Return to Silent Hill director Christophe Gans has confirmed that an alternate, longer cut of the film exists, but there's no guarantee this version will see the light of day.

That's according to a fan who attended the Return to Silent Hill premiere and a Q&A session with Gans (via Reddit), who says the filmmaker originally submitted a longer version of the movie. Gans described this cut as longer and allowing the story more room to breathe, but he was instructed by his producers to trim the movie down to two hours. This version also gave a key character from Silent Hill 2--the game the movie is adapted from--more screen time and a death scene.

According to the fan, "Gans said he struggled to find the right place for it in the edit," and it's unclear if the scene will appear in a potential director's cut version of Return to Silent Hill. The film has gotten off to a poor start at the box office, grossing just $3.2 million from US theaters. This pales in comparison to the opening US weekends for 2006's Silent Hill ($20.2 million) and Silent Hill: Revelation ($8 million), and reviews have not been kind.

Metal Gear protagonist and stealth-action game icon Solid Snake is making his Rainbow Six Siege debut very soon for one of the most obvious crossovers in video game history. The official announcement came shortly after leakers teased the upcoming crossover.

Rainbow Six Siege leaker Shiny claimed in an X post that a Metal Gear Solid collaboration will debut in Siege's Year 11, Season 1, saying that the event is "not just a skin collaboration" and teased that it includes a new operator. Insider Gaming corroborated the leak, reporting that Solid Snake will indeed be added as an operator when the next season begins in March.

Ubisoft later confirmed the news, teasing a February 15 Roadmap Reveal event that will shed more light.

A Split Fiction movie is in development now with Sydney Sweeney attached to star in it, but how is the movie coming along and will it ever actually get made? That remains to be seen, but game director Josef Fares gave an update on it recently, saying in an interview that he just recently got a first draft of the movie script.

He told Moviezine (via Dexerto) that even getting a script in the first place was notable because, "There's so much talk in Hollywood" for projects that have a lot of buzz but never materialize. But the Split Fiction movie is indeed moving ahead with a new script from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Also in the interview, Fares said he met with Sweeney and remarked that she seems "super chill." Fares added that it's his belief that Sweeney is "hyped" to make the movie.

Yahoo Games is relaunching in 2026 with new original games and licensed titles. The first one out of the gate is Crushable, a new daily puzzle game from Candy Crush publisher King. It's meant to be a title that can be played for just a few minutes per day. To get the word out about Crushable's launch, Yahoo has lined up Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz to appear as its celebrity pitchman in the new ad below.

Candy Crush players should be able to pick up Crushable fairly quickly. The "candified puzzles" of this game start with a tray of candies that need to placed in the correct order. Players will have to think quickly as they strategize their winning moves, which will be recorded in their sharable stats.

"Candy Crush has always been about creating joyful moments that fit naturally into everyday life," said Candy Crush Saga vice president of marketing Luken Aragon in a statement. "With Crushable, we are introducing a new way to play that feels fresh, rewarding and made for daily play. Partnering with Yahoo Games helps us bring this new experience to players at tremendous scale, tapping into a brand with a loyal audience."

Facebook parent company Meta has released its latest earnings report, and while the company made many billions of dollars in profit, not every business unit at the technology giant is profitable.

The company's Reality Labs division--which comprises virtual and augmented reality consumer hardware, software, and content--continued to be a sore spot for Meta. For the quarter that ended on December 31, Reality Labs recorded revenue of $955 million, down from $1.083 billion during the same period last year. Income for the quarter was non-existent--Reality Labs posted quarterly loss of $6.021 billion.

For the full year, Reality Labs pulled in revenue of $2.207 billion, which was an increase from the previous year's $2.146 billion. However, the increased revenue did not lead to increased profit. Instead, Reality Labs booked a $19.193 billion loss for the full year, compared to a loss of $17.729 billion during the previous year.

Earlier this week, Arc Raiders players encountered an enemy that they couldn't shoot or destroy. Embark Studios has confirmed that its wildly popular Arc Raiders and The Finals were targeted by "extensive, coordinated" distributed denial-of-service attacks that left the games' servers in an unstable state with some players unable to reconnect.

