750 articles tagged with “Gaming News”
A God of War prequel starring Kratos' late wife Faye is reportedly headed to Sony's June 2 State of Play, alongside Marvel's Wolverine and potentially more PlayStation exclusives.
Rocksteady co-developed LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and its combat feels like a streamlined version of the Arkham series. Dismiss it as a kids' game at your own risk.
Red Dead Redemption 2 just had its strongest sales year since it launched in 2018, pushing past 85 million copies and overtaking Wii Sports on the all-time best-sellers list.
Bloomberg reports Bungie has no approved projects beyond Marathon, no Destiny 3 in the works, and significant layoffs coming. The studio that Sony paid $3.6 billion for is running out of road.
Pearl Abyss keeps stacking features into Crimson Desert at a pace that's hard to believe. Patch 1.08 gives Kliff firearms, adds a baby wyvern pet that will eventually become a mount, and quietly slips in ray-traced sun and moon shadows.
Warhammer Skulls brought the concrete date fans have been waiting for, plus a Commander Edition with early access and a post-launch roadmap that includes Crusade Mode, a mission editor, and a mystery faction.
Infinity Ward's new studio heads have posted a mission statement promising the "definitive Modern Warfare" experience, with a full reveal likely coming during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7.
Despite raising Switch 2 prices across the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe, Nintendo has reportedly bumped its production target to 20 million consoles by March 2027. Japanese sales are already spiking ahead of the hike.
After seven years of total silence, the official Crazy Taxi social media accounts flickered back to life with a five-second teaser clip. A full reveal at an upcoming summer showcase looks almost certain.
Take-Two's FY2027 guidance projects $8 billion in revenue on the back of GTA 6, but the three questions fans keep asking remain unanswered.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick accuses big tech companies of lying about why they laid off thousands, calling it pandemic overhiring rather than AI displacement.
Stig Asmussen's Giant Skull had a D&D action-adventure in the works with serious talent behind it. Wizards of the Coast killed it anyway.
Quantic Dream's first multiplayer game never broke 888 concurrent players on Steam. Now 95 jobs are on the line, and a French labor union is calling for management to resign.
Take-Two's FY2027 revenue guidance jumps by over $1 billion compared to this year. Nearly all of that rides on a single game shipping on time.
Take-Two's fiscal year earnings call confirmed what millions of anxious fans needed to hear: GTA 6 is still launching November 19, and marketing kicks off this summer.
Dotemu and Old Skull Games have announced Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster, a 2D stealth-action platformer starring a Skaven assassin named Vihneek. It's coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2 in 2027.
Unknown Worlds' underwater survival sequel hit 4 million copies sold in under a week, and the studio is already responding to community pushback on creature encounters.
King Art Games locked in a September 17 release date for Dawn of War 4 during Warhammer Skulls, alongside a DLC roadmap that includes a mystery fifth faction and the return of Crusade Mode.
Bungie announced that Destiny 2 will receive its final live-service content update on June 9, 2026, ending nearly a decade of active development on the MMO shooter.
After more than a year of hints, failed scheduling, and one CEO's very expensive Warhammer miniature habit, the Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40,000 crossover is officially happening.
Scalping has gotten so bad that The Pokémon Company is weighing government-issued ID scans just to buy certain card products in Japan. The system could go live as early as August 2026.
Keiichiro Toyama, director of the original Silent Hill, stepped outside into Tokyo and thought he was still playing Forza Horizon 6. He's far from the only Japanese local blown away by Playground Games' recreation.
Director Yoji Fujito expected players to leave after the FF14 crossover hype faded. They didn't, and now the 24-year-old MMO is scrambling to keep up.
Hasbro has poured nearly $1 billion into game development since 2018 and deliberately avoided live service. The same week, Quantic Dream's MOBA died after three months.
IO Interactive's narrative director says Bond's outdated attitudes toward women won't survive the jump to 2026, but the flirting and romance are very much still there.
Harry Krueger, the director behind Returnal and Nex Machina, has launched a new Helsinki-based studio called Cosmic Division. Its first project is a single-player IP targeting consoles and PC.
After being publicly told to stop by fellow Square veteran Akitoshi Kawazu, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi responded by sharing even more AI-generated game concepts.
Warhorse Studios just confirmed two projects at once: an open-world Middle-earth RPG and a new Kingdom Come game. The studio behind one of the most detail-obsessed RPG series in years is now tackling Tolkien.
Square Enix considered winding down Final Fantasy 11 in 2024. Now its servers are so full it had to stop accepting new players on some worlds.
Quantic Dream's Spellcasters Chronicles never cracked 900 concurrent players on Steam. Now it's dead, and the studio is 'reorganizing.'
Ubisoft's latest earnings report reveals the brutal math behind its next wave of blockbusters: seven cancelled projects, six delayed, 1,200 fewer employees, and a record €1.3 billion operating loss.
Embracer's new Fellowship Entertainment entity will "more actively" explore external partnerships for dormant franchises including Deus Ex, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, and Legacy of Kain.
Sony just confirmed its biggest State of Play of the year, running over an hour and leading with an extended look at Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine ahead of its September launch.
We're nearly halfway through 2026 and Nintendo still hasn't held a proper Direct. Jeff Grubb says that's about to change, with a full presentation expected by mid-June.
Embracer is splitting into two public companies and actively seeking external partners for franchises like Deus Ex, TimeSplitters, and Saints Row, the same IPs it cancelled projects for and shuttered studios around.
After 4.5 years without a salary, former Housemarque veteran Kimmo Lahtinen says Sektori's Switch 2 launch pushed total sales to 30,000 and finally let him pay himself.
With a Metacritic average sitting around 80, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is the highest-scoring Yoshi game since Yoshi's Island DS in 2006. Reviews range from a perfect 10 to a 6, but the consensus leans positive.
