Project Cars 3 will be officially delisted from digital sale on August 24. A notice served on its official Steam page confirmed that while the game will be delisted, anyone who purchased the game digitally will still be able to access it and redownload it in the future.

The online modes for the game will also remain active until February 24, 2026. This is effectively the end of the racing game series, as the previous games were also delisted several years ago. EA quietly retired the Project Cars series in late 2022, as the company announced that it had made the decision to "stop further development and investment" in the franchise. Project Cars 1 and 2 were removed from sale due to expiring car and track licenses, and it's likely that this is the same reason for the upcoming delisting of Project Cars 3.

The series first kicked off in 2015, and its two sequels were released in 2017 and 2020. Additionally, there was a mobile spin-off called Project Cars Go released in 2021, and Slightly Mad also released an official--and terrible--Fast and Furious game in 2020. All three Project Cars games were originally published by Bandai Namco, and the studio was later acquired by EA in 2021 as part of a deal to purchase Codemasters.

The starters from Pokemon Heart and Gold--Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile--will soon be found in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket. The Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion is set to launch on July 29 for the game, which will also introduce Johto legendaries Ho-Oh and Lugia alongside 200 new cards.

In an announcement on the Pokemon website, it's stated that the Pokemon TCG Pocket update will go live at 11 PM PT July 29, which would be 2 AM ET July 30. There are new Pokemon showcased in the expansion's trailer (seen below), such as Pichu and Cleffa, as well as Johto trainers like Lyra and Silver.

The Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion will also revamp Pokemon TCG Pocket's trading system. One of the biggest shakeups will be the removal of Trade Tokens, with Shinedust utilized instead to engage in trading. The Pokemon Co. added that players will be able to wishlist up to 20 cards they'd like to trade for with the upcoming update.

In a July 2025 shareholders meeting, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot made a salient yet obvious point about online video games: "You provide a service, but nothing is written in stone, and at some point, the service may be discontinued. Nothing is eternal." He added: "Support for all games cannot last forever."

This was in response to "Stop Killing Games," a consumer movement that rallies against purported "planned obsolescence" of online video games from publishers. Sparked by the shutdown of Ubisoft's The Crew, the movement has gained traction in the past year through petitions directly to European governments.

From a certain point of view, Guillemot sounds dismissive--like an elected official shrugging off constituent concerns about healthcare coverage by citing the inevitability of mortality. But the limited lifespan of modern live-service games is a reality that publishers and studios never address, at least publicly--or until it's suddenly time to pull the plug. Rarely does an executive acknowledge that their online game will, one day, come to an end.

One battle royale after another. After prolific crossovers with Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Fortnite appears to be gearing up for a collaboration with the film One Battle After Another. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the upcoming thriller, slated for a September 26 theatrical release, isn't what anyone would consider fodder for Fortnite, making this crossover all the more intriguing.

The official Instagram account for the film put out a brief teaser, recreating a scene from the movie in which DiCaprio's character (replaced by Fortnite protagonist Jonesy in this teaser video) answers a covert call at a phone booth. "There are no hands on the clock. #OneBattleAfterAnother x Fortnite coming soon," the video's caption reads.

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It's unclear what kind of content will come out of this collaboration, including whether it will take the form of skins based on the movie's characters or any missions given by NPCs on the battle royale map. Perhaps it'll be a Fortnite Creative experience with the purpose of promoting the film, but it's hard to imagine what that would look like.

Terry Bollea, widely known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, the twelve‑time professional wrestling world champion and two‑time WWE Hall‑of‑Fame inductee, has died at the age of 71. He died from cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida, as emergency personnel were dispatched Thursday morning, TMZ reports.

Hogan rose to fame with his then-WWF debut in 1979. His charisma, towering physique, signature handlebar mustache, and iconic "Hulkamania" persona helped propel the company into a global powerhouse. At WrestleMania III, his body‑slam of Andre the Giant became one of the most legendary moments in professional wrestling history.

His name became synonymous with the company, and he was featured in several WWF games, including WWF Wrestlemania, WWF Wrestlemania Challenge, and King of the Ring for the Nintendo and Super Nintendo systems. When he jumped over to competitor WCW in the mid-90s, he was also heavily featured in their video games for the N64 and PlayStation--most notably WCW/NWO Revenge.

