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‘We’ve Got Nobody to Blame But Ourselves’ — Riot Games Co-Founder Explains the Death of 2XKO Riot Games' medstifter Marc Merrill siger, at kampspillet 2XKO skulle have haft flere hundrede tusinde eller måske millioner af månedlige aktive spillere for at kunne retfærdiggøre udviklingsbudgettet. Han peger blandt andet på manglende strategisk enighed og lanceringen af Street Fighter 6 som årsager til spillets problemer. Riot har stoppet videre indholdsudvikling efter december 2026, men onlinespillet forbliver tilgængeligt.

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How Jason and Lucia's Character Designs Have Evolved Since the 2023 GTA 6 Trailer GTA 6 har ifølge IGN fået markant mere detaljerede karaktermodeller siden den første trailer i 2023. En sammenligning viser især forbedringer i Jason og Lucias hud, hår, ansigtstræk, tøj og muligheder for tilpasning. Spillet er nu tæt på udgivelsen den 19. november 2026, og Rockstar Games er begyndt at intensivere markedsføringen efter den officielle aldersmærkning.

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Ahead of Metro 2039, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light are Getting Next-Gen Updates That'll Hopefully Make Them More Playable on Modern Hardware 4A Games udgiver næste generations-opdateringer til Metro 2033 og Metro: Last Light før lanceringen af Metro 2039. På PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X tilbydes op til 4K og 120 billeder i sekundet, mens pc-versionen får DLSS samt flere kvalitetsforbedringer. Opdateringerne udkommer på pc 22. oktober og på konsoller 29. oktober.

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Save 44% Off the Officially Licensed The Legend of Zelda Mini Backpack En officielt licenseret The Legend of Zelda-miniryksæk sælges til 27,99 dollar hos eBay, hvilket svarer til 44 procent rabat på den normale pris. Tasken har blandt andet Hyrule- og Triforce-detaljer. Artiklen fremhæver også en forudbestilling af The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time til Nintendo Switch 2, som udkommer i oktober.

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Sony Announces QSSR, a Trimmed Down Version of PSSR That Finally Brings AI Upscaling to Base PS5 Sony introducerer Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), en ny AI-baseret opskaleringsteknologi til den almindelige PS5. Teknologien er lettere end PS5 Pro-modellen PSSR, men skal give skarpere og mere stabile billeder end traditionel temporal opskalering. QSSR lanceres først i Marvel’s Wolverine og Ghost of Yotei og bliver gjort tilgængelig for alle udviklere.

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Preorders Have Dropped for The Art of Metaphor: ReFantazio Book, Which Is Set To Be Released Next Year in March Hardcover-kunstbogen The Art of Metaphor: ReFantazio kan nu forudbestilles hos udvalgte forhandlere til 50 dollar. Bogen udkommer 9. marts 2027 og indeholder blandt andet koncepttegninger, karakterskitser samt baggrund om spillets udvikling, fortælling og gameplay-system. Udgivelsen er skrevet af Kelly Knox og er baseret på Studio Zeros rollespil fra 2024.

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007 First Light Extended Operation DLC is Out Today, For Free, and Lets You Drive the Valhalla Again IO Interactive har udgivet den gratis Extended Operations-DLC til 007 First Light. Opdateringen tilføjer fem missioner til TacSim, herunder kørselsudfordringer med Valhalla-bilen, samt New Game Plus med en ny, sværere 00-sværhedsgrad. Der kommer også nye outfits, fototilstand, forbedrede våbenanimationer og justeringer af fjendernes adfærd.

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'Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content' — GTA 6 Gets Official ESRB Rating and It's as Mature as You'd Expect GTA 6 har fået den amerikanske ESRB-vurdering M for Mature samt PEGI 18 i Storbritannien. Vurderingen nævner blandt andet vold, nøgenhed, seksuelt indhold, stoffer, alkohol og groft sprog. ESRB har endnu ikke offentliggjort sin detaljerede gennemgang, mens omtalen af køb i spillet skaber usikkerhed om kommende monetisering. Spillet ventes udgivet 19. november 2026.

