Video Game News 8/11/2026

#TheOdysseyOpensWith
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Star Wars Zero Company Preview — Everything I Want In A Tactics Star Wars Game

Star Wars Zero Company brings XCOM-style strategy to a galaxy far, far away

Star Wars Zero Company is deep strategy wrapped in a beautiful package

Star Wars: Zero Company will be brilliant because XCOM is brilliant

Star Wars Zero Company Is Good But Seems To Play Things Too Safe

Star Wars Zero Company Preview: XCOM + Star Wars Is A Perfect Combo

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Opens With a Surpising Star Wars Reference

We Played 50 Hours of Star Wars Zero Company – Preview

Star Wars Zero Company is a very safe XCOM descendant, but its most interesting parts are found in its Midnight Suns DNA

The Internet Reacts To The Release Of Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones: ‘CG Yoda is brilliant’

#PlaystationPlus
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Big Walk has sold more than one million copies, not counting PlayStation Plus downloads

Big Walk sales surpass one million

PS Plus' Big Walk Hits Big Sales, Surpasses 1 Million Copies Sold in Under a Week

New Co-Op Adventure 'Big Walk' Reaches A Big Sales Milestone

Big Walk strides to sales success, passing an impressive milestone in under one week

Big Walk has sold over 1 million copies worldwide

Big Walk has sold 1 million copies, making it a bigger hit than Untitled Goose Game

One Of The Year’s Best Indie Games Sold Over 1 Million Copies In Less Than A Week

#TheEpicGamesStore
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1666 Amsterdam Enters Early Access on August 25

1666: Amsterdam Launches In Early Access This Month

1666: Amsterdam Launches in Early Access August 25

1666: Amsterdam sets PC early access release date for later this August

1666 Amsterdam's early access launches this month, and I'm equal parts excited and worried

I've seen much more of 1666: Amsterdam, and the witchy game by the creator of Assassin's Creed has some surprising ideas

Assassin's Creed creator's dark and witchy action game 1666: Amsterdam is out in early access sooner than we expected

1666: Amsterdam has the makings of something brilliant but I came away from its preview with a bad feeling as its early access release creeps too close for comfort

#AMusthaveDayOne
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Alan Wake 2 Has Sold Over 3 Million Units

Alan Wake 2 Hits Another Major Sales Milestone (3 Million Sales)

'A Must-Have Day One Purchase': You Only Need to Buy Control Resonant in September, Remedy Reckons

Alan Wake 2 Hits 3 Million Copies Sold

Remedy reports revenue declines in Q2 and H1 as it prepares for Control Resonant launch

'A Must-Have Day 1 Purchase': Remedy Bets Big on Control Resonant, as Alan Wake 2 Passes 3 Million Sold

#Atlus
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Persona 4 Revival producer says remakes of Persona 1 and 2 are ‘something we should definitely do’

'I Think We Have to Do It': Persona 1 and 2 Remakes Sound More Likely Than Ever

P-Studio producer now pushes for Persona 1 and Persona 2 remakes

Kazuhisa Wada Says They 'Have to Do' Early Persona Remakes

Atlus Producer Says 'I Think We Have to Do' Persona 1 and 2 Remakes

#UltimateEditionIsGettingM
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The $100 Ultimate Edition of GTA 6 is selling more pre-orders than the $80 Standard Edition, Take-Two CEO says

GTA 6's $100 PS5 Ultimate Edition Is Getting More Pre-Orders Than the Cheaper Version

GTA 6 might not cost $100, but most of the people pre-ordering it are buying it at that price, Take-Two reveals

GTA 6 Boss Says Most Players Are Purchasing The $100 Ultimate Edition

GTA 6 Boss Says More People Are Pre-Ordering the $100 Version of the Game

#TheGameHasBeenBanned
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Halloween The Game has been banned in Australia and New Zealand because players can smoke weed in it

Halloween: The Game Has Been Banned In Australia & New Zealand Because It Has Weed In It

Halloween: The Game denied classification in Australia and New Zealand over drug depiction

Halloween: The Game is banned in Australia because incentivized drug use is bad but incentivized ultra-violence isn't

Halloween: The Game Refused Classification in Australia, So It Won’t Be Sold in New Zealand Despite the Fact That’s a Different Country

#UpcomingSeason
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Sonic the Hedgehog Is Confirmed to Be Speeding into Fortnite in Upcoming Season

Sonic Collabs With Fortnite In A New Zone Later This Month

Sonic confirmed for Fortnite

Sonic The Hedgehog Revealed As First Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 Collab, With More To Come

Sonic the Hedgehog is Joining Fortnite, and Yes You'll Be Able to Dash Up Walls in the Green Hill Zone