2021's Battlefield 2042 was a disappointment in the eyes of some longtime Battlefield fans, but the developers at DICE and Battlefield Studios have said they took the feedback on board to help make the next game better. The next Battlefield game, which is called Battlefield 6, was officially unveiled on July 24 and appears to be set for release on October 10.

Prior to the official unveiling, fans were buzzing with excitement on the news that the new Battlefield will seemingly emulate older titles and do away with some of the things that Battlefield 2042 did. Most importantly, the new Battlefield game will not have 128-player matches or Specialist characters--two highly criticized elements of Battlefield 2042. Battlefield 6 brings back the four standard Classes, and fans are happy about that.

Battlefield 6 is set in the modern day--and takes players to New York City, among other locations--and that's also a welcome change for fans and a change of pace from the latest games that took place in the future and the past. At least four studios are handling development on the new Battlefield game under the Battlefield Studios banner, and yes, there will be an open beta.

Battlefield 6 has finally been revealed by EA and Battlefield Studios and, per its debut trailer, the single-player campaign appears to be hitting close to home, with much of the action taking place in New York City. A multiplayer reveal is set for next week, where we'll get a sample of the game's new and returning modes, as well as how Battlefield's iconic classes will look in this new modern skirmish.

Battlefield 6's multiplayer reveal will be livestreamed on Battlefield's YouTube and Twitch channels. Following the showcase, which will feature developers from Battlefield Studios, viewers will be able to watch press and content creators play the game's new multiplayer suite live.

Battlefield 6's multiplayer reveal will kickoff at 11:30 AM PT / 2:30 PM ET on July 31.

With San Diego Comic-Con kicking off this week, the season of toys has begun. This is the time of the year when companies unveil new products, and GameSpot can exclusively reveal several of the new collectibles on the way from Hasbro.

The company regularly reveals new toys from several popular film and TV IP, and if you're wanting a sinister take on a Transformer icon, a throwback to the classic GI Joe movie, or unlimited power, then there's a lot to look forward to. In a GameSpot exclusive, we're taking a closer look at the new Nemesis Prime, Pythona, and several Star Wars collectibles coming soon to a convention near you and the Hasbro Pulse store.

One of the sought-after action figures for Transformers fans will be a new Nemesis Prime, straight from the Transformers Armada series. This $75 Voyager-class figure comes packaged with his Mini-Con partners: Runway, Jetstorm, and Sonar.

Call Of Duty Mobile Season 7: Phantom Current arrives next week. This season features a new battle pass with more operator skins, weapon blueprints, and rewards. Phantom Current also adds a crossover event with Girls' Frontline and an all-new RC-XD car-racing mode.

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Season 7: Phantom Current starts on July 30 at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. This new season launches with a brand-new battle pass with both free and premium items. The Season 7 battle pass has a "high-seas" theme with nautical operator skins and weapon blueprints.

The main highlight of the free battle-pass tiers is Season 7's new MG 82 light machine gun, which features a high rate of fire and a large ammo capacity. There's also the new Bomb Drone scorestreak unlocked in the free tiers.

With the passing of Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne, developer Double Fine decided to honor the rock-and-roll legend by making Brutal Legend free on PC for 666 minutes. Osbourne's likeness and voice is seen in the game as The Guardian of Metal, as well as Dadbat.

Double Fine announced the "incredible deal" on BlueSky, which was already over at the time of publication. Offering Brutal Legend for free on Itch.io was done "to honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy," per the developer's post.

Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 and performed for the last time with Black Sabbath just weeks earlier at the Back to the Beginning concert in England, according to the New York Times. For over two decades, Ozzy and his wife, Sharon, helped oversee the annual Ozzfest tour. Osbourne also had a successful solo career after leaving Black Sabbath, and he was inducted twice to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Elden Ring is proving to be a massive hit for From Software and Bandai Namco. It was announced today that Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has surpassed 10 million units shipped, while Elden Ring Nightreign has now eclipsed 5 million units shipped.

