Prolific Call of Duty leaker TheGhostOfHope says he's received a legal demand from Activision to stop leaking Call of Duty content. Even stranger, Activision has publicly responded.

"Activision has legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information related to Call of Duty/Activision and I am complying with their demands," the former leaker (who goes by Hope online) shared on X. "Still gonna stick around and chat about Official Call of Duty info and anything not related to leaks/confidential information. Cheers for these past few years."

Hope had spent the last few days posting leaks regarding upcoming content for Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, including event rewards, changes to the games' content launch schedules, and information about Black Ops Royale, a new "Blackout-inspired mode" playable on Warzone's Avalon map starting March 13.

Tencent's stakes in various American video companies could be at risk, as US President Donald Trump's administration is debating whether the Chinese company's investment poses a security risk.

According to The Financial Times and Reuters, "several people familiar with the internal deliberations" are assessing Tencent's investments ahead of Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. The FT's sources added that Tencent has been negotiating with the US administration's Committee on Foreign Investment for years now, but the acquisition of Clash of Clans studio Supercell--which has a huge US userbase--reignited fears surrounding the company.

Tencent is well-known for having invested in many video game companies across the world, including a 28% stake in Fortnite-maker Epic Games. It also owns Riot Games (League of Legends and Valorant) and has stakes in other notable video game companies like From Software, Krafton, Larian Studios, and Ubisoft.

Developer Iron Galaxy has denied reports that it is working on a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas, though it's widely expected such a game is indeed in the works.

In a social media post, the studio said, "Nope!" There is nothing to see here" in regards to the claim that Iron Galaxy was possibly working on a new Fallout project. The rumor stemmed from a February 26 post from Iron Galaxy (below) that showed Fallout: New Vegas' "Please Stand By" loading screen.

The developer said in its new statement that this was "just a behind-the-scenes look at our company meeting" during which Iron Galaxy was planning to discuss upcoming projects internally.

The war between the United States and Iran appears to have had an unexpected spillover into the world of gaming. Iranian drone strikes have hit web servers in the Middle East, which has coincided with some issues with Fortnite.

Epic Games acknowledged the issue on social media and added that "players may be experiencing increased latency. We're rerouting to nearby local servers in the region to try and improve this, and will keep you updated on any further developments."

According to the Associated Press, the Iranian drones took down two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates, while a third facility in Bahrain was also damaged by a drone landing.

Resident Evil Requiem is already a big hit for Capcom, as it reached 5 million sales in just five days. The company says that it achieved this sales milestone faster than its previous mainline release, Resident Evil Village, and it was quicker than the recent remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4.

There were already signs that Requiem was off to a strong start, as the game reached a new series record of over 344,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it has so far been met with a positive reception from both critics and fans alike. This number was double that of Resident Evil 4 Remake (168,191) and triple that of Resident Evil Village (106,631), making Requiem the biggest launch in the franchise's history to date.

Capcom says one of the keys to success here was the idea to focus on broad appeal without losing the identity of the game, through the use of multiple difficulty settings and the option to switch between first-person and third-person perspectives in real-time. This, in turn, allowed players to fine-tune the experience to suit their individual tastes.

Many of last week's PS5 deals are continuing this week, including the awesome sales at both PlayStation Direct and Woot. However, both of these sales will be wrapping up soon, making this your last chance to cash in on some of the best deals we've seen in the early months of 2026. There are also a handful of new deals to explore, including a variety of DualSense price cuts and additional game discounts--including Borderlands 4 for $45 (was $70) and Dragon Age: The Veilguard for just $10 (was $20). If you're hunting for a cheap PS5 console, your best bet remains the PS5 Digital Edition: Fortnite Flowering Chaos Bundle, which saves you $100 and comes packed with exclusive content for Epic's battle royale.

Here's a look at the best PS5 deals for the week of March 2, 2026, including price cuts on games, accessories, and consoles.

Actor Ben Stiller sent some people into a tizzy recently after he posted "GTA" on social media, with some theorizing it has to do with Grand Theft Auto VI or the franchise in general.

That's not the case, though. Stiller is a huge fan of the New York Knicks, and his "GTA" post was no doubt in reference to Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado, and a defensive play he is particularly famous for. For him, it's an acronym for "Grand Theft Alvarado." In last night's game, Alvarado had a steal, which no doubt encouraged Stiller to head to his keyboard and post what he posted.

Marathon's open server slam has concluded and its full release is imminent on March 5. If you're ready to jump back into Tau Ceti for the full experience of Bungie's new extraction shooter, here's when you'll be able to start playing.

Marathon will have a simultaneous launch in all regions and across platforms, which includes PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The simultaneous launch means Marathon won't launch until early on March 6 in some time zones. Check out the release time in your time zone below:

• 10 AM PT
• 12 PM CT
• 1 PM ET
• 6 PM UTC
• 7 PM CET

• 3 AM JST
• 5 AM AEDT

Marathon had a free open server slam over the weekend, attracting a peak of 143,000 players on Steam in its first day. While player numbers dropped as time went on, with some players seemingly put off by the complexity and sometimes steep learning curve of the extraction shooter, Bungie reported that players were having more fun with the game the deeper they got into it.

Surgent Studios has revealed its next game: FixForce. Sticking to the studio's pattern, FixForce is completely different from what Surgent has done before--unlike grief-driven metroidvania Tales of Kenzera: Zau and surreal first-person horror game Dead Take, FixForce is a chaotic cooperative game in which you play as a team of robots charged with repairing a post-post-apocalyptic world.

Designed for up to six players, FixForce sees you and your friends each take control of a robot and do your best to complete repair jobs within a time limit. Viewed through first person, you primarily complete assignments with a tool that allows you to telekinetically pick up, rotate, and throw junk or machine parts scattered throughout the environment to solve environmental puzzles. Your tool can also affix items to others, allowing you to construct makeshift bridges, ramps, and towers to aid in exploration.

To confound your team's efforts, each of you spawns in with a battery representing your health, and hazards will chip away at that health if you're not careful. You can't survive being in water, for example, and occasionally enemy bots will latch onto your character's chassis and begin sucking away your battery. Allies can help you--making a walkway for you to get out of a pool you accidentally fell into, for instance, or pulling off the energy-sucking enemy bots and tossing them away--but they can harm you too. With a simple click (purposeful or by mistake), you can push an ally off a ledge to their demise or steal their battery to power something you need.

In trying to understand something new we have a tendency to draw comparisons to the familiar. That's probably why, in a 30-minute showcase of Control Resonant's gameplay, attendees mentioned Dark Souls, the Batman Arkham games, Alan Wake 2, and Bayonetta. Everyone has a lens they want to look through to bring the unfamiliar into focus.

Remedy insisted that the biggest influence on Control Resonant is its predecessor, Control. The only influences that director Mikael Kasurinen and combat designer Sergey Mohov overtly acknowledged were Neon Genesis Evangelion and Sucker Punch's InFamous: Second Son.

The former, a story about a traumatized boy defending a city from alien incursions using a biomechanical humanoid mecha in the hopes he will be able to understand himself and earn approval from others, is an apt point of reference for Control Resonant's protagonist Dylan Faden. Dylan, the brother of Federal Bureau of Control's director Jesse Faden, is a powerful parautilitarian who has abilities by way of a connection to an otherworldly entity called Polaris. Despite showing huge potential, Dylan was deemed to be unstable, going so far as to kill or cause the deaths of other FBC agents. In the events of the first game, Dylan was left in a coma after having The Hiss, another hostile entity, purged from his body.