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Release news, guides, opinion, and deep dives from the CriticalPixel community.
Xbox and Ubisoft Hand Console Owners 13 Free PC Versions, Premium Editions Included
Xbox and Ubisoft expanded their partnership on July 27, letting console owners claim free PC versions of 13 games including Valhalla and Rainbow Six Siege.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-29
Silent Hill: Townfall Hands-On Pushes First-Person Horror Into Foggy Scottish Streets
Silent Hill: Townfall hands-on: Screen Burn's first-person horror set in 1990s Scotland, with stealth combat, a CRTV puzzle tool, and a Sept 24 PS5 launch.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-29
505 Games Funds a Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Sequel With Creator Xia Siyuan
505 Games signs a deal for a Wuchang sequel. Indolphinity, a new Chengdu studio led by creator Xia Siyuan, leads development with Digital Bros funding.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-29
EA's Andrew Wilson Pockets $38.7M Bonus While Battlefield 6 Devs Were Laid Off, 10K Report Reveals
EA CEO Andrew Wilson earned $38.7M in stock and bonus for FY2026 while Battlefield 6 devs at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive were laid off in March.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-29
PS Plus August Monthly Games Bring Dying Light 2 Reloaded, Big Walk, and Signalis, With a Marvel Tokon Bonus Pack
Sony's PS Plus August monthly games are live: Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition, Big Walk, and Signalis drop August 4, plus a Marvel Tokon bonus pack on August 6.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-29
Report: CDPR Quietly Partnered With WayForward on a 2.5D Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Brawler
A former WayForward dev's portfolio shows CDPR co-developed a 2.5D Cyberpunk: Edgerunners brawler codenamed Gemini in 2025-2026. Status unknown.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
Double Fine Lays Off 23 People Just Three Weeks After Xbox Spun the Studio Off as Independent
Double Fine cut 23 of its roughly 90 staff on July 28, 2026, three weeks after Xbox divested the Psychonauts 2 studio back to independent status.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
Resident Evil 2 Remake Overtakes RE5 as Capcom's Best-Selling Survival Horror Game at 19.75M Copies
Resident Evil 2 remake hits 19.75M units sold, beating RE5's 15-year run as Capcom's top survival horror title, per the Q1 FY2027 fiscal update.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
Wizards of the Coast President John Hight Out After Two Years on the Job
John Hight is leaving Wizards of the Coast on September 1 after two years as president. The departure lands a week after a $56M game-cancellation charge.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
GSC Game World Locks S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope Expansion to August 20, and Free Update 2.0 Tags Along
GSC Game World locks STALKER 2 Cost of Hope to August 20, with a free Update 2.0 engine overhaul and a Duty vs Freedom story for Skif on PC, PS5, and Xbox.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
Resident Evil Requiem Passes 8 Million Sales in Four Months as Capcom Posts a Monster Q1
Capcom Q1 FY26 earnings put Resident Evil Requiem at 8 million sales, Pragmata past 2.5 million, and the RE series overtaking Final Fantasy at 213M units.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-28
Cyan Worlds Just Released the Teaser for Project Anglerfish, a Cancelled Myst Game We Will Never Play
Cyan Worlds released a publisher-only teaser for Project Anglerfish, a cancelled new Myst game. Watch the trailer and learn why it will never ship.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-27
Capcom Wants a Resident Evil Game Every Year, and Remakes Are the Engine Making It Happen
Capcom producer Masachika Kawata says the studio aims to ship a new Resident Evil every year, with remakes funding mainline entries and new IP like Pragmata.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-26
Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Says Companies Should Still Ship Physical Games if Players Want Them
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser told IGN at SDCC 2026 that companies should keep shipping physical games if players want them, amid Sony's disc cutoff.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-26
God of War Laufey Locks a February 2027 Date and Santa Monica Confirms a Kratos Sequel Right After It
Santa Monica Studio pinned God of War Laufey to February 16 2027 on PS5 and Cory Barlog confirmed a Kratos-led sequel tied to the Faye story at SDCC.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-25
MECCHA CHAMELEON's Steam Workshop Is Dropping Malware, and the Dev's Accounts Got Hacked Too
A malicious MECCHA CHAMELEON Steam Workshop map drops a .bat malware loader while the dev's accounts and Discord get hijacked. Here is what to do now.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-25
Final Fantasy XIV Hits Nintendo Switch 2 on August 4 With a 117 GB Download and No Physical Release
FFXIV launches on Nintendo Switch 2 August 4 with Starter at $19.99 and Complete at $59.99. The 117 GB download is the console's largest game yet.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-25
FFXIV: Evercold Brings a New Job, FFVII and Evangelion Crossovers, and a January 2027 Launch Out of Fan Fest Berlin
Square Enix detailed FFXIV: Evercold at Fan Fest Berlin 2026, revealing the Bastion job, FFVII and Evangelion crossovers, and a January 2027 launch window.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-25
Halo: Campaign Evolved's Secret Ending Just Teased a Halo 2 Remake, and Fans Are Divided
Beating Halo: Campaign Evolved on Legendary unlocks a secret cutscene where Sergeant Johnson teases a Halo 2 remake. Fans have mixed feelings about it.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24
Japan's Patent Office Roasts Nintendo's Absurd Defense of a Rejected Pokemon Patent With a Snarky Clapback
Japan Patent Office rejected Nintendo Pokemon patent 2026-019762 with a snarky takedown of the publishers absurd defense and pedantry over character names.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24
Age of Empires III Baltic Powers DLC Uncancelled, Danes and Poles Land September 10 on Steam
Microsoft revives the cancelled Age of Empires III Definitive Edition Baltic Powers DLC for September 10, with the Danes and Poles joining the roster.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24
Amazon Games Confirms Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028 as Crystal Dynamics Adds Another Year of Silence
Amazon Games boss Jeffrey Gattis confirmed Tomb Raider: Catalyst is delayed to 2028, after Crystal Dynamics' fourth layoff round and the Atlantis slip.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24
Hi-Fi Rush PS5 Physical Edition Ships Without Promised DLC, and Superdeluxe Games Apologizes Publicly
The Japanese physical edition of Hi-Fi Rush shipped without its B-Sides expansion and DLC packs. Superdeluxe apologized; Limited Run is not affected.
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24
PSN Crashes Hours Into Marvel Tokon Open Beta, and the All-Digital Joke Writes Itself
PlayStation Network crashed hours after Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta launched July 24, a real-time case study in digital-only service risk
CriticalPixel · 2026-07-24