Airship Syndicate is a studio that you'll likely recognize for Darksiders Genesis, or its most recent outing, the co-op action RPG Wayfinder, but whatever you recognize the name from, the studio has officially revealed its next title. DUST: Origins is a new isometric action game that Airship Syndicate is developing, and the studio is about to launch a Kickstarter for it. The Kickstarter officially begins on July 28, 2026, so there's still some time before it kicks off (pun intended). In the meantime, Airship Syndicate released a very intriguing teaser trailer that helps to establish the dark tone of the […]

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Valve revealed its price for the Steam Machine at the top of this week, and it was higher than players would've liked. The $1,049 price tag was also higher than what Valve would've liked too, as we've learned from subsequent interviews that it was supposed to be priced closer to $718. But if the component crisis that painted Valve (and every other platform manufacturer) into a price-raising corner were to end tomorrow, would Valve lower the Steam Machine's price? The answer, thankfully, seems to be a clear 'Yes,' but that doesn't mean you should hold out hope for it happening. […]

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Publisher 4Divinity, who you may recognize as the publishers of JDM: Japanese Drift Master has something very different coming to its portfolio with Sword Sage: Awakening. A third-person action RPG where you step into the shoes of San Niang, and an adventure wrapped in Chinese myth and folklore. The studio debuted a new gameplay and story trailer today, which shows off a bit of the kind of action players can expect. It's a game that, to some, will look like another Soulslike, while others will say it looks more like a traditional action game with its combat. The reality, of […]

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Circana senior director and veteran video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella has just shared the latest monthly sales numbers for the video game industry in the US for the month of May 2026. Usually, the big topic from these reports comes down to which games are at the top of the charts, and while that's still significant here, the bigger topic is what happened with hardware sales. While the Nintendo Switch 2 continued to sell and helped drive spending growth in the US video game industry for May 2026 compared to May 2025, the PS5 and PlayStation overall saw its […]

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Warhorse Studios' critically acclaimed RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has just hit its latest commercial milestone as it officially surpassed 6 million copies sold worldwide since its launch in February 2025. The developer announced the milestone in a press release, which also revealed that the studio will celebrate the milestone by putting Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on sale during the official Steam Summer Sale. If you haven't stepped into either of Warhorse's medieval RPGs, you can grab the first game for 80% off on either the base game or the Royal Edition which comes jam-packed with all of the DLC […]

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After two price hikes in one year, Xbox and Microsoft are going for the hat trick of price hikes, with the price of the Xbox Series X/S going up for the third time in 15 months. As of August 1, 2026, the price of a Series S/X console is going up by $100 or $150, respectively. The 2TB variant is also being discontinued. The news comes from a statement shared on Xbox Wire, which also introduces multiple programs Microsoft is kicking up to try and make the consoles "more accessible," even amidst the prices rising yet again. Before digging into […]

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FromSoftware's parent company Kadokawa Corporation just nearly missed going through a major transition period. Kadokawa's chief executive officer, Takeshi Natsuno, has been able to keep his job as CEO, after some of the company's investors tried to have him replaced due to their claims that Natsuno has failed to properly capitalize on the success of Elden Ring. This comes from a report from Reuters (via GamesIndustry.Biz), which also adds that while Natsuno is staying in the CEO chair for now, he's there with a much weaker support system than what he had just a year ago. Back in 2025, Natsuno […]

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It's Thursday, which means it's also another GeForce NOW Thursday, with a new batch of games getting added to NVIDIA's cloud streaming service. Notable titles include Empulse, the Titanfall-like shooter from 1047 Games, a new action roguelike called Dark Scrolls from developer doinksoft and publisher Devolver Digital, and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. But what's just as important is that they're all arriving on the service just as the first wave of Steam summer sales start to kick off. Now, that's not to say that those games mentioned are part of any upcoming summer sales. Empulse and Dark […]

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The final update for Destiny 2 went live a little more than two weeks ago, on June 9, 2026. Today, in the wake of Bungie putting the game and franchise it had been working on for over a decade down, the studio announced its latest round of layoffs, as a statement shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account reads "we unfortunately could not continue operating at our previous size." This is, unfortunately, exactly what was expected to happen with Destiny 2's sunsetting. It hadn't even been 24 hours between the announcement that Destiny 2 would stop receiving content updates […]

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Sales for physical video game releases have been declining for over a decade now due to the rise in digital game sales, and with the revelation that GTA 6 will arrive as a code in a box in November for the few players who still head to brick-and-mortar retail stores to buy their games, physical sales are poised to decline even further. But for the first time since 2009, physical game spending has actually seen a year-on-year increase between 2025 and 2026 in the US. The reason? Nintendo Switch 2. That comes from Mat Piscatella, senior director and video game […]

