It’s assumed that one would be a portable handheld, and evidence is seemingly mounting about its performance. Regarding whether it would be as powerful as a PS5 if launched by 2028, Kepler recently responded on NeoGAF, “No, it’s a 15W SoC on 3nm.”

Naturally, this resulted in several follow-up questions, including the point of the console if it can’t run PS5 games. The leaker clarified that it definitely can, but “not at the same resolution/FPS, mainly due to lower memory bandwidth.”

When asked if the performance is between the PS4 Pro and PS5, the leaker responded, “Hard to estimate performance since it’s using an unreleased GPU uarch, but I think it’s somewhere between Xbox Series S and PS5.” Interestingly, the alleged handheld “tapes out” a few months after the regular PS6’s SoC.

However, Sony isn’t repurposing existing PS6 chips for the handheld by having less usable CUs. “They’re different SoCs,” said Kepler and the portable is “specially designed to run at very, very low voltages.” They clarified that its CUs are a “lot less than 40” and that it’s a “different SoC” despite sharing “a few things with Soundwave.”

Sony hasn’t provided a timeline for the PS6’s launch, though Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino has indicated that it won’t be affected by the PS5’s lifecycle.

While the files can no longer be seen, they were seemingly accidentally revealed to the public. Two of the screenshots were spotted, and can be seen on the Reddit thread discussing the remake.

For context, Virtuos Games is a studio that has worked with companies on a host of major game releases across a wide range of disciplines. It’s assisted with game development work on Dark Souls: Remastered, Judas and Outriders, and on art production for major games like League of Legends and Stellar Blade.

The studio also has a history of working on games across various platforms and budget categories, from smaller-scaled titles like Dave the Diver to major releases like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and New World: Aeternum.

While neither Bethesda nor Virtuos have made any official announcement about a remake for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, quite a few details have been circulating around thanks to various rumours and leaks. According to a rumour from back in January, the title has been fully remade on Unreal Engine 5 rather than Bethesda’s own engine.

Along with this change in engine, the remake will also feature a number of changes to its gameplay, including changes to sneaking, how blocking works, archery, and even enemy hit reactions. How Stamina works, along with the entire HUD, has been completely redesigned according to reports.

When it comes to actually releasing the title, a rumour from this week indicates that Bethesda might be getting ready to launch the game quite soon. According to the report, Bethesda will apparently shadow drop The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the week of April 21.

As its name might imply, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is the fourth mainline title in the RPG franchise. Originally released on PC and Xbox 360 all the way back in March 2006, the title was considered to be something of a mixed bag when it came to the changes it made over its predecessor, The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind.

While Oblivion was praised for its overall gameplay and setting, critics also noted that the title had issues with its levelling systems where, because of the way enemies scaled in level with the player, it wouldn’t be difficult to end up with a much weaker character than expected.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion also got two major expansion releases: The Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine. Along with this, it also got a host of smaller DLC, including the infamous Horse Armour. For more details on the game, check out our thoughts on how well the classic RPG holds up today, where we noted that it is still a charming game even today thanks to its world and the (at the time) revolutionary AI schedule system.

Journalist Jeff Grubb spoke about The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s rumoured remake on a recent episode of his daily Giant Bomb news podcast, GameBreaking News, where he claimed it’s scheduled to release sometime during the week of April 21- i.e., the final week of the month. An exact release date is still unknown, but the window’s certainly narrowed down, and it looks like it won’t be long before the game releases. 

Prior leaks have claimed that the Oblivion remake will be a fully overhauled version of the game, built on Unreal Engine 5 and featuring a reworked stamina system, new UI, reworked archery and blocking mechanics, and more. Read more on that through here.

According to Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, Bungie is planning for a 2025 release of Marathon. Considering this, the studio will also likely announce the official release date alongside the gameplay reveal planned for April 12.

In a post on social media platform X, Henderson jokes about his wife signing him up for a gym membership when he tells her that he will be on a Marathon grind later this year. When asked for confirmation from a follower about whether this means Marathon will be out this year, he simply replies by saying “Yes.”

“Told the missus I’ll be on a Marathon grind later this year and she’s only gone and signed me up the gym,” posted Henderson on X.

Bungie officially announced the gameplay reveal for Marathon through a trailer released earlier this month. While the trailer itself doesn’t give us too many details about the game aside from letting us grab some sneak peeks at its environments and sound design, it did indicate that, in some way, it might follow-up on the story threads that Bungie had first set down all the way back in the 1990s with its original Marathon trilogy.

The announcement came a couple of months after rumours came about that Bungie is gearing up to showcase Marathon in a major way. Back in February, Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb commented on the fact that Marathon was missing from Sony’s State of Play showcase at the time because Bungie was planning its own showcase for the game.

