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Beyond Good & Evil 2 Adds Assassin's Creed Shadows Writer — And Yes, The Game is Still in Development Beyond Good & Evil 2 er stadig under udvikling hos Ubisoft, 18 år efter spillet først blev annonceret. Rik Godwin, tidligere lead writer på Assassin’s Creed Shadows, er tilsluttet projektet i en rådgivende rolle. Spillet overlevede Ubisofts omfattende omstrukturering, men selskabet har fortsat ikke offentliggjort en udgivelsesdato.

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The Marvel’s Wolverine Vinyl Is Now Available To Preorder Ahead of Its December Release Date – Here’s Where You Can Buy It Soundtracket til Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine udkommer på en gennemsigtig gul vinylplade den 11. december 2026. Udgivelsen er en Amazon-eksklusiv med en pris på 29,99 dollar, og forudbestillinger er allerede åbne. Pladen indeholder ni originale musiknumre komponeret af David Fleming.

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'I Don’t Think Starfield was Anywhere Near Successful Enough to do a Starfield 2' – Former Bethesda Dev Casts Doubt On Sequel Kurt Kuhlmann, tidligere lead systems designer hos Bethesda, tvivler på, at Starfield får en efterfølger. Han vurderer, at spillet ikke har været succesfuldt nok til at retfærdiggøre Starfield 2, selv om en efterfølger kunne have draget fordel af erfaringerne fra det første spil. Bethesda vil fortsat udvide Starfield med nyt indhold og opdateringer, mens studiet primært arbejder på The Elder Scrolls VI.

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Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2's New Class Is Finally Confirmed — and It's Exactly What Everyone Suspected Focus Entertainment har bekræftet, at Apothecary bliver den nye spilbare klasse i Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Klassen udkommer med Patch 17 i første kvartal 2027 og får senere et Champion-skin. År 3 byder også på nye missioner, våben, spiltilstande og kosmetik, mens Chaos Siege lanceres med Patch 15 den 1. oktober.

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There Are Over 30 Pikachu Cards in Pokémon TCG's 30th Celebration Anniversary Set, So We Ranked Them From Worst to Best Pokémon TCG’s 30th Celebration Collection indeholder 30 særskilt illustrerede Pikachu-kort, og IGN har rangeret dem fra mindst til mest attraktive. Rangeringen bygger primært på kortenes illustrationer, mens priser på TCGplayer bruges som tie-breaker. Artiklen fremhæver samtidig, at flere kort er blevet markant billigere siden udgivelsen, og gennemgår hvor samlere kan købe sættet.

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Activision’s New Halo Must Leave Behind Xbox’s 15-Year Quest To Recapture Bungie’s Magic – It’s Time for a Doom-Style Rethink IGN vurderer, at Halo-serien har haft svært ved at finde en stærk identitet og regelmæssig udgivelsesrytme siden Bungies afgang. Microsoft har derfor givet Activision ansvaret for det næste Halo-spil, hvilket ifølge analysen kan give serien en tiltrængt nytænkning. Artiklen peger samtidig på, at Activision skal finde en moderne retning uden blot at kopiere Bungies arv.

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GTA 6 Is Getting a $400 Collector's Set Filled With Tons of Merch, But No Game Rockstar Games har annonceret en samlerudgave til GTA 6 til 400 dollar, men boksen indeholder ikke selve spillet. Vice City Collection indeholder blandt andet Oakley-solbriller, en figur, en kasket, pins, en taske og andre genstande med tema fra spillets Leonida-univers. Udgivelsen er planlagt til 19. november, og forudbestillinger er allerede åbne.

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Amazon UK Just Slashed Prices on MTG Final Fantasy, Marvel, and TMNT Sets Ahead of Prime Day, Including Lowest-Ever Discounts on Popular Commander Decks Amazon UK har allerede sat flere Magic: The Gathering-produkter ned op til årets Prime Day. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet sæt med Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles og Marvel samt Commander Decks baseret på Final Fantasy. Rabatterne varierer fra 10 til 29 procent, og nogle af tilbuddene kræver et Prime-abonnement, mens andre er tilgængelige for alle kunder.

