Red Dead Redemption 2, meanwhile, has sold over 87 million units, up from 85 million. It became the third-best-selling title in the United States, and with this continued sales momentum, that gap may continue to widen over time. That is, unless Nintendo Switch Sports Resort can replicate the success of Wii Sports.

As for Grand Theft Auto 6, it launches on November 19th for Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Over a year after its second trailer, Rockstar Games will debut an extended look on August 27th. The catch is that it will premiere first on Netflix at 3 PM ET before becoming available on YouTube and the official site at 9 PM ET.

While we wait for everything it could showcase, you can check out our feature for all the latest revealed details, including pricing and what’s available in the Ultimate Edition. Pre-orders have reportedly been very strong, reaching $260 million in the first week.

As caught by social media user Anonimo, changes were discovered on the SteamDB page for Wolfenstein, despite the title having been delisted from Steam entirely. A host of updates have seemingly been made to the metadata for the title, with some even mentioning modern features like controller glyph displays and default graphical configurations. Interestingly, among the changes is the original listed release date of the game – August 18th, 2009. This could hint at an upcoming remastered release.

There have also been mentions of Steam Deck compatibility, which would indicate that Bethesda and Microsoft are looking at a wide release for the 2009 shooter.

While neither of the companies has made any announcements as of yet, QuakeCon 2026 is right around the corner, kicking off on August 6th and running until August 9th. Bethesda has maintained a tradition of remastering some of the older shooter franchises it owns so far, and this year, we could see Wolfenstein getting the treatment. We’ve previously seen this happen with Quake, Quake 2, Heretic, and Hexen.

2009’s Wolfenstein was developed by Raven Software – a studio that was previously known for its work on classic shooters like Hexen and Heretic, and more recently known as a support studio working on the Call of Duty franchise.

The title revolves around American superspy B.J. Blaskowicz on a mission to stop the Nazi forces from being able to harness the power of an ancient alternate dimension known only as the Black Sun. While the Nazis have been using the power from the dimension to create new super soldiers and other monsters, Blaskowicz is equipped with a magic amulet that allows him to pull off some fantastical moves, like slowing down time, for example.

Interestingly, the story was a follow-up to 2001’s Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which laid many of the foundations of the Nazis and their obsession with occult artifacts leading up to the 2009 title.

Interestingly, while Wolfenstein: The New Order was a soft reboot for the franchise, developer MachineGames brought over some of the story elements from Wolfenstein to flesh out the world, including characters like Caroline Becker and Wilhelm Strasse. Many of the technological advances made by the Nazi forces in MachineGames’ series could also be attributed to their discovery and use of the Black Sun.

However, in terms of overarching continuity, the B.J. Blaskowicz of MachineGames’ titles is not the same as the one from the 2009 shooter, and the newer entries have also opted to take on a much more serious tone for their stories when compared to their predecessors.

During his tenure at Rockstar Games, Roberts had worked on the Midnight Club franchise as well as the multiplayer for the original Red Dead Redemption. As for what happened with Midnight Club, he confirmed that the studio ultimately canceled the project.

“When I [left], the core Midnight Club team continued to develop. I think they had even had some prototype cities; I kind of recall London was the one they were doing map development and stuff for. There was effort, and they were starting, and they were starting Midnight Club 5, or whatever they were going to call it, but it didn’t last, and it was canceled.” Roberts said that one of the core reasons behind the cancelation was a “non-trivial conflict” that arose between Rockstar’s New York Studio and the San Diego-based Midnight Club team. The same conflict also seemingly led to several missed milestones when 2008’s Midnight Club: Los Angeles was being developed.

The distance between both of the studios likely played a major role, especially in a time when online communication and collaboration tools weren’t as robust as they are in modern days. However, Roberts also believed that creative control may have played a major role, with the New York team noting that “you’re not GTA”, and making the Midnight Club team feel like they were working on “a red-headed stepchild project” that “never got the accolades or the reception.”

“I think that might have been the core of it, but it was also creative control,” he said. “The team in San Diego kind of…we felt, in any other studio environment, Midnight Club was a solid game.”

“The perception was we never got the accolades or the reception. The New York perspective was, ‘You’re not GTA’. When you’re the red-headed stepchild project—you know, we’re doing a good job, we’re world-class, but we’re still treated less than. It was challenging.”

The cancelation of the project would eventually lead to the entire team being dismissed. While Roberts himself was tasked with working on Rockstar’s in-house RAGE engine, many others were laid off. He said that the general feeling at the time was that “there would be no more Midnight Club and everything was going to be GTA and stuff moving forward, and that’s just the way it was going to be.”

