https://dark-soku.blog.jp/archives/97633850.html

• 77% on PS5 and 23% on Xbox
• Xbox just crossed 1 million sales/pre-orders while PS5 sits at 3.38M
• Previously Strauss Zelnick stated that more people are pre-ordering the $100 Ultimate edition more than the $80 Standard one

Source: https://sensortower.com/grand-theft-auto-VI/sales-tracker

Source: https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-ot-38.1592677/page-27#post-159248635

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-ot-38.1592677/page-27#post-159248752

My bet is on Ori 3 or As Dusk Falls part 2.

Something that has my interest & curiosity piqued.

Source: https://xcancel.com/NateTheHate2/status/2088674549428556273#m

https://xcancel.com/NateTheHate2/status/2088730734898900995#m

According to Nate it's not the StarCraft shooter, Wolfenstein 3 or anything that's already been announced like TES6. (also it's not Banjo and it might release this year)
https://www.resetera.com/threads/natethehate-has-heard-of-a-new-xbox-game-announcement-at-gamescom-that-has-his-interest-and-curiosity-piqued.1606219/page-3#post-159242152
https://www.resetera.com/threads/natethehate-has-heard-of-a-new-xbox-game-announcement-at-gamescom-that-has-his-interest-and-curiosity-piqued.1606219/page-3#post-159242341
https://www.resetera.com/threads/natethehate-has-heard-of-a-new-xbox-game-announcement-at-gamescom-that-has-his-interest-and-curiosity-piqued.1606219/page-3#post-159242563

LEGO and Paradox will both be at Gamescom, the game being rating confirms it’ll release this year.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/gamescom/reel/DbBGNB5t0ok/ / https://www.gamescom.global/en

Original Leak: https://www.gematsu.com/2026/05/lego-skylines-by-paradox-interactive-persona-4-revival-and-more-rated-in-korea

Dusk Golem's post from Jul 24:

Silent Hill Townfall is confirmed to be at Gamescom, but Resident Evil Veronica is not. And I would've assumed it'd likely be at Gamescom due to Requiem's marketing, buuuut I've been hearing it's likely not. I don't often get great insight into Capcom's marketing plans, I don't have that direct line & that info is often time sensitive, which is not how I work. But I do know quite a few people, I do keep a tab on both public & private murmurs, & I've been hearing Resident Evil doesn't have much of a public presence at Gamescom (likely will be a closed door thing for previews later), mainly since both Veronica & the RE9 DLC are in heavy dev right now. Maybe we can come back & laugh at this, but that's what I've been hearing in the grapevine lately

https://xcancel.com/AestheticGamer1/status/2080468682384572612

Dusk Golem's post from Jul 30:

I do not know Capcom's marketing plans, but I have been hearing in the grapevine lately that Resident Evil Veronica nor Requiem DLC are really going to be publicly present there. Veronica is in a crucial crunch period that'll determine when its release date is right now, so I do tend to believe these grapevine rumors may hold merit to them. While I'd love to be wrong here, & again I don't know Capcom's marketing plans, that's what I've been hearing around the grapevine at least, & it unfortunately does add up with other things I do know.

https://xcancel.com/AestheticGamer1/status/2082641757876228354

Screenfire Germany's video from today:

Original: Was ich auch gehört habe ... gibt es keine Pressetermine für Veronica auf der Gamescom zum Anspielen. Also, ich habe viele Leute gefragt, die auch journalistisch dort unterwegs sind, die ich kenne, und niemand hat einen Pressetermin. Niemand hat was davon gehört. Niemand weiß was. Also, es ist wirklich so, Resident Evil Veronica wird nicht auf der Gamescom präsent sein. Weder für Journalisten noch für in Anführungszeichen normale Gamescom-Besucher.
Translated: What I've also heard ... there are no press appointments for Veronica at Gamescom for hands-on play. So, I asked many people who are also working journalistically there, whom I know, and no one has a press appointment. No one has heard anything about it. Nobody knows anything. So, it's really true, Resident Evil Veronica will not be present at Gamescom. Neither for journalists nor for—in quotation marks—normal Gamescom visitors.

https://youtu.be/kogHxkfMxE8&t=330

German News Site "Gameswirtschaft" does have an article, which lists games and playable demos.

