GAMING

On June 9, if Bungie truly sunsets active development on Destiny 2, it will close the book on one of gaming’s most ambitious, turbulent, and influential live-service experiments. For nearly 9 years, Destiny 2 was more than a game.

Directive 8020 is a 2026 interactive drama and survival horror video game developed and published by Supermassive Games. It is the fifth game in The Dark Pictures series. Taking place on a colony spaceship called Cassiopeia, the crew crash lands on Tau Ceti f, a planet 12 light-years from Earth, where they must survive a shapeshifting alien threat.

Saros is a third-person action game that combines bullet hell, third-person shooter, and roguelite elements. The player controls Soltari Enforcer Arjun Devraj as he investigates a lost off-world colony on the planet Carcosa.

Pragmata is an action-adventure played from a third-person perspective. The player can control Hugh and Diana at the same time, as they look for a way to escape a crumbling lunar research station while fighting off hostile robots controlled by a malevolent AI.

Crimson Desert is an action-adventure game set in the open-world fictional continent of Pywel, a high fantasy world affected by multiple conflicts and mysterious forces. Players initially control Kliff, a member of the Greymanes, as he navigates a landscape populated by rival factions and dangerous creatures.

Sony on Friday said it will raise prices on its range of flagship PlayStation 5 consoles for the second time in less than a year, citing “pressures in the global economic landscape.”

Marathon is set on the planet Tau Ceti IV in the year 2893, 99 years after the events of the original game, where human colonists from the UESC Marathon, a colony ship constructed out of the Martian moon Deimos, have started a new colony.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is an upcoming action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom. As the first mainline installment in the Onimusha series since Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, the game is set to be released in 2026 for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S.

Resident Evil Requiem is a 2026 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. It is the ninth main Resident Evil game, following Resident Evil Village.

After a couple of delays you might have heard about, Grand Theft Auto 6 is still scheduled for a November 19 release date on consoles, which will be music to the ears of anyone with a few million bucks in Take-Two stock (that’s most of you, I assume).