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A roundup of the past week — reflecting on and commenting on the stories that stood out across the games industry. Grand Theft Auto VI has been pushed back by six months; some observers are trying to read this as connected to the recent layoffs at Rockstar Games. A prominent streamer and esports athlete is...
Incoming releases include Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Where Winds Meet, Anno 117: Pax Romana, and several other titles. This week the PlayStation Store will add 29 new games. Headlining releases include Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Where Winds Meet, and Anno 117: Pax Romana. bacrush — November 10 PS5 Crusader Kings III:...
Screenshot from one of the nominated game releases. The Recording Academy’s 2026 nominations reignited the usual debates over who should win, who was overlooked, and which entries feel out of place. For the fourth consecutive year, music from video games and other interactive media earned its own Grammy category, and this year’s list brings a...
Charli XCX Unveils Haunting Single “House” from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Soundtrack Charli XCX — Paul Kooiker Charli XCX has contributed several original pieces to Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The first release from that collaboration, a chilling single titled “House,” arrived on November 10, 2025. An ominous visual for “House,” directed by...
Anticipation for the franchise’s next installment continues. In November BioWare did join the N7 Day festivities. The team confirmed the new game is still in development and that an Amazon series based on the franchise is also in the works. Additionally, teaser artwork depicting a Krogan civil war has surfaced online. While fans pore over...
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined represents Square Enix’s second major modernization of the original Dragon Quest VII, which first reached U.S. audiences on PlayStation in 2001. The franchise previously received a faithful visual overhaul on Nintendo 3DS in 2016 — Fragments of the Forgotten Past — but Reimagined takes a different tack: Square Enix positions this...
Delivering specialized cargo entails considerable danger. The market continues to spawn a variety of alternatives to long-haul driving sims like Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. One of the newest releases is far from tranquil. In Nitroglycerine!, players take the wheel of heavy trucks to transport deadly loads — routes are unpredictable and...
Credit: Prime Video The new Prime Video animated series BAT‑FAM delivers plenty of kinetic showdowns — Batman (voiced by Luke Wilson) tangles with the Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Clayface and other familiar foes — but its heart lies in the family dynamics. Beneath the punches and set‑pieces the show consistently explores honesty, trust and the...
The developers have addressed several bugs and integrated Creation Club mod content. In celebration of the anniversary, Fallout 4 received an update and the Anniversary Edition was announced. The team resolved a long-standing issue with the VATS system. From now on a fair calculation of hit percentages will be performed: VATS hit chance is now...
The depiction of action on the battlefield will now be more precise. The Counter-Strike 2 team has returned with a substantial update. They’ve introduced a new replay feature called TrueView, designed to more faithfully reproduce what a player actually saw during a match. Until now, demo playback showed the server’s version of the game world...
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