“Bungie does their own thing usually for Destiny, they’re going to adopt that same ‘We’re talking to our audience’ strategy this year as well, so I think April,” said Grubb. “We’ll probably hear from them about Marathon, and it would just be its own thing separate from a State of Play.”

In the meantime, Bungie has also been constantly updating the Steam database entries for Marathon. Just last month, the company added a few new “app types” to the Steam database listing for Marathon. This indicates that the company is getting closer to the title’s release, and is gearing up to launch the game alongside some DLC or expansion passes.

Bungie has also been keen on expanding its playtests for Marathon leading up to its gameplay reveal. Back in October, director Joe Ziegler mentioned wanting to get more players into playtests so that the studio could get more feedback on how the game was shaping up.

According to Ziegler, the studio is “expanding our playtests a little bit wider and wider. We’re looking to add a significant amount of players to each of our milestones as we’re going forward, and some of these big inflections are opportunities for you all to join us.”

Marathon was announced all the way back in 2023. The game is in development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. If you’re interested in knowing where the game’s name comes from, check out our coverage of the classic Marathon trilogy being available on PC.

While not too many details have become clear through Maraia’s profile so far, the fact that the game is slated for a 2025 release means that it has likely been under development for multiple years already. Maraia has been working as the Game Design Lead for this title for two years so far. Maraia has also listed various aspects of the game that he was in charge of, including the first-time user experience, narrative, quests, and player customisation.

It is worth noting that the description just indicates that it is a new game with an unannounced IP. This likely means that the title is part of a pre-existing IP, and will be an adaptation of one of several properties owned by Warner Bros. Were it a fresh game in a brand new franchise, the wording would have likely better accentuated this fact.

Alongside Monolith, Warner Bros. had announced the closure of quite a few studios earlier this year, including MultiVersus developer Player First Games, as well as WB Games San Diego. The company said that the decision to close these studios was made with “careful consideration.”

In a letter to its shareholders last month, Warner Bros. spoke about the plan going forward for its game development studios under the WB Games banner would be to focus more on making games based on “proven IP and games from proven, world-class studios.”

The letter echoed statements made by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who spoke about focusing efforts on the four major IPs owned by the company: Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, Game of Thrones, and Batman.

“We’re through some of the worst — and it hasn’t been pretty on the gaming business — but we have four games that are really powerful and have a real constituency that love them, and we’re going to focus on those four primarily,” said Zaslav back in November. “We’re going to go away from trying to launch 10, 12, 15, 20 different games. I think we have a real chance now with focus to have the gaming business be steadier.”

“We have four strong and profitable game franchises with loyal, global fans: Hogwarts Legacy, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, and DC, in particular Batman. We are focusing our development efforts on those core franchises, with proven studios to improve our success ratio.”

While Monolith Productions has been shut down, former executive from WB Games, Laura Fryer, revealed a few details about her time working with the studio as it launched titles like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In a lengthy video, Fryer revealed quite a few details, including the fact that the game’s much-loved Nemesis system came about because the studio didn’t want players to be “done” with a game and then sell it off to someone else.

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Kurakasis has had a pretty good track record with leaks, so the rumoured title seems to be the likely one we’ll see when the game is unveiled on April 19. Behind the scenes, the game has been codenamed Bruno.

The leaked title follows on last month’s leaks that gave us some details about the upcoming game. Star Wars: Zero Company is slated to be an isometric turn-based strategy game that has been compared to titles like XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Screenshots were part of the previous leaks, giving us a look at some of the in-development UI for the upcoming title.

Much like Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2, Star Wars: Zero Company seemingly has an element of chance to it. One of the leaked screenshots gave us a look at a Stormtrooper being targeted for an attack, with each attack option having different chances at landing. A thermal detonator, for instance, had a 95 percent chance to hit the target.

When it comes to minute-to-minute gameplay, Star Wars: Zero Company seemingly uses an isometric camera angle similar to other games in the genre. Players will also have access to a home base similar to games like XCOM. Here, the player will seemingly be able to partake in some of the more management-oriented tasks that a turn-based tactics game demands, such as setting up a squad loadout and researching and acquiring new weapons and other pieces of equipment.

Neither Respawn Entertainment nor Bit Reactor have revealed anything about the title aside from the fact that it is being developed in Unreal Engine 5. This fact was discovered through a job listing last year for a Senior Lighting Artist that would be able to work with Unreal Engine 5-based technologies like Lumen.

The game was officially unveiled all the way back in January 2022. Alongside Respawn, Bit Reactor is the major studio working on the game. The studio features industry veterans, including XCOM 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown developer Greg Foerscth. Bit Reactor has previously also offered assurances that development on the game hadn’t been affected by layoffs that have hit various studios under the Electronic Arts banner.

The fact that the game will be unveiled during the upcoming Star Wars Celebration was announced back in March. The announcement came after rumours of it happening back in January. As part of the announcement, Respawn and Bit Reactor are expected to show off a trailer for the game.

