Ex-Tekken director savages Xbox Series S in front of senior Xbox staff: ‘feels like having to do extra work for a slightly weaker child’
"You just used a very polite and elegant way to say 'Xbox Series S sucks,' right?"
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"I wish hardware like the Xbox Series S wouldn't be released" - former Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada trashes Microsoft's console in front of senior Xbox staff
Katsuhiro Harada, formerly director on the Tekken series, is known for not pulling his punches. This truth was reinforced recently, as he said he wished the Xbox Series S "wouldn't be released" at a developer panel. All while a member of the Xbox team was in the room.
The Outer Worlds 2's first story expansion could well be the opening to the series' last hurrah and will have you hunting for a cure to "explosive cell death" in December
Since they released The Outer Worlds 2 around this time last year, the world has rather turned upside down for Obsidian. The studio lost a chunk of staff to Microsoft's mass layoffs and have pivoted to making a new Fallout game as a smaller group shoved underneath Bethesda in Xbox's corporate...
GTA 6 becomes most pre-ordered game on PlayStation and Xbox storefronts
Grand Theft Auto 6 has become the most pre-ordered game on the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store.
Monster Hunter Wilds' upcoming Ascendance expansion may be getting a beta, some curious Steam backend updates suggest
Monster Hunter Wilds 's first expansion, Ascendance, is set for release sometime next year . But, judging by some very suspect recent changes to the Wilds beta app on Steam, we may be playing some of the new stuff earlier than we thought.
As The Elder Scrolls 5 turns 15, massive mod Beyond Skyrim: Bruma gets a 2.0 update delivering a new quest, extra dungeons and an "expanded worldspace"
Warning: I'm probably about to make you feel old. Today, November 11th 2026, is the 15th anniversary of Skyrim 's release. The first one, before it was re-released on every other platform under the sun. Fittingly, one of its best expansion mods, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma , has gotten a beefy 2.0...
Keeping hold of Company of Heroes was essential for Relic to leave Sega, Relic CEO says – "Without it we would have been a dead studio"
In the nearly 30 years since they opened their doors, Relic have been an enormously influential studio. Responsible for lauded RTS series Homeworld, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes , they also dabbled in other genres with third-person shooter The Outfit and the original Warhammer 40,000...
Ahead of GTA 6 and as concerns over genAI PC ports grow, Take-Two's CEO says they're revving up their "technical defences" and "legal activites" over piracy
It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey? A bad time, obviously, as it's infecting everything from game development , to the modding community , to native PC ports of a remake of a very popular game that I won't link to for fear of a certain company finding out where I live and...
Marathon is becoming a whole new game next month with a roguelite PvE mode, a beta for a very Halo-esque team deathmatch mode, a vibey social space and more
Marathon is getting a lot bigger next month. In September, Bungie outlined their plans for the shooter making some big promises, namely the arrival of a PvE mode, and now they've shown off what you can expect from its next season, Symbiosis.
Company of Heroes 3 developer admits "it was a lot" to make the 3.0 overhaul patch alongside regular updates, singleplayer DLC, and a whole spinoff game
The Company of Heroes 3 's 3.0 update is huge. Touching virtually every part of the three-year-old RTS, the patch notes are longer than, well, my arm isn't a great measure of patch note length. Let's just say the headline features of overhauled VFX and audio don't really cover it. It also comes...
Bandai Namco is liquidating Unknown 9: Awakening studio Reflector Entertainment, following multiple previous layoffs since the game's launch
As another addition to the slew of smaller studios being dissolved by their parent companies, Bandai Namco announced in a press release that they are shutting down their subsidiary studio Reflector Entertainment, a Montreal studio responsible for 2024's action-adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening...
Grand Theft Auto 6 becomes the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history
UPDATE 11TH NOVEMBER: Grand Theft Auto 6 has also become the most pre-ordered game "of all time" on the Xbox Store, Microsoft has announced. And on that platform, again, the advice is to pre-load because of "unprecedented demand" for the game, a post on Xbox Wire said .
In a reveal that might worry eventual PC players glancing at their GPUs, GTA 6 will target 30fps on all consoles
In a press release coinciding with Grand Theft Auto VI becoming available for pre-load ahead of its November 19th release date, Rockstar has confirmed that the game "has been fully developed from the ground up to provide the best possible experience for the current generation of consoles...
"A fight for all workers": SAG-AFTRA throw weight behind emerging Rockstar union ahead of its GTA 6 release week vote
In what has come to feel like the dawn of the final day before Grand Theft Auto VI 's release, one thing that Rockstar really don't want people to be aware of is the ongoing legal dispute between the Rockstar Games Workers Union and the studio itself following Rockstar's alleged union busting in...
Rockstar details Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Pro enhancements, but it'll still only run at 30FPS
As Grand Theft Auto 6 preloads go live, developer Rockstar has detailed the enhancements coming to the PS5 Pro version of the game, confirming these won't include framerates above the 30 FPS its targeting for consoles.
