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Semir edits and writes at AltChar where he covers the latest news from the video games industry. He also likes to drop an opinion piece about the hot topics here and there. Semir is a PC gamer at heart but loves a short couch session on his console every once in a while.
Semir mainly covers exciting news and rumours from the video games industry, and often writes about Xbox and PlayStation Studios. He also loves writing reviews for the games.
Semir was a gamer from his early childhood. While games like the original Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were his early childhood occupations, he leans more towards addictive strategies, smaller narrative-driven adventures like Pentiment and exploration-focused RPGs these days.
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Xbox's Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast brought a packed line-up of Japanese-developed games, from Wo Long 2 and Persona 4 Revival to new reveals like Gachiakuta and Bloomwalker. Here's everything announced.
SEPTEMBER 17
Hideo Kojima has given a detailed update on PHYSINT following Xbox's Tokyo Game Show broadcast, confirming the game's lead cast, and a new tagline pitching it as "The Next Cold War".
SEPTEMBER 17
World of Warcraft: Forever is Blizzard's new permanent home for the original Azeroth, launching alongside retail and Classic. Here's what it actually is, how it works, and what's new.
SEPTEMBER 14
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has visited Kojima Productions in Japan just days after Xbox and Hideo Kojima announced their new partnership on PHYSINT, signing the studio's famous wall with a message reading "To invention and adventure together."
SEPTEMBER 14
Sony's decision to abandon Physint looked baffling on the surface. Potentially, a genre-defining game from one of the industry's most respected creators, dropped after years of investment. Look closer, though, and the numbers, the ambition, and the two publishers' very different needs right now all point to a decision that makes sense on both sides.
SEPTEMBER 10
Just a few hours after confirming Physint is moving to Xbox, Hideo Kojima has retweeted Xbox Japan's announcement for their Tokyo Game Show broadcast, fuelling speculation about whether one of his games could make an appearance at the show.
SEPTEMBER 10
Hideo Kojima has confirmed that PHYSINT is moving to Xbox after PlayStation Studios decided to walk away from the project back in June.
SEPTEMBER 10
Nvidia have confirmed that official DLSS 5 support is coming to RTX 40 series GPUs, once optimisation work on the RTX 50 series wraps up this fall.
SEPTEMBER 4
Here's everything that we've seen at Sony's PlayStation State of Play on September 3, 2026.
SEPTEMBER 3
Frontier Developments have announced a new agreement with Disney to develop and publish a management simulation game built around one of Disney's IPs.
SEPTEMBER 3
CD Projekt Red have confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered will keep players' existing save files and unlocked achievements or trophies, so nobody needs to start over from scratch.
SEPTEMBER 1
