Sensor Tower: GTA 6 pre-orders almost reach 8m, 74% bought on PlayStation 5
Grand Theft Auto 6 is two weeks away, and the highly anticipated title has nearly reached eight million pre-orders, according to recent data.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: new update brings New Game Plus, upgraded PSSR support for PS5 Pro today
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The Most Requested Update, a free update bringing several player-requested and quality-of-life features to the game, is live today on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. The update has new content, a progression update, and more, including: The new PSSR update is...
Before Dark Souls there was King's Field, and five hours into brilliant homage Queen's Domain, it's already one of my favourite games this year
The clue, of course, is right there in the title. Developer Freshly Baked Games' Queen's Domain isn't just a retro-fantasy action RPG played in first-person; it's an explicit homage to King's Field, the long-dormant FromSoftware series that - as the precursor to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls...
Mass Effect petition has enough signatures for the Canadian Government to potentially save BioWare
Following news of EA's decision to shut down iconic RPG studio BioWare , Canadian fans of the studio have escalated their grievances to the governmental level, calling on the Canadian Government to step in and save the Canadian studio from closure, seemingly after Canada's New Democratic Party...
You can now play Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire with a controller on PC from start to finish, thanks to a new update open for testing
After gifting Pillars of Eternity a turn-based mode for its tenth anniversary , Obsidian have now rolled out full PC controller support for both the RPG and its younger sibling Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The support, along with some tweaks to Deadfire's turn-based mode, are currently out...
PlayStation raises full-year forecast after revenue growth in network services and first-party software
Sony has raised its full-year forecast for its games segment after higher net sales and operating income in the second quarter.
"BioWare's closure represents an immense loss to and possibly a targeted attack on Canada's cultural legacy" argues petition calling on Canadian government to step in
Calls for the Canadian government to help ressurect recently shuttered RPG makers BioWare have progressed from a single post by a politician to a petition with enough signatures that it looks set to be presented to the Canadian House of Commons for an official response. So far, 1,662 people from...
PlayStation sees record high player numbers and increased revenue for Q2 2026, and a lot of that success is down to Marvel's Wolverine
As part of today's (Thursday 5th November, 2026) financial results, Sony has confirmed that monthly active users, referred to as MAU, across both PlayStation 4 and 5, reached 127 million in September. This represents a seven percent growth year-on-year for the company, and sets a new record high.
Despite hardware worries and rising costs, Sony says PlayStation 6 development is on track and "progressing as scheduled"
Today, Thursday 5th November, 2026, Sony shared its latest financial results, reporting on the second quarter of financial year 2026 for the company. In a wide-ranging set of statements, we learned that the company's overall profits have been charged by the box office success of Spider-Man...
God of War Laufey delayed three months to May 2027, as Sony Santa Monica escapes a packed February
God of War Laufey has been delayed. Sony Santa Monica's PS5 exclusive is now dodging the crowded month of February and will instead come out on 20th May, 2027.
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Oblivion and Skyrim’s gap was bridged by forward-looking books about a murderous floating island, so why is The Elder Scrolls 6 stuck reanimating a world that’s stood still since 2011
Long waits between mainline entries in a series aren't a new phenomenon, if perhaps a bit more common nowadays due to big games' ballooning development cycles. It took about 23 years for BioWare's Baldur's Gate 2 to be followed up by Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 , though there were a decent amount...
PlayStation Store: October 2026’s top downloads
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In October, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 led the PS5 charts in the US and the EU, and BeamNG.drive landed in the top 3 on both charts. Meanwhile, Hard Bullet dominated the PS VR2 charts. Check out
Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell loses his race for a seat in the US House of Representatives
Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell's political aspirations have hit a roadblock following last night's US mid-term elections. O'Donnell was campaigning for a seat in the US House of Representatives, running as a Republican candidate in Nevada's Third Congressional District, but is...
Dragon's Dogma 2 gets a timed collaboration with beloved anime and manga series Delicious in Dungeon, and it's out right now on PC, PlayStation and Xbox
Have you ever seen - or read - the wonderful Dungeon Meshi (known in English as 'Delicious in Dungeon')? It's a phenomenal manga series written and illustrated by Ryoko Kui, which was adapted into an anime series produced by Trigger in 2024. Long story short, it's about a group of adventurers in...
