The dream of Skyblivion goes back over a decade as a team of fans came together to use The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's engine to fully recreate and re-imagine Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as a modern RPG. At the beginning of 2023, the team set a 2025 premiere for Skyblivion. However, that's no longer the plan and Skyblivion has been pushed to next year. The good news is that the latest dev video shows off how much has been finished and what remains to be done.

Skyblivion lead Rebelzize narrates the video as he offers a guide to where things stand. According to Rebelzize, most of the work has already been done and over 70 volunteer contributors are still hard at work trying to get the ambitious mod across the finish line.

When this project was started, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion was far out of date. Earlier this year, Bethesda released Oblivion Remastered, which could have taken the wind out of this team's project. Instead, Rebelzize and others praised the remaster as a "win-win" for the community. In recognition for their work, Bethesda gave copies of Oblivion Remastered to the entire Skyblivion mod team.

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One of the new maps coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 in Season 1 includes Splitgate-like portals that allow players to instantly transport themselves from one area of the arena to another.

The map, Fate, is set inside David Mason's mind, taking players "into the nightmare he's tried to forget."

"Step into a warped vision of Menendez's Nicaraguan compound, now twisted beyond recognition: colossal machetes carve through the sky, and shattered pieces of reality hang suspended as if time itself has splintered," reads a line from the description.

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Call of Duty Mobile is celebrating the game's sixth anniversary with plenty of new content. While Black Ops 7 is sticking to thematically appropriate operator skins, Season 11 of Call of Duty Mobile includes a major crossover with Street Fighter, which allows players to transform into the popular fighting characters and use their iconic fighting moves. This new season also adds a DMZ extraction mode, new loadout items to unlock, and special events.

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• Season 11 start date details
• Battle pass details

Season 11 start date details

Season 11 starts on December 11 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET. This new season includes a brand-new battle pass with both free and premium items.

Battle pass details

The main highlights of the free battle-pass tiers are the SO-14 marksman rifle and Wheelson-HS scorestreak. There are also weapon blueprints, skins, and other cosmetics available to unlock for free.

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Legendary game designer and programmer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island) has revealed that one of his exciting-sounding upcoming projects has been canceled due in part to investors not coming to the table to fund the project.

Speaking to Ars Technica, Gilbert said this game had a vision of being a "large, open-world-type RPG" in the vein of The Legend of Zelda. Gilbert worked alongside two other people--an artist and a designer--for about a year on the project before Gilbert realized it was not going to happen.

"I just [didn't] have the money or the time to build a big open-world game like that," he said. "You know, it's either a passion project you spent 10 years on, or you just need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources."

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Getting 100% completion in a Metroid game--and metroidvania titles in general--is a satisfying achievement that's part of the genre's appeal. However, in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, there is unfortunately a way to pigeonhole yourself where collecting everything needed isn't possible. Now, the game will warn you about a point of no return, but it's still easy to make a regrettable decision. That's why GameSpot's reviewer for the first-person adventure, Steve Watts, advises players to make a copy of their main save in another save slot before entering the endgame.

Watts detailed the "confusing choice" that Nintendo and developer Retro Studios made in his Metroid Prime 4 review. "When I was ready to proceed to the endgame, I got the usual warnings about a point of no return, but I had figured I could always load an older save to go back and do more exploring to pick up power-ups that I missed," Watts wrote. "But the auto-save now has me locked into the final area with no such apparent option, and my regular save slot--the one that activates when Samus steps into a save station--has been overwritten with a Mission Complete, so loading it prompts me to start a new game."

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Fallout Season 2 premieres on December 17, and in a big change from Season 1, episodes will be released weekly instead of all at once. Prime Video has now published the full release schedule for Fallout Season 2, so you can plan and prepare for all eight episodes.

Episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays at midnight PT, and the sophomore season will run through February 4, 2026. Fallout Season 1 also had eight episodes.

