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Wardogs Season 2 has a release date, and the new content update will add weather effects, including rain. Wardogs Season 2 will arrive on October 15, and although we don’t know much about it yet, we do know that it will add weather to the game. The first teaser showcases heavy rainfall over a battlefield,…

Call of Duty developer Activision is now taking over creation of the next Halo game, and fans are understandably divided about it. Xbox’s latest shakeup saw a few big developments, most notably the mass layoffs at Halo Studios and the handover of Halo’s next title to Activision. This came as a wildly unexpected move from…

Sea of Thieves fans are concerned for Rare’s future, as the studio has been consolidated under Activision as part of Xbox’s latest reset. Earlier today, Microsoft announced drastic changes for Xbox’s first-party studios, including layoffs and consolidation. Activision is taking over a lot of different responsibilities at Xbox going forward, including leading the charge on…

Minecraft is no stranger to simulations, but it turns out that under the right conditions, the game can beat itself… if given billions of years. This was discovered by YouTuber RedLogic, who built a custom Minecraft simulation to see if the game could ever beat itself without a player ever joining. Two billion years is…

Undead Labs has confirmed that State of Decay 3 is still in development after the studio separated from Xbox, becoming an independent, employee-owned developer. Undead Labs shared this information in a September 22 blog post, where they revealed that State of Decay 3 is currently in alpha, with plans to enter a closed beta by…

Ubisoft has discussed how it is bracing for the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, and plans to reward Rainbow Six Siege players who stick around “like kings and queens.” Despite still being several months away, the impact of GTA 6’s launch this November is already being felt throughout the video game industry, with other…

Rumors have been percolating around the internet for a while, but LEGO just confirmed it: Dragon Ball LEGO sets are coming soon. A short video teaser posted to LEGO’s website and social pages shows six Dragon Balls gathered, followed by a seventh rolling in. Then the screen flashes to a blue-and-red Dragon Ball logo, followed…

Ever since Blizzard revealed World of Warcraft: Forever at Blizzcon 2026, the company has been laser-focused on maintaining its Classic+ identity, even if that means not implementing some quality-of-life features the game’s retail version has had for years. In a reply to GingiTV and Nobbel87, two of the biggest WoW personalities on X/Twitter (albeit from…

Sega bosses were ready to ditch Sonic the Hedgehog before the franchise’s hugely-successful live-action movie helped change their minds. That’s according to Sonic Team leader and development veteran Takashi Iizuka, who has worked as a designer, director and producer on more than 30 games featuring Sega’s mascot over the past three decades. While the idea…

Microsoft has today confirmed that the next mainline Halo game will be developed by Call of Duty maker Activision, with mass layoffs hitting Halo Studios amid a significant restructure of its Xbox studios setup. Xbox announced 268 layoffs today “across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer” as part…