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Battlefield Labs is scheduled to unveil the multiplayer for Battlefield 6 on July 31 officially, and ahead of the unveiling, 2 minutes of gameplay footage have been posted to X.

The footage is among the other small clips that have surfaced throughout Battlefield Labs' playtests of Battlefield 6, but this time, we have a lengthy video to dive into. The Battlefield franchise began to experience a steady decline after the release of Battlefield 3, with EA releasing constant misses and players leaving the game over small changes. Now, with Battlefield 6 on the horizon, many longtime fans of the franchise are excited to see if that Battlefield feel has been reanimated in Battlefield 6. Judging by the gameplay, it has, but it also hasn't.

The gameplay shows intense gunplay in what appears to be a small city map, with extremely tight corners, high buildings, and fast movement. These aren't the hallmarks of classic Battlefield, which was known for its wide-open maps and lengthy skirmishes. At least on this map, and I really hope there is some variance in map size, it appears Battlefield 6 is leaning more toward an arcade experience akin to Call of Duty.

Battlefield 6 is going to be one of the biggest games of 2026, and with its leaked PC system requirements seeing gamers require just 30GB of storage space... that is a surprising move in a world where Call of Duty can chew through an insane 300GB+ of storage.

The Battlefield 6 PC system requirements come from HyperPC picked up by @BattlefieldIntel on X, pointing towards only 30GB of storage, and pretty tame minimum system requirements of an Intel Core i5-8400 processor, 16GB of RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060.

The recommended system requirements for Battlefield 6 are bumped up a bit, with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, the same 16GB RAM, and a higher-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. However, the 4K Ultra requirements are pretty hardcore with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, 32GB of RAM (that's not that bad), and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card.

A new Friday the 13th video game is on the way, producer Robert Barsamian announced at San Diego Comic-Con.

With both Clive Barker and even John Carpenter working on games, the demand for horror movie games appears to be strong. Film companies are now more willing to license out big names like Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Friday the 13th. The last F13 game, an online-driven multiplayer game, was pulled offline last year due to licensing. Now Jason Voorhees is coming back to the gaming world courtesy of Horror Inc's Jason Universe, a new brand name that handles the Friday the 13th franchise.

"I can tell you that a new sequel movie and new sequel game are at the top of our list. In fact, it's where most of our energy's going right now. And I can tell you, finally, we're in a position to deliver on that," said Horror Inc president Robert Barsamian.

New data underlines just how big FromSoftware's Elden Ring franchise has grown in such a short span.

FromSoftware recently announced sales updates for both Shadow of the Erdtree and the new Nightreign spinoff. According to the figures, Nightreign has sold 5 million units (including pre-orders) so far, a great performance for a multiplayer-only spinoff; to put these numbers into perspective, some AAA games are lucky to hit 5 million sales, let alone a side game that requires users to always be online.

Shadow of the Erdtree is now at 10 million sales, up from the 5 million sales figure that Bandai Namco reported shortly after launch (Erdtree had hit 5 million sales in 3 days, making up more than half of Bandai Namco's total game sales for the quarter).

FromSoftware is directly responding to fan feedback by adding in a two-player co-op mode into Elden Ring Nightreign.

Two-player mode is coming to Elden Ring Nightreign on July 30, developer FromSoftware has announced.

"On July 30, 2025, take on Night's terrors as two kindred souls. Duo Expeditions will be added in patch 1.02 of ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN. Additionally, patch 1.02 will include quality-of-life UI improvements, including more Relics filtering options."

The team behind the highly successful Fallout London mod may have just teased their next big project.

Fallout London has an unusual story. The mod was so popular and anticipated before release that it got its own official spot on CD Projekt's Good Old Games (GOG) storefront. This paid off big time, as Fallout London (or FOLON for short) is one of the most popular video game mods of all time with over 1 million downloads.

Now the team is celebrating Fallout London's one year anniversary by potentially hinting at something new.

Polyphony Digital is hiring a new Project Manager, and it's possible the team is working on Gran Turismo 8 for Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 console.

Sony recently updated the PlayStation careers page. This has led to the discovery of some interesting job openings, including one that may hint that Sony will break exclusivity with first-party games and bring PlayStation Studios titles over to Xbox (while games like Death Stranding and Helldivers 2 are coming to Xbox, these aren't made by wholly-owned PS Studios teams).

