Game News Round-Up

FBC Firebreak is Remedy’s 3-player Control multiplayer game

• Scheduled to release in 2025 for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, Xbox Series S/X and PlayStation 5
• Will be added to Game Pass on release day

Universal Florida's Super Nintendo World park gets May 2025 opening date

Prison Architect studio's Blindfire is a multiplayer shooter played in pitch dark

• Double Eleven, the long-time steward of Paradox Interactive's Prison Architect series before the two companies parted ways earlier this year, has announced its next project: multiplayer shooter Blindfire, which launches into early access for Xbox Series S/X and PC today.
• A round starts out in darkness. As the round unfolds, light elements are slowly brought into play, starting from the outer walls of the arena to its centre - flushing out players camping in secluded corners and forcing everyone into closer confines.

Alan Wake 2 The Lake House will release next week

• The Lake House will be released on October 22.
• This DLC unfolds parallel to the main game, putting you in the shoes of FBC agent Kiran Estevez, portrayed by Janina Gavankar.
• The Lake House will launch alongside the physical version of the game.

2K reveals Project Ethos, a free-to-play, 3rd-person, roguelike hero shooter

• Community playtests for the game will be held this weekend
• “Shape your playstyle every match through Evolutions, powerful, semi-randomized, upgrades unique to each hero,” reads a description for the game.

Bloober Team’s next game, Cronos: The New Dawn has been announced

• The game is set for release across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X in 2025.

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii will now release one week earlier

• The game, which was originally planned for release on February 28, will now be released on February 21, 2025.

Subnautica 2 has been announced, and it’s coming to Game Pass

• Launches on PC via Xbox Game Preview in 2025

Banjo-Tooie is coming to Nintendo Switch this month

Keywords Studios To Acquire Certain Affinity

• Certain Affinity was founded in 2006, focused primarily on providing high-end co-development services on AAA multiplayer titles. It employs over 180 people in the US and Canada, anchored out of their offices in Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario.

Resident Evil 4 Remake tops 8 million copies sold

Warhammer Space Marine 2 drives record results for Pullup Entertainment

• The company said the game has "already attracted more than 4.5 million unique players to date, placing it among the top five launches of the year."

It Takes Two sells 20m units

IO Interactive will publish Build a Rocket Boy's 'proof of concept' game for Everywhere platform

• IO CEO Hakan Abrak explained that its publishing deal with BARB specifically concerns MindsEye, which he called "a full triple-A universe unto itself." However, he noted both it and Everywhere are made on Unreal Engine 5, and the latter is still in development.