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A Crimson Desert explorer rode a dragon far beyond the map's edge and found a snow-covered village that looks suspiciously complete, right down to bounty boards and lootable chests.
Naoki Hamaguchi has beaten a game that technically doesn't exist yet over 40 times. Everything about FF7 Remake Part 3 suggests it's deep into polishing, not early development.
Fuse Games has officially confirmed what a recent leak already told us: Star Wars: Galactic Racer arrives October 6 with three editions, including a $160 Collector's set.
LEGO Animal Crossing's newest set gives the twin tanuki shopkeepers their own 513-piece display, complete with a fishing bridge, balloon present, and hidden fossil.
After ousted founders, a $250 million bonus dispute, and a judge handing control of Unknown Worlds back to its creators, Subnautica 2 finally has a date: May 14.
Blizzard's newest housing exterior costs 4,000 Hearthsteel, roughly $40 in real money, and the full bundle runs $75. This arrives barely a week after housing was literally turned off due to game-breaking bugs.
ARK: Survival Ascended's v86.11 patch is live today, reworking how lower-tier Equipment Traits work and giving endgame players a new XP loop to chase.
Battlefield 6 has shed over 90% of its peak PC player base in seven months. EA is now asking whoever's left to pre-order Season 3's battle pass sight unseen.
Disney's own internal estimates suggest The Mandalorian and Grogu will open below Solo at the box office, making Star Wars' return to theaters far quieter than Lucasfilm likely hoped.
During a Reddit AMA, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers wouldn't confirm or deny the Lord of the Rings rumors, but their non-answers said plenty.
A WB Games artist accidentally confirmed Injustice 3 is in development, but new rumors suggest NetherRealm may be dropping the Injustice branding entirely in favor of a broader DC fighting game.
Obsidian is adding grenades to The Outer Worlds via a May 27 patch, nearly seven years after the RPG first launched. The update also brings a free Spacer's Choice Edition upgrade and a $20 price cut.
Microsoft's latest ROG Xbox Ally update finally makes docked play work the way it should, borrowing Nintendo's years-old trick of killing the handheld screen when connected to a TV.
The Demolisher gets a proper tuning pass in Hotfix 1, alongside weapon buffs and a fix for those cluster grenade performance issues.
A 45-year-old man hid inside a Pasadena Best Buy after it closed, apparently hoping to snag Pokémon cards before anyone else. Police arrested him on suspicion of burglary after employees spotted him on camera at 1 AM.
Asobo Studio's next Plague Tale game puts a sword in your hand instead of a sling, marking the series' biggest gameplay shift yet. The studio says release is 'almost here.'
Dina, Essence Brewer from the new Secrets of Strixhaven set pairs with last year's Jumbo Cactuar to produce one of the most absurd two-card combos Magic: The Gathering has ever seen.
After three hours of hands-on previews, critics confirm IO Interactive's Bond game is a linear stealth-action experience closer to Uncharted than Hitman's open sandboxes.
Icarus Week 230 brings Boar Husbandry, a new Butcher's Cleaver, and several Hammerhead boss balance tweaks to the survival RPG.
Valve's latest Deadlock update takes a scalpel to lifesteal, reworks several items, and buffs Haze's Bullet Dance in ways that should shake up the current meta.
Two Brothers Pictures, the production company behind Fleabag and The Missing, will write and develop an Atomfall TV series alongside Rebellion.
April came and went with no Star Fox announcement, and one conspiracy theory suggests Nintendo fed false information to smoke out its leakers.
Microsoft's gaming revenue dropped 7% in Q3, and new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is staking her reputation on reversing the slide. But the company's own CFO warns things will get worse before they get better.
Blizzard drops another small hotfix for Diablo 4 today, following a busy week of post-launch patches for the Lord of Hatred expansion.
Director Naoki Hamaguchi says the final chapter of the FF7 Remake trilogy is about pushing the RPG experience further, not simply tying up loose ends.
Sony has confirmed its new PlayStation DRM requires a single online check after purchase, not the recurring 30-day check-in that sent players into a spiral. But the CBOMB issue is still hanging.
Paradox ships a third hotfix in quick succession, and the naval transport fix alone makes it one of the more impactful small patches 1.13 has seen.
Bungie's latest TWID keeps things light with a new Community Challenge while the team stays heads down on the June update.
Squad's 10.4 update moves the game to Unreal Engine 5.7 and overhauls gunplay across the board, ADS times, recoil, and sway all got reworked based on community playtesting.
RuneScape's May Month Ahead previews the Dungeoneering Remaster and explains why speedrunners are getting their own separate rollout window.
Sim Update 5 is live for Microsoft Flight Simulator, bringing version 1.7.27.0 to all players today.
Sins of a Solar Empire II's v1.6 update rebuilds the front-end from scratch, brings back a map editor, and adds new defensive abilities across all three factions.
Core Keeper's April community update rounds up a month of fan creativity, new mods, and a teaser for upcoming content.
Six years in the making, California 2 is here, and at roughly 6x the size of its predecessor, it's the largest map Unturned has ever shipped.
Borderlands 4's Version 1.6 update lands today with major changes to Mad Ellie, Nightmare Rifts, enemy behaviour, and the Pearlescent loot chase.
Dune: Awakening's Update 1.4 lands May 19 with new Overland areas, new missions, and the final Season Pass DLC, the Water Wars pack.
The skate. team has dropped a Season 3 retrospective and Season 4 preview, and there's more substance here than your average dev blog.
Paradox follows up yesterday's 1.13.1 with another targeted hotfix, this time zeroing in on naval AI, strait logic, and a handful of Japan-specific bugs.
IO Interactive's upcoming Bond game has a rule: you can't pull a gun unless someone pulls one on you first. It's a bold design choice that defines everything about how 007 First Light plays.
Subnautica 2 hits early access on May 14, but the question of who's actually publishing it is being answered in the most corporate-evasive way possible.
Zach Cregger has never watched a Resident Evil movie. His reboot, starring Austin Abrams as an original character, takes place on the periphery of Resident Evil 2 and borrows camera tricks from Resident Evil Requiem.
Apex Legends' Overclocked season brings a hypermobile new Legend, a brand new way to respawn teammates, and a quality-of-life healing overhaul.
Space Marine 2 has hit 12 million players, and Patch 13 is arriving with a serious amount of content, including cross-class Wargear, a new Operation, and a long-overdue Practice Arena.
Season 3 drops May 12, bringing Battlefield 6's largest map yet alongside Ranked Battle Royale and a raft of combat feel improvements.
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A day after the v0.8.0 career overhaul, Krafton has pushed a hotfix to clean up some of the mess it left behind.
Sony has finally broken its silence on the PS5 and PS4 DRM controversy, confirming that the 30-day timer is a one-time license check tied to refund abuse prevention, not a recurring online requirement.
An unannounced Tales of Eternia Remastered has appeared on the PEGI rating board for Nintendo Switch, continuing Bandai Namco's steady march through the franchise's back catalogue.
428 updates land in Black Desert Online today, with sweeping class changes hitting Warrior, Ranger, Maehwa, Wizard, and more.
The Demolisher has arrived, Endless Mode is finally here, and the tag system just got a serious overhaul. Here's everything in today's Heavy Duty update.
The Finals gets a store refresh this week with the new Orderkeeper set, some very on-the-nose horse puns, and discounts on fan-favourite cosmetics.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds rolls back a mount summon change that clearly wasn't landing with players.
Once Human's latest patch is a small one, but if your Fish Tank has been sitting empty because of a stubborn bug, this one's for you.
A small but important hotfix lands for ARC Raiders, restoring crossplay and patching several crash causes introduced with the Riven Tides update.
The CEO of Monument Valley studio Ustwo Games, who also chairs the board of UK trade body Ukie, says full-time employment is becoming unsustainable and contractors are the future.
Ironmace drops a targeted hotfix to clean up some rough edges at the start of Season 9, with bigger balance changes still to come.
Minion Masters update 2.28 is live today, bringing a wave of balance changes and a new one-copy restriction on six cards.
Rebel Wolves confirmed The Blood of Dawnwalker releases September 3, backed by a story trailer and a third gameplay overview that leans hard into its Witcher 3 DNA.
Strauss Zelnick used a conference appearance to squash two of the biggest anxieties around GTA 6: that it'll slip again, and that it'll cost $100.
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Version 1.6 lands today with a sweeping gear progression overhaul, including Relaying, Retuning Correction, and a developer promise to slow down the gear treadmill.
Let your health drop too low in Blood of Dawnwalker and Coen will lose control, consuming whoever he's talking to. Most NPCs, including quest givers, can die this way.
Strauss Zelnick says Take-Two's teams are "always thinking about" legacy IP like L.A. Noire, and a quiet studio acquisition might explain why.
Warzone's mid-season update brings back Hot Pursuit, introduces Spikes to Buy Stations, and previews a significant anti-cheat requirement tied to TPM and Secure Boot.
Matchmaking goes offline across the entire Age of Empires Definitive Edition lineup on April 30. Plan your sessions accordingly.
Multiplayer goes offline on April 30 for up to two hours. Here's what you need to know before the servers drop.
Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG lists an RTX 5090 as the requirement for native 4K at 60fps, putting the GPU cost alone north of $2,500. The rest of the spec sheet is more reasonable, but that top tier is eye-watering.
PlayStation Plus May 2026 pairs Wuchang: Fallen Feathers with Nine Sols, giving subscribers two very different flavours of punishment alongside EA Sports FC 26.
Marvel Rivals' April 30th patch brings a full Avengers cinematic crossover mode, a Black Cat double-trigger fix, and the return of Chrono-Rush.
Last Epoch's latest patch targets some frustrating bugs, including the Monolith echo errors that were forcing players to leave and re-enter scenes just to progress.
Two seasons in, HoYoverse is finally letting Zenless Zone Zero players take their own protagonist into battle. The Phaethon Pyrois Agent pairs Belle or Wise with an Etheric Other born from the Season 2 story.
OtherSide Entertainment's stealth game Thick as Thieves arrives on Steam May 20 for $4.99, featuring 16 missions across two replayable maps in a solo and co-op campaign.
Garry's Mod's April 2026 update brings two new mountable games, a HUD overhaul, and significant networking changes that should cut server join times.
Paradox drops a focused hotfix for Victoria 3, tackling the AI chaos, building employment bugs, and balance issues that followed the 1.13 launch.
SCUM's latest hotfix tackles a long list of bugs from the previous patch, including DLSS issues, economy exploits, and a nasty crash fix.
The first post-launch patch for Peace for Our Time is here, cleaning up Czech and Slovak bugs and adding three new focus tree entries.
Enshrouded's latest hotfix tackles an endless world loading issue, broken enemy stuns, and a mountain of Adventure sharing menu bugs.
FuturLab's upcoming Star Wars DLC for PowerWash Simulator 2 casts you as a canon cleaning droid during the original trilogy, and it's arriving this summer.
Capcom's developers are all but telling players to finish the campaign this week, strongly hinting the free mini-game drops shortly after Golden Week ends on May 6.
EVE Online's latest update arrives as roughly 6,000 players clash over a Keepstar in one of the game's biggest ongoing conflicts.
A small update rolls out for FragPunk today, with a free cosmetic event kicking off tomorrow for all players.
Week two of Leagues VI gets a round of fixes targeting task completion blockers, bugged pacts, and some long-standing progression frustrations.
Blizzard rolls out hotfixes across WoW: Midnight and Classic, with Warlock and Mage getting the most attention alongside a dungeon timer bump for Algeth'ar Academy.
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inZOI's biggest career overhaul yet lands in v0.8.0, adding new jobs, freelance licenses, team projects, and a lot more.
Patch 1.5.7f1 lands with Historic Building preservation, a built-in benchmark tool, and sweeping fixes to office, commercial, and education demand.
Games Done Quick is finally heading to Europe. The speedrunning marathon will run a three-day event at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne this August.
Strauss Zelnick said "yes" when asked about L.A. Noire's future, then immediately walked it back to "you never know." Fifteen years after the original, fans still have nothing concrete.
Eighteen years of scrappy, ambitious RPGs end with a liquidation hearing and a farewell drink. Spiders is shutting down just six weeks after shipping GreedFall 2.
inZOI's CurseForge mod layer is getting a backend engine migration today, and if your mods suddenly stop working, this is why.
Facepunch's long-awaited Garry's Mod successor s&box launched to mixed Steam reviews, with players overwhelmingly pointing to AI-generated slop flooding the platform's game library.
Two prominent leakers claim Ubisoft has been working on an Assassin's Creed 1 remake, but the studio's current turmoil whether it'll actually ship.
First reactions to the Mortal Kombat 2 movie call it a "stark improvement" over the original, with Karl Urban's Johnny Cage and Adeline Rudolph's Kitana earning particular praise.
After hackers bypassed Denuvo in every single-player game it protected, 2K Games is reportedly forcing players to check in online every 14 days or lose access to games they paid for.
Square Enix dropped a free Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo on Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S with no prior announcement, giving players two full chapters and save carry-over a month before launch.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers earned over €30 million in revenue, but its IP just changed hands for a fraction of that after the original development team was dissolved.
Cache is back in the competitive pool, Dust II gets a newly uncovered jump spot, and a handful of animation and sound fixes round out the latest CS2 update.
Cache returns to Competitive, Casual, Deathmatch, and Retakes, and Dust II's mid box finally gives up a hidden jump spot.
WX-78 gets a full skill tree overhaul in Don't Starve Together's latest update, though Shadow Affinity is temporarily locked while Klei finishes it off.
VRChat's latest update adds Avatar Accessories and Performance Gating, two changes that could shift how players customise and experience avatars.
Offworld Industries goes deep on Squad's Unreal Engine 5.7 transition and what performance changes Update 10.4 will actually bring to your sessions.
A small but targeted hotfix lands for Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion. Here's what Blizzard addressed.
Diablo 4's latest hotfix corrects a loot filter issue that was quietly hiding your highest-rolled items. Here's what changed.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers generated €30M and sold over a million copies, but developer Leenzee still collapsed. Now Digital Bros has scooped up the IP for €4 million.
Arrowhead nearly doubled every mech's health pool in today's free patch, but the timing alongside the $10 Exo Experts Warbond tells a more complicated story.
Director Koshi Nakanishi confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem had its own 'phantom Chapter 2' removed during development, mirroring a similar cut from RE7.
A small but welcome bug fix update lands for Overwatch 2 Legacy today, squashing two specific issues that have been bothering players.
A small but welcome bug fix update lands for Overwatch 2 today, sorting out a scoreboard movement block and Ramattra's ear-splitting ultimate.
Opening Encounters return, new God Blessings arrive, and Riot takes a scalpel to the economy in TFT Patch 17.2.
Coffee Stain's latest Experimental patch targets the crashes and instability that have been dogging the 1.2 build since launch.
Grounded 2's latest patch targets a nasty save-corruption crash and cleans up several Buggy headaches that have been plaguing players since launch.
Patch 35.2.2 keeps Standard mostly intact while Battlegrounds gets a significant overhaul, including Dragon buffs, Elemental nerfs, and a reworked Ship Jumper.
Delta Force's Burst Fest event is live, bringing 2,600 free Delta Tickets, a Tomb Raider collab, and a new upgradable legendary melee weapon.
A new hero, a reworked Morus Isle, and a surprisingly deep Rift Traversal expansion headline NARAKA: BLADEPOINT's latest update.
EA Sports UFC 6 has a release date, two editions, and an expansion pass already locked in. What it doesn't have is any gameplay footage, and the game launches in less than eight weeks.
Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion is sitting at an 84 on Metacritic, but many players spent launch day staring at queue timers instead of playing it.
Universal's Spanish release schedule confirms a new Nintendo and Illumination film for April 12, 2028. All signs point to Donkey Kong finally getting his own movie.
Dead by Daylight's 9.6.0 update overhauls stacked modifier interactions with a new diminishing returns system and lets Killers queue as Survivor while they wait.