The job listings are global, and one particular role in Japan caught my eye: Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital is hiring a Project Manager to work on the franchise. It's unclear if this is directly connected with a new Gran Turismo game, but it's certainly not unlikely given that Sony is currently working on the next AI-powered PlayStation console with AMD.

Techland has delayed Dying Light The Beast by 4 weeks, with the standalone survival game now launching in September.

The next Dying Light game is almost ready--it just needs more time to cook. Polish developer Techland has announced a month delay for Dying Light The Beast as the team doubles down on quality and presentability. The delay falls in line with recent comments made by the studio; Techland has said that The Beast is so important that they are treating it like Dying Light 3.

"It has always been our goal to make Dying Light: The Beast the best Dying Light game we've ever released. To honor this promise, we've made the decision to move the release date to September 19, 2025 to allow for extra polishing work," the studio said.

A new job listing at Sony may suggest that more first-party PlayStation Studios games could cross over to rival platforms like Nintendo Switch and Xbox. The job listing could also be for cross-platform games like MLB The Show.

Gamers speculate the end of exclusivity may be at an end, and Sony's own internal reports may support this theory.

Sony is hiring a Sr Director, Multiplatform & Account Management that will "play a critical leadership role in shaping and executing the global commercial strategy for PlayStation Studios software titles across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile."

Splitgate 2 goes back to beta as 1047 Games braces for the impact of the premature launch.

1047 Games' quest to 'make FPS great again' isn't off to a good start. Splitgate 2, which released just last month, is now un-launching and going back into beta. The developer announced the move amid recent layoffs and a microtransactions controversy, saying that new overhauls are coming in early 2026. The team will use direct player feedback to shape the updates.

"We launched too early. We had ambitious goals with Splitgate 2, and in our excitement to share it with you, we bit off more than we could chew. We rushed certain features, made some boneheaded mistakes, and most importantly - we didn't give you the polished, portal-filled mayhem you fell in love with," the studio writes in a Steam community message.

Starfield fans are latching on to an innocuous comment made by Bethesda on a recent game update post, but it's hard to say if a new expansion will actually happen or not.

Starfield's latest Shattered Space expansion is almost a year old now, and fans are clamoring for more content. Optics and visibility into what's on the horizon remains dim, especially with the latest Xbox layoffs affecting multiple projects. Bethesda also reportedly cut funding for a new FPS game from John Romero, so it's difficult to say which projects may be funded at this point.

Bethesda recently posted up patch notes for Starfield's new 1.15.222 update, saying: "Looking ahead, we're continuing work on future updates and will share more about the exciting things we have planned for Starfield in the coming months."

The Nintendo Switch 2 is outselling the original Switch by nearly 3:1 in Japan, according to the latest reports from Famitsu.

The Switch 2 is setting new sales records across the globe. The console managed to sell over 1.5 million units in Japan, becoming the fastest-selling games hardware of all time in the region. The figure comes by way of Yomiuri, a Japanese newspaper that cites data from Famitsu Magazine, and relates to shipments and sell-in versus direct consumer purchases.

As Bloomberg's Gearoid Reidy notes, this sales blitz means the Switch 2 has outsold the Switch by threefold in Japan at launch. Demand for the system was fierce in Japan; over 2.2 million Japanese gamers signed up to the digital lottery for a chance to buy a Switch 2.

A new PS5 firmware update could eventually pave the way for a native PlayStation handheld.

Sony is preparing a new PlayStation 5 console feature that will natively scale the console's GPU and CPU hardware to dial back how many watts the system uses. Remember that the PS5 has variable power draw, meaning how much power it pulls in will change based on how it's being used. Typically, the PS5 will draw between 160-220W while playing 4K games, with more demanding games drawing more power.

While this move is technically part of Sony's company-wide energy conservation plan, gamers also speculate that this firmware update could help prepare Sony's PS5 platform for a new handheld device.

A new Hellraiser game is in the works with original series creator Clive Barker and Pinhead star Doug Bradley involved.

Hellraiser Revival looks like it could upend the way we think about singleplayer horror film game tie-ins. The Hellraiser game feels like a different beast to most horror adaptations. Not only is Revival entirely singleplayer, but it also tells a new cinematic story within the Hellraiser universe--based on the trailer, it looks like modern day sin addicts called Hell Raisers are deliberately trying to summon the Cenobites.

