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Spider-Man: Beyond the Verse trailer leaks online in the latest breach for Marvel
GamesRadar Aug 14 · 2 min read

Spider-Man: Beyond the Verse trailer leaks online in the latest breach for Marvel

Sony has had another leak

Kingdom Hearts Is A "Billion-Dollar" Franchise, According To Disney
Nintendo Life Aug 14

Kingdom Hearts Is A "Billion-Dollar" Franchise, According To Disney

Square Enix is currently working on the fourth game. The Kingdom Hearts universe continues to expand, and ahead of the fourth game, Disney Games Group has revealed the series is one of its nine "billion-dollar" franchises. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Round Up: The Final Previews Are In For Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave On Switch 2
Nintendo Life Aug 14

Round Up: The Final Previews Are In For Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave On Switch 2

Launching this September. Nintendo has ramped up its coverage of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave in recent weeks with a Direct and various other announcements and trailers related to the game. Now, the final previews have officially gone live. If you haven't already seen Jim's impressions, here's a quick sample, and you can read more in the link below. We noted how it dialed the Three Houses formula up to 11. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

2K unveils ‘ambitious’ new sports studio stuffed with EA Sports FIFA talent
Video Games Chronicle Aug 14 · 1 min read

2K unveils ‘ambitious’ new sports studio stuffed with EA Sports FIFA talent

Vancouver-based Small Axe is building 2K's "next blockbuster sports franchise"

Pokémon HOME October Premium Plan Update Expands Storage Capacity To 9,000 Pokémon
Nintendo Life Aug 14

Pokémon HOME October Premium Plan Update Expands Storage Capacity To 9,000 Pokémon

Deposit 3,000 more Pokémon. The Pokémon Company this week announced Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen would be linked with the storage subscription service Pokémon HOME this October. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

21% of Nintendo Switch 2 owners have bought Pokémon Pokopia
Video Games Chronicle Aug 14 · 1 min read

21% of Nintendo Switch 2 owners have bought Pokémon Pokopia

Nintendo confirms Pokopia has sold over 5 million since its release in March

It's Official, Sonic Frontiers Has Now Sold More Than Five Million Copies
Nintendo Life Aug 14

It's Official, Sonic Frontiers Has Now Sold More Than Five Million Copies

Sega is celebrating with a free Sonic Adventure 2 gift. Sega shadow-dropped Sonic Frontiers - Definitive Edition on the Switch 2 in June as part of the blue blur's ongoing 35th anniversary celebrations. Now, in an update, it's confirmed Sonic Frontiers has officially surpassed five million sales since originally launching on Switch and other platforms in 2022. Its previous update was in November last year, when it revealed sales figures for the title were at 4.57 million units. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Pokémon Pokopia Sales Surpass Five Million Units Globally In "Just Over Four Months"
Nintendo Life Aug 14

Pokémon Pokopia Sales Surpass Five Million Units Globally In "Just Over Four Months"

The Switch 2 exclusive got its first DLC update last week. Following the latest financial update last week , Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have now officially announced Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than five million units globally in "just over four months". According to the official press release, this includes all of the "physical and digital versions". Pokémon Pokopia was made available in-store as a Game-Key Card (requiring a download) and digitally via the eShop, and launched for the Switch 2 on 5th March 2026 . Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Why I love my gaming notebooks
PC Gamer Aug 14 · 4 min read

Why I love my gaming notebooks

A different kind of pen-and-paper gaming.

Halo co-creator says the remake's lack of PvP is a "misstep" resulting "from lack of oversight and poor planning"
GamesRadar Aug 14 · 3 min read

Halo co-creator says the remake's lack of PvP is a "misstep" resulting "from lack of oversight and poor planning"

"So sad this wasn't included"

Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 4 min read

Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet

Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable.