Marathon's latest patch adjusts shotgun damage, locks down Cryo Archive shortcuts, and fixes the weekly sponsored kit bug that was blocking Rooks.
Phasmophobia's long-awaited character customisation is finally arriving on May 5th, alongside new animations and some meaningful gameplay changes.
Alchemists get a new crafting system in Hopeforest, kobold arena bounties get a fairness pass, and a handful of quality-of-life fixes round out today's update.
Dune: Awakening's latest patch splits the Deep Desert into dedicated PvE and PvP instances and cleans up some long-standing Testing Station frustrations.
Skirmish gets a competitive overhaul, Ascent swaps in for Bind, and Premier returns for PC players in VALORANT's latest update.
Update 1.5.4 is live for EA SPORTS FC 26, addressing Career Mode save issues, Clubs menu bugs, and a frame rate problem that was hitting performance after the 45th minute.
Facepunch's first update since s&box officially launched on Steam addresses crashes, video recording, and Linux support.
Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirms the company is 'hard at work' on Steam Deck 2, but won't settle for anything less than a generational performance leap over the original.
Creative Assembly has pushed a Mod Manager update focused on performance and usability, with faster load times and cleaner mod ordering for players running large libraries.
A small but tidy housekeeping patch for Mechabellum lands today, fixing data anomalies and a couple of cosmetic display errors.
FFXIV's Patch 7.5 Trail to the Heavens is live today, bringing new main scenario quests, the Unmaking trial, and some long-overdue housing upgrades.
The Riven Tides update is live, bringing ARC Raiders' first new map since launch alongside sweeping weapon economy changes and some long-overdue balance work.
Patch 6.2.2 doubles the Exo Suit's health pool and overhauls enemy durable damage across all three factions. Here's what changed.
Where Winds Meet's April 30 update restructures Arena matchmaking into four regional battlegroups and tightens up Guild War scheduling ahead of the journey to Qinchuan.
Season 9 is live in Dark and Darker, bringing a full reset, a revamped Inferno dungeon, new class skills, and a two-week Solo Self Found event before the marketplace opens.
RuneScape's latest update cleans up combat visuals, brings back Double XP from May 1st, and quietly removes some integrity-breaking store items for good.
The original Star Fox puppets, used for the SNES game's box art and Japanese promos, were destroyed by the same studio that would later make Godzilla Minus One. Natural rubber and open air don't mix.
Limited Run Games is going back to the Rugrats well again, bundling six PS1, N64, and Game Boy-era titles into one collection. It launches digitally on May 15 with physical pre-orders starting May 1.
Peter Berg called Call of Duty players pathetic and weak in a 2013 interview. Now he's directing the franchise's first movie for Paramount.
Limited Run Games is packaging six Rugrats titles spanning the PS1, N64, Game Boy, and GBA eras into one collection, complete with save-anywhere and rewind features. Digital launch is May 15, with physical pre-orders opening May 1.
Valve's new Steam Controller arrives May 4, beating the Steam Machine to market for the simplest reason imaginable: there's no RAM inside it.
During a stage Q&A at FFXIV Fan Fest 2026, a fan unknowingly guessed the weapon for one of Evercold's new jobs right in front of director Naoki Yoshida. He confirmed it happened, then refused to say which one.
Captain Majima sails into Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds tomorrow as a free DLC character, bringing his pirate ship kart, a festival event, and a Steam free weekend in tow.
More than 100 Magic: The Gathering Arena developers have filed to unionize with the CWA, giving Hasbro until May 1 to voluntarily recognize the union or face an NLRB election.
Multiple hands-on previews of Supermassive's next Dark Pictures game paint a picture of a studio chasing survival horror mechanics it hasn't earned, at the cost of the cinematic identity that made its games worth playing.
EA Sports UFC 6 isn't out until June, but the $100 Ultimate Edition already bundles two paid expansions stretching into summer 2027. That's a lot of confidence in a game nobody's played yet.
Christopher Koji Fox's AI-generated images during a Fan Fest lyrics panel killed the room's energy and sparked immediate backlash online.
Dead by Daylight's next update tweaks Match Details so Survivors learn the Killer's identity at a more natural point in the match, not before anything has even happened.
Update 1.13 and The Great Wave arrive tomorrow, and Paradox has dropped a set of breakdown videos today to walk players through what's coming.
Adventure of Samsara peaked at 15 concurrent Steam players after launching the same day as Hollow Knight: Silksong. Atari just shipped a major 2.0 update to give it a second life.
Multiple hands-on previews of Supermassive's Directive 8020 landed today, and they all circle the same concern: a game inspired by The Thing can't afford a monster that looks like a mugger in a hoodie.
A former Naughty Dog artist says the studio was "pretty split" on killing Joel in The Last of Us Part 2, confirming the most controversial moment in modern gaming was divisive long before fans got their hands on it.
Conan Exiles drops a small but important hotfix today, bringing character transfers back online ahead of the Enhanced version upgrade.
A new Metroidvania from developer Cyclos draws on Chinese underworld mythology, and early hands-on impressions suggest it could be something special.
Nintendo is reportedly shopping a Metroid movie pitch, and Sony Pictures and Universal are locked in a bidding war to produce it. Both studios want live action.
The Japanese line いらない means "I don't need it." The English localization of Yunyun Syndrome turned it into "i'd cut my uterus out if i cld." Over 60 lines like this have now been corrected.
Darktide's Hotfix 1.11.5 is rolling out today with talent fixes for the Zealot, Veteran, and Ogryn, plus an AMD FSR overhaul aimed at cutting GPU crash rates.
Once Human's latest patch tackles an invincibility exploit, a Hardcore Mode blocker, and a body type bug that's been frustrating players since the appearance system launched.
The First Descendant's next update is locked in for April 29, and it's bringing the curtain down on Onslaught Mode (Beta).
A datamine of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves build 2.0.1 has uncovered references to 12 new fighters, including a Fist of the North Star crossover, suggesting SNK is planning content through 2029.
Mecha BREAK's April 28 patch introduces a new 6v6 team deathmatch mode, Mod Box II drops in Operation STORM, and fixes for some frustrating reload bugs.
No trailer cycle, no countdown timer, no months of teasing. FromSoftware and Bandai Namco just dropped a Dark Souls 2 remaster onto Steam without warning.
Justin Briner read Sykkuno's apology statement in a whiny, Deku-adjacent voice. He deleted the post, but the internet didn't forget.
Mouse: P.I. For Hire and Pragmata both launched strong on the Switch 2 eShop this week, but neither could dethrone Pokemon Pokopia from the top spot.
Splatoon Raiders ditches competitive multiplayer for a single-player treasure hunt across the Spirhalite Islands. Preorders are live now for the Switch 2 exclusive, launching July 23.
Luke Skywalker joins the roster, every Legend gets Super Stances, and Guilds Phase 3 finally goes live in Brawlhalla's biggest patch in months.
Creative Assembly dropped the first teaser for the Alien: Isolation sequel on Alien Day 2026, and its title and imagery suggest the save station won't protect you this time.
Asha Sharma has slashed Game Pass prices and killed the "This Is An Xbox" branding, but on the question that matters most to console owners, she's still dodging.
A 25-second teaser called 'False Sense of Security' just appeared on the Alien: Isolation YouTube channel, and it features the one object every fan of the original will instantly recognise.
A YouTube channel broke embargo on Valve's new Steam Controller, revealing a $99 price tag before the video was pulled. The internet, predictably, saved the receipts.
Mouse: P.I. For Hire and Pragmata both debuted strong on the Switch 2 eShop this week, but neither could dethrone Pokemon Pokopia from the top spot.
The Season 4 trailer for Strange New Worlds dropped at CCXP Mexico with a July 23 premiere date, a Kirk-Spock hug, and what appears to be a full-blown dinosaur on the Enterprise.
Six months after launch, Arc Raiders is finally getting its first new map with the Riven Tides update on April 28, alongside a new large-scale enemy and a reworked Trials system.
South Korea's prime minister publicly congratulated Pearl Abyss on Crimson Desert's record-breaking sales, pledging government support for the country's gaming industry.
NIS America has confirmed Disgaea Mayhem for July 23, and it's not a tactics game. The series is going full action RPG, and that's a bigger deal than the date itself.
Yacht Club Games has confirmed that Mina the Hollower is complete and in the submission process. For a studio that publicly called this game its make-or-break moment, that's a big milestone.
Capcom's latest survival horror hit cleared 7 million copies in under two months, and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
An upcoming anime about a salaryman and a supermarket cashier bonding over smoke breaks might be the most refreshing romance premise of the year.
FuRyu's latest dark action roguelike lets you collect skill cards and combine them into poker hands for stronger attacks. CRYMELIGHT launches November 5 for PS5, Switch 2, and PC.
Fortnite's player count may be sliding, but Chapter 7 Season 2's four-shotgun loot pool is delivering the most interesting close-range combat the game has seen in years.
Sega's new initiative spotlights NiGHTS, OutRun, Streets of Rage, and six more classic IPs, but the plan isn't to make new games. It's transmedia: film, music, fashion, and whatever else fits the brand.
Naoki Yoshida told FFXIV players at Fan Fest to start saving for a PS5. With the cheapest model now $600, that's a bitter pill for anyone still on last-gen hardware.
Housemarque's follow-up to Returnal is earning near-universal praise from critics, with scores high enough to place it among the best-reviewed games of the year.
American McGee shared the story of how he preserved Alice: Madness Returns' creative vision by responding to EA's 'make things more sexy' request in the most defiant way possible.
HandicapableSean, the streamer who went viral for beating Elden Ring bosses with his chin, is back on Twitch after a two-year absence. His condition has worsened, so now he's playing Super Mario 64 with his eyes.
Veteran illustrator Yoshio Nishimura spent more than six years hand-drawing over 300 illustrations for Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, a digital gamebook RPG launching on Steam this July.
Bethesda is taking Fallout 76 offline on April 28 to fix a status bar bug that's been showing players afflicted by conditions they don't actually have.
Blizzard rolls out hotfixes across WoW: Midnight and Classic, with Marksmanship Hunter taking a significant PvP hit and Unholy Death Knight getting some structural rework.
WoW's patch 12.0.5 launched with broken bonus rolls, an exploitable prop hunt mode, a busted housing system, and an unkillable raid boss. Blizzard says it will "do better," but players are asking whether the studio's eight-week patch cadence is the real problem.
Someone at Steam or Fuse Games jumped the gun, briefly posting an October 6 release date and deluxe edition details for Star Wars: Galactic Racer before pulling them down.
Wabisabi SushiDerby, a sushi racing sim where your racer can be devoured by a hungry customer mid-race, launches on Nintendo Switch this July.
Multiple leaked clips from the Elden Ring film set have surfaced this week, revealing everything from the Dung Eater's public execution to a bustling pre-Shattering marketplace. A24's most expensive production is becoming very hard to keep under wraps.
Mike Ybarra, former Blizzard boss and Xbox corporate VP, says World of Warcraft will 'continue to decline' without a firm reset. His comments land as Blizzard scrambles to fix one of the worst patches in recent memory.
A fighting game tie-in looking better than its source material? That's the conversation happening around Invincible VS after its story trailer dropped this week.
With Spider-Man 2's leaked budget hitting $300 million, former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida says cutting PC releases would make funding future blockbusters extremely difficult.
Noah Hawley's vision for the Far Cry TV series doesn't include any of the games' stories, and his reasoning is going to irritate a lot of people.
When a developer has to publicly promise that blood in a pirate game won't be locked behind a paywall, something has gone deeply wrong with how players perceive your company.
The Cryo nation launches August 12, bringing trains, visual overhauls, and the payoff to six years of Archon quest buildup.
Valve is giving developers real framerate charts and player disagreement surveys so they can see exactly when a patch tanks their Steam Deck performance.
Former Nintendo employees believe the company's famous strategy of stockpiling finished games may not survive the realities of Switch 2 development, leaving Nintendo under release pressure it hasn't faced in years.
Community Crunch 504 teases the Tidepup, a shoulder companion that evolves based on how you play, and confirms cave entrance reworks for Lost Colony PvP.
WX-78 gets a full skill tree overhaul in Don't Starve Together's latest update, though console players will have to wait a few extra days for the Shadow Affinity branch.
inZOI's April 29th update is built around an Unreal Engine 5.6 migration, and you'll need to reset your graphics settings once it lands.
Valve has pushed a CS2 update focused on Animgraph 2 animation fixes and a handful of miscellaneous bug patches, including a crash that was hitting players on startup.
Christopher McQuarrie and Michael B. Jordan are attached to a Battlefield movie currently being pitched to studios, putting the franchise on a collision course with Paramount's Call of Duty film.
Square Enix is bringing FFXIV to Switch 2 in August, but Nintendo is requiring a separate subscription to play. Existing subscribers get 50% off, but that's still a second bill for a game you already pay for.
Mega Crit has pulled data from millions of Slay the Spire 2 runs and found the Doormaker, the boss players despise most, actually kills fewer runs than any other Act 3 boss.
A new Game Pass tier discovered in Discord's code offers 50+ games and Xbox Rewards, but caps cloud gaming at a strict 10 hours a month.
Larian's publishing director shared a photo of a framed news article about BG3 shaking Steam's servers, then said he hopes Divinity will "absolutely demolish it next time."
HoYoverse's action gacha game is finally heading to Steam almost two years after its original launch, and it's about time.
Eight million copies, every major Game of the Year award, and a free anniversary update with new haircuts. Sandfall Interactive's RPG has had one hell of a first year.
Sega launched its Sega Universe initiative with nine legacy IPs getting the spotlight, from OutRun to NiGHTS. But the company is being very careful not to promise actual games.
Chain-CC Protection goes live, Winter Soldier loses his stun toolkit, and Ultron's Ultimate doubles its radius in Marvel Rivals' latest balance pass.
Crimson Desert's second hotfix in two days lands on Steam PC, cleaning up UI bugs, horse gear dye, and a nasty difficulty setting glitch.
PAYDAY 3's 3.4.1 hotfix cleans up progression blocks, a pair of crashes, and a missing UI setting that slipped through Update 3.4 just days ago.
A new Game Pass tier called Starter Edition has leaked via Discord datamining, bundling 50+ games and cloud streaming into the existing $9.99 Nitro subscription.
Nagoshi Studio has wiped its YouTube channel and every Gang of Dragon trailer from the internet. With NetEase's funding drying up in May and no new backer in sight, the Yakuza creator's ambitious successor looks all but dead.
Vertigo Games is bringing its 2023 VR reimagining of The 7th Guest to flat screens on June 4, and existing VR owners don't have to pay a penny.
After going silent for over a year, Golf With Your Friends 2 popped back up at the ID@Xbox Showcase with a Fall 2026 release window and full cross-platform play.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is 2026's highest-grossing film with $756 million worldwide, yet critics gave it a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes. Miyamoto finds the disconnect baffling and plans to make the movie's changes to Peach's backstory canon in future games.
Week 229 is all about atmosphere, with overhauled waterfalls, returning Storm Walls, and environmental wisp effects back in the Arctic and Desert.
Yesterday's ID@Xbox showcase packed over 20 indie reveals into 50 minutes, but the real headline is 10 brand-new Game Pass confirmations spanning extraction RPGs, co-op roguelikes, and a Souls-like platformer.
Blizzard's associate game director admits at least one item in Lord of Hatred is "basically useless" by design, and the Horadric Cube is the reason why.
Blizzard announced subscription price increases for World of Warcraft in the UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, all while patch 12.0.5 remains a mess and housing sits disabled in multiple regions.
Slay the Spire 2's latest beta patch reworks two Ironclad cards, buffs Neow's Fury so it actually lets you choose your cards, and starts nudging lower Ascensions toward being more accessible.
A balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2, adjusting Roadhog, Sombra, and a swathe of Stadium heroes whose win rates drifted further than Blizzard intended.
A balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2, targeting win rate outliers from Season 2's start and reining in some Stadium builds that have gotten out of hand.
