The European Commission will not force publishers to keep games playable after shutdowns. It is still opening talks on end-of-life standards, which gives players a narrower but real pressure point.
Perfect games are nice. The ones players remember for decades are often stranger: rough, stubborn, full of ideas, and impossible to mistake for anything else.
Behaviour's 10th anniversary roadmap puts Jason Voorhees, Terrifier, community chapters, modding tools, and a 2027 visual overhaul on the same board.
Ubisoft's next Ghost Recon, reportedly known as Project OVR, sounds like it has hit a rough internal review. That matters because players are still waiting for the series to pick a lane and stick to it.
Capcom says the Code Veronica remake lined up because Resident Evil has spent years circling Leon. That makes Veronica more than a nostalgia slot on the schedule.
Cult classics endure because they had a point of view. Games need polish, yes, but the medium gets dull when every rough edge is sanded flat before it can mean anything.
Gareth Damian Martin's next RPG turns you into a mind-hopping parasite in a decaying coastal city. The strange part is not the fungus. It is what that premise could do to player agency.
11 bit studios is giving The Alters a 20-hour DLC epilogue on July 13. The smart hook is not the size, it is what cryosleep, aging alters, and terraforming could do to every decision.
Square Enix has shown the final Final Fantasy VII remake chapter. The trailer is exciting, but the hard part is making the whole planet feel worth revisiting in 2027.
Alpha 4.8 gives current players a real reason to log in, while the funding milestone and Squadron 42's missing date keep the old trust problem alive.
Season 4's naval maps sound like the right kind of Battlefield chaos, but EA's own roadmap makes the community wait until Season 5 for the server browser.
Sony Santa Monica's new PS5 God of War entry puts Faye in the afterlife, close to the 2018 game's timeline. That could be brilliant, if it knows when to leave the old silence alone.