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Blizzard Entertainment used its BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony to announce that StarCraft returns in 2030 as an original open world shooter, a genre the studio has never made, set 70 years after Legacy of the Void.
Roblox used its 20th anniversary developers conference to unveil a creator wallet with daily payouts, a payment card planned for 2027 and standalone game distribution beyond its own app.
Bulkhead's 100-player tactical shooter Wardogs moved 1.25 million copies in less than a day, peaked at 340,171 concurrent players on Steam, and battled launch-day server queues before a hotfix stabilized play.
Kojima Productions has found a new publisher for its stealth action game Physint, three months after Hideo Kojima says PlayStation Studios told him it would cancel the project.
The ground-up rebuild adds fully voiced cutscenes, a story tracking Threads of Time menu, and textured foil cover art for the first physical print run, with themed hardware landing a week before release.
A month after losing a final to the same opponent, Spirit answered with a dominant close-out, and sh1ro's MVP display sealed the 250,000 dollar prize.
The studio's plan to give away a whole new era while charging for the expansion that follows is a deliberate bet on earning back goodwill before asking players for money again.
Capcom's revival earned a 10 out of 10 from IGN, the site's first perfect score for the series, while critics praised the Issen combat but questioned a campaign some called padded.
The first in-person BlizzCon since 2023 opens September 12 in Anaheim, and reports suggest the reveal could be a new StarCraft shooter rather than a return to real-time strategy.
Both titles are being built by outside studios, Evil Empire for the Castlevania sequel and Screen Burn for the horror game, a licensing model that lets the publisher revive dormant franchises without the development costs of its rivals' in-house teams.
The main broadcast leads with PlayStation Studios and third-party updates, and an immediately following Japan and Asia segment gives dedicated time to titles from the region, with an extended look at Final Fantasy 7 Revelation widely expected.
One of the most selective studios in mobile gaming has chosen to buy a proven live game rather than build the next hit, a bet that reflects how costly user acquisition and new-title failures have become. The target's growth had stalled and its maker had cut jobs, which frames the deal as a portfolio consolidation as much as an acquisition.
The Serious Sam series has returned with Shatterverse, a co-op roguelite built for squads of five that launched Aug 31 across PC and current consoles. The revival tests whether the genre's short-session, repeatable loop can carry a mainstream shooter to sustained success.
A roughly 12 to 13 terabyte collection of Steam games, betas, and prototypes uploaded between 2003 and 2013 has leaked online, reportedly without any hacking, exposing early builds of Portal 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 content.
Star Wars Zero Company, the debut from Bit Reactor published by EA in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, launched August 28 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series with a Digital Deluxe Edition priced at $69.99 on consoles and a soundtrack by Gordy Haab released through Walt Disney Records.
Konami released Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 worldwide on August 27 on Switch 2, Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam, bringing enhanced versions of MGS4, Peace Walker, and Ghost Babel to modern platforms for the first time.
CD Projekt Red at Gamescom 2026 on August 25 announced a remastered Witcher 3 launching September 29 with visual and combat improvements, a reimagined skill tree, free upgrade for existing owners, and a Nintendo Switch 2 port.
In a video ahead of Gamescom 2026, CD Projekt co-CEO Michal Nowakowski said more than 500 developers are working on the RPG starring Ciri and that The Witcher 4 is now targeting 2028.
Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4: Master Snake Edition remaster, shipping September 9, 2026, will include 14 new Otacon voice lines that play when players swap Blu-ray discs and when digital-only players reach the corresponding chapter breaks. The additions preserve the original spirit while updating the experience for modern hardware.
The advocacy organization Does It Play launched a week-long global boycott of PlayStation Network and the PlayStation Store on August 23, protesting Sony's July confirmation that new games from January 2028 will ship without physical discs. A related Change.org petition has passed 340,000 signatures.
Sony raised its FY2026 operating-profit forecast by 8 percent to ¥1.72 trillion after Q1 net income jumped 32 percent. The same week, Circana confirmed Microsoft and EA have stopped sharing U.S. digital sales data — a transparency loss for the games industry.