007 First Light was already shaping up to be one of the biggest games of 2026, and its launch-day sales numbers indicate it could very well live up to that high standard.

As shared by IO Interactive--who both developed and published the game--First Light managed to sell 1..5 million units in its first 24 hours. The game was initially available on May 26 for those who preordered it digitally, with the full launch following one day later.

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"Thank you for showing up to the launch of 007 First Light, for your overwhelming enthusiasm, and for sharing your experience with the game," IO said in the announcement post.

It's certainly been a long time since we've gotten a new James Bond game, and even longer since we got one truly worthy of the 007 name. 007 First Light seems to fit fully into the "truly worthy" category, with a snappier combat system than we saw in the Hitman games but with a healthy dose of improvisation and creative stealth thrown in for good measure. In our 007 First Light review, Mark Delaney said it "wisely repurposes what works in both [007 and Hitman] universes but isn't afraid to reimagine or ditch those parts that don't."

007 First Light is available now for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version arriving at a later date. It just received a new patch, as well, aimed at fixing several pesky crashes.

Players who hated the omnimovement of Black Ops 6 and 7 can rejoice, as today's reveal of Modern Warfare 4 confirmed that player movement will be dialed back for this new year of Call of Duty.

Introduced just two years ago, Treyarch's omnimovement allowed for player movement in any direction, and actions could be chained together to create some really fancy plays reminiscent of action movies. Players could dive backwards to avoid grenades or commit to a series of complicated wall jumps and slides. Omnimovement allowed the recent Black Ops games to cater to the "sweaty" movement kings of Call of Duty. While no one was required to perform these actions in game, there are likely players who will be happy to see the movement scaled back for Modern Warfare 4.

Of course, this doesn't mean Modern Warfare 4's movement will feel clunky or stale. Developers at Infinity Ward told GameSpot the studio changed its approach to player movement, with a heavier emphasis placed on "making Modern Warfare 4's movement as fast and fluid as possible." They said they felt that, with Modern Warfare 2, the team had made choices that restricted players, like slowing them down as they went through doors.

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Modern Warfare 4 does remove omnimovement and the wall-jump capability, so this is very much a boots-on-the-ground Call of Duty, but it will still feature refined parkour-style movement. Players will still be able to perform fluid mantling, sliding, and grabbing ledges, and the game adds the ability to climb up pipes for even more interesting engagement opportunities.

In other news, Modern Warfare 4 will allow players to choose a progression path for prestiging, and the campaign will also be playable offline, so players won't need to have an internet connection just to enjoy the game's story.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2. Unfortunately, this means the old generation of consoles are losing support, and Warzone will also no longer be playable on PS4 and Xbox One after Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4.
Like previous years, Modern Warfare 4 will feature an open beta ahead of launch, and more details on that hands-on opportunity will be revealed soon.

As part of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 announcement today, Activision unveiled what it called a "Loyalty" discount that will allow certain people to get the game's $100 Vault Edition for 10% off. That's not a whole lot, but it's enough to offset the tax you'd pay, and in a world where seemingly everything is getting more expensive, it's a notable discount if you want the more expensive version of the game. The discount does not apply to the game's $70 base edition. 

There are a couple ways to get 10% off Modern Warfare 4's Vault Edition with this program. First, Activision is offering 10% off for anyone who owned and played a Call of Duty game digitally or physically going back to 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The full list of qualifying titles is below--note that Call of Duty: Warzone is not included because it's free, nor are any Call of Duty games for mobile.

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Another way to score the discount on the Vault Edition is to have played one of the qualifying games on Xbox Game Pass and have an active subscription to Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, or PC Game Pass. You also qualify for the discount if you claimed a qualifying title from PlayStation Plus. 

Something further to note is that the 10% discount only applies to preorders and only within the same platform and on the same account. The discount does not apply to the $30 Vault Edition upgrade offering.

If you meet all of those criteria, you should see the 10% discount on your preferred digital store. Here is an image of what it should look like:

Qualifying Call of Duty titles for the Loyalty discount

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (2020)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
• Call of Duty: Vanguard
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Modern Warfare 4's Vault Edition includes the base game, along with a series of extras, including weapons, cosmetics, and Season 1's BlackCell bundle, among other things. Additionally, people who preorder any edition of Modern Warfare 4 get early access to the open beta and the Hunter Killer operator skin that can be used immediately in Black Ops 7 and Warzone.

Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It's also coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 the same day, and that's notable because the Call of Duty series has been absent from Nintendo's platforms since 2013.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hasn't just been one of CD Projekt's most critically acclaimed games in the years since it was first released, but also a consistent best-seller. The company has revealed that the game has reached a new sales milestone, selling 65 million units globally. To put this into perspective, that's another 5 million sales in just one year.

While this figure is impressive, it won't budge The Witcher 3 out of its current eighth-place position on the list of best-selling video games. Terraria is still in seventh place with 70 million lifetime sales to date, and it's probably a safe bet that Geralt's adventure won't be unseating Tetris (520 million lifetime sales) or Grand Theft Auto V (230 million lifetime sales).

