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Fable has been delayed until February 2027, Microsoft has announced.A social post from the Xbox account reads:“This is year is packed with incredible games for Xbox players to enjoy, from Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 to Control Resonant, Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Grand Theft Auto VI.“In order to plan our game launches through the holidays, in a way that works best for players, we’re moving Fable to February 2027 so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves. We’re excited to be giving players a major new look at Fable,…
Fable will be delayed to February 2027, Xbox has announced. The RPG had previously been set for a fall 2026 launch, and chief content officer Matt Booty insists that it’s coming along just fine – the company just wants to be sure that it has the best possible chance to find its audience.”In order to plan our game launches through the holidays, in a way that works best for players, we’re moving Fable to February 2027 so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves,” Xbox says in a tweet. “We’re excited to be giving players a major new look…
I fired up the launch patch notes for Io Interactive’s 007 First Light hoping to find some rich material for James Bond quips. You know, like when James Bond beheads a villain with a skillet, then says something like “I always suspected you were… small fry.” Or when James Bond murders somebody during an egg-and-spoon race, then says “You’re cracking me up, my dear sir.” Alas, developers Io Interactive have let me down. The game’s first hotfix is a bunch of routine but important-sounding fixes for various crash bugs. For example, it fixes a crash that occurs during a cutscene…
A new Crimson Desert update going into the weekend has become a staple feature at this point, but that doesn’t mean that Pearl Abyss is letting off the gas. The open-world game continues to evolve with each subsequent set of patch notes, and this latest round is particularly good news for controller players and pet enthusiasts. There’s also some extra assistance for farming, and a pair of new skills for Kliff’s spotlight-sharing deuteragonist and tritagonist duo, Damiane and Oongka (I’ll let you decide which is which). While the sheer list of additions and fixes stretches almost beyond counting, some of…
Fandom and Gamespot’s parent, Integrated Media Company (IMC), is set to become the majority owner of Balatro publisher, Playstack.Playstack’s current owner, Turin, announced the proposed sale earlier this week, as noted by Game Developer. It told investors it had agreed to sell its 84.5 percent stake in the UK publisher to VantageCo, a direct subsidiary of IMC, for £112.4 million ($151 million).If the deal is approved by shareholders, it means the indie games publisher will become part of the same ownership as entertainment brands such as Fandom, Screen Junkies, Fanatical, and GameSpot.Playstack claims it has a ‘hit ratio’ of more…
Mike Fischer, former Sega of America vice president of entertainment marketing, recalls working with Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka, and not very fondly.Fischer worked for Sega in the early 90s before returning to the company in the early 2000s, and speaking to Sega 16, he explains, “It was wonderful to go back and reconnect with those people. It was less pleasant to deal with Naka-san.” He recalls speaking about trends in the western market going towards mature games, with the soon-to-be-developed Yakuza playing into this nicely. But Fischer recalls, “Naka just went fucking ballistic on me, yelling at me, saying I…
Helldivers 2 has a new update that aims to improve the extraction shooter’s performance, a source of some woe lately among Super Earth’s democracy-managers. It introduces support for upscalers – specifically, FSR 3.1.5 (with FSR 4.0.3 for certain GPUs), DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3.0 – together with variable rate shading and dynamic resolution scaling. The patch also tunes the performance on high reflection settings, adds some new resolution settings for more capable monitors, and cleans up VRAM management on PCs that are embarrassingly short on that VRAM malarkey. Is your PC a little VRAM-light? Shhh now, we don’t judge here…
It’s difficult to avoid the ongoing discourse surrounding concurrent player numbers on Steam. Hell, we’re guilty of it ourselves. It’s understandable why so many people are so fixated on this metric; it’s one of the only numerical ways to identify how successful a game launch has been, after all. For indie developer Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le, the discussions surrounding his game, Alpha Response, feel like they’re mostly being held in bad faith. Alpha Response was released into Steam Early Access back in October 2024, and while the player count numbers may paint a bleak picture for any prospective buyers, there’s more…
This is a blog post, where VGC writers post irreverent and (occasionally) entertaining coverage of video game culture.The latest episode of VGC: The Video Game Podcast is now live, featuring insight on the week’s biggest gaming stories from our team of journalists.This week, Jordan Middler and Andy Robinson chat about the week in news.Stories this week include the Steam Deck price increase, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 coming to Switch 2, and more.Next week’s podcast schedule will be altered due to Summer Game Fest. Look out for daily podcasts from the show.If you enjoy our weekly show, you can…
Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick says the company’s 2025 missteps with Borderlands 4 and Civilization 7 aren’t a big problem in the grand scheme, and that publisher 2K is still “crushing it.”While Take-Two is in for a good year in 2026 – mainly because GTA 6 is going to make billions even if it’s somehow bad – it’s easy to overlook that 2025 wasn’t exactly the best year in its history. Borderlands 4 released to somewhat lukewarm reception (despite solid reviews) but the game’s PC port was the star of the show when it comes to that game’s issues, with it…