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Sony is rolling out mandatory age verification for PlayStation communication features. Skip it, and you lose access to messages, voice chat, party sessions, and even Discord integration.
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Sony is rolling out mandatory age verification for PlayStation communication features. Skip it, and you lose access to messages, voice chat, party sessions, and even Discord integration.

Community Crunch 503 teases the Burrowbuck, a rideable horned hare with tunnel networks and pitfall traps, plus incoming PvP cave changes on Lost Colony.

Xbox's second Game Pass wave for April 2026 brings Vampire Crawlers, Kiln, Aphelion, and Final Fantasy V while pulling Citizen Sleeper, Hunt: Showdown 1896, and eight others on April 30.

Thursday's ID@Xbox Showcase has confirmed four games so far, but IGN is teasing a surprise on top of the announced lineup. Here's why it might be worth your time.

Daniel Casey, the lead writer on Amazon's Mass Effect TV adaptation, says no one has ever told him to rewrite the show for non-gaming audiences.

Ubisoft's teaser for the Black Flag remake describes it as 'the iconic solo pirate adventure,' all but confirming the original's multiplayer mode won't return. The full reveal airs April 23.

Xbox's new Forza Horizon 6 limited-edition controller is a translucent, neon-drenched love letter to Japanese street racing, and it's going to divide every single person who sees it.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick responded to Elon Musk's claims about AI replacing game development by asking why the world's richest man is still working 20-hour days if AI is so capable.

Arthas is fully reworked, Haunted Mines is back in Quick Match, and Unranked Mode has been quietly removed in today's Heroes of the Storm update.

Warhorse and Paradox team up for a small but charming crossover, dropping a new book into KCD2's medieval world.
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The Cherry Blossom Event arrives in Washington D.C. from April 21 with new enemy factions, event loot, and a cross-platform community challenge.

Build 42.17.0 lands on the Unstable branch with occupation rebalancing, animal stress tweaks, and a hefty stack of multiplayer fixes.

Three new Tier XI tanks, three reworked maps, and a significant Onslaught rebalance, Update 2.2.1 is one of the bigger content drops World of Tanks has seen in a while.

A dataminer has uncovered ten unused music tracks buried in Resident Evil Requiem's files, and several of them sound exactly like what you'd hear in a Mercenaries stage.

A24 has never spent anything close to $100 million on a single film. The Elden Ring movie, directed by Alex Garland and starring Kit Connor, changes that calculus entirely.

Speaking at an Australian games festival, the former PlayStation Worldwide Studios president said Jim Ryan fired him in 2019 because he wouldn't comply with unspecified demands he called "ridiculous."
The 1.19 Scribe update is one of CK3's meatier free patches in a while, adding a full Ledger system, overhauled aging mechanics, and a Kingdom Come: Deliverance crossover.

Keen Software House has set May 4th as the launch date for the Space Engineers Economy 2 Update and Pack, with daily community preview videos running from now until release.

A $10,000 payment that never happened may be the reason Fallout: New Vegas still hasn't been remastered. Chris Avellone says Bethesda simply doesn't have the source code to pull it off.

Team Ninja is giving Nioh 3's endgame a serious shot of adrenaline next week with free high-difficulty Battle Scrolls, a new gear progression system, and skill rewards that should keep hardcore players busy until DLC arrives later this year.

A now-deleted Instagram post from the Zelda movie's cinematographer reveals concept art of Link in his iconic green tunic, wielding the Master Sword. It's the clearest look yet at the film's visual direction.
Mechabellum's latest patch targets performance for older machines, with balance changes to Spider Mine and Hound's Incendiary Bomb rounding things out.

The latest Famitsu most wanted chart tells a very different story than Western hype would suggest. Pokemon Winds and Waves commands four times the votes of GTA 6 in Japan.

Mecha BREAK's April 21 update overhauls over a dozen strikers, buffs the Mashmak Glider across all levels, and bumps Ace Arena damage by 20%.