A fan theory dating back to Super Mario Galaxy's 2007 launch is now officially part of the Mario universe, and Miyamoto wants it to stay that way.
Take-Two's Q4 earnings call has been pushed back a week from its usual window, and the GTA 6 community thinks it knows exactly why.
Pokemon TCG Pocket has been running for over a year and a half, and somehow Vaporeon never had an ex card until now. Pulsing Aura fixes that when it drops on April 27.
Update 174992 is mostly diagnostic groundwork for Xbox Console players, but the team's transparency about what's coming next is the real story here.
Blizzard drops a pre-expansion patch that reshapes every Gem in the game and cleans up a long list of bugs before Lord of Hatred arrives.
Supergiant has dropped another hotfix for Hades II, targeting Dream Dive economy, a handful of boon interaction bugs, and one progression-blocking Hermes issue.
Bungie's keeping it light this week with a new Community Challenge, while the team stays heads-down on the June update.
Square Enix never attempted a Switch port of Final Fantasy VII Remake, but a modder with a soldering iron and a dream just made it happen anyway.
Ben and Gwen Tennyson hit the Fortnite Item Shop on April 24 with Heatblast, Alien X, and Anodite transformation styles that actually do the source material justice.
Poncle's Vampire Survivors deckbuilding spin-off has over 4,000 reviews with a 98% positive rating, and it's only been out for two days.
RuneScape's quarterly player survey results are live, alongside a detailed breakdown of how the May Double XP event is being restructured as part of the Road to Restoration.
Bellwright hits its second anniversary and Donkey Crew is marking it with a sweeping update that touches everything from early-game narrative to NPC behaviour.
Unturned's latest patch tightens up sentry logic, squashes two race conditions, and corrects a Hanuberry Seed harvesting bug that was handing out the wrong item.
A same-day hotfix follows 1.04.00, tackling crashes, a stamina recovery exploit, and a frustrating mount summoning bug.
Embark has pushed a small hotfix for The Finals today, restoring achievements after a bug took them offline following the 10.4.0 update.
SCUM's April update brings two new weapons, a lighting overhaul that actually makes bunkers scary, and a long-overdue inventory rework.
Victoria 3's biggest naval overhaul yet arrives April 28 alongside The Great Wave DLC, and the preliminary changelog is already substantial.
Remedy has shadow-dropped Control Ultimate Edition on iOS with touch controls, reworked UI, and ray tracing for under five dollars. This might be the best mobile game deal in years.
Shigeru Miyamoto says the Super Mario Galaxy Movie's reveal that Peach and Rosalina are sisters is now canon for future Mario games, a rare case of a film permanently rewriting game lore.
Paradox has locked in May 6th for Europa Universalis V's Fate of the Phoenix expansion and the free 1.2 Echinades Update, and the scope of what's coming is hard to ignore.
Delta Force's latest update lands today with no downtime, tackling crashes, broken vehicle limits, and some long-overdue Warfare fixes.
97 changes land in Black Desert Online today, headlined by a brutal new Altar of Blood tier and a long-overdue fix to how Extra AP is displayed in your stats.
Stellaris's 4.4 Pegasus update is giving the long-neglected Situation Log a full redesign, plus a cleaner Megastructures UI.
Mountain's Smoke Bomb and Gun-launched Missile get reined in as players find their cost-effectiveness outpacing other Techs.
The Finals 10.4.0 is a lighter week, but the Respec Order feedback window has officially closed and Embark is ready to talk about what comes next.
Jagex rolls out the first round of Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts tweaks, with pact rebalancing, retroactive task fixes, and a pile of relic corrections.
Update 1.69 pairs a Chinese electric hypercar that hits 62 mph in 2.36 seconds with a tiny French hatchback from 1993. Only Gran Turismo.
Infinity Nikki's Version 2.5 update drops today, adding a new zone called the Boneyard where you can summon dragon bones and ride them like a surfboard. It also closes out the Itzaland Main Quest and adds new Ability Outfits, banners, and combat challenges.
Housing disabled, prop hunt ruined by x-ray vision, bonus rolls not working, a raid boss made unkillable, and players who hide too well getting punished. WoW's 12.0.5 patch is a disaster across the board.
A small but useful hotfix lands for CK3, fixing the out-of-sync multiplayer errors and over-eager Lunatic events that slipped through the 1.19 Scribe update.
Crimson Desert's Equipment Manual has become the game's most feared enemy, hijacking boss fights and forcing players to flip through its pages while they die.
Alterra, Ubisoft Montreal's unannounced Animal Crossing and Minecraft-inspired life sim, has been cancelled after nearly three years of development. Staff were sent home and reassigned to other projects.
Farlight 84's Shadow Academy season is live, bringing sweeping hero and weapon rebalances alongside a full cosmetic refresh.
Difficulty settings, bird pets, and a massive housing storage overhaul headline Crimson Desert's latest update.
Back-end API leaks have surfaced codenames for modular Game Pass packages, and the list of potential add-ons goes way beyond games.
Microsoft slashed Game Pass prices and pulled Call of Duty from day-one launches. Reports now suggest a 'pick your own plan' model is in the works, and it could reshape the entire subscription.
Kiki Wolfkill, who oversaw Xbox's film and TV division and helped shepherd the Halo series and Fallout TV adaptation, has departed Microsoft after 28 years.
A small but focused CS2 update lands, tidying up ledge movement, viewmodel animations, and trade offer limits.
IO Interactive isn't hiding its Hitman influence. 007 First Light's new Tac-Sim mode is Escalation Contracts with a tuxedo on, and I'm completely fine with that.
The original Ecco the Dolphin creator and development team have reunited after 30 years to deliver remasters of the first two games alongside a completely new entry in the series.
Owlcat Games' The Expanse: Osiris Reborn just entered closed beta, and hands-on previews are drawing strong Mass Effect comparisons across the board. After years of failed spiritual successors, this one might actually stick.
Balance of Performance tweaks hit nearly every GT class, the Nissan GTP ZXT gets a significant physics rework, and a handful of annoying UI bugs finally get the axe.
Two Nintendo customers have filed a class action lawsuit claiming Nintendo stands to collect tariff costs twice: once from consumers through price hikes, and again from the U.S. government through refunds.
Vampire Survivors has hit 27 million players, and developer Poncle is reinvesting that success into 15 new projects, two new studios, and a licensing engine for IP collaborations.
Seven years since Crafted World, Yoshi's Switch 2 debut drops the run-to-the-right formula entirely in favour of creature discovery and systemic puzzles.
Dracula's loose in New York and there's a free Emma Frost costume on the table, Marvel Rivals' April 23rd patch has a bit of everything.
PEAK's latest patch tackles a rope performance issue that was causing hitching, restores cold nights to Ascent 5+, and cleans up a handful of badge and achievement bugs.
Last Epoch's latest patch fixes minion targeting, doubles down on Weaver Idol values, and reins in a few bosses that were either too lethal or not lethal enough.
Paradox Mods is adding playset sharing and parallel downloads in its first dev diary update for Cities: Skylines II.
Behaviour Interactive has cut more jobs, with at least one senior Dead by Daylight animator confirming they were affected. This comes just weeks after the studio spent money acquiring The Fun Pimps.
The same Reddit user who nailed Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui's SF6 appearances now claims Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart is part of the Year 4 roster. Multiple sources appear to back it up.
Valve has pushed a CS2 update focused on recoil camera feel and aim punch consistency, with the changes explicitly targeting CS:GO parity.
Valve has pushed a small but meaningful CS2 update, bringing recoil camera behaviour closer to CS:GO while fixing several Animgraph 2 animation issues.
FragPunk's April 22nd update is live, kicking off a food-themed event week with login rewards, limited-time modes, and new weapon skins dropping April 23rd.
Seaborne Village Raids are live in the War Sails beta, letting you hit coastal villages directly from the water with new amphibious raid missions and 16 reworked scenes.
Once Human's 2.3.7 update splits RaidZone into three separate modes, adds a mimic enemy that disguises itself as loot crates, and kicks off the limited-time Starfire Festival.
Xbox's next-gen VP had to publicly confirm that Project Helix is a first-party console after leaker claims about third-party chip licensing spiraled into speculation that Microsoft was getting out of the hardware business entirely.
StarRupture's first post-Update 1 hotfix is here, tackling turret logic failures, co-op desync, and a progression rollback that should save some headaches for returning players.
Two new exosuits, a lock-on missile pistol, and a disposable multi-barrel machine gun headline Helldivers 2's Exo Experts Warbond, arriving April 28.
Poncle's Vampire Survivors spin-off swaps auto-shooting for card-driven dungeon crawling, and critics are calling it one of the best deckbuilders in years. It's $10, or free on Game Pass.
MapleStory turns 21 with a full campus experience, from Pink Bean's guided tour to Monster Elections and a Punch King minigame.
Blizzard's 12.0.5 update pushes the Midnight story forward with new open-world activities, a gear upgrade system, and a hide-and-seek mini-game in Silvermoon City.
Fallout 76's April patch overhauls how armor condition damage works and fixes a long list of C.A.M.P. and event bugs.
Aion 2, the sequel to the 2008 MMO that once boasted over 7 million monthly subscribers, is finally heading west with a PC-native global release on Steam later this year.
Microsoft is cutting Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, but the trade-off is losing day-one access to Call of Duty. New entries will arrive about a year after launch instead.
Blizzard has dropped a full developer update for the Lord of Hatred expansion, covering everything from new Class Skill Trees to the returning Horadric Cube.
Firaxis has pushed a targeted hotfix for Steam Mac players, addressing crashes, multiplayer desyncs, and a Military Aid bug that was silently breaking late-game diplomacy.
Patch 1.18 lands today with sweeping AI overhauls, submarine detection reworks, and a mountain of bug fixes, here's what changed.
Ubisoft opened its teaser with "gaming's worst kept secret." Two days later, the trailer leaked anyway. At this point, the leaks are the marketing.
Forty Build a Rocket Boy employees signed a collective grievance after discovering surveillance software had been secretly installed on their work devices, allegedly recording keystrokes, screen activity, and microphone audio in their own homes.
The voice behind Joel, Indiana Jones, and Booker DeWitt wants to move behind the camera and build his own studio. He's already in early conversations about it.
Blizzard has activated the Joyous Journeys experience buff in Mists of Pandaria Classic, giving players a 50% XP boost up to level 90 until the next content update.
Enshrouded's Hotfix #37 is a targeted client-side patch fixing a single bug tied to the new Adventure Sharing feature.
Bungie's second WSTR nerf arrives alongside economy changes and a fix for the grenade-at-your-own-feet UI problem.
Nintendo has confirmed Splatoon Raiders launches exclusively on Switch 2 on July 23, 2026, and it's entirely single-player focused. A Splatoon game with no competitive multiplayer is a bigger swing than it sounds.
The anime giant behind Dragon Ball and One Piece is entering the games industry with a new publishing label, but its debut lineup will feature entirely original IP instead of its iconic franchises.
Brighter Shores adds Bonewright bounties today, letting players help a group of very indecisive goblins settle an argument about their mechanical creation.
The restocker system has been rebuilt from scratch in Patch 1.2.8, alongside a Quick Save feature and a wave of long-overdue bug fixes.
Hello Games drops a focused bug-fix patch for the Xeno Arena update, tackling soft-locks, cooldown exploits, and widescreen UI issues.
Patch 7.2.1 for Total War: Warhammer III is a version number adjustment to keep crossplay in sync across platforms, nothing more, nothing less.
PAYDAY 3's Update 3.4 lands with a reworked No Rest for the Wicked heist, mid-air vaulting, and a substantial round of bug fixes across nearly every heist in the game.
Fishing arrives in RuneScape: Dragonwilds alongside three new quests, Masterwork weapon special attacks, and a welcome fix to Black Metal drop rates.
Sony's age verification push now has a hard deadline. PS5 players in the UK and Ireland must verify by June or lose access to voice chat, messaging, and more.
An estimated 140,000 PS5 copies and a weak release window were enough to put Starfield back on top of US sales charts for the first time in nearly three years.
A small but necessary hotfix lands for ARC Raiders today, squashing a PS5 crash and closing a duplication glitch before they cause any more damage.
Patch 1.3.26 is scheduled for April 23 across Steam, Xbox, and PS5, bringing Ancestors Inventory expansion and content improvements.
The Tropico 6 developers are building a pirate kingdom sim with turn-based naval combat, kraken hunts, and over 50 production chains. Corsair Cove is heading to PC later this year.
Apple's next CEO isn't a services guy or a software visionary. He's the hardware engineer who shaped the products millions of gamers actually use every day.
Sony is telling PlayStation users to verify their age or lose access to voice chat, messages, parties, and even Discord integration. The rollout starts in the UK and Ireland, with global expansion planned later this year.
Paradox has revealed Crusader Kings III's Chapter Five, and the headline feature is wild: you can finally play as the Pope and excommunicate your rivals. A second expansion adds merchant republics with trade routes and monopolies.
Sony is now prompting PS5 users to scan their face, upload government ID, or verify a phone number just to keep using party chat and messages.
After 15 years and a market value jump from $350 billion to $4 trillion, Tim Cook is handing Apple's CEO role to hardware engineering chief John Ternus.
Neverness to Everness is getting Persona 5 music at launch, but Joker and the Phantom Thieves are staying home. It's a walkman-and-car-radio-only deal.
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%.
The Age 1000 project is officially Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, and it carries the last creative contributions of series creator Akira Toriyama.
A 1930s cartoon noir FPS just outsold Pragmata, Mario Kart World, and nearly every Nintendo first-party title on the Switch 2 eShop. Mouse: P.I. For Hire's debut is one of the most impressive indie showings on the platform yet.
Path of Exile 2's latest patch is live today. Here's what changed in 0.4.0j.
Path of Exile's 3.28.0g patch lands today alongside a limited-time weekend sale on Hideouts and Pets microtransactions.
The Internet Archive hosts over 200 issues of Byte Magazine, the publication that grew up alongside personal computing itself. It's a free, browsable time capsule stretching back to 1975.
No announcement, no marketing push. Nintendo just slipped a full pop-up store into a London Argos, and a TikTok video is the only reason anyone knows about it.
Capcom's long-awaited sci-fi adventure hit the Switch 2 eShop running, debuting at #3 overall with its Deluxe Edition also cracking the top 10.
Kraken Express's pirate survival-crafter Windrose has hit 1 million copies sold in under a week, peaking at 200,000 concurrent players on Steam.
Want FFXIV's exclusive Eat Chicken emote? You'll need to buy a Jollibee chicken bucket or a Moogle hoodie to get it.
The WSTR has been Marathon's undisputed king of close-range combat since launch. One nerf wasn't enough, and now Bungie is going back for round two.
Hotta Studio's supernatural open-world RPG launches worldwide on April 29 with a surprising music collaboration that pulls tracks from Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5: The Phantom X.
Battlefield Studios has laid out its 2026 plan for BF6: seven new maps, naval combat, Wake Island, and a proper server browser. It took four months, but the roadmap is stacked.
Premium subscribers are paying top dollar for Sony's highest PS Plus tier. In April 2026, their exclusive bonus is a single PS2 RPG: Wild Arms 4.
Asha Sharma reportedly called Game Pass 'too expensive' and is floating ideas like a first-party-only tier and removing Call of Duty from day one. None of it is a plan. That's the problem.
Mega Crit shared player stats from 145 million runs and a deliberately dateless roadmap for Slay the Spire 2, revealing that nearly half of all players chose to eat the baby bird egg instead of hatching it.
The Tywin Lannister actor is reportedly in negotiations to play the father of Two-Face in Matt Reeves' Batman sequel, rounding out a Dent family that already includes Sebastian Stan and Scarlett Johansson.
Push Square's latest reader poll shows a quarter of voters aren't interested in a single game from April's PS Plus Extra lineup, and the Premium tier fares even worse.