Rockstar kills any hopes of streaming GTA 6 from Xbox to PC, but you can stream it to your old Xbox One if you like
Rockstar Games has today clarified a few remaining details about Grand Theft Auto 6's framerate target and visual settings on PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X/S . And as part of the same announcement , the developer revealed a key detail about the game's cloud streaming options.
Despite promising a heady mix of Vampire Survivors and Warhammer fan-service, Warhammer Survivors is somehow less than the sum of its parts
You know my favourite thing about Vampire Survivors ? The slow build of strength, the swelling power fantasy, the edging . Developer Poncle has proved itself incredibly adept at goading players into ever more ludicrous setups, demonstrating that with some patience, a canny eye for...
Tripwire Interactive says it's laying off 36 staff in a "necessary" decision, while reassuring that Killing Floor 3 and Maneater 2 are still in active development
In a statement posted yesterday, Killing Floor developers Tripwire Interactive have announced that the studio is laying off 36 "talented" internal staff as part of a "workforce reduction". The job cuts come 16 months after the release of Killing Floor 3 (which James didn't care for ), and within...
As Arc Raiders celebrates its first birthday, publisher Nexon reveals the extraction shooter has topped 17 million sales, but revenue is set to decline
Arc Raiders , Embark Studios' popular extraction shooter, has exceeded 17m copies sold, according to publisher Nexon.
Following site-wide discussion on AI use, Nexus Mods add a "daily limit" to the spots in the new mods tab one person can hog via multiple rapid-fire uploads
The folks behind Nexus Mods have rolled out a new "daily limit" system which ensures modders who upload multiple works in bulk during a single 24 hour period can't take up more than one spot in the tabs dedicated to showing off new mods for different games. Instead, those who chuck up their mods...
As investors ask about GTA 6 and AI, Take-Two CEO once again puts faith in dev creativity, states making hit games "remains the purview of human beings"
Today, as part of Take-Two Interactive Software's Q2 2027 earnings call, Strauss Zelnick fielded questions from investors after presenting the financial results of the company. One caller was concerned about AI - specifically about the proliferation of AI-powered compilations and decompilations...
GTA 6 pre-orders are tracking "well above expectations" and the game will "set a new baseline" for Take-Two, says CEO Strauss Zelnick
Today, as part of Take-Two Interactive Software's Q2 2027 earnings call, Strauss Zelnick noted that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6 are tracking "far above expectations", and is certain that soon "numbers will speak for themselves" when it comes to the game.
"Something's really possible" - Mass Effect cast rally around efforts to save the franchise on the first N7 Day after BioWare's closure
This N7 Day was the first without developer BioWare around, but fans of the Mass Effect series didn't let 7th November go by quietly. The community managed to get several notable Mass Effect actors to lend their voice to the increasingly loud 'SaveMassEffect' movement.
Hollow Knight Silksong physical editions mention multiple "free content packs" incoming, and call Sea of Sorrow a "giant expansion"
More than a year after its initial release, physical versions of Hollow Knight: Silksong are finally arriving on players' doorsteps. It's the same brilliant and sometimes thrillingly cruel Metroidvania Eurogamer gave five stars to , except this time a pack-in booklet seemingly reveals the...
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy releases in January, leaving not very long to prepare for all the crunchy cRPG choices and secret wars it'll lob your way
Oh shit, that's not too far away. Terrifyingly, that last sentence is now a thing I can accurately write about games coming out in January 2027. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has just been confirmed as one such game, with the cRPG's heresy investigation set to commence towards the end of the month.
Anticipated Warhammer 40K tactical RPG Dark Heresy gets a release date
Owlcat Games has revealed a release date for its tactical role-playing sequel Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. The game arrives 28th January, 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. A Switch 2 release date will be provided "at a later date", a press release says.
Cyberattack on Sega third-party newsletter distributor reportedly sees over two million email addresses leaked, but Sega accounts unaffected
Sega have revealed that over two million email addresses have leaked due to a cyberattack on Japanese email delivery provider Arara, whom the Like A Dragon and Sonic publishers use to distribute newsletters. Sega and Arara are currently busy investigating what happened in the breach, which...
Rockstar's doing a GTA 6 launch 'festival' in Miami featuring a lot of presumably expensive musical stars
The next-level glamour of Grand Theft Auto 6 's arrival continues with word that Rockstar is hosting a star-studded launch 'festival' for the game in Miami - the game's setting-by-a-different-name.
Activision cracking down on popular Call of Duty: Warzone app that basically constituted cheating
"Lobby shopping" is what Call of Duty: Warzone players have been calling the ability to check the skill level of players in a lobby prior to joining it, enabling them to pass on those that include a lot of tough competition.
Will Grand Theft Auto 6 break the internet?
Back in September 2025, the launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong crashed the digital storefronts of Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, as players who had waited over eight years for a follow-up to 2017's Hollow Knight rushed to download the highly anticipated sequel.