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Activision has announced yet another free trial of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies, which just so happens to launch as EA releases its Battlefield battle royale, REDSEC. Yesterday, October 27, was a big day for first-person shooter fans. EA finally confirmed a shadowdrop for the Battlefield battle royale, dubbed REDSEC , which is set to go live today, October 28, at 8am PT / 11am ET. Then, later yesterday, Activision announced Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies will go free starting today and run until November 3. Grab your squad. We’ve got Black Ops 6 💥 Get access to Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies for free starting tomorrow 🎮 pic.twitter.com/xTZv7VQlnP — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) October 27, 2025 Is Activision trying to spoil EA’s fun here? Fans are certainly debating the timing of the free trial and its clash with Battlefield’s big moment. Some are suggesting it’s nothing more than a pre-planned trial to coincide with Halloween (Black Ops 6 does ...

Crash Bandicoot looks set for a return in animation form with a new series on Netflix. What’s on Netflix reported that the animation studio behind Sonic Prime, WildBrain Studios, is making the Crash Bandicoot adaptation for the streamer. WildBrain Studios has worked on plenty of animations for Netflix, including Carmen Sandiego, Malory Towers, and the aforementioned Sonic Prime. As What’s on Netflix points out, this is the first time Crash Bandicoot will front his own series. There is no release window nor plot details for the Crash Bandicoot animated series yet. As for the Crash Bandicoot video game series, it’s been quiet for some years now. After 2018’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy came out, Activision released Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled in 2019, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time in 2020, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! in 2021, and, most recently, Crash Team Rumble in 2023. Support for the latter ended less than a year after launch. Is there a new Crash Bandicoot vi...

PlayStation 1-era 3D fighting game series Battle Arena Toshinden is getting a long-awaited re-release. Tokyo-based publishing company Edia announced today that it will release Toshinden 1, 2 and 3 on current gen consoles in 2026-2027. Originally released in 1995, Battle Arena Toshinden was a PS1 launch title in the U.S. and PAL regions, and the first 3D fighting game to hit Sony’s debut console. Featuring an initial roster of eight playable characters, it featured weapon-based fighting and ring-outs a year before the Soul Blade/Soul Calibur series came along and built upon these elements. According to Edia’s press release , it plans to re-release the PS1 versions of Battle Arena Toshiden 1, 2 and 3 on current gen consoles as part of a licensing agreement with Takara Tomy to commemorate the series’ 30th anniversary. “We will be bringing this highly-popular series… to retro game fans worldwide in the form of high-quality re-releases,” the company announced. Edia emphasized that it...

Final Fantasy VII Remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi has clarified that while he recently assured fans that Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 would "strike a balance" when it came to pacing and be "more concise," that didn't mean he would change anything about Rebirth's pacing. As we reported last week, the director reflected on criticism of the series's pacing and lengthy instalments. Asked if he agreed with the feedback that "certain sections" in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth felt a little long, he disagreed, saying: "Regarding time management in certain sections, especially in FF7 Rebirth, I honestly don’t believe that they were longer than necessary. I feel like nowadays, players just have too much to do and too much to play; so they often feel the urge that something has to be concluded quickly." In a new interview with VGC , Hamaguchi expanded further on this, saying: "Just to explain, the original question I was asked ...

Microsoft’s announcement that Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming to PlayStation is the final nail in the coffin for the Xbox exclusive, and for some marks the end of the console wars. Now, the White House has waded in with an AI image of Donald Trump as a saluting Master Chief that, well… there’s something very wrong about it. For the uninitiated, Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the campaign of 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved, is due out on Xbox Series X and S, PC, and PlayStation 5 at some point in 2026. It is the first Halo game ever to launch on a PlayStation console, and cements Microsoft’s position as a multiplatform video game developer. The idea of a Halo game on a PlayStation console would have been outrageous before, say, a few years ago, when Microsoft’s multiplatform push began ( reportedly in part due to a need to make an increased profit margin from Xbox studios ). Perhaps that’s what prompted U.S. video game shop GameStop to tweet a statement declaring the consoles w...

Microsoft has finally unveiled Halo: Campaign Evolved , a remake of the campaign portion of Bungie’s beloved Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo fans have spent most of the weekend debating the changes Halo Studios has made for this upcoming 2026 shooter, from the addition of sprint to the more pristine art style. But what do the developers of Halo: Combat Evolved itself make of the remake? Jaime Griesemer is one of the key developers behind Halo. He was most involved with designing Halo’s famous ‘30 seconds of fun’ gameplay loop and designed much of the campaign itself. Now creative director at Highwire Games (Six Days in Fallujah), Griesemer took to X / Twitter to deliver an early verdict on gameplay footage coming out of Microsoft’s Halo: Campaign Evolved reveal. He did not sound impressed. "You aren’t supposed to be able to take the Warthog up to steamroll the Hunters," Griesemer said. "I intentionally placed rocks in the way so you had to fight them on foot. When you ...

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