Video Game News 10/24/2026

#CultureDay
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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto weighs in on AI, says “there will always be a role” for humans

Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, claiming humans will always have a role to play in game design

Shigeru Miyamoto awarded Japan’s Order of Culture

Shigeru Miyamoto Becomes First Game Dev To Receive Japan's Prestigious Culture Award

Shigeru Miyamoto first in gaming industry to receive Japan’s Order of Culture award

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says even if gen-AI "were to eventually handle everything, there will always be a role left" for human designers

Nintendo veteran Shigeru Miyamoto to receive Japan's Order of Culture award

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Becomes First Game Developer to Receive Prestigious Government Medal

Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto Becomes First Game Designer to Be Awarded Japan's Order of Culture

#CompleteEdition
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"This was not a Creative Assembly developed game": Total War boss points the finger at external partner for Shogun 2 Complete Edition disaster

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition pulled from sale due to mass complaints

Creative Assembly clarifies gen-AI stance, and admits it "took its eyes off" Total War Shogun 2's Complete Edition

Creative Assembly Blames External Development For Total War: SHOGUN 2 Complete Edition AI Use

Creative Assembly exec pins the blame for the Shogun 2 remaster mess on someone else: 'This was not a Creative Assembly developed game'

Creative Assembly Discusses the Shogun 2: Complete Edition Mess, Promises Next Steps

Creative Assembly Finally Addresses The Shogun 2 Remaster Disaster By Pointing Fingers

#StreetFighter6
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Capcom confirms 11.7 million account records were exposed, raising concerns for Street Fighter 6 players

Capcom says data breach hit over 11 million user accounts

Nearly 12 Million Capcom ID Accounts Affected in Huge Data Breach

Capcom Data Breach Results In Unauthorised Access To More Than 11.7 Million 'CAPCOM ID' Accounts

Capcom Confirms Data Breach Affecting Nearly 11.8 Million CAPCOM ID Records

Capcom affected by data breach, over 11.7m Capcom ID accounts compromised

Street Fighter 6 Players Reeling After Capcom Takes Down Popular Community Resource Site

#ModernWarfare4
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Breaks Metacritic Record After 15 Years

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Out Now on PS Store, 2 PS5 Versions Available

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Multiplayer Unlocked Early, But Feedback Has Been Brutal So Far

Modern Warfare 4 review in progress - a series high

Review: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Switch 2) - Best-In-Class Bombast That Doesn't Shortchange Nintendo Gamers

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Critical Consensus

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Has Korean Lawmakers Lashing Out

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 actually runs pretty smoothly with Activision's 'recommended' RTX 3060 Ti graphics card, and here are the settings I use to get the best performance from it

I've tested every graphics setting in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4—tweak these four options for the best performance

'I Don't Know if There's Perfecting It' — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Multiplayer Chief Weighs in on Matchmaking

#FindABuyer
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Arkane Lyon Has Until November 13th to Find a Buyer, 217 Jobs Are At Risk – Rumor

Arkane Lyon Closure and 217 Jobs at Risk If The Studio Doesn’t Find a Buyer By November 13 With “Several Forms of Takeover” Being Considered

Arkane Studios reportedly has until November 13 to find a buyer to avoid closure

Arkane Lyon Unions Seek More Time to Find Buyer and Save 217 Jobs

Arkane Lyon Could Be Shut Down Within Weeks As Deadline To Find A Buyer Looms

Arkane Lyon Has Less Than a Month to Avoid Closure

#TheHourOfRuin
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7.2 Genshin Impact Update Adds Mitya and Valeriy in November

Impending Doom Brings All Of Teyvat’s Leaders Together In Genshin Impact Version 7.2 Hour of Ruin

Genshin Impact 7.2 arrives November 4 with Mitya, Valeriy, and eastern Snezhnaya

All Genshin Impact 7.2 livestream codes

Genshin Impact Version 7.2 Launching November 4

#HoldingHope
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FanPetition To Save Mass Effect Is Gaining A Lot of Signatures

Shepard Actor Reacts To Leaked Mass Effect Trailer, Is “Holding Hope” The Game Will Live On

The Next Mass Effect Sounded Like John Wick In Space

Mass Effect 5 Pitched as 'John Wick and James Bond' in Space, Report Says

Mass Effect 5 was set in a 'galactic Cold War,' new leak claims, and all 3 endings were wrapped into 1

Mass Effect Fans Call for EA Boycott as Petition to Save BioWare's Canceled Game Garners More than 75,000 Signatures

