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While Bloodborne on the PC continues to progress - by which I mean the emulator version, of course - rumors about a remake of the game are still rumbling on, the latest of which is a wispy clue from Bluepoint Games.

As Eurogamer reports, this comes in the form of a job advert for a position of senior combat designer at Bluepoint - or it did, but that ad has now been taken down, perhaps unsurprisingly given the stir this has created on the gaming grapevine.

Of course, all the details have been preserved, and the position mentioned that someone was needed for Bluepoint's "next great title" and that they'd be working on the combat, and should have a "solid understanding of combat systems and mechanics for third-person melee action experiences".

NVIDIA has a new graphics driver out for its GeForce GPUs and it cures some seriously annoying bugs, including frustrating glitches with Madden 26 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

VideoCardz noticed the release of the fresh driver which also incorporates support for ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, all of which get DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation.

The bug fixes will be what many PC gamers will be after, though, and one of these is the solve for an odd issue with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 where the game suffers from either driver crashes or bad bouts of graphical corruption after the PC wakes from sleep.

It has been leaked and hinted at that Ubisoft is planning to release Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Nintendo Switch 2, and now reliable leaker billbil-kun has posted a new report revealing the release date.

According to the report, Ubisoft intends to release the Switch 2 version of Assassin's Creed Shadows on December 5, 2025, and that it will be arriving as a physical version as well, albeit it will be a "Game Key Card" version. Notably, rumors about Shadows coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 were sparked when the official PEGI website, the European video game rating organization, quietly added a Switch 2 listing to the Assassin's Creed Shadows page.

That was quickly followed by French retailer Auchan, which accidentally made the product page public on October 10, even revealing the box art for the game. The retailer leak was also when we first heard about the "Game Key Card" version being released. It should be noted that billbil-kun was unable to obtain information regarding the exact date for the pre-order, and also the pegged December 5 release date is for France, but is presumed to be global.

Game Freak, the developer of Pokémon, has been hacked, and now the content that was stolen is being released online, revealing what the developer plans to release up until 2030.

This isn't the first time Game Freak has experienced a tragic hack, as it was only last year in October that the developer had to respond to a hack referred to as the "Teraleak," which revealed details about the developer's plans for the Nintendo Switch 2, employee information, game source code, new games, past projects, and Pokémon designs.

Now, Game Freak has been hacked again, and this time the developers' plans have been revealed, showcasing that three mainline Pokémon games are currently planned, with the first being Gaia/Gen 10, scheduled to release in 2026 with a DLC planned in 2027.

Retro-inspired game visuals, drawing from the late 1980s and early 1990s era of video games, are not uncommon; this nostalgia-fueled aesthetic has proven to be really popular over the years. Likewise, with stylized pixel art and the rise of generative AI used to create images and video, there are now models that attempt to blur the line between traditional 2D pixel worlds and modern interactive 3D environments.

Project Shadowglass, from developer Starhelm Studios, is a new game featuring "3D pixel art graphics" that is currently in development. And it might just be the most impressive example of this retro-inspired aesthetic so far, and it doesn't look like it's leveraging AI at all. Described as a "love letter to classic immersive FPS stealth sims" like Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock, the first teaser trailer showcases the game's impressive and unique engine.

Looking at screenshots, you'd think this was 2D pixel art representing 3D environments. However, in motion, it looks like a cross between the 16-bit pixel sprite era of gaming and the early 3D worlds seen on consoles like the original PlayStation.

The final system specifications of Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles have been finalized according to the very latest leaks.

In a new post on the NeoGAF forums, leaker "KeplerL2" said that the final specs on the PS6 and Xbox Magnus consoles have been finalized, the leaker said: "Specs are very much finalized".

We've been reporting on the specs of the next-gen PS6 and Xbox Magnus consoles for a few months now, with Microsoft's purported next-gen Xbox (if it still sells Xbox consoles by then) being more powerful than the PlayStation 6. The next-gen Xbox has a more powerful RDNA 5-based GPU with more GPU cores, and a purported 48GB of GDDR7 memory, which is more than the up to 40GB of GDDR7 memory inside of the PS6.

Battlefield 6 is one of the best-looking games on the market right now, but this comparison with the game versus real-life gives you a glimpse into just how good the Frostbite engine can look, and run. Check it out:

In a new video released by YouTuber "ElAnalistaDeBits" we have a comparison between Battlefield 6 and real-life locations, including Gibraltar and New York City (from BF6 maps Iberian Offensive, Empire State, and Manhattan Bridge) and it'll blow your socks off.

Battlefield Studios has done an enormous job at recreating real-life locations for Battlefield 6, with the developers not trying to push for a 1-to-1 replica of real-life locations, but instead they replicated the atmosphere of those locations.

Remedy's latest experiment FBC Firebreak is a failure, and the company has responded with a tax write down on the unsuccessful project.

FBC Firebreak has done so poorly that Remedy Entertainment now expects its annual earnings to be negative. The studio issued a notice to investors that confirmed Firebreak will be written down in a non-cash impairment. This essentially means that Remedy no longer thinks that the game is worth as much as they once had.

