recommends buying and playing 2019's Ace Combat 7—preferably on sale—and suggests it as a primer for Ace Combat 8. He endorses a Ceptics travel power adapter to avoid bulky all-in-one plugs and shares personal gaming details and curated PC Gamer reads.

• Latest news CD Projekt lays off nine Project Sirius staff; 18 roles affected, over 20% cut

  CD Projekt has laid off nine employees from Project Sirius — four in Boston and five in Warsaw — and moved nine other team members into internal recruitment for roles on other CD Projekt Red projects. The company lists 83 people working on Sirius in its Q1 2026 report, so the 18 affected positions equal more than 20% of the team. Project Sirius originated with CD Projekt's 2021 acquisition of The Molasses Flood, saw that studio absorbed into CD Projekt Red in 2025 and underwent a reboot and updated direction; the game still has not been publicly revealed.

• Latest news CD Projekt Red's Project Sirius cuts 9 staff, reassigns 9 amid development shift

  The Molasses Flood, now part of CD Projekt Red, laid off nine people from Project Sirius and moved nine more to other projects as the company shifts its development strategy. The studio previously cut over 25 Project Sirius staff in 2023 while implementing a new framework for the game. Project Sirius — announced in October 2022 as a new Witcher entry — remains under development alongside other CD Projekt Red projects including Cyberpunk 2, The Witcher 4–6, and a partnership with Scopely.

• Latest news Writer argues Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has the series' best soundtrack

  Polygon writer Brian argues that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles offers the best soundtrack in the franchise. He frames Crystal Chronicles as a long‑forgotten entry and presents the music as its standout element. The piece invites readers to reevaluate and listen to the game's score.

• Latest news GTA V tops 230 million sales; averages 17.7M/year as GTA Plus and Mission Creator fuel spending

  Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick announced that Grand Theft Auto V has sold over 230 million copies worldwide since its 2013 release, averaging about 17.7 million copies per year. Recurrent consumer spending for the Grand Theft Auto series rose 3%, with GTA Plus subscriptions active and Rockstar adding a Mission Creator toolset to support community content. Grand Theft Auto VI has begun with exceptionally strong pre-orders, with an extended look scheduled for August 27 and a November 19 release date. The scale of GTA V’s lifetime sales outpaces many recent hits, underscoring the franchise’s ongoing commercial significance for Take-Two.

• Latest news Blizzard finished 2026 fiscal year as Xbox's top-performing studio

  Blizzard president Johanna Faries told staff last week that Blizzard ended the 2026 fiscal year as the top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division and recorded the studio’s third-highest top-line revenue ever. Faries said Blizzard posted its first consecutive years of growth since fiscal 2017 and credited Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch for driving the gains. The performance highlights Blizzard’s ability to run multiple successful live-service titles after Microsoft’s 2023 acquisition and contrasts with weaker results from other Xbox studios this period.

• Latest news Square Enix posts 88.6% operating profit jump as games division rebounds

  Square Enix recorded an 88.6% year‑on‑year operating profit increase for the fiscal year ending 2027; its videogame business saw operating profit rise 91.8% and revenue grow 51.8%. The videogame surge was driven largely by Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, while Final Fantasy XIV showed a player uptick in a community census earlier this year. Creative Studio 3 has adjusted FF14 content—introducing scalable difficulty in encounters and announcing Evercold changes to jobs, raid difficulty, and the tomestone system—indicating the publisher's results are now supported by multiple titles rather than a single MMO.

• Latest news Microsoft to require age verification for R18+ purchases on Xbox and Microsoft Store in Australia

  Microsoft will require age verification for purchases or access to 18+ apps and games on the Microsoft Store and Xbox Store in Australia starting August 2026. Users can verify via email, a secure selfie facial-age check, credit card, or government ID (driver's licence or passport); verification will be performed by London-based VerifyMy. The change implements Australia's new age-verification rules amid similar moves in the UK and parts of the US and raises data-security concerns because verification providers have suffered past breaches and other stores such as Steam and PlayStation have not applied comparable checks in Australia.

• Latest news Netflix delays final season of The Witcher into 2027 despite finished filming

  Netflix has pushed the release of The Witcher’s final season into 2027. Filming for the season wrapped late last year and Liam Hemsworth stars as Geralt. Netflix has not announced a specific release date or publicly confirmed the delay. The postponement delays the show’s conclusion for fans and alters Netflix’s release schedule for high-profile series.