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Mega Man: Dual Override Developers Discuss a Mega Man Dating Sim and Lots More as 40th Anniversary Approaches Capcom fortæller om udviklingen af Mega Man: Dual Override, der skal markere seriens kommende 40-års jubilæum. Spillet er designet til både nye og erfarne spillere med gradvist sværere baner, over 50 chips til karaktertilpasning og den risikofyldte Override-mekanik. Spillere kan vælge mellem Mega Man og Proto Man i separate gennemspilninger, hvor historien grundlæggende er den samme, men dialog og karakterfokus varierer.

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March of Giants Might Actually Get You to Play a MOBA Besides Dota 2 and League | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet den kommende MOBA March of Giants, der kombinerer klassiske genreelementer som levels, itemisering og last hitting med et mere dynamisk slagmarkssystem. Spillerne kæmper i 4-mod-4-kampe, bygger forsvarsværker og styrer tropper, forsyninger og belejringsenheder. Kampene er designet til at vare omkring 20-30 minutter, mens figurerne tilbyder mange forskellige builds og strategier.

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Ghost of Yotei's DLC, Echoes of Sekigahara and Most Wanted, Are Worthy Additions for the PS5 Exclusive IGN anmelder udvidelsen Echoes of Sekigahara og den nye run-baserede spiltilstand Most Wanted til Ghost of Yotei. Udvidelsen giver Atsu en ny questlinje med flashbacks og en ny region, mens Most Wanted blandt andet gør Jin Sakai spilbar. Begge dele udkommer i Complete Edition eller som en opgradering til 15 dollar for ejere af grundspillet.

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Blizzard Cracks Down on Gold Selling in World of Warcraft Forever — and Streamers Are in the Firing Line Blizzard skærper indsatsen mod salg af guld og handel med rigtige penge i betaversionen af World of Warcraft: Forever. Flere streamere er blevet ramt, efter at deres konti blev undersøgt for køb eller promovering af guld; en fik guldet fjernet, mens en anden fik en konto bannet. Blizzard har også forbudt GDKP for at beskytte spillets økonomi før lanceringen 4. november.

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'Incredible Levels of Greed' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Locks Coveted Shield Behind $6 Twitch Sub Paywall and Fans Are Up in Arms En ny Twitch-belønning i Space Marine 2 kræver et abonnement til 6 dollar for at låse Victrix Guard Shield op. Det har udløst kritik fra spillere, som mener, at skjoldet ikke bør være gemt bag en betalingsmur, især efter køb af spillets sæsonindhold. Udvikleren Saber har bekræftet, at skjoldet senere bliver tilgængeligt i Accolades-butikken, men uden at angive en dato.

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Get an Exclusive Look at the New Cards Being Added to Disney Lorcana Disney Lorcana-udvidelsen Hyperia City får to nye kort med Héctor Rivera fra Coco og Tiana fra The Princess and the Frog. Begge kort fokuserer på at kassere kort, mens Tiana kan gøre det muligt at spille en dyr lokation gratis. Udvidelsen udkommer 23. oktober, og forudgivelsesarrangementer begynder 16. oktober.

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Destiny and Halo Co-Creator Jason Jones Announces New Transmedia Studio, Stone Kite, and First Project, One Zero One Jason Jones, medstifter af Bungie og medskaber af Halo og Destiny, har lanceret det nye studie Stone Kite sammen med Margaret Stohl. Studiet vil udvikle projekter på tværs af bøger, spil, tegneserier, film og tv. Den første udgivelse er One Zero One, en firedelt tegneserie om mennesker i konflikt med en hær af AI-drevne robotter.

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'This Is a Win for Gamers' — GTA 6 Lights Up the Kaseya Center in Miami Rockstar Games har lyst Kaseya Center i Miami op som en del af markedsføringen af GTA 6. Arenaen viser teksten “Welcome to Vice City” og romertallet “VI”, mens bygningen i spillet hedder Sahara Arena. Kampagnen skulle have kostet omkring 1 million dollar, og GTA 6 udkommer til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series den 19. november 2026.

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Escape from Playtime Puts an Extraction Looter Twist on Poppy Playtime | IGN Preview IGN har prøvespillet Escape from Playtime, et multiplayer-baseret extraction-spil i Poppy Playtime-universet. Spillerne skal samle værdifuldt bytte i en forladt legetøjsfabrik og bringe det tilbage, mens de undgår eller håndterer fjendtlige monstre. Spillet kan gennemføres alene, men previewet fremhæver samarbejde som den bedste oplevelse. En åben playtest begynder 1. oktober.

