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Ahead of the official unveiling of the Battlefield 6 reveal trailer, EA has taken to the Battlefield social media accounts to share a short teaser of the campaign.

The effort to build hype for the official unveiling of Battlefield 6 is certainly underway as it is now less than 24 hours until the full trailer drops. At the time of writing, there are thousands of people patiently waiting in the Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer YouTube video chat, all of whom are discussing the possibilities for what the game is going to offer.

To kick things up a notch, a short teaser trailer for the title's campaign has been released, and it begins with several news reporters discussing the movements of "Pax Armata" and how they are rising to contest NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Assassin's Creed Shadows launched in March, and while the game was encompassed in controversy, Ubisoft deemed it a success in its recent financial report, with the title acquiring as many as 5 million players. But now Ubisoft is looking to get even more players into the latest AC title, with the Ubisoft CEO saying the game will be arriving on "other machines".

Unless Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is talking about the game releasing on a refrigerator with a display, it seems the only viable option left for a new platform release would be the Nintendo Switch 2. Notably, the Ubisoft CEO teased the release of Shadows coming to "other machines" during a financial briefing call where he also confirmed the release window for the first expansion to come to Shadows, Claws of Awaji. Guillemot was asked directly about the launch of Shadows on Nintendo's latest console, and he said that Ubisoft hasn't said what titles it's bringing to the Nintendo Switch.

However, that isn't all the pieces of the not-so-confusing puzzle. Ubisoft CFO Frederick Duguet said during the same call that Ubisoft's line-up for the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2026, includes "a couple of other titles" that will be "announced at a later stage." Adding, "And we also have a game that will be launched on the Switch 2." But he didn't name the title. Notably, Star Wars: Outlaws was already announced for the Nintendo Switch 2, and Duguet was speaking about games "beyond the announced releases," which suggests there is another title in the works for a Switch 2 release.

A new report has claimed the release date for the highly anticipated Battlefield 6 will be on October 10 and it will be releasing on consoles for 80 Euros, which converts to $70 USD.

The release date and price are from well-known industry leaker billbil-kun, who has leaked information about unreleased titles in the past and been very spot on. Bilbil-kun is renowned as quite reliable when it comes to leaks, having a great track record. Be that as it may, this is still a leak, so take the information with a healthy amount of skepticism.

Additionally, it's possible we won't have to wait long for the official release date or even price of Battlefield 6 as EA will be dropping the reveal trailer on July 24, which at the time of writing is only 23 hours away.

How often does this ever happen: A video games publisher lowers the price of a game? That's what happened today as Microsoft has chosen to lower the price of The Outer Worlds 2 to better reflect "current market conditions."

The Outer Worlds 2 is no longer the first $80 Xbox game. Microsoft today made a surprise announcement: The Outer Worlds 2 no longer costs $80, and will now instead be $10 cheaper. The new price of Obsidian's upcoming RPG is now $70, which is in line with the new baseline MSRP introduced at the beginning of the PS5/Xbox Series generation. Gamers who pre-ordered The Outer Worlds 2 can receive a refund and repurchase at a cheaper price.

"We're focused on bringing players incredible worlds to explore, and will keep our full priced holiday releases, including The Outer Worlds 2, at $69.99 - in line with current market conditions," a Microsoft rep tells Windows Central.

WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is out this week, a new Soulslike action-RPG set in a fantastical version of the late Ming Dynasty. With impressive Unreal Engine 5-powered visuals, a cinematic story, and fast-paced combat, it's also launching with support for DLSS 4 With Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX gamers.

Running in 4K with max settings, DLSS 4 Super Resolution, Multi Frame Generation, and Reflex to lower latency, it runs at 312 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5090, 211 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5080, and 185 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. NVIDIA's benchmarks indicate that DLSS 4 delivers a 5.9X increase in performance when playing the game in 4K, which suggests that WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is the latest PC release that pushes GPU hardware to its limits.

