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The Clock Players Hate May Not Survive a Dawnwalker Sequel
Rebel Wolves director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz says a Blood of Dawnwalker sequel will not force the ticking clock on anyone. Mods already exist. "May not" is still not the same as gone.
Xbox Can Convert Discs Because 2013 DRM Never Fully Died
Microsoft's 2013 used-game plan burned down in public. The disc-tracking leftover is why Xbox can now turn physical copies into digital licenses, a trick Sony does not look able to copy.
Fortune's Weave starts in the future, then pretends it's Greece
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is sold as an Age of Antiquity epic that resembles Ancient Greece. The first hour, hidden through August embargoes, is a guns-out sci-fi cold open.
Ex Sanguis stole my tactics hours from Fire Emblem
Star Wars Zero Company and Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave were supposed to own the month. Lightbulb Crew's Ex Sanguis took the hours instead, and it plays like a hotter Othercide, not a sequel.
007 First Light is cheaper now, and the patch is the big one
IO Interactive's Bond game just received its biggest update yet and the lowest price it has seen. It is a pseudo-prequel, which is the cleanest on-ramp if the last movie was five years ago.
A new Bolivian cat species arrived. GTA 6 still has not.
Current Biology named Leopardus tilcayo, a spotted tiger cat from Bolivia's Yungas forest, the first new cat species in more than 100 years. Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development since 2015.
Toy Story 4's Josh Cooley Is Writing the 99 Nights in the Forest Movie
20th Century Studios hired Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley to write the Roblox survival-horror film 99 Nights in the Forest after a competitive rights fight.
GTA 6 radio gets a teaser hiding under an album post
Rockstar's blog for GTA 6: The Album also promised the next evolution of in-game radio, a dynamic score, and more music details later. Celebrity DJ rumors still have no blessing.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Is a Time-Management Sim in RPG Clothing
Rebel Wolves built The Blood of Dawnwalker as a bloody action RPG whose clock is the point, which is a relief if unfinished quest logs have been keeping you out of the genre.
The Scale B06 looks fair only because memory is a mess
iBuyPower's ready-to-ship RDY Scale B06 does not feel wildly expensive, which is less a win for the prebuilt than proof the consumer memory crunch has rewritten what value looks like.
Bill Skarsgård is the new face of Kojima's Physint
Xbox used the tail of its Tokyo Game Show 2026 showcase to name Bill Skarsgård as the lead of Physint, Kojima Productions' first real update since the game moved from PlayStation.
Heart Machine cuts nearly everyone after a publisher walks
Heart Machine laid off nearly its entire staff after a publishing deal for an unannounced game collapsed, and founder Alx Preston said he is not sure yet what comes next for the studio to survive.
The Marathon-Destiny 2 Merge Leak Gets a Public No
A leak claimed Bungie might fold Marathon into Destiny 2 as one giant property. Marathon's creative director told players not to believe everything they read online.
Handing Witcher 3's Next Expansion to Outsiders Feels Scary
A CD Projekt producer compared farming The Witcher 3's expansion out to leaving a child with someone else, then added that the other studio takes excellent care. Fans should wait for the actual quests.
Ralph Fulton is tying Fable's survival to Xbox's identity
Hurting Fable would be like hurting the Xbox brand itself, director Ralph Fulton argues, as the long-delayed reboot tries to stay off Microsoft's cancellation pile.