Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie fixates on a fiendish roguelike with an outrageous mash of ideas; Matt believes he's found the best video game tutorial ever; Victoria rankles at her children back-seat gaming her; and Sherif can't refuse another Soulslike. Read more
It's hard to believe there was a time when Resident Evil felt like it was on its last legs . But instead, the long-running survival horror series has gone from strength to strength, brand-new instalments building on older stories Capcom is revisiting in remakes of its classic games. And it has now confirmed its upcoming Code: Veronica remake, Resident Evil Veronica, will include story changes to…
AI summary Capcom announced Resident Evil Veronica, a remake of Code: Veronica, at Summer Game Fest 2026, where it became the most wishlisted title on Steam. The game's producer explained the title change to fit the remake series' naming pattern, and the team is adjusting the original story for better series integration. Additionally, insider AestheticGamer reported that the remake of Resident Evil 0 was restarted from scratch, and a spin-off centered on Hunk, initially planned for 2025, was in development.
A Plague Tale developer Asobo has called Grand Theft Auto 6 an "ogre" as far as its dominance over 2026's release schedule goes. It's the same year its Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy game comes out, and it joins the crush in late August, a couple of months before GTA 6 crashes in. Read more
Wuxia-inspired action game Phantom Blade Zero is arguably one of the most anticipated games of 2026, but no game is as anticipated as Grand Theft Auto 6 , as the many calendar shuffles to avoid November have shown. So it was particularly surprising to see Phantom Blade Zero given a release date during June's State of Play showcase that moved it closer to Rockstar's game than most are willing to…
Peter Sarsgaard has joined the cast of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation for the show's upcoming third season. Read more
The sentiment around Battlefield 6 has been on an upswing for a little while now, but the launch of Season 3 a month ago is when the game's trajectory became clear. Read more
It didn't take much of this year's Summer Game Fest to realise that, in racing to escape the orbit of GTA 6 , the games industry has created a new problem : a September 2026 so packed with releases that it's going to take some dedication - not to mention time and money - for players to get through even a fraction of them all. So it was only a matter of time before someone blinked. Which brings us…
Bungie may be done updating Destiny 2 forever , but the love players have for the sci-fi loot shooter clearly runs deep. Read more
Two of Ubisoft's smaller studios, Ubisoft Winnipeg, and Ubisoft Belgrade, are being shuttered. Insider Gaming was first to break the news, but reports from Game Developer , and VGC have shed more light on the broader impact. Read more
If you saw Resident Evil Veronica's announcement trailer during last week's Summer Game Fest, you might reasonably assume it'll be continuing the modern series' forays into first-person horror. However, Capcom has now confirmed its Code Veronica remake is hewing more closely to the original, and will once again be played from a classic third-person perspective. Read more
When Microsoft revealed that Halo: Campaign Evolved last year, I balked at its claim that this would be " a faithful yet modernised remake of Halo: Combat Evolved's campaign ". How could it be? It's made in Unreal Engine 5, very few of the original team is left at what is now Halo Studios, and the devs dared to tinker with the controls. I made my views very clear. I even cited examples from the…
In all the excitement surrounding the announcement of Capcom's long-awaited Resident Evil Code Veronica remake last week, it was pretty easy to miss the fact its do-over has had a bit of a name change. And if you've been wondering why that might be, the publisher has now explained the reason it's newly monikered Resident Evil Veronica is 'Code Veronica' no more. Read more
A24 is now in the business of making video game adaptations, and while everyone's eyes are on Elden Ring , it sounds like Death Stranding could be rapidly approaching production, too. During a recent chat about The Death of Robin Hood, writer-director Michael Sarnoski - who directed 2024's A Quiet Place: Day One, as well - shared information about his upcoming Death Stranding movie. Read more
Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions have been moving relatively fast on the Helldivers movie adaptation announced back in January 2025 , securing Fast & Furious veteran Justin Lin to direct and, earlier this year, Jason Momoa (Aquaman, A Minecraft Movie ) to star. Now, we're hearing the latter has departed the project. Read more
Xbox Game Pass lost millions of subscribers following the fall 2025 price hike , Xbox's chief strategy officer Matthew Ball has revealed. Read more
Halo: Campaign Evolved, one of Microsoft's next big triple-A releases, just got a cool-looking cinematic story trailer. And all footage you'll see in it has been captured on a PS5 Pro , of course. Read more
Doom: The Dark Ages was a fun time, but we'd been wondering about the release window for its DLC (and its very nature) since a Premium Edition was released day one. During the Xbox Games Showcase , Bethesda Softworks and id Software finally unveiled the Revelations DLC. Read more
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's extraction shooter mode has been revealed in full. Read more
One of the easiest guesses you could've made going into the 2026 summer showcase season was that Xbox would announce the release date for Halo: Campaign Evolved . The game, which had been rumoured for about a year, was only officially unveiled last October . Read more
