Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss is the latest Lovecraftian-themed game to hit the shelves, and while I can’t speak for its contemporaries, I have to imagine it stands towards the top of any ranking list, because it is, in many ways, an incredible experience. There’s a lot here for puzzle fans to love, there’s a little for horror fans to love, and woven through all of it is a narrative that doesn’t ever try to reinvent the wheel but is able to solidly execute and deliver a good payoff by the time you hit credits. If you ever get there, that […]

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Path of Exile 2 is developer Grinding Gear Games' self-dubbed "next generation action RPG," and this round-up will take you through everything you need to know about the game between its early access launch, to 1.0, and beyond. After getting announced all the way back in 2019, Path of Exile 2 arrived in Early Access in December 2024 after it was delayed from its initial November 2024 release window. When it arrived a little more than a year after Diablo IV, comparisons between the two ARPGs were all over the place. But at least at the time of its early […]

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Starfield finally made its (somewhat inevitable) arrival on PS5 last week, alongside the launch of its Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada DLC expansion, and in its first week on PlayStation, according to a new report from Alinea Analytics, the game has managed to sell 140K copies. Not a bad start when you look at it on the surface, but Alinea's report seemingly proves that Starfield is mid. Or at least its PS5 launch sales are, compared to other Xbox Game Studios-published games that have arrived on PS5 within the last six months. Compared to The Outer Worlds 2, […]

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EA and Full Circle have revealed a new Nike SB collab for Skate, as one of the most highly anticipated collabs finally joins the game. It also comes with a complete Nike-themed makeover to the Isle of Grom skatepark, and the introduction of Grom at night. The Nike event will be on from April 14 to May 5, during which all players will have access to the Isle of Grom. Afterwards, it's back to having to either buy a day pass to the island, or buy the premium Skate pass to access it. Which was the bit of the Isle […]

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Another batch of games has been confirmed to include support for NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling technology, with this list including some games that are out in a matter of days, like Pragmata, and others that have just been announced and won't release for a while, but will still arrive with support for the upscaler at launch. Starting with the games due to release soon, as previously mentioned, Capcom's latest release, Pragmata, will launch with support for NVIDIA's DLSS Multi-Frame Gen support. It'll also support DLSS Ray Reconstruction and NVIDIA Reflex, all of which will be at their best on NVIDIA's latest […]

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Bungie has pushed its mid-season refresh update for Marathon, which comes with a lot of balance tweaks to weapons, Runner Shell abilities, equipment, and weapon mods, while also introducing tweaks to progression. There's also yet another experimental queue getting added to the game as the Duos experiment comes to a conclusion. If you want to dig into all of the tweaks and changes, big and small, you can check them out in the patch notes here. As you can imagine, there are several worth highlighting, so let's begin with some of the bigger changes impacting the game overall, before digging […]

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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, the Soulslike action game from developer Leenzee Games and publisher 505 Games didn't exactly set the Soulslike world on fire when it arrived last year, but it wasn't the biggest disappointment either. Regardless, it seems like we won't see Leenzee take another kick at the can, as the studio's core development team has reportedly dissolved following the departure of its lead director. According to SavePoint Gaming (via Eurogamer), producer and director Xia Siyuan was let go from the studio amidst a change in its top-end leadership. Per multiple reports from Chinese outlets including GamerSky, the new regime […]

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When Blizzard announced it would be "dropping the 2" from Overwatch 2 and going back to just 'Overwatch,' it also confirmed that the long-running hero shooter would be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 sometime this year. Now, we know exactly when the title that dropped its '2' will be launching on the console that gained one, and that's tomorrow, April 14, 2026, alongside the launch of Season 2 for the Reign of Talon. Blizzard detailed the arrival in a larger blog post about what's coming in Reign of Talon's Season 2, like the new Hero getting added to the […]

