There’s plenty of news outside of the reveal to discuss, but there’s only one way to take this week’s featured discussion — Microsoft’s jumbled messaging behind the Xbox One reveal.
Talking points: The WCW Cruiserweight division; next-gen horsepower; GTA V special editions; Freedom Wars; does anyone still care about Final Fantasy XIV?; Square Enix of America prez calls it quits; Super Stardust lives on; what about Mirror’s Edge 2 now?; Killzone: Mercenary won’t be brutalized by GTA V after all; your annual Need for Speed game revealed; Rhode Island selling Kingdoms of Amalur; play and download The Last of Us at the same time; PlayStation Plus; Xbox Won (for most confusing reveal)!; multiplayer and reboots.
Square Enix announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April and December 2025.
Take-Two Interactive revealed it is pausing development on its Nintendo Switch 2 edition of "Borderlands 4" in its latest quarterly earnings.
O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.
Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."
I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.
After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.
It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU
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I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.
To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.