The Midnight Club franchise started off on PS2 back in 2000 with Midnight Club: Street Racing. It would get a pair of sequels in a relatively short time frame – 2003’s Midnight Club 2 and 2005’s Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. The franchise would then jump into the next console generation with its final game – Midnight Club: Los Angeles, which got a Complete Edition release in 2009 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

This will be followed up with backwards compatibility on PC featuring support for games released on the original Xbox. These titles will seemingly be available to purchase through the Xbox app, and can also be played through Game Pass. The roadmap caps things off by listing its long-term plan for 2027 to 2028, which involves a gradual rollout of the Xbox 360 catalogue across “next-gen Xbox devices”. Interestingly, eXtas1s has noted that these new programs will be opt-in for publishers, and they can charge players for the disc-to-digital conversion if they desire.

“For both programs, Xbox manages all engineering, certification, and support efforts. You, the Publisher, keeps full control over rights, pricing, and brand; your only lift is opting in and setting commercial terms. Both programs reactivate dormant SKUs, unlock new audiences on PC and handheld, and create ready-made re-release opportunities – no porting efforts required,” reads the roadmap’s directive towards publishers.

It is worth noting, however, that the roadmap may have been hit with delays. July was meant to be the beginning of public beta testing of the disc-to-digital conversion program through Microsoft’s Insider program. However, this hasn’t yet happened, which might also mean that the release of the program for the general public – originally scheduled for August – might get delayed.

The fact that “next-gen Xbox devices” was mentioned lends strong credence to the idea that Xbox 360 titles might become playable on PC as well. Since Microsoft’s next-gen console, Project Helix, has essentially been described as being closer to a PC in terms of how open its systems will be, we might see the backwards compatibility features extend beyond just sticking to Xbox platforms.

A recent report indicated that Microsoft had planned to continue supporting physical discs for its consoles before the major Xbox reset from last month. According to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, even Project Helix would have supported discs in some fashion – potentially through add-on disc drives. While Microsoft itself hasn’t made any statement regarding physical media in light of Sony’s announcement that it is ending PlayStation disc production in 2028, it is believed that the company wants users to potentially carry forward their older games onto newer hardware.

“One thing I’ve heard from a couple of sources, and this is just kind of like potential rumory stuff, but at least before the current Xbox reset – I don’t know where it is now – it sounds like Microsoft was actually very much going to continue disc support. Not because they valued retail disc sales, but because they wanted to ensure that all your Xbox games were still playable on new Xboxes.”

In the meantime, there have also been reports about Xbox potentially leaving Steam. However, at least for now, it looks like the company wants to hang on to the massive audience made available by Valve’s storefront.

Grand Theft Auto 5, in particular, according to Ricchio, was going to have “so much stuff that was done” that would never make it to the full release. “Like, minigames that were completely done and ready to go, except for animation, right?” The studio apparently decided to cut out these minigames because the animation team was “getting destroyed” from its work on other aspects of the game. After all, there was “so much animation work to do to bring everything to the same level..”

Ultimately, Ricchio said that “we had to cut stuff out that was otherwise completely done” due to the lack of time and approaching deadlines. He went on to discuss that these things tend to happen for larger projects. “They’ll throw out entire levels, and they’ll throw out entire things because they don’t have enough resources to get everything to the same level.”

Since Grand Theft Auto 5 never received single-player DLC, Ricchio noted that the cut content never made it to the public eye. Rather, “they just disappeared.”

Rockstar Games is hard at work on wrapping up the development of Grand Theft Auto 6 to ensure it launches on November 19th. Pre-orders having been kicked off last month would indicate that the studio is on schedule.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will take players to the state of Leonida, marking the franchise’s return to the Miami-inspired Vice City. Its story will focus on two protagonists – an ex-con named Lucia Caminos and a drug runner and racketeer named Jason Duval. The duo finds itself in a lot of trouble after a score goes horribly wrong. Thus, they end up in Vice City and are embroiled in its shadier side.

While no real details about the story have been revealed so far, Rockstar Games has confirmed that it will involve a grand criminal conspiracy spanning the entire state and that players will explore several locations outside of Vice City throughout the game.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is currently slated for release only on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and while the franchise has traditionally also come to PC some time after coming out on consoles, neither Rockstar nor parent company Take-Two Interactive has committed to a firm release date on the platform.

When asked about this, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the studio wanted to focus on its console player base because “historically, Rockstar’s gone to console first.” This statement isn’t untrue, since even its most recent game – Red Dead Redemption 2 – came to PS4 and Xbox One in 2018 before eventually getting a PC release in 2019.