Dropping the resolution down to 1440p and the GeForce RTX 5070 hits 196 FPS with DLSS 4, while the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti hits 214 FPS at 1080p. For those with GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, Frame Generation is still available in 2X form to boost performance. At the same time, GeForce RTX 30 and 20 Series owners will have to make do with DLSS 4's new transformer-based Super Resolution upscaling.

The new GeForce Game Ready 577.00 WHQL driver is now available via the NVIDIA App and GeForce.com, adding day-one support for the new Soulslike action-RPG WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers. The game is set to arrive on July 24 with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support, including NVIDIA Reflex.

The latest driver also adds support for Valorant's Unreal Engine 5 upgrade, which is set to launch later this month. The game is transitioning to a new engine to enhance performance, while also laying the groundwork for future visual updates and enhancements that will be introduced to the popular 5v5 competitive shooter.

The new GeForce Game Ready 577.00 WHQL driver also adds DLSS 4 support to 11 new games via the DLSS Override feature in the NVIDIA App, including titles like Monster Hunter Wilds, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and the standalone RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business expansion.

Ubisoft has confirmed in a recent financial report the release window for the Assassin's Creed Shadows expansion titled Claws of Awaji.

It was reported in early June that Ubisoft was targeting a September release for Claws of Awaji, with the company moving the date from October back to September to give gamers some breathing room from release of the Ghost of Tsushima spiritual successor, Ghost of Yotei, which is scheduled to release in October.

For those who don't know, Claws of Awaji will include approximately 10 hours of additional gameplay, a new region to explore, new weapons, side activities, gear, and new skills. The premise of the DLC is that players will be "hunted" and have the opportunity to reclaim lost treasure while mastering a new weapon type called the Bō staff. As for when the DLC will be released, Ubisoft wrote in its report that it's planning on debuting the expansion sometime in Q2, which is by the end of September 2025.

In Ubisoft's latest financial report, the company has blamed Steam, internet trends, and gamers as a whole for the failure of Star Wars: Outlaws.

The comments from Ubisoft come after the company revealed that it actually believes it is adding microtransactions into its games, making those games more fun for players. In what appears to be another completely checked out statement from the company that has been experiencing a tumbling stock price and recent parachute cash injection from Tencent to support its new company managing its top IPs, Ubisoft is now refusing to take any accountability for the quality of its product and instead, blames gamers for the failure of Star Wars: Outlaws.

Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot blamed the failure of Outlaws on the lack of popularity of Star Wars at the time of release, saying, "Outlaws was released at a time when the brand that it belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters." Guillemot must not have heard about the massive success of the hit Star Wars TV shows The Mandalorian, Andor, or Tales of the Empire.

Battlefield has confirmed when it will be dropping the official reveal trailer for the highly anticipated Battlefield 6, and it's right around the corner.

In new social media posts and a video on YouTube, the name of the next Battlefield title has been confirmed to be Battlefield 6, which means the promotional packages that were sent out to creators and then leaked online were real. Additionally, the announcement confirms that the official reveal trailer for the upcoming title will be dropped on July 24.

Moreover, this announcement from the team behind Battlefield confirms previous rumors that a 3-day event for the upcoming game will be held at the end of the month, with the previous rumors saying the event will take place over 3 days and feature various creators that have been flown out to experience the title. There have been several leaks of Battlefield 6 pre-alpha footage, and for players curious about what it will entail, judging by gameplay, it seems Battlefield 6 will be a mixture of Battlefield 3 and 4.

Old School RuneScape has seen a surge in popularity this year, with the classic MMORPG recently surpassing a staggering 200,000 concurrent players, causing developers, Jagex, to upgrade the servers to balance the newfound growth.

RuneScape, a game that was originally released in January 2001, has gone through its many ups and downs throughout its lifetime, with the release of the Evolution of Combat in 2012 resulting in a mass exodus of players, to Jagex's petition to roll the servers back to classic 2007 RuneScape as an entirely separate game blowing far past its 50,000 needed mark with a staggering 449,351 votes.

That 2007 version of RuneScape is now far and away more popular than the original version of the game, and since its release in 2013, it has continued to grow in popularity, attracting both new and old players.

