Gears of War: E-Day developer The Coalition said the game suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend that caused login and connection issues. Players reported trouble connecting to multiplayer matches on Sunday, as well as disconnects after getting into a game. The Coalition said its teams are continuing to monitor and mitigate the activity.
Arc Raiders could eventually be split into PvE and PvP modes. Talking to GamesRadar+ ahead of Embark's limited PvE test next week, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said the idea of a more peaceful Arc Raiders is "possible". https://bit.ly/4j9b90K
The Coalition has confirmed that DDoS attacks targeting Gears of War: E-Day's online services caused intermittent disconnects and login issues during the game's first weekend live. The studio said on October 12th that its teams are continuing to monitor and mitigate the activity. E-Day released on October 6th.
Gears of War: E-Day's servers suffered login issues and outages due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting its online services, according to The Coalition. The official Xbox account said service has returned to normal. The login problems caused extended wait times and server outages that reportedly made the game unplayable even in campaign.
DMZ for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has been released early, according to Eurogamer. Infinity Ward has also ruled out PvE content for the mode.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has revealed paid spawn options for DMZ. Eurogamer reports that these options give paying players an enormous advantage over players who spawn on foot.
Phasmophobia has confirmed 30 million sales, and its Crimson Eye Halloween event has returned. Eurogamer reported the news.
"We can't control what the publisher scene looks like, but we can control what we're making, and how we ship it, and how we communicate with an audience" – Why two of the developers behind Multiversus ditched AAA for indie https://bit.ly/4rNOmtG
Arc Raiders could eventually be split into PvE and PvP, says executive producer
Bulkhead co-founder Howard Philpott said bringing Wardogs to PS6 and Xbox Project Helix would be "a straight port," with senior producer Kane Allard adding the studio is already in talks with the platform holders. Wardogs is currently slated for a 2028 console release, while the PC version is in early access and Season 2 launches next week with features such as rain.
Bulkhead, developer of Wardogs, has admitted that the Xbox Series S's limitations have kept certain features out of the game, with CEO Joe Brammer citing it as one reason the game lacks dynamic weather. The rain feature coming this month will persist throughout a match rather than rolling in and clearing mid-game. Co-founder Howard Philpott said Series S also gives the team a baseline that helps optimize performance for lower-spec PCs, and Wardogs Season 2 launches October 15.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has revealed paid spawn options for its DMZ mode, giving paying players a notable advantage over those spawning on foot. Eurogamer reported the news with a link to its full article.
Gardens Interactive has raised over $35 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding past $70 million. The studio, co-founded by veterans of Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Sky: Children of the Light, is developing its debut multiplayer title Project Gardens, described as a "shared fantasy adventure" with "social roleplay elements."
The Outlast Trials has broken its concurrent-player record with over 120,000 players, more than four times its previous high of 36,000 set when it launched in Steam Early Access in 2023. Red Barrels credited a $4 Steam Autumn Sale discount, roughly half of players coming from China, and the Halloween season. The co-op horror game launched version 1.0 in spring 2024 and will follow with its annual Geister event and Season 8 in December.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's latest DMZ trailers have left players confused about the existence of a PvE-only mode
Undead Labs, now independent from Xbox Game Studios, says State of Decay 3 will still launch day one on Game Pass in 2027. Studio boss Philip Holt said State of Decay 2's success and high retention on Game Pass built a large playerbase and franchise fans. He added that the game's biggest investment is four-player co-op shared world, making Game Pass's large audience a growth vector.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 studio Infinity Ward is betting big on DMZ - the game's extraction shooter mode - becoming another major pillar of the series. https://bit.ly/4hIgYzE
Fuse Games is already addressing Star Wars: Galactic Racer's limited multiplayer, planning to raise the maximum party size from three to six players "within the first few weeks of launch." The game currently lacks private lobbies or custom games, and the studio said on Discord it is listening to how players want to play. The title launched to glowing reviews, but its online modes have drawn repeated player complaints.
Bandai Namco announced this week that it will shut down the online servers for Synduality: Echo of Ada in 2027, just two years after the 2025 release. The PvPvE mecha game peaked at barely over 3,000 concurrent players on Steam, and the publisher has promised an offline PvE mode so players can keep exploring and fighting CPU opponents. Online operations will continue until May 2027, and all digital currency will be removed from sale starting December 17 of this year.
At Meta Connect, Meta announced two AI-powered game tools, Horizon Create for mobile and Horizon Studio for browsers, which let users build 2D and 3D games from text prompts and publish them to Facebook and Instagram. Meta also unveiled VR Glasses, five times lighter than Meta Quest 3 with a 5K infinite micro-OLED display, supported by Unity 6.6 through OpenXR, launching in Spring 2027 at $1,299.99.
Xbox carried out a second wave of layoffs this week and shifted studio management away from Xbox directly to Bethesda or Activision, with Obsidian moving to Bethesda and Rare, World's Edge and Halo moving to Activision. Ninja Theory faces closure, Halo Studios was nearly dismantled by layoffs and World's Edge was halved. Communities around Hellblade, Outer Worlds, Forza, Age of Empires and Sea of Thieves reacted with sadness and concern, while Ninja Theory, Obsidian and Rare have not commented publicly.
Activision's Team Ricochet, which runs Call of Duty's anti-cheat efforts, cited data claiming cheating in games is an $8.5 billion industry. An Anybrain-commissioned survey of 250 US and UK developers found 69% of studios consider cheating a "significant or very significant problem," with over half reporting measurable drops in player retention or revenue loss. 76% of respondents have implemented anti-cheat measures, and 88% plan to increase anti-cheat investment over the next 12 months.
Curve Games has partnered with independent developer Wayfinder Studios to publish its online co-op RPG Wyldheart. Curve described the deal as the next phase of its roadmap after being acquired by Nazara Technologies last May for £21.7 million. Sweden-based Wayfinder Studios was founded in 2020 by EA DICE veterans, and Wyldheart has more than 375,000 Steam wishlists and raised €248,000 on Kickstarter.