Ubisoft opened up its The Crew Showcase on Tuesday with an important update about the future of the racing franchise. In response to fan outcry after The Crew 1 was rendered unplayable in March, the company promised to keep the current titles playable, even in a future where they get taken offline.
“We want to acknowledge that some of you voiced concern about the access to The Crew games,” Stéphane Beleym, managing studio director on The Crew, said during the presentation. “Today, we want to express our commitment to the future of The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest.”
“We are currently exploring different solutions, and can confirm an offline mode, to ensure long-term access to both titles,” Beley continued, adding that Ubisoft will have more information in the coming months.
Ubisoft Ivory Tower announced that The Crew 1 would be delisted in December. Not only was the 2014 game removed from online stores, but its servers were taken offline on March 31. The company claimed that the decision was due to “upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints.” Since the game was online-only, the game basically became unplayable. A group of modders are working to get the game back online and preserved with The Crew Revival, with one telling Eurogamer that the community “should absolutely not let Ubisoft keep getting away with such horrendous practices; otherwise, it will just keep happening to more and more games, including The Crew’s sequels.”
While the developer hasn’t confirmed much just yet, the inclusion of an offline mode for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest is welcome news in the event they’re also delisted. In related news, Ubisoft also announced that The Crew 2 is on sale for just $1 until September 24.
Most of the showcase was dedicated to The Crew Motorfest Year 2, a gigantic update for the open-world racing game. It’ll have three seasons, with the first, season 5, bringing Maui to the game for free on November 6. Ivory Tower says it’s 50% the size of O’ahu, and players will be able to easily move between the two islands. The game will also be getting new PvE content that’ll be included as part of the Year 2 pass and be accessible to those with the Gold and Ultimate editions. And, per racing game tradition, it’ll also be getting more vehicles.
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.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.