Firaxis has finally backed down on Civilization 7's most controversial mechanic. The Test of Time update lets you stick with one civ across all three ages.
White Owls Inc.'s Late Check-Out DLC brings two new environments, 17 enemy types, and two boss fights to Hotel Barcelona on PS5 and Xbox Series starting May 21.
Fireshine Games, riding the momentum of Far Far West's million-copy breakout, has publicly declared it won't partner with any studio using generative AI art in game development.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches on Switch 2 this week with a Metacritic score of 80, but individual reviews range wildly from a perfect 10 to a flat 6.
Fireshine Games' cyberpunk cowboy co-op shooter hit a million units in Early Access, and the publisher says it won't work with devs who rely on gen-AI art.
Nine Dots Studio revealed Outward 2's early access date and system requirements via a talking potato, confirming the survival RPG will run on hardware from 2014.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, GameSpot's 2024 Game of the Year, is leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 31 alongside Persona 4 Golden. Meanwhile, 13 new games are rolling in, headlined by Jurassic World Evolution 3 and Remnant II.
Epic Games has restored Fortnite to the Apple App Store in nearly every country, calling it "the beginning of the end of the Apple Tax worldwide" as the legal fight heads to the Supreme Court.
Nintendo's new WarioWare-style mobile game Pictonico launches May 28, but its free demo includes just three minigames out of 80. The rest cost $13.98 across two paid volumes.
Microsoft opened a feedback channel expecting constructive suggestions, but fans turned it into a referendum on the multiplatform strategy.
Nintendo's surprise mobile announcement Pictonico has actual pricing now: $5.99 and $7.99 for two volumes totalling 80 minigames. And it works offline.
Xbox launched its Player Voice feedback portal, and the most popular requests from fans tell you exactly where the brand's biggest gaps are.
Hermen Hulst told PlayStation staff in a town hall that narrative single-player games will now stay exclusive to PlayStation consoles. Multiplayer titles like Marathon and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls will still ship on PC.
Intelligent Systems, the studio behind WarioWare and Fire Emblem, co-developed Nintendo's surprise new mobile game Pictonico, which turns your camera roll into playable minigames.
Pictonico turns your personal photos into playable WarioWare-style minigames, and it's co-developed by Intelligent Systems. It launches May 28 on iOS and Android.
PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed in a staff town hall that first-party narrative single-player games will no longer come to PC. Multiplayer titles like Helldivers 2 remain multiplatform.
A free Prologue Demo for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is available now on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series, and PC, with save data carrying over to the full game.
Matt Ryan was pitched a pirate TV show by his agent. He ended up becoming one of the most beloved characters in Assassin's Creed history.
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi called an AI-generated FF6 remake video "amazing." SaGa series creator Akitoshi Kawazu wasn't having it.
Tom Kane, the prolific voice actor behind Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Takeo Masaki in Call of Duty Zombies, has died at 64 after complications from a stroke he suffered in 2020.
Two fan-favourite Marvel heroes join the beat 'em up roster today in a surprise $3.99 DLC drop, and a second content wave is already confirmed for later this year.
Sony is raising PlayStation Plus prices for new subscribers starting May 20, citing 'ongoing market conditions.' The timing is remarkable given Xbox just lowered Game Pass prices last month.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launched on Switch 2 and absolutely dominated the platform split, with PS5 and Xbox each hovering below 1%. The demand for big third-party ports on Nintendo's new hardware is staggering.
Roughly 24 Rocksteady developers helped build Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and WB Games Montreal pitched in too. That Arkham DNA isn't just inspiration, it's literal.
Forza Horizon 6 pulled in $140 million from early access alone, with over 181,000 concurrent players paying $120 each. The game isn't even officially out yet.
After grossing over $50 million in theaters, Markiplier's horror film Iron Lung is heading to YouTube as a paid exclusive on May 31, bypassing Netflix, Amazon, and every other traditional streaming platform.
Fans digging into Subnautica 2's end-user license agreement found clauses capping damage payouts at $50, banning VPN use, and giving Krafton the right to revoke access at any time.
BeXide and Bandai Namco are turning classic arcade characters into voxels you toss, stack, and merge in a 3D twist on the Suika Game formula. It's launching this summer on Switch 2, Switch, and PC.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book knocked Pokemon Pokopia off the top of the Switch 2 eShop, and the game isn't even out yet.
Virtuos, the studio behind Metal Gear Solid Delta and the Oblivion Remastered port, says its team is eager to bring two of Rockstar's biggest games to Nintendo's hardware.
Ubisoft is gutting Siege's competitive system and replacing hidden MMR with transparent rank progression. It only took a decade.
A Nintendo 64 emulator fork just added rollback netcode across the entire library, and the programmer behind it says GekkoNet "did most of the lifting." Spain-to-Australia Smash 64 at four frames of delay is now a real thing.
Two months before Borderlands was supposed to ship, Take-Two approved a $50 million art style overhaul. CEO Strauss Zelnick says no other publisher would have done it.
Ghost of Yotei sold 3.3 million copies in its first month, but Sucker Punch has already wrapped major support for its Legends multiplayer mode after a single content update.
After years of promising 'final' updates that never were, Re-Logic has dropped the act. Terraria will keep getting updates beyond 1.4.6, crossplay is coming soon, and the game just hit 70 million copies sold.
Forza Horizon 6 doesn't officially release until May 19, but over a million players have already paid a premium to get in early, doubling Forza Horizon 5's Steam record in the process.
Unknown Worlds sold 2 million copies of Subnautica 2 in half a day, and the studio's lead designer says the game's no-violence philosophy is a hill they're willing to die on.
