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Tactical shooter Ready or Not is one of the fastest-selling indies of the year with millions of copies sold in less than a month.

VOID Interactive's SWAT FPS simulator Ready or Not has amassed quite a following since it launched on consoles. The game released earlier this month, and has already sold more than 2 million copies on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S--huge numbers for any indie game studio, especially VOID Interactive.

New sales data also reveals that Ready or Not is currently selling more copies than Call of Duty on consoles. At the time of writing, Ready or Not was the #2 best-seller on the PS Store, compared to Call of Duty's #6.

The multiplayer reveal for Battlefield 6 is only a few days away, and we have already begun hearing about the rumored Battle Royale mode, which is slated to be a free-to-play feature of the upcoming game.

According to leaker temporyal, Battlefield Labs has created the deadliest Battle Royale mode out of any Battle Royale game, and this entirely due to the damage of the enclosing circle. The leaker took to X to share an image of the recreated Battle Royale map in Battlefield 6, with the leaker writing the location appears to be called "Lyndon Beach," which features all of the points of interest and much more.

Additionally, temporal revealed the circle in the mode will be "fatal" to players that enter it, and this circle, or ring, is called NXC. This leak was backed up by another leaker, ModernWarzone, who wrote that Battlefield 6 will feature "one of the most deadly and dangerous collapsing circles in Battle Royale history." Moreover, players that are standing within 10 meters of the NXC ring will begin to burn, and if they touch it they will be instantly eliminated.

Battlefield Labs is only a day away from officially revealing the multiplayer for Battlefield 6, and ahead of the reveal, leaks are surfacing online showcasing the level of destruction players will be getting in the upcoming title.

If you are a fan of jumping in a tank and blowing up entire buildings, you will be pleased to know you can do that very thing in Battlefield 6, as a new gameplay video has leaked onto X from an early playtest of the multiplayer. The short 23-second video shows a player operating a tank in the pre-alpha of Battlefield 6, jumping into the first-person view, and firing blasts at a nearby building. The building takes a few blasts from the tank, then its entire side crumbles, revealing the skeleton of the building.

With Battlefield 6 being tested by the public, it has experienced numerous leaks leading up to the official unveiling, with the most recent being a full list of all the multiplayer and remastered maps, along with the campaign missions. Moreover, Battlefield 6's release date was semi-confirmed by its own website listing, which stated when pre-orders for the title would end, which is typically the day the game releases. If you are interested in any of those stories, check them out below.

The same group that discovered the release date for Battlefield 6 has now published more leaked information on the upcoming title, revealing the list of multiplayer and remastered maps, along with campaign missions.,

The leak was published by the Telegram group 1BF and states there will be 11 multiplayer maps in Battlefield 6, along with 4 remastered maps, and nine campaign missions/maps. The full list of each collection of maps can be found below. Notably, it should be stated that with all leaks, take them with a healthy amount of skepticism until the news has been officially confirmed.

As for official confirmations regarding Battlefield 6, Battlefield Labs is scheduled to officially unveil the multiplayer for the title on July 31st. We will presumably get a look at some of the multiplayer maps mentioned on the below list, perhaps even a confirmation on how many maps there will be in total.

Guerrilla Games' Horizon franchise has surpassed 38 million sales worldwide across PS4, PS5, and PC, Sony has revealed.

Sony is suing Tencent for copyright infringement, alleging that Tencent's new game Light of Motiram infringes on Sony's Horizon franchise. In that lawsuit, Sony gives an update on total sales for the Horizon series, which currently sit at 38 million.

To date, there have been four Horizon games: two mainline games, Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, both of which had expansions; one VR game called Call of the Mountain for the PSVR2; and the newer Lego Horizon Adventures spin-off. All of these games have released on PC, and Horizon Adventures launched on Nintendo Switch.

Grounded 2 is seeing huge reception on Steam and has topped Valve's store as the number 1 best-seller.

Grounded 2 hasn't even released yet and it's already breaking sales milestones. Obsidian just launched their survival sequel into early access today where it's making waves on Steam. According to Steam Charts, there are actually two versions of Grounded 2 that are taking up the top spots on Steam.

The base game is sitting at #1, and the Founder's Edition is at #2. What surprised me the most, however, was the Founder's Pack upgrade was actually at #5. This means Grounded 2 has taken up 3 of the top best-selling spots on Steam (but only two of these are actual versions of the game).

Tencent wanted to make a Horizon game, but Sony denied them...twice. Tencent went ahead and made their own game, and it's so close to the Horizon series that Sony is now suing Tencent for copyright infringement.