Nevertheless, CDPR says that the game has built a massive network of players since its 2015 launch, and it expects to see more people return to the game when it releases the new expansion--don't call it DLC--Songs of the Past in 2027. Co-developed with Fool's Theory, the new expansion will continue the tale of Geralt. "The return of Geralt after more than one decade will be an excellent adventure, and a trip down memory lane, before we pass the baton to Ciri in the upcoming The Witcher 4," CDPR Joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski said in a statement.

The Witcher 3 built up those sales over a long period of time, with re-releases on multiple platforms and big discounts, not to mention the influence of The Witcher on Netflix. The game is usually available at a bargain price on sites like GOG whenever there's an annual sale, and with all of those factors added up, it's no wonder that it reached such high sales numbers.

CDPR also provided an updated look at how its development teams are split across several projects. Development teams have increased slightly for games like The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, with the only exceptions being Project Hadar's team shrinking by two people, and the unit dedicated to "other" projects at CDPR hasn't changed at all.

As of April 30, 2026, here's what those numbers look like:

Several CDPR teams have grown.

• The Witcher 4: 513 people
• Cyberpunk 2:  163 people
• Project Sirius (The Witcher multiplayer game): 83 people
• Project Hadar (original IP): 24 people
• Shared services: 173 people
• Other: 19 people

Several other projects are also in development currently. The first Witcher game is also getting a remake, and the first look at the second season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series will be shown off at Anime Expo 2026 on July 3.

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Activision officially revealed Modern Warfare 4 today, and we learned several new details about what to expect for a new year of Call of Duty, including a promising new change for how players progress in multiplayer.

Modern Warfare 4 arrives on October 23, featuring campaign, multiplayer, and the return of DMZ. While we don't have the full details of how progression will work, or if it will be available across all modes, we did learn that Modern Warfare 4 will give players the choice of two separate progression paths: classic or regular.

Call of Duty's classic prestige system is a popular choice in the community, which delivers the traditional reset experience, relocking a player's create-a-class progression in exchange for increased XP earn rates and access to exclusive rewards.

However, not everyone wants to deal with the hassle of a reset and lose all their progress. The option to choose Modern Warfare 4's "regular" path will still allow players to restart from level one without resetting their create-a-class content and losing everything. This path gives a flexible way to reward continued progression and offers its own set of prestige rewards and progression milestones.

Additionally, Modern Warfare 4's big reveal confirms there will be open-beta early access prior to release. It's also worth noting that Call of Duty is leaving the old console generation behind, and Warzone will no longer be playable on PS4 and Xbox One after Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4.

The full version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be available for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC. Multiplayer launches with 12 core multiplayer maps for standard-size matches, and some additional modes are planned for 3v3 and 10v10 experiences as well. The campaign includes a mix of legacy characters like Captain Price and Ghost alongside brand-new characters fighting in a Korean war.

One of the big gripes around last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was its always-online requirement for its campaign. Progress was often tedious--especially if you had a spotty online connection--and you couldn't even pause the game without risking death and a checkpoint restart. Fortunately, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 looks set to rectify that point of content, as its single-player campaign will be playable offline.

As confirmed by Insider Gaming, players will have the option to untether themselves from the internet if they want to play through the single-player campaign, which is particularly good news for anyone looking to experience the game through a mobile gaming PC like the Steam Deck or the Nintendo Switch 2 edition of Modern Warfare 4. Maintaining a stable connection on those platforms isn't always possible, so the removal of the always-online requirement means that users will have one less hurdle to worry about.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 players can attest to just how annoying this feature was. Originally, the idea for the game's campaign was to promote co-op play over solo missions, but this also meant that players working through a corridor of bullet-sponge enemies could be booted back to the previous checkpoint if their internet connection dropped. Open channels also meant that fellow players could talk over cutscenes, an issue that wasn't too bad if you were playing with friends. But if matchmaking paired you with someone unaware of just how bad their background noise was? It was absolute hell on the ears.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2. Developer Infinity Ward has described the campaign as a dark and dangerous tale, partly told from the perspective of a South Korean soldier as his country faces a full-scale invasion by North Korea. The game will also feature Call of Duty's signature action, without you needing to worry about a car chase being derailed by a bad internet connection.

Like previous years, an open beta for the game will kick off ahead of its launch--with more details on that to be revealed soon--and Modern Warfare 2's DMZ mode will be making a return.

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As part of the announcement of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 today, Activision also confirmed that Call of Duty: Warzone is going away on legacy platforms.

Starting with MW4 Season 1 (which itself is expected "shortly" after the game releases on October 23), Warzone will no longer be playable on PS4 and Xbox One. The game itself will be delisted for new downloads on those platforms on June 4, though anyone who still has the game can keep playing. Items like Call of Duty Points bundles will be removed on PS4 and Xbox One as well.

Then on June 25, the in-game store for Warzone on PS4 and Xbox One will be removed. Players will still be able to progress through the free Battle Pass, however.

People playing Warzone on PS4 and Xbox One who hold a Call of Duty Points balance when the game closes aren't completely out of luck. That's because content purchased with Call of Duty Points is connected to your Activision account, so as long as you're playing with the same account, your currency balance and purchased content should still be there. You can visit Activision's support page to get more specifics about this.

Activision also announced that when MW4 Season 1 launches, content from that game will begin to appear in Warzone.

Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Switch 2. An open beta is coming ahead of launch, and you can get in early.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 was officially announced today, and it'll be releasing in October. Prior to its full launch, however, the game will have an open beta, and as per usual, you're going to have an opportunity to get in early.

The open beta was confirmed via a post on the official Call of Duty blog, but Activision went short of saying exactly when the beta will be. In the past, beta tests have been held several weeks before launch, which would put the window here at sometime in September or very early October.

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If you want to play even earlier than that date, you can preorder Modern Warfare 4 for open-beta early access. The open beta will run for at least two days, and because Modern Warfare 4 is not going to be on Game Pass at launch, preordering it is likely necessary to play early.

The full version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC. Multiplayer will include a number of new and updated modes, including a 10-on-10 version of Gun Game. The campaign, meanwhile, will feature of a mix of legacy characters like Captain Price alongside low-level "grunts" in a renewed Korean War.

Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which is being led by series creator Infinity Ward. The game is set for release this October, and Activision is surely hoping the game performs better than 2025’s Black Ops 7--that game had the series’ worst sales-year ranking since 2008.

In this post, we’re rounding up everything we’ve heard so far. You can also read GameSpot's hands-on preview of MW4.

When will Modern Warfare 4 be released?

Modern Warfare 4 releases on October 23, 2026. That's about a month before GTA 6 launches on November 19.

Who is making Modern Warfare 4?

Infinity Ward is leading the development of Modern Warfare 4. The studio created the Call of Duty sub-brand and is working alongside a number of other teams on it. 

In alphabetical order, these include Activision Central Design, Activision Central Technology, Activision QA, Activision Shanghai, Beenox, Demonware, High Moon Studios, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, and Treyarch. 

MW4 trailers

You can check out the announcement trailer for MW4 below.

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Modern Warfare 4 is coming to all the major modern platforms, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Switch 2. The Nintendo release is notable given that Call of Duty has been absent from Nintendo's platforms since 2013's Wii U version of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Microsoft pledged to bring Call of Duty to Switch as part of its appeal to regulators to approve the company's blockbuster buyout of Activision, and now it's finally happening.

The Switch 2 edition is a native version, Activision said. Additionally, the company said the PC version of MW4 is being developed by Beenox and that MW4 in general has been "built with the PC community in mind." To that end, Activision said PC players can expect "more ways to tune performance, visual fidelity, responsiveness, and customization."

Modern Warfare 4 won’t be on Game Pass

All of Microsoft’s first-party new releases come to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on day one–or at least that used to be the case. In April this year, Microsoft announced drastic changes to Game Pass that included a price decrease and the announcement that new Call of Duty games will no longer launch into Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass. They will, however, arrive on Game Pass after about a year. What this means for MW4 is that anyone hoping to play it as part of their Game Pass subscription is out of luck and will need to pay for it outright.

Modern Warfare 4 preorders

Preorders for Modern Warfare 4 are not yet open, so there is no word yet on the game's various editions and their price points. 

Modern Warfare 4 story, setting, and characters

As rumored, Modern Warfare 4 centers its action on the Korea peninsula, with players taking on the role of Private Park. He is a young Korean "grunt" soldier who is going to battle for the first time. Park and his team are trying to overcome impossible odds in what Activision described as a "zero-to-hero" journey. 

One of the most famous members of Modern Warfare's Task Force 141, Captain Price, returns for Modern Warfare 4, but he's no longer part of the team. While the game is centered on Korea, Modern Warfare 4 will put players into battles in various places around the world, including New York, Paris, and Mumbai. 

What's new for multiplayer?

Multiplayer is Call of Duty's bread and butter, and of course it's returning for Modern Warfare 4. Activision said players can expect multiplayer that feels "grounded," which would be in keeping with tradition for the Modern Warfare series. This may be welcome news to those who do not enjoy the futuristic setup in the recent Black Ops games where players can run on walls and use cloaking devices, among other things. 

Activision is promising the "most authentic" Modern Warfare gunplay in Modern Warfare 4, with updates coming for bullet trajectory, weapon motion, Operator stance, camera, audio, FOV, and target visibility. Additionally, there is no more weapon bloom for hipfire. 

In terms of maps, there will be 12 all-new core 6v6 maps at launch, and that's notable because some previous Call of Duty games launched with recycled maps from previous games. Beyond the core modes, MW4 has dedicated Gunfight maps and Big War maps featuring vehicles and large-scale battles. There is also a new "Gunny" system for weapon customization, along with new "Apex" attachments that players unlock when they reach max weapon progression. 

Open beta

An open beta for MW4 was confirmed by Activision, but there is no word yet on any specifics like what it will include or when it will begin.

The return of DMZ

DMZ was a new mode for 2022’s Modern Warfare II, and while some people enjoyed and embraced it, others said it felt like a half-baked idea. The large-scale extraction-based mode had players amassing contracts, taking on missions, and fighting enemies in a variety of settings. As rumored, DMZ is returning in Modern Warfare 4, but that's the extent of what we know so far. Presumably more details about DMZ will be divulged later on.