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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Story Comes to an End With Final DLC This December Owlcat Games afslutter historien i rollespillet Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader med udvidelsen Processional of the Damned, der udkommer i december. DLC’en tilføjer blandt andet en ny historie, ledsageren Stella, en ny nærkampsarketype, fjender og spilfunktioner. Udvidelsen bliver integreret i hovedspillet, mens studiet samtidig arbejder på Dark Heresy og The Expanse: Osiris Reborn.

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The Witcher 3 Is on Sale for Half Price Ahead of Next Week’s Free Remaster Upgrade The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition kan i øjeblikket købes til halv pris på PlayStation 5, Xbox og PC. Den kommende Remastered-opdatering udkommer 29. september som en gratis opgradering for ejere af originalspillet. Opdateringen forbedrer blandt andet grafik, traversal, fototilstand og skill tree samt tilføjer transmog, nye fjendeadfærdsmønstre og nye afslutninger.

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World of Warcraft: Forever Is Getting Heavy Rain — Here's How It Looks Blizzard vil snart tilføje kraftigere vejreffekter, herunder kraftig regn, i udvalgte betaområder i World of Warcraft: Forever. En video viser regnen i Elwynn Forest, hvor spillerne har taget positivt imod ændringen. Det nye Classic+-spil er fortsat i beta og udkommer officielt 4. november 2026.

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'One of the Very Few Games I'm Going to Be Buying': Control Resonant Has Leaked, But There's a Push Among Some Pirates to Pay For It Anyway Kopier af Remedy-spillet Control Resonant cirkulerer allerede ulovligt online efter udgivelsen til pc, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X/S. På piratfora og Reddit opfordrer nogle brugere imidlertid til at købe spillet for at støtte studiet, som har haft udfordringer med salget af tidligere titler. IGN har givet spillet 8/10.

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Here's When You Can Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered in Your Region CD Projekt Red har bekræftet de globale udgivelsestider for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, som lanceres 29. september. Remasteren udkommer til pc, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S og Nintendo Switch 2 og bliver en gratis opgradering for ejere af grundspillet. Versionen indeholder blandt andet forbedret grafik, kamp, bevægelse, monsteradfærd og en opdateret færdighedsstruktur.

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Age of Empires Studio Lost Almost Half the Studio and Had Its Next Project Canned, Before Being Handed Over to Activision World’s Edge, Microsofts studie bag Age of Empires, har mistet næsten halvdelen af sine medarbejdere i den seneste fyringsrunde i Xbox-divisionen. Studiet flyttes samtidig under Activision, mens det næste projekt er blevet aflyst. I alt er 268 ansatte berørt i den aktuelle runde, og Microsoft forventer op mod 3.200 jobtab i løbet af regnskabsåret.

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New Report Sheds Light on What Will — and Won't — Return to Destiny 2 When Bungie Adds Back Vaulted Content Bungie vil bringe udvalgte dele af tidligere fjernet indhold tilbage til Destiny 2 uden ekstra betaling. Det gælder blandt andet kampagner, destinationer og raids, mens spillets mere end 25 sæsoner ikke forventes genudgivet. Der ventes heller ikke regelmæssige opdateringer, nye udvidelser eller sæsonbaserede begivenheder, da studiet har begrænsede ressourcer.

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Injustice 3 Rumors Sparks Response From NetherRealm's Ed Boon NetherRealm-chefen Ed Boon har afvist rygter om, at studiet i øjeblikket tester Injustice 3, Mortal Kombat 13 eller Mortal Kombat 9. Han understreger dog, at manglende ekstern test ikke betyder, at et spil ikke er under udvikling. Det holder liv i spekulationerne om, at Injustice 3 kan blive annonceret senere på året.

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Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary Celebration Sealed Booster Bundles Are In Stock at Amazon, and Way Under Market Price Compared to TCGplayer Amazon har genopfyldt lageret af Pokémon TCG’s 30-års jubilæums-Booster Bundles, som kan købes for 45 dollar. Det er markant under den aktuelle markedspris på omkring 122,64 dollar hos TCGplayer, men stadig 20 dollar over den vejledende pris. Amazon forventes at sende produkterne i begyndelsen af oktober, mens lageret rækker.

