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Rebel Wolves and publisher Bandai Namco announced on September 5 that The Blood of Dawnwalker has passed one million copies sold worldwide. The game launched on September 3 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, putting the milestone inside its first three days on sale. That is a strong opening for a new IP at full price from a studio with no previous release. Rebel Wolves was founded in Warsa
Bulkhead’s 100-player shooter WARDOGS launched into Steam early access on September 10 and passed two million copies sold in under five days. It hit an all-time concurrent peak of 428,666 players on September 13, according to SteamDB. A week and a half in, the drop-off that usually follows a launch spike has not arrived. The game was still running between roughly 300,000 and 400,000 concurrent pla
Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launched on September 15 as a PS5 exclusive, priced at $69.99 for the standard edition and $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe. It sits at a Metascore of 77 from 117 critic reviews. That is the lowest critic score any PlayStation Studios game has managed in the six years of the PS5, as Kotaku noted shortly after release. It is also, by a wide margin, the best-reviewed game
Grand Theft Auto VI launches in less than two months, and fans are already asking what Rockstar does next. This week’s favorite answer is L.A. Noire 2. Nothing has been confirmed. An old leak resurfaces The claim comes from a 2023 leak first posted on 4chan. Fans dug it up over the weekend, and it spread fast across forums and social media. Why take it seriously? Several of its GTA 6 details have
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Remastered launches on September 29, and it’s free for everyone who already owns the base game. It lands on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. That’s a surprise in itself, given that The Witcher 4 is already in development and the game got a next-gen update as recently as 2022. So is it worth another trip to the Continent? Here’s what’s new. Both expa
What does ARC Raiders look like without other players shooting you in the back? Embark Studios is about to find out. From October 13 to 20, the extraction shooter will test a PvE matchmaking toggle. Players can choose sessions with zero player-to-player damage and focus entirely on fighting ARC. Why now The numbers made the case. In a blog post, Embark said 51% of surveyed players want a dedicated
A US court has ordered Reddit moderator James “Archbox” Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million over Nintendo Switch piracy. US District Judge Lauren King, in Washington, granted Nintendo’s motion for default judgment in full on September 23. She also issued a permanent injunction that bars Williams from distributing pirated games or circumvention tools. What Nintendo accused him of Nintendo filed t
Bungie is rethinking Marathon. In a long update on September 25, the studio admitted that the game’s original extraction-focused vision didn’t connect with enough players. Now it wants Marathon to be much more than the high-stakes PvEvP shooter it launched as in March. What went wrong The update came with a Developer Insights video where the team spoke openly about launch. “Launch didn’t go the wa