Not expected to outsell GTA 6

The Call of Duty franchise is a juggernaut, but Call of Duty games are not known to outsell new releases from Rockstar Games, and that trend is expected to continue this year with MW4. For example, GTA 5 was the No. 1 best-selling game in the US in 2013, with Call of Duty: Ghosts ranking No. 2. In 2018, when Rockstar released Red Dead Redemption II, the open-world Western outsold Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 in the US.

It doesn’t take a Rockstar release to beat Call of Duty any more, though, as 2023 saw Hogwarts Legacy outsell Modern Warfare 3 and 2025 had Battlefield 6 as the No. 1 game, with Black Ops 7 all the way down to No. 5 for the year.

GTA 6 is coming to market with a seemingly unprecedented level of hype behind it, and it’s unthinkable that it wouldn’t be the No. 1 game of 2026.

How Modern Warfare 4 could use AI

Unlike other studios that either do not discuss AI or reject it outright, Activision has freely acknowledged that it uses generative AI to create some content in Call of Duty games. For Black Ops 7, the developer said they also used AI technologies, but also stressed, “Everything that goes into the game is touched by the team a hundred percent.” We do not know anything for certain yet about Modern Warfare 4 and AI, however.

Keep checking back with GameSpot for more on Call of Duty 2026 as more information becomes available.

Activision has officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and it's being released slightly earlier than some might expect. MW4 is set for launch on Friday, October 23 across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2.

That's 27 days before GTA 6 releases on November 19. For comparison, 2025's Black Ops 7 launched on November 14.

An October release date for a new Call of Duty game is not unprecedented, of course, as 2024's Black Ops 6 launched on October 25.

Given the enormous hype and unprecedented demand for GTA 6, game companies are generally avoiding launching new titles near the game. GTA 6 is currently the only major new release set to launch on November 19.

Not on Game Pass

Another notable development for MW4 is that it will not be available on Xbox Game Pass. As Microsoft announced previously, new Call of Duty games are no longer included with Game Pass, and instead won't come to the subscription program for about a year. This is part of a new "windowing" strategy whereby Microsoft excludes certain key games from Game Pass at launch.

MW4 will, however, be available on Nintendo Switch 2. That's notable because the Call of Duty series hasn't shown up on a Nintendo platform since 2013.

MW4's development is being led by Infinity Ward, the studio that created the sub-brand. The game's campaign puts players in the boots of the rookie soldier Private Park, with the story centering on the Korean peninsula. MW4 brings back multiplayer, of course, as well as the DMZ mode.

Activision has skipped Nintendo platforms for Call of Duty for more than a decade, as the last CoD release on a Nintendo platform was a port of Call of Duty: Ghosts for Wii U in 2013. That is changing this year, though, as Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will come to Switch 2 at launch on October 23. It'll debut that day alongside the game's other versions for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The game is not coming to last-gen consoles.

The new Call of Duty game showing up on Switch 2 is not a surprise, but instead the realization of a promise that Microsoft made years ago.

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In 2023, amid the FTC vs. Microsoft court case, Microsoft said it had signed a “binding 10-year legal agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo players.” The statement said Microsoft would launch Call of Duty on Nintendo platforms “the same day as Xbox, with full features and content parity.”

2024's Black Ops 6 and 2025's Black Ops 7 did not come to Switch 2, prompting many to wonder if Microsoft and Activision were actually going to follow through on the promise. In June 2025, Activision released a statement saying it was committed to bringing Call of Duty to Switch 2. A report from December 2025 said Call of Duty's release on Switch 2 was imminent.

The Switch 2 version of Modern Warfare 4 is developed by Infinity Ward in partnership with Digital Legends. It is a native version for Switch 2. It remains to be seen if the Switch 2 edition of Modern Warfare 4 has any differences compared to the game's other editions.

While Modern Warfare 4 is coming to Switch 2, Activision has not said if the popular Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale game is coming to Switch 2. Keep checking back with GameSpot for more.

Modern Warfare 4's story is centered on the Korean Peninsula, with players taking on the role of Private Park, a young Korean grunt soldier who is entering combat for the first time. The campaign is described as a "zero-to-hero" story.

A familiar Modern Warfare character, Captain Price, returns in the campaign, which will take players beyond Korea to places like New York, Paris, and Mumbai.

Beyond the campaign, Modern Warfare 4 brings back multiplayer, of course, with 12 brand-new 6v6 maps coming at launch. The DMZ mode returns as well.

Call of Duty has a long, strange history on Nintendo platforms.

If you've played the Call of Duty games in recent years--arguably any of them past the first handful--then you know the games tend to star heroes with near-superhuman reflexes, athletic abilities, and rapid decision-making. For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward is taking a step back, partially, from these larger-than-life heroes and putting you back in the boots of a regular "grunt" soldier. 

The decision to move back to regular soldiers--which should be familiar to Call of Duty 2 players, for example--came about as Infinity Ward developed the setup for Modern Warfare 4's story. Set during a renewed war between North and South Korea, it's a conflict with global ramifications, and the mandatory military service ingrained in South Korean society played a big role. You'll spend part of the game as the Korean soldier Private Park, who is facing combat for the first time.

"South Korea has a particularity that every single person there has to serve in the military when they're young, and so for us, that's an interesting perspective," Infinity Ward co-studio head Jack O'Hara told GameSpot during a pre-reveal game presentation. It's something we haven't seen in a long time, with the seemingly immortal Captain Price dominating much of the Modern Warfare games and Treyarch's Black Ops games starring the similarly impressive Mason family. 

