Game News Round-Up

‘Their favourite games were already built with AI’: Google exec says almost every big studio uses AI, but not all disclose it

• Google Cloud's Games boss cites Capcom as one major studio that uses AI tools

Final Fantasy XIV Online is coming to Switch 2 as new expansion Evercold revealed

• Expansion to feature 24 person raid collaboration with Evangelion

Outrun, Streets of Rage, NiGHTS, and SGGG are just four of many series Sega promises to revisit / celebrate in 2026

Resident Evil Requiem sales exceed 7 Million (in less than two months)

• The previous RE game to reach this milestone the quickest was Resident Evil 4 (2023), which took 12 months and 1 week to reach 7 million

Atari has acquired retro emulation studio Implicit Conversions, which specialises in PS1 ports

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 passes 8 million in sales

Bulletstorm dev People Can Fly acquires Cooldown Games

Gameworks and PerfCop are part of a new wave of tools for keeping an eye on game performance throughout development