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Crimson Desert getting a Switch 2 release, and Pearl Abyss sees “significant potential” for multiplayer, with “live service operation models” mentioned

"We are currently conducting extensive research." Pearl Abyss’s comments came in an Earnings Letter discussing its Q2 2026 financial results (via Resetera). These noted a further 2.11 million sales of the game – Crimson Desert had sold 5 million copies in June – and laid out plans for the future. The first matter for the

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Multiplayer Witcher spin-off Project Sirius hit by layoffs again, in “broader shift in development strategy” at CD Projekt Red

UPDATE: CDPR confirms cuts "to reflect the project's needs". “We adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project’s needs at this stage of development,” the company said. “As a result, four people in Boston and five in Warsaw are leaving the company, while nine others have been invited to internal recruitment processes

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The “untranslatable” book that inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been translated, and you can buy it later this year

“Follow a horde of hardened expeditioners as they climb endlessly against the wind that plagues their desolate homeland,” reads a blurb for the book. “Their only purpose: to make it to the Upper Reaches and identify the wind’s mysterious source. Over the course of eight hundred years, thirty-three hordes before them have tried and failed.”

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Dawn of War 4 gets a release date delay to “further refine the experience ahead of launch”

Initially scheduled for a launch on the 17th September, the game will now be released to the public on the 3rd December. Those who own the Commander Edition will be able to hop in a little earlier on the 30th November. The reason given for this delay according to a press release announcing the delay

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Immortality creator Sam Barlow’s new video-scouring game is sci-fi horror Precognition, a collab with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, in which you see and change the future

"If you imagine something like the movie Memento…" As with Barlow’s previous games, Precognition is a game about scouring archives of video clips to solve a mystery. Here, in Precognition, those archives are the future memories of main character Diana. The set-up is that Diana received an experimental implant which allows her to see visions

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Micron’s top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: ‘We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector’

A slight bastion of hope for those affected by the memory crisis (ie, anyone who wants to buy new electronics in the next few years) is the planned arrival of new fabrication facilities, pumping out vast amounts of wafers that will be turned into memory modules. According to Micron, though, we shouldn’t hold our breath.

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Meccha Chameleon has now sold 20 million copies in two months

The Steam post announcing the news is straightforward, plainly stating the new sales figure and thanking players for their support. Meanwhile, Meccha Chameleon continues to receive regular updates, with the most recent having arrived yesterday. Meccha Chameleon sold its first 15 million copies in only a month, so its sales-pace has slowed somewhat. But an

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Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark’s western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development

News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Aug. 12, 2026, 11:18 a.m. Follow Lost Ark Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards. But it’s not the end. In its place, the original Lost Ark developer Smilegate

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