Square Enix is scrapping the 14-day cap on Final Fantasy 11's free trial and raising the level limit to 75. For a 24-year-old MMO still getting updates, it's a move that should have happened years ago.
Google Play Korea cast the greatest League of Legends player ever opposite one of K-pop's biggest stars in a romantic mini-drama ad series. It's stuffed with esports callbacks and it absolutely works.
Bandai Namco let the official Aqours fan club domain expire, and it's now sitting on a Japanese auction site with a lead bid of $615 million. Fans aren't laughing.
Mechanicus 2 arrives May 21 on Xbox Series X|S with a franchise first: the Leagues of Votann make their video game debut alongside dual Adeptus Mechanicus and Necron campaigns.
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are sitting at number one and two on the Switch eShop's download-only chart. A pair of 22-year-old Game Boy Advance remakes are outselling Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and nearly everything else on the store.
WWE stars, action heavyweights, and rising talent fill out a Street Fighter movie cast that looks like it was built by people who actually understand the source material.
Annapurna Interactive didn't hedge or issue a careful PR statement about Mixtape's music licensing. It called the delisting rumours a lie and told everyone to have a great weekend.
Overwatch fans roasted the game's 10th anniversary event for its underwhelming rewards. Blizzard's immediate fix? More loot boxes.
Japanese indie horror visual novel This Game Is Not Real has been pulled from Steam after Valve ruled it didn't meet platform criteria, despite 24,000 wishlists and months of community anticipation.
IO Interactive's younger Bond isn't just cocky for the sake of it. Beneath the smug grin is an orphan with rage issues, and the studio says that's exactly the point.
Capcom has teamed up with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions to turn the MMA card's fighters into Street Fighter characters on official merch. The pairings are wild.
Director Jeff Fowler announced filming on Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has wrapped, sharing a behind-the-scenes look at Metal Sonic. The movie races into theatres March 19, 2027.
Fortnite's Overwatch collaboration dropped this week, and somehow the biggest talking point isn't the maps, the weapons, or D.Va. It's Tracer's butt. Again.
Sektori slipped past most people when it launched last November. A Switch 2 release gives one of 2025's best arcade shooters a second chance at the audience it deserves.
June's Game Pass lineup is already one of the stranger months in recent memory, led by a game where you kickflip an actual train through Japanese cities.
Age of Solitaire: Build Civilization quietly vanished from the Xbox store this week, taking with it an achievement list so absurd it required over a year of continuous playtime.
At least seven Visual Concepts employees have posted about being laid off, with reports linking the cuts to the fallout from WWE 2K26's controversial Ringside Pass system.
The Los Angeles Chargers didn't just parody Halo for their 2026 schedule reveal. They got Halo Studios and Jeff Steitzer himself involved.
Uwe Boll is coming out of retirement to make a spiritual sequel to his 2003 House of the Dead film, which holds a 3% score on Rotten Tomatoes. He says Paul W.S. Anderson's official reboot inspired him to do it better.
IO Interactive's devs argue that a Bond nobody has strong feelings about would be a creative failure, and they're leaning into the backlash around Patrick Gibson's portrayal.
EVE Online's upcoming Cradle of War expansion introduces Exordium, a fully PvP-free starter zone where nobody can shoot you. For a game built entirely on the promise that anyone can betray anyone, that's a fascinating concession.
Blizzard's own 10th anniversary event landed so flat that Fortnite's Overwatch collab became the real celebration, and game director Aaron Keller had to publicly acknowledge the criticism.
IO Interactive's developers say the lopsided smirk and cocky attitude that's divided fans is a deliberate narrative choice. This Bond is meant to get knocked down.
A new report reveals Amazon Game Studios developers were pressured to rebuild their game around generative AI to avoid cuts. They complied. Amazon cut them anyway.
Expression Games previously said the open beta would be available on console. Now it's Steam-only, with the full launch just weeks away.
Affiliate emails from Best Buy have leaked a May 18 pre-order window for GTA 6, with insiders claiming six different editions including console bundles and early access.
Naoki Hamaguchi explains why he refuses to confirm or deny the wildest FF7 Remake fan theories, calling the speculation a sign that the trilogy's design is working exactly as intended.
2K is quietly pulling Lego 2K Drive from every digital storefront on May 19, the exact third anniversary of its launch. Multiplayer servers follow in 2027.
Pearl Abyss has shipped Crimson Desert update 1.07.00 just five days after the last major patch, continuing an MMO-style update cadence that's almost unheard of for a single-player game.
AMD has confirmed that its AI-powered FSR 4.1 upscaling technology will arrive on RDNA 2 hardware, including the Steam Deck, in early 2027. RDNA 3 desktop cards get it first in July.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says the memory and component price surge driving Switch 2's price increase isn't temporary, and could affect pricing well into next year.
With five new Virtual Boy additions to Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo has already put over half of the console's entire library on the service. At this rate, they'll run out of games before the year is over.
A Brazilian telecommunications regulator has inadvertently revealed the Xbox Elite 3 controller, complete with two mysterious scroll wheels, a removable battery, and a dedicated cloud gaming mode.
Expression Games is shipping Hell Let Loose: Vietnam straight to 1.0 on June 18, a sharp contrast to the original's two-year early access stint. A free open beta weekend runs May 29 to June 1.
Kadokawa's fiscal year earnings report confirms both Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition and The Duskbloods are still targeting a 2026 release on Switch 2, though neither game has a firm date.
Eric Barone's theoretical musings about consequences in sandbox games got twisted into a headline about adding cheating to Stardew Valley. He's now set the record straight.
Bungie's seasonal reset will wipe your runner level, vault, gear, and most currencies when Marathon Season 2: Nightfall begins on June 2.
Polyarc's award-winning VR series is getting a flat-screen makeover. Moss: The Forgotten Relic combines both games into a single enhanced adventure for PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch this summer.
Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO is officially dead, again. The company says it's still exploring a Middle-earth game, but its track record inspires zero confidence.
Universal is rushing The Super Mario Galaxy Movie to digital storefronts on May 19, barely six weeks after its theatrical debut. The film is still 2026's top earner but looks unlikely to crack a billion.
The live-action Legend of Zelda film has had its release date changed for the third time. It's now arriving one whole week earlier than planned.
After delays, legal drama, and a pre-launch leak, Subnautica 2 hits Steam Early Access today as the platform's most wishlisted game with over 5 million players waiting.
Most showcases tease trailers and drop vague release windows. This year's Warhammer Skulls is shipping an entire game alongside its reveals.
Even Realities is putting its real-world G2 smart glasses into 007 First Light as a usable Bond gadget, marking a strange new frontier for product placement in games.
Capcom's fiscal year report quietly lists Dragon's Dogma among the franchises it plans to grow through sequels, remakes, and ports, offering some reassurance to fans worried the series died with Hideaki Itsuno's departure.
After months of refusing to commit to a date, Bulwark Studios has confirmed Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 drops next Thursday, May 21, timed to the annual Warhammer Skulls showcase.
A prominent Ubisoft leaker claims Assassin's Creed Hexe takes place during the Würzburg witch trials, not Salem, with Ezio Auditore making a comeback.
Producer Chuck Beaver says EA needs 15 million units to justify a new Dead Space, and single-player horror without live service is a dead business model in the publisher's eyes.
BioShock creator Ken Levine credits a single death in his second Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with reshaping how his studio builds narrative systems in Judas.
A behind-the-scenes video shows the NHK Symphony Orchestra performing the main theme for Pokémon Winds and Waves, giving the next generation of Pokémon a seriously grand orchestral treatment.
Eight games hit the PS Plus Extra and Premium catalog on May 19, with Star Wars Outlaws and a returning Red Dead Redemption 2 leading the lineup.
Casey Hudson is building Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic without generative AI and without the 200-hour runtime that's become an RPG default. It's exactly the kind of stance this genre needs right now.
Croteam's philosophical puzzle trilogy is coming to an end. The Talos Principle 3 will take players into the Anomaly, a place where the laws of physics break down, across more than a dozen worlds.
An unemployed man has been arrested for sending letters threatening to blow up Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters. He's the second 27-year-old to threaten the company in the space of two years.
Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier eclipses Stardew Valley in maps, monsters, items, and equipment depth. Everything is cranked up, and he's spending five days a week proving it.
Valve's new Steam Controller plays the iconic Wilhelm scream when you drop it, and the internet has been gleefully testing it ever since.
One content creator played a leaked build of Forza Horizon 6 on camera without hiding his gamertag. Playground Games responded with a ban lasting until December 31, 9999.
Less than six months after leaving Bandai Namco, Katsuhiro Harada has launched VS Studio as an SNK subsidiary and confirmed his intent to return to the fighting game genre.
Sega quietly killed its ambitious live service 'Super Game' in a single line of a financial presentation, shifting over 100 developers back to full game development. The live service gold rush might finally be dying.
A new path tracing update to the DS2LightingEngine mod makes Dark Souls 2 gorgeous and significantly harder. No light source in a cave? You're in the dark. Literally.
Sega quietly killed its five-year Super Game live-service project and moved over 100 developers back to working on full games, including its Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, and Golden Axe reboots.
Supermassive's sci-fi horror game is pulling review scores from 5/10 all the way up to 9.5/10, with critics split on whether its new stealth mechanics and ambitious storytelling elevate or undermine the Dark Pictures formula.
Valve generated over 27 million unique images just to backfill existing Counter-Strike listings as part of a sweeping Community Market redesign now in beta.
Frogwares has completely overhauled The Sinking City 2, swapping the original's bloated open world for a focused survival horror structure with safe rooms, limited ammo, and combat pulled straight from Resident Evil's playbook.
Troy Baker was so afraid of failing as Indiana Jones that he told the casting director to destroy the tape if it didn't work. Then he landed the part and spent two weeks recreating one of cinema's most iconic openings.
A new arcade basketball game hits PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam on June 9 for $29.99, with a closed beta this Saturday giving players a three-hour window to try it out.
Katsuhiro Harada, the man behind Tekken, has founded VS Studio under the SNK umbrella. He's already said he wants to make a new fighting game.
Three Scottish Labour MPs have publicly accused Rockstar of meeting workers with 'silence and closed doors' as the legal battle over alleged union-busting dismissals drags on.
Round8 Studio, the developer behind Lies of P, is actively recruiting for a generative AI role that would put tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion at the centre of its art pipeline. The sequel just entered full production.
Pocketpair quietly filed trademarks for "Palworld Online" in two countries, and nobody's sure yet whether it's a full MMO, a GTA Online-style split, or just new branding for the 1.0 launch.
Nintendo's new Choose Your Game Bundle gives you a Switch 2 and a first-party title for $500. Come September, that same $500 won't even cover the console.
Discord Nitro's new Game Pass Starter Edition includes 50+ games and cloud streaming, but console players won't get online multiplayer. That's a first for any Game Pass tier.
Sega quietly confirmed the death of its ambitious Super Game initiative in a financial results slide, five years after announcing the project and floating an $882 million investment to make it happen.
The Entertainment Software Association is urging California lawmakers to kill a bill that would require publishers to preserve games or offer refunds, arguing the bill rests on the 'false premise' that consumers own their digital games.
NBC is turning the New York Times' daily word puzzle into a primetime game show with cash prizes, hosted by Today's Savannah Guthrie and produced by Jimmy Fallon.
Eight years of datamining have unearthed Amy Hennig's wildly different vision for Uncharted 4, complete with sword fighting, fish spearing, and Nathan Drake cutting a rug at a fancy party.