"It's fascinating for us to go back to that perspective of young guys, 18 to 25," O'Hara added. "They have no idea what's going on, they're receiving an incomplete picture from their orders, and they're just trying to survive to the next moment." 

That doesn't mean you won't see any of your favorite Modern Warfare characters, however--just that there will be more of a balance between their otherworldly feats and the regular soldiers' experiences. Captain Price and the rest of Task Force 141 will still be in the game, and the plotlines between the two will connect. 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 could be a major turning point for Infinity Ward following the poor reception to Modern Warfare 3, and an opportunity for the story to get back on track. With the story seemingly breaking new ground we didn't touch in the old-school Modern Warfare games, it remains to be seen if this can inject some new life into the series at a key moment. 

Come launch day on October 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be available on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Switch 2, and PC.

More than a decade after it originally released, The Witcher 3 is getting new content, Songs of the Past. Developer CD Projekt Red wants fans to know that this is an "expansion" and not "DLC." The terms may be synonymous to some, but the Polish developer does not see them as being the same.

"For us at CDPR, DLCs are small pieces of content we release for free--like the additional outfits for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Expansions, on the other hand, are major pieces of content providing lots of hours of gameplay, including new story, characters, etc," CD Projekt Red's Marcin Łukaszewski said.

Another developer from CD Projekt Red, Paweł Sasko, pointed to comments from Cyberpunk 2077 actor Idris Elba to make his point about DLC vs. expansions.

"Just to be clear, it's not DLC. It's an expansion," Elba said about the Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077. "You know why? Because we do expansions. Big. Massive. Monster. We don't do DLCs. And when we do, we give them away [for free]."

The Witcher 3 had more than 15 free pieces of DLC. At the time, CD Projekt Red said it didn't want to charge for things like costumes and armor “because people just paid full price for our game. We owe them.”

Songs of the Past is The Witcher 3's third expansion, following Hearts of Stone (2015) and Blood and Wine (2016). The new expansion arrives in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and it's being made in partnership with Fool's Theory. That same studio is working on a remake of the original Witcher as well.

Songs of the Past has players returning to the role of Geralt of Rivia in a "brand-new adventure." That's all we know about the expansion, but CD Projekt Red said more details about the expansion will be released in "late Summer 2026."

More than hoodies, hidden blades, or alien artifacts, one of the defining features of Assassin's Creed is the Leap of Faith. Ever since the first game, players have been yeeting their characters off of tall structures and into conveniently placed bales of hay, and now, several people are attempting that feat in real life.

Ahead of the release of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, Red Bull Gaming organized a tropical jaunt for several athletes, tasking them with recreating Edward Kenway's signature leaps from the game. In total, the Red Bull crew took on four challenges: Jumping from a cliff into the ocean water, leaping from the top of a pirate ship, falling into a pile of sand, and capping the challenge with a Leap of Faith into hay. 

Unsurprisingly, jumping into water resulted in zero fatalities, although there was some hesitation from the group when they were on the ship, due to the motion of the waves making the vessel sway about.

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Once they got to the third challenge, things started to look a little hairy, with the sandpile not exactly providing the softest landing. The highest point from which a jump was executed was from 12 meters, with one of the Red Bull athletes coming dangerously close to missing the sand entirely. From there, the crew took on a classic Leap of Faith into hay, upping the ante and breaking the previous world record by jumping from a height of 18 meters--and in full Assassin's Creed cosplay.

Once again, the team miraculously survived, setting a new world record in the process. It's an impressive feat, although the 2016 Assassin's Creed movie contains an even more hair-raising recreation of the Leap of Faith. One of the highest freefalls performed in decades at that time, stuntman Damien Walters jumped from a height of 38 meters, landing on a massive stunt mattress below--good thing it wasn't a pile of hay, we guess.

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Fortunately, you won't need to risk life or limb to perform these stunts in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced. Launching on July 9 for PC and console, the game is a complete remake of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and brings it up to par with modern entries in the series. Opinions are mixed on some of the changes it introduces, which range from a refresh of the narrative to the removal of tailing missions with immediate fail states. Ubisoft has also begun promoting the game with a real-life treasure hunt, with $500,000 in booty waiting to be claimed.

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With a new season starting soon, Bungie is offering Marathon at its best price yet next week: free. For the low price of nothing, anyone interested in checking out the extraction shooter on PC, PS5, or Xbox Series X|S can grab a free trial for the game starting June 2 and running through June 9, with progress carrying over if they decide to drop $40 on it. PS5 players won't need a PS Plus subscription to go online, either.

With Marathon sales reportedly not being as great as Bungie hoped for and player numbers being modest at best, this might be the best chance for the developer to introduce people to the game. The June 2 date also coincides with the start of Marathon's second season, which will add the new Night Marsh zone, a new Sentinel Runner shell, and more deadly hardware. The important thing to note is that a new season also means that player inventories are wiped, leveling the playing field.