"Remedy is recognizing a non-cash impairment of capitalized development costs and allocated purchased publishing and distribution rights related to FBC: Firebreak. While we balance future investments to the title, we continue developing and improving the game in line with our updated long-term sales forecast," says Remedy Entertainment's CEO Tero Virtala.

Battlefield 6 has been released, and players are trying to figure out the fastest ways to farm the most XP to unlock new weapons and attachments, presumably to take back into the live multiplayer servers. However, the tactics players are using are now being stopped by EA and Battlefield 6 developers.

Players who can't be bothered grinding the XP for levels to unlock new guns and attachments are heading to Portal servers, which is Battlefield 6's sandbox-style mode, where players can create custom servers. It wasn't long before players caught on that they could create custom Portal servers and design them to farm as much XP as possible through the killing of bots. Servers quickly became popular with YouTubers making videos on them, along with Redditors sharing codes to their XP farming servers.

However, EA and Battlefield 6 developers have caught wind of these XP farms and are now putting a stop to them by bringing down the servers. In addition to banning the XP farming servers, EA has seemingly implemented a new tactic to circumvent the creation of new XP farms, as now an error message presents itself when a new server is going to be created, EA's servers "are at max capacity".

The new horror game based on John Carpenter's Halloween will have similar game mechanics as Illfonic's previous multiplayer games, including gamifying Michael Myers' bloodlust and using it as fuel for in-game slaying.

Illfonic has found an interesting way to capture the mystique of Michael Myers. The developers lean heavily into Michael's original name throughout the film script (The Shape) to create a kind of ultimate boogeyman, one that fluidly blends in and out of the shadows with silent grace.

The devs have now explained how exactly playing as Michael Myers will work in Halloween. Playing as The Shape, gamers will stalk the citizens of Haddonfield, literally watching in-game NPCs and AI, waiting in the dark, and following them. Illfonic even went so far to make players see through the eye holes of Michael's mask. Stalking townspeople fills up Michael's bloodlust meter, which feels like the polar opposite of Jason's rage meter in F13 (and rightly so). Michael can only attack when bloodlust is full, so the gameplay loop is a kind of deadly cat-and-mouse game.

Battlefield 6 has finally been released, and more than 700,000 players have flocked to the game to jump into the mayhem, and some of those players are enjoying the single-player campaign.

Some of the players that are working their way through the single-player campaign have even managed to finish it, and to their surprise, a message pops up in the place of where the campaign once was, recommending that they uninstall the campaign to save storage space. For those who don't know, the campaign is a nine-mission story that comes in at around 15GB in size - it's not too big, but not small either, and with modern-day games taking up so much storage capacity, every gigabyte counts.

Many gamers are faced with tough decisions on which game to uninstall to play a new game. It's great to see Battlefield Studios offering gamers the option to uninstall the campaign once it's complete, as it demonstrates that the developers are aware of the storage limitations many gamers face, especially since it's unlikely a player would return to the campaign after completing it.

Battlefield 6 has finally been released, and the title has amassed more than 700,000 players just on Steam. As with any new live-service release, some problems were discovered within the first few days of players jumping into the servers.

One of those problems was the jumping momentum with specific guns. Players began reporting that while having some weapons equipped, jump momentum would randomly be interrupted, causing the player to stop mid-air. Battlefield Studios has announced via the "Battlefield Comms" X account that it has rolled out a patch that addresses the bug, and that patch is now live across all platforms. Furthermore, the developers state that the issue should be resolved the next time you play.

Battlefield 6 is off to a roaring start, as hundreds of thousands of players have flocked to servers to jump into the action. The title has peaked at an insane 747,000 players just on Steam, smashing Call of Duty's record by nearly double (491,870 players).

AMD and Sony released a new video and presentation ahead of the weekend, detailing some of the latest architectural advancements coming to PlayStation hardware as part of their Project Amethyst partnership. This partnership, which sees Sony's engineers and hardware designers led by Mark Cerny work more closely with AMD to develop graphics hardware for gaming, will also inform AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 generation of Radeon graphics for PCs and other x86 devices.

As detailed in the announcement (check out our coverage here for the full scoop), the presentation offered a very high-level overview of how the next generation of PlayStation and Radeon architecture and hardware will work. Setting aside the various revelations, the overall feeling we got was that it's the latest bit of proof that we're on the cusp of a seismic shift (for both PlayStation and Radeon) toward neural rendering, machine learning technologies, and ray-tracing.

Looking at AMD's RDNA hardware, including this year's brand-new RDNA 4 architecture, although you've got hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and machine learning or AI capabilities, it feels more tacked on as opposed to a core part of the design. In fact, with the newly announced 'Neural Arrays' and 'Radiance Cores,' it seems AMD is adopting a more NVIDIA and GeForce RTX-like approach, similar to Team Green's Tensor Cores and RT Cores.

The latest Battle Royale game will have players typing on a typewriter for their lives, and any spelling mistakes will result in a brutal execution and elimination from the match. Welcome to Final Sentence.