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'This Has to Be a Sick Joke' — the Next Ace Attorney Game Is a VR Exclusive and Fans Can't Quite Believe It Capcom har annonceret Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies VR, en VR-udgave af 3DS-spillet fra 2013. Spillet udkommer i 2027 eksklusivt til Meta-platforme som Meta Quest 2, 3, 3S og Quest Pro. Fans har reageret skuffet, fordi de fortsat venter på et nyt Ace Attorney 7, mens denne udgivelse genbruger et 13 år gammelt spil med håndsporing og interaktive 3D-forbrydelsesscener.

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'I'm So Deeply Moved' — Artist Behind Pokémon 30th Anniversary Jirachi SIR Card Gives Tearful Response to Late Influencer's Heart-Wrenching Final Pack Opening Pokémon-influenceren Avery the Poké Kid døde 12 år gammel efter flere års kamp mod kræft. I sin sidste kortåbning trak han et Jirachi-kort fra Pokémon-seriens 30-års jubilæumsudgivelse, hvilket blev et følelsesladet øjeblik for fans. Kortets illustrator, Akira Egawa, har siden fortalt på X, at videoen rørte hende dybt og fik hende til at græde.

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Activision's Halo Takeover Causes Fan Debate Over Whether or Not the Franchise Should Be Rebooted Halo-fans diskuterer, om Activision bør genstarte serien helt eller fortsætte historien om Master Chief. Debatten bygger på et ubekræftet rygte, mens flere fans foreslår at bevare Bungies æra eller fortælle nye historier med andre figurer. Activision er samtidig ved at samle et nyt hold til det næste Halo-spil, efter at Halo Studios er blevet ramt af fyringer.

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'The Boss Is Supposed to Win!' — Watch Hard Difficulty AI Orks Wipe the Floor With the Creative Director and Senior Game Designer of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 Udviklerne bag Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 har offentliggjort en video, hvor de selv forsøger at besejre spillets hårde AI-styrede Orker. De to udviklere taber begge kampe som Space Marines, hvor den anden kamp ender med overgivelse efter 13 minutter. Videoen viser samtidig tospiller-samarbejde mod AI, og spillet udkommer til PC den 3. december 2026.

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Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Wants to Play GTA 6, Despite Not Being Much of a Gamer Game of Thrones-skuespilleren Kit Harington fortæller, at han ikke er den store gamer, men gerne vil spille Grand Theft Auto 6. Han har tidligere spillet blandt andet Tekken, Mario Kart og Hogwarts Legacy samt medvirket i Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare og Telltales Game of Thrones-spil. Rockstar Games planlægger at udgive GTA 6 den 19. november 2026.

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'Very Sad' — Marvel Tokon: Fighting Soul's PC Sales and Player Count Are Already Making Players Doom About Its Future Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls har efter lidt over en måned omkring 427 aktive spillere på Steam og en top på 791 det seneste døgn. Analysefirmaet Alinea Analytics vurderer, at 82 procent af salget er sket på PlayStation, mens spillet samlet har solgt cirka 750.000 eksemplarer. Den svage PC-lancering og problemer med matchmaking har udløst bekymring for spillets fremtid, selv om PlayStation-versionen klarer sig bedre.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Switch (IGN's 10/10 Rated "Masterpiece" and 2023 Game of the Year) Drops to $38.97 After Walmart's Hidden Coupon Walmart sælger i en begrænset periode The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom til Nintendo Switch for 48,97 dollar efter en automatisk rabat. Med koden “SAVE3X” kan prisen i nogle tilfælde falde yderligere til 38,97 dollar, men tilbuddet er primært rettet mod nye kunder og de første tre onlineordrer. Det er den originale Switch-udgave, mens en opgradering til Switch 2 koster 9,99 dollar.

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PlayStation Gave Out Grand Theft Auto 6 Merch for Free at Tokyo Game Show and It's Already Being Resold on eBay for Hundreds of Dollars Gratis T-shirts med GTA 6-motiv, som blev uddelt ved Tokyo Game Show 2026, bliver allerede videresolgt online for høje priser. Flere annoncer på eBay sælger trøjerne for omkring 140-200 dollar, mens stickers og karabinhager fra Rockstar Games’ stand også sælges dyrere end den oprindelige pris. Merchandise-salget sker efter stor interesse for spillets særlige immersive visning.