Fallout Season 2 schedule

• Episode 1 - December 17 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 2- December 24 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 3 - December 31 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 4 - January 7 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 5 - January 14 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 6 - January 21 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 7 - January 28 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET
• Episode 8 - February 4 at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET

With Season 1, some people enjoyed having all episodes release at the same time so they could binge the series. Others said they wished it was released weekly to give them time to digest.

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Monster Hunter Wilds may have been overshadowed by the games that followed it this year, but it just took home two awards from the PlayStation Partner Awards 2025 Japan Asia. While accepting his wins, the game's leading boss Ryozo Tsujimoto shared his conviction that Monster Hunter is still popular among players and he doesn't see any need for the franchise to stop.

"Of course, we don’t intend to stop the series here," Tsujimoto told IGN. "We plan to continue, and we want to let more people play. In addition, I would like to think about things beyond the games so that we can further expand the potential of the Monster Hunter IPs.'"

There was a live-action Monster Hunter movie in 2020 from director Paul W. S. Anderson and actress Milla Jovovich, the husband-and-wife team behind the first six Resident Evil films. However, Monster Hunter's dismal $47.9 million worldwide box office has seemingly killed any prospect of a sequel.

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Prediction markets have been popular for years, and now Roblox's top boss has said he wants to see them integrated into the hugely popular game someday.

CEO Dave Baszucki told The New York Times, "We would. I think we would have to do that."

It's not so easy, though, as Baszucki said every country has different legislation surrounding "loot boxes and kid gambling," so there are regulatory hurdles that would need be sorted out.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has enjoyed an exceptional year, becoming the most-nominated game in the history of The Game Awards. Its cast--Ben Starr, Charlie Cox, and Jennifer English among them--earned major recognition in the show's performance categories, helping cement the game as one of the year's standout achievements. But even while celebrating this success, the cast has been discussing ways the awards could grow, especially when it comes to recognizing the full range of performance work that brings modern games to life.

In an interview with Video Games Chronicle, cast members English, Shayla Nyx, Devora Wilde, and Aliona Baranova shared their hope that The Game Awards will eventually expand its performance categories. They explained that, while the nominations are an honor, the current categories overlook many essential performers.

"If I may, can I put my petition forward for why we need to have a motion capture category?" Baranova said. "It's been decades of actors going in, doing the mocap, and then someone else's voice is popped on top, and those mocap performers just disappear. I forgot that. Nobody knows about them.” Baranova, who worked as a motion capture director on Baldur's Gate 3, noted that this issue has persisted for years.

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Sony's popular and longrunning professional baseball series, MLB The Show, is expanding to a new place: mobile. A new version of the game "built from the ground up" for mobile is headed to iOS and Android, with a test coming up soon in the Philippines before a global rollout later.

The regional test for the Philippines begins today, December 3, but there is no word yet on when the game will be available in more places. This kind of limited, regional rollout is common for mobile games.

A FAQ for The Show's mobile version confirms it is a standalone game that will not support cross-play with the console editions. The game is optimized for iPhone 16 or "comparable devices" in the Apple family, along with Samsung Galaxy S25, Sony Xperia V, or "comparable" phones.

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Fallout New Vegas: 15th Anniversary Bundle

$155 | Releases June 30, 2026

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The new season of Fallout kicks off later this month on Amazon Prime Video, and fittingly, fans of the show and the video game source material can pick up a brand-new bundle celebrating Fallout: New Vegas' 15th Anniversary. This new $155 physical re-release of the beloved open-world RPG includes a copy of Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition for PC, along with collectible memorabilia that looks like it was pulled straight from the Mojave Wasteland. The Fallout New Vegas: 15th Anniversary Bundle is available to preorder on Amazon ahead of its launch on June 30, 2026.

Fallout New Vegas: 15th Anniversary Bundle $155 | Releases June 30, 2026

The anniversary set comes with a digital code for the Ultimate Edition of Fallout: New Vegas inside of a big retro-inspired PC game box, an eight-inch tall statue of Victor the Securitron, a collection of seven Evaluation Cards from Doc Mitchell, a Vault Boy enamel pin, one Mojave Express iron-on patch, and one New California Republic iron-on patch. Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition is the definitive version of the 2010 game, and it includes the Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road DLC alongside the Courier's Stash and Gun Runner weapon packs.

