Games

Microsoft unexpectedly added a previously unannounced game to Xbox Game Pass. Young Suns launched in Game Preview. This narrative life-sim for 1–4 players has you building and upgrading a starship, undertaking missions, forming relationships, and helping to rebuild the society of Jupiter’s inhabitants. The developers present it as a calm, exploration-focused adventure. The game is...

Nioh 3 launches on February 6, 2026. Developers have revealed new information: the game will be more approachable for newcomers, aimed at enthusiasts of Japanese history, while retaining the series’ trademark difficulty. Producer Fumihiko Yasuda confirmed in an interview that Nioh 3 is set in an open world. The team drew on lessons from the...

EA has announced it will shut down the servers for GRID (2019) on December 19, 2025. After that date, all multiplayer modes and online features will be unavailable. The publisher has added GRID to its list of unsupported titles, although the main round of Codemasters server closures took place in November, when four older games...

Although the company even exceeded its targets, the employees who remain should not become complacent. Over the past 12 months, Ubisoft has dismissed roughly 1,500 staff members — all as part of a cost-reduction program. About 700 of those were laid off after March 31, 2025, according to the company’s latest financial report. The program’s...

Reports indicate performance can drop by as much as 50% in certain scenarios. A recent Windows 11 update, KB5066835 (October 2025), has produced significant performance regressions in games — most noticeably in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Digital Foundry’s tests corroborate this: with KB5066835 applied and no hotfix installed, a system equipped with a Ryzen 7...

Ubisoft is refreshing not only the game’s visuals but its narrative tone as well. According to an internal Ubisoft presentation from 2024, the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake will no longer depict Princess Farah as a “damsel in distress”; she has been reimagined as an independent combatant. A video briefly appeared on...

Valve declined to provide an explanation for why it refused to accept the Santa Ragione studio’s project onto its platform. Italian studio Santa Ragione has announced that its psychological horror HORSES will release on December 2 for PC via the Epic Games Store, GOG, itch.io and the Humble Store. The game will not be available...

With the final season of Stranger Things fast approaching, the Duffer brothers have offered a quick option for fans who don’t have the time or inclination to rewatch the series from the beginning. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer singled out four episodes they believe will efficiently refresh viewers’ memories ahead of Season 5. In an...

We recently rolled out changes that increase XP earned in official matches and lower the XP required for the first 20 attachment ranks. Building on those improvements, we’re shipping a major revision to Challenges and Assignments informed by gameplay telemetry and player feedback. Several of the changes are substantial, so below we explain our reasoning...

Paramount Pictures’ forthcoming Call of Duty adaptation is slowly coming into focus as more information surfaces. Paramount Pictures and Activision are developing a Call of Duty feature with acclaimed talent attached — director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon) and writer Taylor Sheridan (best known for Yellowstone and other high-profile projects). Insider Daniel Richtman reports...