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Activision’s New Halo Must Leave Behind Xbox’s 15-Year Quest To Recapture Bungie’s Magic – It’s Time for a Doom-Style Rethink

IGN vurderer, at Halo-serien har haft svært ved at finde en stærk identitet og regelmæssig udgivelsesrytme siden Bungies afgang. Microsoft har derfor givet Activision ansvaret for det næste Halo-spil, hvilket ifølge analysen kan give serien en tiltrængt nytænkning. Artiklen peger samtidig på, at Activision skal finde en moderne retning uden blot at kopiere Bungies arv.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who was brought up on the golden era of Halo and Half-Life. He loves story-driven FPS campaigns and wishes there was more of them (but perhaps not quite as many as there were in the 2000s - that was pretty excessive.)

Halo should be Xbox’s Call of Duty.

Of course, thanks to a $69 billion acquisition, Call of Duty is now Xbox’s Call of Duty. But I think you get the idea: Halo should be massive. It should be the premier first-person shooter on Xbox. It should be delivering stellar campaigns and phenomenal multiplayer on a regular basis. It should be among Team Green’s most-played games on any given day.

But it isn’t. And perhaps the reason why is nothing more than the passage of time and the shifting of trends. Can any game sit on the popularity throne forever? The simple truth may be that Master Chief is an artefact of the original Xbox and 360 days, and that 2010’s incredible Halo: Reach was a natural end point that should have been respected.

But while that may indeed be the case, that story doesn’t reflect Microsoft’s uneven handling of the series. Bungie delivered lightning in a bottle five times in a row over the course of a decade. Its successor, the purpose-built 343 Industries (now Halo Studios), found it all but impossible to replicate those achievements. Across 15 years, it struggled to hit a regular cadence; the development pipelines of yesteryear allowed Bungie to deliver a new game every couple of years or so, but there was a six-year gap between Halo 5 and Infinite, and very soon another six years will have passed without a mainline entry. Halo simply isn’t in the public eye in the way it was during the 360 era, nor the way Call of Duty is today.

With this in mind, it’s entirely unsurprising to see that Xbox’s CEO, Asha Sharma, has assigned Activision the task of developing the next Halo. If nothing else, Activision is an unrelenting video game factory; a colossal machine of rotating studios that assembles high-budget shooters year in, year out. If Sharma wants to ship Halo games – lots of Halo games – there’s no better Microsoft division to rectify that issue.

But cadence hasn’t been the only problem that Halo has had to contend with over the past two console generations. Simply put, there hasn’t been a must-play Halo since Bungie called it quits. The days of 90+ on Metacritic are a distant memory. That’s not to say Halo Studios’ games have been anything close to a disaster, but every one of its projects suggests a studio struggling to stay true to a formula it didn’t invent. It’s an odd situation, because (at least in theory) it followed the Bungie playbook to the letter; each of its games honors the past, maintaining traditions established way back in 2001, while also attempting to push the series into the future with brand new ideas and reworked mechanics. The Bungie era never stood still, each new game building atop its predecessor with new playable characters, new enemies, new abilities, new multiplayer modes, and even entirely new approaches to campaign design. All of this can be said of Halo Studios’ games, yet none of them ever successfully captured the magic.

Simply put, there hasn’t been a must-play Halo since Bungie called it quits.

Perhaps that was the biggest problem – should it have even tried to? Halo Studios was given the arguably impossible task of maintaining and continuing the legacy of one of the most important series in FPS history. Of course it tried to make games that felt like Bungie projects. But in doing so, it never successfully established a coherent new identity for the series’ next era. Halo 4 felt like a true continuation of Bungie’s work, a natural successor to the triumphs of Reach, and while I think it’s by far the best game the studio made, there’s no denying that it’s confined by pre-existing parameters and fan expectation. Halo 5 attempted to escape those rules, but its miserable campaign is the absolute worst version of something that could still be considered Halo. 2021’s Infinite was positioned as the course corrector, but turned out to be a collection of modern trends – an open world campaign, battle-pass and daily-quest-fueled multiplayer – embedded in all the iconography of a “return to roots”; the verdant green fields, blue-lit tunnels, and tight PvP arenas of Combat Evolved.

