Gaming News — 2026-07-29#

Top Story#

Battlefield 6 Success Brings EA CEO $38 Million Payday While Devs Pay the Price EA CEO Andrew Wilson is pocketing an $8 million raise, bringing his total fiscal 2026 compensation to a staggering $38.6 million thanks to the massive success of Battlefield 6. It’s a bitter pill for the industry to swallow, considering EA laid off an undisclosed number of developers across all Battlefield studios just months after the game broke sales records.

News & Reviews#

The Relic: First Guardian Review · IGN If you’re looking for the next great action RPG to scratch that Soulslike itch, keep looking, because The Relic: First Guardian is a shoddy and broken mess. Our review highlights bland character models, a jittery camera, and an overstuffed roster of over 75 bosses where you’ll frequently die to cheap mechanics or bugs that completely break the encounters. It barely clears the bar with its punchy weapon skills, but everything else is unacceptable.

Halo: Campaign Evolved Launches With Immediate Mod Madness · IGN Halo: Campaign Evolved is officially out now for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, bringing a stunning Unreal Engine 5 remake of the original 2001 classic alongside a brand-new space combat story arc. In true PC gaming fashion, modders have wasted absolutely no time ripping into the code; you can already play the campaign as Iron Man or GTA: San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson.

Xbox Investigates Physical Disc DRM Outage · IGN A major service outage recently locked Xbox players out of their own physical game discs, proving that gamers’ fears about a digital-only future are completely justified. Xbox Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vliet promised a full post-incident review, acknowledging that a single point of failure shouldn’t ruin your night and that disc-based entitlement checks are meant to work offline by design.

Dragon Age Trilogy Remaster Deemed ‘Impossible’ · IGN Don’t hold your breath for a Mass Effect-style remastered collection of the original Dragon Age trilogy. Former BioWare boss Mark Darrah crushed our hopes by confirming that practically no one left at the studio—or the broader industry—understands the antiquated Aurora Engine that the games were built on.

GTA Online Disables In-Game Gambling in Australia · IGN Rockstar has unexpectedly blocked players in Australia from accessing the gambling minigames inside GTA Online’s Diamond Casino. It’s a bizarre move considering the casino update launched seven years ago, though it seemingly follows new local minimum classification guidelines targeting simulated gambling in video games.

Free Games & Deals#

There are some absolute steals out there today, starting with physical PS5 copies of Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 4, and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Gold Edition slashed to just $16 each on Amazon. For those wanting a major upgrade to their rig, Walmart has a massive discount on the HP OMEN 45L prebuilt gaming PC, which features an RTX 5070 Ti GPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $1,999. Finally, physical PS5 copies of the wildly inventive Death Stranding 2: On the Beach have dropped under $40.

Also Worth Knowing#

• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Fights for Physical Edition (IGN): Director Naoki Hamaguchi is actively pushing for a physical release of the remake’s final chapter, though nothing has been finalized due to platform regulations.
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Sequel Greenlit (IGN): Despite earlier reports of its development team disbanding, a sequel to the hit Soulslike has been announced under a new studio brand with its original creator returning.
• Unreleased NES Mario/Duck Hunt Carts Found (IGN): A staggering 97 factory-sealed copies of an unreleased, late-stage variant of Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt were discovered sitting in a Wisconsin antique shop’s storage unit.
• Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Game Is… Angry Birds (IGN): The visionary director might love Shadow of the Colossus and Bioshock, but he confesses to playing Angry Birds “every day” of his life.
• Pragmata 2 Likely in the Works (IGN): Capcom executives heavily hinted at a sequel to their android adventure game following a massive 2.51 million sales milestone in just three months.