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Gears of War: E-day Is a Prequel That Returns to the Heart of This Series, With a Campaign That Stands Toe-to-toe With Any of the Others IGN giver kampagnen i Gears of War: E-Day ros for dens følelsesmæssige fokus, stærke action og uddybning af forholdet mellem Marcus Fenix og Dominic Santiago. Forhistorien foregår under Locust-invasionens begyndelse og tager cirka 15-18 timer at gennemføre. Anmeldelsen fremhæver dog problemer med allieredes kunstige intelligens, mens multiplayerindtrykkene endnu ikke er medtaget.

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Get an Exclusive Look at the New Legend Joining the Riftbound TCG IGN har eksklusivt afsløret den nye Legend Mordekaiser samt en overnumbered-variant til Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game. Figuren tilhører farverne Fury og Order og kan genbruge ekstra kraft til forskellige runer eller farver, hvis kort fjernes fra kirkegården. Udvidelsen Radiance udkommer på engelsk 23. oktober, mens prerelease-arrangementer begynder 16. oktober.

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After 'Crunching Hard' Through Their Final Months, Gears of War: E-Day Developers Are Reportedly Now Expecting Layoffs Udviklere hos The Coalition frygter angiveligt nye fyringer efter flere måneders overarbejde på Gears of War: E-Day, der står foran sin udgivelse. Microsoft har allerede gennemført flere afskedigelsesrunder i Xbox-divisionen, og studiets medarbejdere beskriver stemningen som anspændt. Bekymringen blev yderligere forstærket af, at spillets historiedirektør Juan Vaca blev afskediget få uger før lanceringen.

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'We Started E-Day With an Empty Hard Drive' — Meat Shields, Chainsaw Duels and More Are Missing From Gears of War: E-Day at Launch Gears of War: E-Day lanceres uden flere klassiske funktioner fra serien, herunder muligheden for at tage fjender som menneskelige skjolde og kæmpe med Lancer-riflernes motorsave. Udvikleren The Coalition forklarer, at spillet er bygget fra bunden, og at funktionerne derfor først kan komme efter lanceringen eller i et senere spil. Private lobbies og leaderboards er også planlagt til senere.

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"Extraction is Still a Major Part of Marathon" – Marathon Game Director Reassures Fans Main Game Mode Isn't Going Anywhere Bungie fastholder, at extraction-modellen fortsat vil være en central del af Marathon, selv om udvikleren planlægger at tilføje PvE- og deathmatch-indhold i den kommende Symbiosis-opdatering. Spildirektør Del Chafe efterspørger samtidig feedback på problemer som spawn-rushes og hårde nederlagsspiraler. Udvikleren vil bruge tilbagemeldingerne til at videreudvikle spillets eksisterende hovedtilstand.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered Is Its Most Surprising Overhaul yet, and the Best This Amazing RPG Has Ever Been - IGN Review IGN opdaterer sin anmeldelse af The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered efter omkring 10 timers spil. Den gratis opdatering forbedrer blandt andet kamp, kamera, bevægelse, hesten Roach og færdighedstræerne, mens grafikken er blevet moderniseret markant. Anmelderen vurderer foreløbigt, at dette er den bedste version af det populære rollespil, selv om fjendernes adfærd stadig viser spillets alder.

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Amazon's Legend of Zelda T-Shirt Sale Includes More Than 40 Shirts Discounted for Prime Members Only Amazon sænker i denne uge prisen på over 40 officielt licenserede The Legend of Zelda-T-shirts til 16,99 dollar for Prime-medlemmer. Udvalget omfatter motiver fra både de tidlige NES-spil, Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker og Tears of the Kingdom. Tilbuddet kommer samtidig med seriens 40-års jubilæum og en række kommende Zelda-produkter til Nintendo Switch 2.

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You Probably Shouldn't Expect a Disney World Parody in GTA 6 Rockstar Games antyder, at GTA 6 muligvis ikke kommer til at indeholde ikoniske Florida-attraktioner som Disney World, SeaWorld og Universal Studios. Udvikleren forklarer, at holdet har måttet udvælge landemærker og miljøer, der bedst understøtter spillets fortælling og design. Spillet vil dog indeholde en zoologisk have og over 170 forskellige dyrearter i den fiktive delstat Leonida.

