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🏆Upper Bracket Round 2 — First Match Results | LCK 2026 Playoffs

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@PlayStation I wonder if PlayStation will actually lose the war over physical discs?

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🎮 Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director confirms Chadley gets a bigger story role

At Gamescom 2026, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi confirmed that Chadley, the humanoid assistant many players found annoying, will return with a stronger role in the main story. He told IGN through an interpreter that he is “very much aware” of the negative fan reaction, adding that in previous games Chadley was not “a particularly important character to the story.”

In Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Chadley acted as a guide and tutorial for side content. Hamaguchi said his role has changed for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, which is due in 2027, and that some scenes will show him playing “a very integral part, a strong role, in the main story itself.” Asked jokingly whether Chadley becomes more powerful than Sephiroth, Hamaguchi replied that he cannot reveal that yet.

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🎮 GTA 6 Extended Look Tops Netflix Top 10 in First Week

Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look drew 31․1 million views on Netflix in its first week, topping the streamer's top 10 chart in the English Film category for the reporting period of August 24–30. The video beat second-place The Whisper Man, which had 23․2 million views, despite debuting only on Thursday.

Netflix counts a view as total hours viewed divided by runtime, so one full-runtime equivalent can come from multiple households. For comparison, the same extended look had 17 million views on Rockstar's official YouTube channel as of 12pm PT. Rockstar approached Netflix about premiering the video, not the other way around.

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🎮 Hideki Kamiya asks Capcom for non-scary Resident Evil mode

Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya says Capcom has become "numb" to how frightening its newer Resident Evil games are and wants a non-scary mode. In a March 2026 video from his studio Clovers Inc. he first made the request while playing Resident Evil Requiem; he repeated it in an August Video Games Chronicle interview, insisting he is "one hundred percent serious." He wanted to experience Leon Kennedy's return to Raccoon City in Requiem, but found the game too scary to play.

He proposed changes: cute zombies, cherry blossom petal blood, upbeat music, and no blood. Kamiya has told series producer Takeuchi-san directly that the games are too scary; the usual reply is that they are not that scary. Capcom has given no indication it will add one, with a Code Veronica remake due next year.

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🎮 League of Legends PBE files reveal voice skins for upcoming voice chat

Skin Spotlights has found references to 'Voice Skins' in the League of Legends PBE files. The modifiers could let players alter their voice in the upcoming voice chat, though it is unclear whether they will sound like champions or only adjust tone. They could also offer more privacy and may help women avoid sexist remarks. Riot Games confirmed in March that voice chat is in development.

Leaker LoL Leaks claims the feature will be optional, with team and party-only channels, and will require Honor Level 3 or higher and no chat restrictions. All voice chats would be recorded to verify reports, and players must consent to recording before using the feature.

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🎮 Cyberpunk 2077 among 10 games leaving Xbox Game Pass on September 15

Xbox Game Pass is removing 10 titles from its catalog on September 15, including Cyberpunk 2077. Subscribers who want to keep playing any of these games can buy them at a discount before they leave the service.

The full list of departures is Commandos: Origins, Cricket 24, Cyberpunk 2077, Dead Cells, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, Frostpunk 2, Mullet Madjack, Spiritfarer, Superliminal, and Train Sim World 5. Cyberpunk 2077 leaves Cloud and Console, while Frostpunk 2 leaves PC only. The rest leave Cloud, Console, and PC.

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🎮 Xbox Game Pass September 2026 Wave 1: Seven Games Announced

Xbox has revealed the first wave of Game Pass titles for September 2026, with seven games joining across Cloud, Console, and PC.

- Shelldiver (Cloud, Console, PC)
- September 1
- Speedrunners 2: King of Speed (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC)
- September 3
- Dice a Million (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC)
- September 4
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Cloud, Console, PC)
- September 8
- The Royal Writ (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC)
- September 10
- Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC)
- September 10
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC)
- September 15

Dice a Million is now available with Game Pass Premium in addition to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. TCG Card Shop Simulator leaves game preview and launches officially on September 15, while Cyberpunk 2077 and Frostpunk 2 leave the service.

