Video Game News 8/14/2026

#NetflixShutsDownDeveloper
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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 is closing Night School Studio and Moonlot

Netflix closing Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Moonloot Games

Netflix closes more game studios as it pulls back on video games

Netflix Kills Oxenfree Studio Right After New Release

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

#FortunesWeave20Hours
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Preview: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Seems to Reward Time Management

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Preview

Preview: Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Dials The 'Three Houses Formula' Up To 11

20 hours in, I cannot believe the scale, complexity, and ambition of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

Preview: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

Prepare for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

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

7 Things We Learned About Insomniac’s Wolverine From The Latest Previews

#Twitch
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Twitch are scraping streams for AI training by default, and even their own execs don’t know what user data may have been swept up

‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Twitch is using streamers’ content to train generative AI by default

Twitch Is Using Your Stream to Train Generative AI by Default

Twitch Chief Product Officer isn't sure if Amazon AI was training on VODs prior to opt-out option

Twitch is training AI on livestreams, says it's an opt out feature as "nobody would opt in"

Streamers Are Telling Twitch How Much They Hate That Generative AI Training Is Opt-Out By Default

#WildBlueSkies
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Wild Blue Skies Review — Fast And Furious Ship Action

Wild Blue Skies Wants You To Chase High Scores In The Sky

Wild Blue Skies review: Just a tribute

Wild Blue Skies Is Star Fox For Experts

Wild Blue Skies Review

Wild Blue Skies Review – Bombs Away!

#Gamecube
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Pokémon Bank will shut down in February 2027, with players advised to transfer data to Pokémon Home

The Pokémon Bank Is Closing: Start Your Transfers

Pokémon Bank Is Shutting Down In February 2027

You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pokémon from Pokémon Bank to Pokémon Home, or they're gone forever

How To Get All The Pokémon You Forgot About Out Of Pokémon Bank Before The Service Shuts Down

#ChaosEmeralds
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Sonic Frontiers sales surpass five million, Sonic Adventure 2 shoes available to all

Sonic Frontiers Crosses 5 Million Sales, Sonic Adventure 2 Shoes Added In-Game

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

Sonic Frontiers sales surpass 5 million copies sold

#CompleteEdition
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Complete Edition of Hit PS5 Adventure Game Out on PlayStation Store

(For Southeast Asia) Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition Comes to PS5 October 2

Ghost of Yotei's PS5 Complete Edition Will Get a Physical Disc, But There Are Already Concerns

Ghost of Yotei Complete Edition Launches October 1 on PS5

#Playstation
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Marvel's Wolverine Has an Impressive Performance Mode on Base PS5

Marvel's Wolverine "fully playable" on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be

Insomniac Confirms Marvel's Wolverine Will Be Playable Straight from Disc

Insomniac Confirms Marvel's Wolverine Performance Mode Details

#Playstation2era
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Compulsion Games is Now Listed as South of Midnight’s Publisher on Steam Following Xbox Split

Ignore Your Growing Backlog–It’s Time To Play South Of Midnight On Steam

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

There Is No Reason Not To Play South Of Midnight Anymore

#PokemonBank
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Pokemon Home details Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen support, Celebi reward for completing the Pokedex, more

Pokemon Bank is shutting down, announcement released

Pokemon Bank 3DS Service Ending After Pokemon Home Updates

Pokemon Bank to end service in February 2027

Pokemon Bank closes in 2027 and FireRed and LeafGreen link to Pokemon HOME

#DefenderOfTheCrown
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Amiga strategy classic Defender of the Crown is back with both old and fresh graphics, and an all new roguelite mode

Defender Of The Crown: The Legend Returns Brings A Classic Back To Life

Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns Out Now on PC and Consoles

#ProjectSirius
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Troubled Witcher multiplayer spinoff Project Sirius struck with new round of layoffs

CDPR Confirms Layoffs on Witcher Multiplayer Game Project Sirius

CD Projekt Red has laid off nine Project Sirius developers

#Gamecube
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Super Mario Sunshine has now been added to Switch Online’s GameCube library

Review: Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube) - Not What We Expected, But It Still Shines

Super Mario Sunshine now available on Nintendo Classics and Nintendo Music

#FrameGeneration
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NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming for Linux levels up and leaves Beta

GeForce NOW comes to Linux, as Nvidia's game streaming service exits beta

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

#Saber
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Saber CEO Says He ‘Would Have Been Happy’ to Replace Former Writer With AI

'I would frankly have been happy to replace her with AI' - extraordinary public spat between Saber CEO and writer "replaced with ChatGPT" intensifies

Saber CEO Denies Replacing Rideshare Writer With ChatGPT But Says ‘I Would Frankly In Retrospect Have Been Happy To Replace Her With AI’

#Wolverine
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Hands-on report: Marvel’s Wolverine

Marvel’s Wolverine Rage Tier System Detailed in First Preview

Marvel's Wolverine: The Final Preview

#ElderScrolls6
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Fans Think They Cracked The Elder Scrolls 6 Subtitle — And It Was Hiding in Starfield Since 2023

After this week's Elder Scrolls 6 tease, fans think they've figured out its full name - and it was hidden in Starfield all along

Fans Are Convinced They’ve Guessed The Name Of The Next Elder Scrolls Game

#Playstation
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Stop Killing Games joins Dutch lawsuit against PlayStation's 'Sony tax' on digital games

Stop Killing Games backs Dutch consumer rights lawsuit against Sony's PlayStation digital store "monopoly"

Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

#BlackDesertOnline
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Black Desert PC adds more monster zones, new bosses, and new accessories with Edania Part 2

Edania Part 2 is Live in Black Desert Online, With New Bosses to Challenge, Monster Zones, and Much More

Black Desert Online’s Edania Part 2 Update Adds New Bosses, Monster Zones, and Endgame Gear

#Kodan
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‘Humanity before its great fall’: Guild Wars 3 previews the look and lore of its Human species

Guild Wars 3 Narrative Details On Human Species

Being A Human In Guild Wars 3 Is Different From The Previous Games

#WhereWindsMeet
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Where Winds Meet takes players to Heaven’s Threshold next week – once the community unlocks the way

Where Winds Meet Gets 'Heaven's Threshold', Second Part of Hidden Mountain Expansion, Next Week

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

#MarvelRivalsAnnounceBigUp
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Marvel Rivals Announce Big Update For Storm Players

Storm Fans Win: Marvel Rivals Devs Listen to X-Men Community

#Sandcastle
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Sandustry, the factory game where every single pixel is a resource you can build with, is out in early access

Out in Early Access - Sandustry has you explore, mine and automate in fully destructible pixel worlds

#DawnOfWar4
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Necrons are "extremely arrogant aliens that feel like they cannot die," so their weakness in Dawn of War 4 is an obvious one: greed

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV delayed until December

#GreatestAssassinsCreedGam
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Amazon Prime’s 9 ‘free’ games to keep for August include action RPG Steelrising

Two of the Greatest Assassin's Creed Games Are Coming to Amazon Prime