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Counter-Strike 2 can’t seem to stop the outflow. According to fresh Steamcharts data, the game’s average concurrent player count has slipped for the fifth month running – the kind of prolonged slide Valve’s shooter last endured back in 2021. The stats were flagged by the account NartOutHere. For the past 5 months, CS2’s average player count has gone down every single month Could this be related to…
Rockstar Games has confirmed that the download codes for Grand Theft Auto VI sold in stores for the PlayStation 5 will be region-locked. On Xbox Series X and S, those same codes carry no geographic restrictions at all. The reason is that GTA 6 won’t come on a physical disc when the game launches on 19 November 2026. Retail boxes will contain only a digital download code, and on PS5 the region on…
Blow up the bomb, everyone nearby dies. That’s been the deal since forever. Season 5 pokes a hole in it, and the fallout for how rounds end is sneakier than the patch notes suggest. Valve laid it out in a Steam post. The bomb no longer just cooks everything in a blast radius. Now the explosion rolls out from the site as a wave, travelling through the map. Cover finally matters after the plant Sit…
Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn’t launch until November 19, preorders haven’t even opened yet, and there’s still no word on a PC version. None of that has stopped a crop of websites from telling fans they can buy “VIP early access” right now. Malwarebytes has looked at them, and the verdict is exactly what you’d expect: there’s nothing on the other end of the payment. What the scam actually offers The…
There’s a particular kind of internet joy in this: a series can be over two decades old, sold in the hundreds of millions, and still hide a detail in plain sight on every cover it ever shipped. A Reddit user recently posted a collection of all the cover art from GTA III to VI in r/gaming, and the thread blew up. Not for the nostalgia, but for something people suddenly noticed for the first time.…
The marsupial might be coming back. Again. Fresh off the Spyro: A Realm Beyond reveal at the Xbox Games Showcase, the leaker who called that announcement before it happened has set his sights on another PlayStation-era icon. According to noarmsandnolegs, the X user with a track record on the Spyro tip, a new Crash Bandicoot project has been greenlit somewhere inside the machine. That’s the…
The teaser dropped back in December 2023. Since then we’ve had two delays, a parade of leaks, and enough “will they, won’t they” speculation to fill a soap opera. Now Rockstar Games has finally given fans something concrete to do with their anticipation: open their wallets. Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI go live Thursday, June 25, the studio announced across its social channels. The same post…
Activision has confirmed that pre-order players can start the Modern Warfare 4 campaign on October 16, a full week ahead of the October 23 launch. It's a perk Call of Duty hasn't offered in two years.
Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against the popular private server Project Ascension, accusing it of large-scale copyright infringement. It comes shortly after Turtle WoW was forced to shut down.
Infinity Ward is relaunching DMZ as a full Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 mode built around going big or dying trying, with dynamic missions, escalating enemy pressure, and a player bounty economy.
