Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said during a town hall with staff that Project Helix will be a "family of devices for Gen 10," with a great console first but also other devices for players on the go. She added that the operating system is "starting to look really good," suggesting Helix may not share the Xbox Series X|S front-end.
Footage of Microsoft's cancelled Perfect Dark revival has appeared online, first published by Mp1st and now being shared on social media. The clips show several short in-development gameplay segments with different weapons and locations, an escape sequence and a hacking sequence. According to Mp1st, the footage comes from a VFX artist who worked on the project, which was in development at The Initiative before being cancelled in 2025.
Xbox has denied reports that it acquired exclusive game-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto 6. The claim originated from a The Verge report citing an all-hands meeting in which CEO Asha Sharma allegedly said Xbox planned to do something no other platform holder is doing around GTA 6, which the report inferred meant exclusive streaming rights. Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said on X that the game will not be streaming exclusively or to PC, while confirming GTA 6 launches on Xbox on November 19.
Microsoft chief strategy officer Matthew Ball clarified that GTA 6 will not stream exclusively or to PC via Xbox Cloud Gaming, after The Verge reported Microsoft had secured exclusive streaming rights. Ball said the excitement around GTA 6 and Xbox led to some misreporting, and the game will still launch on Xbox on November 19. Rockstar has not announced a PC version, with the game officially confirmed for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
GTA VI won't be streamable to PC via Xbox Cloud Gaming after all. It's disappointing news for PC players.
CD Projekt Red has let The Witcher 3 community know its work isn't done patching the newly-released Remastered edition of the game. https://bit.ly/4zbPA4k
Xbox denied reports that it had acquired exclusive game-streaming rights for GTA 6. The denial deflates hopes of playing the game on PC via streaming, according to Eurogamer.
The Verge reported that Xbox boss Asha Sharma told employees GTA 6 would stream exclusively on Xbox Cloud Gaming at its November launch, without saying how long the deal lasts. Xbox CSO Matthew Ball then denied that Xbox had landed an exclusive streaming deal, and The Verge's Tom Warren apologised for the confusion, saying the situation appears more complicated than first believed. The report also notes Xbox's previously announced Game Pass cloud streaming limits take effect in November, capping XGP Ultimate members at 15 cloud hours per month.
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
Remedy has released Control: Resonance, the second entry in the Control series, seven years after the original. The podcast hosts report on its shift from TPS to ARPG combat and the protagonist change from Jesse to Dylan, praising its art, environmental storytelling, and SCP-flavored side content while criticizing frame drops, stuttering, repetitive gameplay, and boss level design.
Resident Evil Requiem writer Haris Orkin appears to have accidentally revealed an upcoming story DLC in an interview, saying players will understand the Spencer arc even further in the DLC for Requiem. He added that he "probably shouldn't say that." An edit notes the DLC was already announced back in March.
Hideo Kojima retweeted an article about a fan-made P.T. port that runs natively on Windows, effectively acknowledging the project. Modder LoreanXavier says the port is about 97% complete and is a 1:1 recreation built by reverse-engineering the PS4 executable with the game's original assets, not an emulator or remake. P.T. released in August 2014 and was removed from the PlayStation store in 2015.
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Dementium II coming to Steam this month https://store.steampowered.com/app/5342930/Dementium_II/
Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball clarified that GTA 6 will not be streaming exclusively or to PC, following a report that Xbox would be the exclusive cloud streaming home for the game at launch. Ball said the game is still set to launch on Xbox on November 19.
Developer Michael Kamm has revealed ROTETRA, a block-stacking game in which tetrominoes fall from four directions at once and players rotate the board to juggle multiple falling pieces. It will offer over eight gameplay modes, and a demo with the standard mode is available on Steam now.
'One more chance': A 2015 early access survival game just got its first update in 8 years
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Early access survival game Novus Inceptio received a major update this week, its first since 2018. The map has grown from 9 km² to 64 km² of "pure wilderness," combat has been rebuilt, and the game is now singleplayer with co-op planned. Solo developer Martin Markus Mastný says "the energy and the will to finish the project are back" and asks players for one more chance.