Revival features all the callbacks from the films: The gleaming golden puzzle box, the terrifying undead Cenobites including original Pinhead actor Doug Bradley reprising his role, and of course lots of torture and chains. It'll be a first-person action game with melee and shooter mechanics, the screenshots reveal.

Itch.io has made all adult games on its store unsearchable as it conducts a thorough review of the content.

Indie games storefront itch.io is the latest storefront to change its content catalog at the behest of credit card payment processors. The company announced that it was effectively making all adult games completely unsearchable on the store as it conducts a "comprehensive audit."

"We have "deindexed" all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by this change," reads the announcement.

Toby Fox's independent hit Deltarune has sold more copies than some of Nintendo's first-party Switch 2 games, analyst firm Newzoo reports.

Newzoo's latest sales report takes a closer look at game sales during the Switch 2's launch. According to the data, Deltarune was a surprise breakout hit on the Switch 2's eShop. The pixelated indie RPG led the charge in digital unit sales, beating out other popular games like Mario Kart World, Minecraft, and No Man's Sky.

"Deltarune, from the creators of Undertale, led digital unit sales. Chapters 1 and 2 were free-to-play, and the complete release of all 4 chapters across platforms (including Switch 2) saw strong uptake on Nintendo's eShop," Newzoo writes in the report.

Battlefield 6's release date has been semi-confirmed by its own website, which states when the pre-order offers will expire.

The website listing for Battlefield 6 was made live after the official reveal trailer for the game was published yesterday, and shortly after the website went live, some users noticed it stated that Battlefield 6 pre-order offers will expire on October 10, which is typically the day the game comes out.

Prior to this discovery, gaming industry insider and leaker billbill-kun claimed Battlefield 6 would release on October 10 for the price of €69.99 for the Standard Edition and €99.99 for the Phantom Edition on PC, while the console version will be €79.99 and €109.99, respectively.

Ubisoft was recently caught in hot water by blaming gamers for the company's recent failures, while also saying that adding microtransactions to its games actually makes them more fun. Now rumors are flying that the company has silently canceled the sequel to Star Wars Outlaws.

Ubisoft recently refused to take any accountability for its past failures, which includes Star Wars Outlaws. During a financial meeting, the company's leadership stated the game failed due to it not being released at a time when Star Wars was popular, but that simply isn't true, as other Star Wars media, such as The Mandalorian, Andor, and Tales of the Empire, were all doing extremely well in the cultural zeitgeist.

Now, reports from Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson have revealed during a recent podcast that Ubisoft "recently canceled Star Wars Outlaws 2, adding that it hadn't yet entered full production, and the game was still "very, very, early" in its development. While this news is still a rumor at this stage, as we haven't received confirmation from Ubisoft, it's not totally shocking considering the underwhelming performance of the first game. It wouldn't be surprising if this cancellation happened shortly after how poorly Outlaws performed after it was released.

Battlefield 6 recently received its official reveal trailer that showed off much of the single-player campaign and ended with a teaser for a multiplayer reveal at the end of the month. However, prior to the official reveal trailer releasing, a known leaker that accurately predicted the date for the reveal trailer also revealed the price for Battlefield 6.

The leaks came from billbil-kun, a known leaker that has once again proven their track record to be sound when it comes to gaming industry leaks. billbil-kun predicted that Battlefield 6 would be releasing on October 10, and following the official reveal trailer being posted Battlefield Labs updated the website for Battlefield 6 where it states that pre-orders will close for the title on October 10, all but confirming that is when the game will be released.

billbil-kun also leaked that Battlefield 6 would be priced at €79.99 on consoles and €69.99 on PC for the standard edition. While game prices aren't direct conversions in currency, if billbil-kun's leaks are all correct this would mean that Battlefield 6 will be launching for $70 USD, a full priced premium title. Notably, the publisher for Battlefield, Electronic Arts, is aiming to attract 100 million players, and according to reports citing upper management at EA, they believe that it's possible.

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console will feature a semi-custom APU from AMD, just like the PS5 and PS5 Pro, but will reportedly pack next-gen Zen 6 CPU cores and RDNA 5 GPU cores.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead leaks out new codename Robin and Robin+ APUs that are both characters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This might seem like much, but the PS5 has a chip codenamed Oberon, who is also a character from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Robin and Robin+ APUs are in development at AMD and are in the same family of products as Oberon (launch PS5) and Oberon+ (PS5 6nm). MLID notes that Robin might either be the APU that AMD is working on for the PS6 or the actual codename of the PS6 handheld itself.