• Latest news Leaked email: Blizzard finished FY26 as Xbox's top-performing studio

  A leaked internal email from Blizzard president Johanna Faries says Blizzard recorded its third-highest annual revenue and finished FY26 as the top-performing studio within Microsoft’s Xbox division. Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch were named as primary revenue drivers, with Overwatch posting its strongest quarter since 2022 and growing for multiple consecutive years for the first time. Blizzard leadership positions BlizzCon 2026 as a springboard for future momentum as Xbox looks to return to growth by FY27 amid wider post-acquisition cost-cutting.

• Latest news Devora Wilde only learned she was in Space Marine 2 after players alerted her; she voices a Cadian audio log

  Devora Wilde, best known as Lae'zel in Baldur's Gate 3, discovered she appears in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 after players messaged her and sent a clip. She performs multiple roles in the game, including a servo‑skull and a Cadian soldier whose audio log revealed her involvement. Wilde confirmed the credit by matching the game's codename in her emails. The situation highlights common production secrecy that can leave performers unaware of final game titles.

• Latest news Netflix delays The Witcher season 5 from 2026 to 2027

  Netflix has moved the final season of The Witcher out of its previously expected 2026 window and now plans to release season 5 in 2027. The 2026 expectation came from Netflix's marketing materials and the show's shooting schedule. As the series' concluding season, the delay postpones the show's finale timeline and associated promotional plans.

• Latest news Final Fantasy 7: Revelation to appear at Gamescom Opening Night Live

  Final Fantasy 7: Revelation, the concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, will be featured on this year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live. The segment is billed as a "new look" at the title and will be shown during the live Opening Night Live broadcast. The appearance puts the final Remake installment on a major Gamescom showcase, delivering a high-profile update to its global audience.

• Latest news 2007 Demon's Souls prototype shows first-person mode and different camera

  Lance McDonald released an internal Demon's Souls showcase that includes a PowerPoint deck and a roughly two-minute gameplay trailer shown at Sony's Gameshare 4 in May 2007, nearly two years before the game's Japanese launch. The footage contains brief first-person sequences and a third-person camera locked behind the player, a clear departure from the final game's free-rotating, lock-on camera that defines Souls combat. The demo also presents an early tutorial area, the Vanguard Demon in a near-final arena, a Dragon God arena set in an open volcanic crater, and enemies absent from the retail release such as bipedal snake men.

• Latest news Mark Darrah: Baldur's Gate 3 succeeded by leaning on Larian's Divinity roots

  Mark Darrah, a veteran of BioWare who worked on Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 and led Dragon Age through Inquisition, says Baldur's Gate 3 excelled because Larian Studios blended Baldur's Gate flavour with its Divinity design and modern CRPG advances instead of faithfully copying Baldur's Gate 2. He contrasted that approach with Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, which he says feels like a restrictive Infinity Engine pastiche. Darrah argues Larian's choices helped BG3 eclipse its predecessors, generate substantial revenue, and remain among Steam's most-played games three years after release.

• Latest news Marvel Tōkon launch hit by low framerate, rollback, PSN login and Linux blocks

  Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls launched on Steam but is facing widespread technical problems that have driven a Mixed user rating. Steam reviews and community posts list low framerates, high CPU usage, rollback spikes in online play, a kernel‑level Easy Anti‑Cheat implementation that prevents Linux play, and a mandatory PlayStation Network login. These issues matter because fighting games require stable framerates and responsive netcode, and the problems are hurting player experience at release.

• Latest news Final Fantasy VII: Revelation to be showcased at Gamescom Opening Night Live on Aug. 25

  An extended look at Final Fantasy VII: Revelation will air during Gamescom Opening Night Live on Aug. 25. The segment offers another in-depth preview of the next Final Fantasy title. The showcase is scheduled to appear slightly ahead of a new GTA 6 trailer, placing it in a high-profile summer games slot.

• Latest news First-time FromSoftware player spent 200+ hours playing Elden Ring wrong

  A player began Elden Ring on its 2022 launch day as their first FromSoftware game. Over two years and more than 200 hours, assumptions and anxiety led them to adopt an approach they now call playing the game wrong. They still have not beaten the game, highlighting how expectations and mindset can shape long-term play and enjoyment.

• Latest news Warlocks went from underpowered at launch to top-tier on Diablo 4 PTR

  Warlocks launched with the Lord of Hatred expansion but arrived underpowered and hampered by several skills that forced the caster to stand still. Blizzard has implemented large buffs and fixes on the PTR for the next season, adding new ways to scale damage including a seasonal gem that increases power over time. On the PTR warlocks can clear the game's hardest dungeon tier with severely unoptimized gear, a result that previously required exploiting bugs in the live season.