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IO Interactive's upcoming James Bond action-adventure, 007 First Light, is weeks away from its arrival on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S (its Nintendo Switch 2 version was delayed). But you can already go see how the game ends if you want to find it, as a new report from VGC reveals that what appears to be the last hour of the game's story, along with significant spoilers for other unreleased games, have leaked online thanks to the Indonesian Games Ratings System (IGRS). Gameplay footage sent to the IGRS by IO Interactive, so the IGRS could give 007 First Light […]

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Rockstar, the studio behind several of the biggest video games of all time who will soon add another game to that list with the release of GTA 6 later this year, confirmed over the weekend that a group of hackers had indeed successfully stolen some measure of data from the company. The hackers are the ShinyHunters group, and they threatened to release the data if Rockstar didn't meet their demands for a ransom. ShinyHunters released a statement after it had obtained the data, which it seemingly did not by hacking directly into Rockstar, but by jumping through a loophole created […]

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4A Games, the studio behind the beloved Metro series has announced the next entry, Metro 2039, with a full reveal set for this coming Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, as part of an 'Xbox First Look' event. This comes after a rumor that a new Metro game would be revealed popped up at the end of last week, amidst rumors of a State of Play event also set for this Thursday. So while we don't have official confirmation yet about a State of Play event (which, as we said last week, likely […]

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You might recall that just two short years ago in February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Fortnite maker Epic Games, with grand plans to create a persistent Disney universe within Fortnite based on Disney franchises. We've already seen part of this deal bear fruit with the introduction of Disnyeland in Fortnite, and according to a new report from Bloomberg, we're due to get the next fruit in November 2026. And according to the report, it's an incredibly significant release for Epic, because it is meant to mark the beginning of its comeback tour. Epic Games recently laid of 1,000 […]

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So far this week, we've heard rumors about a new State of Play event set for next week, on April 16, 2026, and we've heard that the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake, officially titled 'Resynced,' will be fully revealed next week, on the same date. Now, a third rumor has entered the fray, this time claiming that 4A Games will reveal a new Metro game next week. This comes from AlexandreNGamR on X (formerly Twitter), who had also previously claimed that a State of Play is happening next week, which was corroborated by insider NateTheHate, who also elaborated on […]

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Valor Mortis is the next game from One More Level, one of the studio's behind first-person fast-paced cyberpunk sci-fi action platformer, Ghostrunner. It was first revealed back at Gamescom 2025, where Wccftech's Francesco De Meo got to check it out and called it one of the best games at the showcase. Now, we're finally starting to get closer to its release, as One More Level reveals a new release window for Fall 2026. The news came as part of Valor Mortis' inclusion in the Triple-I Initiative Showcase 2026, where it showed off new gameplay and capped off the trailer with […]

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Amazon announced more changes to its gaming-focused service, Amazon Luna today, after it re-launched the brand last year with a renewed focus on social and casual experiences like an "AI-powered improv courtroom game" featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg. Starting today, April 10, 2026, the platform will no longer let players purchase games from third-party stores or purchase subscriptions from third-party platforms. It will also stop supporting its Bring Your Own Library service, and no, you can't get a refund for any of your third-party purchases. In case you weren't already aware, Amazon Luna had previously allowed players to purchase games […]

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Yesterday, we reported on accusations from former and current workers of Gunzilla Games that the studio had not been paying its workers, in some cases, "for many months." Several developers came forward to share that they are still waiting on pay owed for work they did, calling out the studio's leadership for trying to convince them to work for free to work towards 'an idea.' Well, the studio's leadership, chief executive officer Vlad Korolev has responded in a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), denying the accusations and calling them "a new narrative from haters." A brief reminder, Gunzilla Games […]

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A new report from The Hollywood Reporter reveals that a Metal Gear Solid movie is in development, with Final Destination duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein behind it. The film is part of a new set of movies Lipovsky and Stein will be making for Sony, as the pair have just been signed to Sony Pictures. Details on the film are still entirely unclear, though the promotional image from Columbia Pictures suggest that it'll be an adaptation of the first Metal Gear Solid game, though it's realistically all still up in the air at the moment. "Metal Gear Solid was […]