Per Eurogamer, community manager Ossen informed players that Arc Raiders and The Finals had been the target of DDoS attacks in a message on the former's Discord server. "The strike team has been working hard on mitigations and solutions to fix the problem, and we are making good progress," wrote Ossen. "But at this point in time, the attacks are still ongoing."

In a follow-up statement on Discord, Ossen noted that the team has noticed that the "servers are recovering." But it's unknown if the DDoS attacks have stopped or if Embark has been able to find a way to counter them.

Will Bloodborne ever receive a modern remaster, remake, or PC port? For now, it looks like the game is trapped in PS4 purgatory, but it is getting a new release--technically. If you don't mind a fresh print of Bloodborne being ridiculously tiny and incompatible with your PS4 or PS5 console, then you can pick this minute replica up along with several extra accessories that are designed for Figma action figures. After all, why not spread the doom and gloom of Bloodborne to your collectibles?

Toy manufacturer Good Smile Company has announced a new bundle of replica PlayStation toys, including consoles, handhelds, and games. Essentially, these are small replicas of PlayStation consoles, and each one is accompanied by games like Ape Escape, Shadow of the Colossus, Everybody's Golf, Freedom Wars, Astro Bot, and of course, Bloodborne. You'll also get interchangeable hands, so your Figma figures can hold onto a controller or a handheld like the PS Vita, making it easy to pose them with the gaming hardware.

Other nods to the past include memory cards and a PocketStation for the PlayStation, a black memory card for the PS2, and both of the older consoles have wired controllers. Pricing and US release date have not yet been announced, but this bundle will likely be available through retailers like Amazon, Entertainment Earth, and Crunchyroll soon.

The head of Amazon Game Studios, Christoph Hartmann, is parting ways with the company amidst layoffs that have cut around 16,000 jobs across Amazon. The move comes as Amazon winds down its gaming ambitions, shifting focus to its cloud gaming service Luna.

Hartmann's departure was reported by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, on the same day as Amazon announced a massive round of layoffs that will impact around 16,000 people company-wide. The move follows a previous round of layoffs last October that cut 14,000 jobs, hitting Amazon Game Studios particularly hard as the company scaled back its AAA development projects.

Christoph Hartmann has a long history in the games industry, from working on the original Grand Theft Auto to co-founding 2K Games in the early 2000s, and he was brought on board by Amazon Games in 2018. More recently, Hartmann may be more notorious for saying that AI wouldn't take jobs in games as they "don't really have acting."

Microsoft has posted its earnings results for the latest quarter and while it's been a strong period for the company as a whole, the Xbox gaming division is struggling. Though Microsoft posted an overall revenue increase of 17% year-on-year, gaming revenue is down 9%--with console sales making up a large part of that decline.

Microsoft's Q2 FY26 results generally look great for the tech behemoth, with the company boasting a staggering $81.3 billion revenue largely driven by its cloud and business divisions, but Xbox isn't looking so healthy right now.

Microsoft's gaming division revenue declined 9% as a whole, with a 5% decrease in revenue from content and services, which includes Game Pass. Microsoft explains that this decline can be mostly attributed to strong first party content the year prior, and predicts that Q3 will see a similar decline in the single digits for the same reason.

One of the big reveals from the recent Xbox Developer Direct was the first gameplay showcase for the Fable reboot, and now a top Microsoft boss has further hyped it up. Craig Duncan, the head of Xbox Game Studios, said in an interview that the Fable reboot is coming together well, specifically singling out the game's so-called "Living Population" feature as being "mind-blowing.

He said this to GamesRadar amid a response to a question about if he felt it was a "risk" for developer Playground to make an RPG after working exclusively on the Forza Horizon series since 2012. He said Playground working on Fable is "really about this relentless pursuit of excellence."

Duncan said Playground made the Forza Horizon series "bigger and bigger" with each new installment, "But what does that mean for Fable?"

