Video Game News 8/14/2026

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

Netflix is shutting down Oxenfree studio Night School, six weeks after its last game was released

Netflix Closing Two Studios, Including Oxenfree Developers Night School

Netflix Shuts Down Oxenfree Dev Night School Studio as It Downscales In-House Game Teams

Netflix Shuts Down Oxenfree Creator Night School Studio in Gaming Pullback

Netflix is closing Night School Studio and Moonlot

Netflix Shuts Down Oxenfree Developer Night School Studio

Netflix's gaming "secret weapon" is no more - Oxenfree studio Night School is to close

Netflix shutters Night School Studio and Moonloot Games

Netflix closing Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Moonloot Games

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'

Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following 'Top Tier' Launch of Unhinged

Netflix Shuts Down Studio Behind Beloved Narrative Adventure Oxenfree

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

Small Axe Studios is a New AAA Team Under 2K Working on a New Sports Franchise

2K opens Small Axe Studios led by EA Sports veterans

EA Sports FC might be getting a proper football game challenger, as 2K sets up new studio to make its "next blockbuster sports franchise"

2K Games Is Making A New Sports Franchise, And All Signs Point To Soccer

2K establishes AAA sports developer Small Axe Studios

2K Announces New Studio Led By Former EA Sports Devs

#DeveloperCompulsionGames
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South of Midnight is now self-published on Steam after Compulsion Games cut ties with Microsoft

Compulsion Games is Now Listed as South of Midnight’s Publisher on Steam Following Xbox Split

Compulsion Games becomes publisher of South of Midnight on Steam, suggesting departure from Xbox amid major restructuring is now complete

Xbox's Separation from Compulsion Games Seems Complete as Studio Is Listed as the Publisher of South of Midnight on Steam

#War
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Former WB director says Lord of the Rings: War in the North should never have released at the same time as Skyrim

2011 Lord Of The Rings Game Didn’t Get A “Fair Shake” Launching Near Skyrim, Former WB Boss Says

A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Dev Warned Warner Bros. Not to Go Up Against Skyrim Back in 2011

#Switch2
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21% of Nintendo Switch 2 owners have bought Pokémon Pokopia

Pokémon Pokopia Bubbly Basin Review

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

Nintendo announces Pokémon Pokopia has sold over 5m copies, meaning that roughly one in four Switch 2 users now owns the game

#Switch2
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s Beta Includes Campaign Mission in Series First

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's PS5 Beta Includes Campaign Mission for the First Time

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Will Do Something No Previous CoD Beta Has

Modern Warfare 4 Beta Will Include Campaign and Warzone In Series First

#FortunesWeave
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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave difficulty modes detailed

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

Prepare for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

Three New Things We Learned From Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Previews

#FloodMarines
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Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 Update Lands Next Week with Tech Fixes

Halo: Campaign Evolved studio outlines five key updates that'll drop with next week's big patch

Halo: Campaign Evolved Will Look Way Better Soon

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

#Series
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On the Cusp of Kingdom Hearts 4 Blowout, Disney Says Series Is a Billion-Dollar Brand

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

DanielRPK: Kingdom Hearts announcement at tonight’s D23 Disney Entertainment Showcase panel

Disney Has 9 Gaming Franchises That Have Generated $1 Billion+ At Retail, Including Kingdom Hearts

#AlbionOnline
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Albion Online takes a closer look at the Ancient Lands area arriving with August 31’s Dragonfire update

Albion Online | Ancient Lands

Albion Online Takes Us Into The Ancient Lands, Dragonflame's New, Difficult, and Very Rewarding Region

Albion Online’s Dragonflame Update Adds the Ancient Lands on August 31

#PokemonPokopia
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Injustice 2 Has Sold More Than 9 Million Copies

Sonic Frontiers Surpasses 5 Million Copies Sold as Fans Await What Comes Next

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

Pokemon Pokopia has sold over 5 million copies worldwide

Sonic Frontiers sales surpass 5 million copies sold

#MarvelTōkonFightingSouls
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Sells Nearly Half A Million Copies

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls review

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls looks to have sold almost half a million copies in a week

102 Deadpool References in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls review

#Madden
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EA Sports Madden NFL 27 brings pro-football action to mobile and Apple Arcade for the first time

Madden NFL 27 Hits Steam With Persona-Driven Franchise Overhaul

EA SPORTS Madden NFL 27 Now Available Globally

#VrGamesShowcase
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System Shock VR, High On Life VR and more from the VR Games Showcase

System Shock, High on Life, More Are Breathing New Life into PSVR2

High On Life Is Coming To VR, And Yes, You Can Stroke Your Weird Guns

#EpicGamesStore
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Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"

The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work

Epic Games Store will officially support Linux, Epic confirms

#ThePlasticbottleSplatters
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Splatoon 3 update announced, adding Plastic-Bottle Splattershot Replica as part of Splatoon Raiders tie-in

Splatoon 3 Gets Splatoon Raiders Plastic-Bottle Splattershot

Splatoon 3 will soon add Plastic-Bottle Shot Replica from Splatoon Raiders for those who have cleared game

#Stardew
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Fields of Mistria review

Want More Story In Your Stardew? Fields Of Mistria Is Right Up Your Valley

Fields of Mistria review

#TheTargetOfACongressional
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Roblox Is Now The Target Of A Congressional Investigation: “Children Are Hurting”

Congress Is Opening an Investigation Into ‘Roblox’ Over Child Exploitation

Roblox Is Now Under Investigation By The U.S. Senate Over Child Safety

#TotalWar
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Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big free vampiric update in September, alongside the epithet-stuffed Lords of the End Times DLC

Total War: Warhammer 3 - Lords of the End Times brings its largest DLC yet in late September

Come September, you won't need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign

The Lords of the End Times are landing in Total War: Warhammer 3 on September 24, and everything's coming up rat men

#DuneAwakening
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Dune Awakening brings single-player mode, performance updates, and gameplay tweaks to PTS

Dune: Awakening's Single-Player Mode and Overhauled Character Experience Now on Test Server

Dune: Awakening Starts Testing Single-Player Mode Before Console Launch

#BeholderConductor
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Beholder: Conductor lets you take the control of an authoritarian rail line

Review: Beholder: Conductor (Nintendo Switch)

#WhereWindsMeet
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Where Winds Meet adds giant bosses and haunted survival mode in upcoming Heaven's Threshold update

Where Winds Meet Adds Heaven’s Threshold Chapter on August 20

#New1999Features
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Warframe’s Nightwave gets free 1999 rewards and a Hex adventure

Nightwave Mix: Amir's Shockwave Opens in Warframe, With New 1999 Features, and Tabletop RPG-Inspired Adventure

#August
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Today's Mobile Legends: Bang Bang redeem codes (August 2026)

2 Player Evolution Tycoon codes (August 2026)

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

Kinetic Games Goes Beyond Ghosts With New Indie Publishing Arm