If you're coming from Animal Crossing and expecting to fast-forward your way through Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Nintendo has a nasty surprise waiting for you.
Xbox's week of April 20-24 is stacked with over 30 new releases, from Double Fine's Kiln to the long-awaited console launch of Albion Online.
After a year behind bars, the solo developer of cult immersive sim Fortune's Run is free, back at work, and apparently wrote a whole second game in C++ on paper while locked up.
If you're coming to Tomodachi Life from Animal Crossing, leave the clock manipulation at the door. Nintendo's newest life sim actively punishes time travelers.
Respawn rolled back yesterday's bug fix and reissued it, this time, Battlepass progress beyond level 60 and challenge tracking should actually work.
Blue Dot Games, founded by members of the Rising Storm 2: Vietnam dev team, is bringing its Cold War-era 40v40 tactical shooter '83 to Steam Early Access on April 23.
BAFTA removed an indie game's trailer from its Games Awards ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about guest wellbeing. The game is about surviving childhood abuse, and its developer says the irony is devastating.
The original Mega Man designer just confirmed what some fans long suspected: the Robot Masters drew inspiration from Marvel and DC superheroes.
Season Echo arrives April 21 with new Operator Morse, the M82 sniper rifle, and a sweeping ammo rework that could reshape the Operations meta.
CI Games just shipped a second hotfix for Lords of the Fallen that addresses the exact same co-op bugs it claimed to fix last week. The patch notes are virtually identical.
Capcom's risky new IP launched to a 97% positive English review score on Steam, putting it within striking distance of the publisher's crown jewel.
The Higgs actor told GamesRadar+ he'd understand if Kojima never returned to Death Stranding, praising the director's restless creativity as OD and Physint take shape.
Crimson Desert launched with controls so bad its developer's stock dropped 30%. Three patches in four days turned the whole thing around.
Wolfgang Krauser arrives in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves on April 24 as a Season 2 DLC character, bringing his Emperor of Darkness persona and a grudge against Terry Bogard. A major first anniversary update drops the same day.
The remake of one of the most beloved JRPGs ever made has a date. Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter arrives September 17 on all platforms.
Erika Ishii revealed that Ghost of Yotei's emotional wolf-petting scene was motion captured with Sucker Punch's director of cinematics on his hands and knees, getting his head patted.
Not a single Member of European Parliament spoke against the Stop Killing Games initiative during its first public hearing. The EU Commission now has until July to respond.
Scottish actor Alexander Morton, beloved for voicing the gravel-voiced dwarf Zoltan Chivay in The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3, has passed away at 81.
Valve has pushed another Animgraph 2 beta update for Counter-Strike 2, tightening up movement animations and fixing a HE grenade throwback.
Valve's latest CS2 beta patch is all about Animgraph 2, tidying up animation issues that have been bugging players in the opt-in build.
Quarter Up publicly owned the rage quit epidemic that plagued Invincible VS's open beta, breaking down exactly what went wrong and what's changing before the April 30 launch.
Mouse: P.I. For Hire nails its 1930s cartoon aesthetic, but after ten hours the gorgeous visuals are papering over repetitive enemies, spongy combat, and a game that keeps reminding you how much more there is to slog through.
Console Sims players just got the Marketplace and its Moola currency, while EA quietly walks back the same system on PC. The contradiction is hard to ignore.
Game Director Joe Ziegler has posted a direct update on the WSTR's dominance, and a nerf is coming Tuesday, April 21.
A quick balance hotfix lands for Overwatch 2 Legacy, targeting new damage hero Sierra just days after her Season 2 debut.
Sierra gets a significant buff just three days after launch, with weapon damage up and her Anchor Drone now far more survivable.
Iron Galaxy Studios has cut up to 90 staff in its second round of layoffs since early 2025, and this time the studio isn't calling it a last resort. It's calling it the new normal.
Daniel Vávra celebrates Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Gayming Awards nominations while attacking other games for doing the exact same thing he did.
A month of beta patches just hit the main branch of Slay the Spire 2, and the biggest talking point is a deliberate crackdown on infinite combos alongside sweeping class reworks.
Bethesda is taking Fallout 76 offline on April 21 for a scheduled update. Details are slim, but here's the heads-up.
Iron Banner returns, Guardian Games Community Challenges continue, and Update 9.5.6.2 is live in Destiny 2.
After a year of convention questions, Game Awards nominations, and admitting he felt like a "total fraud," Daredevil actor Charlie Cox has finally booted up Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He made it through the opening. He's not very good.
John Wick director David Leitch says Netflix is fully committed to the Gears of War movie, with a script in great shape and The Coalition fired up alongside E-Day's release.
Before it became a gritty cover-based looter shooter, The Division was a WoW-style MMO with hotbars, cartoonish visuals, and a dog companion. Footage from a never-before-seen prototype tells the whole bizarre story.
Embark Studios rolls back the goo break timing change from 10.3 after it introduced some broken interactions, with a fix promised for update 10.6.
Enshrouded's next major update lands April 21st, and is Adventure Sharing, a long-requested feature for the game's building community.
Open Beta III brings sweeping naval rebalancing to Hearts of Iron IV, with fuel costs, engine prices, and submarine visibility all getting a significant pass.
A leaked presentation reportedly confirms Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced won't be an RPG, ditching the level-gating and gear bloat that's defined the series since Origins.
Playground Games is getting cinematic backup from the team behind Diablo and Overwatch's legendary cutscenes. For a studio making its first RPG, that's a smart call.
Hotfix 1.3.25c targets crashes and Onslaught Mode bugs introduced by yesterday's update, with console patches still on the way.
RuneFest is returning in October 2026 for RuneScape's 25th anniversary, with tickets going live on April 30th.
A small server-side hotfix corrects two bugs introduced or persisting after Patch 1.3.19, including a cooldown fix for Dia's Avalanche skill.
Housemarque detailed Saros' PS5 Pro enhancements, including PSSR 2 support and higher base render resolution. It's the strongest case yet for Sony's pricier console.
Mouse P.I. For Hire launched yesterday across every major platform, bringing a hand-drawn 1930s noir FPS with boomer shooter DNA to PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, and PC.
A small studio just shipped the Black Flag spiritual successor that Skull & Bones was supposed to be, and it's a Steam hit weeks before Ubisoft's own remake arrives.
A small but clean patch for Schedule I, tidying up the community vote panel and making the big sprinkler easier to find.
A small hotfix lands the day after Update 1.3.25, bringing two new cosmetic bundles to the Shop.
Less than three months away. That's the reported timeline for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, with a July 9 launch date surfacing after a private press event.
Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde, the voices of Astarion and Lae'zel, are joining Wizards of the Coast's first official D&D actual play series. Dungeon Masters launches April 22 with a gothic horror campaign set in Ravenloft.
Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online gets a new gameplay trailer showing off its darker, more deliberate take on the franchise. It launches July 10 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC.
After over a decade of false starts and indefinite hiatuses, the live-action Call of Duty movie finally has a concrete release date: June 30, 2028.
The Street Fighter movie's new trailer gives nearly every fighter their moment, but its biggest star is reduced to a blurry silhouette behind a cloud of dust.
New analyst data shows mid-price games between $30 and $50 nearly doubled their revenue on PlayStation since 2022, with Arc Raiders and Expedition 33 at the top of the pack.
Icarus Week 228 unlocks Ruby in the Workshop, meaning laser crafting materials are no longer locked behind Elysium.
A month of beta changes land on Slay the Spire 2's main branch, bringing character reworks, new Neow relics, a badge system, and a leaderboard overhaul.
Phasmophobia's first collaboration ever pairs it with Alan Wake 2 starting May 12, but the event runs for just three weeks and won't come back.
A cosmetic spray you can buy with CoD points is doing more to fight AI aimbots in Black Ops 7 than Activision's own anti-cheat system. The clip has over a million views.
Paramount revealed a June 2028 release date for the Call of Duty movie at CinemaCon, then showed a sizzle reel that was almost entirely game footage set to Seven Nation Army.
PEAK's latest beta patch tackles a rope performance bug, restores cold nights to Ascent 5+, and cleans up a handful of reconnection and custom run issues.
A decade after her track was cut from Spectre in favour of Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey finally gets her Bond moment with the title theme for IO Interactive's 007 First Light.
DICE admitted it shipped Battlefield 6 with too many small maps and not enough large-scale battlegrounds. The 2026 roadmap is EA's attempt to course-correct with seven maps, naval combat, and long-overdue features like a server browser.
4A Games has unveiled Metro 2039, a darker return to the Moscow tunnels built while the Ukrainian studio endured Russia's ongoing invasion. It launches this winter on PS5, PC, and Xbox.
Tekken 8's latest update takes aim at Heat mechanics that were paying out far too generously for the risk involved.
WoW's 12.0.5 update pushes deeper into the Midnight story with new world activities, a targeted loot system via the Voidforge, and a hide-and-seek minigame in Silvermoon City.
Congealed Sludge gets executed for crimes against travelers, Warpath's mana bug finally gets a proper fix, and a pile of Rogue skill issues get cleaned up in Last Epoch's latest patch.
Bethesda can't get Starfield running properly on PS5, but a Taiwan ratings board leak suggests the RPG is already headed to Switch 2. The priorities here are baffling.
Capcom promised to fix Alex's controversial incest storyline in Street Fighter 6. The patch changes his cousin to a 'distant relative or something,' which somehow makes it worse.
Turtle Beach revealed the Stealth Pro 2 with a real ninja stealth test, 60mm drivers, and a $350 price tag. Pre-orders are live now ahead of a May 17 launch.
A small but focused patch for Civ VII lands today, fixing a late-game performance issue that's been frustrating players deep into their runs.
GTA Online is leaning into the calendar with 4X rewards on Stoner Survival and Dealing missions as LD Organics takes over for the week.
A small but focused hotfix lands for Sins of a Solar Empire II, cleaning up some frustrating unit behaviour that's been tripping up both players and AI alike.
SCUM's April patch arrives on April 23rd, bringing two new weapons, a long-overdue inventory fix, and a no-wipe promise from Gamepires.
Sea of Thieves 3.7.1 is live today, kicking off the inaugural Bilge Rats Weekender alongside a full Doubloon economy reset that changes how the currency is earned and spent.
Brighter Shores adds pickaxe resonators to the brambles of Hopeforest, bringing a new layer of depth to mining across all four Mine of Mantuban professions.
A second wave of Disney delistings hit Steam this week, pulling 15 more games including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws. That brings the 2026 total to 29 titles quietly erased from the storefront.
Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley publicly dismissed Project Helix in a new interview, saying he's far more interested in Steam and whatever Nintendo builds next.
217 changes land in today's Black Desert Online update, with the Barter system getting its biggest rework in years courtesy of two new high-value trade tiers.
StarRupture's first hotfix since Update 1 lands today, fixing a string of co-op and dedicated server issues that have been frustrating players since the update dropped.
The Finals 10.3.0 shakes up Heavy and Light archetypes with an experimental World Tour event, plus weapon tweaks and a stack of bug fixes.
MADFINGER Games has pushed Patch 0.4.1.0 to Gray Zone Warfare's live servers, targeting bullet penetration inconsistencies and a long list of UI and inventory bugs.
The 1.59 Open Beta is live for Euro Truck Simulator 2, and the Benelux Rework alone makes it one of the bigger map updates SCS has shipped in years.
Season 8 is wrapping up in style, Ironmace has doubled artifact drop rates in High-Roller dungeons and Adventure Points across the board as Dark and Darker heads into its end-of-season stretch.
Capcom's legal department emailed YouTuber GrizzoUK demanding the removal of over a thousand videos showcasing NSFW mods for Resident Evil and Street Fighter. His channel was briefly terminated by YouTube before being reinstated.
Supergiant buried a whole new game mode in Hades 2's latest patch notes, disguising it as a line about decorative furniture. Dream Dives randomize the entire run structure, and you'd never know they existed unless you found the right bed.
Update 1.3.25 brings Onslaught Mode to The First Descendant in beta, along with a Viessa rework and a new Colossus to fight.
MapleStory turns 21 with a campus-themed anniversary update, and Pink Bean is apparently your new academic advisor.
A small but focused hotfix lands on Slay the Spire 2's beta branch, squashing crashes, a softlock, and a handful of multiplayer desyncs.
Square Glade Games has pushed Outbound's launch back three weeks to May 14, citing a vague late-stage issue that "could negatively impact your enjoyment." The studio won't say what the bug actually is.
Chaos Manufacturing's action RPG hollows out the Moon and fills it with feudal Japanese cities, rival clans, and a ronin out for blood. A new dev diary breaks down the world-building, and it's wilder than it sounds.
Critics agree Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is hilarious and wildly creative, but the inability to share Miis online feels like a baffling step backward from the 3DS original.
A small update landed yesterday, but the real news is what's coming tomorrow: the WX-78 Skill Spotlight and a full content roadmap.
Star Trek: Resurgence has been yanked from digital storefronts after its distribution license expired, barely giving the game time to reach all its platforms before disappearing.
Payload Studios' block-based bullet heaven builder arrives on Game Pass day one, and for a niche genre mash-up like this, that's exactly the lifeline it needs.
Grounded 2's first hotfix after the Beat the Heat update is out now, targeting a handful of bugs that were making multiplayer and The Park area more painful than they should be.
Instead of simply pulling the plug, Might & Delight is converting its troubled tiny MMO into a fully offline singleplayer RPG at a fraction of the original price, with full mod support.
Pokémon Pokopia's next event asks players to skip rope using Bulbasaur's vines, with prizes on the line and multiplayer competitions on Cloud Islands.
Throne and Liberty's 3.30.0 update is a targeted bug fix pass, cleaning up tooltip gaps across multiple weapon trees and squashing some annoying visual glitches.
April's Astroneer update fixes a long-standing multiplayer rail network bug, sorts out a pile of Museum perk issues, and hands out a free STARSEEKER Expedition Suit to every player.
Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has already played through the entirety of Blood of Dawnwalker on PS5, and the console versions are heading into certification. The game might be further along than anyone expected.
Supergiant's roguelike sequel has finally made the jump to Xbox, and it didn't show up empty-handed. A massive April 2026 update drops new content across every platform.
Dramatic Labs' well-reviewed Star Trek narrative game has been yanked from multiple storefronts overnight after its distribution license expired, with barely a sentence of explanation.
Showdown gets a full critical hit system, new Souljades drop in the returning Suffer No Demon event, and Spirit Dash gets a meaningful nerf.
A new US West server, sweeping controller improvements, and a stack of bug fixes land in Where Winds Meet's April 16 maintenance update.
ShinyHunters leaked Rockstar's internal revenue data expecting to cause damage. Instead, investors saw $1.3 million a day in GTA Online earnings and sent Take-Two's stock soaring.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered headlines the PS Plus Extra catalog for April 2026, vindicating every player who refused to pay full price for what many called an unnecessary upgrade.
Apex Legends' latest patch tidies up a handful of cosmetic bugs and makes some notable matchmaking changes for Ranked players.
Marvel Rivals' latest balance update overhauls crowd control, reshapes Winter Soldier, and gives Ultron a significantly bigger footprint in team fights.
Hello Games has dropped patch 6.33 for No Man's Sky Xeno Arena, fixing a long list of Holo-Arena issues live on Steam now.
A small background update rolls out for Fragpunk today, with the Pop Can Party event and a free reward bundle landing tomorrow on April 16th.
Roadcraft's latest hotfix targets a nasty crash bug hitting AMD GPU users on driver version 26.1.1, here's what changed.
Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts is live in Old School RuneScape, bringing a revamped Skill Tree, Echo Bosses, and a starting area shake-up that ditches Misthalin entirely.
STALCRAFT: X's April 15 update tweaks the Inside Out event, squashes a nasty transition time bug, and adds a second seasonal pack.
A new dev video breaks down how Shadows' weather actually runs in real time rather than faking shifts based on player location. It's a bigger deal than most players probably realise.