This means that you won't have to worry about running into fellow Runners equipped with top-tier loot at the start of the season. Other updates coming in the season include the Cradle, a new system that will let you level up your Runner shell stats without needing to worry too much about faction progression, increased faction progression speed, a larger Vault, and several quality-of-life changes. If you're curious, Marathon is worth trying out as Bungie has put its own fresh spin on the extraction shooter genre.

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"Bungie's slick extraction shooter is great at creating tense battles, incredible highs, and painful lows, with a future that's full of promise," Phil Hornshaw wrote in GameSpot's Marathon review.

Marathon appears to be Bungie's main priority for now, as the studio recently announced that Destiny 2 will receive one final content update in June. While the server lights will remain on for the foreseeable future, this update will serve as an epilogue of sorts to the live-service game, just when its story was starting to get good. 'Significant" layoffs are also expected to follow now that Destiny 2 is being sunset, but Bungie has confirmed that it is also developing several ideas for future games.

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Tales are circulating around Forza Horizon 6 currently, as players are being tormented by a four-wheeled Baba Yaga known as Bowie Knife99. An AI Drivatar unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality, Bowie Knife 99 prowls the streets of Japan, fueled by petroleum and homicidal urges. Already a legend, the perfect driving organism has become something of a meme since the launch of Forza Horizon 6, one that has broken free and has begun popping up in other spaces.

For the uninitiated, Drivatars in Forza Horizon 6 games are AI-controlled opponents that mimic the driving style and skill of players in the game. They emulate how people drive and can be challenged to a race, giving online players some surprisingly authentic competition on the track. And then there's Bowie Knife 99, as this Drivatar aims to beat players with pure aggression and unhinged driving. Bowie Knife 99 has been a menace, hunting down players and wiping them out mid-race. So terrifying is the thought of running into Bowie Knife99 that players have begun a quest to hunt down the automobile anarchist and give it a taste of its own medicine.

Even Xbox is aware of Bowie Knife99, and has joined a chorus of players who all share the same opinion: He can't keep getting away with this! Not content to just terrorize Forza Horizon 6 players, the legend of Bowie Knife99 has now spread across the world. Even Major League Baseball has joined in on the fun:

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/2059499510481494299

Battlefield is willing to lend a hand--or a rocket launcher:

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/2059661271834689622

Even Master Chief fears the Forza Horizon 6 boogeyman:

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/2059699909054656943

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios has issued a challenge to Bowie Knife99:

https://twitter.com/KingdomComeRPG/status/2059275871261708400

Walmart Canada isn't taking any chances and has banned Bowie Knife99 from its stores:

https://twitter.com/WalmartCAGaming/status/2059398691539099671

It looks like the ruthless drivatar has been spotted in Gotham:

https://twitter.com/LEGODCGame/status/2059848390939185396

Clearly, the staff at Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac Games aren't in a mood to talk:

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/2059228651804360928

Maybe the South Park gang can stop his rampage:

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/2059723002095280461

Rare reckons it's time to abandon ship:

https://twitter.com/SeaOfThieves/status/2059718833930191246

Leave Mega Man alone, you bully:

https://twitter.com/MegaMan/status/2059730712912449640

Ubisoft knows a thing or two about lethal blades:

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/2059708217957998784

Not even Crimson Desert is safe from the menace:

https://twitter.com/CrimsonDesert_/status/2059809380410044774

And the team over at Invincible Vs has summed up how ever Forza Horizon 6 player feels about Bowie Knife99:

https://twitter.com/InvincibleVS/status/2059381925924454850

For now, the identity of Bowie Knife99 remains a mystery, but they've already established their legend in Forza Horizon 6 and the world. They're the antithesis to heroes like Let Me Solo Her, and their reign of car-nage might only just be starting. But don't let that specter discourage you from trying out the game, as Forza Horizon 6 is proving to be one of the best entries in the series. While it doesn't deviate drastically from the path established in previous games, Forza Horizon 6 still provides plenty of digital dopamine hits while also fixing one of the most annoying aspects of the series.

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Diablo 4 is celebrating three years of demon slaying with increased XP rewards, the return of the game's March of the Goblins event, and daily free cosmetics, but players won't have long to take advantage of them.

From June 2-9, players will enjoy the Mother's Blessing XP buff, granting increased multiplicative XP in both the game's seasonal and Eternal realms. That will also be the same day the game's March of the Goblins event returns, heralding increased treasure goblin sightings and a reputation board that can be progressed by slaying them for even more rewards.

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It's a nice way to supercharge the back half of Diablo 4's current season, as players need increasingly more gold and XP to max out their characters in the endgame. But developer Blizzard is sweetening the deal even further with five days of free premium cosmetics that can be claimed from the Diablo 4 in-game shop. Below is the full schedule. 

• June 1: Blood Raven's Talon (One-handed Sword)
• June 2: King Kanai's Last Stand (Shield)
• June 3: Nangari Wounder (Dagger)
• June 4: Overlord's Odium (Two-handed Axe)
• June 5: Flamefinger's Claws (Glaive)

Diablo 4's second expansion, Lord of Hatred, released in April, making it the first game in Blizzard's long-running ARPG franchise to receive more than a single expansion. Lord of Hatred brought major changes to Diablo 4's endgame with the addition of War Plans, reimagined itemization with the addition of the Horadric Cube, overhauled class skill trees, a revamped difficulty system, and two new classes, the Paladin and Warlock. 

