Gaming

Minecraft LIVE September 2026 featured a number of big announcements for the game, which we’ve rounded up below. The headline announcement was confirmation that the Sift is coming to Minecraft Java and Bedrock Edition in 2027. It’s the first new dimension for Minecraft in 14 years. Elsewhere, Mojang confirmed that Ice Caves are the next game drop, and Sound Effects Packs for Minecraft…

The next Halo game from Halo Studios was reportedly still years away from launch before Microsoft canceled it this week. Microsoft continued its Xbox “reset” this week by gutting Halo Studios, leaving a skeleton crew to manage existing games in the series, and handing the Halo franchise to Call of Duty company Activision. Activision is setting up a new team to build the next mainline…

This is an IGN opinion piece from Matt Purslow, who was brought up on the golden era of Halo and Half-Life. He loves story-driven FPS campaigns and wishes there was more of them (but perhaps not quite as many as there were in the 2000s – that was pretty excessive.) Halo should be Xbox’s Call of Duty. Of course, thanks to a $69 billion acquisition, Call of Duty is now Xbox’s Call of…

It appears that WWE was trying to trademark the term ‘Vice City,’ before abandoning plans to do so. According to a trademark filing, the initial application was made on August 8, before being deemed “dead’ just over a month later, on September 21. No, it doesn’t appear that WWE was attempting to make its own Grand Theft Auto game, but it was more than likely an attempt to theme something…