Supermassive Games has announced via a recent social media post that it will be laying off several employees at the development studio and moving the release date for the anticipated Directive 8020.

The developer has cited the games industry being a "challenging and ever-evolving environment" as the reason for the now confirmed layoffs of 36 employees, and that the studio doesn't take these changes lightly. However, Supermassive writes that in order to adapt the new team structure to align with industry changes, it had to begin the redundancy process of employees, with the developer writing that it will be offering its full support to those affected.

As for the projects the developer is currently working on, Supermassive has decided to move the release date of Directive 8020 to "the first half of 2026." The developer praised the response gamers have had to the title, and said this delay will enable the studio to further polish the title to deliver the best experience it can for its fans.

2004's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a cult classic, one of the first non-Valve PC games to utilize the Source engine, delivering a memorable RPG that is still widely regarded today. With the action taking place in 21st-century Los Angeles, this urban setting gave the game a unique, gritty look, which was unusual for a world with vampires, werewolves, and demons.

And thanks to the work of modder 'Safemilk,' Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines looks stunning. This RTX Remix mod, which makes use of NVIDIA's groundbreaking tool for remastering older PC games, is one of the more impressive mods currently in development as it features all-new "remodeled, retextured, and re-lit" visuals. And yes, this includes full path-traced lighting.

The only problem for fans of this classic game with a capable GeForce RTX GPU is that it's still very much in early development. However, the latest 0.0.2 update, called Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, is available to download and shows great promise. The incredible visual upgrade reminds us of the also-impressive Half-Life 2 RTX project, which is currently in development.

With the introduction of its new Radeon RX 9000 Series of graphics cards, AMD also introduced its new AI-powered FSR 4 upscaler, exclusive to its new RDNA 4 GPUs. With its significant improvement in image quality compared to FSR 3, FSR 4 finally sees AMD catch up to NVIDIA DLSS as a viable alternative. The only problem is that FSR 4 support is limited, especially when compared to the hundreds of games that support DLSS.

This is where the third-party, open-source OptiScaler comes in, an innovative tool that "intercepts upscaler calls from the game," allowing you to redirect them to your preferred upscaler. For GeForce RTX gamers, it offers them the ability to replace Intel's XeSS, AMD's FSR, or older versions of DLSS with the latest DLSS 4 technology. For Radeon gamers, it allows you to swap out DLSS with FSR, covering both Super Resolution and Frame Generation.

As part of OptiScaler's latest update, the tool now supports FSR 4 for Radeon RX 9000 Series owners. Yes, this means that you can enable FSR 4 in hundreds of DirectX 11 and 12 titles with DLSS, dramatically expanding FSR 4's reach.

The Atari 2600 was first launched in 1977, and the iconic wood-paneled video game console is widely regarded as the first device to bring gaming from the arcade to households. In 2025, the Atari 2600 is what you'd consider a relic, with primitive hardware and games that rendered large chunky pixels with a resolution of 160x192 on NTSC televisions.

You might be surprised to learn that you can still buy a brand-new Atari 2600 in 2025, but thanks to retro enthusiasts keeping old-school gaming, that's precisely the case. And with Atari partnering with Bandai Namco Entertainment America, you can pick up an Atari 2600+ PAC-MAN Edition console in signature PAC-MAN yellow.

It ships with a custom wireless joystick (something that wasn't available back in the late 1970s) and a PAC-MAN: Double Feature 2-in-1 cartridge, which includes both the Atari 2600 version of the game and the Atari 7800 version. Although it looks identical to the original Atari 2600, the Atari+ 2600 is built for the modern era with HDMI output and the ability to play both Atari 2600 and 7800 games.

The handheld gaming device market is heating up with a bunch of options for gamers to sink their teeth into, and with Xbox officially joining the fray vicariously through ASUS ROG and the Ally devices, it was only a matter of time before other brands decided to make the same performance offering of those devices with their own handheld. Enter the Legion Go 2.

The Xbox Ally and Ally X are the first handheld devices to be rocking AMD's powerful Z2 Extreme AI APU, but those handhelds are now not alone, or at least according to In Yo, who posted a video of what they are claiming to be a prototype of Lenovo's Legion Go 2.

