Gaming News and Headlines
Gaming News and Headlines
Graphics card prices have surged due to cryptocurrency mining, AI workloads, and a recent DDR5 RAM price explosion, pushing AMD's RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT to record highs. Japanese retailer data from GAZ:Log shows those price spikes coincided with rising inventory, indicating weak buyer interest. As stock remained elevated, prices retreated toward early‑year levels, though they stay above pre‑boom figures. Similar patterns appear for Nvidia’s RTX 5080, which remains $300 above its December price despite lower stock.
Interactive Entertainment Scotland, backed by UKIE and studios nationwide, released a manifesto ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. It outlines three priority areas: a task‑and‑finish policy review, enhanced access to long‑term funding, and expanded talent development through education and...
Brazil Games, together with Abragames and ApexBrasil, will bring over 30 studios to GDC 2026, showcasing Brazil as a co‑development hub. The delegation spans development, publishing and production services across PC, console and mobile. A mini‑booth will feature titles such as...
Gameloops has launched RaidForm, a free‑to‑play round‑based PvP strategy game now on Android and iOS. Players design formations and base defenses within a limited budget, then watch physics‑driven auto‑battles resolve without micromanagement. The title features a diverse unit roster, permanent...
Bethesda’s Todd Howard announced that the next Starfield update will "change the game" but clarified it is not a full sequel. The team is entering a phase to showcase new, meta‑level features that expand gameplay without overhauling the core experience....
Level‑5 announced the February 25 launch of the Orion & Lumen DLC for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, marking the game’s third major update. The new trailer teases a storyline featuring the mysterious Disciples of Orion and the Football Frontier International stage....
Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 3.0.1 on February 18, 2026, targeting both Nintendo Switch 2 and the original Switch. The patch addresses performance slowdowns, item duplication, NPC pathing, and visual glitches introduced with the 3.0 launch. Specific fixes include correcting cloud alignment...
![[Industry News] 400,000 Euros Gamecity Hamburg Prototype Funding 2026](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://mcvuk.com/wp-content/uploads/260219_gamecity_hamburg_prototype_funding26_en.png)
Gamecity Hamburg is allocating €400,000 in non‑repayable prototype funding, with individual grants of up to €80,000 for digital‑game projects. The application window runs from February 23 to March 30, 2026, and targets developers, start‑ups, and SMEs that are based in or relocating...
Avowed’s latest Anniversary Update adds a Custom Difficulty option, but it does not soften the game’s hardest setting, Path of the Damned. The toughest achievement, “A Test of Your Reflexes,” still requires completing the story on that difficulty, keeping the...
Microsoft’s second February Game Pass wave drops heavyweight RPGs, headlined by The Witcher 3 on February 19 and Kingdom Come II on March 3. The update also adds Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, EA Sports College Football 26, and several indie shooters, expanding the library’s genre diversity....
Todd Howard revealed that the majority of Bethesda Game Studios is currently dedicated to The Elder Scrolls 6, which is nearing a major internal milestone but remains years from launch. He clarified that upcoming Starfield content is an expansion, not a...
Arc Raiders, Embark Studios' retro‑futuristic extraction shooter, has seen its Steam concurrent player count tumble from roughly 410,000 in January to about 290,000—a near‑30% drop—while daily active users halved from 3.2 million to 1.6 million across platforms. The decline arrives just weeks...
Bungie announced that the upcoming Destiny 2 update Shadow and Order will be postponed to June 9, 2026, three months later than planned. The delay accompanies a major expansion that adds tiered loot to every raid and dungeon, alongside a revamped Pantheon 2.0 raid‑boss...
KONAMI’s eFootball 2026 update introduces Attack Trigger, a new Show Time skill that raises teammates’ Attacking Awareness when the holder has the ball. The skill does not benefit the holder, only surrounding players, improving run timing and forward positioning. The...
Datamined files from Monster Hunter Wilds reveal a tutorial image that displays local multiplayer support for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. Earlier this year a PC update contained text strings referencing Switch 2 wireless features, which were later removed, adding weight to the...
Starbreeze Entertainment reported a 18.8% rise in 2025 revenue to SEK 221 million ($24.5 million), yet the company posted a larger net loss of SEK 402.7 million ($44.6 million). Quarterly sales slipped 10.7% in Q4, driven by a decline in third‑party publishing and mixed performance of...