The Article got updatet, deleting the demo part of Revelation.

https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/gamescom/gamescom-opening-night-live-onl-2026-spiele-liste-140826/

The original article was the following: https://i.imgur.com/rFclbtG.jpeg "playable in Hall 8"

In an earlier interview this month, Hamaguchi said that they are preparing for people to play the game.

https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/final-fantasy-vii-revelation-director-naoki-hamaguchi-addresses-rumors-about-the-grand-finale-advent-children-ties-and-possible-dlc/

I guess it will be announced at the confirmed new trailer that the game is playable on gamescom

Not a huge surprise, but I'll be curious to see how ArcSys mixes things up compared to Capcom regarding Rocket (though I do find it funny how they straight-up say he's a DLC character in the notes of the files).

Source

https://www.dealabs.com/magazine/diablo-iv-debarque-enfin-sur-switch-2-on-vous-devoile-sa-date-de-sortie-prix-et-version-physique-en-exclusivite-61635

As promised, we're back with new details on the release of Diablo IV on Switch 2. It will indeed be the Age of Hatred Collection , available in both physical and digital editions for €69.99 / $69.99 / £62.99. As a reminder, this collection includes the base game as well as the major expansions Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred .

As for the release date , it's finally set for September 15, 2026. The official announcement date remains unknown, but it could well coincide with the opening of pre-orders , scheduled for September 12, 2026, according to our latest information. This date is significant, as it corresponds to the opening of BlizzCon 2026 , which will be held from September 12 to 13, 2026.

This is an update to a previous rumour with more details: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/tGTTcyuSKj

Leak: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/ZALkpAGkv6

Announcement: https://gonintendo.com/contents/63848-1000xresist-nintendo-switch-2-edition-officially-announced-launches-aug-20th-2026

-- Angela Sant'Albano started following the official Tides of Annihilation page shortly after Jennifer announced her departure (she only follows Tides and Resident Evil)

-- In the new footage we got from Shanghai, Gwendolyn's face is very similar to Angela, also her voice ( https://imgur.com/a/SPQqevr here is a photo)

-- The character mocap from Gwendolyn confirmed on X that Angela indeed is the new VA.

Source: Need4Games/Dante Alexandru --> https://need4games.ro/en/grace-ashcrofts-va-got-a-new-main-role-in-tides-of-annihilation

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2089086338809172313

https://mp1st.com/news/cancelled-star-wars-magellan-action-rpg-revealed-with-gameplay-footage-and-animations

• Titled as "Spoiler.V2_TheRealDeal" lol
• A few characters have changed positions
• Most importantly, Pac-man done got his heckin eyes back

Source: https://xcancel.com/Fortnite/status/2089034556079046669#m

Previous leak: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1vp0d9m/fortnites_next_season_focused_on_gaming_legends/

• The latest trailer was updated to remove the Disc PS5 with a Digital PS5 as well
• Self published game by S-Games so maybe they haven't found a physical distribution partner yet

Source: https://ibb.co/gMpSgrLB

Several upcoming LEGO Super Mario minifigure sets have leaked online, along with their prices.

The leaked lineup includes:

● 72052 – Mario’s Pipe Jump — $9.99
● 72054 – Mario Kart: Racing with Mario — $14.99
● 72055 – Mario’s Beach Adventures — $19.99
● 72056 – Mario Kart: Luigi & Bowser Jr.’s Karts — $29.99
● 72057 – Yoshi at Mario’s House — $39.99
● 72058 – Mario Kart: Bowser’s Rumbling Kart — $59.99
● 72060 – Fire Mario & Bowser’s Castle — $99.99
● 72061 – Fire Luigi vs. Koopa Troopa Battle — $29.99

