A new Xbox controller themed after Doom: The Dark Ages is reportedly launching in April. The controller, which will be green and grey, with orange accents and featuring insignias from the game, will reportedly launch a month before the game is set to release, with pre-orders reportedly opening as soon as today. According toDealabs, the controller will be available to customers early via theMicrosoftStore, before being sold more widely....

Activision has confirmed that all its core studios are now working on the Call of Duty franchise. The publisherrevealed the latest premium entry in the blockbuster series,Call of Duty: Vanguard, on Thursday, when it said eight of its 10 core studios are contributing to the upcoming game or the free-to-playWarzone. Development of Vanguard is led bySledgehammer Games, withTreyarchhandling Zombies and Raven leading Warzone. Additional development support across the two games is coming fromBeenox, Demonware,High Moon Studios,ActivisionShanghai, andToys for Bob....

Alan Wake 2 will receive a New Game Plus mode in a post-launch update. DeveloperRemedyconfirmed plans for the mode on Wednesday ahead of the game’s release later this week. The sequel’s New Game Plus mode will enable players to retain all unlocked weapons and upgrades. It will also introduce a new Nightmare difficulty level and a “new alternative narrative, including new Manuscript pages and new video content”. Remedysaidthe update’s “exact release timing [is] still TBD....

Build a Rocket Boy, the studio founded by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, has expanded to over 130 people and includes several former GTA developers among its staff, VGC analysis has revealed. Benzies, who was one of the most influential figures behind the GTA series, formed the Edinburgh and Budapest-based games studio in 2017 andrecently raised $42m in fundingfrom investors including Netease. Benzies has said the company’s first game, open-world titleEverywhere, will be unlike anything he’s done before....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons could be set to expand with the addition of a coffee shop and art gallery. In the past week New Horizons players have encountered NPC dialogue referencing the two potential museum expansions, which matches info uncovered via adatamine of the game’s code. The Roost coffee shop appears in several previous Animal Crossing instalments. The shop is typically run by character Brewster, who will sell players coffee and eventually allow them to work in the shop to earn special rewards....

The growing list ofAnime Vanguards exclusive and secret unitsare often the cream of the crop. But obtaining them can be difficult if you don’t know where to start. While it’s entirely possible to run through the game’s hardest content with its copious Mythic and Legendary characters, Exclusive and Secret units continue to crush it. They’re great long-term investments you can get your hands on them. And we can help—though please note that some of the methods are unconfirmed....

Resident Evil 5 has been classified for Xbox Series X/S by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB). With a focus on co-op action gameplay rather than the franchise’s traditional survival horror elements,Resident Evil5 was originally released forPS3,Xbox 360andPCin 2009. It was rereleased forPS4andXbox Onein 2016, before making its way toNintendo Switchin 2019. The game’s new ESRBratingwill fuel speculation that another remaster is in the works. Last month, the ESRB alsoclassified Resident Evil 6 for Xbox Series X/S, suggesting both titles could be coming to current-gen consoles soon....

Bandai Namco has changed its logo again, before it even got a chance to start using its previously announced one. The publisherrevealed in October 2021that it was ditching the previous yellow, orange and redBandai Namcologo, which had originally been designed to represent the fusion of Bandai and Namco when the two companies merged back in 2005. The October announcement stated that the new logo would feature the words Bandai Namcoinside a magenta speech bubble, and that it would come into use starting in April 2022....

DICE will reveal Battlefield V’s War in the Pacific season of content on Wednesday. Update, October 23:Battlefield VChapter 5:War in the Pacific will launch on October 31, introducing new maps, weapons, vehicles and more. Original story continues:It was previously announced thatChapter 5: War in the Pacific would introducethree new maps, including a modern take on Iwo Jima, and at least seven fresh weapons and gadgets before the end of the year....

Bungie has failed to have a copyright lawsuit thrown out, because it’s incapable of presenting the game content being challenged now that it’s been ‘vaulted’. Writer Matthew Kelsey Martineausued Bungie last yearfor copyright infringement, alleging thatDestiny2’s Red Legion was taken directly from his writings on WordPress four years before the game was released. Bungiefiled a motion to have the case dismissed, stating that the examples cited in Martineau’s suit are demonstrably different in Destiny 2 than in his work, but the ‘demonstrably’ part has become an issue for the studio....

Activision has revealed a new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer mode called Gunfight, ahead of a full online reveal set to take place on Thursday, August 1. As shown in the video above and the screens below, Gunfight features 2v2 action across a series of small, confined maps that are custom-built for the mode. Activisiondescribes Gunfights as “multi-round cage matches” in which players have the same loadout, which switches every two rounds....

Veteran Call of Duty: Black Ops designer David Vonderhaar has established a new “AAA game studio” with NetEase. Announced on Tuesday, BulletFarm is described as a “remote-first” company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Vonderhaar, who worked on a total of eight Call of Duty instalments starting with the original game in 2003,announced his departure from Treyarch last summer. He was best known for directing the multiplayer modes of nearly all the studio’s CoD entries....

Several classic Nintendo games by Rare have been released for Nintendo Switch Online. Announced during aNintendo Direct: Partner Showcase on Wednesday, the games are RC Pro-AM (NES), Snake Rattle ‘n’ Roll (NES), Killer Instinct (SNES), Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES), and Blast Corps (N64). NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour games are available as part of the standardSwitchOnline subscription, which costs £3.49/€3.99/$3.99 for a one-month membership, £6.99/€7.99/$7.99 for a three-month membership, and £17....