After showing up to Fallout events for over 15 years and semi-publicly lobbying producer Jonathan Nolan, Aaron Paul has finally landed a role in the show's third season.
Discord Nitro's new Rewards program bundles a starter edition of Xbox Game Pass into the $9.99 subscription, giving members access to over 50 games including Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, and Doom Eternal.
Nintendo confirmed the My Nintendo Store will become just 'Nintendo Store' on May 27, a rebrand that changes two letters and absolutely nothing else.
The Undisputed WWE Champion says Nintendo politely told him to stop wearing the Triforce on his ring gear, though the symbol is still tattooed on his finger.
Nintendo raised the Switch 2's price to calm shareholders. Instead, shares cratered 12% as investors learned the hike still doesn't cover rising production costs.
Zdeněk Glatz, a senior designer and writer on Kingdom Come: Deliverance, has joined CD Projekt Red as senior open world designer. He's the latest in a growing line of Warhorse veterans making the move.
From May 27, My Nintendo Store becomes Nintendo Store. Nintendo leaned into The Social Network meme to break the news, and honestly, it might be the most personality the storefront has ever shown.
Pearl Abyss delivers on one of the biggest fan requests since launch, turning Crimson Desert's coolest wildlife into permanent rideable mounts.
A developer apparently forgot to encrypt Forza Horizon 6's files when uploading them to Steam, and pirates had the game running before anyone who paid $100 for early access could touch it.
Australia's age classification board accidentally revealed that Star Wars Zero Company's story spans into the early Galactic Empire, a detail Bit Reactor hasn't officially announced yet.
Blizzard's lead class designer revealed the team's surprisingly physical litmus test for making the Warlock feel distinct from Diablo 4's other spellcasters: who would win in a fist fight?
Wayne June gave Red Hook permission to clone his voice with AI before he died. The studio said no, and the reasoning behind that decision says more about the AI debate than any corporate policy ever could.
Gamble With Your Friends, a co-op casino roguelike from first-time studio Team Gwyf, has blown past a million sales in just seven days.
A modding team called Breadworks is turning Team Fortress 2 into a full-blown zombie horde survival game, complete with barricades, perks, and endless waves. It looks like the mode Valve should have shipped years ago.
Six years of decompilation work has produced Dusk, a native PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that runs on PC, mobile, and Linux with mod support baked in.
Gamble With Your Friends hit 1 million copies sold in just nine days, proving once again that cheap, chaotic co-op games are the most reliable hit factory on Steam.
Gears of War: E-Day was revealed as the presenting sponsor of WWE's Triplemania 2026 event in September, and WWE's track record with game sponsorships suggests the timing isn't a coincidence.
After eight years managing Unreal Engine at Epic, Arjan Brussee thinks AI-first architecture can topple the very engine he helped run. His new project, the Immense Engine, is being built from scratch in the Netherlands.
A Final Fantasy 14 player used rows of Everkeep Sofas and the game's expanded furniture limit to build an uncanny recreation of Pragmata's shelter hub inside their in-game house.
Xbox hasn't said a word about when Gears of War: E-Day actually launches, but a pro wrestling sponsorship deal might have done the talking for them.
Subnautica 2's game design lead says even he can't handle the dark zones he helped build. The sequel hits early access on May 14 with co-op, a mysterious tree, and the same deep-ocean dread that made the original unforgettable.
A content creator trying to beat Bully without hurting anyone accidentally discovered how to bring the shooting range's BB rifle into free roam, no mods required.
Nintendo's latest financial results reveal that nearly half of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream's 3.8 million players are already on Switch 2, turning a quirky life sim into one of the clearest adoption signals for the new hardware.
Battlefield 6 Season 3 reimagines BF4's Golmud Railway as the biggest map in the game, and it's the centrepiece of a season dripping with nostalgia.
Resident Evil Requiem just got a free roguelike mode called Leon Must Die Forever, turning Leon's campaign levels into a replayable, route-based arcade gauntlet with randomised weapons and ability builds.
A billboard in Lego Batman's open world honours the late Kevin Conroy with a quiet, perfect tagline: "The voice of Gotham's night."
TT Games dropped the launch trailer for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and it perfectly captures what this game is going for: every iconic Batman moment you remember, lovingly recreated and then ruined in the best way possible.
Yacht Club Games finally locks down a release date for its Shovel Knight follow-up, and the $19.99 price tag feels like a statement in an era of rising costs.
Electric Square has reaffirmed that Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is still on track for 2026, squashing delay rumors even as Crystal Dynamics continues to shed staff.
Double Fine's entire 42-person workforce has filed to unionize with CWA, making it the first studio to test whether Xbox's new CEO will maintain Microsoft's labor neutrality.
Yuji Horii spoiled Square Enix's surprise by revealing a May 27 Dragon Quest livestream on a now-delisted YouTube video. The man is apparently notorious for this.
Starting May 25th, the PS5 will cost less than the Switch 2 in Japan. That probably won't matter as much as Sony hopes.
Three studios, one week, identical talking points. The word 'efficient' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in gaming's AI conversation right now.
Mortal Kombat II screenwriter Jeremy Slater openly compared the first film's arcana concept to Star Wars' most mocked lore addition, confirming the sequel intentionally buried it without a retcon.
Sony's CEO confirmed the PS6 has no set launch date or price, with memory costs driven by AI demand forcing the company to consider changing its entire business model.
From Heavenly Sword to Clair Obscur, Andy Serkis has watched Hollywood's attitude toward games flip completely. Now he says the industry that once looked down on games can't stop borrowing from them.
Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino detailed two internal AI tools during the company's corporate strategy presentation, including one called Mockingbird that compresses hours of animation into moments.
