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World of Warcraft: Forever's magical opening week reminds us all about the power of the MMO, and the threat it poses to your free time

World of Warcraft: Forever is a time vampire. Since its release last Wednesday, I have spent 78 hours in Azeroth. Some of that I was AFK, sure.

By Connor Makar

As The Elder Scrolls 5 turns 15, massive mod Beyond Skyrim: Bruma gets a 2.0 update delivering a new quest, extra dungeons and an "expanded worldspace"

Warning: I'm probably about to make you feel old. Today, November 11th 2026, is the 15th anniversary of Skyrim 's release. The first one, before it was re-released on every other platform under the sun.

By Mark Warren

PlayStation cancels live-service shooter Fairgames

PlayStation has cancelled Fairgames, the live-service shooter previously in development at its Montreal-based subsidiary Haven Studios.

By Sophie McEvoy

Casualties: Unknown is a total pain simulator that makes other survival games seem like massive cowards

Content warning for discussion of extreme violence and self-harm.

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Keeping hold of Company of Heroes was essential for Relic to leave Sega, Relic CEO says – "Without it we would have been a dead studio"

In the nearly 30 years since they opened their doors, Relic have been an enormously influential studio.

By Julian Benson

PlayStation's embattled shooter Fairgames has finally been cancelled, a new report says, as live service push withers away

After years of silence, we finally know the fate of PlayStation's embattled live service game Fairgames. The Haven-developed co-op heist shooter has been cancelled, with the silver lining that the studio is not closing down or laying off staff.

By Sherif Saed

Mobile publisher Fortis Games shuts down, up to 440 workers affected

Mobile publisher Fortis Games has announced its closure, impacting up to 440 employees.

By Sophie McEvoy

Sick BMX flips, colourful characters, a whole lot of mail and a charming raccoon dog await you in Tanuki: Pon's Summer, which you can pick up now

Right, today's been miserable thanks to the now hourly discourse we have to all take part in lest we be seen as approving of the current bad thing, how about something that looks simply pleasant?

By Oisin Kuhnke

Sony have cancelled Fairgame$, once again reminding us that chasing live service big bucks basically never works

You know, I'm sure that Sony had every intention of following through on their intention to release 10 live service games by 2026, as they mentioned way back in 2022 . Well, as far as an intention that's designed to please shareholders can go, anyway.

By Oisin Kuhnke

Ahead of GTA 6 and as concerns over genAI PC ports grow, Take-Two's CEO says they're revving up their "technical defences" and "legal activites" over piracy

It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey?

By Oisin Kuhnke

Marathon is becoming a whole new game next month with a roguelite PvE mode, a beta for a very Halo-esque team deathmatch mode, a vibey social space and more

Marathon is getting a lot bigger next month. In September, Bungie outlined their plans for the shooter making some big promises, namely the arrival of a PvE mode, and now they've shown off what you can expect from its next season, Symbiosis.

By Oisin Kuhnke

Apex Legends: Latest Update 11/10/2026

ADJUSTED: Crypto's drone is now able to scan through glass Revive is no longer interrupted and canceled if drone timer ends Dev note: This is the next batch of Crypto changes we alluded to last week.

Nvidia shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the tech company over claims that they were misled regarding CEO Jensen Huang's affair

If I wasn't so sick of hearing about AI every day of my life at the moment I might have found it funny to hear that one of the biggest peddlers of the poison around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was caught having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Oh who am I kidding, it is funny!

By Oisin Kuhnke

Company of Heroes 3 developer admits "it was a lot" to make the 3.0 overhaul patch alongside regular updates, singleplayer DLC, and a whole spinoff game

0 update is huge. Touching virtually every part of the three-year-old RTS, the patch notes are longer than, well, my arm isn't a great measure of patch note length. Let's just say the headline features of overhauled VFX and audio don't really cover it.

By Julian Benson

Here's our second wave of PS Plus games for November 2026 - and Sony's scrapping its barely used PC app

Sony's revealed the second wave of games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra this month, and there are some genuine big-name attractions, led by Hideo Kojima 's futuristic delivery man showstopper Death Stranding 2: On the Beach .

By Robert Purchese

Bandai Namco is liquidating Unknown 9: Awakening studio Reflector Entertainment, following multiple previous layoffs since the game's launch

As another addition to the slew of smaller studios being dissolved by their parent companies, Bandai Namco announced in a press release that they are shutting down their subsidiary studio Reflector Entertainment, a Montreal studio...

By Ashley Schofield

Grand Theft Auto 6 becomes the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history

UPDATE 11TH NOVEMBER: Grand Theft Auto 6 has also become the most pre-ordered game "of all time" on the Xbox Store, Microsoft has announced. And on that platform, again, the advice is to pre-load because of "unprecedented demand" for the game, a post on Xbox Wire said .

By Robert Purchese

In a reveal that might worry eventual PC players glancing at their GPUs, GTA 6 will target 30fps on all consoles

In a press release coinciding with Grand Theft Auto VI becoming available for pre-load ahead of its November 19th release date, Rockstar has confirmed that the game "has been fully developed from the ground up to provide the best possible...

By Ashley Schofield

ALIENS NEOPLASMA - A brilliant ZX Spectrum game appears on the Amstrad Plus via AI/Devil System

The Amstrad CPC Plus has just received a new release with unofficial port of Aliens NeoPlasma, a tense horror platformer developed by Devil System with the help of AI.

By Unknown

"A fight for all workers": SAG-AFTRA throw weight behind emerging Rockstar union ahead of its GTA 6 release week vote

In what has come to feel like the dawn of the final day before Grand Theft Auto VI 's release, one thing that Rockstar really don't want people to be aware of is the ongoing legal dispute between the Rockstar Games Workers Union and the...

By Ashley Schofield

Rockstar details Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Pro enhancements, but it'll still only run at 30FPS

As Grand Theft Auto 6 preloads go live, developer Rockstar has detailed the enhancements coming to the PS5 Pro version of the game, confirming these won't include framerates above the 30 FPS its targeting for consoles.

By Connor Makar