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Dishonored’s Harvey Smith launches new studio with former Arkane staff to make immersive sims
"We’re going to fall back on what we love, we’re going to work with the people we love"
Video game music, orchestral performances, and the sheer joy of a communal experience: how live concerts are helping us reconnect with gaming's good side
Hello! This piece is a part of Optimism Week on Eurogamer - a week of features either about optimism itself or those which hope to inspire it. For more articles like this, you can visit our Optimism Week hub . Thank you as ever for reading! Read more
Wobbling Pixels RT4K Profile Updates
Wobbling Pixels has just released a massive profile pack update for the RetroTINK 4K CE and Pro. This was an insane amount of work and all RT4K owners can benefit simply by loading the new profiles. These include new CRT blend profiles as demonstrated in the above picture (click here for full-sized), as well as updated […] The post Wobbling Pixels RT4K Profile Updates first appeared on RetroRGB .
Aaron Pierre's forgotten DC role helped shape his time on Lanterns: "That's the education I brought with me to this"
Exclusive: Aaron Pierre looks back on his Krypton experience
Rare Was "Enthusiastic And Passionate" When It Came To Bringing Banjo-Kazooie To Evercade, Says Blaze CEO
"We got source for these". One of the more welcome pieces of news for retro gamers in 2026 was the announcement that Rare and Blaze are bringing Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie to the Evercade family of systems on a single cart, which launches in October. We're already aware that this double pack goes way beyond being your typical emulated offering, but Blaze CEO Andrew Byatt has revealed to FRVR (thanks, VGC ) the lengths that both his company and Rare have gone to in order to ensure this release is really special. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Report: Live-service removed from Horizon Hunters Gathering following negative player feedback
Guerrilla Games is overhauling Horizon Hunters Gathering by removing its live-service features in response to negative player feedback, according to Bloomberg 's Jason Schreier. Read more
Grow a Chicken Fighter codes (August 2026) for Cash, Eggs, and Boosts
Codes for Grow a Chicken Fighter will help you to hatch more eggs for a chance to collect and merge better chickens
Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly no longer a live service game following negative feedback
Horizon Hunters Gathering has reportedly been rebooted in order to ditch its live service elements, following negative feedback during early private playtests. Read more
Hellraiser: Revival Confirmed For Switch 2, Launching October 2026
We have such sights to show you. Saber Interactive has announced that Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival will launch on the Switch 2 on 8th October 2026 , joining the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam (the trailer is age-restricted, but you can view it here ). Featuring a story written in collaboration with original creator Clive Barker, Revival also features the return of Doug Bradley, the actor who portrayed antagonist Pinhead in the first eight films in the franchise. Gameplay is a mix of survival horror and action, utilising a first-person perspective while also including some stealth elements. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
STALKER 2 gets serious performance and visual upgrades with its 2.0 update, testing confirms, polishing up one of the biggest flawed gems in FPS games
I don’t begrudge anyone who’s waited to try STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl until it got its technical defects fixed. They’re still wrong, obviously - an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS is still an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS when it has the structural integrity of baked beans. But it was spectacularly broken at launch , and although nearly two years of patches have swatted countless bugs and beefed up the series’ signature A-Life NPC simulation , it’s remained a heavyweight GPU-puncher on general performance. Thank the Zone, then, for the 2.0 update , which rolls out tomorrow in tandem with the also-good Cost of Hope expansion . It ambitiously migrates STALKER 2 to a newer, sleeker version of Unreal Engine 5, and makes sweeping (though handcrafted) changes to lighting and environmental deets. Based on what I’ve played, the result is both a better-looking game and a better-performing one. So get in here, stalker - there’s never been a better time to have your skeleton melted out by an anomalous soap bubble. Read more
Keychron K8 Ultra 8K review
Solid, dependable and versatile.