IO Interactive's senior combat designer explains why Bond can't just pull a silenced pistol and headshot his way through 007 First Light. The License to Kill system forces you to earn your gunfights.
Warhorse creative director Prokop Jirsa says he understands why people hate AI art because he hates it too. Then he explained how the studio uses it anyway.
Three major studios delivered near-identical assurances about AI in the same week. At some point, the repetition itself becomes the story.
Modder RPGKing117 has streamed the entirety of Morrowind onto Fallout 4's tiny Pip-Boy display using a custom OpenMW build, and the original Fallout is already in progress.
31st Union's boss says he's 'never been more confident' in Project Ethos. He said this in the same memo announcing staff cuts and a reworked creative direction.
After years of teasing the Hexenzirkel as background lore, HoYoverse is finally putting one of its mages on the battlefield. Nicole Reeyn headlines Genshin Impact's Luna VII update on May 20.
Arrowhead's latest "Transmission from Super Earth Command" promised multi-week campaigns, better rewards, and improved communication. The community told them to stop talking and start fixing.
On May 8, Sony's CEO, an Epic senior manager, and a Warhorse creative director all delivered near-identical reassurances about AI and jobs. The timing is hard to ignore.
Nintendo's controversial decision to sell two 33MB Game Boy Advance games for $20 each instead of adding them to Switch Online paid off spectacularly, with 4 million copies sold in six weeks.
Rather than rework Doormaker a second time, Mega Crit scrapped the divisive Act 3 boss completely and dropped a brand-new replacement into Slay the Spire 2.
Andy Serkis says the stigma around video game acting has flipped completely since his PS3 days on Heavenly Sword, with fresh drama school graduates now actively seeking game roles.
Takashi Tezuka, the director behind Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, is leaving Nintendo after a 42-year career spanning more than 150 games.
Takaya Imamura, the man who originally designed Fox McCloud and the Star Fox crew, has weighed in on the backlash over the Switch 2 game's realistic art direction. His verdict: the movie versions looked better.
Sony's CEO admitted during an earnings call that the company hasn't decided when the PS6 will launch or what it will cost, citing skyrocketing memory prices driven by AI demand.
Sony's $3.6 billion Bungie acquisition continues to bleed value, with nearly $800 million written off in a single fiscal year as both Marathon and Destiny 2 hit historic lows.
Cyanide Studio, the team behind the Styx series, has revealed Dracula: The Disciple, a first-person puzzle game where you slowly transform into a vampire inside the Count's abandoned castle. They're calling it a 'Puzzlevania.'
Nacon Connect 2026 shadow-dropped the final Greedfall: The Dying World DLC from Spiders, a studio that shut down just last week. The showcase tried to project strength, but the insolvency crisis hanging over the publisher made every reveal feel heavier.
Kuro Games is handing out a 5-star Cyberpunk: Edgerunners character for free in Wuthering Waves' biggest collab yet, with Lucy and Rebecca arriving in June 2026.
Warhorse's newly appointed creative director Prokop Jirsa explains why the studio ignores the standard advice to smooth out friction points, arguing the struggle is what makes KCD2 rewarding.
Crea-ture Studios is going from kickflips to lycanthropy. The Session: Skate Sim developer revealed Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn, a shape-shifting metroidvania set in Alaska.
Strauss Zelnick says Rockstar doesn't do all-nighters. Anonymous Glassdoor reviews and an ongoing union-busting dispute at Rockstar North suggest otherwise.
Game director Jonathan Rogers says a huge percentage of negative Steam reviews come from players who grind 200+ hours with no clear stopping point. The Return of the Ancients update is designed to fix that.
Hotta Studio's fix for AI-generated animation in Neverness to Everness? Mute the screen and play static. The studio has admitted to using AI tools on background assets after players, Ironmouse, and a voice actress all called them out.
Brian Clarke, the solo developer behind The Mortuary Assistant, has been forced to cancel Paranormal Activity: Threshold after Paramount refused to give him more development time.
Valve's new $99 Steam Controller sold out in roughly 30 minutes on May 4. Starting May 8, a reservation queue with anti-scalper restrictions replaces the free-for-all.
Cold Iron Studios bumps the squad from three to four, adds cross-play at launch, and throws in a Specialist class that lets you mix abilities from every kit.
Tucked between Alfa Romeos and Ariels in Forza Horizon 6's massive car list sits a 26th-century military vehicle from the Halo universe. The full roster tops 550 vehicles.
Xbox aired a 90-minute developer showcase today that was literally a replay of its GDC presentation. VP Jason Ronald confirmed no new Project Helix details, promising more later this year.
Atari now owns the first five Wizardry games, the series that shaped every JRPG you've ever played. But the deal already has a wrinkle.
After six years of development and one last-minute delay, Yacht Club Games finally has a release date for Mina the Hollower. The studio's co-founder has called it make-or-break.
Nintendo's stock has fallen for six straight months, and investors are pushing for a Switch 2 price hike of up to $100. With Friday's earnings report looming, the pressure is mounting.
Lord of Hatred's Horadric Cube has completely upended Diablo 4's trade economy, turning items players used to trash into multi-billion gold listings.
Six months after Halo Studios said goodbye to Halo Infinite with its final content update, a brand-new PvE mode just showed up unannounced.
Eugen Systems has brought its beloved WW2 RTS back from the dead, bundling all DLC and Steam Deck support into a $29.99 Definitive Edition after Ubisoft delisted the game in 2015.
Ubisoft's latest attempt to take Assassin's Creed beyond games isn't a sequel to the 2016 film. It's a live stage show with parkour, choreographed combat, and a brand-new story.
Defeating the Cow King wasn't the end. A mysterious quest item called Prime Rib has Diablo 4's secret hunters convinced something much bigger is waiting.