The result is an expansion that in many ways makes Diablo 4 feel like an entirely new game, even if Blizzard has admitted its constant changes make the game "hard for players to keep up with."

The meta of Diablo 4 continues to shift in the weeks following Lord of Hatred's launch, with a seemingly inconspicuous bug fix resulting in a new way to make players basically immortal. Meanwhile, the discovery of Mythic Unique Charms has upended what a "perfect" build looks like for those lucky enough to be able to find one.

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This week marks the 49th anniversary of the original Star Wars movie, and Hello Games appears to be paying homage to the seminal flick with its “mysterious Death Star-like construct” that will debut in No Man’s Sky’s latest update, The Swarm.

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Per the patch notes, The Swarm is set to begin soon and it will run for around eight weeks. This expedition will introduce a new threat to every living being in the galaxy, as the Swarm targets any travelers that get in its way. To end the Swarm and its massive weapon, travelers will be split into three teams--the royal, the sage, and the weaver--all of whom will have to work together to unlock a final confrontation. At the end of the campaign, the team that contributed the most to the war effort will be given their due in the Space Anomaly.

Hello Games’ Sean Murray promised that The Swarm will have the “biggest and most epic space battles to date,” before adding that “The Hive of Glass protects itself by releasing swarms of robotic drones, creating an awesome spectacle of battles with hundreds of ships. The Hive itself is a weapon too, with the iris opening to release the largest weapon we’ve ever seen in No Man’s Sky. A laser capable of destroying freighter fleets and perhaps even something as large as a space station.”

While Murray stopped short of calling the Hive a planet killer, the worlds of No Man’s Sky can be contaminated by the Swarm. Players can go through the effort of healing these broken worlds while investigating the wreckage of Swarm ships for clues about their past and potential ways to defeat them. However, salvage missions of this type pose new dangers to travelers as the Swarm can defend itself even when its ships are destroyed. 

The most recent No Man’s Sky update added Pokemon-like battles to the game. Players also gained Gravity Guns earlier this year, and that’s a weapon that may come in handy as The Swarm campaign unfolds. The complete patch notes for The Swarm are included below.

No Man's Sky The Swarm Update Update 6.4 patch notes:

The Swarm Expedition

• Expedition Twenty-Two, The Swarm, will begin shortly and run for approximately eight weeks.
• Players on the expedition will be assigned into one of three teams of Travellers, and allocated a ship and uniform in their team colours.
• All teams must work together to unlock the final battle. Progress is represented by the construction of the Prismatic Core in the Space Anomaly, as well as displayed in the Mission Log and on the Galactic Atlas website.
• Construction of the Prismatic Core is driven by completing three categories of missions to counteract the Swarm - Purge, Restoration, and Sabotage. Each category has a different impact on the rate and balance of construction.
• The most valuable team will be glorified in the Space Anomaly for all time.
• Rewards include new posters, decals and titles; flags representing your assigned soul fragment; the Direwasp rifle Multi-Tool; the Direwasp Flightpack; and the six-piece Direwasp customisation set.

Swarmer Enemies

• During the expedition, players will encounter two new enemy types: small, agile swarmer ships, and the huge, formidable Hive of Glass boss.
• In all game modes, crashed swarmer ships can now be found on dissonant planets. Crash sites are defended by small but deadly planetary swarmers.
• Buried debris from crashed swarmer ships can now be found on worlds which are both dissonant and contain salvageable scrap.

Stability and Optimization

• Fixed a rare softlock where the Connecting banner could display indefinitely when viewing the initial frontend screens.
• Fixed a crash related to rendering thumbnails for multiple complex corvette-class starships.
• Implemented a number of memory and performance optimisations related to ship trails and speedlines.
• Improved performance when piloting wheeled Exocraft on Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
• Implemented a significant optimisation in freighter battles.
• Improved performance of certain lighting calculations on CPU.
• Significantly improved performance when handling object visibility in complex scenes.
• Optimised memory usage when rendering UI in sub-4K resolutions on PS4 Pro.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when playing in 4K on PS4 Pro.
• Fixed a number of rare crashes.

Space Combat

• Improved the visibility of targeted enemy ships in third person space combat.
• Improved weapon aiming of the starship in third person space combat.
• Improved the navigation of the starship when using auto-follow in space combat, and allowed auto-follow to boost the ship.
• Improved the navigation and flight patterns of enemy ships in space combat.
• In space combat, when battling enemies with weak points, hitting the weak point will now always crit, and hitting other areas of the enemy will never crit.
• Improved the appearance of speedlines in the starship.
• Fixed an issue that caused mission notifications counting the number of nearby enemy ships to delay updating until a destroyed enemy ship completed its death spin.
• Improved controls for the player ship while in space combat.
• Fixed an issue that could allow Sentinel interceptors to spawn when space combat was disabled in the difficulty settings.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Sentinel interceptors from detecting criminal activity in space if ground combat was disabled in the difficulty settings.
• Fixed an issue that could allow the countdown notification for the pulse engine enabling after combat to display a negative time.
• Improved the notifications for re-enabling the pulse engine after combat to display the correct pulse technology name for the current ship.

