Game-Fi

Ubisoft has not officially commented on a game it has never officially announced, which is the correct response and also the most frustrating possible response for everyone who wants to know what is happening.

Resident Evil Requiem shipped 7 million units and Ubisoft is releasing a horror franchise as a party game in the same year, the reading of the market here is distinctive.

Assassin's Creed Invictus has been in development four years, got poor playtest responses, and has a 2026 release date, Ubisoft is either fixing it or shipping it either way.

Until Dawn 2 leaking through a deleted Reddit post that someone immediately archived is the modern game announcement pipeline and it works about as well as the official one.

Users bypassed Discord's age verification using the photo mode in Death Stranding 2 which is the most specific sentence about online safety enforcement that has ever been written.

Lowkey excited for this one

Capcom teased the Onimusha release date by pretending their social media got hacked and then not revealing the release date, which is either genius marketing or the most elaborate way to announce that an announcement is coming.

Hotfix 4 in the first week means hotfixes one through three also happened this week and Lord of Hatred launched less than seven days ago, well received is doing some heavy lifting as a description.

LEGO Batman drawing combat inspiration from the Arkham series but reworked to remain accessible for all ages is a sentence that means children will feel like Batman and adults will feel like they are watching children feel like Batman.

LEGO Batman building an original narrative across comics, films, TV, and previous games rather than adapting a single storyline is the correct creative decision for a franchise with decades of contradictory canon, it sidesteps the impossible task of choosing which Batman is canonical while letting the design team pull the best elements from everything.

Future powered by AI costs us

Xbox hardware revenue down 32% because there are not enough exclusives to buy it for and not enough friends who own one to play with, the two main reasons people buy consoles are both broken at the same time.

Your friend group already owns the same console as you being nearly as important as exclusive games means the most powerful marketing tool in the console war is just peer pressure.

GTA 5 came out in 2013, is still in the top played games on every platform, and GTA 6 has to follow that, Rockstar built their own impossible standard over thirteen years.

The CEO of the company releasing the most anticipated game in history said he is terrified and somehow that is the most reassuring thing he could have said.

Wuchang fans went from the studio dissolved and it is over to actually the IP is preserved and a sequel is possible in about three weeks which is the most unexpected lore update of 2026.

Rockstar gave RDR1 a 4K 60fps patch and RDR2 is still sitting there on PS5 looking at them like a disappointed parent.

Digital Bros bought an entire game franchise for less than a mid-tier esports signing bonus and called it a long term investment.

Injustice 2 came out in 2017 and we have been waiting so long that the kids who played it at launch can now legally buy the DLC themselves.

Suicide Squad killing the Justice League and Wonder Woman's cancellation means DC gaming has effectively zero goodwill left with core audiences, which makes Injustice 3 not just a NetherRealm release but a reputational recovery vehicle for the entire DC games label.