• Latest news Larian publishes Baldur's Gate 3 third‑anniversary stats showing surprising player kills

  Developer Larian released a data dive to mark Baldur's Gate 3's three‑year anniversary. The statistics show players who did not choose the Dark Urge origin account for more NPC kills than Dark Urge players, and the studio published lists of the individual NPCs killed most often and the weapons used most frequently. The breakdown highlights unexpected player behavior patterns across the game's three‑year lifespan.

• Latest news Diablo 4 set for Nintendo Switch 2 next month as code-in-box physical release

  Diablo 4 is scheduled to arrive on Nintendo Switch 2 next month as a physical 'code-in-the-box' edition that provides a download code rather than game data on the cartridge. The leak comes from Dealabs' billbil-kun, a leaker with a track record of accurate industry information, boosting the claim's credibility. A code-only physical release means players must download the full game to their Switch 2 storage before playing, affecting preparation and required free space. The release would expand Diablo 4 to Nintendo's next-generation hybrid console, broadening the game's platform availability.

• Latest news Baldur's Gate 3 livestream pulled after on‑screen 'sex demon' scene

  A Larian Studios livestream of Baldur's Gate 3 was taken offline after an on‑screen encounter with a 'sex demon' that included sexual content. The broadcast shutdown removed the studio's live promotional stream from public view. The incident highlights clashes between mature game content and streaming platform moderation.

• Latest news Take-Two schedules unusually early investors call ahead of GTA 6 launch

  Take-Two Interactive will hold its Q1 FY2027 results call on Friday, August 7 at 8:00 a.m. ET, an 8.5-hour shift earlier than its typical late-afternoon schedule. Grand Theft Auto 6 is scheduled to launch on consoles on November 19, and public marketing for the game has been limited so far this summer. Take-Two described the timing as "just scheduling"; the call is the last quarterly results event before the game's release and therefore draws attention as a potential moment for major news or changes.

• Latest news Diablo 4 listed for Nintendo Switch 2 with mid-September release date and $70 price

  Game classification filings in Indonesia and Taiwan list a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Diablo 4 with an alleged release date of September 15 or 18 and a $70 retail price. The boxed product is listed as a code-only physical edition rather than a cartridge. Listings do not specify whether the Switch 2 release includes Diablo 4 expansions such as Lord of Hatred. The timing aligns with BlizzCon (Sept 12–13) and Gamescom (Aug 26–30), making a reveal at those events possible and extending Diablo’s presence on Nintendo hardware.

• Latest news Swords of Legends trailer shows UE5 Chinese action sequel, raises RPG concerns

  A Summer Game Fest trailer for Swords of Legends highlights a lavish Unreal Engine 5 boss fight and heavy action focus. The game is a sequel to Gujian 3 (2018) in a series that moved from turn-based RPG roots toward action combat. The writer played the build, praised its visuals and folklore-inspired design but worried it sidelines the character-driven RPG depth that defined earlier Gujian entries. The reaction matters because the author sees Black Myth Wukong’s success shaping big-budget Chinese games toward spectacle over traditional RPG elements.

• Latest news Diablo 4's 'Rebirth' lets Eternal characters join Seasonal play

  Blizzard is adding a feature called Rebirth that allows characters from Diablo 4’s Eternal realm to be used in Seasonal content. The feature is included in the game's next update and is currently available on the Public Test Realm for players to try. This implements a long-standing player request to bridge Eternal and Seasonal modes and will change how characters are used across game modes.

• Latest news Steam Cyberpunk Fest discounts tagged cyberpunk games up to 90% through Aug 10

  Steam is holding a Cyberpunk Fest sale on all games tagged "cyberpunk" in its store, running until 10 am on August 10. The sale features deep discounts on dozens of titles, including 90% reductions on Ruiner, Neon Struct and Cruelty Squad, and a historic low for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade at $13.99. These price cuts make many cyberpunk-themed and related classic games substantially cheaper to buy right now.

• Latest news Final Fantasy 14 launches on Switch 2 with free trial, requires 117GB

  The Switch 2 port of Final Fantasy 14 has launched and offers a free trial that can be played immediately. The download requires 117GB of spare storage on the console. The port arrived very shortly after it was announced at the end of June, bringing the MMORPG to Switch 2 players without a long wait.