Battlefield 6 will get a seasonal delay simply when followers have began souring on the sport. The makers of Warhammer have tried gen AI they usually’re “just not excited about it.” Eidos Montreal is making an AAAA blockbuster. Hopefully, it’s better than Skull and Bones.
Welcome to the most recent version of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. It’s 2026 and all my youngsters need to do is play Crops vs. Zombies. And never even the 2025 remaster however the unique 2009 recreation on Xbox (thanks backwards compatibility). They haven’t touched any of the video games I purchased them for Christmas. Because of this the console gaming business is struggling.
Battlefield 6‘s next update gets a one month delay
The best-selling new shooter has been slipping. Community sentiment has been less than great. REDSEC in particular has Some Problems. It sounds like EA wants to take some extra time to recalibrate things before launching season 2. “During our ongoing development, we’ve continued to evaluation group suggestions and, to be able to preserve our promise, decided that our greatest path ahead is to increase Season 1 and provides ourselves additional time to additional polish and refine Season 2,” it wrote in a new blog post this week.
Season 2 will launch on February 17 as a substitute of January 20. That will probably be 4 months with solely two new maps. And if the brand new maps aren’t Big Maps, then none of it’ll in all probability matter anyway. Name of Responsibility is not an annual launch, it’s an ongoing platform. Battlefield 6 is attempting to do this on the fly at launch and it’s clearly being stretched skinny. As a substitute of a one-month delay to make good on its present content material guarantees, it in all probability must dig in and concentrate on servicing the one a part of Battlefield 6 that issues most. No less than for now. And that’s in all probability Large Maps.
Eidos Montreal’s subsequent recreation will probably be “AAAA” and made in Unreal Engine 5
That’s in keeping with a latest developer resume found by Timur222. Insider Gaming reports that this challenge has been in growth way back to 2019 and has value the studio some huge cash. It’s positively not a brand new Deus Ex recreation both, sadly. The Embracer-owned Canadian studio shipped Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy in 2021 and hasn’t launched a solo challenge since. It has completed co-development on a number of Microsoft tasks within the years since, together with Grounded 2 and Fable, whereas additionally going through a number of rounds of layoffs.
The makers of Warhammer promise completely no GenAI
Video games Workshop CEO Kevin Rountree addressed the controversial tech in a latest earnings assembly following a really profitable quarter. “We do have a few senior managers that are [experts on AI]: none are that excited about it yet,” he mentioned, as reported by IGN. “We have agreed an internal policy to guide us all, which is currently very cautious e.g. we do not allow AI-generated content or AI to be used in our design processes or its unauthorized use outside of GW including in any of our competitions. We also have to monitor and protect ourselves from a data compliance, security and governance perspective, the AI or machine learning engines seem to be automatically included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not.”
Steam Machine verification will probably be simpler than for Steam Decks
“One easy rule of thumb is that if your title is Verified on Steam Deck, it will be Verified on Steam Machine,” Valve designer Lawrence Yang instructed Game Developer. He says creators hoping for a “Steam Machine Verified” badge can count on “fewer constraints” than on the present handhelds. Hopefully meaning a smoother course of but additionally badges which might be truly more useful than some of the current Steam Deck ones.
The Blood of Dawnwalker will allow you to intercourse vampires, in all probability
I missed this element from the darkish fantasy RPG’s New Game+ showcase interview (thanks PC Gamer), however romance will probably be part of the upcoming recreation from Witcher 3 devs.
. “There are romance options, yes,” director Mateusz Tomaskiewicz mentioned. “We didn’t delve deep into with whom yet, and I’ll leave that for the future to talk about. However, yes, you can expect to build relationships with characters.” I feel people are sleeping on this one a bit. It’s one among my most anticipated releases of 2026.
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