#Borderlands4
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Saber Interactive CEO confirms that its latest trailer contains a dig at Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford

Saber CEO Fires Back At Randy Pitchford For Borderlands 4’s Embracer Jabs

Saber Interactive’s New Taxi Game Is Beefing With Randy Pitchford

Saber CEO Admits 'Dig' at Gearbox Boss Randy Pitchford in New Game Trailer, Saying It's Payback for 'Shots at Embracer in Borderlands 4'

#NoMansSky
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No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games celebrates 10-year anniversary

No Man’s Sky at 10: 40 Free Updates and a Universe Still 99% Uncharted

A Decade Later, No Man's Sky Fans Have Explored Less Than 1% Of Its Planets

From 4 Devs to 40 Updates: Sean Murray Details 10 Years of No Man's Sky

#LittleNightmares
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Supermassive Games announces layoffs impacting up to 75 employees

Until Dawn and Little Nightmares 3 studio Supermassive announces further layoffs, with as many as 75 people expected to lose their jobs

Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 workers may be affected

Supermassive Games begins third round of layoffs in three years

#CarnageMarvelTokonFightin
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Review: Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls (PS5) - The Most Exciting Fighting Game in Years

Does Marvel Tokon's New Update Fix the Game on PC? Results Seem to Be Mixed

How to play Carnage - Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ First PC Patch Targets Its Biggest Problems

Arc System Launches Marvel Tokon PC Update, and Some Players Are Saying It's Fixing Most of Their Issues

#GameOfTheYear
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Order Automatica shares Nintendo Switch release date, new trailer

Gobble announced for western release on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch

Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 to launch in Indonesia

Vale’s Echo announced for Nintendo Switch release

Sacred 2 Remaster Is Now Available on Nintendo Switch

NIS America’s Gobble Announced

Nintendo bringing Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch to Indonesia starting December

2021 Game of the Year Could Be Coming to Nintendo Switch 2

#NewDay
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Spider-Man 2's PS5 Sales Have Exploded After Brand New Day's Box Office Blowout

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 just had its biggest sales boost in years thanks to Brand New Day

Insomniac’s Spider-Man Reveals What Brand New Day Is Missing

#Steam
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Bought Steam Hardware Recently? Valve Says Your Personal Data May Have Been Stolen

Valve confirms Steam hardware buyers' data exposed in CEVA Logistics cyberattack

Steam user data 'may have been compromised' by a cyberattack targeting Valve's European shipping partner

#CentSet
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50 Cent Set to Produce PAYDAY Adaptation

50 Cent is producing a Payday project for 'the screen'

Payday Is Getting A TV Show With 50 Cent As Executive Producer

#ShareLayouts
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World of Warcraft brings a new zone, new housing updates, and a new prey season with Curse of Ula’tek

Put Your Pets in Your Home, Build More, and Save and Share Layouts in World of Warcraft 12.1, Curse of Ula'tek

World of Warcraft’s Curse of Ula’tek update adds housing blueprints and indoor pets

#NintendoSwitch
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Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 confirms fall Nintendo Switch 2 release as the OG game’s Switch version poofs

Aliens: Fireteam Elite Cloud Version on Nintendo Switch Has Been Shut Down

Aliens: Fireteam Elite Cloud Version Is No Longer Playable On Switch

#Leagues
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RuneScape officially starts Leagues II Equilibrium today

Make Meaningful Choices to Fuel Your Fast-Paced Journey: Leagues II: Equilibrium is Live in RuneScape

RuneScape’s Leagues II: Equilibrium Is Live With Free-to-Play Worlds

#October
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The chilled co-op off-roading game 'over the hill' arrives October 14

Over the Hill, SnowRunner's hippie off-roading cousin from the Art of Rally devs, gets an October release date

#Primogems
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Crunchyroll teams up with Genshin Impact for collaboration and rewards

Genshin Impact and HoYoVerse Team Up for Promo Collaboration to Celebrate Snezhnaya's Arrival

#August
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Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (August 2026)

Monopoly Go Free Rolls – August 2026 Links

#Wolfhound
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Knytt, one of 2006's most charming indie platformers, has a surprise Steam re-release - and it’s still free

Knytt Classic Shadowdrops Free on Steam, Rebuilt by Chasm Developer

#ColdSymmetry
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Mortal Shell 2 will let you lower its difficulty by making executions refill your health, or up the challenge by turning off the sun

Hyped PS5 Soulslike Mortal Shell 2 Has an Easy Difficulty Mode, But There's a Catch

#SupermassiveGames
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Dark Pictures Anthology studio Supermassive Games is laying off up to 75 staff ‘to ensure sustainability’

Dark Pictures Dev Forced into Layoffs to Ensure the Future of the Company