Square Enix is releasing a 25th anniversary vinyl for Final Fantasy 10 next month, alongside Final Fantasy 10: House Grooves, a house music remix album of the game's soundtrack. It follows a similar release for Final Fantasy 9 and includes remixes of tracks like "To Zanarkand," "Phantoms," and "Fight with Seymour."
Aion 2, a free-to-play MMO action RPG from South Korean developer NC, is going viral for its character creator's bust size slider. Some players claim there is no option to reduce a female character's breast size below the default setting, sparking debate about body representation. Released on October 5, the game currently has mixed reviews on Steam.
A leaker claims GTA VI features more than 250 sets of haircuts and around 80 missions, with some missions structured as units containing smaller missions. The leak also says the game has no tennis, no traditional golf, no casinos or poker, and that money laundering was cut. The leaker did not reveal their source and said the game's release is close enough for players to judge the claims themselves.
Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment is working on an unannounced title alongside Tom Clancy's The Division 3. The game uses Ubisoft's proprietary Snowdrop engine and focuses heavily on destruction systems and physics-based world interaction.
Digital Foundry reviewed Star Wars: Galactic Racer, calling it a top-flight arcade racing game with impressive graphics technology.
EA has teased an official return of the Dead Space franchise in a new trailer for Battlefield 6's next season. Players will face the enigmatic Markers from Dead Space in a new limited-time game mode coming to the first-person shooter. The sci-fi survival-horror franchise had been on ice following lackluster sales of 2023's critically acclaimed Dead Space remake.
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The 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless PC Gaming Controller is discounted 20% from $29.99 to $23.99 for Prime Day, available in transparent black, peach, mint, and green. It features magnetic Hall Effect joysticks and triggers, custom-mappable R4/L4 bumpers, a Turbo button, and rumble, with Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless support for Windows, Steam PCs, and mobile devices.
Something I really liked in Gears E-Day is how the studio played with how missions are discovered
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Sheeps is a roguelite whose Steam page describes a mysterious rift that sheep are pouring through, forcing players to count and shear them. As the sheep get more numerous and faster, upgrades like every fifth sheep being blue, an always-even count, grain to distract them, or a magic bag help with counting. Sentient animals such as spiders, chameleons, and business llamas occasionally show up to help, with llamas telling you the sheep count (sometimes incorrectly) and accepting tips afterward. No release date has been announced, but the game can be wishlisted on Steam.
Amazon Prime members can claim 10 games for free in October. Each month, Prime members get two batches of games: one to keep and another to stream via Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna. The Luna library includes titles like Control and Death Stranding, and just added Star Wars: Galactic Racer.
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In a leaked staff memo, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the company is moving to a "family of devices" for Gen-10 rather than a single console. She said Xbox will certainly have a great console first but also knows many players will be on the go, with some hardware made in-house and some through partners. The memo also mentioned Xbox PC and Battle.net, saying Blizzard's launcher is "almost on-par with Steam for user retention."
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The cancelled MMO spin-off Borderlands Online, originally planned as a free-to-play release exclusive to China, is playable again through an unofficial project. Modder EpicNNG said the work to get past the login screen and translate the game into English far exceeded anything they had done before, including customising UI and HUD elements. The team released it earlier than planned due to the growing power of AI, and said they used no genAI and will stop if publisher Take-Two asks them to.
In Remedy's recently released open-world action game Control Resonant, the boss The Dancer has a first phase that serves as a rehearsal for the real fight. After repeated failures, the author slowed down and matched The Dancer's pace to defeat it with health to spare. The fight challenged how the author played and showed that boss fights can offer something only possible in games.
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Some Dead by Daylight characters are going to dress in their best NieR: Automata 2B and A2 costumes while they try to survive some Killer encounters. https://www.siliconera.com/dead-by-daylight-nier-automata-costumes-arrive-ahead-of-halloween/