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Gaming News #3

10 August 2026

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Extraction shooters Hunt: Showdown

Hunt: Showdown Relaunches as 1896 on August 15 and Drops PS4 and Xbox One

Crytek is rebuilding its bounty hunter extraction shooter into Hunt: Showdown 1896 on August 15. The game moves to CryEngine 5.11 and gets a new UI, performance work, and a fresh map and biome, its first new map in three years. Servers go dark for 48 hours from August 13 at 7pm CEST to prepare. The upgrade ends support for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, though those players can transfer their account and DLC to current-gen consoles for free.

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Discussion Topics

  1. Is a new engine and one new map enough to pull lapsed Hunt players back?
  2. Cutting PS4 and Xbox One to upgrade the engine: right call, or abandoning players?
  3. 48 hours of downtime right before a relaunch: acceptable, or a bad look?
  4. Does Hunt 1896 finally make you reinstall, or has ARC Raiders taken that slot?