While no confirmation about platforms have been made so far, Star Wars: Zero Company is expected to come to PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X/S and PS5.

According to the store description as caught by PSDeals, Disney Illusion Island Starring Mickey and Friends will include all of the features of its original Switch release in the PS5 version. This includes support for offline multiplayer for between 2 and 4 players. Interestingly the PS5 release also has the “Starring Mickey and Friends” suffix in the title when compared to the original release. This might indicate additional content coming to the title.

While no release date has been given for the title, a PS Store listing existing in Sony’s servers indicates that announcement is likely not too far away.

Originally announced back in September 2022, Disney Illusion Island was released on the Nintendo Switch in July 2023. The title got a trailer leading up to its initial release, showcasing the various challenges that players will have to take on as they explore the eponymous Illusion Island.

The title also includes some features more commonly seen in metroidvania titles, with players having the ability to swim, jump and wall-jump, among other things, depending on the character they choose to play as. The base game featured Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy as its primary protagonists. Each character also has co-op abilities where multiple players can support each other in their exploration.

On release, Disney Illusion Island got generally positive reviews, with a Metacritic aggregate score of 73. In our own review of the title, we praised it quite a bit for its great visuals and animations, solid level design, and its witty writing. Our only complaints revolved around a lack of combat, uneven boss fights, and the title not being as complex as one would want from a metroidvania game. Ultimately we gave Disney Illusion Island a score of 8 out of 10, praising its universal appeal and accessibility.

Caught by VGC, on a recent Giant Bomb livestream, Grubb claimed that the Virtuos-developed remake is going to “shadow drop at any moment,” with a release allegedly due for some time this month. That, incidentally, aligns with recent claims by prominent leaker NateTheHate. 

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s remake has allegedly been developed in Unreal Engine 5, and on top of a visual and technical overhaul, it features various gameplay improvements. The title will reportedly feature changes to stealth mechanics, the UI, stamina management, archery, some aspects of melee combat, and more. Read more on that through here.

Which platforms the remake will launch is unknown. However, based on Microsoft’s increasing multiplatform focus, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it arrive on all available platforms day and date. Stay tuned for more updates.

According to the report, the camera angle for the new title has been described as being from a top-down view, with similarities being drawn with titles like XCOM and Diablo 4. On the gameplay front, a source has mentioned that it will be quite similar to XCOM, saying that one could “just watch some XCOM gameplay if you want to get an idea, I’d say it’s an updated version of that with cinematic cutscenes and so on.”

Players will take control of a squad of operators, each with their own special abilities, to take on different mission objectives. The general gameplay loop is said to have the player pick operators for each mission, depending on the kinds of objectives that need to be accomplished. Ubisoft is seemingly aiming for a campaign that will take players between 25 and 30 hours to finish.

The title is likely being developed under the new France-based subsidiary of Ubisoft that was announced back in March. A 25 percent minority stake of the subsidiary is owned by Tencent, who paid €1.16 billion as an investment into the new company. The subsidiary will oversee Ubisoft’s biggest franchises, including Rainbow Six.

As for Rainbow Six Siege, the major free update will be bringing with it a host of gameplay changes to the competitive title. Along with general improvements to the gameplay and engine, players will also be getting access to new abilities, including the option to use rappel lines to run along walls horizontally, as well as new environmental interaction options.

A major part of the Rainbow Six Siege X update will also revolve around creating more roadblocks for hackers and cheaters. To that end, more robust anti-tamper actions are being taken, including the new R6 ShieldGuard, which further encrypts the game’s executable files for each player. Check out our coverage of the announcement for more details.

Rainbow Six Siege X will also be getting the Dual Front 6-on-6 game mode, which combines attackers and defenders on both sides to create a larger-scale battleground where both teams have to take on objectives on their opponent’s side, will simultaneously also defending their own side.

The playable set of Operators in Dual Front will be an evolving list; while the frequency of the line-up changing hasn’t yet been revealed, Ubisoft has stated that it aims to keep gameplay in the new mode fresh by giving players fresh match-ups. For more details on the game mode, check out coverage.

Rainbow Six Siege X will be a free update available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. The update will also be turning the game free-to-play, which means that new players can join the game without having to buy a copy once the update lands.

Following recent layoffs at the studio, sources told Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson that it was “actively pitching” a new Deus Ex to “external partners and publishers.” Unfortunately, some companies allegedly noted it as “too niche” while others reportedly found the financial risk not worth pursuing.

Interestingly, the concept was described as having “charm and novelty” but not up to the “expectations or standards typically associated with the Deus Ex brand.” Make of that what you will, but the wait for a new title continues.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was the last entry in the series, released in 2016. The story followed Adam Jensen as he continued investigating the Illuminati. Despite the positive acclaim, many criticized the cliffhanger ending. Alongside Human Revolution, it sold 12 million units combined as of May 2022.