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Capcom has confirmed that it’s been the victim of a ransomware attack, which has seen up to 350,000 items of personal data stolen from its servers, including the names and addresses of customers and former employees. Confirming a report fromlast week, theResident Evilpublisher said that it had been targeted by the Ragnar Locker hacker group, which it said had sent it a message earlier this month demanding money in exchange for data stolen from its servers....

Capcom will announce a new game in December, listings for a Japanese games expo suggest. According to aGematsutranslation ofCapcom’s Jump Festa 2020 exhibit plans, theResident Evilpublisher will showcase four titles at the event, with two known to be Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection andMonster Hunter World: Iceborne. The recently announced Japanese Devil Mary Cry collection could potentially take up one of the unannounced slots, leaving at least one other unknown....

Cyberpunk 2077’s main campaign will be shorter than The Witcher 3’s story but will make up for it with much higher replayability, CD Projekt Red has reportedly said. According toan attendeeof the developer’s annual community event in Poland, CDPR is yet to measure the length of the game when all encounters and “smaller” side quests are taken into account, but it confirmed that the main story and major side-quests will take less time to complete than Witcher 3’s....

An animated film based on Death Stranding has been announced. The film, which is a co-production betweenKojima Productionsand LA-based animation studio Line Mileage, doesn’t have a release date. The animated feature will be set in theDeath Strandinguniverse, but doesn’t seem to be an adaptation of the original game’s story, according toDeadline. Aaron Guzikowski, who has served as a writer on both Raised by Wolves and Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, is attached to the project....

How do you lower the log near the waterfall in Disney Dreamlight Valley? This is a new problem facing players in the game’s April 2023 update, which adds a new Lion King realm. In this new area, you meet Nala, who wants you to help her find Simba. At one point, however, you see a log high up on a cliff and are asked to knock it down. This guide will tell you exactly how to do it – and don’t worry, it’s easier than you think....

Eidos-Montréal is laying off 75 staff, saying it’s unable to move them to other projects. TheEmbracer-owned studio posted a statement on its LinkedIn page, saying it had to let the staff go because one of its ‘mandates’ was ending. “Today, we informed our studio staff that we are going to let go up to 75 valuable members, as one of our mandates is coming to an end,” the statement reads....

Embracer Group has said Payday 3’s launch failed to meet its expectations. Major server issues, which developerStarbreezeblamed on problems with external matchmaking software, marred the co-op game’s late September release, while fans were also left frustrated by an extended wait for the title’s first update, which was finally released this month. DuringEmbracer’s second quarter earnings Q&A on Thursday, CEO Lars Wingefors said Payday 3 had come in “a bit weaker than expected”....

According toKotaku, the seven-minute commercial above was broadcast in Japan over the weekend. It features a young businessman who has never played the original game but becomes increasingly interested in trying the remake after learning about it through stories told by his wife and his superiors at work, eventually leading to him buying aPS4console. Square Enixhas alsoreleaseda 13-minute version of the advert. Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is set torelease exclusively for PS4 on July 12, 2025, wonBest of Show in the Game Critics Awards at E3in June....

Electronic Arts has revealed the first details on its next Battlefield game, which is currently in production at multiple internal studios. RespawnandInfinity Wardco-founderVince Zampella, who is now the overseer of the Battlefield franchise, toldIGNthat the series is returning to a modern setting with the upcoming title. The first piece of concept art for the game, which is viewable above, points to the inclusion of land, sea and air combat....

In our latest First Play video, we take a look at Arcade Archives: Air Combat 22. This is the second game in the Arcade Archives 2 series from retro specialist Hamster Corporation. Hamster, which has been releasing retro arcade games under its Arcade Archives series for the past decade, launched its new Arcade Archives 2 series last month, starting withthe first ever home re-release of the original arcade version of Ridge Racer....

A former Rockstar developer claims the company made him remove recently posted information about cancelled projects. Former technical director Obbe Vermeij, who spent 14 years withRockstar Northbefore leaving in 2009, recentlyshared alleged details on abandoned Rockstar games, including its cancelledPlayStationspy game Agent. However, in a new post onhis blog, Vermeij saysRockstarcontacted him and told him to remove the posts. “Today (July 25, 2025) I got an email from Rockstar North,” Vermeij wrote....

Forza Horizon 5 will soon be the first major game to include an optional sign language interpreter for cut-scenes. In a blog post on the officialXboxWire news feed,Playground Gamescreative directorMike Brownexplained how the team had been working with both Xbox and the disability community to include a wide range of accessibility features in the game. Most of these accessibility options will be available at launch, and “coming soon” will be the ability to activate a picture-in-picture display of a sign language interpreter....

US games retailer GameStop has reportedly canceled all in-store preorders of Resident Evil 4’s collector’s edition. First highlighted by Twitter user Wario64, GameStop employees reportedly received a memo informing them that physical stores would not be receiving the collector’s editions and that orders were to be canceled, or exchanges offered. Online orders are reportedly unaffected by this issue. GameStop is yet to comment. Resident Evil 4 Remake Guides: Clockwork Castellans|Resident Evil 4 merchant requests|Resident Evil 4 gold egg|Resident Evil 4 gigantic fish...