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The Control franchise was always an eccentric offering from Remedy, and has largely been a fun outing when we were snooping around The Oldest House. But Resonant has thrown open the doors of the FBC’s HQ to take us into a world where everything’s bigger and, from the looks of it, better, thanks to some great sales numbers to back up the theory. While it’s hard to believe it’s already been more than three weeks since we joined Dylan in the franchise’s latest story, i

With BioWare having announced its closure and the cancelation of its Mass Effect game, former executive producer from the studio, Mark Darrah, has said that EA is now more likely to sell off the studio’s IP. In a new video, Darrah has spoken about BioWare shutting down, as well as the fact that EA owns franchises like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. However, while mentioning that the company is more likely to sell these IPs off to bolster its revenue and financing, Darrah has also noted that EA is l

Remember when PlayStation and Xbox had record-low hardware sales in the United States last August? Well, good news if you’re a PS5 fan, and not so much if you’re one of the rare Xbox aficionados. Dollar sales for the former grew 43 percent in September 2026 compared to last year, causing Sony’s dollar share in the market to peak at its highest since May 2025. As a result, the PS5 topped unit and dollar sales for video game hardware last month. It also contributed to a 12 per

Following the announcement that BioWare is shutting down and reports that EA is laying off around 400 of its employees, a new report indicates that job cuts will happen across a range of EA’s studios. According to Vertical Slice, Maxis, Motive Studios, Respawn Entertainment, Ripple Effect, and Full Circle are among the teams that will be hit by layoffs. Among those laid off is the now-former senior creative director of The Sims 4 developer Maxis, Anna Huerta, who took to LinkedIn to confirm that

For all the controversy surrounding Marvel’s Wolverine, from its writing and combat to the scent trails and other handholdy features (which have since been patched), it hasn’t done too shabby in sales. Circana senior director and analyst Mat Piscatella revealed the firm’s projected best-selling games in the United States for September, and lo and behold, Insomniac’s PS5 exclusive is on top. It’s currently the 11th best-selling game of 2026 to date, but more impre

Despite launching during one of the busiest seasons in gaming history, first-person Souls-like Valor Mortis is a success. After one week, it’s already broken even, meaning One More Level has recouped development costs. Whether that includes marketing costs or not is unknown, but it’s good news regardless. It’s all the more vindicating since the developer decided to delay Valor Mortis out of September, avoiding Silent Hill: Townfall, Control Resonant and the previous weeks&#8

Remember when rumors of the next-generation consoles would fill our hearts with hope and joy, wondering at the many potential new adventures that lay in wait? Raising the graphical bar is nice and all, but there was also that prospect of a clean slate coexisting with massive leaps in our favorite franchises. Maybe some returning IPs, adorning stunning new forms. Fresh stories and gameplay mechanics that simply weren’t possible on older hardware. Suffice it to say that this generation has d

Rockstar certainly knows how to keep us frothing at the mouth when it has a game coming out, and GTA 6 is taking that to new heights. It’s hard to believe that this one’s the fourth list of details about the game we’ve put out, and we suspect that it might not even be the last! For those of you looking to get every possible bit of information you can before you accept that hefty launch price tag, there’s new information that you could find useful. For those of you with a

We’re inching ever closer to GTA 6’s release, and our minds have been rather preoccupied with thoughts of all the things we’re going to do first in Leonidas City when we finally get to begin exploring it as Jason and Lucia. Of course, many of our thoughts have taken us back not just to GTA 5, but to games as early as the franchise’s 1999 outing. GTA 2 might not seem like an obvious comparison point to Rockstar’s upcoming flagship, but look beyond Leonida’s spr

While Mass Effect developer BioWare itself may be getting shut down, it looks like EA still has plans for the sci-fi RPG franchise. According to IGN, the company plans to move ahead with the TV adaptation of Mass Effect. Citing “sources inside Prime Video”, the report has noted that production continues at Amazon MGM Studios. The Mass Effect adaptation has been in the works for quite some time at this point, and no real details about it have been revealed. However, earlier this year, the product

