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The Nintendo Switch’s successor will reportedly support backwards compatibility. A reliable games industry insider claimed earlier this week that the Switch 2 would play games released on the previous generation console.

The blame of Concord’s demise doesn’t lie at the feet of developers as much as it does with the people who mandated the financial strategy of its launch, who presided upon its protracted, expensive development and who couldn’t foresee the writing on the wall for a $40 live-service shooter in a sea of entrenched free-to-play titles that do everything that Concord d…

Warner Bros. Games is reportedly looking at the Hogwarts Legacy sequel to deliver the next big hit for them. A follow up to the highest selling game of 2023 is one of the biggest priorities for the studio, the Warner Bros. Discovery CFO said this week.

Following poor sales and a dwindling player count, Sony announced it was taking its latest hero-shooter Concord offline on September 6. All sales of the game will be ceased and players who have purchased the game already will be fully refunded.

Rocksteady Studios has reportedly been hit with layoffs. The job cuts are said to have impacted the studio’s quality assurance (QA) department, with nearly half the team members laid off.

Quidditch Champions, sports title MLB The Show 24 and survival-horror platformer Little Nightmares II will join PS Plus in September. All three games will be playable for all PS Plus subscribers across Essential, Extra and Deluxe/Premium tiers starting September 3.

Black Myth: Wukong was launched August 20 on PC and PS5, with its Xbox Series S/X launch delayed. Previous reports had mentioned technical issues as the reason behind the game’s delay on Xbox. Now, a new report suggests Black Myth: Wukong hasn’t launched on Xbox yet because of an exclusivity deal between developer Game Science and Sony.

The fourth Witcher game, codenamed Project Polaris, is set to enter production soon, developer CD Projekt Red confirmed Wednesday. In a statement detailing its earnings in the first half of the financial year, the studio said it was about to conclude pre-production on the title.

The ‘Pro’ version of the PlayStation 5 has leaked. The PS5 Pro has been an open secret in the games industry for a while now and Sony is expected to announce the console before the end of this year. Previous reports and rumours had detailed the hardware upgrades the new console would likely get over the PS5. Now, the design of the PS5 Pro, along with Sony’s plan…

Sony is said to be planning a State of Play presentation for next month where it will likely showcase its upcoming games. The PlayStation parent last held a State of Play presentation in May, featuring 14 PS5 and PS VR2 games, including the upcoming Astro Bot.