Author: Zach Barbieri

According to a new report, PlayStation dropped out of plans for PC releases for upcoming games due to an inconsistency in the games that they had released to the platform, as well as a lack of revenue from them. This statement from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who posted on the gaming forum ResetEra, stated that PlayStation staff have provided several reasons why the company has changed release tactics for single-player titles, which are now exclusively for PlayStation consoles. These reasons, which Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Herman Hulst outlined to staff, stated that the PC ports were “inconsistent”, didn’t generate enough profits,…

With Grand Theft Auto VI already seemingly set for release on November 19th, we have seen the effects on the industry, with months like September and February getting massively crowded. While there has been some debate as to whether the massive juggernaut would meet its release date, even the CEO of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, has gone on record saying that the title will not see another delay. Now, we have gotten the biggest seeming confirmation of this news, with a reveal of Grand Theft Auto VI’s cover art, as well as the day preorders will go live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiQEBYDox_k Rockstar Games…

Earlier this month, we got our first look at Senua, the next installment in the Hellblade series, during the Xbox Games Showcase. Of course, the audience watching this couldn’t have anticipated that only a short time after, we would get hit with three potential closures in the Xbox ecosystem, including Compulsion Games, Double Fine, and Hellblade developer Ninja Theory. And yet that is exactly what happened. New CEO at Xbox, Asha Sharma, sent out a memo, suggesting a “rest was coming to the company, a signal that everybody took to mean there would be lay-offs and potential studio closures. The…

One More Level is a studio that has always interested me. I love the Ghostrunner series, which can be punishingly hard on a good day. What the series really was, though, was a counterpoint to the popularity around the soulslike genre as the industry moved towards normalizing a constant influx of hard games that honestly started to blend. Ghostrunner was blisteringly fast and punished any and every mistake. You die, you come back, but the run demanded perfection, and anything less was another time mapping out the perfect path of carnage. This is why One More Level’s veer right into…

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, a mouthful to say if ever there was one, has released a new trailer that offers a release date of October 8, 2026, to unleash its horrors on gamers, finally. It will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC Being developed by Saber Interactive, the title is based on the Hellraiser film franchise, in turn based on the short story by Clive Barker, that gave us the iconic Pinhead, leader on the cenobites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KrPyOMJn0 The trailer gives us a fresh look through the eyes of protagonist Aiden as he fights off the cenobite monsters…

According to reports, Microsoft is planning to shut down Compulsion Games, the studio behind both South of Midnight and We Happy Few. The studio was founded in 2009, releasing their debut game Contrast in 2013, before going on to be acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Kotaku reports that this will mean more than 90 staff at the Canadian developer would be affected, with this news coming shortly after the developer began Job advertising for a new IP, as well as the news that Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan and Chief of Staff Louise O’Connor both departed from Microsoft after decades with the company.…

Capcom has announced that they plan to pull the Dragon’s Dogma II microtransactions from sale before the release of the title’s Dark Arisen expansion. The company stated that they will be discontinuing the sale of the Deluxe Edition through digital storefronts, as well as removing “certain DLC items” from sale by June 24. Alongside this, the digital version of the base game will also receive a permanent discount to its base price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob9pYAlIHZM In a post via social media, Capcom listed the specific Microtransactions that will be pulled from sale across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Steam. These include: Dragon’s…

The one thing we really learned during the Summer Games Fest was that everybody is very afraid to compete with Grand Theft Auto VI. It makes sense, given the juggernaut status of the game, but in this we have seen yet another problem: the number of developers who sought to avoid the November release of that game by choosing September instead. Over the last week, we saw game after game announce a September release date, making that month almost as bad for exposure as November would have. One such game, the action RPG Valor Mortis, is now set to receive a…

When Resident Evil: Veronica was announced, the teaser trailer played out predominantly in a first-person perspective to keep the big reveal that the character we were following was Clair Redfield, a big reveal. This couple with the fact that Resident Evil Requiem featured both a first and third-person perspective for gameplay that could be swapped between, made it easy to conclude that this might also be the case in the upcoming title. This is something even I concluded when covering the announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxUMXniTfjM Speaking in a Q&A session, the remake’s producer, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, has put the record straight, stating that…

After several months of speculation, fueled by a major leak at Nintendo earlier this year, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake was announced as the closer for the Nintendo Direct in June 2026. While we didn’t get too much information to go on for the title overall, we did learn that it was aiming for a 2026 release date, with more information coming later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8eMoxo4ipE Much of the trailer unfolds as a tapestry, telling players what should be a familiar story. Set in the land of Hyrule, a young bot named Link lives in a small…