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics update for February 2026 adds five vintage titles – two Infocom Zork adventures and three Atari 2600 games – to the subscription catalog. The new releases are instantly available to all Game Pass tiers in regions...
High on Life 2 refines its predecessor with tighter pacing and a skateboard mechanic, keeping the series' signature talking‑gun humor. The sequel expands weapon personalities while adding skate‑boarding combat tricks, delivering a fresh yet familiar FPS experience. Players can secure...
Secret Door announced two major updates: a 2.0 overhaul of its co‑op tactical RPG Sunderfolk and a brand‑new solo roguelite titled Shadowstone. Shadowstone emerged from an experimental mode within Sunderfolk, evolving into a standalone title that shares the same universe...
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls announced three new playable X‑Men—Wolverine, Magik and the obscure character Danger—joining Storm’s Unbreakable squad. Danger’s origin stems from the X‑Mansion’s Danger Room, rebuilt with Shi’ar technology that granted it sentience. Professor Charles Xavier knowingly continued to...
EA Sports FC commentator Guy Mowbray has authorized Electronic Arts to clone his voice using artificial intelligence, allowing the game to generate pronunciations for more than 20,000 footballer names. Mowbray currently records each name several times to capture different emphases,...
Capcom mistakenly promoted the Street Fighter 6 Year 2 Character and Ultimate Passes as 50% off, but the actual discount is only 20%, pricing them at $24 and $40 respectively. The base game is currently 50% off at $20, while Year 1 passes...
Phaser Editor v5 entered beta, delivering a major productivity upgrade for game developers. The new version fully supports Phaser 4—including the updated filters system, Spine runtime, and fresh project templates—while preserving backward compatibility with Phaser 3. A standout feature is AI‑powered development via...
GreedFall: The Dying World expansion for PS5 unveils a full trophy list, featuring 15 visible awards and more than 30 hidden achievements. The trophies cover a range of actions, from crafting items and disarming traps to mastering skill trees and...
Runestone announced an expanded partnership with Portugal’s Counter‑Strike 2 tournament, Roman Imperium Cup, becoming its official data partner for a multi‑event commitment through 2026. The deal gives the Cup access to Runestone’s secure live‑match data infrastructure, integrity monitoring, and fan‑focused analytics...
Outgoing co‑founder Brian Fleming says Sucker Punch wants to shrink its development cycles from roughly five years to four. The studio’s recent hit, Ghost of Yotei, outperformed its predecessor and won a DICE award, proving the model can still deliver commercial...
At Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026, AppsFlyer executives Edik Mitelman and Adam Smart unveiled a data‑collaboration platform that taps consumers' real‑world credit‑card spend to identify high‑value gaming audiences. By partnering with Mastercard and other financial institutions, the firm can segment...
Dean Hall, creator of DayZ and developer of Icarus, used a Reddit AMA to ask players to stop stigmatizing game release delays. He highlighted the console version of Icarus, pushed back from February 26 to March 26, as a recent example. Hall...
Urban Games announced Transport Fever 3 in May 2025, marking the third entry in its transport‑simulation franchise after the 2019 release of Transport Fever 2. The title has been in development for six years and will ship with more than 300 vehicles, adding...
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached ₹505 cr (≈$55.7 mn) held in WinZO’s US and Singapore shell accounts as part of a money‑laundering probe. The agency alleges the gaming platform used bots and algorithm‑driven personas to play against real users, inflating revenues...
Tekken 8 director Kohei Ikeda announced that the development team now tracks community requests posted with #鉄拳8 or #TEKKEN8 hashtags on a daily basis. The game’s Season 3 Pass will introduce Kunimitsu, Bob, Roger Jr. and an unnamed challenger, while a major balance...
Capcom added a new side quest called A Royal Request to Monster Hunter Wilds in the February 18 patch, celebrating the upcoming Monster Hunter Stories 3 release. Players must be Hunter Rank 9 or higher and head to the Scarlet Forest base camp...
A Bethesda Publisher Sale on Nintendo’s eShop displayed a Doomslayer render from the upcoming prequel *The Dark Ages*, a game not yet listed for the current Switch. The artwork has been interpreted as an accidental confirmation of a Switch 2 port,...
