https://pwnwire.com/en/ Gaming news, minus the fluff. en https://pwnwire.com/en/gears-of-war-e-day-500-million-budget-coalition-report/ https://pwnwire.com/en/gears-of-war-e-day-500-million-budget-coalition-report/ 2026-11-02T18:54:28Z Leaks & Rumors Windows Central's Jez Corden reports, citing multiple unnamed sources, that the $500 million tied to Gears of War: E-Day was paid to The Coalition over several years and covers more than one game. This is developing: Microsoft has not confirmed any figure in the supplied reporting, and an official breakdown would settle it. https://pwnwire.com/en/wow-forever-trailer-pirate-software-booty-bay-joke/ https://pwnwire.com/en/wow-forever-trailer-pirate-software-booty-bay-joke/ 2026-11-02T18:21:31Z Leaks & Rumors Pirat_Nation claims a joke in the latest World of Warcraft: Forever trailer is aimed at Pirate Software, but nothing in the supplied material confirms that. The story is developing, and a statement from Blizzard would confirm or deny it. https://pwnwire.com/en/steam-replaces-out-of-warranty-controller-free/ https://pwnwire.com/en/steam-replaces-out-of-warranty-controller-free/ 2026-11-02T18:21:28Z Leaks & Rumors A post shared on X by Pirat_Nation claims Steam support agreed to replace a user's controller after the warranty expired, as a customer service gesture. This is developing and unconfirmed: nothing shows a replacement was sent, and Valve has not commented in the sources. https://pwnwire.com/en/cd-projekt-red-hires-three-senior-warhorse-developers/ https://pwnwire.com/en/cd-projekt-red-hires-three-senior-warhorse-developers/ 2026-11-02T18:21:25Z Leaks & Rumors A post by Pirat_Nation on X claims three former Warhorse Studios leads now hold senior roles at CD Projekt Red. The story is developing: it rests on that single post, and neither studio has confirmed it; a statement from CDPR or Warhorse would confirm or deny it. https://pwnwire.com/en/walmart-gta-6-preorder-surprise-and-delight-bag/ https://pwnwire.com/en/walmart-gta-6-preorder-surprise-and-delight-bag/ 2026-11-02T17:48:06Z Leaks & Rumors Online GTA 6 pre-orders at Walmart will reportedly come with a mystery bag, according to a claim on social media picked up by Insider Gaming. What is in the bag hasn't been revealed. https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-download-times-210-gb-by-internet-speed/ https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-download-times-210-gb-by-internet-speed/ 2026-11-02T17:48:06Z News Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled for 19 November, and Insider Gaming has laid out how long a reported 210 GB install could take on different connections. There is no fixed answer, since download speed is the main variable. https://pwnwire.com/en/xbox-game-pass-losing-14-games-november/ https://pwnwire.com/en/xbox-game-pass-losing-14-games-november/ 2026-11-02T14:01:13Z Deals Xbox Game Pass is removing 14 games from its library soon, according to GameSpot, with four games it groups as simulators and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 among the named exits. https://pwnwire.com/en/claude-code-filters-block-game-developers/ https://pwnwire.com/en/claude-code-filters-block-game-developers/ 2026-11-02T10:46:54Z News Anthropic's new limits on Claude Code, meant to stop it from recreating existing video games, are reportedly refusing ordinary game development tasks too. https://pwnwire.com/en/overwatch-director-pve-story-missions-return/ https://pwnwire.com/en/overwatch-director-pve-story-missions-return/ 2026-11-02T07:04:12Z News Overwatch game director Aaron Keller says he wouldn't rule out bringing back playable PvE story missions. A full campaign is a different matter. https://pwnwire.com/en/ps-plus-game-catalog-october-additions-recap/ https://pwnwire.com/en/ps-plus-game-catalog-october-additions-recap/ 2026-11-02T03:54:06Z Deals PlayStation's October recap for