Star Wars: Galactic Racer launches today on PS5 with a Metascore of 88, making it the highest-rated game in the series since 2003's Knights of the Old Republic. It is developer Fuse Games' debut release, and Push Square scored it 9/10, praising its handling, presentation, and campaign with a roguelite twist. VGC and Eurogamer both gave it 5/5, while GameSpot scored it 9/10, Game Informer 8.5/10, and GamesRadar 4/5.
Sony Pictures is reportedly the frontrunner to secure the rights to a Battlefield movie, with Universal, Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery also submitting bids. Christopher McQuarrie is attached to direct, write, and produce, with Michael B. Jordan in the mix to star and produce. Paramount previously bought the rights to a Battlefield TV show a decade ago, but it never materialized.
Fuse Games, a Guildford-based studio staffed by developers from Electronic Arts and Criterion Games, is debuting with Star Wars: Galactic Racer. It is a racing game, a genre Lucasfilm Games has barely touched since Star Wars Episode I: Racer in 1999.
EA Sports FC 27 introduces The Grounds, an open-world mode where up to 100 players share three areas linked by a central plaza, including a French cage pitch, Argentine street-football buildings, and British red-brick streets. After playing it on PS5, the author says it feels closer to a fighting-game lobby, with 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 small-sided matches plus mini-games like dribble contests, a four-player obstacle race, and target shooting, though whether it changes the series remains uncertain. Other changes include setting corner power and placement before switching to a box player, a multi-stage transfer process that can be hijacked, and a UT collection hall that records cards you once owned.
A review roundup for Star Wars: Galactic Racer calls it an all-time great racing game. The arcade racer is described as a blend of Burnout and Wipeout. The piece also notes that Star Wars Zero Company, released in late August, was well received and currently sits at a metascore of 85.
Eurogamer's review calls Star Wars: Galactic Racer both a surprisingly fun roguelite campaign and a racing treat for Criterion fans. Developed by Fuse Games, it uses two boosts, Afterburner and the faster Ramjet, which can redline and explode if held too long. The campaign runs across acts and planets on an FTL-style branching map, where winnings upgrade your craft but a lost final race costs those upgrades. Planets change Ramjet behaviour, such as icy worlds making it last longer. A review copy was provided by Secret Mode.
PC Gamer reviews Star Wars: Galactic Racer, an arcade racer from Fuse Games, a studio founded by ex-Criterion developers, published by Secret Mode at $60/£50 with multiplayer support. Its roguelite tour links races chosen from a node map, with builds built around managing afterburner and ramjet heat plus status effects like Cooled and Burning. The review praises the sense of speed but notes unclear track signposting, an autopilot ability that can steer into walls, and a flat story payoff.
Kotaku's review finds Star Wars: Galactic Racer expands the prequels' podracing into an arcade racer that runs smoothly at high speed, with distinct vehicle handling and a roguelike season campaign starring Shade against champion Kestar Bool. The reviewer spent 19 hours finishing the campaign, calling the on-foot segments lackluster and noting most podracing content sits in arcade events and multiplayer; the game launches October 6 on PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Game Informer's review calls Star Wars: Galactic Racer, developed by Fuse Games, an excellent racing roguelite whose campaign follows a run to join the Galactic League and beat champion Kestar Bool across multiple planets, with too many losses dropping you from the tournament. It notes the lack of a minimap and a steep early learning curve, and says being forced to use podracers in certain campaign events, where a loss can end a run, stayed frustrating. After about 20 hours the author kept playing Arcade, Scenario, and multiplayer, which offers six-race tournaments, pre-race bets, XP leveling, and cosmetic unlocks.
VGC's review calls Star Wars: Galactic Racer one of the best arcade racers in years, set after the fall of the Empire and following a mysterious racer named Shade seeking revenge on racing star Kestar Boole. Its campaign is run-based, with each session granting a league entry token that is lost if the race objective is failed, forcing the whole series to restart, while rewards upgrade the ship. Takedowns and the classic Burnout camera show its lineage, and the three vehicle types plus harder pod racing round out the package.
Newzoo's August revenue charts for the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy saw several new releases enter the Top 20. EA Sports Madden NFL 27 debuted at No. 2 on console, while House House's Big Walk ranked No. 3 on PC and Star Wars Zero Company placed No. 6 on PC and No. 20 on console. Pokémon Pokopia climbed from No. 28 to No. 7 on console after its Bubbly Basin DLC released.