Elden Ring the base game, meanwhile, has sold more than 30 million copies. It was the No. 2 best-selling game in the US for 2022, only eclipsed by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Elden Ring's new Tarnished Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 is coming this year, bundling together Elden Ring and the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. The Elden Ring universe will further expand with a live-action movie from A24 and director Alex Garland.

Fanatical has launched a new Platinum Collection bundle, which lets you grab up to 20 PC games from previous Platinum Collection deals. This gives you a second chance to score a great deal on several popular titles in case you missed out on the previous bundles. Like other Fanatical build-your-own bundle deals, pricing scale based on how many games from the list you add to your cart. Pricing starts at three games for $10 ($3.33 per key), but the price per game drops as you add more. At five or more games, you'll pay just $3 per key, and at seven or more, you'll pay just $2.85 per key. There's no limit to how many games you can select, and if you want all 20, you'll pay just $57--a big savings compared to the full bundle's $513 value.

As for the games on offer, one of our recommendations is the SteamWorld Classics Bundle. This gives you four SteamWorld games--SteamWorld Dig, SteamWorld Dig 2, SteamWorld Heist, and SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech--each of which puts a steampunk twist on its respective genre. You can pair this four-pack with another SteamWorld title available in the bundle, SteamWorld Build, which is a strategic city builder set in the SteamWorld universe.

Upcoming anime-MMORPG Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is getting ready to host its first English closed beta test, and players can sign up now for a chance to play.

From July 24 through August 14, players can fill out a closed beta application for an opportunity to play. Those selected will be notified from August 15-20. In a press release, publisher A Plus Japan doesn't actually list the dates for the beta test itself, but it will presumably begin sometime in late August.

Progress from the beta won't carry over to the free-to-play MMO's full launch, which is still slated for sometime later this year. However, players can make in-game purchases during the test, with purchases converted to in-game currency at a rebate rate come the game's full launch.

Next year, Bandai Namco will return to the post-apocalyptical world of Code Vein, which is overrun by vampire-like Revenants. Code Vein 2 will have an even bigger area to explore than its predecessor. And as revealed in the production video below, players won't have to transverse all of that distance by foot. Instead, they can ride in style with a supernatural motorcycle.

In the video, producer Keita Iizuka explains that the Revenant Hunter's motorcycle isn't actually a motorcycle at all. It's a spell used to manifest a physical vehicle as needed. That means it won't need any conventional fuel or spare parts. However, it's unclear if players will need to provide anything to keep the motorcycle powered.

Iizuka added that when the player is accompanied by a companion character, they will ride on the back of the motorcycle with the Revenant Hunter. The motorcycle itself is being used to promote Code Vein 2 at San Diego Comic-Con this week with a recreation of the game's supernaturally charged vehicle. Fans will be able to take pictures with it there, or catch it at PAX West and New York Comic Con later this year.

The Switch 2 launched in early June and put up massive sales numbers, but it remains to be seen if the system will be a long-term success, according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.

Piscatella told The Game Business that "launch sales of hardware doesn’t often correlate to the lifetime sales." He said there have been systems that have had "incredible early sales" but later fell off, while other systems started slow and became huge hits later.

"It's just tough right now to come away with any long-term conclusions or projections, although this is a hell of a good early read," Piscatella said.

As part of its "strategic partnership" with Bandai Namco, Sony will acquire 16 million shares in the company, giving it 2.5% ownership over it. The deal is valued at 68 billion Yen, which works out to approximately $463 million. Bandai Namco has several major gaming franchises under its umbrella--including Elden Ring, Tekken, and Pac-Man--and it also owns the licenses to popular Japanese IP like Gundam and Shonen Jump, making it a giant in multiple fields of entertainment.

"Through this business alliance and Sony's investment in Bandai Namco, as two of the leading Japanese entertainment companies, Bandai Namco and Sony will focus on expanding the fan community for IP such as anime and manga around the world and strengthening engagement, particularly in the anime field where rapid market growth is anticipated," Sony and Bandai Namco said in a joint statement.

Sony has made several moves lately to diversify its portfolio, as back in 2020, it invested $250 million in Fortnite developer Epic Games. The company--alongside KIRKBI, the owners of The Lego Group--invested another $2 billion into Epic in 2022 as part of its plans to create a metaverse.

