If you were hoping to storm through Cauldron Descent with friends anytime soon, you might want to sit tight. According to a new Bloomberg report, PlayStation has reportedly ordered a major overhaul of Horizon Hunters Gathering, the multiplayer spinoff Guerrilla Games unveiled back in February. The reboot comes after the game reportedly struggled during closed playtesting, leaving executives unconvinced the current direction works.
Guerrilla has reportedly been reworking the game since June, and the plan is to strip out its live-service backbone entirely. Instead of an ongoing, continually updated multiplayer experience, the game is being turned into a smaller, more traditional cooperative title built around a proper story mode.
That’s a major shift from what director Arjan Bak originally described: tactical three-player co-op hunts against giant machines, a roguelite perk system for customizing your build, and a persistent social hub for gearing up between missions. It’s unclear how much of that original vision survives the rework.
The game is not cancelled, but the pressure is real. Staff reportedly have until December to prove the new direction to executives, and many current team members are already being shifted to a separate Guerrilla project facing its own year end evaluation.
PlayStation’s live-service dream keeps collapsing, and Horizon is the latest casualty. The company pledged back in 2022 to release ten live-service titles, and its track record since then has been rocky at best.
The disastrous 2024 launch of Concord, pulled from sale just two weeks in, remains its most infamous misstep, and Sony has also shut down live-service projects at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, the latter closed entirely this year.
Helldivers 2 stands out as a genuine success story, and Bungie’s Marathon remains active despite its own struggles. Sony Interactive CEO Hideaki Nishino said in June interview that the company still intends to keep backing live-service games going forward. Whether Sony’s optimism holds up will likely depend on whether Guerrilla can actually pull of Horizon Hunters Gathering’s reboot.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
Why does this run so well on Apple devices?
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”