// GAMINGARTICLES
Release news, guides, opinion, and deep dives from the CriticalPixel community.
GTA 6 Extended Look Hits Netflix First on August 27, Then YouTube Six Hours Later
Rockstar confirms GTA 6: An Extended Look premieres on Netflix at 3 PM ET on August 27, then hits YouTube and the official site at 9 PM ET, six hours later.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-06
Devolver Digital Pulls the Plug on AIM Listing, Wants to Go Private by Mid-September
Devolver Digital wants to delist from London's AIM market by September 16, citing a 96% share price crash since the 2021 IPO and public-market overhead.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-06
Xbox Finally Confirms 'Platinum' 100% Completion Achievements Are Coming Later This Year
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed Platinum style 100% completion achievements are coming later in 2026 with an Insider update featuring voice chat in captures.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-05
Xbox Insiders Just Got Voice Chat in Captures, 1,000-Game Wishlists, and Restoreable Cloud Saves
Xbox Insiders can now include voice chat in captures, sort achievements, restore cloud saves starting with Forza Horizon 6, and wishlist up to 1,000 games.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-05
Minecraft Lands on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27 With Vibrant Visuals and a Free Digital Upgrade for Switch Owners
Minecraft lands on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27 with Vibrant Visuals, an updated Mario Mash-Up pack, and a digital upgrade path for current Switch owners.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-05
Assassin's Creed Director Eric Baptizat Returns to Ubisoft to Lead the Whole Brand
Eric Baptizat, the director of Valhalla and the Dead Space Remake, is back at Ubisoft to lead the Assassin's Creed brand. Hexe is the first real test.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-05
Quantic Dream Union Calls Open-Ended Strike August 5 Over 115 Layoffs at Star Wars Eclipse Studio
French union STJV calls an open-ended strike at Quantic Dream starting August 5 over 115 layoffs, with Star Wars Eclipse caught in the middle of the dispute.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-05
Humble Choice August 2026 Drops With Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Dead Cells for $14.99
Humble Choice August 2026 lands with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dead Cells + Bad Seed, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge Ultimate and 5 more for $14.99.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Crimson Moon From ProbablyMonsters Locks September 1 Launch at $19.99 With Two-Player Co-op
ProbablyMonsters confirms Crimson Moon launches September 1 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S at $19.99 standard with two-player online co-op in the box.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Refactor Games Lays Off 85 Percent of Staff Two Months After Netflix FIFA Launch
Refactor Games laid off 85 percent of staff on July 31, two months after launching FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition on Netflix. Delphi pulled funding.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Mafia: The Old Country Man of Honor Expansion Drops August 14 With a Young Salieri
Mafia: The Old Country's Man of Honor expansion arrives August 14 for $9.99 with two Salieri story chapters, Free Ride jobs, and a bouncing throwing knife.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Xbox Game Pass August 2026 Wave 1 Hits Today With Beast of Reincarnation, Heretic + Hexen, and 7 More Games
Microsoft's August 2026 Game Pass Wave 1 adds Beast of Reincarnation, Heretic + Hexen, Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta, PowerWash 2, and more.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Shift Up CEO Defends the AI Music Video for Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, and Players Are Not Buying It
Shift Up CEO Kim Hyung Tae defends the AI-generated Wanna Be in Love music video for Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, asking players to view it with understanding.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-04
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Director Confirms Hard Mode Is in the Works, and Capcom Is Asking Players to Wait
Director Kinoshita confirms a Hard Mode is in development for Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, aimed at max-level players, with a late-August 60 FPS update.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Dave Bautista In Talks To Replace Ryan Hurst As Kratos In The Amazon God Of War Series
Amazon and Sony recast Kratos after Ryan Hurst tore his bicep on set. Dave Bautista is now in talks to take the role for the Prime Video God of War series.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
An 18-Year-Old Set His Steam Game to $200 as a Joke, Then $1.3 Million in Sales Vanished Overnight in 6,707 Refunds
New Hampshire teen priced his joke Steam game at $200 and watched $1.38M in sales evaporate into 6,707 refunds, leaving him with only $2,045.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Leaked Microsoft Roadmap Confirms Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility for Project Helix, Xbox PCs, and Handhelds
Leaked Microsoft roadmap shows Xbox 360 backward compatibility for Project Helix, Xbox PCs, and handhelds by 2027 to 2028, plus disc-to-digital in August.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct Lands Tomorrow With 20 Minutes of New Switch 2 Footage
Nintendo just locked a 20-minute Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave Direct for August 4 at 7am PT, one month before the Switch 2 launch on September 17.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Samsung Confirms the Memory Crisis Will Worsen Through 2027 as AMD Joins Nvidia in Hiking GPU Prices
Samsung's Q2 call confirms the memory shortage will deepen through 2027, and AMD is hiking GPU prices 10 percent to match Nvidia's 20 to 30 percent bump.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Palworld Online Is a Mobile MMO Spinoff from Garena, Hitting iOS and Android in 2026
Garena announces Palworld Online, a mobile MMO spinoff of Pocketpair's Palworld for iOS and Android in 2026, with co-op, PvP, and a new story.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-03
Project Zomboid Just Shattered Its Own Player Record at 114K Concurrent, Nearly 13 Years After Release
Project Zomboid hit 114,000 concurrent on Steam after the Build 42.20 stable release, doubling the 65K record from 2022. Here is what is driving the spike.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-02
Baldur's Gate 3 Hits a New Historic Low of 42 on Steam for Its Third Anniversary
Baldur's Gate 3 just hit a new all-time low on Steam at 42 dollars, 30 percent off, to celebrate the Larian RPG's third anniversary release on August 3 2023.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-02
Xbox Series S 512GB Hits 430 in the UK as Microsoft Hikes Console Prices Up to 49 Percent
Microsoft bumped Xbox Series X and Series S prices by up to 49 percent in the UK and 43 percent in Europe starting August 1, blaming a 2.5x memory crisis.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-02
PlayStation Fans Are Calling For a Week-Long #PSBlackout in August to Protest Sony's Disc-Kill Plan
PlayStation owners are running a #PSBlackout week from Aug 23-30 to pressure Sony over its Jan 2028 disc-kill plan. Analysts say it will not move Sony.
CriticalPixel · 2026-08-02