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‘We’ve Got Nobody to Blame But Ourselves’ — Riot Games Co-Founder Explains the Death of 2XKO

Riot Games' medstifter Marc Merrill siger, at kampspillet 2XKO skulle have haft flere hundrede tusinde eller måske millioner af månedlige aktive spillere for at kunne retfærdiggøre udviklingsbudgettet. Han peger blandt andet på manglende strategisk enighed og lanceringen af Street Fighter 6 som årsager til spillets problemer. Riot har stoppet videre indholdsudvikling efter december 2026, men onlinespillet forbliver tilgængeligt.

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The co-founder, co-chairman, and chief product officer of Riot Games, Marc Merrill, revealed the number of monthly active users 2XKO would have needed to justify its budget, and the eye-popping amount has sparked an animated debate within the fighting game community.

Speaking on The Lemonade Stand, Merrill went into detail about what happened behind the scenes at Riot to cause 2XKO’s catastrophic failure, and provided a ballpark figure of monthly active users the game would have needed in order to justify how much money and time was spent on its development.

It’s no surprise that this figure was, to put it lightly, pretty unrealistic for a fighting game; Merrill said that, considering its cost structure, 2XKO would have needed a player count “in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions” to rationalize its continued support.

Merrill also mentioned Street Fighter 6, saying the 2023 release of Capcom’s juggernaut title threw off their plans to take a big chunk of the fighting game community’s interest off the back of Street Fighter V.

“I think we had a window to do some great things to really help the fighting game community, and then Street Fighter 6 came out, which was something like eight years after we started working on 2XKO,” Merrill explained. “We had an awesome development team of really talented people that did great work, that made a beautiful game. We’d already communicated all this stuff to players, and so we were like, ‘You know what? Let’s just keep going. Let’s give it to the community. Let’s see what happens, right?’ …I think if we came out, ideally when we should’ve, years before Street Fighter, I think we would have made a really significant impact on the community.”

Merrill explained that Riot didn’t have internal “alignment” on the strategy for 2XKO, which caused “managerial fracturing” and confusion within the team. Ultimately, not enough players hopped on the game in order to justify the time and money spent on it, so Riot did what they thought was best — issued full refunds to players and canceled further content updates.

“We’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves,” he said. “[2XKO] resonated with some players, but not nearly enough players in order to justify the sort of live service, long-tail approach that the game was designed to do. And so we were like, let’s just pivot, let’s create this box, give everybody a refund, say, ‘Hey, sorry we weren't able to achieve this incredibly high aspiration that we were trying to do for the fighting game community, but we love you guys, appreciate [you], hope they’ll play this game, like many other box games, for years to come, and here you go. Sorry we let you down,’ is sort of the orientation of what happened there.”

For comparison, Street Fighter 6 — which is indisputably the biggest fighting game on the market right now — boasts an average of anywhere between 16,000 and 20,000 monthly active users on Steam (not including PlayStation, which doesn't share these statistics publicly). It’s understandable that Riot, the maker of massively popular MOBA League of Legends, might expect more than that — but even Riot themselves knew there was no way they could reach “millions” of monthly active users to justify keeping their tag fighter alive.

Unsurprisingly, Merrill’s comments have sparked a swath of heated reactions within the fighting game community. Most players were left stunned that Riot felt such a high player count was necessary to keep 2XKO afloat, given how relatively "niche" the genre is.

“It seems like they figured the game wasn't going to last long, but they spent so much money on it, so instead of immediately canning it, they released it to see if it would do anything,” one player mused. “Unfortunately, what it needed to do goes way beyond what any fighting game has ever done in existence lol.”

“The way [Merrill said], ‘Then Street Fighter 6 came out,’ like that wasn't going to happen. SFV had one of the best comeback stories in fighting games. Did he really not think 6 was going to happen?” another asked.

2XKO was first revealed to the public as ‘Project L’ in 2019, though rumors of a fighting game based on the League of Legends IP had been swirling around long beforehand. Its confusing release (from a closed beta to extended early access) on the back of a lengthy development period essentially killed most of the hype around the game, and Riot officially announced plans to end active development after December 2026, though online play will still be supported.

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