An Uncharted remake would feel "like a cash grab," says OG designer who thinks Naughty Dog should make a new prequel instead
GamesRadar Aug 13 · 3 min read

An Uncharted remake would feel "like a cash grab," says OG designer who thinks Naughty Dog should make a new prequel instead

"There's already a version you can play on modern consoles [to] get the experience"

Viral Pokemon PC port Gen1Recomp gets Gold support, as dev says it's "not vibe coded" even though "AI helped" with development
GamesRadar Aug 13 · 3 min read

Viral Pokemon PC port Gen1Recomp gets Gold support, as dev says it's "not vibe coded" even though "AI helped" with development

"When someone asks me point blank 'is it AI' i have said no"

Invisum Piscium 嫌魚 is a dreamlike walking sim about fragments of conversations and a deep craving for water fish haven't procreated in
Rock Paper Shotgun Aug 13 · 2 min read

Invisum Piscium 嫌魚 is a dreamlike walking sim about fragments of conversations and a deep craving for water fish haven't procreated in

I won't dive into why this is happening to me at the moment, you'll either need to pay me £20 or let me pay you to be my therapist to get that explanation, but I've been having some odd dreams lately. They're frequently temporally confused, mixing and matching people from across my life that should never have crossed paths. This has left me looking to ground myself a touch, so of course I decided to take a look at Invisum Piscium 嫌魚, a walking sim that's not quite about dreaming, but is about looking for distilled water that's free from fish sex contamination. Read more

Nightdive's System Shock remake is coming to VR
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 3 min read

Nightdive's System Shock remake is coming to VR

Strap Shodan on your face. Insect.

This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 4 min read

This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators

And if your character isn't convincing enough, you die.

Marvel Tokon sold 485,000 copies in a week but it could have been "closer to 1M" with a better PC port and Steam reviews, analyst says
GamesRadar Aug 13 · 3 min read

Marvel Tokon sold 485,000 copies in a week but it could have been "closer to 1M" with a better PC port and Steam reviews, analyst says

The consequences of a Mixed Steam rating…

If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 5 min read

If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now

Forget all the new games coming out in 2026. Newly shiny old games are where it's at.

The 'father of Master Chief' doesn't like the new Halo's new halos
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 3 min read

The 'father of Master Chief' doesn't like the new Halo's new halos

Marcus Lehto says the halo rings in Halo: Campaign Evolved look way too shiny and new.

Matthew McConaughey says he turned down playing Joel in The Last of Us TV show
GamesRadar Aug 13 · 2 min read

Matthew McConaughey says he turned down playing Joel in The Last of Us TV show

He says the hit HBO show was "really good" though

Blood of Dawnwalker dev says you can beat the final boss right after the prologue, but it "will be a feat worthy of legends"
GamesRadar Aug 13 · 3 min read

Blood of Dawnwalker dev says you can beat the final boss right after the prologue, but it "will be a feat worthy of legends"

Sounds like a challenge to me

Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down
Rock Paper Shotgun Aug 13 · 2 min read

Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down

In 2021, in their bid to get more of a hold on the games industry after dominating film and television streaming, Netflix acquired Oxenfree and Afterparty developer Night School Studio, the first developer they had ever acquired. Now, five years later, the streaming giant is shuttering Night School Studio, as well as Moonloot, another developer they owned that was yet to put out a game. This comes six weeks after the release of Night School's latest game, the Netflix exclusive Unhinged. Read more

Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'
PC Gamer Aug 13 · 4 min read

Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'

Moonlight, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.

Phasmophobia devs Kinetic Games mosey into publishing with a witchy delivery game, a parasitic Metroidvania, and more
Rock Paper Shotgun Aug 13 · 3 min read

Phasmophobia devs Kinetic Games mosey into publishing with a witchy delivery game, a parasitic Metroidvania, and more

Kinetic Games are keeping busy! You may have heard yesterday that the Phasmophobia developer is publishing the next game from Her Story and Immortality's Sam Barlow (who's roped in Brandon Cronenberg this time around). That's not all that was announced however, as there's a bevy of other, not even scary at all, actually, games that are coming up from the new publisher. Read more