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Arkane Lyon, the French studio behind Dishonored and DEATHLOOP, has about three weeks to find a new owner. According to a report by Le Monde published on October 23, Microsoft’s search for a buyer expires on November 13 — and if nobody steps in, one of the most respected studios in the industry could close … Read more
Star Wars Battlefront 3 may finally be happening. Variety reports, citing multiple sources, that the secret project DICE and Respawn Entertainment are building together is Battlefront 3 — the sequel fans have been asking about for almost a decade. What EA actually confirmed. During its big October 21 restructuring — the one that closed BioWare … Read more
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is fully live today, October 23, and that means the wait for DMZ is over. The extraction mode unlocks for every player at midnight local time, and Infinity Ward calls it the “action extraction shooter”: drop into the Hajin Exclusion Zone, grab everything you can carry, and get out … Read more
GTA 6 is still 4 weeks from launch, but it is already one of the biggest game releases in history. Analytics firm Sensor Tower estimates the game has pulled in about $630 million from 6.45 million digital pre-orders as of October 20, nearly a month before it goes on sale. PlayStation is carrying the launch. … Read more
Xbox cloud gaming is breaking out of Game Pass. Microsoft has started selling Cloud Playtime Packs to Xbox Insiders: blocks of cloud streaming time you buy on their own, with no Game Pass subscription required. The packs come in 3 sizes at introductory launch pricing: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99, and 50 … Read more
Rockstar Games keeps blurring the line between Miami and Vice City. This week, two of Grand Theft Auto’s most famous in-game restaurant chains opened their doors in real life: Burger Shot and Cluckin’ Bell are now serving actual food inside Miami’s Kaseya Center. Fans attending Miami Heat games spotted the fully branded stands, and photos … Read more
BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is closing its doors after more than three decades. Electronic Arts confirmed the shutdown on October 21, 2026, ending one of the most storied runs in role-playing game history. BioWare itself broke the news in a farewell statement posted … Read more
ARC Raiders is Embark Studios’ PvPvE extraction shooter: you deploy from Speranza into the Rust Belt, grab loot, dodge killer ARC machines and rival raiders, then extract before it all goes to waste. Die with a custom loadout and everything you carried — except what sits in your safe pocket — is gone. If your … Read more
AMD and Microsoft announced on October 20 that AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 is coming to Xbox consoles, giving the Series X and Series S a long-awaited graphics technology upgrade. What FSR 4.1 does FidelityFX Super Resolution is AMD’s machine-learning upscaling technology. It renders a game at a lower internal resolution to save performance, then … Read more
Your next Xbox could cost as much as a high-end gaming PC. According to a new Fortune profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s next-generation hardware effort — codenamed Project Helix — carries an internal price projection of $1,200 to $1,800 for consumers, unless the company decides to subsidize the hardware. That is a staggering … Read more