• Eight-inch PVC statue of Victor
• Doc Mitchell's Evaluation Cards
• Vault Boy enamel pin
• Mojave Express patch
• NCR Recon patch
• Collector's Big Box

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Considered to be one of the very best Fallout games, New Vegas was initially developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind this year's well-received Outer Worlds sequel. Set in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert, New Vegas was built on the foundation laid in 2008's Fallout 3, but with a greater emphasis on RPG gameplay mechanics and quirky storytelling, it quickly became a fan favorite amongst Fallout players.

The ending of Fallout Season 1 on Prime Video hinted heavily that New Vegas would be a key location in the second season, and a recent trailer briefly showed Walton Goggins' The Ghoul and Ella Purnell's Lucy making their way to the famous gambling capital. Fallout Season 2 will debut on Prime Video on December 17. If you're looking to catch up on Fallout before the second season starts, it's also available on Blu-ray. The limited-edition 4K steelbook is still available at Amazon for $44.20, while the standard 4K Blu-ray is priced at $30. The Blu-ray editions include an assortment of behind-the-scenes featurettes.

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Fallout Season 1 is now free to stream ahead of the Season 2 premiere on December 17, but only in one place. The first season is now available to stream for free on Samsung TV Plus.

The catch is that you have to watch ads, but you don't have to subscribe to anything. Season 1 is free on Samsung TV Plus now through December 25. Samsung TV Plus is available on Samsung TV, Galaxy, Smart monitor, and Family Hub devices.

For more, check out GameSpot's Fallout TV show review for Season 1. We also have an explainer for the ending of Season 1.

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Late last month, Santa Ragione, the developer behind the indie horror game Horses, revealed that its title had been banned by Steam in 2023 while the game was still in development. The game had been set to release on Epic Games Store this week, but now Epic has banned Horses as well.

Santa Ragione shared a lengthy statement on its site, as well as reproduced messages from Epic that broke the news about the cancellation a day before launch. The dispatch from Epic cites violations of its inappropriate content policy and hateful or abusive content policies. Epic also stated that Horses got an Adults Only rating, and those games are excluded from the store.

In response, Santa Ragione mentioned that Epic approved the game for release just over three weeks ago, and that the actual rating for the game was M for Mature under the ESRB and PEGI 18 in international territories. The studio went on to explain again that Horses is not a sexually charged adult game.

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Samus Aran might not be known as a chatty character, but a voice actor helps flesh out the heroine with grunts and mumbles. Jennifer Hale, probably best known as Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect trilogy, previously provided the voice for Samus in the first three Metroid Prime games. But for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Erin Yvette voices the protagonist and Krystle Martin provides the motion capture, per Nintendo Life.

This isn't the first time Yvette has worked with Nintendo. Her previous experience with the company includes voicing Neilnail in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Great Fairy Cotera in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Meanwhile, IGN asked Hale about reprising her Metroid Prime role recently, and the actress seemingly implied she wasn't involved this time. "I don't know," Hale said. "I have no recollection of recording it or signing a contract, so it could be no." Hale has been on the flip side of this before, too, with Bayonetta 3.

She isn't the first voice actor replaced by Nintendo in recent years. In June, longtime Princess Peach and Toad voice actor Samantha Kelly revealed she was no longer playing those parts after not being involved with Mario Kart World. In 2023, Super Mario Bros. Wonder introduced a new voice for Mario and Luigi--Kevin Afghani. This came after Charles Martinet stepped back from voicing the iconic character following a 25-year stint.

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Recently, CD Projekt published a social media post about Cyberpunk 2077 that some took to be a teaser for some kind of announcement on December 10, the game's fifth anniversary.

This was not a teaser for anything, CD Projekt's Marcin Momot has now clarified. The developer publishes these kinds of posts every 30 days to celebrate birthdays for Cyberpunk characters, and for December, the 10th was mentioned as well to celebrate the game's fifth anniversary.