QOL and Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused teleporter endpoints from previous galaxies to be removed when progressing to the next galaxy through the galactic core.
• Fixed an issue that prevented teleporter endpoints from being added in galaxies outside the player's "home" galaxy.
• Fixed an issue that caused In Stellar Multitudes to direct the player to the galaxy map when their first purple star system was actually in a different galaxy.
• Fixed an issue that prevented corvettes from landing in the Space Station and the Anomaly.
• Fixed an issue that caused the player's backpack to disappear from the inventory screen when piloting a corvette after being in third person.
• When viewing a corvette through the Analysis Visor, the name of the specific module is now displayed on the HUD.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Analysis Visor to close when attempting to tag a marker whilst facing an interactable object.
• Fixed an issue that could cause markers to be displayed for non-existent resource deposits.
• Fixed an issue that prevented transferring inventory items when purchasing a ship.
• Fixed an issue that prevented inventory items from being deletable when transferring into a storage container.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera to spin if the player quickly exited the ship after answering the ship communicator.
• Fixed a camera judder when first entering a ship after repairing it.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Corrupted Sentinels to flicker rapidly on Nintendo Switch 1 & 2.
• Fixed an issue that allowed retroviral pellets to be duplicated.
• Arena League Challenger's Invitations are more likely to encourage you to battle on multiple planets before offering a Champion's Invitation.
• Arena League Challenger's Invitations are more likely to pick Holo-Arenas you have not previously visited.
• Arena League Champion's Invitations will now function correctly when used in Outlaw systems.
• Improved the balance of experience awarded to companions when battling in the Holo-Arena against opponents of a much higher level.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the prompt to claim Twitch rewards to persist when all rewards had been claimed.
• Added support for viewing the Gamercards of each Xbox player in the host's session when on the Join Game screen.
• Hid the Quick Menu keyboard hotkey prompts on PC and handheld devices when playing without mouse and keyboard.
• Fixed an issue that caused armour on display near the Exosuit Research merchant in the Space Station to disappear as you got closer.
• Hid the holographic representation of community mission progress above the Quicksilver Synthesis Bot when no blueprints are currently being generated.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the use of touch controls to claim expedition rewards.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent saving of gyro settings when applying changes from the front end menu.

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Looking sharp is an important part of being a super-spy, and developer IO Interactive is giving players a free way to unlock some killer looks in 007 First Light with its now-live Twitch Drop campaign.

Three free 007 First Light outfits are up for grabs, and they couldn't be much easier to earn. The three outfits are the Purple Suit, Silent Line, and Resplendent Death. To unlock all three, players will just need to watch a total of two hours of 007 First Light on Twitch. Below is the exact breakdown. To make progress, you'll need Twitch open in an active window.

• Purple Suit Outfit: Watch one hour of 007 First Light
• Silent Line Outfit: Watch two hours of 007 First Light 
• Resplendent Death Outfit: Watch official IOI creators play 007 First Light for one hour

Twitch streamers like Lirik, Abbycakes, Ainrun, and others can be watched to earn the Resplendent Death outfit. To see what creators are official partners, you can search IOICreator in Twitch's search bar. 

To claim the rewards, players will need to link their IOI account with their Twitch account. Drops can be claimed from now until June 23. 

These three outfits are easy to earn, but 007 First Light does have plenty of other outfits that can be earned both in and out of game. Completing various in-game challenges will unlock new looks, but there are also other sources of both free and paid cosmetics that can be redeemed from places like Nvidia GeForce, watching creators on TikTok, buying Coca-Cola, and upgrading to one of the game's special editions.

In GameSpot's 007 First Light review, writer Mark Delaney was surprised by how much IO's take on James Bond leaned on what the developer had learned from years working on the Hitman franchise, giving the game an 8/10. He noted it "wisely repurposes what works in both universes" and isn't afraid to ditch or reimagine parts that don't. 

"As Hollywood seems uncertain about where to take Bond next, IO Interactive's debut effort is supremely confident," Delaney said.

007 First Light ends with a tease for a sequel, something IO hasn't been shy about wanting to make a reality. The developer previously said it wants to make a Bond game trilogy.

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Rayman Legends wasn't exactly the smash-hit blockbuster Ubisoft was hoping for when it launched back in 2013, but commercial success be damned--it was one of the best platformers ever made. Now, it appears everyone's favorite limbless adventurer is getting another shot at the spotlight, with a Rayman Legends remake reportedly releasing later this year.

As reported by Insider Gaming, who said the former Prince of Persia team is involved in its creation, the remade game is apparently called Rayman Legends Retold, and is planned for an October release. The game appears to have been in the works for the last few years, though we've gotten no official confirmation of it thus far.

On the forum ResetEra, prominent industry leaker NateTheHate claimed the game will be "2.5D with some 3D sections." That would be a marked change from the 2013 game, a sequel to Rayman Origins, which was entirely 2.5D.

What we are praying remains the same, however, are the musical levels. Rayman Legends caps off many of its chapters with incredible musically synced platforming challenges set to popular songs like "Eye of the Tiger" and "Black Betty." They make for some of the most satisfying moments you're likely to experience in a platformer.

Should you want to play the original Rayman Legends as we wait for confirmation on the remake, it's available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and even Vita.