PlayStation reportedly reworking live service Horizon Hunters Gathering into a smaller, more traditional co-op game following ill-received playtests
The Horizon Zero Dawn spin-off allegedly hasn't landed well with players
I came away impressed by Tides of Annihilation, a Chinese studio’s Bayonetta-like take on British myth
Players are all too accustomed to exploring Eastern settings through a Western lens - yet here, the tables are turned
"We chose the worst time in history" – Harvey Smith on starting his own studio after Arkane
Microsoft's closure of Arkane Austin in May 2024 left 96 developers out of work – among them studio head Harvey Smith, whose storied career spans Deus Ex, Dishonored, and Prey. Now, after a two-year quiet period, Smith is ready to reveal his next venture: Black Pony Immersive, a new studio co-founded with former Arkane colleague Ben Horne. Read more
STALKER 2: Cost of Hope review: An expanded Zone that begs to be explored, even as its faction war fizzles
Like the technical fix-uppery of the 2.0 update it’s launching alongside, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl ’s Cost of Hope expansion arrives with a determinedly furrowed brow; that kind of enthusiastic, if just slightly contrite, look of someone hellbent on righting their own past wrongs. Of course, most of the open-world shooter’s past crimes are long absolved , if not forgiven immediately on the grounds that they were committed amid an actual war . But Cost of Hope does serve as a second chance for this bleak, beautiful, tense, thrilling, imperfectly brilliant game to address certain omissions it made back in 2024 – even if some of these restorations gleam brighter than others. Read more
"Through the looking glass": as Arkane fight for their future, Dishonored veteran Harvey Smith reveals new studio dedicated to immersive sims
Days after Deus Ex director Warren Spector announced that he was quitting the business , another former Ion Storm developer, Harvey Smith, has revealed Black Pony Immersive - a new studio dedicated to the creation of "imaginative first-person action RPGs set within well-realized worlds, where players create their own memorable experiences with expressive, emergent game systems." The announcement features the maxim: "through the looking glass, we’re chasing a dream of mystery, meaning, and creative play." Hey, I understood that reference! Sure sounds like an imsim shop to me. Read more
PlayStation co-op spin-off Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being overhauled after poor testing feedback
Guerrilla Games is reportedly stripping out the game's live service elements
Random: Someone Has Made Functioning Wii Remote Joy-Con For The Switch 2
Wii would like to play. The Joy-Con 2 are a huge improvement over the original Joy-Con, mostly thanks to the larger size. But they can still prove to be uncomfortably over lengthy period of time. So, in an effort to provide something a little more ergonomic, YouTuber KOUZEX has manually created a fascinating hybrid, combining the Joy-Con 2 with the Wii Remote. The resulting accessory still attaches magnetically to the Switch 2 console, and while it's perhaps not the prettiest solution, it seems to all work as intended. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
AngryMiao AM Infinity.97 mouse review
Flagship speed, boutique flair.
Launching PS6 and Xbox Helix at $1,000 could lead to a nearly 40% drop in sales over five years, analyst warns
Ampere Analysis has identified three ways Sony and Microsoft could keep prices lower
Former Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada's new studio grabs yet another series veteran from Bandai Namco to work on a mysterious unannounced game
Tekken 8 co-director Kohei Ikeda left Bandai Namco earlier this year
SimCity 4's biggest labor of love mod just fixed a 23-year-old frustration
A new update for SimCity 4 NAM, the comprehensive Network Addon Mod, solves an agonizing bug and significantly optimizes your city building.
Poll: Did You Get Into The Duskbloods Switch 2 Beta Test?
Bamco: First Blood. On Friday, FromSoftware fans with a Switch 2 get their first chance to go hands-on with a brand new game from the makers of Dark Souls and Elden Ring . Or more accurately, some FromSoft fans get the chance - specifically the ones that successfully applied for the network test. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
"The Best News Of The Year" - Panzer Dragoon Is Being Unofficially Ported To Dreamcast
Works on real hardware, too. Frogbull, the developer behind the unofficial tech demos of Metal Gear Solid , Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VII on Saturn, has just revealed their next project: Panzer Dragoon on Dreamcast. The developer has been decompiling the Saturn game over the past few months and is now ready to show off the next step in the process, which is bringing the game to Sega's final console. Read the full article on timeextension.com