Thursday, 3 July 2025
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 3 July 2025.
General6 stories
Blizzard is giving up on its Warcraft mobile game (Warcraft Rumble) amid layoffs - will no longer be developing new content for the free-to-play mobile strategy game, and instead focus on "regular, systemic in-game events and bug fixes."
Nexus Mods is getting age verification for UK and EU users, weeks after changing owners
Rockstar releases surprise Red Dead Online update, despite previously ending major support - The update is known as Strange Tales of the West, includes four missions based on supernatural elements
Dave the Diver director says there’s ‘nothing indie’ about it, and he didn’t apply for its controversial Game Awards nod
Mark Cerny says PS5 Pro will get its major ‘replacement for the current PSSR’ upscaler next year - AMD's FSR 4 will replace PSSR
Business5 stories
ZeniMax Online Studios boss confirms departure amidst rumours of Blackbird project cancellation
Xbox closes The Initiative and cancels its Perfect Dark reboot
Three former Ubisoft execs receive suspended prison sentences at harassment trial
9,100+ employees affected by layoffs, studio closures and project cancellations across Microsoft
- Whilst an official list has not been released, it is believed that AT LEAST The Initiative (closed), Rare, Zenimax, King, Raven Software, High Moon, Sledgehammer Games, Halo Studios, Turn 10 (nearly 50% of staff), Xbox’s user research team (nearly 50% of staff) and Undead Labs are amongst the affected studios.
Rare's Everwild has been cancelled
Rumors2 stories