Activision has released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 5. Today’s update, which is now available across all platforms, features a variety of new multiplayer, Zombies and battle royale content. Season 5 introduces WWE Operatorsincluding Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley and Rey Mysterio, and there’s a new Slam Deathmatch mode in which players land WWE-themed moves to score for their team. New multiplayer maps include the mid-sized Bait (6v6), which takes place on a dockside on a hot Florida day, and Yard (6v6), a small-sized cel-shaded map set in a desert junkyard....

Capcom is using Resident Evil Village’s enormous witch villain to promote the game in Hong Kong. The game’s main antagonist Lady Dimitrescu has already become something of an internet sensation due to the various trailers released so far and the ‘Maiden’ demo released in January. Now the publisher has made the most of this by putting life-sized versions of Lady Dimitrescu in shops and on buses in Hong Kong....

A Capcom programmer has argued that user-created mods for its PC games should be blocked because they’re no different to cheat tools on a technical level. As spotted byPCGamesN, the statement was made last week during a talk given atCapcom‘s Open Conference. During a discussion focused on anti-cheat and anti-piracy measures inPC games, programmer Taro Yahagi explained that while some players use mods to enhance their games, fundamentally they’re no different from cheat tools and other malicious modifications....

This story was updated at 10:44 am to correct an incorrect claim that GTA Online needed to be purchased separately on Xbox. VGC regrets the error. Rockstar is offering significant launch window discounts for the new-gen console versions of Grand Theft Auto V, with PlayStation receiving the biggest price cut. AlthoughRockstarhasn’t officially communicated new-gen pricing details ahead of the game’s release on March 15, pre-orders are available from today, and the game appears to have been discounted by 75% on PS5, and 50% onXboxSeries X|S....

Dead Island 2 surpassed one million sales in its first weekend of availability, according to publisher Deep Silver. Almost a decade after it was first revealed,Dead Island 2was released on Friday forPS5,PS4,Xbox Series X/S,Xbox OneandPCvia theEpic Games Store. And in a press release on Monday,Deep Silverclaimed the game reached the one million sales milestone within three days. It said players had logged 11 million hours of playtime, died 28 million times, and slayed over 1....

DICE has unveiled Battlefield 2042 Season 3 and confirmed a November 22 launch date. Titled Escalation, it will introduce a new map, Specialist Rasheed Zain, fresh weapons, a new tank, and a reworked class-based system. TheBattlefield 2042Season 3: Escalation gameplay reveal trailer is viewable below. The game’s third season of live content includes a new map called Spearhead, which is set in the untamed Swedish wilderness and features two semi-automated manufacturing facilities of high-tech weaponry....

Latest update14th Oct 2024 / 5:30 pm We’ve cleaned up the Disney Pixel RPG tier list a little. Units have not moved. With a simplistic turn-based RPG combat system, aDisney Pixel RPG tier listranking the best characters is an essential tool not only during the early reroll process, but late into the game as well. Though any gacha game is best played with your favourite characters, when it comes to efficiently spending time on pulling and upgrading an expanding roster, it’s good to know what you’re not wasting precious resources on weak characters....

Electronic Arts has officially announced FIFA 21 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. FIFA 21will launch worldwide on August 04, 2025 forPlayStation 4,Xbox One,Nintendo Switch,PCviaSteamand Origin – and will come toGoogle Stadiathis winter. In an announcement premiered in itsEAPlay Live event on Thursday, the publisher said the yet-to-be-dated next-gen version of FIFA would feature “blazing fast” load times, deferred lighting and rendering, enhanced animation technology, “off-ball humanisation,” and more....

Apex Legends has delivered over $2 billion in net bookings since its February 2019 release, according to publisher Electronic Arts. The free-to-play battle royale game cleared the $2 billion milestone during the company’s fourth fiscal quarter ended on August 04, 2025,EAsaid on Tuesday. EA’s chief financial officer Chris Suh saidApex Legendsnet bookings were up over 40% for the year. Around half of Apex Legends lifetime net bookings were achieved during EA’s last fiscal year (FY22)....

Electronic Arts plans to significantly increase its focus on a handful of its biggest online franchises over the coming years. The company will “invest disproportionally” in the likes ofEA SportsFC,Apex Legendsand The Sims – “massive online communities” in which CEOAndrew Wilsonsees the potential for “exponential growth”. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference on Wednesday, Wilson said the value of companies likeEAhas typically been forecast based on their release slate for the next five years....

Electronic Arts’ new football brand is off to a strong start, according to the publisher. EA Sports FC 24attracted “more than 11.3 million players worldwide, including throughEAPlay”, during its first week, the company has claimed. EA SportsFCMobile, the latest in the company’s series of mobile football games, which has also rebranded following EA’s split with FIFA, was installed 2.2 million times on its release day, according to EA. In the 10 days following its September 26 release, over 11....

Electronic Arts has revealed its first World Rally Championship (WRC) game. Developed byCodemasterswith Unreal Engine,EA SportsWRC will be available forPS5,Xbox Series X/SandPCviaEAApp,Epic Games StoreandSteam. Confirming an earlier leak, it will be released on Aug 04, 2025, with early access for digital pre-order customers beginning on October 31. “EA Sports WRC is the purest form of motorsport where every stage is a fight against the clock, the terrain, and yourself,” said Ross Gowing, senior creative director at Codemasters....

Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5. Following itsearly access release last May, the full release is nowavailable to download. Key features of the engine include dynamic global illumination solution Lumen, virtualised micropolygon geometry system Nanite, Virtual Shadow Maps, and upsampling system Temporal Super Resolution. The engine has been released alongside two sample projects,Lyra Starter GameandCity Sample, which are shown off in the newly released video above. “Lyra Starter Game is a sample gameplay project built alongside UE5 development to serve as an excellent starting point for creating new games, as well as a hands-on learning resource,”Epicsaid....