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Castlevania fans will soon be able to complete their Castlevania Blu-ray collection. Season 2 of Nocturne releases on Blu-ray January 27, 2026, just over a year after its streaming debut on Netflix. Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 is available to preorder for $30 (was $35) at Amazon and $31.48 at Crunchyroll. If you part of the reason why you love the series is because of the excellent artwork, you can also preorder Nocturne's official art book for $55 ahead of its March 3 publication date...
Developer Santa Ragione is reporting that its controversial indie horror game Horses sold 18,000 copies in two weeks. That was apparently enough to save the studio from financial ruin, but perhaps not enough to pay for production a second game. According to a statement released by the developers, Horses generated $65,000 in net revenue, which allowed Santa Ragione to repay its loans and pay the royalties it owed to Andrea Lucco Borlera, the author and creator of Horses. However, the income...
If you've been looking for more of a challenge from Dying Light: The Beast, then you're about to get it. Developer Techland has dropped Update 1.5 for Dying Light: The Beast, and it's giving players the chance to test their skills in the Nightmare Experience. To turn up the heat on players, human and infected enemies are now smarter, more aggressive, significantly stronger, and more reactive to the players' actions. Volatiles may now even appear during the day in some of the Dark Zones, and...
The Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it among the best-selling games of all time. Warner Bros. Games made the announcement today, December 17, amid its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery's sale to Netflix, or Paramount. At 40 million sales, the game is a smash hit, but not quite close enough to break into the top 10 best-selling games ever. Hogwarts Legacy was developed by Avalanche Software and published by Warner Bros. Games...
The Game Awards had another strong year in 2025, with host and organizer Geoff Keighley announcing today that the show reached 171 million global livestreams. That's up 11% from 154 million in 2024 and makes the 2025 show the "most watched TGA in history." Keighley also states that conversations about TGA on X were up 12% and that the show had 23,000 co-streams across Twitch and YouTube, which was up 50% year-over-year. The new streaming viewership numbers do not count views on Prime Video...
Earlier this year, Silent Hill f became the first game in the series to ditch the small American town that the series was named for in favor of setting it in Japan decades earlier. That approach may be used again for future titles in the franchise, according to developer Motoi Okamoto. "We believe we could perhaps take similar approaches with other cultures across the globe," Okamoto told Inverse through a translator. "For example, in Central or South America, we could perhaps tap into the...
Season 1 of Black Ops 7 and Warzone is currently underway, and now Activision has announced Call of Duty's crossover with Amazon Prime Video's Fallout TV show for the midseason update. Activision released a very brief teaser clip for Black Ops 7 and Warzone to reveal the operator skins for this upcoming crossover. While you can't see the full details of the operator skins, the silhouettes clearly hint at operators for Lucy, The Ghoul, and Maximus in his power armor. Call of Duty's big IP...
For three decades, the Tekken series has brought players together as they control of some of the best fighters in the world. Now, a 92-year-old Japanese woman named Hisako Sakai has carved out her own legend in the King of the Iron Ring battles by winning a Tekken 8 tournament. As reported by Automaton, the tournament of senior citizen Tekken 8 players was put on by the Japanese eSports association Care. The mission statement of that organization is to "create an environment in which the...
The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex Playground has outsold Xbox hardware for November in the US, according to Circana. Nex Playground came in third for hardware units sold last month, outpacing Xbox Series X|S. The only saving grace is that Xbox raked in more dollar sales, as Nex Playground retails for $250 but has been on sale for...
A leading industry observer has predicted that EA's Battlefield 6 is "extremely likely" to outsell Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in the US to finish as the year's No. 1 best-selling game. Prior to the release of Battlefield 6 in October and Black Ops 7 in November, industry experts predicted that Black Ops 7 would come out on top. But new data has arrived pointing to Black Ops 7's sales struggles, and now Mat Piscatella of Circana has told IGN that EA's game will likely be the...
Looking for something new to play? Fallout 76 is available now on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for free, but only for a limited time. Bethesda has announced that the online RPG is now completely free to download and play through December 23. The freebie offer is not available on PC. Additionally, Bethesda has announced that Fallout 76's paid membership, Fallout 1st, is getting a free trial through December 23 as well. The Fallout 1st Limited Preview Trial, as it's called, can be claimed through...
Fallout 5 is one of the games currently in the works at Bethesda Game Studios. It's still years away from release, but now Bethesda boss Todd Howard has shared a small update about it. He told the BBC that Fallout 5 will be influenced in part by the popular Prime Video Fallout TV show. "In short, yes," he said. "Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening. We are taking that into account." Fallout 76 has also been influenced by...
The 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider has found its way to several platforms over the years, but in 2026, Lara Croft is about to find herself shipwrecked on mobile devices. Tomb Raider is officially coming to iOS and Android devices on February 12, 2026, and it's priced at $20. This version of the game will also include all 12 DLC packs, adding more outfits, upgrades, and a bonus Challenge Tomb. Feral Interactive says the game has been "expertly optimized" for smartphones and tablets and will...
Down under may have just given us the down low on Dispatch coming to Switch and Switch 2. That's because the Nintendo storefront for Australia has listings up for the episodic game, revealing that the title is planned to launch January 29 on both Nintendo systems. There hasn't been an official announcement from Dispatch developer AdHoc Studio yet about Switch and Switch 2 ports. However, the official Nintendo eShop pages point to this being a matter of when, instead of if, Dispatch arrives...
For years, EA Sports was the one-stop shop for FIFA-branded soccer, but that partnership officially ended in 2023. Since then, FIFA has been absent from the video game scene, but today Netflix Games and Delphi Interactive have announced that they will be bringing officially branded FIFA soccer back in a new game slated to launch in 2026. The unnamed FIFA soccer game will be available via the Netflix app on both iOS and Android devices, and it is planned to launch "this summer," just in time...
The Last of Us co-director Bruce Straley has shared his thoughts on using generative AI to aid in game development, saying the technology cannot "grow and think for itself." The technology "just consumes, and tries to mimic what it's consumed," he told Polygon. "That's the best it can do right now." He also described generative AI as "a snake eating its own tail." One of the reasons why AI has been such a contentious issue in gaming is that not everyone defines it the same way. For his...
It's no secret that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 hasn't sold as well as 2024's Black Ops 6, and now Circana has released more sales data that speaks to the performance of the military shooter. Black Ops 7 was the No. 1 best-selling game in North America for November, but the Call of Duty franchise experienced a double-digit percent decrease for full-game dollar sales compared to November 2024. Last year's game, Black Ops 6, was released in October. Despite the sales downturn, this marks the...
Circana released its monthly sales report for November today, shining a light on how the North American video game business is performing. Hardware sales had a particularly difficult month, with sales falling 27%, from $949 million in November 2024 to $695 million in November 2025. November 2025 represented the lowest hardware spending total for a November month since November 2005 ($455 million). A total of 1.6 million game hardware units were sold in North America for November 2025, and...
Developer Turn 10 Studios has announced that it is ending development of new content for Forza Motorsport. In a blog update, the studio confirmed that there will be no "new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes" for the game, but it will continue to support Forza Motorsport by keeping the servers online. "As our team shifts its focus toward delivering the best possible experience with Forza Horizon 6 in 2026, we do not plan to introduce new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug...
Xbox's December update is here, and this time it's focused on your off-console experience. The update brings new store functionality to the Xbox mobile app, as well as adding Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio support to the Xbox Wireless Headset, improving battery life and audio quality with certain Windows 11 devices. In April, Microsoft added the ability to purchase games and subscribe to Game Pass directly from the Xbox app. Now, making it even easier to buy games from your phone, the app...