Supergiant's second post-launch patch for Hades 2 arrives alongside the game's console debut, and the most crowd-pleasing change might be that Icarus is finally willing to get in the hot tub.
Leaked details about the next God of War game claim Faye will be joined by a sentient gelatinous cube and a talking sword named Merlin. The spin-off reportedly spans Chinese, Japanese, and Mayan mythologies.
With Subnautica 2's Early Access launch weeks away, Krafton's name has been quietly stripped from the game's store pages on Steam and Xbox, replaced by Unknown Worlds as sole publisher.
Windows Central's Jez Corden says Xbox is having 'very, very big discussions' about returning to console exclusives under new CEO Asha Sharma, raising questions about the future of the multiplatform strategy.
SCS Software's latest dev talk reveals that nearly 30 years of engine shortcuts have created a mountain of technical debt standing between Truck Simulator and consoles.
An Indonesian ratings board has listed Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred for the original Nintendo Switch, not the Switch 2, and the listing only covers the DLC rather than the base game.
THQ Nordic is releasing Gothic Classic, Gothic II, and Gothic 3 individually across three separate months at $29.99 each, with no trilogy bundle in sight.
Windrose pulled nearly 70,000 concurrent players on its first day in Steam Early Access, proving there's massive demand for pirate games that nobody's been serving.
Valve's latest CS2 patch is all about the Animgraph 2 beta, cleaning up a string of animation bugs that have been making third-person movement look rough.
Valve pushes another round of Animgraph 2 beta fixes, tidying up animation glitches that have been bothering players in third-person and during weapon switches.
THQ Nordic has dated all three Gothic Classic games for PlayStation and Xbox, with Gothic 3 finally breaking its two-decade PC exclusivity this November.
Limited Run Games pushed He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction from its April 28 release to a vague summer window, announcing the delay just two weeks before players were supposed to have it in their hands.
Grounded 2's biggest update yet lands a lizard boss, a full buggy upgrade system, and Playgrounds Mode all in one drop.
A League of Legends coach's claim that he tracked his duo partner's period to boost their ranked win rate has racked up over 5 million views, splitting the community between fascination and disbelief.
Bloober Team has confirmed seven horror titles in various stages of development, split between two first-party teams and its Broken Mirror Games co-development label.
Mel gets clipped, Lucian gets his legs back, and a long-requested keybind feature finally goes live in Patch 26.8.
Set 17 Space Gods is here, replacing the Carousel with a god-choice mechanic and resetting the ranked ladder.
Mega Crit's Casey Yano has teased that the next Slay the Spire 2 character will be mechanically stranger than the existing roster, and the early access trailer may have already shown a glimpse.
The lower levels of X-18 are finally accessible. STALKER 2's free Sealed Truth update adds a new story questline and bug fixes ahead of the Cost of Hope expansion.
STALCRAFT: X is heading offline for scheduled maintenance on 15 April across all regions. Here's when the servers go dark.
Guardian Games 2026 wraps up with a Warlock victory, Iron Banner makes its return, and Bungie rolls out the first Community Challenge picks in Update 9.5.6.2.
Bungie's next Marathon experiment drops tomorrow and forces every player into free sponsored kits, levelling the playing field entirely. No purple shields, no upgraded guns, just whatever you can scavenge.
Krafton, the company that owns Unknown Worlds Entertainment, is no longer listed as Subnautica 2's publisher on Steam or the Epic Games Store. The change happened on April 7 and hasn't been reversed.
Once Human's 2.3.6 patch is a small but targeted fix, addressing a generator limit bug that was quietly capping player progression.
Supergiant drops Post-Launch Patch 2 for Hades II, bringing narrated Prophecy conclusions, indefinite character gifting, and a significant Ares boon overhaul.
Keen Games has dropped a deep dive into Update 8's gear and progression overhaul, and the skill tree changes alone look substantial.
The Project Zomboid community raised more than $180,000 for Médecins Sans Frontières through the Brawler Spiffo merch drop. Not a bad result for a plush zombie survivor.
Season 7.5 of Marvel Rivals drops April 17, cracking open the Vault and bringing cosmic chaos to the Chronoverse.
The Public Test Client gets PvE and PvP Deep Desert instances, fairer Testing Station loot, and a Recycle function added to the Base Reconstruction Tool.
Marathon's 1.0.6 update overhauls railguns, introduces the C.A.R.R.I. cooperative rewards system, and adds a solos-only beginner map.
Patch 12.07 is a lighter update, but the Discord integration is the headline feature, and it could change how you squad up.
Ben Jordan, the face model for Peter Parker in Insomniac's Spider-Man series, posted and quickly deleted an Instagram photo of himself in motion capture gear with a spider emoji. The internet, naturally, was faster than the delete button.
Twenty-five years after Dōbutsu no Mori launched on the N64, Nintendo is sending every New Horizons player a free commemorative Leaf Statue through their in-game mailbox.
Sony confirmed at CinemaCon 2026 that filming on the live-action Legend of Zelda movie is done, with the May 7, 2027 theatrical release still on track.
Free Content Update #5 arrives for Farming Simulator 25 with two new machines and a batch of long-overdue fixes for multiplayer bale visibility and Precision Farming.
Patch 1.3.15.0 brings Base Recycling to Dune: Awakening, letting you reclaim 100% of materials from backed-up bases, plus fixes to a nasty fire rate bug.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's Sealed Truth update drops a new questline today alongside some fixes that long-campaign players will appreciate.
Inferno is almost here, and Crytek is sweetening the deal with a Double Event Points weekend for anyone still grinding the Battle Pass.
A small but focused stability patch for Halls of Torment lands today, targeting crashes that were hitting ability-heavy builds hardest.
The Aura system gets its long-overdue rework, stripping out time-gated farming and tenure-based imbalances as part of RuneScape's ongoing Road to Restoration.
Blizzard's April 13 hotfixes bring meaningful class tuning and some overdue dungeon fixes to World of Warcraft: Midnight and Classic.
ARC Raiders patch 1.24.0 is rolling out now, fixing crashes, visual issues, and a hold-to-use item bug ahead of the Riven Tides update.
Darktide's latest update resets the Expedition Map for the first time, alongside Hive Scum talent adjustments and a wave of crash and bug fixes.
Sony has announced a Bloodborne animated movie at CinemaCon, described as an R-rated feature that stays true to the game's gory spirit. YouTuber JackSepticEye is co-producing.
Square Enix is restricting what limited jobs can do in FF14 right before Beastmaster arrives, and the community is not impressed.
The First Descendant is heading offline for a 10-hour maintenance window to deploy Update 1.3.25, and is a new Onslaught Mode in beta.
A 91-year-old Ohio woman missed her daily welfare check-in, ignored follow-up calls from police and her own daughter, and forced officers to enter her home. They found her in her bedroom trying to beat her high score.
Nicole is a 5-Star Pyro Catalyst support who buffs ATK, provides shields, and adapts her coordinated attacks to your active character's element. She's being called a better Bennett, but there's a catch.
Modder Stepheroth is cramming the original 1997 polygon character models into Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's gorgeous open world, and the contrast is beautiful chaos.
Overwatch hits Switch 2 today with 60fps in both docked and handheld modes, a massive upgrade over the original Switch version. Season 2 of Reign of Talon launches alongside it.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma acknowledged in a leaked internal memo that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players," promising to evolve the service into something more flexible.
Marathon's latest experimental queue strips everyone down to a free sponsored kit and throws them into Dire Marsh. Here's what's changing on April 15.
Games Workshop and publisher SNEG have dropped 27 classic Warhammer games onto Steam under a new Warhammer Classics label, with seven titles hitting the platform for the first time.
Crimson Desert players have found that releasing dozens of individually captured bees can take down the game's toughest bosses. It's absurd, it's slow, and it's exactly why this combat sandbox works.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told staff in a leaked memo that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players" and that changes are coming. The admission follows a year of aggressive price hikes that doubled the cost of the top tier.
PEAK's latest patch tackles campfire save bugs, scout report issues, and a nasty temperature glitch for veteran players.
Battlegrounds Season 13 kicks off tomorrow with Trinkets, two new heroes, and a pair of new keywords. Here's everything in Patch 35.2.
Maintenance hits April 14 and brings a solid round of physics and trick fixes alongside some handy co-op and gesture improvements.
A report claims Microsoft has internally delayed Fable over GTA 6 proximity fears, but the official Fable account spent today repeating 'Autumn 2026' to anyone who'd listen.
FuturLab is pulling the free Final Fantasy VII and Tomb Raider DLC packs from PowerWash Simulator on May 19, and once they're gone, they're gone for good.
The Boys star Karl Urban has publicly volunteered to play John Marston in a Red Dead Redemption film. No adaptation exists yet, but honestly, the casting sells itself.
The Bleach-inspired Roblox RPG Paradox has been so plagued by bugs, wrong bans, and unannounced shutdowns that its apology codes have piled into a massive freebie haul worth over 150 ability rerolls.
After Nintendo blocked the western Switch release of Death end re;Quest Code Z, publisher eastasiasoft found a workaround: ship the English version from Asia on a region-free cartridge.
Microsoft has confirmed Metro 2039 will get its first official reveal at a dedicated Xbox First Look showcase this Thursday, marking the franchise's return after seven years away.
A critical security flaw in Indonesia's game ratings system has leaked over an hour of spoiler-filled footage from IO Interactive's 007 First Light, including what appears to be the game's ending.
Former senior designer Benson Russell says Naughty Dog openly told staff after The Last of Us that crunch was 'what it takes to make games at our level,' and anyone who disagreed was free to go.
Rauora gets a meaningful zone control rework, Smoke picks up a Deployable Shield, and Clash gets her crowd control uptime bumped up in Siege's Y11S1.2 update.
EA has patched a PC-specific issue that was stopping some players from launching EA SPORTS FC 26, often triggering stability problems in the process.
EA is closing Dragon Age: Inquisition's PS3 servers on April 28, more than 11 years after launch, quietly outlasting BioWare's ambitious live-service bet by nearly a decade.
Pokémon and Palworld clone Pickmon has officially rebranded, by changing the last letter of its name. Developer PocketGame insists it's about lore. Sure.
Fable may be fleeing GTA 6's shadow. Jeff Grubb says it's been pushed internally, and the maths on the calendar doesn't look great for Microsoft.
Kinetic Games has pushed a small follow-up patch to address ghost traversal and bone spawn bugs introduced by the Cursed Hollow update.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds gets a small but targeted hotfix today, closing a Skillcape exploit and sorting out some frustrating post-death bugs.
Someone looked at Sekiro's grappling hook traversal and thought: not radical enough. They were right.
A casting call for Kojima's next PlayStation game describes its villain as 'Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal but with flair', which is either a reference point or a very obvious audition invitation.
Bethesda's space RPG has arrived on PS5 in a state that players are calling unplayable, with crashes, freezes, and save corruption driving a wave of refund requests.
Epic is reportedly building an Arc Raiders-style extraction shooter starring Disney characters, targeting a November launch. Internal reviewers aren't convinced it's ready.
Two weeks in, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has crossed $629 million worldwide and sits third all-time among video game adaptations. A billion is looking very possible.
The ROM for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is circulating online four days ahead of its official Switch release, with players already running it through the Ryubing emulator.
A light patch from Klei, but the WX-78 Skill Spotlight update and a full content roadmap are arriving next week on April 16.
A YouTuber claims to have obtained Intrepid Studios' entire financial ledger from 2015 to 2026, and the picture it paints goes well beyond studio mismanagement.
Fighting game YouTuber Maximilian Dood is putting $10,000 on the table for anyone who can bring rollback netcode to Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, a game that's been stuck on delay-based code since 2011.
ShinyHunters breached Rockstar via a third-party analytics tool and is demanding payment by Monday, April 14. Rockstar has confirmed the breach but insists it's non-material.
After months of ARG puzzles and cryptic teasers, the game everyone was calling 'Tarkov in space' finally has an official name: Fragmentary Order.
A small but focused patch for Brighter Shores lands today, fixing a camera lock bug and tidying up some visual obstruction issues.
Amazon has given Luna users two months' notice that every game they bought through the service will stop working on June 10. No refunds are being offered.
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the man who created Double Dragon and the Kunio-kun series, has passed away. His work defined an entire genre and shaped the childhoods of a generation of players.
Five games are leaving Xbox Game Pass in three days, and if you haven't touched them yet, the clock is ticking. The good news is what's coming in May.
WIT Studio had a policy banning generative AI in its productions. Then fans spotted it in the Ascendance of a Bookworm opening, and the studio had to admit it happened anyway.
Pearl Abyss drops a small but targeted hotfix for Crimson Desert today, addressing a handful of issues that have been tripping up players since launch.
The Pines is a psychological horror RPG where saying the wrong thing to the wrong person doesn't just hurt your reputation. It makes them hunt you through the woods.
Version 1.2 'At the Wake of Spring' hits Arknights: Endfield on April 17, bringing a new playable Operator, a boss fight against Nefarith, and expanded factory-building systems.
A $300 million loss in potential sales from Black Ops 6 is reportedly forcing Microsoft to rethink whether Call of Duty belongs on Game Pass at launch.
Hacking group ShinyHunters has set a Monday deadline for Rockstar Games to pay up, or watch its financial records, marketing timelines, and studio contracts go public.
The Hemlok gets pulled back into line, reactive skins stop misbehaving, and a niche but annoying Wraith bug gets squashed.
StarRupture's first major Early Access update is live, and it touches almost everything, progression, base building, crafting, and the map itself.
Wit Studio has confirmed generative AI appeared in the Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4 opening, violating the studio's own internal policy. The affected sequence will be redrawn from scratch.
Jagex wants your feedback on the 0.11 update, and the survey window is short. Here's what's going on.
A small but clean hotfix for Mecha BREAK landed on April 10, sorting out a mod stats display issue and a Striker cosmetic bug with zero server downtime.
The second part of Stellaris's 4.3.4 'Cetus' open beta is live on stellaris_test, bringing disruptor reworks, fleet size fixes, and a stack of bugfixes.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home early Friday morning. A suspect was arrested near OpenAI's headquarters less than an hour later.
Shiro Games finally has a date locked in for SpaceCraft's Early Access launch after slipping out of 2025. Mark May 20 on your calendar.
Hello Games drops a quick but meaningful bug fix patch for Xeno Arena, tackling duplicate item creation, Corvette tech loss on warp, and PS5 performance hits on the Anomaly.
NetEase's creative director has laid out a wild vision for Marvel Rivals' future, and 'moving anime' is the phrase he used.
Console players get more time with the Invincible VS open beta, but PC players are sitting this one out completely until the game launches on April 30.
Deadlock's April 10 update overhauls parrying, rebalances a stack of items including Toxic Bullets and Golden Goose Egg, and adjusts heroes across the board. Full patch notes below.
Danish YouTuber Mongo TV is playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS on an aging laptop, and the numbers are genuinely staggering. The opening chapter took 12 hours. A full run would take 471.
Level-5 has announced Snack World: Reloaded, a full remake of the 2017 3DS dungeon-crawler that most Western players never got to touch, heading to Switch 2, PS5, and PC.
Windrose sets sail for Early Access on April 14, and if you've been sleeping on this one, now is the time to pay attention.
Pete Hines is done letting Bethesda take jank criticism without context. His argument: nobody else in the industry is even attempting what the Creation Engine pulls off.
Level-5 confirmed during its Vision 2026 Craftsmanship event that both DECAPOLICE and Inazuma Eleven RE are dropping last-gen and original Switch support in favour of Switch 2.
Taiwan's ratings board has outed what looks like a native Switch 2 port of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the 2021 Eidos Montreal game that deserved a much bigger audience than it got.
HoYoverse partnered with MAPPA on a 2:52 concept animation for Honkai Star Rail's third anniversary, and the studio's own iceberg metaphor makes it pretty clear this isn't where the collaboration ends.
Fumi Games' black-and-white noir cartoon shooter MOUSE: P.I. For Hire launches in less than a week, and the voice cast behind it is impressive.
