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EA closes BioWare and pairs DICE with Respawn on an unnamed shooter
EA is closing BioWare and pairing DICE with Respawn on an unnamed shooter, while Apex Legends gets fresh investment.
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Fighting games.
Brackets, grapplers and the quiet maths of a close set.
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves reaches Switch 2 with Mikey and Draken
SNK says the Switch 2 version and the two Tokyo Revengers guest fighters both arrive on 22 October.
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Street Fighter V and Dragon Ball FighterZ go offline for emergency maintenance
Capcom and Bandai Namco took both games' online services down on 21 October and haven't given an end time.
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Persistent worlds.
Guilds, servers and the long hours between raids.
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MapleStory Classic World launches worldwide
Nexon's free-to-play throwback version is out on the Nexon Launcher and Steam after two weeks of founder's access.
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FFXIV's Keybound Brawler typing event starts 28 Oct
Square Enix's new Gold Saucer event tests how fast you type, and opens with a Final Fantasy VII Remake collaboration.
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Shooters.
Maps, LANs and the last few metres to the exit.
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EA closes BioWare and pairs DICE with Respawn on an unnamed shooter
A memo to staff ends early work on a new Mass Effect, commits to more Apex Legends and pauses a Sims project.
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Modern Warfare 4 launches 23 Oct with 12 core maps and the modular Kill Block
Activision's launch rundown lists the maps and modes, with Shipment following on 27 October.
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Oceania.
Aussie and OCE results, dates and servers. New pieces every day, plus every OCE story from the other sections.
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WoW Forever name reservations open 27 Oct, 1pm PT (28 Oct, 6am AEST)
Blizzard's start times don't list Oceania, but it grouped Oceanic players with the Americas for this week's stress test.
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0 more OCE stories from today's other sections are on the OCE page.
All OCE storiesTech and hardware.
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware: graphics cards, CPUs, RAM, handhelds, firmware, prices and launches.
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Xbox tests paying for cloud gaming by the hour
Xbox Insiders without Game Pass can now buy blocks of Cloud Playtime, with a wider rollout planned for November.
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Consoles, graphics cards and PC parts.
The Tech pageAI in gaming.
AI features in games, studio policy, tools, NPCs, anti-cheat and the people it affects.
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Most studios in a new study use AI, but 52% of leaders rate how deeply it's built in at 3/10 or lower
Adam Boyes' consultancy Vivrato interviewed 101 studio leaders. 97% had used AI in some form, and 94% use it in at least one of nine production stages.
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AI-built decompilations reach Pokémon
Ports and code rebuilds made with LLM agents now cover several Pokémon games, and decompilation hobbyists aren't happy.
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Thursday 22 October 2026
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