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🎮 Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward steps down

Brian Ward has stepped down as chief executive officer of Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group, according to an internal staff message obtained by Bloomberg News. He had led the company since 2021 and oversaw its $38 billion investment fund backed by the Public Investment Fund.

Ward said the move comes "as Savvy embarks on its next period of transformational growth" and that it is "the right time for new leadership for that evolution." An interim CEO will serve until a permanent replacement is found.

Savvy's recent activity includes acquiring Scopely and joining Silver Lake Management and Affinity Partners in the $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts.

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🏆 T1 and Faker book LoL Worlds 2026 spot

Gen.G defeated KT Rolster 3-0 in the LCK Playoffs to qualify for LoL Worlds 2026, and the result also guarantees T1 as at least Korea's fourth seed. Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok and T1 have won the last three World Championships.

Hanwha Life Esports had secured their spot earlier by winning MSI, and that victory meant no LCK team will compete in the Play-In, so T1 and Gen.G are guaranteed a spot in the Swiss Stages. Worlds 2026 is being held in North America, and seven of the 20 teams have now qualified.

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🎮 VALORANT Patch 13.05 Adds Stream Sniper Bans and Champions Shanghai Pick'Ems

Riot Games has released VALORANT patch 13․05, introducing escalating penalties for players detected stream sniping or using third-party instalock tools. Such players face temporary game bans that can become permanent with repeat offenses.

The patch also adds Pick'Ems for Champions Shanghai, the $2․25 million tournament that begins September 24 in China. From September 10, players can predict which teams advance from the Group Stage and earn rewards.

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🎮 CD Projekt Red never considered charging for The Witcher 3 remaster

CD Projekt Red never considered charging for the The Witcher 3 Remastered edition, which will be a free upgrade for everyone who owns the 11-year-old RPG. As joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski told The Game Business: 'I don't think it was ever a thought we even had.'

The remaster, revealed at Gamescom, overhauls visuals and combat. Nowakowski said it began as small fixes during collaboration with Fool's Theory, a Polish studio of former CD Projekt Red employees that was originally set to work on the delayed The Witcher 1 remake. He called the free upgrade 'the CDPR way' to gift it to players who already own it and to introduce the paid expansion Songs of the Past. The remaster launches on 29 September with a Switch 2 version; Songs of the Past arrives next year.

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🎮 Don't Nod starts transformation initiative that may bring layoffs

French developer and publisher Don't Nod, creator of the Life is Strange series, has announced a "transformation initiative" to adapt to "profound changes in the economic conditions of the video game industry." The statement does not mention layoffs by name, but it schedules a meeting for Thursday 3 September 2026 under the procedure for a possible job-preservation plan and negotiations with the employee union.

Don't Nod cited deterioration in its key economic indicators; Aphelion, released in April, appears to have disappointed. The company laid off staff from its Montreal office roughly a year ago and said in June it was close to running out of money. It will disclose the plan's key elements after the market close on 3 September 2026. Whether the studio can continue making games, and at what size, remains unclear; it has already scaled back plans for its in-development Project P14.

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🎮 Mortal Shell 2 patch makes key resources infinite

Mortal Shell 2 received its biggest update yet on Saturday, a little over a week after release. Developer Cold Symmetry made Glimpses — the resource for increasing Shell bonds — and Tarstones no longer finite, so players can fully upgrade every Shell and Tarstone in a single playthrough. The patch is available now on Steam and coming to PlayStation and Xbox.

- New Tarstones give passive and active bonuses; Fragile Tarstones yield Tarcore, and Glimpse Stones break into Glimpses after defeating enemies.
- Mether's Severance refunds all Glimpses spent on a Shell.
- Every weapon and Shell was rebalanced; several major bosses received previously missing moves.
- New Beacons were added in Fainweald and Mammon; Egon's Stone returns players to dungeon entrances on death.
- Ripostes now scale with enemy health in late-game, NG+, and Night Mode, with wider invulnerability windows.