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Last month, Bungie released its first new game in years (which is technically just a reboot of an old series). Marathon, a new extraction shooter for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, takes the first sci-fi world Bungie created and brings it into the modern-day gaming landscape, and according to a new report from Paul Tassi at Forbes, Bungie put aside a fair chunk of change to make it. In a report going over the first month of Marathon being on the market and in players hands, at the end of a list of different metrics about the game, Tassi […]

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Evil Empire's new indie-focused event, the Triple-I Initiative Showcase premiered its 2026 edition today, and it was jam-packed with announcements from indie developers, some of which were brand-new world premieres for games, while others were highly-anticipated updates about previously revealed titles. This round-up will take you through everything that was announced at today's showcase, so you don't miss checking out any of today's announcements, some of which could very well be the defining indie games for 2026 and beyond. Everything Announced at the Triple-I Showcase

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Spacecraft was one of two major announcements from Shiro Games, the studio behind games like Dune: Spice Wars, Wartales, and more. After its initial reveal back in 2024, Spacecraft as accumulated over 300K wishlists on Steam leading up to its early access release date, which Shiro Games revealed today during the Triple-I Showcase to be next month on May 20, 2026. Spacecraft sets players in a vast universe with multiple star systems, where you can freely explore and build your own space-faring ships to cross galaxies and endlessly explore new planets, while hunting and discovering valuable resources along the way. […]

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Developer and publisher Shiro Games has revealed two new titles at today's Triple-I Showcase, one of which is set to arrive next month, and another that will have a playtest as early as next week. This is the latter, Frostrail. An upcoming co-op first-person shooter survival game published by Shiro Games and developed by FakeFish, and it was just shown off with a new action-packed trailer. If Shiro Games rings a bell, that's because they are also the team behind games like Wartales, Dune: Spice Wars, and Spacecraft, which was the studio's other major announcement at today's Triple-I Showcase that […]

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Sunset Visitor, the studio behind one of the best and most beloved narrative-driven games in recent years, 1000xResist, has revealed its next game titled Prove You're Human, a first-person narrative adventure where an AI called Mesa believes she's human. It's Sunset Visitor's second project after the award-winning 1000xResist, and is the first project to be published by Black Tabby Publishing, the brand-new publishing arm of indie developer Black Tabby Games, the studio behind titles like Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow. Prove You're Human seems to be picking up right where 1000xResist left off - not narratively, as the games […]

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Gunzilla Games is the studio behind Off the Grid, an NFT battle royale title that arrived in early access back in October 2024. It's also the studio backed by District 9 and Gran Turismo film director Neil Blomkamp (who is listed as its chief creative officer), and last year it also became known as the studio that 'saved' long-running publication Game Informer after it was unceremoniously shuttered by GameStop. Now, however, the studio has been accused of not paying its workers "for many months." The accusations come from former and current Gunzilla Games employees, who shared the accusations on their […]

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Another batch of games has joined the library of games playable through NVIDIA's cloud streaming service, GeForce NOW, headlined by two new releases, while an old release finally becomes RTX 5080-ready, just in time for its latest major DLC expansion release. Starting with the new games entering GeForce NOW this week, there are four titles in total joining the library. The first two brand-new releases are Samson: A Tyndalston Story, the debut game from independent developer Liquid Swords, and the second new release is Morbid Metal, a hack-and-slash rougelike from developer Screen Juice, published by Ubisoft. Morbid Metal is launching […]

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As they do pretty much every month, thanks to the same reliable source, Billbil-kun at Dealabs, the monthly PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalog titles have leaked. Or at least, some of them have, and there will likely be a few more revealed tomorrow when the official announcement is live. According to the report, while players won't be able to expect Dragon's Dogma II, we will get Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, Metal Eden, Persona 5 Royal, and more. The note about Dragon's Dogma II is regarding a rumor that gained some traction regarding the March 2026 batch of […]

