Live Service themes
2026-08-31 15 stories
- Pokémon Go 'Mega Ascension' choose a path — Mega Chesnaught, Mega Delphox or Mega Greninja? 2 sources
- Yahoo is quietly building a games business, and it’s starting with daily webgames
- Some of WoW's hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that's on purpose, developers say
- Sega’s Rovio Copenhagen studio is closing after its mobile game Sonic Blitz was cancelled
- Pokémon Go Mega Evolution guide
- Mortal Shell 2 Update Fixes The Game’s Stingy Economy
- Marvel Snap’s Hit New Draft Mode Will Return In September With Changes
- Get The Entire Destiny 2 Experience At 75% Off For A Short Time
- Fortnite Releases New Official Roadmap Ahead of Season's First Major Update
- Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded are officially over as 1047 Games says it's probably done making arena shooters
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Developers Address Time to Kill Criticisms and Tweak Weapons in New Beta Update
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta Steam numbers haven't budged in the second weekend, despite Warzone's arrival and transformative patch
- Blizzard doing 'a thorough scrub' of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come
- All Adventure Effects and what they do in Pokémon Go
- AC Black Flag Resynced Update 1.0.7 Live Tomorrow on PS5, Get the Patch Notes Here
2026-08-30 6 stories
- Three Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In September 2026
- The soft launch games you need to know about from Supercell, EA, Tencent, Moon Active, Zynga, Meta and more
- Phasmophobia's second Quality of Life update adds Restricted maps, VR fixes, and much creepier deaths
- Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition is exciting enough on its own, but it's also our last chance to properly experience the game's launch day hype
- Dragon Ball Free-To-Play MOBA Announces Major "Overhaul" Ahead Of First Anniversary
- Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games
2026-08-29 8 stories
- The Long Dark will get new DLC again as studio shifts devs away from the sequel to survive an 'uncertain' industry: 'We have to adapt to this' 2 sources
- Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready
- STALKER 2’s Second DLC Will Be ‘Quite Different’ From Cost of Hope
- Mortal Shell 2 gets its first major update, adding in extra beacons, useful new items, and making riposte damage scaling actually work
- I want MMOs to waste our time again
- Hello Neighbor's multiplayer spinoff has been 'temporarily shut down' after a hacker wiped player progression and demanded the game's 'removal from sale across all platforms'
- All the key details on HoYo's co-op monster slayer Nodusfall
- All sprites in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4
2026-08-28 9 stories
- STALKER 2’s Free Multiplayer Update Remains in Development
- PS5, PS4 Beat-'Em-Up Scott Pilgrim EX Grows with Both Free and Premium Content
- Nodusfall isn't Elden Ring, Monster Hunter or a typical HoYoverse game—it's something very different
- New game digest: PUBG Mobile Light, Aniimo, Petit Planet, Wobbly Life, Monster Hunter and more
- Modern Warfare 4 Adds Tactical Sprint to Blood Rush
- It’s Totally Fine For Epic To Lock A Fortnite Skin Behind A Trip To Disneyland
- How Will GTA 6 Work With GTA Online? Here Are 3 Possibilities
- EXCLUSIVE: WARDOGS Could Get Extraction and PvE Modes One Day – And Prototypes Exist Now
- All the key details about 'anime GTA' game Ananta
2026-08-27 8 stories
- All Pokémon World Championships 2026 Pokémon Unite Twitch Drop Rewards & How To Get Them 5 sources
- GTA 6 Skipping PC At Launch And Having No Online Right Away Is Good, Helldivers Boss Says 2 sources
- What time are the Sonic power hours in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4?
- Once Human Isles of the Abyss Expansion Preview: Venturing Into the Unknown
- Manor Lords celebrates 4 million copies sold with a new major update which gives players the chance to become 'a cow-herding mogul'
- Crimson Desert will be slowing down its free updates in preparation for its paid DLC, and I'm just glad Pearl Abyss is finally pacing itself
- Arc Raiders is adding a camera mode as part of October's major update, but some fans need more proof that the game's not going to wither away
- "We're not doing something that everyone [would] do": After Cost of Hope, Stalker 2 devs are working on multiplayer which won't be "session-based" like Counter Strike
2026-08-26 4 stories
- 1047 Games ends active development on Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, says it's moving away from live service shooters 3 sources
- Crimson Desert Enhanced is a free upgrade that's out now and revamps the story, adds new skills and comes with all previously-released updates 2 sources
- Exterminauts Season Pass Won’t Make You Pay If You’re Willing To Play
- Aniimo, the Free-to-Play, Pokémon-Like RPG, Joins the September Madness on PS5