The 48-page complaint tells an interesting story about Tencent's desire to make a Horizon game and how Sony denied Tencent's offers on two separate occasions.

According to the lawsuit, Tencent wanted to make a mobile game based on the Horizon franchise. Tencent's Aurora Studios put together a pitch with the tagline "expanding the Horizon," aiming for a live service mobile title. Sony refused. Tencent went ahead with Light of Motiram, a game with quite stark visual similarities to Horizon. When Sony learned about Motiram, they approached Tencent and tried to get things ironed out behind the scenes. When that didn't work, Sony sued Tencent.

Sony is suing Tencent for the Chinese company's new game Light of Motiram, alleging that Tencent essentially copied the Horizon franchise.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is suing Tencent for copyright infringement. The 48-page complaint alleges that Tencent's new game Light of Motiram bears a striking resemblance to Sony's trademarked and copyrighted Horizon video game franchise.

Sony has made three claims for relief across seven instances of harm, and seeks to have a judge force Tencent to admit its wrongdoing, to prevent Tencent from continuing this alleged copyright infringement, up to $150,000 per each work in the Horizon franchise that was infringed, to destroy all promotional materials of the infringing content, costs and expenses, and damages.

Reliable leaker billbil-kun, who recently predicted the announcement of Battlefield 6 has leaked the release date of the Xbox ROG Ally and Ally X, along with the respective prices.

According to billbil-kun, ASUS's upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X and Ally will open for pre-orders on August 20, 2025, and will be priced at €899 (Ally X) and €599 (Ally). These prices line up with ASUS's accidental leak that happened earlier this month when the company uploaded prices to the ASUS Store listing the consoles for the aforementioned prices. Now, the prices don't directly convert straight to USD, but it's likely both consoles will be priced anywhere between $599 and $899 in the US.

The leaker also says that both handhelds will be available at Gamescom 2025, located in Cologne, Germany, which coincides with Xbox's official schedule that was published on their blog yesterday. According to the blog, Xbox has a live broadcast scheduled for 3 PM (French Time) on August 20, with a segment dedicated to the Xbox Ally.

Roblox CEO David Baszucki said during a recent podcast that Roblox is more than just a game, it's a "wellness platform" that players who are lonely and disconnected from the world can find other people on Roblox. By extension, Baszucki said that "some day we'll have dating on Roblox".

40% of Roblox's player base consists of users under the age of 13, and to further illustrate how the title has attracted a large portion of children, it has faced allegation in the past for being a platform used to groom minors. For example, one pedophile groomed, abducted and sexually assaulted one 15-year-old girl through Roblox.

Now, the context of which Baszucki was suggesting Roblox eventually integrating a dating feature is the CEO discussing the wider impact of Roblox as a platform, where he said that Roblox is more than a gaming platform it's a "wellness platform" where players disconnected in real-life can find other disconnected players.

Monster Hunter Wilds is getting its endgame expansion a good deal more swiftly than anticipated - in fact, it's happening in a couple of weeks.

As announced on X (see the above post, which PC Gamer highlighted), the endgame work was going to be part of 'Title Update 3' debuting in late September going by Capcom's timeline.

However, as you can see, this is now arriving as part of the v1.021 update, on August 13. Originally, that update was supposed to be deployed early in August, so it's being shifted to mid-August to allow for some final polishing to be done to the endgame expansion.

WB Games is currently going through restructuring after some absolute flops of releases, which include titles such as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, MultiVersus, and Harry Potter Quidditch Champions. These titles, and a myriad of other problems, resulted in the publisher losing as much as $300 million in 2024, with $200 million of that $300 million being attributed to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

With all of those titles being live-service games, one would think that WB Games would give the genre a breather and concentrate on honing the scope of their games to make consistent, profitable single-player titles. However, that doesn't appear to be the case, as WB Games is currently looking for an executive producer for an unannounced AAA live-service game based on DC Comics.

Notably, this listing comes after WB Games closed Middle-earth Shadow of War/Mordor studio Monolith Productions, which was working on a Wonder Woman game using the famed Nemesis System. The job listing was recently discovered by Tech4Gamers and states the position would be responsible for "oversee post-launch content and live service strategy, ensuring ongoing player engagement."

A campaign led by Collective Shout, an Australian-based group that fights the sexualization of women, has led to the changing of Valve's policy for what games can be made available on the Steam marketplace, and the vanishing of hundreds of legal games/content from the platform.