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Back in November 2025, we got the information drop everyone was waiting for: the release date for GTA 6. Yes, it came packaged as a delay announcement, and there was technically no guarantee it would stick, but it ultimately has, as we finally got the other bit of information everyone has been waiting for today: how much Rockstar's long-awaited game would cost. $80 for the Standard Edition and $100 for the Ultimate Edition calmed fears that the barrier to entry for GTA 6 would start at $100, but now those same fears turn towards the rest of the video game […]

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1047 Games, the studio known for making Splitgate and who are arguably more known for how its CEO Ian Proulx tried to make a statement at Summer Game Fest 2025 with a hat that fell flat, have just released their next game. No, it's not yet another iteration of Splitgate after 1047's attempt at Splitgate 2 failed drastically, it's instead a Titanfall-like movement shooter called Empulse, and it's available in early access now. 1047 Games teased Empulse earlier this year while capping off a developer update on Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, which was the final iteration of Splitgate 2 that the […]

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With Destiny 2 now fully in the rear view, the team at Bungie is full-steam ahead on Marathon, though that hasn't resulted in a sudden uptick in players swarming the extraction shooter. Season 2 is going about as well as Season 1, and despite its critical acclaim and a small dedicated core group of players, Marathon continues to struggle to attract the kinds of numbers multiplayer games are practically required to earn to find commercial success. But if Bungie can keep iterating and tweaking Marathon, it wouldn't be the first time, nor likely the last, that a multiplayer game found […]

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When Netflix acquired Oxenfree developers Night School Studio, it seemed like the streaming company was starting to get serious about getting into the video game industry. What followed was unfortunately every indication against that, with layoffs at Night School and the shuttering of the triple-A team it spun up and attracted veteran talent for. Its games strategy has since been nothing but mobile iterations of some PC games or just straight-up mobile and party games, with the short-lived experimentation of interactive episodes like Black Mirror's Bandersnatch. Now, however, it seems like Netflix is levelling up its game, so to speak, […]

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We're all the way up to Season 14 of Diablo IV now since its 2023 launch, and Blizzard Entertainment has now revealed when that new season will kick off, and what players can expect from it. Season 14, titled Season of Death Awakening will launch next week on June 30, 2026, arriving with a slew of updates, and with a free perk all players can take advantage of for the first week. That would be a free one-week trial of the Warlock class, one of the two new classes that arrived with the game's latest expansion, Lord of Hatred. Blizzard […]

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Lords of the Fallen 2 has officially been delayed out of 2026, developer CI Games has confirmed via a statement from the studio's chief executive officer Marek Tyminski posted to his personal X (formerly Twitter) account. It's the latest game to move out to 2027 rather than try and hold its 2026 release window where it would inevitably duke it out with GTA 6 and an already packed back-half of triple-A games in 2026. The statement, like others from the likes of Valor Mortis makers One More Level, does reference the team's desire to give Lords of the Fallen 2 […]

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After months of speculation, Valve finally revealed the price of the Steam Machine yesterday, with the base barrier to owning your own GabeCube listed at $1,049 USD. You could go up to $1,428 USD for the version with all of the bells and whistles, but getting your foot in the door will cost over a grand to start. In a new report from GamesIndustry.Biz, the reaction to that price from senior video game industry analysts is a general sense of surprise that it's not worse and disappointment that it's as high as it is. But what it means for next-generation […]

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Obsidian Entertainment, the Xbox Game Studios team known for Fallout: New Vegas, The Outer Worlds (1/2), Avowed, Pentiment, and more, is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations that the studio violated California Labor laws to "increase their profits" through these violations, though Obsidian denies them entirely. Initially spotted by GamesRadar+, the suit is being led by Victoria Turner, who previously worked at Obsidian as a QA lead. The suit was initially filed back in October 2025, and was amended this past January 2026, which lists the full spread of allegations against Obsidian. "Through this action, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants engaged […]

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If you're a fan of sci-fi stories like Blade Runner or Cyberpunk 2077, then it's likely you've heard of a game that seems like a mix of both of them with a bit of western flair, ExeKiller. Also known as a 'CyberWestern,' this first-person action-adventure game has been in development for a number of years now, and while its latest milestone update doesn't provide a release window, it does provide some assurance that the game will actually make it over the finish line. That's because the game has a new publisher in 505 Games, the same publisher whose parent company […]

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