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The Coalition, the Microsoft-owned studio behind Gears of War: E-Day, Gears 4 and Gears 5 has mostly survived the wide-ranging cuts and layoffs initiated by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma in her attempt to bring the gaming division back to profitability.
Last year, we learned that Xbox cancelled a reboot of Perfect Dark. The game, in development at The Initiative, was cancelled as part of 2025's wave of wide-ranging cuts at Microsoft and Xbox. In 2026, of course, things have only gotten worse for the company._bkYmocn.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an absolute delight to play, and for fans of the Burnout games, it can feel like coming home. That's hardly surprising given that Fuse Games, the creators of Galactic Racer, contains an awful lot of DNA from Burnout's old home at Criterion.
Google and Unity yesterday announced new generative-AI game-making platforms designed to make and shape games by inputting text prompts. Google's product is called Playground and is available for testing now, if you live in the US, and Unity's product is Unity Spark and is "coming soon".
It looks like the GTA 6 leaker, 'CyberLeek' is back - and this time the infamous leaker has posted a 25-minute video of footage from Rockstar's upcoming game that even features nude scenes, including a fully naked Jason, and a topless Lucia. Eurogamer has seen the video, and it appears to be legitimate - and, as is now traditional, has 'CyberLeek's' emblem overlaid on top of the footage.
How do you revive a series like Hellraiser? When your source material spans four decades and multiple mediums, all with wildly differing tones (and fans), what stays, what goes? Where would you even start? It's a question developer Saber Interactive seems to struggle with throughout Hellraiser: Revival and the result is a messy, uneven, but earnest, often fascinating sort of tribute that, boldly, goes back to the beginning.
We're big fans of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, having given the fast and punishing racing game five stars in our review. We also spoke to developer Fuse Games to better understand how it recaptured the Burnout spirit so well in the game. And it was then we heard about Fuse's unique approach to prototyping Galactic Racer.
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has returned to a position of high influence as a board member of Skydance, the new entertainment juggernaut formed by the merging of Warner Bros. into Paramount.
At today's Triple-i Showcase, Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket announced a surprisingly obvious, and perfectly fitting, collaboration. The game's final DLC, set for release in early 2027, brings the worlds of Subnautica 2 and Dave the Diver together.
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World of Warcraft: Forever's developers have announced drastic visual changes to the game's new Skyborne race following passionate community feedback. These include new in-game models that better represent the game's early MMO aesthetic, much to the community's delight.
The week of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ reveals continues, and the latest highlighted a questionable addition that seems to offer an unfair advantage in an extraction shooter.
Today, Microsoft announced it is setting up a new branch of the Xbox business named XP. In a blog over at the Xbox Wire, Microsoft details what this new area of the business looks like - it consists of four branches: Xbox Places, Xbox Pictures, Xbox Partnerships, Xbox Products.
CD Projekt Red has rolled out a substantial patch for the new Witcher 3 Remastered edition of the game, notably adding more lighting-related options to the console versions of the game, such as Bloom, enabling you to turn them off, should you wish.
Riot Games has released a final gameplay trailer for 2XKO, its short-lived fighting game set to be sunsetted later this year. The game is going out with a bang, with a shock reveal of a secret character coming alongside the games last major update.
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