The Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 open beta release date could be set for August 15. PublisherActivisionconfirmed last week that all pre-orders of the game come with early access to the game’s beta, which will beavailable on PlayStation consoles at least five days earlier than any other platform. Amazon’s US arm is nowsayingit will send outModern Warfare2 beta access codes toPS4andPS5pre-order customers on August 15. It’s unconfirmed if this is indeed the beta launch date, but VGC has contacted Activision for comment....

New character outfit DLC has been released for The Quarry, but it’s only free for the first week. The new ’50s Throwback Character Outfit DLC gives each of the game’s characters a 1950s makeover, and is available now onPS5,PS4,Xbox Series X/S,Xbox OneandPC. The DLC is free for new and existing players, but will only remain free until November 1 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST. After this time, the DLC will cost $4....

A live action Pac-Man movie is currently in development, it’s claimed. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, the big screen adaptation of the arcade classic will be based on an original idea by Chuck Williams, the producer behindSega’s successful Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Williams will produce the Pac-Man movie alongside his company Lightbeam Entertainment, and Wayfarer Studios, it’s claimed. Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of the 1980s and continues to spawn new titles more than 40 years since its debut in arcades....

Valve has launched this year’s Steam summer sale, featuring savings on a large number of games for the next 14 days. Featured sale items includeAssassin’s Creed Odysseyfor £24.99 (-50%),Devil May Cry 5for £29.69 (-34%), Astroneer for £17.84 (-25%),Resident Evil 2for £29.69 (-34%) and Jurassic World Evolution for £10.79 (-70%). All thediscountsare valid until the sale ends on July 9. If there’s something you’re after in particular and it’s not currently on sale, add it to your wishlist to receive a notification should the price drop in the future....

The Tomb Raider series is officially 25 years old today (October 25). Although the adventures of Lara Croft didn’t begin onPlayStationorPC(the formats she was most commonly associated with) until mid-November, it was July 15, 2025 when she first set foot on gaming soil. On that date, the first Tomb Raider was released on theSegaSaturn in Europe, roughly a month before it came to other formats and regions. The classic action adventure game had Lara travelling to Peru, Greece, Egypt and Atlantis in search of an ancient artefact called the Scion....

The runtime for the upcoming Pokémon Presents presentation has been revealed. The Pokémon Companywill hold aPokémonPresents presentation on Tuesday. Although no information has been announced about the contents of the stream, we now know how long it will last. As revealed by metadata from the Pokémon YouTube channel, the stream will run for just over 24 minutes. This makes the stream one of the longer Pokémon Presents. According to data fromSerebii, the February 2025 stream was just over 19 minutes, the February 2024 stream was just under 13 minutes, and the August 2023 Pokémon Presents was just under 35 minutes....

US retailers have begun heavily discounting Cyberpunk 2077 little more than a month after its release. Leading specialist consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is currently offering thePS4andXbox Oneversions of the game for$29.99, down from $59.99 at launch. Walmart has also cut the price ofCyberpunk 2077to$37.99on PS4 (down from $49.94), whileAmazon’s US arm wasreportedlyoffering the game for half price on Monday too, although that wasn’t the case when we checked....

The Video Game History Foundation has publicly criticised Nintendo’s decision to close the Wii U and 3DS eShops next year. Nintendoannounced earlier this week thatit will cease digital game purchases on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systemsin March 2023. This will result in around 1000 digital-only games, some of which are exclusive to theWii Uand 3DS, being removed for good with no way to acquire them legally in the future....

Walmart will have more PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles to sell via its online store on Cyber Monday, November 29. Priced at $12.95 per month or $98 per year, Walmart+ benefits include unlimited free delivery, discounts on prescriptions and fuel, and up to a 4-hour head start on online promotions during Black Friday week. Cyber Monday’sPS5andXbox Series Xconsoles will be available to Walmart Plus members from 12pm ET / 9am PT....

A modder has managed to convert an internal SSD into an external Xbox Series X/S expansion card, and theorises that other non-proprietary SSDs could work too. At the time of writing, theXbox Series X/Sonly has two storage solutions for playing next-gen games: the consoles’ internal SSD, and a proprietary Seagate expansion card that fits into its own port on the back of the console. A member of Chinese website BiliBili haswritten a detailed blogon how they managed to buy another external SSD and get it running on the console as if it were the Seagate card....

Yogscast Games and indie developer Save Sloth Studios have announced The Royal Writ, a comedic deckbuilder. Described as “a lane-based card game with permadeath”, The Royal Writ began life as an entry for the 48-hour Ludum Dare game jam competition, but eventually evolved into full development following positive feedback. “Sometimes a kingdom’s problems can be solved by simple communication – which is why his illustrious highness has decided to send out letters summoning some of the troublemakers to his throne room,” the game’s description reads....

Deep Silver has released 14 minutes of new Dead Island 2 gameplay. Viewable below, the action takes place in Bel Air, Los Angeles at the start of the game. It shows off Dani, one of six fully customisable characters players can choose from. Dani is well-suited to an agile style of combat and is on a mission to get to the Halperin Hotel. “Armed with an array of weapons, each with their own unique, brutal fighting style and endless opportunities for upgrades, slayer Dani meets Standard zombies (Walkers, Shamblers, Runners), Variant (grenadier walkers), and Apex (hyper mutated zombies), all with unique powers and behaviors,” according toDeep Silver....

Another classic entry in the Fire Emblem series has been added to Nintendo Switch Online’s retro library. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones was originally released on the Game Boy Advance in 2004 and is the eighth main entry in the Fire Emblem series (but only the second to be released outside of Japan). The Sacred Stones is unrelated to previous games in the Fire Emblem series, telling its own standalone story....