Xbox Game Pass continues to grow, with a new estimate putting the subscriber count at 20 million as of June. Microsoft disclosed in a financial document that Xbox Game Pass subscribers grew by 37% in the 12 months ended June 30. The target was 48% growth, so Microsoft did not …

Microsoft believes the metaverse is coming, and that mixed reality and virtual reality will play a part in getting there, but the Xbox company isn’t preparing to get involved in making VR hardware like competitor Sony does with PlayStation VR or Oculus or Valve. Microsoft is instead focused on producing …

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s Discovery Tour mode is out now. The educational experience teachers players about the history of the Viking world in a no-combat setup. Valhalla’s Discovery Tour mode is free for everyone who owns Valhalla, or it can be purchased on PC as a standalone game for $20 through …

Capcom has announced that Monster Hunter World has now surpassed 20 million units shipped worldwide. This figure also covers shipments of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition. The game originally released in January 2018 and has gone on to become Capcom’s best-selling game of all time–by far. In fact, Monster …

The Payday series celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and Starbreeze and developer Overkill are going big to celebrate the milestone with a docu-series, an in-game event in Payday 2, and the soft-launch of Payday Crime War this year. The series had humble origins, and few could have predicted what …

Starbreeze’s Payday series celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and the studio is celebrating the occasion in a number of ways. Starbreeze is marking the milestone with a week’s worth of announcements, including a new docu-series that looks back to the past and forward to the future of the heist-themed …

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has finally announced the next career move he had been teasing for some time, and it is indeed a big change. Lehto is joining Electronic Arts as a game director for a new EA studio in the Seattle area. The studio will work on first-person games, …

CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been rated for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, which seems to suggest that the game will in fact launch this year and not slip to 2022. [Update: As it turns out, it has slipped into 2022. CD Projekt Red has …

Ubisoft is working on a new Splinter Cell game, according to a report from Tom Henderson at VGC. The game is said to be in the “early phase of production,” and that there is a “small chance” it will be announced in 2022. The report had no insight on which …

Each month, Microsoft adds and removes titles from the Xbox Game Pass library, and now October’s removals have been announced alongside the new additions. There are seven games leaving the Game Pass catalog on console, cloud, and PC at the end of the month, including the acclaimed platformer Celeste, the …