According to the video, the Legion Go 2 will also be rocking the Z2 Extreme AI APU, but it will be based on the Zen 4 process and not Zen 5 like the ROG Xbox Ally. The big difference between the two handhelds is the size of the display. The Legion Go 2 seems to feature an 8.8-inch screen, while the ROG Xbox Ally has a 7-inch screen.

The upcoming billiards simulator Pure Pool Pro has been confirmed to run at native 8K 60FPS without the use of PSSR upscaling on the PlayStation 5 Pro. Check it out in all of its 33 million pixels below:

Pure Pool Pro will run at native 8K 60FPS on the PS5 Pro console, and at native 4K 120FPS on the standard PS5, all without PSSR upscaling. Ripstone Games' boss George Holland explains: "We know this sounds like a tall claim, but the nature of the pool being fixed around the table, our relatively lightweight proprietary engine, and our initial pre-alpha testing before any optimisations leads us to believe it's achievable".

Holland continued, adding that because of the pool being fixed around the billiard table, the relatively lightweight proprietary engine, and in the studio's initial pre-alpha testing (this is before any optimization is done), the team believes that Pure Pool Pro will run at native 8K 60FPS on the PS5 Pro without upscaling.

We can expect the upcoming Battlefield 6 open beta to kick off on August 4, revealed by members of the 1BF Telegram group after they discovered the news inside the API on EA's backend servers.

They spotted the Battlefield 6 open beta build is expected on August 4, and while the open beta might not go live on that day, it should be very close to that from recent reports. EA is expected to officially unveil Battlefield 6 during a three-day event later this month, where the open beta should kick off shortly after.

Battlefield 6's big reveal event later this month will be joined by the opening of pre-orders -- which gamers should be careful about considering the mess of the last few entries in the franchise -- and according to another Redditor, a "early open beta access" line has been spotted in the API, which continues the trend of pre-orders giving gamers early access to beta tests.

The new Doom total conversion mod Fallout Bakersfield gets an official trailer, showing what Interplay's 1997 cRPG would have been like as a first-person shooter.

The volunteer dev team at Red888Guns has released a new gameplay trailer for Fallout Bakersfield, a new Doom WAD that brings the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 1 into the first-person realm. The gritty, old-school pixelated graphics from the 90s RPG are retained in Bakersfield, complete with a HUD that hearkens back to this golden age of gamin--there's even a status pane that shows text-based world state updates in real time.

"Fallout Bakersfield is a non-commercial 1993' Doom total conversion (GZDoom WAD). The main goal was to transfer the original atmosphere to the first-person mode. It's a sprite-based game running on the GZDoom engine," the description reads.

As fears rise of generative AI replacing art and artists, Microsoft's head of AI says that real human creativity will still be important.

Artificial intelligence is here, and it's shaking up the tech world with billions invested in the new tech. Microsoft, one of the biggest supporters and accelerators of AI, is reportedly restructuring its business around AI. The fear is high that AI will heavily disrupt art, entertainment, and interactive content production, especially in gaming; Microsoft's proprietary MUSE generative AI can create games with controller inputs alone.

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft's AI division, tries to allay these worries with assurances that humans will still be integral to the new AI revolution. Especially when it comes to creation and production--Suleyman, like most proponents of the tech, believes that AI will augment human skills and abilities in various fields.

Tactical shooter Ready or Not has sold 1 million copies in just four days on the console market, developer Void Interactive has announced.

Ready or Not made a splash in the FPS world when it launched in 2023, and since then, the game has amassed more than 10 million total sales. The gritty shooter takes players on high-octane SWAT missions where split-second timing is critical, simulating dangerous situations like hostage negotiations and all-out firefights.

Void Interactive recently released Ready or Not on consoles, and the response has been massive to say the least, with 1 million sales in less than a week on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Considering the game is priced at $50, that's a sizable breakout performance for the independent studio. One million sales in such a short time is enviable of even AAA productions.