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A new report has revealed that Call of Duty Black Ops 7's campaign will end and then immediately put players into a 32-player multiplayer experience, marking a first for the franchise.

The report from Insider Gaming cites sources that have requested to remain anonymous as they aren't approved to talk about the game. According to the report, Black Ops 7 will feature 12 campaign missions, and the 12th and final mission will be on the "Avalon" map, a map that was originally planned as a Battle Royale experience. The final mission reportedly sounds like an extraction shooter that requires players to complete objectives and extract.

Details on what those objectives are weren't mentioned, but the sources did describe the mission as "hardcore" with players only having one attempt as a group. If the squad is all killed, all progress for the character will be lost. If true, this will be the first time the campaign and multiplayer in Call of Duty will be merged together, with the report saying it will be a fully-fledged 32-player multiplayer experience.

Sometimes you want to keep the nostalgia of an old console, but want that console to be as fast as modern technology. Well, with a little bit of time on your hands and enough persistence, you too can build a PC inside an Xbox 360 shell.

The above image is of a PC built within an Xbox 360 shell, and the system is nothing to roll your eyes at either as it features an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, a GIGABYTE RTX 4060 Low Profile, 32GB of TeamGroup T-Create DDR5-6000 RAM, a 250W PSU, a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD, and a cheap WiFi card from Amazon that also features Bluetooth. So, yes, it is possible to build a PC within the corpse of a dead console. But does it actually run games?

According to the builders, yes, it does, and quite competently as well, as the system has been heavily optimized with each of the parts being placed in specific locations for increased airflow, which, according to the builders, has maintained temperatures at optimal levels for stable performance. Anyone who is into PC parts would be raising an eyebrow at the PSU. Only 250W? For an RTX 4060 and 7800X3D? Not to mention the rest of the components within the system? Surely it's not possible? Right? Wrong.

The entire gaming market is eagerly awaiting the pricing of Grand Theft Auto VI by Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive. Recently, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick commented on the pricing and who will reveal it.

In a recent interview with Variety, the Take-Two CEO was directly asked about the pricing surrounding GTA 6, with the Take-Two CEO responding by saying, "So now that announcement will come from Rockstar in due time. Our goal always is to deliver more value than what we charge, so we've had variable pricing at the company forever."

In a roundabout way, Zelnick is saying that if Rockstar believes it has provided much more value than the standard $70 premium price tag for a AAA game, there is a chance it will up the price. It really comes down to how much Take-Two and Rockstar believe gamers are getting value-wise from the game.

The second open beta weekend for Battlefield 6 has officially gone live, and in a matter of hours, hundreds of thousands of players have flocked to the game.

In the span of just six hours, more than 300,000 players rushed to jump into the action in Battlefield 6, with SteamDB numbers indicating there are 328,197 players in-game right now. For comparison, the first open beta weekend that ended 5 days ago peaked on Steam at 521,079 players, which is more than Call of Duty's highest concurrent player count on Steam.

It's still too early to say if the momentum will carry over from the first open beta weekend to push concurrent player counts above the 521,079 player record. As for the open beta weekend two, EA and DICE have thrown in a new map and game modes for players to enjoy, with bug fixes and a bunch of miscellaneous improvements. The second open beta weekend will run from August 14 to August 17, and EA has set the goal for players to cause $1 trillion worth of destruction during the beta period.

The former boss of Blizzard has said that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and that the clear winner here is all FPS gamers because of it.

Mike Ybarra is the former CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, posting his thoughts about Battlefield 6 and its impact on Activision-Blizzard's biggest FPS franchise: Call of Duty and its upcoming Black Ops 7 title. He said: "Battlefield will boot stomp CoD this year. But the real win here is CoD won't be lazy anymore, and we'll all get better FPS games for it".

Battlefield 6 has had an explosive entry onto the scene in beta form, racking up more players during its open beta weekend last weekend than Call of Duty with the BF6 Open Beta pulling 512,000+ players on Steam beating out COD's all-time player record.

PUBG is ending support on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 13, Krafton today announced.

One of the biggest live service games is leaving last-gen consoles behind so it can continue to grow on Gen 9 systems. Krafton has made the decision to discontinue PUBG on PS4 and Xbox One, saying that this decision will deliver a "more stable gameplay environment." The teams want to streamline content delivery on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and both Sony and Microsoft are already working on next-generation console hardware. That's a lot of technical debt to carry forward, so Krafton shed the weight well after gen 9's introduction in 2020.

PUBG players on PS4 will need to re-download the game to play on PS5, whereas Xbox One players will receive the Xbox Series X/S version automatically via Smart Delivery.

Borderlands 4 has 30x more guns than its predecessor, making it a veritable guntopia of carnage.

In an interesting development, Epic Games of all places was the first to announce how many guns there will be in Borderlands 4. Epic recently interviewed Gearbox about Borderlands 4, and based on that feature, we know that the game will have 30 billion guns.