As one analyst predicts that the Nintendo Switch 2 will see a price increase this year, another analyst suggests that the Mario maker's Switch successor may not maintain the same sales figures as its predecessor.

IGN reported an in-depth story about the Switch 2's holiday season, speaking to several analysts around the world to understand whether it really had a bad holiday. The short answer? Not really, as declining sales are expected for a console with a somewhat established base. The long answer? Kind of, particularly because the Switch 2 didn't have a big blockbuster exclusive to bolster sales going into the holiday season. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good--as evidenced by GameSpot's 8/10 review--but it's not a Mario or a Zelda, so the name cache wasn't there to elicit fervent purchasing during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ampere Analysis' games industry analyst and researcher, Piers Harding-Rolls, told IGN that it's for this reason--alongside the predictable success of the Switch due to environmental conditions--that the Switch 2 wouldn't sell as well as the Switch did.

"When the original Switch launched, it followed a failing Wii U generation--there was a lot of interest, but hype and momentum built up in the run-up to the holiday sales at the end of 2017," Harding-Rolls said. "This time around at the Switch 2 launch, demand was predictably high because of the success of the Switch. Following a record launch, it's not surprising that Switch 2 sales have not been able to maintain the same massive sales lead [as] the original Switch. For the record, Switch 2 shipments in 2025 should outperform the original Switch in 2017 and over a shorter period of time. Then there is the whole macroeconomic situation, less disposable income, and higher-priced hardware. This may be softening demand to an extent, especially as lots of new games are still available on the original Switch."

Dispatch, one of last year's best games, arrives on Switch consoles this week, bringing its brand of workplace comedy, capes, tights, and censored genitalia to the Nintendo platform. While the PC and PS5 versions of Dispatch don't shy away from showing off superhero anatomy--but do offer a toggle to apply a censorship mosaic to any naughty bits--Nintendo's content guidelines have mandated that this mode must be turned on at all times.

There's also no option to turn it off in the Switch edition, so all explicit content has been censored.

"Different platforms have different content criteria, and submissions are evaluated individually," developer AdHoc said to Eurogamer, while also stressing that the game's story and gameplay remain unaffected. "We worked with Nintendo to ensure the content within the title met the criteria to release on their platforms, but the core narrative and gameplay experience remain identical to the original release."

The ongoing crisis with RAM pricing and the associated knock-on effect it is having on numerous consumer electronics still has its worst days to come, according to GPU manufacturer Zotac.

In a message to its Korean customers, translated by X user Harukaze5719 and reported by Tom's Hardware, the company announced that it is suspending its 2% rewards program in the region in a bid to try to sustain GPU pricing for as long as it can, citing growing concerns with escalating prices as an existential threat to the industry as a whole. Citing the same concerns over current memory prices and the increasing costs of silicon, Zotac has warned its customers that stock for many current-generation GPUs might dry up for a long time, with no promise of it regulating in the near future.

Zotac is one of a few companies that predominantly manufactures graphics cards and hasn't diversified in other areas of gaming hardware. This puts it at a much bigger risk than other companies, such as Asus and Gigabyte, given the margins on their only products are very quickly being squeezed. This doesn't mean that its warning is any less concerning, especially as it comes a few weeks after Asus suggested that stock of its various 50-series Nvidia GPUs might similarly face supply constraints.

Ubisoft workers in France are summoning their collective power to protest the latest restructuring and cost-cutting decisions at the mega publisher, with five unions calling for a "massive international strike" in early February.

According to a joint statement on Bluesky and reported by Game Developer, five Ubisoft unions--STJV, Solidaires Informatique, CGT, CFE-CGC, and Printemps Ecologique--are proposing that all Ubisoft employees stop working from February 10-12 to combat a "CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore." This work stoppage is in response to Ubisoft's return-to-office mandate, studio closures and game cancellations in the wake of its major restructuring, workforce-reduction suggestions, and general employee disrespect.

"We are not fooled: Rather than taking responsibility for layoff, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable," the statement reads. "It's outrageous. Our colleagues carry on, hold fast, endure, out of solidarity, out of love for the industry, and out of passion. But enough is enough! It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us!"