Collective Shout pushed Valve to remove any games that contained depictions of rape and incest from the Steam marketplace, as the organization claimed Valve was profiteering off the normalization of violence and the abuse of women. Valve didn't respond to Collective Shout, resulting in the organization turning its attention to payment processors, such as Visa and Mastercard.

The open letter, which can be read here, attracted the attention of Visa and Mastercard, and resulted in Valve issuing a change to its "Rules and Guidelines" documentation, which states under the new 15th clause that developers are not allowed to have their game contain any "Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam's payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult-only content."

It's always interesting to see what game is climbing the ranks of the most-played games on Steam, as it's almost impossible to predict what gamers will be sinking their teeth into next. That new game is Mage Arena, and it lets players scream magic spells at each other.

Mage Arena is developed and published by solo developer jrsjams and is currently in early access with a humble price of $3. For this meager price tag, players can step into the shoes of a mage and enter into a 4v4 voice-controlled battle between sorcerers and warlocks, or test their spellcasting skills in the Mage Colosseum in a 1v1.

Mage Arena is currently popping off on the Steam charts, with the title reaching its all-time peak in concurrent players only 1 hour ago (13,450). Mage Arena was released on July 24, and at the time of writing, it has 12,552 players in-game casting spells via voice commands.

The God of War TV show was first announced two years ago, and now the showrunner, Ronald D. Moore, has shared new details on the upcoming show, revealing that the director of the God of War games is actively involved in the TV show's creation.

Moore recently sat down for an interview with Collider at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, where he said the show is currently in the "scripts phase," and that the more work that is done, the more he is fascinated with the world of God of War. Moore added that he has never done an adaptation of a video game before, and the deeper he got into the adaptation, "the more impressed I was with the breadth and depth of the mythology."

Additionally, Moore said that he had several meetings with Cory Barlog, the director of the God of War games, and described Barlog as a "genius" as he holds the entire mythology and backstory of the God of War games in his head.

It appears that WB Games Montreal is spinning up a new project as it seeks to make high-profile hires for a new game.

WB Games Montreal is hiring an executive producer for what appears to be a new live service game. All-told, the WB Games subsidiary is hiring 12 people across multiple disciplines, including two producers and three programmers.

The executive producer job will oversee a DC game, and the studio wants applicants to have a "deep understanding of the full game development lifecycle, including live services."

Krafton has acquired another independent studio as it faces a lawsuit with ousted Subnautica 2 developers.

South Korean games giant Krafton has expanded its pool of game studios with the acquisition of Eleventh Hour Games, the team behind the popular Last Epoch action RPG. Krafton notes that it spent $96 million acquiring 100% of the studio's shares.

The buyout will help fund new content for Last Epoch, as well as a fully-fledged console port. Krafton intends to make Last Epoch an enduring, evergreen franchise with long legs.

AYANEO has just announced its new NEXT 2 gaming handheld powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU. Check it out:

The founder of AYANEO said that this is what the peak x86 platform looks like in a gaming handheld, with the NEXT 2 featuring AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU, while the company has been leveraging the experience it has gained since designing Mini-PCs using the Strix Halo APU.

AYANEO's new NEXT 2 gaming handheld sports what looks to be an 8-inch display, while the Strix Halo APU features the 16-core, 32-thread Zen 5-based CPU and powerful 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU. This is a big upgrade in GPU performance for gaming as the other gaming handhelds from AYANEO feature just 16 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers continues to court controversy over its performance levels, with the latest twist being accusations of a sneaky fix for poor frame rates.

If you missed the fuss around Wuchang: Fallen Feathers when it launched, the PC version didn't go down well at all in terms of FPS, and that was plainly clear from the Steam reviews. Complaints about sluggish performance were plentiful, as we highlighted at the time.

Since then, a patch has improved matters, but a YouTuber, Daniel Owen, has been delving into the source of these faster frame rates and his contention is that the gains aren't what they seem at first (as noticed by Tom's Hardware).

Halo Infinite is being retired from esports tournaments, which means one of two things: A new Halo game will be ready in 2026 to replace Halo Infinite's place in esports, or Halo Studios could shut down the Halo Championship Series altogether.

The devs at Halo Studios are moving on from Halo Infinite, at least in the official capacity for esports tournaments. While the studio will continue supporting Halo Infinite, the game will be pulled from Xbox's Halo Championship Series (HCS) competition.

"Once a world champion is crowned in October, the HCS will be retiring Halo Infinite from Official HCS Competition," the studio writes in an update.