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Sucker Punch Productions has released Ghost of Yotei Legends as free DLC for all owners of Ghost of Yotei today on PS5. It's a welcome return of the surprise multiplayer mode that players loved digging into in Ghost of Tsushima, but its arrival on PlayStation today, days after we learned more about Sony's evolving strategy with its PC ports, makes the strategy pivot sting even more. When Ghost of Tsushima arrived on PC, it set new records for concurrent player counts on Steam amongst PlayStation's current suite of PS5 to PC releases and was the best-selling game in the US […]

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Publisher and developer ProbablyMonsters have revealed a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming third-person stealth-action brawler, Nekome: Nazi Hunter, a game that looks like what you'd get if you took some of the cinematic brawling of Sifu and mixed it into a story where you play as a a young Romani man on a war path against the Nazis for killing his family. The trailer introduces us to the game's protagonist, Vano Nastasu, who is seeking revenge for the aforementioned homicide. There's no release date or early release window for the game yet, but we do know it'll be arriving […]

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The last general Nintendo Direct event took place in September 2025, and while we've had several Nintendo Direct events this year (like two Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct events), we're still waiting for 2026 to get its first big Direct event. Unfortunately, this year's iteration of Mario Day so far has not included a surprise Direct announcement, but we did get a release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on the Nintendo Switch 2, the game that closed out September's Direct. It's frankly still a bit shocking that the Direct event that revealed several ways Nintendo was celebrating the […]

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Today, Pearl Abyss has revealed detailed PC, console, and macOS specifications for its highly anticipated upcoming open world action/adventure game Crimson Desert. The minimum and recommended system requirements for PC were actually first announced (and then lowered) months ago, but this time the South Korean development team has provided much more in-depth information for gamers on how the game powered by the BlackSpace engine will run on their systems. Minimum Low Recommended High Ultra Graphics Preset Minimum Low Medium High Ultra Performance Specs Upscaled 1080p (from 900p) 30 FPS 1080p 30 FPS 1080p 60 FPS 4K 30 FPS 1440p 60 […]

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Today may be Mario Day for Nintendo fans, but it's Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2026 week for the rest of the video game industry. On top of B2B-focused announcements from companies like Razer, this week also brings us plenty of insights into the video game industry and some of the biggest games from the past year, like 2025's Game of the Year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Developer Sandfall Interactive is one of many hosting talks during GDC 2026, and during a talk it hosted, it revealed a significant aspect regarding how the studio put the game together, and for a […]

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Embark Studios has pushed a new patch to ARC Raiders today, which adds a new outfit set and two new haircuts for players to customize their characters with, on top of several bug fixes. But it's not what's added with today's patch that makes the latest update from Embark significant. Last week, major server issues caused players to lose their loadouts in ARC Raiders, even after they had successfully extracted from the Rust Belt and made it safely back to Speranza. While being adamant that the studio does not normally compensate players for every incident where players lose their loot […]

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Apparently, Epic Games hasn't been making enough money on Fortnite, and needs to raise the price of its premium in-game currency, V-Bucks, to "help pay the bills." "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills." That's what Epic tells players right at the top of a new blog post, which announces that the base price of the premium currency will be going up. The change goes into effect on March 19, 2026, after which every dollar you spend on V-Bucks will earn you less than it did before. After […]

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The comic book series turned Emmy award-winning TV series, The Boys, is making its first foray into video games later this month. Initially announced back in December 2025, The Boys: Trigger Warning is a VR adventure from publisher Sony Pictures VR and developer ARVORE, and it'll arrive on Meta Quest 3 headsets on March 26, 2026. The news comes with a new release date trailer, which shows off more gameplay compared to what we saw in December and includes a few more characters from the show that'll be featured in the game. It doesn't, however, confirm if any more of […]

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Nintendo hosted its fifth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, which was an event dedicated to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of its premiere this coming April 1, 2026. The event showed off the final trailer for the film, and revealed some of Nintendo's plans for Mario Day tomorrow, and the lead-up to the film's premiere. The trailer for the film showed off a couple of the characters the recent poster revealed, like the character Wart, who is being played by Luis Guzmán. We also learned that Honey Queen will be in the film, and voiced by Issa Rae. The […]