Strauss Zelnick admits Cloud Chamber "wasted a lot of time and money" on BioShock 4's troubled development, calling himself "deeply disappointed" by the project's lack of progress.
Take-Two's CEO admits the Ages system was "a bridge too far" as Civilization 7 trails both of its predecessors on Steam by wide margins.
Pearl Abyss acquired CCP Games for roughly $425 million in 2018. Seven years later, it sold the EVE Online studio back to its own management for $120 million, taking a staggering $305 million loss.
RGG Studio's 30-minute deep dive into Stranger Than Heaven revealed Snoop Dogg as a braided smuggler named Orpheus, a late legendary actor brought back via CG, and what sure looks like the Tojo Clan's origin story.
A highly detailed leak claims Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 will be revealed at Summer Game Fest with a staggering list of features. The community can't decide if it's legitimate or pure fan fiction.
Nintendo's stock has fallen for six consecutive months, and investors want the Switch 2's $450 price tag bumped before Friday's earnings report.
Ubisoft's official Assassin's Creed account tried to discredit a leaked screenshot by calling it AI-altered. The leaker responded by posting the real image, effectively confirming the leak came from a private playtest.
EA just posted the best financial year in its history, powered by a Battlefield game whose developers got pink slips two months ago.
The studio formerly known as CCP Games has gone independent, rebranded as Fenris Creations, and handed Google DeepMind a sandbox to play in.
Build A Rocket Boy reportedly cut roughly 170 employees in its third round of layoffs, leaving about 80 staff. This comes weeks after management released an in-game mission dramatising their conspiracy theory about corporate sabotage.
The Switch 2 still doesn't have a YouTube app, so players are loading up Super Animal Royale just to access a buried web browser. It works, barely.
Ed Boon has confirmed another Mortal Kombat game is in the works and named Street Fighter, Marvel, and DC characters as his dream guest fighters.
Arcanaut Studios just updated its website with the creative leads behind Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, and nearly every name on the list spent years at BioWare during the studio's best era.
Agent 47 isn't going anywhere. IO Interactive's CEO says the team is itching to get back into the Hitman engine room, but two massive projects had to come first.
A patch 7.5 dungeon boss with zero dialogue and no loot worth chasing has become Final Fantasy 14's biggest meme in months. Square Enix is already in on it.
Six years. That's how long Call of Duty kept shipping on PS4 hardware after the PS5 launched. Activision has finally confirmed the next entry is current-gen only.
007 First Light doesn't launch until May 27, but IO Interactive's CEO is already floating the idea of a sequel if the community embraces the studio's take on Bond.
Asha Sharma announced Xbox will stop developing Copilot for console and wind it down on mobile, then revealed five new hires pulled largely from Microsoft's CoreAI division.
A nearly 1,000-word ResetEra leak claiming Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 will be called "Return" and revealed at Summer Game Fest has already been shot down by a known insider.
IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak claims the studio's Glacier 2 engine and lean development philosophy kept 007 First Light's budget well below the $200 million territory its competitors have crept into.
Preview builds of Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight contain a billboard Easter egg honoring the late Kevin Conroy, and it might be the best tribute to the legendary Batman voice actor we've seen in a game.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 demo 'yassified' Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft, and fans hated it. Capcom's director says that backlash is proof the original design landed exactly as intended.
TT Games stripped the roster down to seven for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and early previews suggest the trade-off gives each character real mechanical depth.
Thirteen games hit Game Pass in the first half of May, headlined by Forza Horizon 6 on May 19. It's the strongest two-week stretch the service has had in a while.
Forza Horizon 6, Doom: The Dark Ages, Subnautica 2, and Mixtape headline a stacked May for Game Pass, arriving just weeks after Microsoft slashed the subscription price.
Guerrilla is adding two new hunters, a story episode, and a whole new region to Horizon Hunters Gathering's second playtest. Getting an invite is still the hard part.
A 55-year-old father shared how Pragmata's android companion Diana reminded him of his late daughter McKenzie. Within a week, his post became the most popular in the subreddit's history and caught Capcom's attention.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick admits PC now accounts for up to half of sales on major titles, then explains why GTA 6 still won't launch on PC.
Wizards of the Coast found time to issue a statement to the press about its new union. It didn't find time to actually talk to the union.
Embark Studios' regional pricing update for Arc Raiders is live, and depending on where you live, you're either celebrating or wincing.
Remedy's art director deliberately kept the Control Resonant team away from other AAA games during visual development, warning that the industry is heading toward an 'aesthetic singularity' where nobody takes risks.
Tim Cain, co-creator of Fallout and The Outer Worlds, argues that influencer culture has shifted from recommending games to outright telling players what to think.
Pearl Abyss has rolled out Crimson Desert's biggest patch yet, adding rematch and re-blockade systems after players complained the open world ran out of things to fight.
Randy Pitchford shared an AI-generated image for fun. Within 24 hours, he was spelling out Gearbox's entire stance on generative AI in game development.
Store pages have confirmed pricing for every Switch 2 Upgrade Pack, and the range is wider than you'd expect. Some cost nothing. Others want $20 from you.
Valve's Steam Controller sold out in roughly 30 minutes on May 4, and eBay scalpers wasted no time listing units for up to four times the retail price.
Over 30,000 fans signed a petition. A super-majority of MTG Arena developers backed the effort. Wizards of the Coast still said no, and now the union heads to a formal NLRB vote.
Six years after Warcraft 3: Reforged effectively held the original game hostage, Blizzard has quietly made the pre-Reforged client available on Battle.net again.
Valve's new Steam Controller went on sale today and was listed as out of stock within about 30 minutes. Server errors, payment failures, and frantic refreshing followed.
