Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 28 October 2025.

General3 stories

Capcom insists it will still charge to watch Street Fighter tournament streams, but is still preparing pricing details - It was previously announced that fans would have to pay up to $40 to watch two tournament finals

VGC

Forza Motorsport is taking a back seat as Xbox focuses on games releasing sooner, Phil Spencer says - "We understand the reaction many people had when we scaled back Turn 10 studios", the Xbox executive said

VGC

After 12 years of development, Fan-made Timesplitters Rewind finally has a release date; November 23rd

timesplittersrewind.com

Business2 stories

Netflix shutters Squid Game: Unleashed developer Boss Fight Entertainment - The streaming giant recently explained it will be adopting a 'less is more' approach to its video game business

Game Developer

Escape From Duckov has reached 2 million units sold in less than 2 weeks

Steam

Rumors1 story

Rumour

Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs across core departments (including video-games)

Bloomberg