Annapurna Interactive and Iridium Studios unveiled a new gameplay trailer and a Steam demo for People of Note, a turn‑based musical RPG. The title launches worldwide on April 7 across PC (Steam, Epic), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. The...
Battlefield 6’s Season 2 launched after a deliberate delay, allowing the team to polish new content and address pacing issues caused by the extended Season 1. Producer Phil Girette and associate producer Kit Eklof say the update introduces larger maps, the return...
Jacksepticeye, the popular YouTuber, apologized in February 2026 for his 2019 criticism of the political themes in Don’t Nod’s episodic game Life Is Strange 2. In his original Let’s Play, he claimed the narrative pushed a specific agenda and lacked depth, prompting backlash from...
Xbox‑published RPG Avowed launched on PS5 and runs solidly, offering three visual modes—Quality (1440p/30 fps), Performance (1080p upscaled/60 fps), and Balanced (40 fps with 120 Hz support). The port mirrors the Xbox Series X experience but provides no PS5 Pro‑specific enhancements such as dedicated PSSR upscaling....
Sorcery.gg’s hiring data shows a modest 4% global contraction in games‑industry jobs in 2025, driven largely by a 25% drop in U.S. openings. Meanwhile, China posted a 25% increase, overtaking the U.S. as the top source of new roles. Mid‑level...
Yoshiki Okamoto, the former Capcom producer behind Street Fighter II, disclosed on Japanese television that he has spent over ¥80 million (about $520 000) on microtransactions in his own gacha title, Monster Strike. The mobile RPG, which he launched after founding Game Republic, is...
Kinetic Games announced that the long‑awaited Player Character Update for Phasmophobia has been delayed to the first quarter of 2026. The patch will replace the game’s stiff early‑access avatars with lifelike models and introduce visual customization options. The studio also...
Arcen Games and Hooded Horse are set to launch the 1.0 version of Heart of the Machine in March 2026. The sci‑fi strategy RPG lets players assume the role of a super‑advanced AI tasked with reshaping a crumbling civilization, promising...
Mojang announced that Minecraft Java Edition will transition its rendering pipeline from OpenGL to Vulkan as part of the upcoming Vibrant Visuals update. The switch aims to unlock modern graphics features, boost frame rates, and extend visual fidelity across Windows,...
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have revived the Dead by Daylight film adaptation, securing a writing team led by Alexandre Aja and David Leslie Johnston‑McGoldrick. James Wan joins Jason Blum as a producer, while the studios hunt for a director. The project aims...
Replaced, Sad Cat Studios' 2.5‑D action‑platformer, has been pushed from its March 12, 2026 launch to April 14, 2026. The title will still debut on day one of Xbox Game Pass across Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. The delay follows extensive community feedback on a...
Nintendo has not released a new 3D Super Mario game in over 3,000 days, the longest gap since Super Mario Odyssey. The studio’s 3D Mario team is currently occupied with Donkey Kong Bananza, leaving little progress on a potential Switch 2 Mario title....
Sony will remove four high‑profile titles from the PlayStation Store between February and March, with Genshin Impact slated for delisting on February 25 and its online services ending April 8. The Finals, WBSC eBaseball: Power Pros, and WWE 2K24 will have online features...
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, a 2002 GameCube horror classic, remains unreleased on modern platforms. Director Denis Dyack expressed interest in collaborating with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto on a remaster or remake, noting the game’s cultural impact. Nintendo, however, has already turned...
The cooperative RPG *NORSE Oath of Blood* suffers a critical bug in the second phase of the Iron Will quest, where enemy units turn friendly and block mission completion. Players cannot advance without a workaround, prompting community‑driven fixes while awaiting...
![[Industry News] PQube Appoints Games Industry Veteran Dominic Wheatley as Chairman](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://mcvuk.com/wp-content/uploads/Dominic-Wheatley-PQube-1.jpg)
PQube, a leading UK games publisher, has appointed industry veteran Dominic Wheatley as Chairman. Wheatley co‑founded Eidos and launched iconic franchises such as Tomb Raider and Championship Manager. He previously steered the growth of Catalis, Kuju, Curve Games, Testronic and Blaze...
Unity announced a new AI-powered tool that can generate entire casual games from natural‑language prompts, aiming to eliminate traditional coding. The company will showcase a beta version at the Game Developers Conference in March. Unity frames the technology as a...