The European Commission and the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network named nine game companies, including Activision Blizzard UK, Mojang AB, Riot Games Limited, Supercell Oy and Ubisoft EMEA SAS, in a joint statement on September 30, 2026, asking them to align their in-game currency and transaction systems with the Key Principles released in March 2025. The principles require games to show the real-world price of items bought with virtual currency, avoid obscuring costs through multiple currencies or exchanges, and let players withdraw from contracts within two weeks, including for unused virtual currency. Commissioner Michael McGrath said roughly half of Europeans play video games and the industry must ensure its games do not expose players, especially children, to harmful or unfair practices.
PlayStation has revealed the three games coming to all PS Plus tiers in October: F1 25 for PS5, Hunt: Showdown 1896 for PS5, and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 for PS4 and PS5. They can be claimed from Tuesday, October 6 until Monday, November 2, and remain playable as long as members stay subscribed. Members have until Monday, October 5 to claim Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life, and Chained Echoes.
IGN rounds up the best, worst, and weirdest games based on the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, spanning shooters, racers, and ecology simulators. The 1999 Episode I: The Phantom Menace game sold well on PC and PlayStation but suffered from an unpleasant high camera angle, while 2005's Lego Star Wars, with 6.1 million copies sold, is the most commercially successful Prequel Trilogy game.
A leaker claims the third Star Wars Jedi game will launch next year, with marketing set to begin sooner than expected, possibly before TGA. The claim comes from FivesWalker, a relatively new but so far reliable Star Wars scooper on r/StarWarsLeaks who likely has sources at Lucasfilm.
Polygon rounds up 10 canceled games that players are still upset about years later, including StarCraft: Ghost, announced in 2002 and put on indefinite hold in 2006, and Dead Space 4, which began development in February 2013 before EA halted it. The list also covers Fable Legends, canceled in 2016 just before its open beta, and Star Wars Battlefront 3, canceled by LucasArts in late 2008, with a playable Wii build surfacing in late 2024.
The author liked Battlefield 2042 and No Man's Sky at launch even as both were widely criticized, enjoying their eerie solitude and odd physics. EA overhauled BF 2042's maps and refocused on 64-player modes, while Hello Games spent a decade turning No Man's Sky into a redemption story. Hello Games founder Sean Murray says he still has a soft spot for the original 2016 version.
In EA Sports FC 27's new open-world mode The Grounds, 100 players share one room and match into minigames ranging from 1v1 to 5v5, with 1v1 and Rush drawing the most players while other activities sit nearly empty. The author argues the core problem is the physical "waiting zone" design, where players must stand in a small area doing almost nothing until enough people join. Drawing on David Maister's 1984 essay "The Psychology of Waiting Lines," the piece suggests letting players queue for several minigames at once or boosting rewards for unpopular activities.
Rebecka Coutaz, VP and GM of Battlefield Studios Europe, detailed how DICE reorganized its development approach after Battlefield 2042's disastrous launch. Battlefield 6 was developed from the start by four studios—DICE, Criterion, Motive Studios, and Ripple Effect—and sold over 7 million copies in its first three days, becoming the best-selling game of 2025 in the US.
EA Sports FC 27 introduces a new open-world mode called The Grounds, but the tweaks to Ultimate Team are what keep the reviewer coming back. CPU-assisted defense in Ultimate Team's Competitive setting has been nerfed, rewarding manual defending, while new teammate runs, more corner control, and through balls requiring better aim add authenticity. The Grounds is a small instanced open-world mode that isn't a destination mode, and Ultimate Team remains the main attraction with the new Gallery rewarding themed sets.
Analyst firm Alinea Analytics estimates that Star Wars Zero Company, the turn-based tactics game from Bit Reactor, has sold more than 1m copies. Steam accounts for 69.9 percent of sales, PlayStation 19.9 percent and Xbox 10.2 percent, with analyst Rhys Elliott estimating about $50m in revenue since its 27th August launch. Most of Bit Reactor's development team had reportedly been furloughed without pay before release amid an owners' dispute and a lack of funds, raising the question of whether they will be reinstated and paid from the game's revenue.
EA Sports FC 27 launches on September 25, with Ultimate Edition owners getting in a week early, and a hands-on look focuses on the new football open-world mode The Grounds and the UT Collection. The Grounds supports up to 100 players in one shared space, where players create an avatar and take part in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 street matches, skill challenges and NPC quests while leveling up. In Ultimate Team, the new Collection lets players sort player cards and rate sets to earn Hall of Fame players, while corner and SBC changes remain largely incremental.
