Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 2 September 2025.

General5 stories

Kojima Productions to show ‘future project’s during Tokyo Game Show week this month - Celebrating 10 years with an anniversary event. ‘Beyond the Strand’ will take place on Tuesday, September 23 – two days before TGS 2025 – at Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills TOHO Cinema

VGC

A PlayStation State of Play focusing on 007 First Light is coming this week - September 3 at 11am PT / 7pm BST / 8pm CEST

VGC

The Cyberpunk 2077 team is seeking "brave netrunners" for something on 4th September, but won't say what it is

Eurogamer

Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth has announced he is working on a new four-player co-op shooter

Eurogamer

Escape from Tarkov is coming to Steam

Eurogamer

Business4 stories

Rare veteran Louise O'Connor lands new role at Xbox Game Studios (Chief of Staff) after Everwild cancellation

VGC

Daniel Drapeau, recently the game director on Fairgames at Haven Studios, has announced his new role as a creative director over at Warner Bros Montreal - The move adds further doubt to the status of Fairgames, the live-service shooter published by Sony, following the departure of studio founder Jade Raymond

Eurogamer

Gears of War: Reloaded surpasses 1m players - Gears of War: Ultimate Edition multiplatform remaster launched on August 26, 2025

X

Nintendo rebrands transmedia division from Warpstar to Nintendo Stars - The firm said it was "strengthening" the "ancillary use" of films featuring Nintendo IP to encompass live events, merchandise, and more

GamesIndustry.biz