Japanese solo developer Daikichi has been blocked from releasing a demo on Steam because Valve flagged a board game asset as third-party IP. The board game is also made by Daikichi.
Street Fighter 6 at EVO Japan 2026 shattered the Guinness World Record for the largest single-game fighting tournament with 7,168 registered competitors, topping the previous record SF6 itself set in Las Vegas.
A class-action settlement means Sony has to pay $7.85 million after allegedly monopolizing digital game pricing on the PlayStation Store. If you bought certain digital games between April 2019 and December 2023, you might be owed money.
Forza Horizon 6 has gone gold two weeks before launch and preloads are live now, but the PC version demands 160GB and an SSD. Console players aren't getting off easy either.
An anonymous Glassdoor review from a Rockstar India QA analyst paints a grim picture of GTA 6's final development push, claiming unpaid overtime and 3 AM work sessions are taking a toll on mental health.
Subnautica 2's gravitational pull has now forced three games to shift their launches, and a post-layoff MechWarrior 5 expansion just slipped two weeks. May 2026 is reshuffling itself in real time.
Preview coverage for IO Interactive's 007: First Light is largely positive, but one recurring criticism keeps surfacing: Patrick Gibson's Bond might not feel like Bond yet.
Capcom treated Selena Corey as disposable zombie filler and didn't even tell the voice actor the character's name. Players turned her into Resident Evil Requiem's biggest star anyway.
A leaker claims Activision is playtesting Modern Warfare 4 on the PlayStation 4, a console that launched in 2013. If it ships there, every version of the game pays the price.
Bandai Namco revealed Kunimitsu's full gameplay trailer at Evo Japan 2026, confirming the fan-favorite ninja arrives May 27 with a fire-breathing move that rewrites her kit.
Bungie says it knows where Marathon's story is headed for the next few years, but with an estimated $200 million budget and around 2 million copies sold, the financial pressure behind that promise is enormous.
Unfrozen's Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era broke even on its entire development budget within 16 hours of launching into early access, then crossed 500,000 sales in under three days.
Outbound moved to dodge Subnautica 2. That pushed it onto Farm to Table's date. Now the solo dev behind that game has moved too.
Leaked voice lines from Invincible VS pit J.K. Simmons' Omni-Man against Agent Spider, and the dialogue is pure J. Jonah Jameson fury.
Housemarque tucked free PSN avatars behind a hidden "Call Eclipse" button on the Saros PlayStation Store page, and most players probably scrolled right past it.
Dan Frazier, who painted some of MTG's most iconic cards dating back to 1993, confessed to using fellow artist Marta Nael's One Ring artwork as a base for his own version in the upcoming Hobbit expansion.
The Jackdaw now steers itself. Ubisoft's Black Flag remake also rebuilds every side activity from scratch and packs new islands into the same 16x16 km Caribbean.
Subnautica 2's May 14 Early Access launch has triggered a chain reaction, with two indie games scrambling to move their release dates out of its path.
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé says Amazon asked for illegal financial support to undercut Walmart, and Nintendo walked away from the deal entirely.
Multiple sources claim Halo Studios has greenlit UE5 remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 in early development, with the projects proceeding independently of how Campaign Evolved performs commercially.
A class action settlement means Sony will pay out roughly $7.8 million in credits to U.S. PlayStation users who bought specific digital games through retail codes. If you're eligible, you might not even need to do anything.
A well-known Ubisoft insider reports that Assassin's Creed Invictus' April 30 playtest was disastrous, raising the possibility the multiplayer project could be delayed or scrapped entirely.
South Korea's Supreme Court rejected Nexon's copyright infringement claims and refused to take Dark and Darker offline, though Ironmace still owes $3.84 million for trade secret violations.
Arc System Works revealed Hulk and Black Panther at EVO Japan 2026, completing the Fighting Avengers team. Hulk's Savage Land exile gave him a look unlike any version of the character we've seen in a fighter.
Evil Raptor's robot cowboy co-op shooter sold a quarter-million copies in two days, hit so hard it triggered its own network provider's anti-DDoS shields, and currently sits at Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam.
Last Flag, the capture-the-flag shooter co-founded by Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds, never cracked 600 concurrent players and is ending post-launch development less than three weeks after release.
LEGO's latest retro console build is a 479-piece Sega Genesis for $39.99, complete with detachable controllers and the option to customize it into the European Mega Drive version.
Exclusives still top the list of reasons people play on consoles, but the gap between that and 'my friends play here' has shrunk to just three points.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is reportedly preparing to make an offer for eBay, a company with a market value of $46 billion compared to GameStop's $11 billion. He warned us this was coming.
French-Bread's next Melty Blood fighter is coming to six platforms spanning two full console generations, from PS4 and Xbox One all the way up to Switch 2.
Capcom let Pragmata protagonist Diana take over the official Onimusha Twitter page, teasing that she found a release date for Way of the Sword buried in hacked files before being pulled away.
TT Games' updated PC requirements for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight reveal that even the minimum spec tier targets 1080p/30fps with upscaling and frame generation enabled. For a LEGO game, that's a red flag.
Housemarque tucked a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Easter egg into Saros' trophy list, and the specific number gives it away immediately.
Every Reality Fracture booster pack will include both the original and alternate version of a character, a first for Magic: The Gathering's 33-year history.
A three-item barbarian combo let players stack Limitless Rage over 15,000 times, dealing quadrillions of damage and trivializing Diablo 4's hardest content. Blizzard killed it within hours.
Koei Tecmo confirmed at EVO Japan 2026 that Mai Shiranui and Kula Diamond will return to Dead or Alive 6 Last Round as day-one DLC, but players who already bought them on PS4 will have to pay again.
Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Reality Fracture set gives Jace Beleren the power to rewrite the multiverse, and his edits say more about his own grudges than any grand plan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.