Video Game News 8/14/2026

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

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

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 closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'

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

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

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 – Bombs Away!

Wild Blue Skies Review

#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

#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 scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement

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

#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

#Playstation5
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Duskfade Review

Duskfade Is A Love Letter To The 3D Platformers We Grew Up With

Duskfade Review – A Clockwork Tribute to Classic 3D Platformers

Review DuskFade PlayStation 5

#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

#CrimsonDesert
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Pearl Abyss Q2 2026: Crimson Desert tapers off, Black Desert flattens, DokeV eyes 2028

Crimson Desert Is Coming To Switch 2 In 2027, While Pearl Abyss Is Open To DLC, Multiplayer And Sequels

Pearl Abyss Reflects On Crimson Desert's 17 Post-Launch Updates, New Features, and More Since Launch

Pearl Abyss Q2 drops after Crimson Desert’s launch spike, Switch 2 version planned for 2027

#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: Hidden Mountain Receives New Gameplay Trailer For Chapter 2

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

#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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

Sonic Frontiers sales surpass 5 million copies sold

#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

There Is No Reason Not To Play South Of Midnight Anymore

#KingdomHearts
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A Kingdom Hearts Panel Will Air During This Week’s Disney D23

Kingdom Hearts D23 Panel Livestream Set for August 15

How to watch the Kingdom Hearts panel at D23 2026

#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

#BigNewSeason
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All eFootball 2027 Player Skills, Explained

Messi And Yamal Headline eFootball 2027’s Big New Season Update

#Latest
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Latest eFootball Patch Brings Custom Tournaments, New Mini Games

eFootball’s latest season launches today, including a new mini-game made by PlatinumGames

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

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