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🎮 id Software producer: Doom DLC crunch hit 17-hour days before layoffs

Producer Andrew Willis says the team behind Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations worked at least 12 hours a day for the two months before the expansion's July release, with some days reaching 17 hours. He described the period as "brutal" and said crunch was not mandated by id Software, but staff were overloaded to the point of "pseudo-induced crunch."

Revelations shipped in the same week Microsoft announced 3,200 layoffs across its Xbox studio portfolio. Willis said he was laid off the day before the DLC launch, after sacrificing days without seeing his son. Id Software lost more than half of its members, and some team veterans with 20 years in Hollywood and 10 in game development called this the worst crunch they had experienced.

Co-studio director Hugo Martin rejected descriptions of the studio as gutted, saying the remaining team is comparable in size to the one that made Doom (2016). Revelations is the only add-on released for the game, and id Software's next project has not been announced.

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🎮 Saber Interactive denies working on Ori 3 with Xbox

Saber Interactive chief creative officer Tim Willits has denied that the studio is involved in the rumored Ori 3 with Xbox. Asked by Gamertag Radio’s Danny Peña about reports linking Saber to the sequel, he replied: “No. We’re not working on it. Sorry.”

The rumor emerged ahead of Gamescom 2026 and Opening Night Live, where reports suggested a new Xbox sequel would be revealed as Ori 3. Moon Studios, which released Ori and the Will of the Wisps in 2020, has since been working on No Rest For The Wicked. Willits’ denial concerns only Saber’s involvement and does not mean Ori 3 is canceled.

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🎮 CD Projekt Red cannot guarantee PS5 disc edition for The Witcher 4

CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said the studio cannot guarantee a PlayStation 5 disc edition of The Witcher 4. The game launches in 2028, and Sony has announced it may stop disc manufacturing in January 2028; whether that is a hard cut-off or a gradual phase-out is unclear. Nowakowski explained that discs for PlayStation must be made in Sony's own factories, so if Sony stops disc production by 2028, there will be no disc.

Despite that, CD Projekt Red pledged to release a physical box for The Witcher 4 regardless. "We're big fans of people having access to tangible collectible things," Nowakowski said. The box will contain collectible items, or "feelies," but whether it includes a disc remains uncertain.

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🎮 Konami Press Start Showcase 2026 set for September 3

Konami's Press Start Showcase 2026 will run for nearly 30 minutes on September 3 at 8 AM PT. The YouTube premiere description lists Silent Hill: Townfall, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, and Rev. NOiR among the titles that will receive new details and looks.

Konami has confirmed that the showcase will not include any announcements regarding a remake of Silent Hill, so the Silent Hill 1 Remake announced in 2025 will not be present. The event's date could be subject to change.

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🎮 Blood of Dawnwalker's 40-hour average questioned after 15-hour run

Rebel Wolves stated earlier this year that The Blood of Dawnwalker would take around 40 hours on average, but an Insider Gaming journalist completed the vampire RPG in 15 hours while playing on story mode. The studio, backed by former CD Projekt Red talent, will launch the game on September 3 at a price of $60–$70.

The journalist finished the main story and most side content, defeated mini bosses, unlocked ultimate skills, and explored the full map, finishing within 20 in-game days and leaving 10 spare. Another Insider Gaming team member needed 30 hours to platinum the game using save cheese, suggesting the 40-hour average may be inflated. Missing features such as photomode, transmog, and new game plus were noted as gaps that should be addressed in post-launch updates.

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🏆 Vitality reach BLAST Open Porto playoffs with jL as stand-in

Vitality reached the playoffs at BLAST Open Porto in their first event with Justin "jL" as a stand-in for William "mezii" Merriman, who is on parental leave. Captain Dan "apEX" Madesclaire averaged a 1․07 rating at the tournament.

After losing their opening series to Inner Circle, Vitality recovered with lower bracket wins over 9z, Legacy and FUT. apEX said the team played with more confidence after the slow start: "When I play like that, I think we're such a dangerous team."

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