After years of silence, a new Metro game is reportedly set to be revealed at a PlayStation State of Play on April 16, with two reliable insiders now backing the claim.
Level-5 is bringing its 1.5 million-selling RPG to mobile this summer, and it's doing it the right way: premium price, no microtransactions, and full cross-save with every other platform.
A legitimate-looking Steam page for Rust 2 appeared out of nowhere, a Facepunch developer said 'you saw nothing', and then the studio's founder flatly denied the whole thing. It's been a morning.
Amazon Luna has quietly gutted its third-party store support today, giving customers until June 10 before their purchased libraries go dark on the platform.
The FAA is running a recruitment campaign aimed directly at video game players, arguing that hours spent in Fortnite and Rocket League translate to real skills in the cockpit tower.
Gunzilla Games CEO Vlad Korolev has responded to serious allegations of unpaid wages by calling the accusations a 'new narrative from haters', a response so tone-deaf it almost defies belief.
Evil Empire's indie showcase returned for 2026 with 40 announcements in a single event, and the sheer density of it is starting to make major publisher showcases look sluggish by comparison.
Ten years of internet mythology, killed in one sentence. Jeff Kaplan confirms Blizzard never actually nerfed Tracer's butt, they just changed a pose.
S-Game's CEO has publicly declared Phantom Blade Zero will not use AI visual tech, in a statement that reads as a direct rejection of Nvidia's DLSS 5 after the tech was widely mocked for distorting NPC faces.
Pearl Abyss is essentially admitting that players broke Crimson Desert by being too good at it, and the fix is enemies that fight back for their territory.
The studio behind 1000xResist has revealed its next game, and it wants you to use CAPTCHAs to convince a sentient AI that she isn't human.
Pearl Abyss has shared a dev update for Crimson Desert, previewing new content and QoL improvements rolling out between April and June.
Once Human's April 10 patch rolls back a bad territory boundary change from 2.3.6 and sends compensation to all affected players, alongside a string of crafting and UI fixes.
Battlefield 6's Update 1.2.3.0 drops April 14 with a new two-map limited-time mode, a squad support vehicle, and a long list of hit registration and progression fixes.
Hearts of Iron IV's Open Beta skips a week, with Game Designer Zwirbaum confirming no client update today and a return to the regular schedule next week.
Hello Games has pushed patch 6.31 for No Man's Sky Xeno Arena, addressing a tech-moving crash and rolling out network optimisations.
Ten years after the original, Klei Entertainment's next Don't Starve game is adding the one thing players have wanted since 2013: the ability to jump.
Lazy Bear Games has announced Graveyard Keeper 2, and to celebrate, the original is free to claim on Steam until April 13. Here's what the sequel is bringing to the table.
Sunset Visitor, the Vancouver studio behind 1000xResist, has revealed Prove You're Human, a first-person narrative game where you play a digital copy of a person tasked with shattering an AI's belief that it's flesh and blood.
Google removed Doki Doki Literature Club from the Play Store on April 8, citing its 'depiction of sensitive themes', the same quality critics and players have celebrated for nine years.
Sony has signed new directors for the Metal Gear Solid movie after more than a decade of development, and the casualty is the self-described MGS superfan fans were quietly rooting for.
Void Eye gets cut down to size, Raiden picks up a brand new Energy Shield tech, and Spider Mine becomes a proper swarm-clearer in Mechabellum's latest balance pass.
The latest Slay the Spire 2 beta patch reworks Daily Leaderboard scoring from the ground up and brings a new Ironclad healing card to the table.
Borderlands 4's April 9 minor update bumps XP rewards from Badass enemies and Bosses, and rolls in fresh Weekly Activities.
Guardian Games 2026 is done, Warlocks won, and Iron Banner is back on the calendar. Here's what Bungie covered this week.
Hotfix 1.10.1 is live for Starship Troopers: Extermination, cleaning up a wave of M-11E Babar bugs and rebalancing Operation Stalwart Sanitation.
ARC Raiders drops a small but meaningful hotfix today, closing a duplication glitch and a reconnect exploit that had been causing problems.
Pearl Abyss has outlined what's coming to Crimson Desert between April and June, covering boss rematches, difficulty settings, new storage systems, and more.
Jagex is tackling RuneScape's long-criticised visual issues, from that notorious 'sweaty' character outline to washed-out environments and inconsistent shadows.
Valve has pushed a new update to the CS2 Animgraph 2 beta branch, bringing reduced network bandwidth usage and a heads-up about a known connection error.
Blizzard has pushed a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, with the April 7 changes doing the heavy lifting across tanks and DPS specs.
Icarus Week 227 overhauls the Repair Bench with better bulk repair logic, a new durability threshold slider, and clearer missing-resource feedback.
Valorant patch 10.05 arrives with agent balance changes and weapon tuning.
Warframe's Hotfix 42.0.7 lands a meaningful fix for Voruna players, correcting Ulfrun's Descent missing out on critical damage and chance bonuses from Shroud of Dynar.
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Krafton's latest inZOI hotfix is a targeted GPU performance fix, disabling Lumen Reflections on Low and Medium Hardware Ray Tracing settings.
Delta Force's April 9 update is live with zero downtime, stacking in a wave of new events across both Operations and Warfare modes.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds 0.11.0.9 is live, with the development team responding directly to Runecrafting complaints that surfaced after the previous update.
Gray Zone Warfare's second hotfix in as many days is live, bringing backend optimisations and a hint at an upcoming Twitch Drops campaign.
153 changes land in Black Desert Online today, with Berserker, Valkyrie, and Guardian all getting meaningful reworks to their combat flow.
The Finals 10.2.0 is a small but useful patch, fixing a server region bug and swapping out the Easter event for a new Store drop.
Arena Breakout: Infinite pushed a small update today, rolling out without downtime and targeting a FAMAS clipping bug on female characters.
Throne and Liberty's 3.28.0 update brings a new Battlegrounds map, the Brooch equipment slot, fresh Co-Op Dungeons, and Double Archboss Spawns.
Nexon has pushed Hotfix 1.3.24b for The First Descendant, tightening up boundary values across weapons, reactors, and modules, and fixing a display bug that was hiding equipment options for some players.
Ironmace drops Hotfix #112-1 for Dark and Darker, bringing a Glaciate exploit fix, sweeping Squires to Riches changes, and a new Unique accessory crafting option via the Goldsmith.
Marvel Rivals patch 20260409 arrives tomorrow with a Jeff the Land Shark exploit fix, White Fox visual updates, and a wave of new store content.
SCS Software is adding Thermo King's branded refrigeration units to Euro Truck Simulator 2 as part of the upcoming 1.59 update, replacing every unbranded reefer unit in the base game and DLCs.
Eleventh Hour Games has dropped Patch 1.4.3 for Last Epoch, tackling overtuned enemies, Omen Window party bugs, and a pile of skill fixes across multiple classes.
No Man's Sky update 6.3 brings a full turn-based creature battle system to the Space Anomaly and beyond, alongside serious performance gains on PC and Switch 2.
The Catalyst expansion's major update is live today, reshuffling the capital meta, adding a new high-risk carrier PvE activity, and making Pochven worth visiting again.
Both the Stable and Unstable branches of Project Zomboid got patched today, and controller players are the clear winners.
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Krafton has dropped another small hotfix for inZOI, this time focused entirely on crash fixes for the Windows PC Steam build.
A Halo dataminer hid the game's alleged release dates inside two Roman numeral math equations. The community solved them in minutes.
NateTheHate, the leaker who called the Switch 2 reveal date, is now putting a hard deadline on the Star Fox announcement: April.
The full Forza Horizon 6 map is here, and it's a sprawling vision of Japan from snowy mountain passes to coastal highways. Tokyo shows up, but it's not dominating the picture.
Once Human's 2.3.6 update is one of the bigger patches the game has seen, overhauling the Tech system from the ground up and simplifying a lot of the survival loop in ways players have been asking for.
Fragpunk's April 8th patch is a lighter one, but it sets up a busy few days with a returning limited-time mode and new skins hitting the store tomorrow.
The second hotfix for the 42.16 Unstable branch is here, and if you've been playing Project Zomboid on a controller, this one's for you.
Hotfix 12.3 is live for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, targeting a specific AI director bug that was letting Extremis enemies crash the Terminus encounter.
Gray Zone Warfare Hotfix 0.4.0.2 is live today, pushing a backend update to the live servers ahead of upcoming patches.
ARC Raiders patch 1.23.0 is live today, closing off a Trigger 'Nade damage exploit and shipping a wave of Close Scrutiny fixes alongside the new Vanguard Set.
Where Winds Meet pushed a brief maintenance notice today, extending its update window by an hour to wrap up final optimisations. The good news: zero downtime.
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the designer who directed Double Dragon and Renegade and in doing so defined the rules of an entire genre, passed away on April 2, 2026. He was 64.
CD Projekt Red's long-awaited PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077 is live today, and the headliner is a Performance mode that pushes up to 90fps on VRR displays. Here's what each of the three new graphics modes actually means for how the game plays.
Genshin Impact's Luna VI update, Song of the Welkin Moon: Rondo, went live on 7th April 2026, bringing server maintenance compensation and a new wave of content for Travelers.
DayZ Stable Update 1.29 is live today with a hefty list of fixes, new clothing, reworked gunshot audio, and a new underground bunker section for Frostline players.
PUBG Update 41.1 brings Destructible Terrain to Erangel, adds two new weapon attachments, and confirms six weapons are being cut from the game in June.
Microsoft's April Game Pass lineup is impressive, headlined by Hades 2 landing day one on April 14. The catch: GTA V is gone the very next day.
Path of Exile's 3.28.0f patch lands today with a important ailment fix and several crash resolutions across PC and console.
Sony wants to put a real fan inside Gran Turismo 7, but getting there involves questionnaires, video interviews, and signing over your likeness. The real question is what Sony gets to keep.
The 2020 State of Decay 3 reveal trailer was pre-rendered concept work made by an external studio, with only four or five people at Undead Labs and no actual game in development. Studio head Philip Holt has now confirmed it on camera, and yes, that means no zombie deer.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opened to $372.6M worldwide, falling just $2.4M short of its predecessor's record. That's not a failure, it's one of the biggest animated debuts ever.
EA SPORTS FC 26 v1.5.3 is out today, tackling a time-wasting exploit, several Career Mode fixes, and a handful of Ultimate Team issues.
Old School RuneScape's Mobile Character Switcher has gone live today, letting players swap between linked characters directly from the mobile login screen.
Brighter Shores has kicked off its Easter 2026 event today, bringing a rabbit-hunting quest to Hopeport alongside a handful of quality of life fixes.
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iRacing's second patch of Season 2 is live today, bringing expanded Balance of Performance controls, AI racing fixes, and a round of car and track polish.
Sins of a Solar Empire II gets a small but focused stability patch today, targeting crashes that were hitting modded games and save file loads.
Marathon's latest patch trims the knife's lunge range and reworks the Bubble Shield, while squashing some nasty Vault and Armory display bugs.
ARK: Survival Ascended's v85.28 client patch fixes a Warrior Rage progression blocker, while the v85 major update brought the Eggcellent Adventure event, a new creature, and a wave of bug fixes.
Starfield's biggest update yet is live today, adding in-system space flight, a new crafting system, and a Quantum Entanglement Device that lets you carry items through the Unity.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds patch 0.11.0.8 is live today, targeting a dedicated server rollback issue that was wiping player progress between sessions.
Blizzard has dropped a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes covering class balance, dungeon fixes, and a notable Sun Darter Hatchling bug rescue.
Supermarket Simulator's Patch 1.2.7 is live today, tackling a janitor pathing bug, cross-platform connection errors, and edge-case storage rack issues.
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Krafton has pushed another targeted hotfix for inZOI, addressing a handful of bugs that slipped through after the v0.7.0 anniversary update.
The first hotfix for Build 42.16 has landed on the Unstable branch, addressing a handful of bugs reported since 42.16.0 dropped two days ago.
Unturned's Wild Harvest update reworks fishing into an active minigame, adds clay-to-brick crafting via a new Pottery Kiln, and drops forageable mushrooms into the world as a fresh food source.
Relic has pushed Hot Fix 2.3.1 for Company of Heroes 3, addressing gameplay, map, and stability issues introduced with the Topaz Rhino update earlier this week.
The Division 2's Rise Up season update dropped today, bringing an escalating Black Tusk offensive across Washington D.C. and a slate of new challenges aimed squarely at veteran agents.
Valve has pushed a beta build for CS2 that migrates the game's animation system to Animgraph 2, promising reduced CPU and networking costs alongside fully re-authored third-person animations.
Enlisted's latest update is a focused pass on the 'All Loud on the Western Front' event, tweaking vehicle limits, spawn points, and soldier perks.
Roadcraft's Hotfix 6.2 is live today, addressing a handful of issues that slipped through after the 6.0 Reclaim Expansion launch.
Nexon has pushed Patch 1.3.24 for The First Descendant, a focused update dropping today with UI fixes tied to the recent Ancestors Module tier changes.
Hell Let Loose's Patch 19.1 Hotfix is live today, addressing issues flagged by players following the main 19.1 release. Here's what changed.
Hearthstone 35.0.3 is live today, and Druid is taking the brunt of it, three cards nerfed as Blizzard moves to break up the class's grip on the post-CATACLYSM meta.
The Finals Store Update 10.1 is live today, bringing an Easter-themed limited-time mode back to the Arena with a Super Jump twist.
Eleventh Hour Games has dropped Patch 1.4.2 for Last Epoch, bringing Omen Window tweaks, Bazaar quality-of-life improvements, and a long list of bug fixes across every class.
Paradox has pushed the first mid-beta patch for Crusader Kings III's 1.19 'Scribe' update, targeting bugs flagged by players since the open beta went live on Friday.
Core Keeper's latest patch is a small but important one, targeting two platform-specific bugs that could seriously mess with your save data.
Mechabellum has dropped a small but targeted hotfix today, addressing an MMR bug and a game freeze that were bothering players.
Blizzard has dropped the Hearthstone 4.1.26 patch, and given today's date, it is exactly what you'd expect.
PEAK's latest patch is a small but focused fix drop, addressing some annoying multiplayer and UI bugs that have been catching players out.
VRChat's 2026.1.3 update is live, bringing new Loading Screens and Impostor changes alongside a very suspicious April Fool's Day addition called 'Skip Leg Day'.
Blizzard has dropped the 3.1.2 client patch for Diablo II: Resurrected's Reign of the Warlock season, targeting crashes, UI issues, and a handful of Warlock-specific bugs.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds hotfix 0.11.0.3 is live, bringing a significant XP curve rebalance that more than doubles the experience required to hit level 99.
Project Zomboid's Build 42.16.0 dropped on the Unstable branch on 31st March, and there's one thing you need to know before touching your existing saves.
Phasmophobia's annual Cursed Hollow springtime event has returned with v0.16.1.0, bringing cooperative event activities and fresh rewards to unlock across dedicated event maps.
StarRupture's Update 1 Public Test Branch just received its first hotfix, tweaking base-building economy and progression unlock requirements across the board.
STALCRAFT: X's April 1st patch is live, bringing a limited-time April Fools session mode and a temporary side quest to the Zone.
Marvel Rivals patch 20260402 arrives April 2nd with a brand new map, a limited-time Wonder Man screening event in Times Square, and several bug fixes.
Red Barrels has pushed a hotfix for The Outlast Trials today, targeting a handful of issues that have been making life harder for Reagents in the Project Judas update.
ARC Raiders hotfix 1.22.1 is live today, deploying a targeted crash fix for affected players, with an Xbox patch still to follow.
EA SPORTS FC 26 has received a small but targeted update today, with version 1.5.2 addressing stability issues in Career Mode.
Teamfight Tactics patch 16.8 is the last update before Lore & Legends wraps up, and Riot is going out with a wide balance sweep, Choncc shop additions, and a Malzahar nerf that's been nine patches overdue.