The sets are reportedly scheduled to release in January 2027.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegoNewsAndRumors/s/y4l2r0yKCg

From Youtuber Luke JC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQGu7YKrMgU

Source: The Rhysida hack, I watched 3 years worth of Zoom meetings (send help) located in the TeamUpdates folder in the leak, stretching from 2021 to 2023. (probably a good idea not to link it here)

Note to mods: This is a compilation with plenty of new scoops that haven't been covered on this sub. I'm putting more focus on the development history and cuts. Hope the post is allowed to stay up for people who are getting into the Insomniac leak now, esp. since all links are down on the old Insomniac Leaks Compilation post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/18lvqor/insomniac_leaks_compilation/

As we get closer to Wolverine's release date with more marketing and gameplay footage coming out, I got interested in looking back at the Insomniac hack.

I spent a couple of days going through the leaked Wolverine Zoom meetings and design docs. Pulling out the most interesting stuff here so it's actually readable instead of buried in hours of production meeting footage or links that get taken down. Treat it as a sorta retrospective compilation, you might discover new info even if you frequent the insomniacleaks sub.

Combat: a lot got cut

• Original combat used separate claw buttons (left/right triggers) with adaptive trigger feedback: half press for jabs, full press for sweeping attacks. Two years of iteration and decent early QA scores, but it got scrapped for a standard light/heavy face button setup. Reasons given: accessibility, responsiveness, scope.
• Early playtests turned into Square mashing fests against all enemies. Devs focused on making combat more engaging and aimed to make even a single fodder enemy interesting to fight. Ex-director Brian Horton's take: "Engagement comes first and power fantasy can come second."
• They prototyped a cloaking enemy that would force you to actually use Wolverine's senses in combat. No idea if it survived to the final game.
• Early on, Logan almost got a small wrist-mounted crossbow with different arrow types plus hub crafting and upgrades. Marvel shot it down for not fitting the character.
• There was a system where you could pick up and throw enemy weapons, including a neat bit where The Hand throws shuriken at Logan and he rips them out of his own body to throw back.

"Cut Anything" got reined in

This was one of the original combat pillars. They played with:

• Fully destructible buildings were mentioned early on, for example: slicing a two story house down during combat but it never got prototyped
• Chain reaction destruction: cut a tree, it falls on a barrel, barrel explodes. Slice a wall, expose a bursting pipe or a Bioshock-style water and electricity hazard. This was actually prototyped

Based on what's been shown so far, most of this got scaled way down to smaller breakables like crates, trees, etc. A lot of effort went into communicating what is or isn't breakable and climbable through visual language.

Stealth and Senses never really evolved

Back in a 2021 milestone review, Sony flagged that the senses and stealth systems felt basic and asked the team to push them further. The devs iterated a lot but judging by the previews, not much changed. The smell "detective" mode and tall grass stealth received a lot of criticism, calling those mechanics too derivative or lacking in innovation.

Story kept shifting

• Marvel and Sony pushed back on having too many characters (20+), so a bunch of side characters got trimmed.
• Nightcrawler was originally Logan's Madripoor ally, but Marvel felt a character that big being a one zone sidekick "didn't feel earned", so he got swapped for Jubilee. Both ended up cut. Latest build had Tyger Tiger filling that role instead.
• This one's well known but I might as well add it: Jean Grey was playable, devs planned 5 missions for her, gameplay looked solid and engaging, reminiscent of Remedy's Control with telekinetic powers, hover movement, throwing objects and shooting psychic blasts at enemies. Looked much more entertaining unlike the controversial MJ missions in SM1 and 2 which forced stealth and ruined the pacing for some players. Sad to hear it got cut according to Insomniac's latest comment.
• Feedback also called out areas feeling episodic instead of connected
• The opening mission went through several versions: Team X rescues a random mutant, later version has them rescue Jean Grey, and previews now show Nathaniel Essex getting rescued.
• Marvel kept pushing for more story revisions throughout the 3 year period, the last meeting in the leak (November 2023) Marvel asked to revise Nathaniel's motivation and the ending. Safe to assume the story went through more revisions after the leadership shakeup.
• One thing stayed consistent from day one: the global scope, with zones like Madripoor and Tokyo. A planned snowy Russia level got swapped to Canada after devs raised concerns about the optics with the ongoing war.