Years ago, Microsoft and developer Ensemble Studios were working on a Halo MMO project. The game never materialized, though, and now one of its developers, Rob Fermier, has shared some further insight into the game and what it was aspiring to be.

Fermier said part of the appeal of making a Halo MMO was that the developers personally enjoyed MMOs in general. "I still play World of Warcraft to this day, from day one," Fermier told PC Gamer. "And it was a chance for us to bring something more action-oriented."

Fermier went on to say that, from his view, no one has made a true "action MMO," and this was what the Halo project was trying to do.

Emberville, the spooky fusion of Stardew Valley-like farming and Diablo-flavored combat, has an official release date window for its Steam Early Access debut. Out in Q3 2026, the action-adventure RPG will give players an early taste of its atmospheric world and combat, and to celebrate, developer Cygnuss Cross uploaded a trailer that features the voice talents of the Witcher himself, Doug Cockle, and Alex Jordan, who voiced all 11 versions of Jan Dolski in last year's The Alters.

In development since 2023, Emberville is primarily focused on customization through its farming, gathering, and crafting gameplay mechanics. Similar to other cozy farming sims--but with a touch of sinister malevolence in the air--players can gather resources and improve the procedurally generated world around them by leveling up, learning skills, and unlocking blueprints.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag took the inner conflict of the Templars to the high seas in the early 1700s during the golden age of piracy. Along with retaining the series' stealth and combat system, gameplay elements focused more on the ship-based exploration on an open-world map. It's long been rumored that it's in line for a remake, and a recently leaked statue could add fuel to that fire.

The unreleased statue features Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway sitting on a treasure chest overflowing with gold coins, leaning back against his ship's wheel, brandishing a cutlass and a pistol. Above Kenway is a waving flag featuring the game's logo: the Assassin's Creed sigil with a skull in the center.

Numerous fans spotted the item pop up, including notorious Assassin's Creed leaker j0nathon, who quickly realized this was not a statue that had been publicly released already. Even weirder is how this statue was reportedly listed via the used clothing resale app Vinted.

The PlayStation 6 is a much-talked-about machine despite lacking an official announcement from Sony, and a report by an industry analyst suggests that we might not see this new console until after 2028, as Sony is looking to extend the PS5's lifespan.

A Japanese-language report from MST International senior analyst David Gibson (per IGN) looked into Sony's overall performance and potential future. According to Gibson, "Sony expects the PS5 lifecycle to be longer than that of previous console generations" and that there is a "high likelihood that the PS6 launch will occur after 2028."

Recent console cycles have lasted around seven years, with the PS3 launching in 2006 before the PS4's release in 2013; the latter then had the limelight until the PS5 launched near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This pattern led to assumptions and predictions that a PS6 would come to markets in 2027, but Gibson believes there are a few reasons not to expect it so soon.

The Elder Scrolls VI is one of the gaming industry's most anticipated upcoming titles, and one of the key mysteries about it is where the game may be set. According to Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster Kurt Kuhlmann, the developer agreed on the setting many years ago, but he is not going to spill on the beans on what it is, and it might have changed anyway.

"From when we were talking about it way back in the Fallout 4 timeframe, there was a sort of consensus amongst a few people that were talking about it," Kuhlmann told PC Gamer.

He left Bethesda in 2023, and he doesn't know if what the team agreed on is still the chosen setting for The Elder Scrolls VI.

The first major Nintendo Direct of 2026 will be held the first week of February, according to a noted insider. Nate The Hate said on his podcast this week, "From what I have been told, the first Direct of 2026 will be held during the opening week of February."

He said the event may take place on Thursday, February 5, though he was not able to confirm this with his "best contacts." He said he will let people know if things change, but, "Right now, that seems to be the timetable that I am hearing from my contacts."

He went on to say that there is "consensus building" that a Direct will take place in the first week of February. However, Nate The Hate said he does not know what the rumored show's format may be, so he can't say for sure if it's a Direct focused on first-party games or a partner showcase. But he said he is confident that "some form of a Direct" is coming soon.