Yes, really. The new Borderlands will have 30 billion different gun permutations across a dozen or so weapon brands. That's 30x more than the 1 billion+ guns that Borderlands 3 had. Gearbox is amping up their procedural generation tech with Borderlands 4 to unlock an incredible level of customization, with enough statistical combinations to appease an algebra teacher.

Grounded 2 was mostly developed by partner studio Eidos Montreal while Obsidian worked on other various projects including The Outer Worlds 2.

Shortly before Grounded 2 was released, it was revealed that beleaguered Tomb Raider developer Eidos Montreal would be helping Obsidian make the new Grounded sequel. It turns out that Eidos had heavy involvement in the project to the degree where Obsidian was more of a collaborator.

In a recent interview with Polygon, Obsidian reveals how important Eidos Montreal was for Grounded 2's development. According to the interview, the "vast majority" of creatives who worked on the game were from Eidos.

Remedy currently has two games in full-scale production, but a mysterious unannounced third game is on the fringes.

Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Control developer Remedy Entertainment has announced their Q2'25 earnings report, showing current results and future plans. Remedy made 16.9 million euros in Q2, up 63% from last year. Despite the jump, Remedy's latest game, a three-player co-op shooter called FBC Firebreak, was a commercial disappointment at launch.

Remedy's report highlights what's on the horizon, confirming both Control 2 and the Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes are in full-scale production at the company. There's another enigmatic title in the pipeline, though; the presentation confirmed another game that Remedy plans to develop and self-publish.

PUBG: Battlegrounds is officially moving to current-gen consoles with the developer announcing its ending support for previous consoles. Goodbye, Xbox One and the PS4. Hello, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.

Notably, the title that was pivotal in kicking off the Battle Royale genre of games is currently available on PS5 and the Xbox Series consoles, but it's running as a PS4/Xbox One game. The transition will begin on November 13, with the developer announcing that PUBG: Battlegrounds "will be supported only on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S." According to the announcement, the transition is necessary and will provide players with an upgraded experience with more stable gameplay, improved visuals, and a reduction in crashes.

Following the live server maintenance on November 13, PUBG will only be available on current-gen consoles, and it will no longer be downloadable on the previous-gen consoles. For those looking to make the transition to keep playing PUBG, you will be glad to know that all items and account data will be securely preserved. Players will be able to log into their account on the latest console generation and continue playing right where they left off.

Remedy's Control franchise has broken 5 million sales across two console generations in the last five years, the Finnish developer has announced.

Control was our favorite game of 2019 and served as a creative melding of The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and Max Payne. Remedy is working on a sequel, but not much info has been revealed yet, and the game hasn't been formally showcased--Control 2 is still very much a work in progress.

In a recent Q2'25 earnings update, Remedy shares that Control has hit 5 million sales on all platforms. That's no small feat for a new IP published by a smaller house like 505 Games. Remedy has since acquired full publishing and IP rights to the Control franchise, and plans to self-publish the sequel.

Resident Evil insider Dusk Golem has taken to X to share a slew of new details regarding the story in Resident Evil Requiem, the latest Resident Evil game Capcom is teeing up for a gameplay unveiling at Gamescom next week.

Dusk Golem previously revealed several details regarding the title, specifically to do with its innovation and how Capcom has separated Requiem from previous titles in the franchise. Now, Dusk Golem has provided a slew of details regarding the game's story, saying Requiem is going to be the last numbered Resident Evil game, and that Resident Evil 9 will be both a conclusion chapter and a new beginning for the franchise. Additionally, it will be the end of "everything to do with Umbrella, Raccoon City, its legacy & long history."

Furthermore, Requiem will tie up the events throughout Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 0 to make way for new characters and stories in the franchise. By having Requiem be the conclusion to these stories, Capcom will no longer be handcuffed to the series' history, which includes developing game elements related to Umbrella, Raccoon City, and other well-known locations. One significant detail the leaker revealed was that the giant monster woman is Grace's mother, Alyssa, and that this detail will be unveiled at the Gamescom reveal.

One of the few criticisms of the first Battlefield 6 open beta weekend was the three maps that were available were all relatively small, which results in the tempo of the gameplay being quite high.

For those who aren't familiar with gamer-speak, tempo is commonly referred to in games as the pace or the momentum of play, specifically how quickly events, actions, or decisions happen and how much control players have over that pace. Smaller maps that cram 64 players onto the field of Battlefield result in an extremely high-tempo environment where players are constantly spawning, engaging with enemies, dying, and then respawning again.

For long-time Battlefield fans that enjoyed the large scope of maps found in previous games in the franchise, this tempo is far too high. Many of these players enjoy larger maps where they are alive for much longer periods of time. If you are one of those players, you will be glad to know that Battlefield 6 does feature larger maps, as a developer for the game has confirmed their existence, while also providing an explanation as to why they weren't present in the first open beta weekend.

The first open beta weekend for Battlefield 6 has wrapped up, and EA is disappointed in gamers for not causing as much property damage as it would have hoped - only $70 billion worth.

