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Cosplayer Evgeny “GraysonFin” Vasilyev has shared photos of his portrayal of Henry, the Kingdom Come: Deliverance protagonist who searches Bohemia for his parents’ killers. Players continue to show interest in the action RPG’s world. The franchise’s fan base has grown following the arrival of unofficial multiplayer role-playing servers for the second game, which can accommodate...
Phantom Blade Zero has captured the gaming world’s attention. S-Game’s wuxia-inspired action game became one of 2026’s highest-rated releases and surged past 800,000 concurrent players on Steam during its launch weekend. I’ve enjoyed it, even if its fondness for parrying occasionally tests mine. More than anything, though, it has renewed my excitement for another promising...
Co-op games have given couples plenty of reasons to pick up a controller together, from Split Fiction to Big Walk. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School deserves a place on that list. With inventive puzzles and a strong focus on collaboration, it’s an excellent choice for a night on the couch. Coin Crew Games’ follow-up...
Call of Duty: Warzone servers on PS4 and Xbox One will shut down on November 6. The free-to-play battle royale will remain available on other platforms. November 5 will be the last full day to play on the two consoles before their servers go offline. In June 2026, Activision stopped players from downloading or reinstalling...
Salut, Generals! I’m marijn211, and today I’ll be sharing the parts of Romania’s Focus Tree I worked on: the left side, both in its in-game layout and its political leanings. First, though, let’s take a closer look at the country cooperation mechanic introduced in our first Dev Corner. Cooperation Mechanic Here you can see all...
ARC Raiders players completed about 6 billion raids in the game’s first year, an average of 16 million a day, and destroyed nearly 15 billion ARC enemies. Embark Studios shared statistics covering the 365 days since release. Players destroyed 14.8 billion ARC machines, including 2.9 million Matriarchs and nearly 4 million Queens. The raids totaled...
Anthropic has restricted Claude’s ability to create copies of existing video games and reverse-engineer them. The restrictions have also affected developers working on original projects. Users report that Claude Code and the Opus 5.5 model are blocking requests for harmless reverse engineering, including requests using the Reverse Engineer Anything tool. The restrictions are reportedly linked...
A court has ruled in favor of miHoYo in a dispute with two bloggers who published confidential Honkai: Star Rail information. The two leakers were ordered to jointly pay miHoYo 1 million yuan (about $150,000) in compensation and publicly apologize within 30 days. One defendant accessed test data and published instructions explaining how other players...
Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham are teaming up again for Dogfight, a newly announced Netflix film. The pair have worked together on several movies and also have Viva La Madness in post-production. Ritchie gave Statham his first film role in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Before acting, Statham modeled and appeared as a...
Nine games are known to be joining Xbox Game Pass in the first half of November 2026, including Football Manager 27 and Warhammer Survivors. The announced additions are: Gravhounds — available now Pit of Goblin — November 3 Football Manager 27 — November 3 in early access, with a full release on November 10 Voidbreaker...