UK studio Criterion was officially brought under the EA Entertainment banner in 2023 specifically to work on Battlefield, while the Need for Speed franchise is currently dormant. Producer Stefan Wittelsbürger says Criterion is "a Battlefield studio" and was heavily involved in Battlefield 6's single-player, particularly its last two missions, plus core systems such as destruction, guns and vehicle handling. Director of operations Amy Pejic says the Burnout "Criterion fingerprint" — minute-to-minute feel, player momentum, controlled chaos and spectacle — still runs through what the studio delivers now.
EA Sports FC 26 has reached the end of its lifecycle, with Ultimate Team no longer running new events and its web and app versions shut down. Playing only the web-based pack-opening mode, the author earned 4.16845 million coins over the year, about 350,000 a month, enough to buy each season's 500,000-coin paid pass without extra spending. Ultimate Team data resets every year, pushing players to FC 27, while FC 26 still costs at least $69.99.
Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is considering merging Electronic Arts with its subsidiary Savvy Games Group to "ensure better coordination between its assets." Sources said merging EA into Savvy is unlikely until Savvy completes its $6 billion acquisition of Chinese mobile games company Moonton. The PIF-led $55 billion leveraged buyout of EA closed last month, making it the developer's majority owner; the PIF and EA declined to comment to Bloomberg, and a Savvy spokesperson did not respond.
Battlefield Studios unveiled a 2026 roadmap for Battlefield 6 in a video called The Year Ahead, confirming Seasons 3, 4 and 5 are in development. Season 3 arrives in May with remakes of Golmud Railway and Battlefield 3's Grand Bazaar, plus battle royale solos and ranked play for Redsec. Season 4 in July adds naval combat with a dynamic wave system, aircraft carriers and new naval vehicles across Tsuru Reef and a Wake Island remake, along with custom lobbies and Spectator Mode, while Season 5 will bring three maps. Persistent servers and a server browser, including self-hosting, are also planned for 2026.
The Sims 4's Marketplace and user-created content have officially arrived on PlayStation and Xbox, a little over a month after debuting on PC. The hub for paid mods requires the new premium currency Moola, and Kits can no longer be bought directly with real money on console stores. A leaked memo indicates EA intends to make Kits directly purchasable again on PC, reportedly already live on the EA App with Steam following on April 20.
Battlefield Studios announced that Battlefield 6 will be free to play from March 17 to March 24, accessible through the already free-to-play Battlefield Redsec with a new Battlefield 6 Free Trial section in the main menu. The trial offers Casual Breakthrough, All-out Warfare and a third playlist showcasing the new Nightfall mode and its map, with All-out Warfare covering Conquest, Breakthrough and Escalation across Contaminated, Hagental Base, Eastwood and Mirak Valley. Progression is shared with Redsec and unlocks carry over to the full version, and March 17 also marks the start of Season 2's second stage alongside a large update.
The Sims 4 is getting a new patch on March 17 for PC and Mac, with PlayStation and Xbox versions to follow at an unspecified time. The update includes five major fixes, most notably making Sims prioritise familiar Sims they already have rapport with so strangers are less likely to interrupt conversations on public lots. Prom also returns to in-game Calendars, and pets and horses will no longer get lost in Premade Households.
Maxis announced The Sims Maker Program and The Sims 4 Marketplace, launching first on PC and Mac on March 17, with PlayStation and Xbox following over the next couple of months. Players will use a new virtual currency called Moola to buy Maker Packs and Kits, with roughly 30% of a purchase going to the creator, while Expansion, Game and Stuff Packs remain available outside the Marketplace. Creators must apply to join the program starting March 5 and, once accepted, get access to the Maker Suite to test and publish their content.
Maxis has shared a new blog post outlining its 2026 quality of life roadmap for The Sims 4. The March to August stage covers improved Sim autonomy, infant and caregiver relationships, and fixes for black photos, crashes, and freezing, while September to December focuses on dining and family trees. The next patch arrives in March with around 55 fixes.
The Battlefield 6 Season 2 gameplay reveal will stream today on the official Battlefield YouTube channel at 8am PT, 11am ET and 4pm GMT. Season 2 goes live on February 17, with the medium-large map Contaminated available at launch, set in the mountains of Germany around a former NATO airbase. The season will also bring new weapons, new gadgets and the return of the AH-6 Little Bird helicopter, with a more detailed roadmap to follow today's reveal.
Battlefield 6 Season 2 starts next week, and Battlefield Studios outlined its major goals for the patch, including faster battle pass progression and letting Redsec players who don't own the game make progress. Battle pass Tokens will be earned at a changed rate from career XP and through weekly challenges, while Redsec players get faster career and weapon XP in both battle royale and Gauntlet. The season adds the Contaminated map and a new LTM, with a second high-intensity map and a dark underground base LTM later, plus changes to recoil, movement and footstep audio.