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According to a report from Android Central of all places, Sony is apparently decreasing their investment in virtual reality gaming. Sony allegedly has just two first-party titles currently in development for PlayStation VR2.

Sources speaking with Android Central say that Sony is "making deep cuts to funding for VR games." For a lot of PlayStation VR2 owners out there, it is probably a bit hard to imagine Sony investing...

A delay for a console that hasn't even been officially announced yet.

According to various reports, the Nintendo Switch 2 will now arrive in the "early months of 2025."

Reports from Bloomberg, VGC, and Eurogamer all cite insider sources that claim various game publishers have recently been told that the Switch 2 will not be out until "March 2025 at the earliest." The Nintendo Switch successor was allegedly set to be released before the end of 2024....

The game may also be set in Chicago.

VentureBeat's Jeff Grubb shared some information he's heard about the upcoming Need for Speed game. Grubb shared this news today on his premium Giant Bomb show Grubbsnax. The information was transcribed courtesy of VGC and from them it comes to you from Total Gaming Network. There's a lot of website synergy going on in this news piece.

Grubb says that the game will feature a unique art style not really seen in the franchise before....

Sources suggest that Ubisoft is already working on the next game.

Just yesterday, word came from Ubisoft that Ghost Recon Breakpoint would no longer receive any new content updates. Today, two sources speaking with Kotaku say that Ubisoft's Paris studio has already started work on the next entry in the series.

According to Kotaku's report, the next game is codenamed OVER and has apparently been in development for over a year now. It could arrive as early as fiscal year...

Essentially, it's everyone else's fault but their own.

A new report from Tom Henderson (writing for Xfire) claims that EA management held an internal meeting recently to talk about the problems with Battlefield 2042. At the meeting, EA says that they have "failed to meet the expectations of our players." They then went on to blame factors such as Halo Infinite's launch and COVID for the woes.

At this company-wide meeting, EA management spent over 20 minutes trying...

A separate movie staring Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong is reportedly in the works.

Seth Rogen might be flying solo as Donkey Kong if a new report by Giant Freakin Robot is to be believed. The site says that there will be a new film made with Seth Rogen reprising his role as Donkey Kong that will follow the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie.

Giant Freakin Robot shares this story that was shared with them from one of their "trusted and proven" inside sources. Their...

Will be coming to consoles and PC.

For some months now, rumors were swirling around that Rockstar Games was working on remasters for Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The rumors really began heating up when Rockstar parent company, Take-Two, suddenly began to issue takedown notices for multiple Grand Theft Auto mods. The prevailing thought was that they knew something was being worked on that could jeopardize sales of some sort of...

I figure an entirely new news post for this would be appropriate. Yesterday, it was reported from Kotaku's Jason Schreier that Blizzard had apparently pulled a Diablo 4 announcement at the last minute from BlizzCon 2018. A video had apparently been recorded featuring Blizzard's co-founder Allen Adham talking to fans about a new Diablo project. The original statement says that Blizzard pulled this video announcement from BlizzCon 2018 at the last minute. Blizzard has since ...

A new report from Kotaku's Jason Schrier says that Blizzard pulled a Diablo 4 announcement from BlizzCon ahead of the annual event. Last week, the single Diablo reveal was for Diablo Immortal, a new game coming exclusively to mobile devices running Android and iOS.

Naturally, people were upset. This is despite Blizzard and the Diablo developers saying that they have "multiple teams working on different Diablo projects" but they would not talk about all of them during BlizzCon...

According to a report that went up today from Polygon, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII will not feature a "traditional" single-player campaign. It will instead focus more on the multiplayer and Zombie modes.

Sources close to Polygon said that development by Treyarch on Black Ops IIII has been going rather poorly. As a result, it seems as though the single-player campaign wasn't going to be completed in time for the game's release date, which is still set for October 12, 2018....

According to a report that went up today from Polygon, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII will not feature a "traditional" single-player campaign....

The latest Destiny 2 DLC rumor comes to us courtesy of Jason "Press Sneak Fuck" Schreier of Kotaku. This rumor suggests that the first piece of DLC will focus on the magical space wizard, Osiris, and will include a new patrol zone and new social space.

As always, the sources are anonymous, but Schreier's track record on rumors is pretty damn solid. The DLC is apparently called The Curse of Osiris and is slated to be released this December. There will be a new patrol area and...

The latest Destiny 2 DLC rumor comes to us courtesy of Jason "Press Sneak Fuck" Schreier of Kotaku. This rumor suggests that the first...

It seems as though there may have been a leak of some screenshots and concept art for a Life is Strange prequel. Yes, Dontnod announced already that they are working on a second season of Life is Strange with new characters, a new setting, and a new story. This prequel that is rumored isn't from them. It is instead apparently by Deck Nine.

If the name doesn't sound familiar to you, it may be because they used to be known as Idol Minds. Idol Minds worked on games like Pain...

It seems as though there may have been a leak of some screenshots and concept art for a Life is Strange prequel. Yes, Dontnod announced already...