the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lists seven additions, with Mafia: The Old Country and Horizon Forbidden West at the top. https://pwnwire.com/en/tales-of-arise-beyond-the-dawn-edition-playstation-plus-catalog/ https://pwnwire.com/en/tales-of-arise-beyond-the-dawn-edition-playstation-plus-catalog/ 2026-11-01T21:59:42Z News PlayStation announced on X on 1 November 2026 that Tales of Arise – Beyond the Dawn Edition is now in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. https://pwnwire.com/en/wow-forever-rule-sets-separate-merge-option/ https://pwnwire.com/en/wow-forever-rule-sets-separate-merge-option/ 2026-11-01T13:54:53Z Releases Blizzard plans to keep World of Warcraft: Forever's rule sets separate when the game launches on November 4, according to PCGamesN. The studio has also discussed merging them if it needs to. https://pwnwire.com/en/newzoo-rosier-pc-gaming-growing-faster-than-consoles/ https://pwnwire.com/en/newzoo-rosier-pc-gaming-growing-faster-than-consoles/ 2026-11-01T10:12:40Z News Newzoo analyst Emmanuel Rosier says PC gaming is growing faster than consoles, and puts much of that down to choice. https://pwnwire.com/en/bend-studio-next-game-third-person-co-op-report/ https://pwnwire.com/en/bend-studio-next-game-third-person-co-op-report/ 2026-11-01T02:19:30Z Leaks & Rumors Bend Studio, the developer of Days Gone, is reportedly making a third-person co-op game and may reveal it in 2027. The claim comes via a report relayed on X by Pirat_Nation and NextGenPlayer. https://pwnwire.com/en/id-software-working-closer-with-machinegames/ https://pwnwire.com/en/id-software-working-closer-with-machinegames/ 2026-10-31T23:09:14Z News id Software says its partnership with MachineGames has deepened since Xbox's layoffs. Co-director Stratton made the comments when asked how the studio is doing. https://pwnwire.com/en/netflix-pubg-live-action-series-donald-glover/ https://pwnwire.com/en/netflix-pubg-live-action-series-donald-glover/ 2026-10-31T18:23:18Z Leaks & Rumors Krafton and Netflix are reported to be developing a live-action PUBG series, with Donald Glover said to direct, write, executive produce and star. This is a developing story: details are thin, and a full Netflix or Krafton production announcement would confirm the specifics. https://pwnwire.com/en/nintendo-pikmin-day-direct-no-new-games/ https://pwnwire.com/en/nintendo-pikmin-day-direct-no-new-games/ 2026-10-31T15:09:41Z Leaks & Rumors Nintendo Life reports that Nintendo shadow-dropped a Direct for Pikmin Day, which it says Nintendo now officially uses for 1 November. Wario64 labels it as having no new game announcements; this is developing, and Nintendo's own confirmation or the presentation's contents would settle it. https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-mayhem-friction-xbox-cloud-playtime-pricing-2/ https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-mayhem-friction-xbox-cloud-playtime-pricing-2/ 2026-10-31T14:37:11Z Leaks & Rumors A PC Gamer writer hopes Rockstar makes GTA 6 mayhem take more effort, and TweakTown calculates 100 hours of Xbox cloud streaming at $24. Both are unconfirmed: neither is a Rockstar announcement, and the story is developing. https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-mayhem-friction-xbox-cloud-playtime-pricing/ https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-mayhem-friction-xbox-cloud-playtime-pricing/ 2026-10-31T14:05:03Z News GTA 6 is scheduled for 19 November on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This week's coverage is about two kinds of cost: what causing mayhem demands from the player, and what Xbox's new cloud playtime pricing would charge for 100 hours of streaming. https://pwnwire.com/en/darrah-fate-of-the-old-republic-simpler-storytelling/ https://pwnwire.com/en/darrah-fate-of-the-old-republic-simpler-storytelling/ 2026-10-31T09:13:31Z News Former