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Rainbow Six Is Going Turn-Based — Can Rainbow Six Tactics Really Work Without Real-Time Gunfights?

Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Tactics trades Siege's real-time gunfights for turn-based squad combat in 2027. We look at whether removing the reflexes actually gets closer to what made Rainbow Six tactical in the first place.

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Roblox Adaptations Are Turning Steam's Biggest Indie Hits Into Free-to-Play Competitors

Every Roblox hit spawns dozens of clones within weeks. How the knockoff economy works, why Roblox permits it, and how to tell a clone from the real thing.

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Dave Bautista Is the New Kratos: Inside Amazon's God of War Recast

Dave Bautista is officially Kratos in Prime Video's God of War series after Ryan Hurst's injury. Inside the reshoots, production disruption, and unexpected casting reversal.

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'We didn't have layoffs before, and now all of a sudden we have yearly layoffs': Bethesda artist says 'something has changed' under Microsoft

The Bethesda Game Studios union continues to advocate for labor rights in the games industry.

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Georgia Army base reportedly giving soldiers time off to play GTA VI. But there’s a catch: ‘Special 4-day pass’

It’s intended to boost morale.

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The Witcher multiplayer spin-off Project Sirius hit with another wave of layoffs

CD Projekt Red has now confirmed the layoffs

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WWE is trying to trademark Vice City, but it super promises not to encroach on video games

It'd really weaken Rockstar's claim to its own invention if the trademark were to be granted.

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Donald Trump’s son-in-law is now linked to the $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts

Just what The Sims was missing: direct oversight from a Saudi wealth fund and Jared Kushner

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Netflix has admitted to using AI on '300 movies and shows' in 2026 — and I've never been more disappointed

Netflix has shockingly announced that many of their projects have used AI in 2026.

TechRadar

Threats of a $1,000 PS6 have ex-Sony president just as scared as you are: "How much more ray tracing can you put in there?"

Not $1,000's worth, I bet

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Xbox confirms there isn't just "1 person left in Texas" working on id Software's engine following mass layoffs, but "dozens" across "multiple locations"

A former dev claims the VFX team is down to one artist, however

GamesRadar

Xbox's Obsidian has reportedly lost a quarter of its workers to Microsoft's layoffs — the Fallout: New Vegas dev has a "huge list of projects" it's not sure how to continue [UPDATED]

Microsoft's Xbox layoffs have reportedly seen 25% of devs at the RPG studio Obsidian Entertainment cut in the midst of plans for a "huge list of projects."

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FromSoftware parent’s CEO survives hedge fund owners’ attempt to remove him, but there’s more pressure to come

Kadokawa is safe. For now.

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The grim industry summer continues as EA lays off staff ahead of $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia, likely to soothe the sting of its $20 billion debt

The layoffs will continue until… well, something improves.

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Latest Microsoft victim reportedly being closed after releasing one game since Xbox acquisition

The new heads of Xbox praised the studio this year

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Microsoft and Xbox may close South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games — it was just hiring for a "fascinating, intriguing, brand new IP" [UPDATED]

As Microsoft and Xbox prepare for a huge business reset, it reportedly has plans to shut down South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games.

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GameStop CEO trying to buy eBay briefly banned on eBay, but that's not stopping him from attempting to sell garbage for thousands of dollars

This offer, which started with what's basically trade-in credit on GameStop itself, is starting to sound a little ridiculous

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MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people

Is this sabotage?

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I played the MindsEye mission about the alleged game saboteurs, and it sucks so bad

The mission is dull and witless, and the promised "evidence" of sabotage against developer Build a Rocket Boy utterly fails to materialize.

PC Gamer

Last Flag, the debut game from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons' lead singer, becomes the latest multiplayer shooter struggling to find an audience

The capture-the-flag themed shooter attracted fewer than 600 concurrent players on launch, according to SteamDB.

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Rockstar Games Becomes Hacking Victim Again—What Is the Impact to the Company?

Rockstar Games has suffered another attack on its systems, and this time, it is a ransomware attack.

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GTA 6 maker Rockstar confirms another hack, says "this incident has no impact on our organization or our players"

This incident follows another major breach that occurred in 2022

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GTA 6 might not feature an entirely rebuilt Rage Engine after all, as one report says it's more of an expansion on what Rockstar used in Red Dead Redemption 2

And apparently those rumors about a broken save and load function are (unsurprisingly) nothing to worry about

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Ultimate Black Flag Resynced guide to help you 100% the game and rule the waves

Here are all of our AC Black Flag Resynced guides laid out in one place

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Xbox Project Helix Has Reportedly Been Under Development for 10 Years

A new report has claimed that Microsoft's plans to create a console capable of running multi-platform games was planned for 10 years now.

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