Over 7 million players tried the beta out.

This past week, developer Embark Studios held an open beta for their destruction filled competitive FPS, The Finals. It proved to be a massive hit, pulling in 7.5 million different players throughout the week.

Embark Studios took to Twitter to state that the open beta made for "an unforgettable week." Using feedback pulled from the beta, the studio will now set out to make adjustments and fixes ahead of the game's...

The global release times for PC and consoles.

Activision announced the exact global release times that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer beta will begin. It all starts on October 6 with an early PlayStation beta for those that pre-ordered the game.

The Early Access PlayStation beta begins October 6 at 10AM (PT). The open beta for all PlayStation users begins on October 8 at 10AM (PT). October 12th at 10AM (PT) the beta will kick off for early access PC players,...

Plus Dolby Atmos support, new accessibility features, and much more.

A new beta is underway for the PlayStation 5 system software. This update includes some very nice new features, including several new accessibility features, support for Dolby Atmos audio, improvements for ease of use of the PS5 dashboard, support for larger M.2 drives, and much more. However, there is one addition that seems to be getting the most attention from fans and that is the addition of a new option that...

The beta is only for PC and Xbox.

From August 2 - 7, players will get a chance to play the closed beta for Payday 3. Registrations for this beta are currently up on both Steam and Xbox Series X|S. Those on Xbox may need to check out the Xbox Insider Hub to register for the beta. Those choosing Steam need only scroll down a bit on the store page and click the green "Request Access" button.

this closed beta will let you play as the original four characters: Dallas,...

This new feature, currently in beta, will let you install games between PCs on the same network.

A new beta release for the Steam client rolled out this evening and with it came support for what Valve is calling "Local Network Game Transfers." To put it simply, this is a new feature that will let users copy existing Steam game installations and update files from one PC to another across their local area network (LAN).

Valve says that this feature will let you...

The test is for PS5, Series X, and PC.

Capcom says that there will be a closed beta period for Street Fighter 6 coming this October. Specifically, the closed beta will run from October 7-10. The test seems to be mainly focused on the game's crossplay support, meaning that the test is going to be for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC versions of the game.

Those of you who are interested can sign up for the beta. The page also offers a look at additional details...

A deep-dive into the next Call of Duty, plus some beta weekends to add to your schedules.

To close out the Call of Duty League Championship Weekend, Activision announced an event that they are calling Call of Duty: Next. Next is not a new game in the franchise but rather a special event where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward will share tons of new details about this year's game.

Call of Duty: Next will be held on September 15. This event will lead...

Closed beta registrations are now open.

The latest video for the upcoming Skate game shows off some very early gameplay footage. How early? Very. The footage says that what is being shown off is from a pre-pre-pre-alpha stage of development. Also, I guess this video confirms that the game will be simply called Skate (stylized as skate.) instead of Skate 4.

Despite this early stage of development, the team wanted to show everyone what they've been up to since the game was...

See what new content is expected into 2023.

Blizzard talks about the Overwatch 2 Battle Pass, the scoreboard system, and even the roadmap of future content for Season 1, Season 2, and into 2023. This news all comes courtesy of a new PlayStation Blog entry from Blizzard.

Before getting into the planned content, let's just take a moment to remind you that there will be an Overwatch 2 beta happening June 28. By the way, registrations for that beta are now open. The game itself...

This follows word that Overwatch 2 will be free-to-play.

We have a double dose of Overwatch 2 news to share today. First off is word that Overwatch 2 will be a free-to-play release and it will be out on October 4. This announcement came alongside the reveal of a new hero named Junker Queen.

Junker Queen is a new tank class and the 34th hero included in the franchise.

More details about the beta were said to be announced during a live reveal event taking place...

Week one of the Overwatch 2 beta has come and gone and some changes are being worked on.

Last week, the beta for the Overwatch 2 PvP mode kicked off for a lot of players. It's the first Technical Beta for the game, which seems to indicate that more are coming, though this first one won't even be finished until May 17. Already, Blizzard is talking about things that they are looking to change and some things that they won't be changing, at least not yet.

Blizzard says that...

Something something beta something something.

The Overwatch hero known as Wrecking Ball has been pulled from the Overwatch 2 beta. A bug was discovered during this current round of testing that allowed Wrecking Ball to completely crash the game client for everybody else in the server with him.

Streamer supertf shared a clip that showed everyone just how easy this bug was to do. It seems supertf was intentionally trying to replicate the issue in the clip he shared but it...

Dragonwhat? This is the real big Warcraft announcement for today, right here.

Sure, Blizzard may have announced World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, but the bigger news is that they also announced World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic today! This makes a lot of sense since it seems as though World of Warcraft Classic is slowly following the old release schedule of the original game with content drops. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic came out back in May 2021....