Ubisoft are reportedly tapped as one potential company that could acquire Arkane, though the Dishonored studio's own management may be in the running too
Things are potentially looking up for Arkane, depending on how you feel about Ubisoft (and depending on who actually ends up acquiring them). I mention the Assassin's Creed developer because, reportedly, they're interested in buying the studio from Microsoft, having even made a bid for it. I'll...
Frostpunk 2's The Surge DLC keeps the wintery apocalypse and adds in faction-clash-inducing electricity and sets a seasonally appropriate December release date
For the time being, the world of Frostpunk remains a hypothetical, even if it's one that seems just that little bit more likely than I'd like it to be given who's in charge of the world. But at the very least, there are pockets of hope to be found in Frostpunk 2 , namely with its newly revealed...
Venom-toothed Noxious Terminids are soon to infest Helldivers 2, and it's your noble job to sterilise the galaxy for Super Earth
Helldivers 2 isn't slowing down any time soon, and according to Edwin's recent interview with Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, it'll continue to be Arrowhead's main priority for the future. As if Helldivers 2 wasn't full of enough horrors for our brave Super Earth Helldivers to shoot at for the...
Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 3 has been announced, marking another attempt at a free-to-play team game after Gundam Evolution's unfortunate fate
Bandai Namco have released the initial announcement trailer for Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 3, a free-to-play team action game and a sequel to 2018's Battle Operation 2. The trailer is very, very pretty, showing off Gundam units clashing in large-scale battles and infantry fighting...
Arc Raiders devs say that using generative AI voice acting was necessary as actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"
Developers at Embark Studios, the company behind Arc Raiders , have spoken on the use of generative AI voice acting in the extraction shooter. It's argued that the initial use of generative AI line reads was a benefit to the voice actors, as they: "would just go crazy if they had to read all of...
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-load begins on 10th November, file size and regional timings released
Rockstar Games have revealed the pre-load date and time for Grand Theft Auto 6 . You better be prepared to clear out some storage space, and burn the midnight oil.
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COD: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ patch has nerfed UAV Towers so you're not immediately visible everywhere you go
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 patches continue, with the latest delivering some big changes to the game's extraction mode DMZ. The latest hotfix introduced a key balance change to one of DMZ's most controversial mechanics: UAV Towers.
Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"
Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that "we are not in the industry of replacing actors." In a new video posted to the Arc Raiders channel focused on audio design, Strandberg...
"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight
Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox , having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of multi-round mass cuts this year. Now, South of Midnight creative director David Sears has suggested that an eventual pulling of the rug was something he...
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It looks like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 had fewer active players at launch in the US compared to last year's Black Ops 7
It's been speculated for a while that Call of Duty may be losing its lustre. Although we don't have concrete data with detailed statistics for each game released in the last several years, there's an observable trend in player numbers that's hard to ignore.
You can make a vampire hunter who's afraid of the dark, disease and small spaces in Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, and that's surely the best way to play
A month or two back I penned a 1500 word whine about feeling too powerful in Blood of Dawnwalker. "Gimme a vampire sim in which I'm a pathetic vein-nibbling goblin," I wrote, using many more adjectives than that. Well, never let it be said that I'm biased against vampires, for I am equally keen...
Delve into "a deep underground facility full of secrets and horrors" in the latest Fallout 4 quest mod from the Commonwealth Story Expansion Project
After adding a whole new town to Fallout 4 last month, a group of modders have released another in their long string of extra quests for the RPG. This latest mission revolves around a dungeon delve in the Glowing Sea, where a mysterious bunker's just been unearthed.
Skyblivion modders reveal a former volunteer is "threatening to sue for damages upwards of €30,000" over work on the unofficial Oblivion remake project
The team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion are being threatened with legal action by a former volunteer on the project, according a video posted by current lead Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel. The situation looks like it'll need resolving before the mod, which was originally set to release last year...
Dune: Awakening's seasonally appropriate Blood and Ice expansion gets a December release date, and in a plus for preservation, an offline mode this month
December is certainly going to be the month of Dune. The biggest Dune of Dunecember will obviously go to Dune: Part 3, which is Duen out December 18th. A little bit before that, however, is a well-timed free expansion coming to Dune: Awakening . It's called Blood and Ice, which sounds gross, but...
"Taking several years with several thousand people… It's almost impossible" – PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the current state of gaming
Middlesbrough is probably the last place we expected to meet Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the father of the PlayStation. He admits he hadn't heard of the northern UK town before he was invited here to give a talk at the second Game Republic New Horizons event on October 15.