In his lengthy post, Mahler said that the strategy would have worked “if people would’ve shown up for it.” However, “they didn’t, and the software catalogue was just nowhere near good enough to make people happily pay the subscription every month.” Comparing it to other subscription services, like video streaming, Mahler said that he would continue to pay for his HBO subscription to watch high-quality shows like The Wire and The Sopranos. Game Pass, he said, needs a similar level of quality.

“You need those games your studios are producing to become smash hits, cultural events that everyone wants to play – but what was the big Xbox game in recent years that was just delightfully good? That game doesn’t exist.”

“Almost every single first-party studio in recent years has been floundering. You’d want Bethesda to create a ‘Skyrim in Space’ that ought to be better than Skyrim was, cause that was an old game: But we got Starfield instead.”

The “crux of the issue”, as Mahler puts it, revolves around the people working at Xbox to “deeply, fundamentally understand gamers and what they want. They’d need to understand what’s a good game and what’s a mediocre game. And they’d need to have good deals with devs so developers are actively incentivized to produce massive hits, not just slop out mediocre content like a factory.”

Broussard’s post also points out similar issues, noting that the company should not have given the greenlight to spend $100 million on the development of a game like South of Midnight. He wrote about how a large corporation like Microsoft needs to find the right balance between giving its game development teams the “freedom to make things, and execute”, and making sure that the projects still ultimately end up turning a profit.

“I’ve said it before, but I believe Xbox does not have the DNA to right the ship, so you will see a slash and burn phase where all the perceived fat and costs are cut,” he wrote. “Then what? Do we believe Xbox has the founding DNA that created the Xbox and the 360 (which all then left during another regime change, and we got the One and Kinect?). Can [CEO Asha Sharma], [CCO Matt Booty] and the rest turn things around? I hope so, but would be against.”

The discission largely revolves around the fact that Xbox is reportedly getting ready for sweeping layoffs and studio closures in the months following the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30th. Companies like Compulsion Games, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory have already begun negotiations to turn independent, according to a report.

Average PC players per day in the past year reached 461,000 (with almost half on tModLoader), peaking at 1.4 million. Your average fan has put in 101 hours and 18 minutes on the platform, but mod enjoyers are just as enthusiastic, with 89 hours and 52 minutes on average.

While update 1.4.6 is on the way, Re-Logic seems well and truly done with proclaiming its next update as the last, with even more support to come. “How that will work and what those entail will be shared as we go along. You will want to stay tuned for that!” it said on Steam.

“Beyond that, we have other plans and ideas that we will share when the time is right, but suffice to say that the world of Terraria remains and will remain vibrant and alive for as long as we have anything to say about it! Here’s to 15 more years… and beyond!”

If you’re thinking about diving back in, or perhaps trying it out for the first time, you’ll be pleased to know that a physical 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is on the way, with pre-orders likely to open up in June and a release date next year. The included items remain to be properly revealed, but a model of the player’s heart and a figure of what could be the infamous Moon Lord are seemingly included.

He did note, however, that he didn’t feel like it was “unfair at all” for the series to essentially end after the release of Dead Space 3. He put this down to his career as a producer, which has given him insight into how things like sales numbers tend to work.

“It wasn’t like it didn’t get a run out of it,” he said. “I mean, it’s disappointing that we can’t make a beloved franchise to its logical end, but I guess I’m too much of a producer, [I’ve] been producing for too long. I understand the numbers, and I understand what’s happening, and why even Motive wasn’t really greenlit for anything after the remake.”

He went on to point out that, despite all of the success of horror games in general, there is still a ceiling on how many copies a certain game in the genre will sell. During the development of the Dead Space franchise, Beaver has noted that former EA vice president Frank Gibeau wanted 5 million units sold to justify more games.

“Horror games have a bit of a ceiling, you know, and I think the number back in [former EA VP] Frank Gibeau’s day was 5 million units to keep going on Dead Space,” Beaver said. “I think the number is like 15 million units now, given the cost of things.”

With the industry in its current state, Beaver believes that EA will want a game to sell around 7 million copies to consider it viable. The number doesn’t come from anywhere, however, since it is in direct comparison with Capcom’s recent Resident Evil outings. The company had recently confirmed that it had sold 7 million copies of Resident Evil Requiem, for instance.

“Any of the Resident Evils are selling around seven million [units], that’s a pretty good number,” Beaver explained. “Like you can make that hunt for some amount of stuff. But, you know, companies now are looking for the next Fortnite. They need something that is a perennial moneymaker… something like a single-player package game with no live-service offering that’s like it’s just a dinosaur fossil of a business model.”