Overwatch 2's March 31 update is a targeted bug fix patch, wiping replay codes and squashing three specific issues that have been frustrating players in Stadium and beyond.
Company of Heroes 3's Topaz Rhino update drops today, bringing new maps, a redesigned main menu and store, and a round of multiplayer balance changes.
ArenaNet has pushed a new build for Guild Wars 2 today, with the official patch notes now live on the forums. Here's what's in it.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT's April 1st update brings a new Photo Booth feature, a fresh Showdown stage, and a significant overhaul to The Evolution mode.
Patch 12.06 lands today with a meaningful Waylay nerf, a long-requested Flex movespeed fix, and backend improvements to Viper's Pit.
Minion Masters update 2.27 dropped today, bringing balance tweaks that push Fear-based strategies further up the viability ladder.
Lethal Company's Version 80 beta just dropped on Steam, and it's one of the bigger updates the game has seen in a while.
Schedule I hits its one-year Early Access anniversary with the v0.4.5 update, dropping today alongside a staggering playtime milestone from developer Tyler.
Gray Zone Warfare's Hotfix 0.4.0.0 Preview (1) has landed on the supporters-preview branch, with a separate server-side update pushed simultaneously to the public branch.
Valve has pushed out 7.41a, a follow-up balance patch to 7.41 that also cleans up several crash issues and quietly removes the Hero Facet Names display option.
Max Hejtmánek, the Czech-to-English translator and editor on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, says he was called into a meeting on March 27th with no prior warning and told his job no longer exists. Warhorse is replacing him with AI.
Eleventh Hour Games has pushed Hotfix 1.4.0.1 for Last Epoch, targeting a cluster of bugs around the Vision of the Observer fight and a frustrating item pickup issue.
Darktide's Patch 1.11.2 is rolling out today across all platforms, bringing quality of life tweaks to Expeditions alongside a round of bug and crash fixes.
Warframe's Hotfix 42.0.2 dropped on March 26th, targeting player frustration with Follie's Hunt, including the removal of invulnerability from Enemy Follies.
Mega Crit's v0.101.0 beta patch for Slay the Spire 2 comes with a twist: designer Anthony is walking through the reasoning behind each change, not just listing them.
Ubisoft has published its Year 2 retrospective for Skull and Bones, confirming land combat is officially dead and teasing a Year 3 reveal on May 6.
Funcom pushed hotfix 1.3.10.1 for Dune: Awakening on 26th March, requiring a client-side download to apply the latest round of fixes.
Larian's latest hotfix targets the crashes and performance issues accidentally introduced by Hotfix #35's savegame corruption fix.
REMATCH Season 3 dropped on 26th March 2026, bringing a new Battle Pass, Daily and Weekly Missions, and a Team Up feature that lets you queue straight back in with players you just clicked with.
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Krafton has pushed a small but targeted hotfix for inZOI today, just one day after the substantial v0.7.0 anniversary update dropped.
Supermarket Simulator's Patch 1.2.5 is live today, bringing Baker customisation toggles and smarter restocking behaviour to the simulation.
Once Human's 2.3.5 update rolled out on March 25, targeting a batch of ongoing issues the team has been tracking through community feedback.
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inZOI hits its one-year Early Access anniversary with the v0.7.0 update, and Krafton is marking the occasion with a substantial patch drop today.
The player count data for Rocket Racing, Ballistic, and Festival Battle Stage tells a bleaker story than any corporate statement could. These modes weren't killed, they were already dying.
Grounded 2 just dropped its Playgrounds Mode update, turning Brookhollow Park into a full-blown creative sandbox. Here's what changed on March 24th.
Roadcraft's biggest update yet lands alongside the Reclaim Expansion, bringing 7 new vehicles and two brand-new maps to tear up.
Destiny 2 Update 9.5.6 dropped on March 24th, bringing Guardian Games back alongside a remixed Rushdown mode and three new weapons to chase.
Gray Zone Warfare's Hotfix 0.3.5.5 is live today, dropping a small but targeted update ahead of the Spearhead release later this month.
Arrowhead has pushed a small but welcome hotfix for Helldivers 2 today, addressing a crash and a reload bug that's been frustrating Pummeller fans.
Square Enix has partnered with Google to inject Gemini AI into Dragon Quest X, turning one of gaming's most iconic mascots into a chatbot. The slime deserved better.
Smite 2's OB31 update, titled The King Of Uruk, went live on 23rd March 2026. Here's a full breakdown of what Hi-Rez changed.
Among Us is closing out March with a cherry blossom-themed cosmetics drop. The Hanami Cosmicube is here, and here's what's in the patch.
Nexon has confirmed Patch 1.3.23 for The First Descendant is landing on Thursday, March 26, with the 1st Anniversary Skin Contest winning skins among the additions.
The Apex Legends midseason patch is live, bringing the Aftershock Event, a reworked Gibraltar, significant Wraith buffs, and a brand new Elite Weapon to the mix.
Enshrouded's Hotfix #36 is a small but targeted client-side fix, addressing terrain rendering glitches hitting Nvidia RTX 50 series GPU owners on driver version 595.79.
Rainbow Six Siege's Y11S1.1 patch is live today, bringing operator buffs across the board and a long list of bug fixes including some nasty Solid Snake exploits.
ARC Raiders patch 1.21.0 is live today, adding a new Raider Tool and Backpack set alongside a batch of bug fixes including a wall-walk exploit that's now been closed off.
skate. Update 0.30.2 targets several grind mechanics that broke at Season 3 launch, with most of the issues now fixed and double grinds coming back in the next update.
Crytek has dropped Hotfix 2.7.0.3 for Hunt: Showdown 1896, pulling the All Ears trait and squashing a PS5 crash bug.
FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has openly admitted that Final Fantasy's slow release cadence is pushing younger players away. The comment came in a promotional video, which makes it even harder to ignore.
Sony has swept two more shovelware publishers off the PlayStation Store, pulling over 1,000 listings from Nostra Games and CGI Lab. It's the second major purge in two months, and the scale suggests this isn't a one-off cleanup.
Diablo 4's 2.6.1 patch lands March 24 with a significant Bloodsoaked Sigil difficulty reduction and a long list of Season of Slaughter fixes.
The Fun Pimps have pushed another Experimental build for 7 Days to Die, and the headline fix is a big one: those brutal hitches in cities have been tracked down and squashed.
Darktide's Patch 1.11.1 hotfix is rolling out across all platforms, targeting crashes and bugs introduced with the new Expeditions game mode.
VOID Interactive has dropped the v1.4.2 update for Ready or Not, the first patch following the Boiling Point content release.
Borderlands 4's March 19 update is a light one, but the patch notes are hiding a exciting tease for what's coming next week.
Supermarket Simulator's Patch 1.2.3 dropped on March 19th with a round of fixes targeting some persistent visual and save-related bugs.
Mojang Studios and Merlin Entertainments have announced Minecraft World, a dedicated theme park coming to Chessington World of Adventures in 2027, complete with a world-first Minecraft roller coaster.
Red Storm Entertainment, the North Carolina studio that created Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, has been permanently reassigned to IT and engine support by Ubisoft. 105 developers have lost their jobs.
Netflix's Assassin's Creed adaptation has finally started filming, and it's not going anywhere near the Renaissance. The show is set in ancient Rome, 64 AD, right in the middle of Nero's reign.
Paradox has dropped a small hotfix for Hearts of Iron IV's Warships of the Pacific update, targeting two visual bugs that slipped through in 1.17.
SCUM's March quality of life patch dropped yesterday, bringing server admin fixes, NPC improvements, and a round of bug fixes.
SCS Software's 1.59 update for Euro Truck Simulator 2 adds the real-world Volvo Trucks Experience Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, giving players a chance to test their skills at one of trucking's most iconic venues.
Klei dropped a small hotfix for Don't Starve Together on 19th March, targeting two bugs introduced with recent skin additions.
Season 19 is here, and it's leading with a full overhaul of the Hourglass of Fate PvP system. Here's what changed in patch 3.7.0.
Dark and Darker's Hotfix #111 lands today with Workshop fixes, Emberflame skin corrections, and a round of balance changes driven by community feedback.
Mega Crit's first major post-launch patch for Slay the Spire 2 takes aim at infinite combos and adds a Phobia Mode with bespoke assets.
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Black Desert Online deployed a backend security module update today, March 20. It's a small patch, but you'll need to relaunch your client to pick it up.
Delta Force's March 19th update is live with no downtime, bringing the Silent Serenade skin giveaway and a new weekly event starting March 20th.
The Finals Store Update 9.14.0 dropped today, bringing a familiar face back to the shop with one week left before Season 10 officially launches.
Schedule I's v0.4.4 Weather Update is live, adding randomised weather conditions to Hyland Point alongside a round of rendering optimisations.
Nexon has dropped Patch 1.3.22 for The First Descendant today, bringing Descendant rebalancing headlined by changes to Sharen and Ultimate Sharen.
War Thunder's Ninth Wave major update is live today, bringing new ground vehicles, aircraft, a premium naval addition, and a significant Air RB anti-aircraft overhaul.
Old School RuneScape's latest patch targets Sailing combat with cannon rebalancing, cannonball economy fixes, and a brand new sea creature to hunt.
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STALCRAFT: X pushed a patch today following server maintenance, bringing fixes to operations and session battles alongside balance changes.
Path of Exile's second hotfix for 3.28.0c is live today, squashing a frustrating abyss bug and two instance crashes that were cutting runs short.
The first full trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out, and while Peter Parker's mutating DNA is the headline, Sadie Sink's heavily obscured character is the conversation everyone's actually having.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 Update 2.7 is live today, bringing the Devil's Trail limited event and a raft of changes to the bayou and gulch.
Pearl Abyss's first singleplayer game drops tomorrow. Here's exactly when Crimson Desert unlocks in your time zone and how to get preloading done before it hits.
Jensen Huang's response to widespread DLSS 5 criticism wasn't a clarification or a concession. It was a dismissal, and that's the problem.
Bethesda has moved to reassure players after Nvidia's DLSS 5 reveal turned Starfield characters into something resembling an Instagram filter gone wrong. The studio says the tech is 'totally optional' and that artists will have full control over the final look.
Blizzard has pushed a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes, and Unholy Death Knights are taking the biggest hit with an across-the-board 20% damage reduction.
Fragpunk's March 18 update is out now, bringing a server-side patch and kicking off the Colors Burst Anniversary content ahead of a free event dropping tomorrow.
Marathon's 1.0.5 update landed on 17th March, and the headlining addition is tied directly to the Cryo Archive, Bungie's community puzzle map that players have been picking apart for weeks.
Space Marine 2's Hotfix 12.2 is live today with Vanguard buffs, a significant Sniper cooldown reduction, and a Techmarine perk bug fix that's been causing headaches.
Arrowhead has dropped Helldivers 2 patch 6.1.0 today, dubbed Machinery of Oppression, with a new Galactic War mobilisation incoming on Friday, March 20.
Europa Universalis V's Hotfix 1.1.10 is live today, targeting a nasty infinite loop bug that could lock up your game during bankruptcy events.
Manor Lords has a new beta build live for testing today, with a pathfinding refactor in progress and a round of bug fixes prioritised while the developer was away.
Bethesda has pushed a hotfix for Fallout 76 today, targeting some of the messier issues that surfaced after The Backwoods update dropped.
Brighter Shores adds Forager's Gloves today, a new craftable item that gives a 20% speed boost when foraging specific materials at each Leatherworker milestone.
ARC Raiders update 1.20.0 is live today, headlined by a long-requested Il Toro rebalance that touches DPS, range, and how the weapon scales with upgrades.
Nintendo's latest firmware update quietly delivers something Switch 2 owners didn't know they were getting: a free visual upgrade for hundreds of original Switch games, no upgrade pack required.
Farming Simulator 25's patch 1.17.0.0 lands today with new vehicles, multiplayer fixes, and a surprising number of AI helper improvements.
Satisfactory's long-awaited Update 1.2 has hit the Experimental branch today, bringing a wave of new features and improvements from Coffee Stain Studios.
Shyvana's long-awaited update lands in Patch 26.6, bringing a completely reworked kit, new model, and updated voice over alongside a stack of balance changes.
Act 2 is live, and Patch 12.05 brings a new Croatian Controller, meaningful nerfs to two dominant Agents, and a reworked A-site on Lotus.
IO Interactive has cut ties with Build a Rocket Boy, handing full publishing control of MindsEye back to the developer. The Hitman crossover mission announced last June is gone with it.
Eight years after that famous title card, Todd Howard openly regrets the Elder Scrolls 6 reveal. The good news: he also just confirmed the game is finally in full production.
Nexon has pushed another server-side hotfix for The First Descendant, and this one goes live without a client update, no download, just reconnect.
Nathan Fillion announced a Firefly animated continuation at Awesome Con, with the original cast back and Joss Whedon pointedly kept at arm's length.
For years, Pokemon Go players scanned PokeStops and Gyms thinking they were earning in-game rewards. Turns out they were also building a navigation system for commercial delivery robots.
Bethesda has confirmed Starfield news is coming next week, and with a rumoured PS5 launch date of April 7 already circulating, the announcement almost writes itself.
Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman has acknowledged the demand for a Hit & Run revival and refused to rule one out, and the timing is hard to ignore.
Battlefield 6 Update 1.2.2.0 launches Season 2: Nightfall on March 17, adding a new underground map, darkness mechanics, dirt bikes, and a wave of long-overdue fixes.
Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura says the team's next project will probably inherit ideas from Bananza, continuing a creative lineage that traces back to Super Mario Odyssey.
Icarus Week 223 drops a focused follow-up to last week's Dangerous Horizons release, addressing player feedback with mechanic clarity fixes and system improvements.
Nexon has pushed a small but targeted hotfix for The First Descendant today, addressing a movement bug that was stopping Descendants dead in their tracks during certain in-game videos.
For Honor's 2.66.1 patch is live, adding Seasonal Leaderboards and a smarter Spectator Camera Auto Mode to the mix.
A small but targeted hotfix landed for Overwatch 2 yesterday, cleaning up two issues introduced by the March 10 patch.
Mega Crit marks one week since early access launch with v0.99, a bug fix-heavy patch that also introduces a new cap on max HP values.
Epic Games is reducing the amount of V-Bucks players get for their money starting March 19, and their official explanation is that they need to 'pay the bills.' From a company that makes billions.
Square Enix just dropped Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster on PC and Xbox with no announcement, no countdown, no warning. One less reason to buy a Switch 2.
Aspyr's classic Lara Croft collection arrives on Switch 2 on March 18 with 120fps in handheld mode, and existing Switch owners get the upgrade for free.
Sony has confirmed the PS Plus Extra and Premium lineup for March 2026, and Space Marine 2 is the headliner. Eight games go live on March 17.
CS2's latest update drops the Dead Hand Collection, brings 22 new gloves as rare special items, and finally patches a pixel gap on Dust II.
Valve's GDC numbers quietly dismantle the indie saturation panic: nearly 6,000 games cleared $100K on Steam last year, double the count from five years ago.
Sandfall Interactive's legal team went after a French graphic novel author whose book shares a name with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The studio has since pulled the action and apologised, but the whole episode is a case study in how corporate legal reflexes can contradict a studio's own stated valu
Throne and Liberty's update 3.25.0 landed on March 11th with a hefty 30-hour maintenance window, bringing the Starbloom Festival event, server consolidation, and balance changes.
Mechabellum's biggest update in a while drops today, bringing Season 7, a brand-new unit, and native macOS support all at once.
Once Human's 2.3.4 update is live today after a scheduled maintenance window, bringing Starchrom changes, new Custom Server features, and mod drop improvements.
Project Zomboid's Unstable branch got a quick follow-up hotfix on 10th March, and this one targets a nasty bug that was stopping some players from loading the game entirely.