While the decision to shut down BioWare is official (and depressing), it’s only part of a wider range of layoffs by publisher Electronic Arts. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports that around 400 employees are affected as leadership took a “hard look at our business” over the past few months. This is according to an internal staff letter by chief operating officer David Tinson and chief studios officer Cam Weber. Other projects have reportedly been cut alongside the next

After a report emerged that Electronic Arts was shuttering the studio, it’s now official: BioWare is no more. In a new blog post, it said early development on the next Mass Effect, which it was completely focused on, is coming to a close. “There is nothing easy about writing those words. Our focus right now is on our incredibly talented team who put their hearts into these games, and supporting one another through this transition.” For some, the writing may have been on t

It’s been more than a hot minute since we’ve seen, well, anything for Beyond Good and Evil 2. Don’t worry, though, because ever since it was announced in 2008 and re-revealed in 2017, the sequel is still reportedly in “pre-production.” Yes, seriously (and allegedly). Origami claims that “at least” 250 people at Ubisoft Montpelier are working on the project and looking to enter alpha. While there was originally a huge focus on multiplayer with numerous

CD Projekt RED has outlined its big new update for Cyberpunk 2077 on October 22nd for current-gen platforms (with Switch 2 to follow later). The main appeal is the new Edgerunners 2 content, manifesting as a prequel quest featuring King’s team and somehow involving the NCPD. While the team didn’t want to share too many details to avoid spoilers, it confirmed a new radio station with Edgerunners music. There are 16 songs in total from both seasons, in case you want to relive any sa

Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s plans to reset the company by cutting costs to raise profitability, it looks like the 1,600 more planned layoffs will be happening relatively soon. According to Fortune, “people familiar with the plans” have indicated that the company is going to go through a fresh round of layoffs this month, followed by two more rounds in November and January. Sharma had announced the layoff plans back in July when she also cut around 1,600 jobs across a variety of Xbox’s studi

As we get closer to the rumored late 2027/early 2028 launch for next-generation consoles, notable leaker KeplerL2 has now claimed that the bill of materials for Sony’s next-gen console – the PS6 – is around $200 lower than that of Project Helix. In a pair of social media posts, the leaker has discussed the fact that consoles are typically designed and developed over the course of five years, and that no company had foreseen the current state of the hardware market, with memory and storage being

Following last month’s announcement that it is undergoing layoffs, DON’T NOD has offered more details about its plans going forward in a new financial update. The company’s CEO and chairman, Oskar Guilbert, has noted that DON’T NOD has been facing issues in its attempts to secure financing that would ensure the survival of the company while also working on its projects. Pointing to the tumultuous times faced by the video games industry, Guilbert said that recent times have been “marked in partic

Embark Studios has announced that its PvE toggle testing in ARC Raiders has come to an end. In a post on its website, the studio revealed that more than 30 million rounds of PvE matches were played over the course of the testing period, and that this has given the studio plenty of data that can then be studied and analyzed in order to bring further improvements to the PvEvP extraction shooter. The studio has also acknowledged that the PvE toggle had been a “polarizing” addition to the game, and

While remakes of old games often have many of their aspects changed, creative director on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, Michał Kuk, has said that the teams at Flying Wild Hog and Crystal Dynamics have decided to leave the most emotional moments of the title “almost untouched.” Speaking to Edge Magazine (via GamesRadar), Kuk said that this includes things like vistas, locations, and even moments. “Imagine you just finished the first Tomb Raider, then you close your eyes, and you imagine

As developer Sports Interactive gets ready for the upcoming release of Football Manager 27 on November 10th, the company has announced that it is offering a free preview of the management sim from October 29th until November 3rd. The free preview will be available across Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, and Game Pass, and will offer players the chance to experience the entirety of the game ahead of its release. The studio has explained that this launch preview for Football Manager 27 re