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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
Minecraft LIVE on Saturday, September 26, was packed. The Sift stole the headlines as the game’s first new dimension in over 14 years, but Mojang had plenty more to show. Here’s what else is coming. Ice Caves are the next game drop The next drop adds Ice Caves, a rare new cave biome that forms beneath cold regions. The caves are filled with ice crystals and icicles. The crystals can be placed vert
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
Minecraft is finally getting a fourth dimension. The Sift was revealed at Minecraft LIVE on September 26. It joins the Overworld, the Nether and the End, and it’s the first new dimension added to the main game in more than 14 years. Dungeons II players get there first The Sift will be playable before it reaches Minecraft itself. It’s part of Minecraft Dungeons II from day one, and that game launch
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
