Call of Duty Vanguard is getting a free trial just 2 weeks after launch
Multiplayer trial follows reports of low sales, but also coincides with rival product releases
VGC November 16, 2021
16th Nov 2021
Call of Duty studio head steps down following sexual harassment revelations
Treyarch’s Dan Bunting had worked on the FPS series for 18 years
Deathloop leads The Game Awards 2021 nominations
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, It Takes Two and Psychonauts 2 also up for multiple prizes
Report alleges Activision boss Bobby Kotick knew about misconduct and ‘made death threat’
It's claimed Kotick withheld sexual misconduct allegations from Activision's board
Forza Horizon 5’s language filter is being ‘fixed’ after banning some Arabic names
Word filter is being updated after players are told their real names are “inappropriate"
Delays, malpractice and the undead: Will Dying Light 2 be worth the wait?
We played a near-finished build and sat down with the game’s lead designer
New Xbox Game Pass titles for console, PC and Cloud have been dated
Including Evil Genius 2, Exo One, Undungeon, Dead Space and Dragon Age: Origins
Xbox says there will be ‘no more backwards compatible games’ due to legal and tech issues
The company had previously stated that the programme had ended in 2019
Halo-themed content is returning to Sea of Thieves for a limited time
The Spartan set was only made available for a brief time in 2019
EA awkwardly marks Skate 2’s Xbox return by reminding that its servers are shutting down
The classic title was added to Xbox backwards compatibility this week
Halo Infinite hit more than 270,000 concurrent players on Steam within 8 hours of release
The free-to-play multiplayer mode hit the fourth-highest peak on Steam yesterday
CoD updates its anti-cheat policy: players can now be banned from the entire franchise
"We're working hard to make things as frustrating as possible for cheaters"