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Marathon has been out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series for its first weekend, and just like the Server Slam, developer Bungie is doing its best to respond quickly to issues players are noting as they spend more and more time on Tau Ceti IV. The game's first major update with those fixes will arrive sometime this week, and Bungie is already looking to tackle three of the biggest issues players have spotted with the game. Firstly, and arguably most importantly for all players, you'll be able to know where your objective is for a contract from further away. Instead […]

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Today is officially the start of Game Developers Conference 2026 (GDC 2026), a week where a huge portion of the video game industry joins together in San Francisco to discuss the latest happenings within the video game industry, and in the case of companies like Razer, showcase the B2B-focused initiatives it has coming down the pipeline. After first unveiling its AI QA companion tool and its Project AVA AI companion in 2025, Razer showcased both products at GDC 2026, with Project AVA now simply called Razer AVA, which it describes as "a more capable agentic assistant with the ability to […]

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Game engine maker Unity has published its 2026 Unity Game Development Report, which surveys developers who use Unity software to make their games. That includes developers like The Game Bakers, who recently released the mountain-climbing game Carin, the team behind Outbound, Square Glad Games, and Mega Cat Studios, the developers behind God of War Sons of Sparta. The report, which draws its data from developers across PC, mobile, web, social, XR, and console game makers who use Unity, as well as direct responses from over 300 game developers, includes five key takeaways while providing an insight into the section of […]

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When Palworld was first announced back in 2021, the internet immediately clocked it as 'Pokémon with guns,' and it was the least surprising thing for Nintendo to initiate a lawsuit against the game's developer, PocketPair, even if it meant trying some "Hail Mary" tactics by going after patents for game mechanics, rather than attempting to catch PocketPair on copyright infringement with the design of the Pals coming very close to the design of popular Pokémon. But even amidst the lawsuit, Palworld has been a smash success - it may never arrive on a Nintendo console, but it doesn't have to […]

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The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, one of the Lovecraftian games set to arrive this year from French publisher Nacon, the same publisher that is on the brink of liquidation, has an official release date. After Nacon and developer ACE Team revealed it would arrive sometime in Summer 2026 back in November 2025, we now know it'll arrive on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on July 15, 2026. Last week, Nacon was supposed to host its annual Nacon Connect showcase, which would've likely included today's release date announcement for The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, along with looks at other games […]

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Steve Downes, the voice actor behind Halo protagonist, Master Chief, is the latest to call out a recent video posted by the official White House X (formerly Twitter) account, which uses clips from several popular film, TV, and video game franchises mixed together with real-life footage of the United States bombing Iran. The video in question reuses a lot of the footage included in the video that Chance Glasco, one of the original developers of Call of Duty, called out just last week, when Glasco shared that the video was not a surprise for him. Not because videos like this […]

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After confirming that South of Midnight would be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in Spring 2026 a few hours ahead of The Game Awards 2025, developer Compulsion Games has confirmed that its previously Xbox Series console exclusive will arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this month on March 31, 2026. The release date for the new versions of the game came with a new trailer, which you can see below. After Avowed, Compulsion Games' South of Midnight was the next major release from an Xbox Game Studios team to hit shelves last year. Now, it'll […]

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Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales. In all that discussion, the idea that Nintendo, despite its litigious nature, would respond with a lawsuit aimed at the US Government was not what you would call a popular guess. Well, Aftermath's latest report is a reminder to never underestimate Nintendo's willingness to go to court. Nintendo is officially suing the US Government, specifically Scott Bessent, Secretary of […]

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PC players are still reeling from Bloomberg's report earlier this week that Sony will be pulling back on its strategy of putting its first-party PlayStation titles on PC. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are the first two that seemingly won't be making the jump, and it doesn't seem like any PlayStation Studios titles (at least the single-player ones) will get PC ports in the future. The key element as to why Sony is backing off from putting its single-player games on PC fell on claims that it simply wasn't worth it. Despite the first batch of PlayStation titles selling well […]