Warzone Season 02 Reloaded arrives March 11, headlined by Black Ops Royale, a new mode built around the Avalon map with no loadouts, Wingsuits replacing parachutes, and a reworked health system.
Destiny 2 Update 9.5.5.5 is a small but targeted fix from Bungie, addressing a bug that was quietly undermining Weapon Foundry Sponsorships across certain weapons.
Mega Crit has pushed another small hotfix for Slay the Spire 2, this time targeting the softlock issues that have been freezing runs at the timeline screen.
Rocket League v2.66 dropped on March 10th and it's a surprisingly meaty quality-of-life update, with visible MMR, a Flip Reset Indicator, and a Boost Timer Visualization all landing at once.
Director Koshi Nakanishi confirmed in a video message that a story expansion is in development for Resident Evil Requiem, with photo mode and a surprise minigame also on the way.
Ben Diskin voiced Mega Man in the best-selling entry in the series. Capcom asked him back for Dual Override, then refused the one condition that would have made it work.
Bethesda hasn't said a word, but a $51 action figure just did. A McFarlane Toys listing explicitly naming 'Fallout 3 Remastered' is the clearest signal yet that the remaster is happening.
A class-action lawsuit filed in Washington state doesn't just argue that Steam loot boxes are gambling, it argues Valve engineered them to work like slot machines, down to the spinning animations and near-miss effects.
PUBG: Battlegrounds turns nine this update, and Krafton is marking the occasion with in-match events, Rondo changes, and a quiet but meaningful Crowbar removal.
ARC Raiders update 1.19.0 is live today, bringing new cosmetics and a handful of inventory UI fixes that have been quietly annoying players.
Goro Abe, the man behind WarioWare's gloriously chaotic microgame formula, has left Nintendo after more than 25 years. He's not joining another studio. He's going to teach.
Ballistic Moon, the UK studio behind the 2024 Until Dawn remake, has been officially dissolved after a catastrophic commercial failure that reportedly underperformed Concord's launch on PlayStation 5.
Hearthstone Patch 35.0 goes live tomorrow, clearing the board ahead of CATACLYSM with balance hits to several Standard overperformers and a wave of Wild reversions.
skate.'s 0.30.1 patch hits servers on March 10 with a broader fix list than originally planned, after Full Circle squeezed in extra bug fixes at the last minute.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection launches March 13 with glowing reviews across the board. With no mainline Pokemon this year, Capcom may have accidentally filled the gap.
Bungie hid the Cryo Archive map behind a community-wide puzzle, and players just cracked the first stage. The reward is a set of eerie surveillance feeds from aboard the Marathon ship, one of which has something moving in it that nobody can explain.
Project Zomboid's Unstable branch picked up another update today with Build 42.15.0, and the devs are flagging compatibility concerns for existing saves.
Battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in three days and topped the US sales charts for all of 2025. EA's response was to cut staff at every single studio that built it.
Satya Nadella joined new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma for an internal Q&A and told staff Microsoft will 'always' invest in gaming. The timing is deliberate.
Steve Downes didn't give the White House permission to use his voice as Master Chief in a war propaganda video. He's making that very clear.
Modder Andy Nguyen got Linux running on a PS5 Slim, booted GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing at 60fps, and immediately hit the thermal wall that explains why Sony has never flipped this switch officially.
Three months after Gang of Dragon's reveal at The Game Awards, NetEase is walking away from Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio over a $44.4 million funding gap. The game's future is now entirely uncertain.
The latest Switch 2 eShop listings are out, and WWE 2K26 is sitting at a jaw-dropping 92.8GB. For context, Monster Hunter Stories 3 and the Fatal Frame 2 remake combined don't come close.
Embark pushed a quick hotfix for The Finals on 6th March, addressing a Discord SDK issue that was saving more user data than it should have been.
Someone at Teyon pushed the wrong build to Steam today, and for about half an hour, RoboCop: Rogue City became an unannounced Hunter: The Reckoning game. The files are gone, but the screenshots aren't.
Deadlock's March 6 update reshuffles movement and Shrine balance in ways that will ripple through every match. Here's what changed.
Team Fortress 2 received a patch on March 6, 2026, fixing a chat impersonation exploit alongside a wave of community-contributed bug fixes.
Dark and Darker's Hotfix #110 introduces the Workshop, a new system that lets you break down unwanted gear into scraps for crafting and upgrading.
Valve published a Year in Review blog post with uncertain language about the Steam Machine's 2026 launch, then quietly rewrote it the same day. The edit tells you everything about where things actually stand.
Nintendo has filed suit against the US government demanding back every dollar it paid under tariffs the Supreme Court already ruled illegal. It also wants interest on top.
Nintendo dropped new artwork for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of a March 9 Direct, and buried in the corner is a villain nobody expected: Wart, last seen in 1988's Super Mario Bros. 2.
Space Marine 2's Hotfix 12.1 dropped on 5th March with Techmarine perk reworks and a handful of balancing tweaks.
Capcom's sci-fi action game has spent six years collecting delays. Now, somehow, it's arriving early.
A fan-run charity challenge asking Arrowhead devs to beat Helldivers 2's hardest difficulty for a $1,000 donation ended with the creator receiving death threats, being doxxed, and watching harassers contact the horse sanctuary where they volunteer.
Sins of a Solar Empire II's v1.51 Hunt fer Booty update dropped yesterday, adding a new pirate capital ship and a bounty system that shakes up how factions interact mid-game.
Diablo 4's 2.6.0 update drops March 11 and it's a meaty one, bringing Bloodstained Sigils, a reworked stagger system, and a fresh batch of class-spanning uniques.
Borderlands 4's latest minor update landed yesterday, adjusting Pearlescent drop rates and cleaning up Bounty Pack 2 with a handful of quality-of-life fixes.
Gray Zone Warfare's Hotfix 0.3.5.4 is live on Steam, bringing settings adjustments and early access perks for Supporter Edition owners ahead of the Spearhead release.
Mega Crit's sequel hit 156,584 concurrent players on Steam within two hours of its early access launch. The original's all-time peak was 57,025.
Blizzard's next Diablo 4 season has one mechanic that actually matters: kill enough demons fast enough and you stop being the hunter. You become the Butcher.
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma has officially named Xbox's next-gen console: Project Helix. It plays PC games, and that changes everything about what an Xbox actually is.
Ember Lab's debut game is finally coming to Nintendo hardware, nearly five years after it helped define the PS5's early library.
The National Videogame Museum has acquired the Sony MSF-1, the oldest known Nintendo PlayStation prototype ever built and the only one of its kind. It's now housed in Frisco, Texas, where it belongs.
Nine minutes of raw Forza Horizon 6 footage dropped today, and instead of generating hype, it's generating one very specific question: where are all the cars?
Arena Breakout: Infinite's March 5 update went live at 03:00 UTC, bringing event updates including changes to Distortion Decryption.
Marvel Rivals' March 5 patch is a small but tidy one, fixing a trio of bugs and bringing two new cosmetic bundles into the shop.
Delta Force's Mid-Season Update dropped today with no downtime, bringing a free Epic Gun event and more through March 26.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Patch 1.5.3 drops emulation and goes native for Windows on ARM, with specific optimization for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite hardware.
Europa Universalis V's first major post-launch patch, 1.1 Rossbach, went live today after a month-long open beta. Hundreds of changes are now in.
The Finals update 9.12.0 dropped today, bringing the Sponsor Showdown event, a Chun Jie XP boost, and free Twitch drops alongside the usual round of bug fixes.
Final Fantasy 11 has a problem most MMOs would kill for: too many players. Square Enix is sealing off a third server in under a year.
Sony has quietly killed the PC versions of Ghost of Yotei and Saros, according to a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier. If you were waiting to play either on Steam, you're now waiting forever.
Grounded 2's Playgrounds Public Test Branch got a small but useful update on March 4th, bringing AXL into the Park and squashing a handful of bugs.
EA SPORTS FC 26's Title Update v1.5.0 dropped on 4th March, bringing gameplay tweaks and mode updates pulled directly from community feedback.
The former Humble Games staff who got laid off in 2024 just bought the entire catalogue they used to manage. It's now called Balor Games.
CS:GO has quietly reappeared on Steam as a standalone listing, three years after Valve folded it into Counter-Strike 2. The servers are still offline, the page is hidden from search, and Valve hasn't explained any of it.
Mark Gerhard says Build a Rocket Boy now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' behind MindsEye's dismal launch. He's also firing more people.
Pearl Abyss PR director Will Powers is tired of the questions. Players who bought Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 are tired of being burned.
Fragpunk's March 4 patch is a background update with no downtime, rolling out ahead of a wave of Anniversary events that kick off tomorrow.
Activision hit TheGhostOfHope with a legal demand to stop leaking Call of Duty information today. Then the official CoD account went on Twitter and twisted the knife.
Bungie has confirmed that Marathon's seasonal resets are mandatory and total. Every three months, your vault is gone. Here's what that actually means.
Ben Kingsley is reportedly joining Sonic the Hedgehog 4 in a 'key role', and the fan consensus on who he's playing is hard to argue with.
EA is launching a paid mod Marketplace for The Sims 4 on March 17, complete with a new real-money currency called Moola. The community is not thrilled.
Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed Highguard will go offline on March 12. Two million players wasn't enough to keep the lights on.
MoonHood's stop-motion horror adventure The Midnight Walk is coming to Switch 2 on March 26. It deserved more attention on PS5, and now it gets a second shot.
Amazon Prime Video has found its Max and Chloe for the Life Is Strange live-action series. One name you'll recognise; the other you almost certainly won't.
The original Cities: Skylines is getting a proper new expansion next week while its sequel limps along with creator packs. Paradox's anniversary celebrations tell you everything about where this series actually stands.
Iron Galaxy posted a company meeting photo with Fallout's 'Please Stand By' screen front and centre. The studio behind THPS 3+4 may have just confirmed the remaster fans have been screaming for.
Bandai Namco has scheduled a new RPG reveal for this Friday, March 5, and the five-year gap since Tales of Arise means speculation is already running hot.
Tripwire Interactive has cut 23 jobs across multiple departments. With Killing Floor 3 pulling a 24-hour Steam peak of 300 players, the timing is hard to ignore.
Fallout 76's Backwoods update drops today, bringing a 4-Star Legendary Creature hunt and a wave of quality-of-life fixes across events, the Pip-Boy, and armor.
PEAK's latest maintenance patch is small by design, but it brings a fresh batch of maps to the co-op climbing game.
Squad's second hotfix for version 10.3 is live today, fixing the vehicle collision bug that's been swallowing trucks whole.
Warzone's new Black Ops Royale mode strips out custom loadouts, the Gulag, and Buy Stations entirely, replacing them with a scavenge-to-survive loop straight out of Blackout. It launches March 12.
Capcom's next Spotlight showcase is this Thursday, and after six years of delays and radio silence, Pragmata is finally front and center.
The official Xbox Game Pass account posted a fake internal email stuffed with Cyberpunk 2077 references. No confirmation yet, but the hints aren't subtle.
Ubisoft has dropped the Y11S1 addendum for Rainbow Six Siege, cleaning up a stack of bugs that made it through the Season Test Server for Operation Silent Hunt.
ARC Raiders update 1.18.0 dropped today, closing off a safe pocket exploit and tweaking loot rates on the Hurricane map condition.
Blizzard dropped a fresh round of World of Warcraft hotfixes on March 2, covering dungeon access, quest blockers, and a Mage that was apparently pulling enemies through solid walls.
Brighter Shores' March 2 update connects fishing progression directly to the Fallen Monument, adding new spots as you clear odd-numbered stages.
EA responded to a press inquiry and removed one Epstein creation from The Sims 4 gallery. The others, some dating back to 2023, are still there.
Collector Keripo had one of just 50 Tsukihime Trial Edition floppy disks shipped to them from Portugal. U.S. Customs returned it in pieces.
Space Marine 2's first paid voice pack promises 450 re-recorded lines but keeps reverting to the default voice whenever the game hits an objective. Players are refunding it.
Starry Studio pushed out a round of bug fixes for Once Human on March 1, and the patch notes are now live. Here's what got addressed.
Smite 2's OB 29 update goes live today, March 2, bringing the Dark Enchantress to the roster and a fresh round of balance changes.
Former Highguard senior level designer Alex Graner went on the Quad Damage podcast and said what everyone who watched the numbers crater already suspected: the game built a wall around itself and called it a feature.
Hugo Martin went on a Slayers Club livestream and called the Doom: The Dark Ages DLC 'basically like a sequel.' Great news. Now if only it had a release date.
Game Freak's 10th generation Pokémon games are Switch 2 exclusives, and that means the hundreds of millions of Switch 1 owners are simply out of luck.
Netflix officially kills its PS3 app tomorrow, March 2. The surprising thing isn't that it's dying, it's that it was still alive.
Hello Games drops patch 6.24 for No Man's Sky Remnant, tackling driverless vehicles, vanishing refiners, and platform-specific memory optimisations.
Mechabellum's latest patch targets late-game performance and lays the groundwork for Season 7's new unit with minor balance tweaks.
ICARUS hotfix 2.4.1 is a small but targeted patch for Homestead players who found their newly tamed wolves locked out of the update's new phenotype options.
Grinding Gear Games dropped a small but specific hotfix on February 28, targeting a floaty mess in Jamanra's second boss phase.
Battlefield 6's update 1.2.1.5 arrives March 3rd with crash fixes, restored store inventory, and a handful of Battle Royale corrections that should have shipped weeks ago.
Sony greenlit the numbers on a Bloodborne remake from Bluepoint. FromSoftware said no. Then Sony shut Bluepoint down entirely. The chain of events is hard to ignore.
After a bruising development cycle and skeptical fans, Marathon's open beta just posted numbers that nobody expected. Bungie might actually have something here.
The original founders of Guitar Hero are on the advisory board of Stage Tour, a new rhythm game from reformed studio RedOctane Games targeting a Holiday 2026 release. Here's what we know.
Netflix walked away from its $83 billion Warner Bros. deal rather than match Paramount's raised offer, handing David Ellison the keys to Batman, HBO, and the entire WB Games catalog.
Clint Hocking is out at Ubisoft, and Jean Guesdon is now steering Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe. Somehow, the buzz around the game is only getting louder.
Stardew Valley just turned 10, and ConcernedApe celebrated by announcing two new marriage candidates for update 1.7. One of them is Clint, the blacksmith who has been silently pining for Emily for a decade.
God of War: Sons of Sparta launched with co-op locked behind story completion. Now you can skip that with an old-school button sequence, if you know where to look.
A new third-party site promised to make Marvel Rivals griefers pay, literally. Instead, it's flooding ranked lobbies with even more intentional losses and ended up getting hacked.
Full Circle just cut an unknown number of staff from the team building Skate, framing the layoffs as a restructure that will somehow speed up development on a game that's been in early access since September.
New York's attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Valve, alleging its loot boxes are illegal gambling that endangers young gamers.
Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem merges survival horror and classic action, gaining critical acclaim and becoming a standout in the franchise.
French publisher Nacon has filed for insolvency, raising questions about the future of major upcoming titles and its financial survival.
Blizzard has officially unveiled Overwatch Rush, a new mobile hero shooter set in the Overwatch universe with a fresh top-down twist.
Sega is gearing up to drop the Tangle & Whisper update for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds next week, bringing new racers and a limited-time festival.
The creators behind Simpsons Hit & Run and Prototype have re-emerged as New Radical Games, stirring excitement about classic remasters.
Discord is pressing pause on its controversial age verification plan, pushing the rollout to later this year and promising better transparency and choices.
Sony’s multiplayer ambitions face a test as Horizon Hunters Gathering and Marathon hold overlapping betas this weekend.
The Shrouded Sky update lands in Arc Raiders, bringing intense hurricanes, mysterious UFO sightings, and a shakeup to weapons and crafting.
After years of anticipation, Marvel’s Wolverine is officially hitting PS5 on September 15, 2026, giving fans a brutal superhero fix before GTA 6 arrives.