July 2025

The Banjo revival dream might be dead (Nintendo) Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs has ended development on a number of games, ranging from Everwild to an unannounced sci-fi shooter. While Microsoft is no stranger to mass layoffs, its latest round of job cuts have been particularly detrimental to its gaming...

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  • July 4, 2025

Destiny 2 – even it has seen a decline in players (Bungie) The Friday letters page asks whether there’ll ever be a new Perfect Dark game, as readers fail to share EA’s optimism for Battlefield 6. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Losing the futureI’m not surprised...

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  • July 4, 2025

It’s been a pretty great years so far, at least in terms of the games themselves (Credits: thirboy) 2025 is already half over but it’s been a great year so far for quality games, including Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction. Not only is the summer heatwave over but so...

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  • July 4, 2025

You’ll likely never get to see what the studio was working on next (Romero Games) The unidentified publisher behind John Romero’s next project has turned out to be Microsoft… which means yet more bad news in terms of layoffs. There is no underselling now awful the recent wave of layoffs...

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  • July 3, 2025