"It's not a teaser. Hope this clears things up!" he wrote.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been one of 2025's standout hits, and now it's been confirmed that the game broke records for Xbox Game Pass.

Microsoft announced that Expedition 33 has become the "biggest new third-party game launch on Xbox Game Pass of 2025" based on number of unique users in the first 30 days. It's not clear what title Expedition 33 took down to become No. 1 for third-party games on Game Pass.

Expedition 33 was developed by Sandfall Interactive, and it was the team's first game. Creative director Guilllaume Broche said, "This year has been so far beyond what any of us could have imagined, and it's down to how passionate and supportive our fans have been to make that a reality."

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According to one analyst, Call of Duty as a franchise is "underperforming" in 2025 due to a variety of factors. Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics said in an interview that some of the factors that he believes are contributing to Call of Duty's decline include "community burnout, questionable creative and business decisions by Activision/Microsoft, and strong competition."

In terms of the competition, Elliott called out Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders, along with Fortnite, which recently had a popular Simpsons season and launched its positively received Chapter 7.

"Xbox dropped the ball on the wrong year, as this year saw some of the most exciting shooter releases in years," Elliott told Eurogamer. "Attention is scarce."

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It may come as no surprise that Valve has invested in emulation tech for Arm-based hardware, having just announced its first device running an Arm chip. But beyond its own hardware, Valve's support of open-source emulation projects may have laid the groundwork for playing your favorite PC games on Arm devices like mobiles and tablets--no ports necessary.

Valve's upcoming Steam Frame headset is the company's first Arm-based device, making use of the open-source FEX emulator to run Windows-native games. As it turns out, Valve has had more of a hand in FEX's development than it initially appeared. In an interview with The Verge, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais revealed that Valve actually initiated the FEX project, and has been largely responsible for its development.

"We were talking with a few developers that we knew were the right fit for an undertaking like that, a long-term thing that needed a very specific set of experts," Griffais explained. "We worked hard on trying to convince these guys to start the project, and have been funding them ever since."

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In September, Electronic Arts revealed that there's a $55 billion deal in place to bring the company private under Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, the private equity firm Silver Lake, and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Now, a new report indicates that the PIF may be given near complete control of the company, because Saudi Arabia is putting up most of the money to complete the deal.

According to The Wall Street Journal, EA's potential buyers have disclosed that PIF would be given 93.4% of EA in a document filed with Brazil's antitrust regulator. Silver Lake would only own 5.5% of the company, while Affinity would have a much smaller share: 1.1%. PIF is also a major investor in both Silver Lake and Affinity, which would leave it with more power over EA.

WSJ notes that sovereign-wealth funds like the PIF normally make much smaller investments in buyouts like this one, while private-equity firms would take the lead as the primary owners and investors. Saudi Arabia has already invested in several video game companies, including Nintendo and Take-Two Interactive. In this year alone, Saudi Arabian-owned mobile developer Scopely purchased Niantic's video game division, the company behind Pokemon Go and other mobile titles.

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Last summer, Sony filed a lawsuit against Tencent over Light of Motiram, a game that the former alleges is a "slavish clone" of the Horizon franchise. Now, the two sides have apparently struck a temporary deal ahead of an important court hearing that may determine whether the case goes forward.

As reported by The Game Post, a new filing in court acknowledges that Sony and Tencent have been "engaged in discussions in order to resolve the current dispute." Most notably, Tencent asked for more time to respond to the motion for an injunction, and Sony agreed in exchange for certain concessions. The terms call for Tencent to pause all public promotion or testing for Light of Motiram while also agreeing not to argue in court that Sony delayed its request for emergency relief by granting the extension.

The filing also notes an agreement between the two sides that Tencent won't ask for expedited discovery in connection with the preliminary injunction against Light of Motiram. It also calls for Tencent to hold the game to its Q4 2027 release window rather than moving it up. Finally, the court document revealed another area where Tencent and Sony see eye-to-eye. The two sides jointly requested that a hearing for Tencent's motion to dismiss and a second hearing held for Sony's injunction request be held on the same day: January 29, 2026.

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