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Borderlands 4 launching early has “literally 0%” to do with GTA 6’s release date, Marathon or anything save “confidence”, says Gearbox boss

Gearbox and Take-Two recently brought forward the release of giggling gunslinger Borderlands 4 from 23rd September to 12th September. This came a week or two after Bungie and Sony also decided to release their Marathon reboot on 23rd September.

If you thought all that was evidence of publishers playing 4D chess around the currently unannounced release date of GTA 6, with Bungie and Sony making the fair assumption that Take-Two won’t release GTA 6 and Borderlands 4 on the same day… then you were mistaken. You should be ashamed to speculate in this fashion! Pshaw! Harrumph! Damn your eyes, sir, and damn the stalking horse you rode in on.

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Valve’s Proton, the reason most Steam Deck games work, has a version 10.0 beta to try

Proton, the compatibility software co-developed by Valve and CodeWeavers for helping Windows games run on Linux – and, thus, the foundation for the Steam Deck – is getting its first full version update in nearly a year. Proton 10.0 is now available in beta form, heralding compatibility fixes and improvements in enough games that I gave up bothering to do an accurate count. Loads, basically.

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A new Starcraft game is on the way from the publishers of Dave The Diver and The Finals, according to reports

It’s been so long since the last Starcraft that all I can remember is that Zergs build on creep, the Protoss Void Ray is a glorified Xmas bauble, and Jim Curry went to space. I’m pretty sure at least one of those things is from some other strategy game universe. Maybe Worms. How long must we wait for a Starcraft 3? A long time yet, but possibly not forever, for Blizzard are apparently handing the rights to the cherished RTS series to Nexon, publisher of Dave the Diver and The Finals.

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Splitgate 2 is almost ready for you try it out, as the Portal with actual guns shooter sets a date for its open beta

You know, I don’t think I’ll ever understand why, after finding a huge amount of surprise success, developer 1047 Games decided to stop working on Splitgate all so that they could make a sequel. Perhaps that’s just part of my general confusion towards live service games as a whole, but I do think it’s a bit odd all the same. Still, Splitgate 2 is still on track for a 2025 release it seems, with a date now set for the game’s first open beta.

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Who knows if Stardew Valley is finished, but the dev behind it is “committed to not working” on it until Haunted Chocolatier is done

Remember when Haunted Chocolatier was announced… sorry, hang on, almost four years ago? Cripes, time really does fly when you’re waiting on the incredibly anticipated follow-up to one of the most popular games of all time doesn’t it! It’s no secret that developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is happy to take his time with his next game, and good on him for doing so. However, he also can’t help himself but continue to work on Stardew Valley, releasing another pretty big update for the farming game only last year. The good news is that, based on some comments in a recent interview, Haunted Chocolatier is the main focus going forward.

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Respawn reportedly lay off staff across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi teams, cancel two incubation projects

Update: Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has since reported that between 300 and 400 positions have been “eliminated” across EA, including around 100 at EA. One of the cancelled incubation projects was also apparently an extraction shooter set in the Titanfall universe.

Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment have announced that two of its incubation projects have been cancelled, leading to what it calls a number of “target team adjustments across Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi.” You may notice that this language is particularly obtuse, in that it doesn’t refer to these adjustments as layoffs. However, according to a report from IGN, layoffs have occurred, though just how many is currently unknown.

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Splinter Cell lives… in the form of Steam achievements for the 12 year old Blacklist

If a Splinter Cell remake fell in the woods, would over the top industry secrecy and NDAs even allow us to hear it? That’s the million dollar question literally no one is asking, because who phrases things that way, but enough about that game that may or may not exist at this point in time, we’ve got a different Splinter Cell to talk about: Blacklist. Yes, the, technically speaking, most recent entry in the series just received a little update on Steam yesterday which… adds achievements into the game.

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Devolver Digital reveals Mycopunk, a FPS where you’re a robot nobody wants trying to not get killed by fungus

One of the quieter, more recent trends I’ve been enjoying is goofy extraction games. Whether Lethal Company is directly responsible for that trend, or everyone that spent countless hours playing games like Left 4 Dead 2 as teenagers just kind of all ended up taking similar interpretations, I couldn’t tell you. But I’m quite fond of games like it and Content Warning, and obviously even more recently there’s Repo added to the list, horrendous key art notwithstanding. Now, as revealed in a new trailer, there’s Mycopunk, another one of those kinds of games where you’re a robot nobody wanted.

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Borderlands 4 gets an earlier release date, as accidentally revealed by Randy Pitchford

First-person “comedy” shooter Borderlands 4 will be released sooner than previously expected, according to a video accidentally tweeted too early by Randy Pitchford. The original date of September 23rd is being shifted in some sort of bizarre anti-delay. “Everything is going kinda the best case scenario,” says the Gearbox CEO, “and so the launch date for Borderlands 4 is changing. We’re moving it forward.”

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