To help promote the upcoming launch of Grounded 2, Microsoft has announced a giant 10-foot red ant plush that one lucky fan can win. As you can see in the image below, the red ant plush is based on the Red Ant Buggy from Grounded 2. A new feature for Grounded 2 is the "Buggy" system, which allows players to ride insects as they traverse the hostile world.

"That's right. We turned the in-game Red Ant Buggy into a real-world, mountable, ultra-soft, totally bonkers gaming plush," Xbox said. "It's part furniture, part Buggy, and all awesome."

To win the plush, you need to follow follow Xbox on X and re-share this post. Alternatively, fans can follow Xbox on Instagram and comment on the post "#Grounded2Sweepstakes."

Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy was a very popular expansion to the three-decades-old card game, and based on its current sold-out status in most local game stores and big-box retailers, that popularity is still going strong. During Hasbro's recent quarterly investor call for Q2 2025, the company revealed that the set has already become the best-selling set in the game's history--and it only took one day to get there.

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks revealed during the call that Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy sold $200 million worth of product in a single day. For reference, the previous MTG collaboration set--2023's The Lord Of The Rings--needed six months to reach the $200 million milestone. Cocks went on to say that the set could have made even more on day one, but the company "left demand on the table."

"We couldn’t produce enough," Cocks said. "I think we increased production runs on it four times pre-release. It was substantially--by many, many very high double-digit percentages--ahead of any other production run we’ve ever done, and we left the market wanting more.”

The Mafia series has long been a contemporary of franchises like GTA and Saints Row, but its focus has always been much more narrow than those sprawling games. From the very first Mafia game, the goal was to deliver a playable classic mob movie, making for a familiar pastiche of themes and characters. The first game was technically an open world in that you drove between mission hubs, but it was largely focused on its narrative. For its latest game, Mafia: The Old Country, 2K is similarly focused. GameSpot spoke with executive producer Devin Hitch and game director Alex Cox about the change in setting and a renewed focus on making combat feel intimate and personal.

The previous games have slowly become more modern, starting in the 1930s and then venturing into the 1940s and 1950s in Mafia 2 and finally the 1960s in Mafia 3. Aside from brief interstitial stories, they've also all taken place across a fictionalized United States. That makes this setting, 1900s Sicily, a significant change for the series, but one that won't be unfamiliar to fans of organized-crime fiction.

"When we [begin a] project, as we usually do, we go back to the drawing board, we look at the 'Mafia' DNA," Cox said. We go back to the project, the franchise pillars to figure out what would make for a new 'Mafia' game, what we want it to be different about this one. And in some ways, what we want about it to be the same. And when we look at Mafia, the Mafia series and what was done in the previous three games, they start to become this story of organized crime in the 20th century. Visiting different historical eras that are very iconic, very familiar to a mainstream audience. Players will have seen Godfather, 'Goodfellas', Untouchables, all of the kinds of movies that define very iconic eras in organized-crime history."

The first trailer for Battlefield 6 has arrived, and it's impressive. This trailer spotlights the game's campaign, which is being made at Motive Studio, opening with the President of the US speaking to the American people about a "monstrous, unprovoked attack" and how "no country is safe."

The developers previously spoke about how Alex Garland's war movie Civil War was an inspiration for the game, and it's not hard to see the influence of that film in this trailer. The trailer shows off a variety of locations around the world, including New York City, and also features the iconic Battlefield music, which is nice to hear. Of course, Battlefield's trademark destruction is on display in the trailer as well.

"The trailer offers a first look at Pax Armata, a Private Military Corporation bankrolled by former NATO states whose agenda threatens to throw the world into global conflict," reads a line from the game's description. "This sets the scene for what players can expect on the battlefield--both in multiplayer and the return of the series' single player campaign. In Battlefield 6, the series' incredible blend of visceral combat, epic warfare, and player freedom returns. Blow through walls and bring down buildings for a tactical advantage or take to the skies in white-knuckle dogfights. Take part in a war filled with tanks, fighter jets, and sweeping combat at a grand scale but remember: the deadliest weapon is your squad."