The canceled standalone multiplayer project set in the The Last of Us universe was far deeper into development than most fans ever realized. Former Naughty Dog director Vinit Agarwal says the game was roughly 80% complete, “very, very close to done,” and performing “really, really well internally”…
April Fool’s Day is back, and 2026’s gaming pranks have a distinct flavor: fewer “we made a fake game” press releases, more weirdly specific bits that either could be real… or straight-up are real. The headline-grabber is Bubsy—yes, that Bubsy—whose publisher Atari is leaning all the way in with…
Warhorse Studios—the Czech team behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—is now at the center of a fast-spreading rumour that it’s leading a major The Lord of the Rings game for Embracer Group. The chatter ties into an earlier report of a $100 million Middle-earth project with funding linked to the Abu…
Xbox Game Pass may be on the verge of yet another shake-up, with references surfacing to a rumored new tier codenamed “Triton” that would focus exclusively on Microsoft-owned, first-party games. If real, it could offer a cheaper, cleaner on-ramp for players who only care about Xbox’s in-house…
Nintendo is reportedly lining up a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2 as a major Holiday 2026 release—an idea that sounds like a guaranteed win on paper, but could be one of the company’s most precarious swings in years. The rumor comes from well-known leaker NateTheHate, and…
Nintendo and Illumination just pulled the pin on a genuinely wild crossover: Fox McCloud is officially in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and he’ll be voiced by Glen Powell. Even before anyone’s heard a single line of Powell’s actual performance in the film, the internet has already started…
Nintendo and Illumination just did the unthinkable: they revealed Fox McCloud—yes, Star Fox’s ace pilot—will appear in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie via an official character poster, mere days before the film hits theaters. The move has sent the internet into a familiar frenzy: equal parts hype,…
PlayStation is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, the first-party partner studio led by Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell, barely a year after it was publicly revealed. The move is also said to come alongside additional layoffs tied to mobile development, signaling another sharp turn in…
Nintendo may be tapping the brakes on Nintendo Switch 2 production in the US after a holiday season that didn’t live up to internal expectations. Multiple reports point to a 33% cut in planned output this quarter—a meaningful shift for a platform holder that typically wants momentum, not caution,…
Two years after Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched with zero traditional expansion in sight, Capcom has dropped a “special celebratory artwork” for the game’s second anniversary—and fans are treating it like a treasure map. A mysterious blue-lit figure, a translated in-world note referencing griffins and a…
