11 years after its original release, Warframe hits mobile this week

Digital Extremes’ popular online action game Warframe is finally coming to mobile. Almost 11 years since its original release, the game will hitiOSon February 20, with anAndroidlaunch planned for a later date. The free-to-play sci-fi shooter has attracted over 70 million players acrossPCand consoles to date, according toDigital Extremes. “More than 10 years ofWarframecontent is now literally at your fingertips in a faithful mobile format you need to experience to believe,” the studiosaid....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Matthew Hickman

Activision has officially recognised the Raven Software QA workers’ union

Activision Blizzard has officially recognised the union established by a group of QA workers at Raven Software. The Game Workers Alliance, which is the first labour union at a major US gaming company, was formed following a vote on May 23. And in a letter toActivision Blizzardstaff shared publicly via the company’s investor relations site on Friday, CEOBobby Koticksaid the publisher will now enter contract talks with representatives for the 27 Raven employees at the Communications Workers of America union....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 244 words · Sheri Everett

After 2.5 years, Cyberpunk 2077’s Steam reviews are now ‘very positive’

Over two and a half years since its disastrous launch, Cyberpunk 2077’s Steam user review rating has been upgraded to “very positive.” At the time of writing, 80% of the 546,249 user reviews for the game are positive, according toValve. CD Projekt Red’s global community director Marcin Momot highlighted the game’s upgraded review status in a Twitter post thanking players for the positive feedback. “Cyberpunk 2077Steamreviews are now sitting at ‘Very Positive’ with 80% of all scores being favourable,” hewrote....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · Betty Miller

Alan Wake Remastered looks set for release in October

A remaster of Remedy’s 2010 thriller Alan Wake has been listed for release on consoles next month. As spotted byTwitter sleuth Wario 64,Alan Wake Remasteredhas been listed at retailer Rakuten Taiwan for release onPS4,PS5andXboxon October 5. Clues thatRemedycould be planning a remaster first appeared in June, when text referring to “Alan Wake Remastered” wasdiscovered on the Epic Games Store database. Alan Wake is an action-adventure game released forXbox 360andPCin 2010....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Christopher Hamilton

Amazon and Target offering ‘Buy 2, save 50% on 1’ on games and other products

Amazon‘s US arm and Target are running ‘Buy 2, save 50% on 1’ promotions on a range of products including video games. When two qualifying products are purchased,Amazonand Target will apply a 50% discount to the cheapest item. Amazon customers canmix and match across different product categoriesincluding video games, toys, books, baby, office and sports goods. When VGC checked on Monday there wereover 100 video game products available in the promotion, includingPlayStation,XboxandNintendo Switchtitles....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Wendy Ball

Analyst suggests a PS VR2 price cut ‘will be needed to avoid a complete disaster’

Sales of Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset have started slowly, according to estimates by a research firm. Bloombergreports that, according to IDC,Sonywill likely have sold around 270,000 units by the end of March. IDC’s vice president of data and analytics Francisco Geronimo told the publication: “I suspect a price cut on the PSVR 2 will be needed to avoid a complete disaster of their new product.” He also explained: “Consumers around the world are facing rising costs of living, rising interest rates and increasing layoffs....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 315 words · Keith Adams

Anime Adventures: Rain Village update patch notes and code

Anime Adventures’ Rain Village update has just gone live. The latest update for the popularRobloxgame adds a new world called Rain Village, as well as new features. This includes a beta matchmaking feature, allowing players to get automatically matched with other players. The new update also comes with a new code, whichyou can find here: Further reading The full patch notes for Anime Adventures’ Rain Village update are as follows:...

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Loretta Mueller

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 raised more than $2.5 million for charity

The latest Games Done Quick event has now ended, raising more than $2.5 million to fight cancer. Awesome Games Done Quick took place between January 5-12, and consisted of more than 130 speedruns. By the time the event ended on Sunday the total amount raised was $2,556,305, with the money going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. As noted onRedditby Thorebane, who keeps track of stats for Games Done Quick, the organisation has now raised more than $54 million for charity since it started 15 years ago, with more than $26 of this going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Brian Garcia

Batman Arkham studio skipping E3 2019

Rocksteady Studios has confirmed it won’t be showing off its “next big project” at E3 this month. Sefton Hill, game director and co-founder at the Batman Arkham studio, confirmed the news via Twitter. “A number of you have asked so we wanted to let you all know up front that@Rocksteadygameswon’t be showing at E3 this year,” Hillwrote. “We’ll be watching as fans but remaining in London, hard at work on our next big project....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 207 words · Carla Walker

BitSummit Day 2 Report: Giving out an award, and discovering a brand new Mega Drive game

After the relative calm ofthe business-only first day, day two at Japan’s leading indie festival is naturally a much busier affair, but far from an ill-tempered one. Despite the larger crowds, everyone was respectful of each other’s space, and there were no gurning influencers leaping in everyone’s way and generally being a bit of a pest. In short, it was about as orderly as you could hope for such a large event to be....

July 31, 2025 · 6 min · 1131 words · Alicia Mendez

Blizzard announces $100 World of Warcraft anniversary box

Blizzard will release World of Warcraft Classic on August 27, ahead of a 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. World of Warcraft Classicwill allow players to relive—or experience for the first time—the early days of Blizzard’s renowned MMO, with an authentic re-creation of the game world at the time of the “Drums of War” update (patch 1.12.0), originally released Jul 10, 2025. Blizzard will be rolling out a series of in-game activities inWorld of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth in celebration of the game’s 15th anniversary, culminating in a 25-player raid that will pit players against iconic bosses from throughout the game’s history....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Stephen Mitchell

Call of Duty Vanguard reveal confirmed for Warzone on August 19

Call of Duty Vanguard will be officially revealed this Thursday, August 19. That’s according to an advert published on thePlayStationStore today (pictured below), which confirms that the game will be shown for the first time viaWarzoneat 10:30am PT / 6:30pm BST. Sledgehammer Gamesstarted officially teasingCall of Duty: Vanguardlast week, whenmultiple content creators received and shared a videofrom the game’s publisher, ahead of its expected reveal this month. UPDATE:Activisionhasofficially announced Call of Duty: Vanguard with a teaser trailerand confirmed plans to reveal the title on August 19 via an in-game Warzone event....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 377 words · Nicole Davenport

Call of Duty Warzone adds One in the Chamber mode this week

Call of Duty Warzone will add a new One in the Chamber game mode this week. Described as a “fun party mode,” the new playlist has players starting the match with a single bullet in a randomly selected weapon. Players can earn another bullet by getting a kill, and every weapon is a one-shot kill. Lives are limited to three and the highest score wins. In addition,Activisionconfirmed in ablog postthat it will be making a new ice-pick melee weapon available via a paid bundle in the game’s store....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 180 words · Dr. Monica Gomez