Final Sentence, developed by Button Mash, combines the Battle Royale genre of last man standing wins with Russian Roulette, as players will be set up in a warehouse alongside each other. Each player will have a typewriter in front of them and a set of sentences they need to type out perfectly, and if three mistakes are made, an NPC with a gun will load a round into the weapon, spin the barrel, and then fire it at the player's head.

In addition to the pressure of making a mistake, a timer is placed next to the typewriter that counts down from 4 minutes. If the timer is exceeded, the player is eliminated. Furthermore, players will compete against each other to complete the set of sentences first, with the first to finish being the only player to survive; the remaining players will be executed at the end of the game.

Skrilla, the rapper behind the song "Doot Doot (6 7)", which is the source of the now global meme among the younger generation, has confirmed that 6 7 will be in Grand Theft Auto 6.

Skrilla appeared during the latest episode of the Matt and Shane Secret Podcast featuring Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker, where they got into discussing video games and the impact of the viral song 6 7. Skrilla says that he has recreated his real-life aesthetic within the game, and then says that 6 7 is "going to be on" Grand Theft Auto 6. Skrilla added that he will be able to play his own music in the game when it releases.

This isn't the first time we have heard an artist talk about their music being added to GTA 6, as it was in June that Grammy Award-winning producer, Jermaine Dupri, revealed that he was asked to be on Grand Theft Auto 6, alongside Drake, who "got his own radio station". Dupri added that "The way they are getting ready to do it is that Drake can actually upload music we probably ain't never heard online or wherever else on that video game."

Microsoft is making two high-profile hires that may give an idea of how well the Xbox business is doing, or where management wants to take it in the future.

There's lots of doom and gloom around Xbox right now. Outwardly, console price hikes, Game Pass increases, and unclear communication are Microsoft's biggest problems. On the inside, though, Microsoft is pressuring Xbox to deliver hard-to-reach profit metrics. Buying Activision for $68 billion put Xbox on the hook, and Microsoft's board, investors, and top execs want continual returns on that investment.

Amid the market turbulence and wider macroeconomic disruption, Xbox apparently wants to transform Xbox finances. Microsoft is making two hires that specifically focus on the money-making aspects of Xbox. One of the job listings mentions "driving transformation initiatives with urgency" with the intent of also making sure the studios are on the same page. On paper, Xbox is doing better than ever, with $23 billion revenue earned in FY25. Profit might be a different story, however.

Netflix is bringing games directly to its dedicated TV app, allowing subscribers to play smaller family-oriented party games right on the service.

Netflix has an interesting take on gaming. So far, the company has licensed (and released) actual dedicated mobile games for its users; if you're a subscriber, you can download the game for free. Netflix's biggest win so far is from games that they didn't even make--Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto mobile games were popular, but not popular enough to drive subscription adoption.

That's not Netflix's goal with games, though. The company has bifurcated its titles to make sure the games fit the platforms that they're being played on. Netflix catered its mobile game selection to solo-oriented titles, and the games coming to TVs are family night types of experiences--board games like Boggle, quiz shows like Jeopardy, etc. For Netflix, gaming is more about fostering interactivity than making a boatload of extra cash...and using devices that people already have, like mobile phones, as controllers.

Sony has full plans to launch its next-generation PlayStation 6 console in 2027 according to a known leaker, says "it's the plan unless any unexpected delays happen".

We've been reporting leaks of the PS6 for months now, where we can expect up to RTX 5090 levels of ray tracing performance from the PlayStation 6, and a performance uplift of an incredible 6-12x faster RT gaming over the base PS5 according to leaker Moore's Law is Dead.

In a new post on the NeoGAF forums by leaker "KeplerL2" who was asked if "2027 was on the table" for the PlayStation 6 release, to which he replied: "Not just on the table, it's the plan unless any unexpected delays happen".

The long wait for Battlefield 6 is finally over as the servers have gone live and players are jumping into the mayhem, and already, EA's latest addition to the Battlefield franchise has blown past the peak concurrent player record for Call of Duty.

Players have been anticipating the release of Battlefield 6 for many months now, and all that waiting has finally paid off as the game is out and hundreds of thousands of players are flooding the servers. Looking at the SteamDB charts, Battlefield 6 has already taken second place in the "24-hour peak" category with a staggering 747,440 concurrent players, beating DOTA 2, and only trailing behind Counter-Strike 2.

If the player count continues at the rate it is now, which is every time you refresh the SteamDB listing for the title, it grows by 10,000 players, by the time you have read this, Battlefield 6 will have doubled Call of Duty's all-time player peak of 491,870 before 24 hours is even over. Notably, Battlefield 6 has already beaten the all-time player peak for the Open Beta, which was 521,000.

The contents of Oblivion remastered's physical deluxe edition have been detailed by Bethesda, confirming the game is not complete on disc.

User suspicions were true: Oblivion remastered's deluxe edition will require extra downloads in order to play through the base game. The full game cannot be played offline. After being community noted on Twitter, Bethesda has published a FAQ explaining what is--and isn't--included in the physical deluxe version.

On social channels, Bethesda had previously said: "The Physical Deluxe Edition includes the base game in disc format for Xbox or PlayStation."