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🤯 Rumor: Microsoft may SHUT DOWN Compulsion Games, the studio behind South of Midnight According to Kotaku, the team's fate is being decided as part of Xbox's new wave of cuts. Studio leadership is in talks, even though they were hiring for a new IP just two months ago. Acquired in 2018 alongside Ninja Theory, their latest game, South of Midnight, launched in 2025, hit 1 million players in three weeks, and won awards including "Best Game with a Special Message" at TGA. But Xbox is now chasing blockbusters, so shutting down a niche studio doesn't seem far-fetched 😔

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Dead by Daylight is getting a crossover with Diablo IV, themed cosmetics drop in October for the horror game's 10th anniversary 🔥 Both killers and survivors will rock Sanctuary-inspired looks. The Artist, for instance, will don a sick Lilith outfit. Blizzard's return content for Diablo 4? Still unconfirmed

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⚡️ Dead by Daylight, 10-year roadmap: Jason Voorhees, Art the Clown from Terrifier, mod support in 2027, and a visual overhaul. HOLY SHIT: June brings a licensed chapter with Jason and an original one with survivor Shane Viivaas. August, Chorus of Sin with killer The Judgment and survivor Aurora. November, Terrifier with Art the Clown. December, a new original map inspired by liminal spaces. 2027 brings mods, dynamic weather, crossovers with The Walking Dead and Scooby-Doo, plus collabs with Ice Nine Kills and Iron Maiden. Halloween event Haunted by Daylight drops in October, and winter Bone Chill in December.

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The Relic: First Guardian drops July 31 with NO leveling or attack stamina 🔥 This Korean ARPG from Project Cloud Games is a soulslike WITH NO XP system. Power up via 70+ Relics, passive buffs and skill changers. Stamina is for dodging ONLY; attacks are UNLIMITED. Launch on PC and PS5, Xbox & Switch 2 later in summer. PS5 disc edition on September 4.

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Capcom is cleaning house: the Dragon's Dogma II Deluxe Edition and most microtransactions are being pulled from sale 😱 The devs are removing controversial items like Rift Crystals, teleport stones, and jail keys, the very stuff that got the game trashed at launch. Already purchased items stay yours, and come October 9, expect the Dark Arisen DLC and likely a new complete edition. The game is out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series with Russian text, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version dropping alongside the DLC.

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Capcom ditched the "one creator, one franchise" model and shifted to team-based development. President Tsujimoto says this keeps series alive across generations. Many staff are fans of the company's games, which helps preserve the franchise spirit 🔥

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🔴 XBOX Game Studios loses two Rare veterans: head Craig Duncan (ex-Rare boss) and chief of staff Louise O'Connor (25+ years at Rare). Their replacements are TBD. Until then, internal studios report to Matt Booty. More shake-ups after Microsoft's new CEO appointment 🤷♂️

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Wuthering Waves 3.5 gameplay drop for Yang Yang (hypercarry, Havoc) and Sui Sui (support with revive, Glacio or Spectro). Rover gets an Electro resonance, plus a new region, Linae and Chisa skins, and events. 6 characters leaked total up to 4.0, but the rest are still under wraps.

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The director of The Damned, Thordur Palsson, will helm the Dead by Daylight movie adaptation 🎬 Announced back in 2023, the film finally has a director to mark the game's 10th anniversary. Jason Blum trusts Palsson to bring it from screens to cinemas. The script is by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring) and Alexandre Aja (Crawl). No plot details or release date yet. Producers include Jason Blum, James Wan, and Stephen Mulrooney.

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⚡️Rumor: A multiplayer action RPG set in The Witcher universe is reportedly in the works for PC and mobile 🔥 It's a free-to-play co-op action game set in 1230, when Geralt was still a young witcher. Create your own monster hunter, pick abilities from different witcher schools, brew potions, and master signs. Insiders link the project to Scopely, the mobile giant officially partnered with CD Projekt in March 2025. No release date YET, but if this is true, it might come sooner than expected 👀

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Gears of War: E-Day system requirements revealed after the Xbox Games Showcase gameplay trailer 🔥 Minimum: Windows 10, Intel i5‑10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, RTX 2060 / RX 6600, 12 GB RAM, 130 GB SSD. Recommended: Windows 11, i5-11600K / Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060 Ti / RX 6700 XT, 16 GB RAM. Launch, October 6 on PC (Steam, MS Store) and Xbox Series, includes Russian text and Game Pass. FULL package: 130GB SSD in both configs and DirectX 12 required

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Alix Wilton Regan got SO into character as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis that she accidentally punched herself in the face during a combat recording, dislocating her jaw 😬 The session was paused for 20 minutes while stunned colleagues joked they'd just "killed Lara Croft." She popped her jaw back in herself and got back to work, dedication to the role, I guess 🤷♂️

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Leaked Xbox payment method lets players rack up debt easier than ever 😱 A new leak reveals options to buy games via third-party lenders, making it INSANELY simple to get financially screwed. Console credit is coming 💸

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Nightdive dropped a demo of the SiN Reloaded, a massive remaster of the cult 1998 shooter. You play as Colonel John Blade, fighting mutant armies of the sinister Elixis Sinclair. Built on the KEX engine, it runs at 4K 144 FPS with fresh textures and modern controls. Includes the original campaign + the Wages of Sin expansion, story branches, and instant classic view toggle. Download it NOW 🔥

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🎲 RANDOM GAME, Silver (Steam) Corrupt sorcerer Silver rules Jarrah, abducting village women in a pact with the god Apocalypse. Young knight David, whose wife is among the captives, must recruit allies, master swordplay and magic, and find 8 lost artifacts. Journey through hostile worlds and defeat Silver's followers. • Intuitive mouse-based swordplay, sweeps and lunges controlled by motion • Interact with over 50 characters, not all are friendly • Recruit allies with special abilities (archer, martial artist, strongman) • Travel through hundreds of detailed and dangerous locations • Real-time combat • Vivid special effects, powerful spells, and mighty weapons

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Stellaris: Nomads turns empire management into a space-vagrant experience. Forget fixed borders and planet-colonization, your civilization lives in CONSTANT motion aboard colossal ark ships. All industry, science, culture is mobile. No defended sectors, just relentless movement. Releasing as part of Season 10, this expansion forces you to learn the game from scratch. Trade, negotiate, or fight lightning-fast wars with settled empires. A complete reimagining, not just a new mechanic.

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8 trillion gold farmed and 170 million deaths, that's the player stats after 2 weeks of the Path of Exile 2 «Return of the Ancients» event 🔥 ➖219 million Waystones opened, 6.1 million unique maps completed. ➖In Hardcore, nearly 179K characters died permanently. ➖Deadliest enemy: Arbiter of Ash, caused 3.5 million hero kills. ➖Top ascendancy classes: Martial Artist, Spirit Walker, Deadeye. HOLY SHIT what a slaughter