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Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 3 has been announced, marking another attempt at a free-to-play team game after Gundam Evolution's unfortunate fate

Bandai Namco have released the initial announcement trailer for Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 3, a free-to-play team action game and a sequel to 2018's Battle Operation 2.

By Ashley Schofield

The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel teaser all but confirms Hammerfell setting and means we can finally stop using that eight year old header image with the hills

Praise Talos and whatever other Elder Scrolls deities you might worship. We here at RPS and in the wider gaming press finally have new material to use when hunting for images to symbolise The Elder Scrolls 6 .

By Mark Warren

Arc Raiders devs say that using generative AI voice acting was necessary as actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Developers at Embark Studios, the company behind Arc Raiders , have spoken on the use of generative AI voice acting in the extraction shooter.

By Connor Makar

Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-load begins on 10th November, file size and regional timings released

Rockstar Games have revealed the pre-load date and time for Grand Theft Auto 6 . You better be prepared to clear out some storage space, and burn the midnight oil.

By Connor Makar

The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel is confirmed, finally getting new trailer and full name, 8 years, 4 months, and 23 days after its reveal

Today, Xbox and Bethesda have finally revealed the name and more information about The Elder Scrolls 6.

By Dom Peppiatt

Complete Aqir Invasions Before Their Removal in 12.1.7 for Cheaper Rewards

7, so if you want their rewards before the cost goes up, you should complete the events now.

How traditional book clubs inspired The Game Club to help gamers forge friendships as adults

In 2025, Guy Blomberg and Shay Leighton founded The Game Club, a community network inspired by traditional book clubs. Members play the same game each month and meet in small groups to discuss their experiences.

By Sophie McEvoy

I'm sad that the Like A Dragon creator's new studio is closing, but I wish their now-cancelled debut Gang of Dragon wasn't just LAD again

Less than a year after the announcement of their first game, and only four years after the studio's creation, Gang of Dragon developers Nagoshi Studio have been dissolved by a shareholders' resolution (thanks, Gematsu .) That also means a...

By Ashley Schofield

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic's next DLC is set to expand the city building sim into the one place not corrupted by capitalism: SPACE

Following not the inherent liberal capitalistic framework of city builders like SimCity but instead a revolutionary (sorry) interpretation of planning and logistical simulation that prioritises centralisation and minute detail, Hooded...

By Ashley Schofield

Apex Legends™ EA Play* Weapon Charm

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COD: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ patch has nerfed UAV Towers so you're not immediately visible everywhere you go

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 patches continue, with the latest delivering some big changes to the game's extraction mode DMZ. The latest hotfix introduced a key balance change to one of DMZ's most controversial mechanics: UAV Towers.

By Sherif Saed

The launch is not the end: How Beholder: Conductor equalled its launch sales 15 months after release

Once a game is out, its post-release story can seem almost settled. After the launch window, a DLC or major patch might give players a reason to return - but if the team has no plans to keep working on the game, what is left to do except watch the sales taper off?

By Artem Bashutin

Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that "we are not in the industry of replacing actors." In a new video posted to the Arc...

By Ashley Schofield

AppMagic: Non-gaming apps have beaten mobile games in IAP revenue since 2016

Mobile games last led in-app purchase (IAP) revenue in 2016, having since been outperformed by non-gaming platforms such as TikTok and AI chatbots.

By Sophie McEvoy

Indie game website itch.io expands its AI disclosure filter as 'AI slop' continues to overwhelm Steam and other storefronts

io has expanded its AI disclosure filters, allowing its users to better separate games made with the controversial technology from those who don't.

By Connor Makar

"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight

Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox , having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of multi-round mass cuts this year.

By Mark Warren

It looks like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 had fewer active players at launch in the US compared to last year's Black Ops 7

It's been speculated for a while that Call of Duty may be losing its lustre. Although we don't have concrete data with detailed statistics for each game released in the last several years, there's an observable trend in player numbers that's hard to ignore.

By Sherif Saed

itch.io will soon let you filter games with genAI disclosures out of your search results on the site, after admitting it was previously "critically lacking"

The apparent standard method against this, voluntary genAI disclosure, has been itch's primary tool to combat this wave of...

By Ashley Schofield

Remedy Q3 revenue triples to €39.6m following launch of Control Resonant

Remedy's third quarter revenue surged by 226% following the September 24 launch of Control Resonant , which CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon called "a defining milestone for the...

By Sophie McEvoy

Saudi-backed Kingdom of Gaming event delayed to 2027

Kingdom of Gaming, a new Saudi government-backed games industry event, has been pushed back from December to an unspecified date in 2027.

By Vikki Blake

CI Games secures $32 million loan to finish and self-publish Lords of the Fallen 2

6 million) syndicated credit facility to fund the completion and launch of Lords of the Fallen II.

By Vikki Blake

Astragon closes Independent Arts successor studio Astragon Development

Simulation publisher Astragon Entertainment is closing Astragon Development, the German studio previously known as Independent Arts Software.

By Vikki Blake

You can make a vampire hunter who's afraid of the dark, disease and small spaces in Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, and that's surely the best way to play

A month or two back I penned a 1500 word whine about feeling too powerful in Blood of Dawnwalker. "Gimme a vampire sim in which I'm a pathetic vein-nibbling goblin," I wrote, using many more adjectives than that.

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Apex Legends™: Cipher Patch Notes

ICYMI: Designers Notes CIPHER OVERVIEW Apex Legends: Cipher is here! It’s bringing new features, new weapon combos, and big changes to Ranked alongside the usual slew of bug fixes and balancing passes.

Anthropic adds rule to stop Claude Code recreating existing games

Anthropic has updated its AI coding tool Claude Code so it stops building clones of existing video games.

By Vikki Blake

Fix up towering robots while battle rages outside in Bay 12: Mech Repair, a first-person job sim with some handsome heavy duty analog tech

The most important thing to know about Bay 12: Mech Repair is that these are mechs of the MechWarrior or possibly Patlabor school - that is, basically WW2 tanks on hydraulic legs, with cockpits full of switches and wireframe displays.

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Fewer genAI clones of "someone else's specific game" should flood the net going forwards, as Anthropic tell Claude to stop messing with some stuff other people own

Anthropic have told their genAI tool Claude to start ducking requests from users to recreate or clone existing games, following a flood of folks using the tech to generate six-fingered remakes.

By Mark Warren