Nvidia's Board Investigates Its Own CEO, GTA 6 Arrives in an Empty Box, and BLG End T1's Worlds Run

Industry

• Nvidia's board has opened an independent investigation into founder and CEO Jensen Huang after reporting that he was the target of a Chinese intelligence operation. A committee of independent directors will oversee the work with outside counsel. Nvidia says Huang stays in the job and that it has no reason to believe its secrets or national security were compromised, while its GPUs sit at the centre of the memory shortage pushing component prices up. Read more →
• Sony has indefinitely delayed its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers a week before they were due, citing a production issue. The set was announced at last year's State of Play and was supposed to launch November 12; Sony gave no new date and no refund policy, and it pulled the FlexStrike fight stick the same way in July. Read more →
• Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says Sony's next move should be a cheaper PS5 rather than a $1,200 PS6. "The innovation needs to come not from making PS6 for $1,200. It's to make another PS5 for $300," Layden said on The Trophy Room podcast, noting that a base PS5 now sells for $649 and a Pro for $899. Read more →
• N7 Day, Mass Effect's annual November 7 celebration, turned into a campaign to save the series, with the original trilogy's voice cast and composer Sam Hulick asking EA to reverse last month's BioWare closure. Billboards and trucks have gone up in Wales, Texas, California and Edmonton, where the studio was based, and New Democrat MP Don Davies has backed the petition. Read more →
• Marvel's Wolverine has sold 2.4 million copies in seven weeks, fewer than Spider-Man 2 managed on its first day. Sony's Q2 report shows 97.9 million PS5s shipped and a 45 percent profit rise, but Ghost of Yōtei reached 3.3 million in 32 days and even Rhythm Heaven Groove stands at 2.89 million. Read more →

Releases and updates

• Game Pass starts November with Football Manager 27 on PC at launch, then Vampire Crawlers and Void/Breaker's 1.0 release on November 4. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite and the MySims Cozy Bundle arrive November 5, Warhammer Survivors, Tanuki: Pon's Summer and Football Manager 27 Console follow November 10, and thirteen games leave on November 15 including 1000xResist, GoldenEye 007 and Wreckfest. Read more →
• Shrek 2 Remastered, 9 Kings and Hard West 2 lead next week's releases, all landing November 10 alongside Football Manager 27. Hozy arrives November 9, Ova Magica and Unpetrified: Echoes of Nature join the same Tuesday, and Last Pirates: Die Together enters Game Preview on November 11. Read more →
• EA has pushed Battlefield 6's Platoons and the B-81 Cavalry into 2027, days after the clan feature was still promised for early December. The developer said both "do not meet our internal quality standards" and that a revised roadmap will come after the holidays; Platoons were to bring 100-member clans, a server browser and new maps with Season 5. Read more →
• GTA 6's PS5 boxes are already turning up in German retail, and they contain a download code instead of a disc. Copies go out from November 12, pre-loading opens November 10 and the game launches November 19, making this the first real run at the disc-less future Sony has promised from 2028. Read more →
• Epic has published Fortnite's drop rates after a week of players demanding them, with Pirate Shop access at 1 in 137,500 in a normal match. The Treasure Hunters token unlocks 14 days of free item shop access, the weekly gold outfit sits at 1 in 1,562,500, and some players had already asked the FTC to step in. Read more →

Esports

• Gen.G swept Invictus Gaming 3-0 on November 7 to reach the organisation's first Worlds final since it took its current name in 2018. Ruler's Jhin opened the series with a 29-9 kill count, and Chovy reached a final in his eighth Worlds appearance. Read more →
• Bilibili Gaming beat T1 3-1 on November 8, the first time a team from China's LPL has won a Worlds knockout best-of-five against T1. The loss ends T1's run of four straight finals and sets up BLG against Gen.G on November 14 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Read more →
• MOUZ swept The MongolZ to win IEM Beijing, holding the Mongolian side to single-digit rounds on all three maps. XertioN led MOUZ on kills and assists, and NAVI had earlier swept BetBoom in the third-place match. Read more →
• Kingzone beat Dplus Kia 2-1 at the BLAST R6 Major Osaka on November 6 for the first international best-of-three win by a team from China's CNL. The upset eliminated a Dplus squad fielding an all-Brazilian roster that had taken APAC North's only Osaka spot, after 92.8 percent of Strafe readers had picked Dplus. Read more →
• Riot disqualified BONK from the first European qualifier for VCT EMEA Kickoff 2027, the VALORANT Champions Tour's EMEA season opener, after confirming a team participant used cheating software. Every BONK player is provisionally suspended, Aurora Gaming has been reinstated, and two rounds were replayed on November 8 with the qualifier playoffs now set for November 26 to December 5. Read more →