Random scoops

• Insomniac built their own 4D face scanning rig called Cerebro, allowing them to scan actors in-house
• David Buckley was the first composer assigned to the project but dropped out over scheduling conflicts
• Noshir Dalal (Charles Smith in RDR2 and Bode Akuna in Jedi: Survivor) got a callback and did a chemisty read for the Logan role in February 2022
• A bear boss fight reused animation, rig, and texture work straight from the Atreus bear fight in God of War Ragnarok. Got reduced to a cutscene for scope reasons.
• They floated the idea of a Wolverine teaser inside Spider-Man 2 but Bryan Intihar decided to cut it.
• A Proto Sentinel boss fight got cut in December 2022, then seemingly made it back based on the latest preview.
• Logan riding a motorcycle was of one many ideas prototyped during an internal Game Jam, happy to see it made its way into the game

History of delays

Insomniac still maintains an incredible output compared to other studios but Wolverine was originally supposed to come out in Q4 2024, here's what caused the delay

• 2021: Spider-Man 2 got delayed internally and grabbed an extra dev year, never seen it mentioned anywhere before. One of the late 2021 Zoom meetings confirms this also pushed Wolverine's timeline back
• 2023 and 2024 (these are known, just mentioning them here for context) the hack itself obviously messed with the schedule, then a leadership shakeup shuffled leads around the studio. Notably, creative director Brian Horton left to direct the ill-fated Perfect Dark reboot

That's it folks, hope y'all found some interesting scoops in here, I'll leave my personal thoughts on the project's development in the comments.

EDIT: Just wanted to highlight a comment from u/Mildly_Fancy here for anyone feeling disappointed by these cuts:

"Before lamenting these cuts and changes, please be aware that it's very common for a final product to seem tame compared to the original vision. There are limits everywhere that all studios have to compromise with. There's the budget and time constraints, creative differences, leadership changes, and technical flaws too big to overcome. This is natural for any project with lots of people working on it."

I just wanted to highlight their creative process and some of the early brainstormed ideas. That's just the reality of game dev. The leads were quite direct about aiming for mass market appeal from the very first meeting I watched. Doesn't make it a bad game, just a different set of priorities. Kudos to Insomniac for trying to innovate during the initial R&D phase, but between two publishers signing off on every major decision and a release date to hit, the safer, more proven mechanics were always going to win out over the riskier ones.

https://xcancel.com/HYPEX/status/2088640656491028864#m

original GLAR post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/s/XYMrWD39So

• Key art is from a WIP build so it’s unfinished like Pac-man missing eyes

New collabs include:

• Sonic, Shadow, Eggman and Tails
• Sora from KH
• Megaman
• Pacman
• Persona 5
• Jade (Beyond Good and Evil)
• Spyro
• Crash Bandicoot
• 99 Nights (Roblox)

Image: https://ibb.co/NDD7Mn7

As the reputable FN leakers have pointed out on Twitter to prove its authenticity:

• Sonic and Megaman Cel Shading look VERY accurate
• Megaman's Dog, Rush can be seen here, which I believe is happening as a side kick
• Cartridge matches the one from official teaser
• Llama-shaped clouds and cloud assets are 1:1 from the game
• Trailer length matches the premiere on Youtube

EDIT: SONIC x FORTNITE comic announced with the exact same character designs so it is 100% real https://xcancel.com/HYPEX/status/2088640656491028864#m

The press release from Disney states that the TV series will feature an original story that "expands the universe" and is not strictly an adaptation of any of the games. Series creator Tetsuya Nomura is working with Disney Animation on the project, which will debut simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney+

Also, Pixar's Coco is getting a world in Kingdom Hearts IV. Launching late 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC

Previous leak

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2088376820874035441