Friday, 5 September 2025

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 5 September 2025.

General5 stories

Roblox says all players who communicate in-game will need an age check by the end of the year - The platform is also launching new systems which limit communication between adult and child players

VGC

Second season of Netflix's Tomb Raider adaptation will also be its last - Arrives on Netflix December 11th

Eurogamer

Marvel Rivals Season 4 Trailer Reveals PS4 Release Date as NetEase Teases New Heroes Daredevil and Angela - Season 4: Heart of the Dragon will launch on 12th September

Eurogamer

Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider series has found its Lara Croft - Sophie Turner, known to many as Game of Thrones' Sansa Stark

Eurogamer

Hollow Knight: Silksong launch breaks global game storefronts

GamesIndustry.biz

Business3 stories

IO Interactive CEO says MindsEye disaster means it ‘remains to be seen’ whether it’ll publish other studios’ games again - "Well, that was definitely tough, right?" Hakan Abrak says

VGC

2K confirms a "staff reduction" at Civilization and XCOM developer Firaxis - unclear at this time how many developers have been affected

GamesIndustry.biz

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater shipments and digital sales top one million - milestone reached on first day of release

prtimes.jp