While EA is celebrating the monumental launch of the Battlefield 6 open beta, attracting more than 500,000 players on Steam, the developer is offering a new community reward. Players who increase property damage during the next open beta weekend can help reach the $1 trillion goal. That reward is the exclusive Community Destruction Skin for the M/60.

So, how can the community help reach the goal of $1 trillion? Players must record a video of the in-game destruction they caused, upload it to social media, and use the hashtag #BF6Receipts.

Arrowhead Studios, the developers behind Helldivers 2, PlayStation's largest live-service game, have seemingly teased the addition of Xbox's Halo, making an appearance with two notes of an iconic soundtrack.

A new trailer posted to the official Helldivers 2 YouTube account celebrates the launch of Helldivers 2 on Xbox consoles on August 26, but at the end of the trailer is saxophone music that is undoubtedly going to cause the hairs on the back of Halo fans' necks to stand up. While the trailer doesn't directly mention a Halo crossover to Helldivers 2, the music that is heard at the end of the trailer is extremely similar, some would say identical to the Halo 3 ODST soundtrack.

The iconic soundtrack being heard at the end of the trailer implies there will be some kind of crossover event, probably around the launch of Helldivers 2 on Xbox consoles. It isn't accidental that we get a teaser for Halo coming to Helldivers 2 right before Helldivers 2 launches on Xbox consoles. The big question now is, will Master Chief, or whatever the crossover Halo content is, be playable on the PlayStation version of the game?

Crimson Desert, a sprawling open world RPG that many gamers are keenly looking forward to, has officially been delayed - and will no longer arrive this year.

At the end of last year, the release window was announced as late 2025 (see the trailer above), but as Gematsu reports, we've been told that the launch date has been pushed back to Q1 2026.

The disappointing news was shared as part of an earnings call, with a statement provided by Pearl Abyss before the usual Q&A session (that followed the fiscal results).

Ahead of the official gameplay unveiling at Gamescom next week, details regarding Resident Evil: Requiem have surfaced online, with a series of posts revealing what players can expect to be present in the upcoming title.

According to prominent Resident Evil leaker Dusk Golem, Requiem will feature new lighting and shadow engines that will be accompanied by a new AI system that will react and behave uniquely in real-time. Moreover, there are more innovations, such as being able to switch between first and third-person camera angles in real time, and the hair engine from Pragmata.

Furthermore, Dusk Golem writes there has been an effort to make Raccoon City an open-level designed environment that can also support vehicles to travel around in, along with innovations in combat, which is reportedly similar to how combat is in The Last of Us games. As with all leaks, take the information with a healthy amount of skepticism, as it hasn't been confirmed and is subject to change. The good news is we won't have to wait long until the confirmation as Resident Evil: Requiem is going to be unveiled at Gamescom next week.

The new OneXPlayer Super X gaming tablet has been unveiled, with the AMD Strix Halo APU-powered ASUS ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet competitor packing some serious hardware inside.

OneNetbook announced its new gaming tablet is powered by AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with its 16 cores and 32 threads with 120W of power at the ready, an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU that the company says provides RTX 4060 Ti and beyond gaming power, and an OLED display.

The new OneXPlayer Super X gaming tablet features a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display with a built-in kickstand and support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) technology. The company looks to be using a CNC-milled aluminum chassis that's 12.5mm thick, with the gaming slate packing up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with a 83.5 Wh battery.

The recent Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced upgrade and remaster updated the iconic title's visuals with ray-traced ambient occlusion, global illumination lighting, shadows, and reflections. GTA 5 is still one of the most played games on PC, so it's fantastic to see it enhanced with detailed in-game ray-tracing.

This week, it's getting another upgrade in the form of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and Frame Generation support for GeForce RTX 50 Series and RTX 40 Series owners. DLSS 4 also includes NVIDIA's game-changing Transformer model for DLSS Super Resolution, so this is a big win for all GeForce RTX owners, including those rocking a GeForce RTX 3060.

With the game maxed out at 4K, with all ray-tracing effects enabled, DLSS Super Resolution set to Performance, and Multi Frame Generation turned on, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced achieves an impressive 485 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5090, 350 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5080, and 240 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5070.

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console is shaping up to be a monster 4K 120FPS system thanks to AMD semi-custom chips, with ray tracing performance thanks to RDNA 5 GPU cores in the PS6, could be better than the RTX 5080, and closer to the RTX 5090.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, talks about the ray tracing (RT) performance of the next-gen PlayStation 6 console, and its new codename "Orion" semi-custom SoC from AMD. The PS6 will feature next-generation RDNA 5 GPU cores, with heavy uplifts in rasterization and ray tracing over the standard PS5 and its RDNA 2-based GPU.

The new PS5 Pro likely has RDNA 4-powered RT cores and some other RDNA 4-based optimizations and tweaks inside, with its superior RT performance over the standard PS5, but the next-gen PS6 is going to blow them both out of the water with a possible 5-10x in RT performance over the base PS5.