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1047 Games shut off dedicated servers for Splitgate and Empulse today, moving both to peer-to-peer play. They’re not alone: GRID Legends, Tower of Fantasy, Sociable Soccer 25 and more are losing servers or store listings this September.

State of Play and State of Play Japan air back to back on September 3, headlined by an extended look at Final Fantasy VII Revelation. Here’s when to tune in and what else could show up.

Rebel Wolves, the studio built by the creative leadership behind The Witcher 3, has launched its vampire RPG to an 85 on OpenCritic. Here is what the 30 day clock, the day and night loops and the combat actually deliver, and whether it is worth $69.99.

Sadie Adler survives Red Dead Redemption 2. Here is her full arc, from the cellar at Adler Ranch to the stabbing at Mount Hagen, and where she goes after the ending.

Rockstar’s Extended Look landed on Netflix and YouTube, and within hours fans were accusing CyberLeek of lying about how recent the leaked build was. The gap between the two is real. The explanation is more boring than a lie.

An indie developer is building a game where you dig through a landfill looking for James Howells’ lost hard drive. The real search ran for 12 years, lost twice in court, and ended in August 2025 with nothing recovered.

A routine terms of service email landed in PlayStation inboxes during the week players had organized a protest blackout. Section 1.4 says the software is licensed to you, not sold. With discs ending in January 2028, that sentence is doing far more work than it used to.

The 2022 Rockstar hack has a number attached to it: $5 million. The CyberLeek leaks have a much bigger one: $2.83 billion in market value gone in three days. Only one of those is money the company actually spent.

Mattel’s UNO Championship Series ends in a Twitch streamed final in Los Angeles on November 11 with $50,000 on the line, and the qualifying route that costs nothing runs through the free mobile app. Here are the dates, the routes and the official rules most players get wrong.

Three Phosphatine branded Game & Watch handhelds are heading to auction at Ewbank’s with a combined estimate of around $12,200. Fewer than ten are verified worldwide, and the reason they exist at all is a French cereal promotion.