Dragon Age boss Mark Darrah thinks Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic could take a plainer narrative approach than BioWare's writing has sometimes had. It is his speculation, relayed secondhand. https://pwnwire.com/en/sony-job-listing-intelligent-pricing-ps-store/ https://pwnwire.com/en/sony-job-listing-intelligent-pricing-ps-store/ 2026-10-31T06:45:34Z News A new PlayStation job listing for a Senior Director of Digital Games Monetisation mentions "intelligent pricing", which Push Square reports has revived fan concerns about dynamic pricing on the PS Store. https://pwnwire.com/en/kirby-air-riders-halloween-event-cancelled-freezes/ https://pwnwire.com/en/kirby-air-riders-halloween-event-cancelled-freezes/ 2026-10-31T06:45:23Z News Nintendo Life reports that Nintendo has cancelled the Kirby Air Riders Halloween event after players reported the screen freezing during early matches. We have not seen a Nintendo statement in the source material. https://pwnwire.com/en/nv-uefi-unlocker-nvidia-rtx-tensor-core-limit/ https://pwnwire.com/en/nv-uefi-unlocker-nvidia-rtx-tensor-core-limit/ 2026-10-31T06:45:06Z Leaks & Rumors A post from Pirat_Nation on X claims an open-source UEFI tool, nv-uefi-unlocker, removes a hardware-level limit on certain Tensor Core operations on GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40-series cards. This is developing: the figures are unverified, and independent testing would confirm or deny them. https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-map-size-deep-dive-insider-gaming/ https://pwnwire.com/en/gta-6-map-size-deep-dive-insider-gaming/ 2026-10-30T23:49:04Z News Insider Gaming reports that a new deep dive on Grand Theft Auto 6 now gives the size of the game's map. The game is scheduled for November 19. https://pwnwire.com/en/destiny-2-unvaulting-early-2028-bungie-timeline/ https://pwnwire.com/en/destiny-2-unvaulting-early-2028-bungie-timeline/ 2026-10-30T15:24:18Z News Bungie has put a rough timeline on bringing back vaulted Destiny 2 content: pre-production into early 2027, then roughly a year of full production, ending at the start of 2028. https://pwnwire.com/en/crimson-desert-charting-the-unknown-dlc-ps5-price/ https://pwnwire.com/en/crimson-desert-charting-the-unknown-dlc-ps5-price/ 2026-10-30T14:11:54Z Releases Charting the Unknown, the first major paid DLC for Crimson Desert, is available on PS5 for £19.99 / $24.99, according to Push Square. https://pwnwire.com/en/phantom-blade-zero-western-aaa-argument/ https://pwnwire.com/en/phantom-blade-zero-western-aaa-argument/ 2026-10-30T09:42:55Z News Phantom Blade Zero drew more than 700,000 concurrent Steam players while critics praised its combat. IGN China and a wider social-media argument turned that launch into a debate about what Western AAA has been getting wrong. https://pwnwire.com/en/bioware-sonic-chronicles-dark-brotherhood-ds-rpg/ https://pwnwire.com/en/bioware-sonic-chronicles-dark-brotherhood-ds-rpg/ 2026-10-29T22:28:01Z News Among BioWare's three decades of RPGs, one title stands apart: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, a 2008 Nintendo DS game. https://pwnwire.com/en/kane-parsons-three-dream-projects-valve-hoodie/ https://pwnwire.com/en/kane-parsons-three-dream-projects-valve-hoodie/ 2026-10-29T21:19:53Z Leaks & Rumors Kane Parsons, the director behind the Backrooms, is working on three "dream projects", according to PC Gamer. He was wearing a Valve hoodie at the time. https://pwnwire.com/en/rockstar-union-vote-gta-6-release-window/ https://pwnwire.com/en/rockstar-union-vote-gta-6-release-window/ 2026-10-29T15:51:31Z News A date has been set for Rockstar Games employees to vote on whether to recognise their developer union, and the timing overlaps with Grand Theft Auto 6's release. If the vote succeeds, Eurogamer reports it would become the largest recognised union in the UK video games industry.