Together, the studios’ attempts make for a fractured trilogy; united by their attempts to continue the past, divided by a lack of shared direction. These troubles are only emphasised when contrasted against its Xbox stablemate, Gears of War – The Coalition’s continuation of Epic’s macho shooter similarly hasn’t lived up to the high bar of the original trilogy, but the duology of Gears 4 and 5 undeniably has its own coherent identity (which, yes, as far as the campaign goes is a bit Gears-imitating-PlayStation’s-single-player-schtick, but it’s an identity nonetheless) and that approach appears set to continue in the upcoming E-Day. Halo’s 15-year quest to stay true to Bungie has been its albatross – a lack of a truly fresh perspective dulls its edge in the modern era, while its struggle to balance the old with the new frustrates long-time Halo fans who simply want to play more Halo. It’s hard to think of another studio for which “doomed if you do, doomed if you don’t” is more applicable.

But that quest is now over. Halo Studios has been gutted, its sole reason for being handed over to the masters of Call of Duty. But while an entirely different division of Xbox may now be in charge, it faces exactly the same challenge: what is post-Bungie Halo? That question still needs an answer.

A vague, totally unsubstantiated rumour has suggested that Activision plans to totally reboot Halo. Fans are, predictably, divided by the notion. Personally, I don’t feel strongly either way, although I do think it’s time Master Chief was laid to rest. Whether the next story takes place in existing canon or not doesn’t hugely matter to me if we’re seeing the world through fresh eyes. Akin to ODST’s special forces or Reach’s team of Spartans, there’d be little need to untangle the narrative threads of John 117’s career, and the universe’s least desirable elements are easily ignored by shifting to a different theatre of war.

For me, the more important aspect is preserving the fundamental gameplay blueprint – the slower pace, the small-but-specialised arsenal, the arena approach to multiplayer, the “wide linear” campaign design, the exceptional enemy AI that makes each and every engagement unpredictable. It’s this approach that id Software took when it created its new vision of Doom – the phenomenal 2016 shooter indisputably followed the core recipe of the 1996 original, but you could never accuse it of being beholden to tradition. Every single component felt cutting-edge. It was somehow a classic, old-school shooter while simultaneously being one of the decade’s most forward-thinking games. As my colleague Ryan McCaffrey has already pointed out, it’s hard to imagine a studio better suited to handling Halo – it’s Xbox-owned, after all.

But the task has been given to Activision, and whether or not it can (or even wants to) replicate id’s success with Doom remains to be seen. But, considering the company’s history, it’s understandable if fans already have a negative outlook. Activision could well turn Halo into Xbox’s Call of Duty… by making it Call of Duty. Overstuffed menus and a relentless army of pop-ups asking you to buy the battle pass, invest in this skin, and play this limited-time mode. Halo Infinite was already showing signs of heading in that direction, so could this new era take the plunge completely and shower us with colour-tiered weapons with 16 mod slots? A battle royale map later repurposed for an extraction shooter? I wouldn’t blame anyone who’s grown tired of Call of Duty’s aggressive approach to be wary of what’s to come.

During its golden era, Bungie ensured Halo was distinct. For all its faults and failures, Halo Studios understood that – it just never managed to coalesce a coherent, compelling version of that for the series’ next generation. And so we can only hope that Activision will recognise it, too, but find more success in bringing Halo’s distinguishing qualities to a modern player base. I believe the way to do that is not to replicate the Halo of the past, but to recreate the conditions of its creation – to allow the team of designers, artists, and engineers given stewardship of the series the time and freedom to establish something as special as Combat Evolved was 25 years ago.

The reality, of course, is that Xbox cannot afford to do that. It needs a new Halo yesterday. But it also needs a damn good reason for you to buy its next-generation console. Somewhere in that pressure cooker of a situation, I hope the game that Halo’s legacy deserves can grow.

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