Aside from the 2023 remake of the original Dead Space, the last mainline entry in the franchise was 2013’s Dead Space 3 on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. A report from December 2025 has indicated that the Dead Space series is essentially “on ice”. While there are apparently developers at EA that would hope for the IP to be sold and picked up by another company, EA itself seems to have “zero plans” for it, at least for now.

Among the merchandise is a vinyl record set of the original’s beloved soundtrack, a variety of new figurines, as well as plush toys based on various characters, including Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, Auron, and others. The merchandise can already be pre-ordered through the official Square Enix e-Store. The set will feature two discs, each with two sides featuring just about all of the most iconic tracks from the RPG, from various boss battle themes to the famous moody opening track, To Zanarkand. The soundtrack can be picked up on July 1st, and is priced at ¥9,350 (roughly $59).

Final Fantasy 10 marked the franchise’s debut on the PS2, and was one of the first showcases of just how much power the (at the time) new console hardware could offer to game developers, thanks to its striking visuals and beautiful pre-rendered cutscenes. It was also the first entry with fully 3D environments, with the previous 3D games—Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9—making use of pre-rendered backgrounds alongside their 3D character models.

The story of Final Fantasy 10 revolves around star blitzball players for the team Zanarkand Abes – Tidus – finding himself transported to an entirely new world, Spira, where the city of Zanarkand is believed to have been destroyed ages ago. With his primary goal of getting back to his own version of Zanarkand, Tidus finds himself accompanying summoner Yuna on her pilgrimage, traveling the world and encountering many of the different cultures it has to offer. Along the way, he also discovers the nature of an entity named Sin, who had previously attacked Zanarkand and continues to terrorize the world of Spira to this day.

While Final Fantasy 10 left behind its predecessors’ active-time battle system, instead opting for a purely turn-based style, it introduced its own twists by bringing in an extensive skill tree—the Sphere Grid—through which players could unlock new abilities and raise the stats of all characters.

Currently, Final Fantasy 10 is playable through an HD remaster released on PS4 and PC back in 2016, and Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in 2019. PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 players can make use of backwards compatibility to enjoy the seminal RPG.

Just a couple of years after the original’s 2001 release, it would get a sequel, dubbed Final Fantasy 10-2. Along with being noteworthy for the fact that it was the first direct sequel released for a mainline Final Fantasy game, 10-2 also focused its story on the events following Final Fantasy 10, with Yuna, Rikku, and newcomer Paine teaming up to once more travel across Spira and potentially even find Tidus. The gameplay went back to the classic active-time battle system, and a new class system was implemented through the introduction of Dress Spheres, using which the three protagonists could switch between a variety of Jobs.

He said that TKs-Mantis was “partially right,” going on to note that “there are certain things that were gonna take place in Van Buren that do happen during the time of New Vegas.” Despite this, however, “not a ton of” things from Van Buren affected the story of Fallout: New Vegas aside from “a little bit” of a planned plot point involving conflicts between the New California Republic and a “merchant mafia.”

“That’s why all those nukes go off, cause I’m like, ‘well, I need to destabilize some regions,” Avellone explained. “Like, not wipe out factions, but I need to shake up both the Brotherhood, I need to shake up the NCR, I need to have them even more at each other’s throats in California.’ And so that was the reason for some of the precursor decisions for some of the DLC stuff and some of the stuff in core New Vegas … When we still thought we’d be able to do a New Vegas 2, or whatever the title would be, but that quickly evaporated.”

As for the evaporated idea of a New Vegas 2, Avellone has said that it “will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever.”

In the same interview, Avellone had also said that a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas in the vein of last year’s The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is unlikely due to Bethesda’s lack of engineering know-how to make it.

“I don’t think Bethesda has the engineering know-how to make a remaster of New Vegas at all,” he said. This lack of know-how was reflected in the fact that, when New Vegas was still in development at Obsidian Entertainment, Bethesda had offered the studio a $10,000 bonus if it could “deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build.” This bonus was skipped by studio lead Feargus Urquhart.“What that milestone really meant was if all those assets are given to Bethesda, that means they can recreate the game at any time,” he explained.

While a collaboration of this scope between Bethesda and Obsidian seemed unlikely in the years following the 2010 release of Fallout: New Vegas, both companies now fall under the Xbox Game Studios banner following a series of acquisitions by Microsoft. This means that there is potential for the two to work together to remaster the critically acclaimed cult classic open-world RPG.

March also saw a report indicating that Iron Galaxy Studios might be involved in the development of a Fallout: New Vegas remaster. However, the studio quickly dispelled the notion by revealing that any hints towards the remaster were merely a “behind-the-scenes” look at its preparations for team meetings, and that it wasn’t involved in any project related to the Fallout franchise.