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Halo 3 Looks Like It Could Come To Browsers Via Xbox Labs

We just got our strongest hint at what Xbox Labs might be "cooking up" for players, thanks to Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet. The executive posted a video on X that ends with Halo 3 booting up inside what appears to be the Microsoft Edge web browser. In fact, the option to play the beloved FPS with mouse and keyboard even appears as a prompt, too. Van Vliet noted that he was working on "retro vibes" in the social media post, and he also tagged Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. Intriguingly, n

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New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And Sony May Be Tightening Security Before GTA 6

Another day, another PS5 update, as Sony tweaks its system with another minor upgrade. It looks like business as usual for PS5 Update Version: 26.07-14.20.00, with Sony focusing on overall usage and message readability, but there are murmurs that the patch could also be quietly plugging a few jailbreak holes. First, the actual update. "We've improved the messages and usability on some screens," Sony's succinct patch notes read. For your average PS5 user, this won't mean much and downloading the

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After 15-Year Absence, EA Is Bringing Back The Fight Night Franchise

EA Sports has announced that its Fight Night series of boxing games is coming back. Fans have been waiting a very long time, considering the last game in the series was 2011's Fight Night Champion for PS3 and Xbox 360. The franchise debuted in 2004 with Fight Night 2004, and sequels were released in 2005, 2006, and 2009 before Champion came out in 2011. "To everyone who stayed in our corner: Fight Night is coming back," EA Sports said. https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFN/status/2112604926941471213 Be

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COD: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ players are spawning in the middle of a road and being flattened before they can do anything

Infinity Ward opened up early access to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ extraction mode overnight, meaning anyone who has pre-ordered a copy can now play the game's campaign as well as DMZ. And while early reactions to DMZ are fairly positive, there's one issue in particular, which a number of players have experienced, that has the capability of ending a round as soon as it begins. Read more

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Pratfall coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2

Publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer Quad Head will release cooperative cave digging and falling game …

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Xbox Game Pass Heading For A Massive Shakeup, Report Says

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly plotting a "major overhaul" of the Xbox Game Pass service, beyond some of the big changes she's made already like dropping new Call of Duty game releases from the membership. According to Fortune, Xbox could overhaul Game Pass to give players the ability to choose features à la carte. This would reportedly include things like cloud gaming, multiplayer, and "add-ons for console-only games." Game Pass would evolve to operate on a "tiered structure," the report sa

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Prospective Buyers Reportedly Value Xbox As High As $150 Billion

Everything has a selling price, and in Xbox's case, Microsoft's gaming division could be worth at least $100 billion. That's according to a new report, which claims that several private equity firms mulled purchasing Xbox and were willing to go as high as $150 billion for Microsoft's gaming hub--enough cash to buy 15 billion rubber duckies, 50 billion McDouble Cheeseburgers, or 100 billion Costco Hot Dog combos. Or if you felt like wasting that cash, you could easily fund the production of 500 m

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"I want room to make a wrong turn": Following Samson dev's bankruptcy, its founder is considering how AI might factor into new studio plans

Over the weekend, Swedish reports revealed that Samson studio Liquid Swords have gone bankrupt less than a year after releasing their debut crimebrawler. Founder and former Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg subsequently confirmed that Liquid Swords are headed for closure. However, he was also quick to make clear that he won't be disappearing from game development, announcing plans to form a new studio that he's now offered a bit more insight on. Read more

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Warhammer 40K fans have some very specific questions about the Blood Ravens' origins, so I put them to Dawn of War 4's director

Right, let's get one important thing out of the way first: I've played a fair bit more of Dawn of War 4's main campaign, after my initial impressions of a single mission last year, and I think it is very good. The action is as screen-filling as ever, the Orks are a delight, and the combat director, which sees individual combatants lock onto each other with bespoke animations when groups fight in melee, remains a genuine feat of RTS engineering. I'll have much more to say on that front soon, thou

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Dawn of War 4 clearly loves the Warhammer 40K strategy games that came before, but it misses that they loved to reinvent themselves

I may have set my expectations for Dawn of War 4 too high, but it's a series that, to my mind, never retreads the same ground. It's therefore been disappointing to feel, having played it across two its campaigns that this long-awaited sequel may have taken too few risks - or been too reverent of the games that came before. Read more

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PS5’s Biggest Physical Games Look Very Different From Its Biggest Digital Hits

The furore over Sony's decision to effectively kill physical games on its PlayStation platform appears to have died down (for now), and new data from Alinea Analytics shows how wide the split between physical and digital PS5 games is in 2026. As Alinea's head of market analysis, Rhys Elliott, notes, PlayStation's top new 2026 games by physical copies are mostly single-player AAA titles, with Resident Evil Requiem the best-seller. Capcom's hit Resident Evil game is estimated to have sold 1.3 mill

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I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be

We're so back, baby!

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"AI is a technofascist, anti-human and anti-art project", says creator of lefty tech satire Future? No Thanks!, before explaining why he used it anyway

Prominent capital-p Political game developer and left-wing academic Paulo "Molleindustria" Pedercini has revealed that he used generative AI tools for aspects of recent ecosocialist satire Future? No Thanks!. According to Pedercini, "a tiny fraction of its code was written with AI support" towards the end of the project, specifically to assess and fix bugs. The game also uses text-to-speech voice-acting for a couple of characters, generated with ElevenLab software, with Pedercini noting that the

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Even Call of Duty has a parry now and it's kind of brilliant - but do we need it in every game?

I, for my sins, enjoy parry mechanics. I use 'parry slop' lovingly as a shorthand to refer to action games I want to play which feature parrying as a predominant mechanic. I am also a Call of Duty campaign enjoyer, and those games rarely feature any melee combat, let alone something as advanced as parrying. So, to say I was genuinely surprised to see Modern Warfare 4 bring the two together would be an understatement. Read more

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80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come

Next year isn't looking so hot for sensibly priced hardware upgrades either…

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110 million votes later Nurse Harrow has finally made it into Deadlock, with special thanks to a particularly dedicated player who 'cast exactly 1,000 votes for her'

Nurse Harrow voters did, however, prove themselves to be of the most skilled players.

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Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026

Microsoft has revealed the second batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, and there are few genuine corkers, including the console debuts of The Séance of Blake Manor and Mouthwashing, and the addition of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade - which only arrived on Xbox earlier this year. Read more

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Subnautica 2 adding its "scariest" region ever in next major update, the developers say

Subnautica 2 has begun its "voyage to Early Access 2.0", developer Unknown Worlds has said, with the revelation of a new update containing the "scariest" region they've ever made for the underwater game. Delightful. Read more

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Football Manager 27 will be free to play for five days before its full release, in "industry first" for a game of its kind

You can play Football Manager 27 on PC and Mac for free this year for five full days later this month, in a first for the series and apparently an "industry first" for games of its kind. Read more

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Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs, with the first wave coming as early as this month

Xbox is reportedly gearing up for three more rounds of layoffs as the Microsoft gaming division continues CEO Asha Sharma's plan to reset the business. According to a new report, the first of these is taking place this month, followed by another in November and one in January 2027. Read more

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