Netflix are testing their own game streaming service

Square Enix has released the “Countdown to Launch” trailer for Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, which is due out for iOS via App Store and Android via Google Play on September 7.

In the never-ending quest for more eyeballs on its stuff, Bethesda Softworks has enlisted the talents of award-winning pop-rock group Imagine Dragons to create a song for Starfield called Children of the Sky. It's not the worst collaboration between a game studio and mainstream musician I've ever heard, but that's at least in part because I'm old enough to have a clear recollection of something called Hope For the Future.

Activision partners with Modulate for a new enforcement system in Call of Duty.

There are a lot of Picross-style nonogram games available on PC these days, but many of them fail to inspire the easy, compulsive fugue of Picross itself. I'm hoping Logiart Grimoire will achieve such numbing delights when it launches into Steam Early Access next month. It's got the pedigree for it, given that it's made by Jupiter Corporation, the creator of all those original Picross games for Nintendo devices.

Frankfurt, GERMANY – Friday, August 25, 2023 – Game development studio Gunzilla Games has unveiled its first gameplay trailer for its upcoming game, Off The Grid. The gameplay trailer, which made its debut at Gamescom 2023, gives players a first-hand look at the ground-breaking mechanics, stunning environments, and unforgettable characters behind the next-generation battle royale game masterminded by visionary filmmaker Neill Blomkamp.

A little way into the movie Gran Turismo, the unlikely brand extension of Sony’s sim racing games accidentally satirizes itself. “This whole thing is a marketing extravaganza!” excitable auto executive Danny Moore (Orlando Bloom) shouts at salty racing coach Jack Salter (David Harbour). They’re aboard a helicopter wheeling above a racetrack, where Salter’s students in the GT Academy — a real-life program intended to turn players of Sony’s Gran Turismo games into actual racing drivers — are being put through their paces. The helicopter is an absurd bit of theater for the TV cameras, and Salter knows it. But he’s powerless to resist the marketing apparatus around him.

Krafton India, makers of the popular online game BGMI, on Thursday pitched for government support measures to promote the online gaming industry in the country. 

Several months back, Sony teased a dedicated remote play device for the PlayStation 5 as well as new gaming earbuds. Now, the company has revealed more details about the device. It's called the PlayStation Portal remote player.

Well we’re always on the look-out for an announcement or two that makes us sit up straight and immediately go “……what?!” And while Gamescom’s Opening Night Live presentation was a little light on brand new reveals this year, it didn’t stop developer Coal Supper from unveiling what might’ve been the oddest but subsequently most eye-catching and interesting reveals of today’s showing. Coming in the form of the self-described “comedy slapformer” Thank Goodness You’re Here.

Microsoft will sell the streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games if the merger between the two companies goes ahead, in an effort to get the deal approved in the UK.

I have an unhealthy fascination with advergames. Well, advertising in general, but advertising has gotten so boring since we started expecting companies to tell the truth and not try to kill us too blatantly. Advertising games in general aren’t super common anymore, usually relegated to browser or mobile platforms.

CD Projekt Red is hosting a gameplay livestream for Cyberpunk 2077 later this week, where it will share more details about its next update.