Respawn has talked up Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s “thoughtful combat”, while showing off the first gameplay for the upcoming title, which tells an original story involving a surviving Padawan. Asked how the third-person action adventure game’s combat feels during the ongoingEAPlay event in Los Angeles,RespawnCEOVince Zampellasaid: “It’s really satisfying. The game itself, it’s thoughtful combat as we like to call it. “you may block, parry, deflect, we want the combat to feel really good for people to go in and be part of that”, he added....

The developer of a Steam game that currently has “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on the platform has been accused of achieving this by bribing players with free in-game items. As spotted byDualShockers, Reddit userGlavurdanposted a message to Reddit’sSteampage titled “Why is this not breaking the Steam Terms of Service?” Glavurdan posted screenshots taken from theSteam store page for a game called Shinobi Warfare,which currently has a review rank of ‘overwhelmingly positive’....

Suda51 could reveal Grasshopper Maufacture’s next game before the end of the year, according to a new interview. Speaking on theNetEaseGames Youtube channel, spotted byNiche Gamer,Suda talked about the future of the studio and what he has planned for the rest of the year. “The games we make at this studio, I mean the really, truly cool and all-new games, we’re going to continue creating them,” Suda said. “I wonder when I can announce them?...

A new Pokémon game for Nintendo Switch and mobile has been released. PokémonFriends is a “plush-filled puzzle game packed with charming challenges,” according to a store listing. On mobile, the game is free to start, but offers downloadable content. However, itappears to carry a $14 price point on Nintendo Switch. Set in Think Town, the game sees players take on over 1,200 puzzles themed around Pokémon plushies. “Solve puzzles to get yarn that you can make a plethora of plush Pokémon pals....

Nintendo Switch continued to dominate hardware sales in the US last month, achieving its best October on record. According to NPD data published byNintendoof America, a combined total of 735,926 Switch and Switch Lite consoles were sold, up 136% compared to October 2019. The figures represent the second-highest October sales for any game console, Nintendo said. Only the Wii has bettered Switch’s October performance, with 807,000 sales during the same month in 2008....

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick thinks it’s likely that there’ll be mid-generation console refreshes during the current cycle. GamesIdustry.bizasked Zelnick if we can expect to see updated versions ofPS5andXbox Series X/Sreleased, and whether hardware refreshes in the last generation had much of an impact on the company’s business. “We probably will,” he said, “and they did not affect the business very much.” Zelnick also discussed the company’s plans to continue supportingSwitchand last-gen consoles....

The BBC has re-released a documentary about the UK video games industry which was originally broadcast more than 40 years ago. Commercial Breaks: The Race For Santa’s Software was broadcast on BBC Two on June 25, 2025 and follows two software publishers as they search for a hit game to release in time for Christmas. The documentary follows Ocean Software as it prepares to release a sequel to its popular game Hunchback, in the hope lightning will strike twice....

Nintendo is set to hold a Nintendo Direct live stream around the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, it’s claimed. That’s according to journalistPedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who made the claim during a live stream this weekend. Lippe has previously shared accurate information aboutNintendo’s plans. On the surface, aNintendo Directin June looks like a very safe bet. Nintendo has held a Nintendo Direct every year since the format was started in 2012, bar 2016, when it was winding downWii Uand preparing to announceNintendo Switch....

2K and Supermassive Games have announced that the multiplayer portion of the narrative horror game The Quarry is being delayed. However, the single-player portion will still release in June as planned. Originally scheduled for June 10, the multiplayer mode will now release on July 8. “We’ve made the difficult decision to delay the online multiplayer mode to deliver the best possible experience for you,” a statement on2K‘s Twitter account read....

Microsoft has officially confirmed the Xbox Game Pass family plan it’s been testing for the past month. Asuncovered via a leaked imagea few days ago, the new subscription tier is calledXboxGame Pass Friends & Family. At the moment, it’s still only available to players in Ireland and Colombia, but now it’s available to all players in those countries instead of just those who are part of the Xbox Insider programme....

This week’s free Epic Games Store title has been announced. Confirming an earlier leak, Giants Software’s Farming Simulator 22 is nowfree to claimonEpic’sPCmarketplace until May 30 at 8am PST / 11am ET / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST. Farming Simulator 2022 is normally priced at $29.99 / £17.99 on theEpic Games Store. Update24th May 2024 / 9:56 am Chivalry 2 will reportedly bethe next free Epic Games Store title, from May 30 until June 6....

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 makes direct reference to Tony Hawk’s Underground by featuring the game’s villain, Eric Sparrow. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 releases in July, bringing back classic levels and skaters from two of the most beloved games in the franchise. However, it’s now been discovered that the game features a cameo from the villain of another beloved skating game. In the new Waterpark level, one of the game’s goals asks you to “get back at Eric Sparrow,” the antagonist from Tony Hawk’s Underground....

Fate/Grand Order was the most talked about game on Twitter in 2019, according to the social media platform. In an official blog post, Twittersaidthere were over 1.2 billion tweets about gaming in 2019, up nearly 20% year over year. Fate/Grand Order is a free-to-play mobile RPG published bySony-owned Aniplex. According to analytics firmSensor Tower, it was thesecond highest grossing game in the first half of last year($628 million), behind onlyTencent’s Honour of Kings ($728 million), and had generated over $3 billion in player spending as of March 2019, with 82% of the total coming from Japanese players....