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Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign early access, which begins October 16 — a full week before the game’s release date. Modern Warfare 4 is the first Call of Duty game to get Campaign early access since 2023’s Modern Warfare 3, whose Campaign was poorly received (IGN awarded it 4/10). 2024’s…

As Destiny 2 fans mourn the game’s final update, Bungie’s former community manager has blasted players fixated on comparing its player count with fledgling extraction shooter Marathon — and said that the company’s current issues began long before its arrival, as well as Sony’s acquisition. Since Marathon debuted in March, and particularly since Bungie announced…

Developer Odaclick Game Studio and publisher Trailmark Games have announced The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival, a new pixelated beat ’em up starring Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and Michonne. This single-player game set in the world of AMC’s zombie franchise was announced today with its first trailer. It’s set to come to PC via Steam,…

The canceled Warhammer Horus Heresy MMO was “shaping up nicely,” one person who worked on it has said. The Horus Heresy is the galaxy-spanning civil war between loyalist and traitor Space Marines that occurred 10,000 years before the current Warhammer 40,000 setting. It saw the Emperor finally defeat his Chaos-fueled primarch son, Horus Lupercal, and…

Xbox will likely undergo studio shutdowns and consider ad-supported subscription models following newly-installed CEO Asha Sharma’s blunt warning that a corporate “reset” was now necessary, gaming analysts have told IGN. Sharma’s memo to Xbox employees, subsequently published publicly online, painted an unflinching portrait of the problems facing Microsoft’s gaming division — and made it clear…

Crimson Desert is a hit, selling over 6 million copies in less than three months. Despite initial reception at launch being mixed, the sprawling single-player open world action adventure has caught on with fans, who have marveled at the sheer number of updates Pearl Abyss has pumped out on a weekly basis, each one improving…

Resident Evil’s overall timeline can be a little hard to follow depending upon your entry point to the series. But producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi has emphasized that, with Resident Evil Veronica, Capcom is reworking the story to make sure its place in the chronology is clear, while ensuring the remake keeps what fans loved about the…

Nintendo may only receive a $30,000 payout if it wins its high-profile legal battle with Palworld developer Pocketpair, an IP expert has said. But it’s looking increasingly likely that Nintendo will lose. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are currently embroiled in ongoing litigation with Pocketpair in Japan, with patents that revolve around how Pokémon games…

Streaming can give free publicity to a game, but in the case of story-heavy genres like RPGs, there’s the danger that people will be satisfied just watching someone else play through the game. Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi recently spoke out about this, saying that gameplay streams pose a huge challenge to…

Pokémon Go location data captured by players is not being used to train military drones, Niantic Spatial has insisted. The denial follows the publication of a report by Dutch outlet Trouw, which examined a recently-announced partnership between Niantic Spatial and Vantor, an intelligence company with links to the defence sector. Niantic and Vantor are working…