Save Mass Effect Petition Hits 50,000 Signatures, Just Days After BioWare Closure

New Mass Effect 5 Leak Explains How It Was Going To Deal With Mass Effect 3’s Multiple Endings

#Canadian
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BioWare staff "should be given the first opportunity and the federal support" to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leader

Canadian Politician Avi Lewis Is Going To Bat For BioWare

Canadian Politician Wants the Government to Help BioWare Staff Buy the Studio From EA and Run It Themselves

A Canadian Politician Says BioWare Devs Should Be Given Government Funding To Buy The Studio And Get Back To Making Mass Effect

#NoThanks
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Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"

Chaosium Removes AI-Generated Content From Miskatonic Repository

Developer Of ‘Ecosocialist’ Game Future? No Thanks! Offers Refunds After Using AI Despite Calling It ‘Technofascist’

#Halflife3
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Half-Life 3 speculation reignited by Valve dev mentioning three sweet little rumored codenamey letters amid technical chat about video game noises

Half-Life 3 speculation grows as Valve developer mentions ‘HLX’ during stage panel

Half-Life 3 is back in the news again as Valve developer accidentally sort-of references it in public, reigniting hope once more

#Gamemaker
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GameMaker announce their next-gen runtime GMRT will be free for commercial use

GameMaker to make its "next-generation runtime" GMRT free for commercial use in January 2027

GameMaker's GMRT runtime will soon be free for all developers

#GearsOfWarEday
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Phantom Blade Zero Sells 500K on Steam: Who Plays First?

Phantom Blade Zero isn't even out yet, but it could be 'one of the year's breakout hits' as it shifts half a million copies on Steam alone

Phantom Blade Zero – Everything To Know

#HalloweenEvent
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Dune Awakening’s Halloween event may be the most creepy you play all year

The Scourge Brings a Sinister Halloween Spirit to the Deserts of Arrakis in Dune: Awakening's New Event

Dune: Awakening’s Halloween Event Sends Infected Into Hagga Basin Through November 2

#Rpg
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Mass Effect: Universe Trailer Leaked Online As BioWare Shuts Down

Mass Effect crossover items have seemingly been removed from Battlefield 6 following EA's sudden closure of BioWare

Flashy internal trailer for now-cancelled Mass Effect Universe appears online, following EA's closure of BioWare

EA Appears to Have Quietly Pulled Mass Effect Content From Battlefield 6 Following BioWare Shutdown

#AngryBirds2
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Angry Birds 2's Flocktober Sticker Album lets you earn boosts and other rewards

Angry Birds 2 Flocktober Sticker Album Feature Now Available

#BaratieOnePieceGrandGourm
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One Piece: Grand Gourmet lets you build your own version of the famous Baratie

One Piece: Grand Gourmet Now Available

#Helldivers
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Helldivers 3 "only makes sense" if it’s so unlike Helldivers 2 "that both games can exist side by side", says Arrowhead boss, discussing their new prototype game

Helldivers 3? Not Unless It's Very Different from Helldivers 2, Says Arrowhead

#Million
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Xbox wanted $800 million from Netflix for 7 years of its biggest characters, it’s claimed

Netflix Offered Xbox $500 Million to Adapt its IP, Xbox Countered With $800 Million – Rumor

#ShigeruMiyamoto
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Shigeru Miyamoto explains why AI won’t make human creativity obsolete

Shigeru Miyamoto Doesn’t Know If AI Can Take Over Creativity, But Says It Could Be An ‘Opportunity’ To Define What It Means To Create

#WowForever
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WoW Forever: 12 days to go…

WoW: Forever’s Divisive Layering Will See Major Improvements For Launch, Blizzard Says

#AssassinsCreedBlackFlagRe
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is Getting New Game Plus Next Week

AC Black Flag Rescyned Wants You to Play It Again in New Game Plus Patch Next Week

#Igor
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Igor and Margaret Voice Actors Return for Persona 4 Revival

Persona 4 Revival Casts Kirk Thornton as Igor and Marisha Ray as Margaret

#Review
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Review: Village in the Shade Is a Delightful Mix of Horror and Farming

Review: Village In The Shade (Switch 2) - A Farm Sim That Plays With Cosy Tropes In Clever Ways

#PetitPlanetPrelaunchSpeci
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Petit Planet Pre-Launch Special Program Airs in November

HoYo Announces Pre-Launch Special Program For Cozy Galactic Life Sim Petit Planet

#Saros
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Saros: creating the epic Overlords of Carcosa

Nixxes Built the Saros Bosses From Housemarque Concepts