// GAMINGARTICLES
Release news, guides, opinion, and deep dives from the CriticalPixel community.
Diablo 4 Switch 2 Leak Locks September 12 Launch With Both Expansions and a $69.99 Code in a Box
Diablo 4 Switch 2 leak from Dealabs says September 12 launch at $69.99 with the Age of Hatred Collection and a code-only physical box at retail.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-17
Sony CEO Totoki Tells WSJ PlayStation 6 Launch Date Still Hasn't Been Decided as Component Crisis Rages On
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki told the WSJ the PS6 launch date has not been set internally, blaming a brutal RAM and storage component crisis keeping it in limbo.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-17
McDonald's UK Locks Xbox 25th Anniversary Side Missions With Halo, Forza, Fallout 76, and WoW In-Game Rewards
McDonald's UK teams with Xbox to drop in-game rewards across Halo, Forza, Fallout 76, WoW, Overwatch and Candy Crush Saga for the console's 25th anniversary.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-17
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Hits 485,000 Sales in Its First Week, 74 Percent on PS5
Marvel Tokon sold 485,000 copies in its first week per Alinea Analytics, with PS5 taking 74 percent and a 75 percent North American playerbase.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-16
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Sells 316,000 Extra Copies After Brand New Day Film Lands in Theaters
Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sold 316,000 extra copies and hit 1M daily players after Spider-Man Brand New Day hit theaters. Data from Alinea.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-16
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 Override Lands August 20 With Sonic, Mega Man, Crash, and Joker Crossover
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 Override drops August 20 with Sonic, Mega Man, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Joker in a Gaming Legends Battle Pass push.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-16
Sony Files PlayStation Patent for AI Pseudo Accounts That Bait Scammers and Predators Before They Strike
Sony's PlayStation patent 18/314775 deploys AI controlled pseudo accounts that pose as victims to flag scammers, spammers and predators in real time.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Former Square Enix Exec Says Sony's Disc-Free PlayStation Could Actually Lower PS Store Prices
Jacob Navok, Square Enix business strategist from 2010 to 2015, argues Sony killing PS discs will create Steam-style dynamic pricing on the PS Store.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Assassin's Creed Creator Patrice Desilets Locks 1666 Amsterdam Early Access for August 25 on Steam
Patrice Desilets' 1666: Amsterdam hits Steam Early Access on August 25 via Panache Digital Games, ten years after Ubisoft first reclaimed the rights.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Matt Groening Teases The Simpsons Hit and Run Return at D23, New Radical Games Hype Stacking Behind It
Matt Groening said The Simpsons Hit and Run is coming back in some form at the D23 panel, with Matt Selman trying to walk it back. We dig into the real signals.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Kingdom Hearts 4 Locks Late 2027 Window at D23 With Coco World and First Disney+ Anime
Kingdom Hearts 4 finally has a release window: late 2027. Square Enix used D23 to drop a Coco world, a new trailer, and a Disney+ anime series in one night.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Phantom Blade Zero Locks State of Play for August 17 With Donnie Yen Doing Real Mo-Cap Work
Phantom Blade Zero pre-orders are live ahead of an August 17 State of Play. Donnie Yen explains his mo-cap work on the PS5 wuxia action RPG.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-15
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Confirmed for August 21 with First Ever Campaign Mission Entrenched
Activision and Xbox confirmed the Modern Warfare 4 beta runs August 21 to September 1 with the Entrenched campaign mission and a new Warzone Zodiac map.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-14
Bipartisan Senate Subcommittee Opens Formal Roblox Investigation Over Child Safety, 65,381 Exploitation Reports in 2025
Hawley and Durbin are dragging Roblox into a Senate Judiciary probe after the platform reported 65,381 child exploitation cases to NCMEC in 2025, double 2024.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-14
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Trailer Leaks in Full HD, Locks June 18 2027 Release Date
Four minutes of Beyond the Spider-Verse footage from CinemaCon hit social media in full HD, and Sony is scrubbing it from every platform it lands on.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-14
Nightdive's System Shock Remake Is Officially Getting a Full VR Port on Steam, Quest, and PSVR2
Nightdive and Flat2VR Studios confirmed a full System Shock VR port on Steam, Meta Quest, and PSVR2, with Flat2VR building it and a wishlist page live now.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-14
Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta Drops on Xbox and Steam With a 72 GB Download and Horde Siege Returns
Gears of War: E-Day open beta is live on Xbox and Steam from August 13 to August 17 with a 72 GB install, 4v4 Versus, 12 player Horde Siege, and beta rewards.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Total War: Warhammer III Lords of the End Times DLC Lands September 24 With Four Legendary Lords
Creative Assembly's biggest Total War DLC in 10 years ships September 24, with Nagash, Thanquol, Todbringer and the Glottkin plus a free Vampire Counts rework.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Netflix Closes Night School Studio and Moonloot Six Weeks After Unhinged, and Oxenfree Devs Are Out of a Job
Netflix is shutting down Oxenfree developer Night School and Helsinki-based Moonloot, cutting central games staff, and shrinking its first-party studios again.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Asobo Studio Locks Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy For August 27, Prequel Story Set on Minotaur Island Hits $49.99
Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment confirm Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy for August 27 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC at $49.99, day one on Game Pass.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Stop Killing Games Backs 457M Dutch Class-Action Against Sony's PlayStation Store Monopoly
Stop Killing Games backs a 457M Dutch class-action against Sony over the PlayStation Store monopoly and the so-called Sony Tax on digital game prices.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Nintendo Switch 2 In-Store Kiosks Now Warn Shoppers About September 1 Price Hike to $499.99
Nintendo Switch 2 demo kiosks in US stores are now flashing a September 1 price hike notice. The console rises from $449.99 to $499.99 in the US.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium August 2026 Drop Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, and Six More Heavy Hitters
PS Plus Extra and Premium August 2026 adds Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors, Hell is Us, and four more big titles.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-13
Epic Games Sells ArtStation and Sketchfab to KitBash3D, and the 10M-User Art Community Is Cheering
Epic Games is out of the artist platform business. KitBash3D now owns ArtStation and Sketchfab, and the art community is celebrating a fresh start.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-12