Gaming

An AI startup founder has taken down a web-based shooter set in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district after facing intense condemnation from local community advocates and city leaders. The project, titled Tenderloin Night Shift, was developed as a weekend coding experiment by Pierre-Louis Biojout, founder of the Y Combinator-backed AI startup NanoCorp. In a subsequently deleted

Battlefield Studios has rolled back an unannounced reduction in player progression speeds across Battlefield 6 after the rollout of Season 5 sparked widespread community backlash. Following the new season’s arrival, players noticed that experience points were accumulating much slower than normal. Community testing revealed that earn rates appeared to be restricted to a maximum cap

Retailers worldwide are rolling out distinct, region-exclusive pre-order incentives for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, highlighted by a nostalgic packaging throwback in France. French video game chain Micromania will provide attendees of its midnight launch events with an authentic replica of the original 1998 European black-and-gold

Game developer House House has confirmed it will not release its cooperative puzzle title Big Walk on Xbox platforms, citing the ongoing Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Microsoft. The studio stated via social media that while keeping the game off Xbox counters its goal of bringing friends together, it will not consider a release

Riot Games will pull League of Legends Classic offline in January 2027, retiring the nostalgia-driven mode a mere six months after its debut as players migrated back to modern gameplay. The ongoing competitive season will be the mode’s last, with Riot confirming that refunds will be distributed for any Classic content made obsolete by the

Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has completely stepped away from the hero shooter since leaving Blizzard Entertainment in April 2021, deliberately avoiding the game and its surrounding community ever since. Speaking in a recent interview with GameSpot, Kaplan revealed that he has not touched Overwatch since the year of his resignation and actively filters it

Summer Eternal, an independent studio founded by former ZA/UM developers, has officially announced Red Rooster, a three-dimensional physics-driven role-playing game centered on arson investigation in an alternate-history metropolis. The game places players in the shoes of Redrick Roost, an incarcerated white-collar criminal thrust into the role of an arson investigator. Roost teams up with an

The testing phase for World of Warcraft: Forever has become the biggest beta in Blizzard’s history, drawing an unprecedented surge of players ahead of the game’s scheduled November 4 launch. Speaking at PAX Australia, executive producer Holly Longdale characterized the initial player turnout as “insane,” noting that the massive influx previously prompted the team to

Nintendo has expanded its retro gaming library with three additional Game Boy Advance releases: Metal Slug Advance, Monster Rancher Advance, and Kururin Paradise. The titles are available immediately for subscribers playing on either the original Nintendo Switch or the Nintendo Switch 2. Access to the trio requires an active subscription to the Nintendo Switch Online

Microsoft has introduced Xbox Labs, a new initiative focused on experimenting with emerging game technologies and developing software tools for the broader industry. According to an official statement from Xbox head Asha Sharma, the program is designed to allow developers to help define the capabilities of new systems as they develop. Sharma stated that the