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This is probably the oddest way for what appears to be a fairly major leak to appear. RoboCop: Rogue City developer Teyon seems to have accidentally leaked its next project, or an early build of a project that never got off the ground, or an early build of its next project. That's all unclear, but what's happened is that someone at Teyon accidentally swapped RoboCop: Rogue City out with an entirely different game when updating it on Steam, revealing what could potentially be a new 3D Hunter: The Reckoning game. First noted by X (formerly Twitter) user Silent, an update […]

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Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted its fourth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, and considering that we're only a few days into March at the time of this writing, that's a pretty condensed window for the Mario company to be setting up what players can look forward to for the year. Today, Nintendo has already announced it will host a fifth Nintendo Direct event next week, but it's not the kind you were hoping for. Instead of following up Tuesday's Indie World Showcase Direct with a larger, general Nintendo Direct like Nintendo has in the past, the very next Direct event […]

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Update 06/03/2026: Following the publication of this article, the co-founder of MegaCrit and one of the main developers behind Slay the Spire 2, Casey Yano, has further clarified that the sarcastic jab the studio took at Bungie's Marathon really was just a joke, and has apologized for it now seeming "a bit meaner than it was intended." "This seems a bit meaner than it was intended...To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users." At least two of the developers on Marathon, UI designer Elliot Gray and Marathon's community manager, Cozmo, responded to the post with […]

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Asha Sharma, the recently installed chief executive officer of Microsoft Gaming and the new head of Xbox following Phil Spencer's retirement, has just teased the next-generation Xbox console in a post on her personal X (formerly Twitter) account, which we now know is codenamed Project Helix. Sharma shared the codename and what appears to be a new look for the Xbox logo, while also teasing that this new console will "lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games," confirming reports that the next generation of consoles from Xbox will be a hybrid between a PC and console reportedly […]

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Embark Studios' latest update for ARC Raiders isn't your bog-standard fixes or new content release. Instead, it's an update that the team rushed out the door this morning after a report from tech blogger and systems engineer Timothy Meadows pointed to an incident where two ARC Raiders players' private Discord DMs (direct messages) appeared in a game log file. Per Meadows report, the game's Discord SDK captured private messages between two users and a Discord Bearer token. It was a massive over-extension of the data that Embark collects through ARC Raiders' Discord SDK, an issue that is thankfully now fixed […]

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Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games' parent company, Take-Two Interactive, is also the owner of 2K, the massive publisher and developer behind several titles, though most notably the annual basketball series, NBA 2K. Today, Rockstar announced that it would be combining the two franchises, with players subscribed to GTA+, which grants special bonuses in-game Grand Theft Auto V, getting access to NBA 2K26 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles for a limited time starting next week. The latest installment in the annualized basketball franchise will be accessible to GTA+ subscribers on March 10, and the full game, on top […]

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After layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle just last week, the remainder of the team at EA's studio continues to work on updating the game with new content, the latest of which is Season 3: Fluid Flashback, which begins on March 10, 2026, and promises to bring skaters "back to skateboarding's first major era," which it describes as a time when "polyurethane wheels replaced clay and metal ones," and when the sport began to grow and evolve rapidly. That means elements of San Vansterdam will be taken back to the 1970s, "with vibrant colors and bold designs." Areas like Rolling […]

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Yesterday, the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the United States White House published a video promoting its ongoing strikes on Iran, which contained footage and UI elements from Microsoft and Activision's popular shooter franchise, Call of Duty. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran this past weekend, which recent reports estimate have resulted in 1,230 casualties. Amidst the responses to the video, which began with Call of Duty footage followed by real-life footage of the strikes, Chance Glasco, one of the original founders of Infinity Ward and developer on Call of Duty said that the video was […]

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VR developer and publisher nDreams, the studio behind VR titles like Reach, Vendetta Forever, Synapse, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, and more, have just announced "a significant reduction in overall staffing levels," resulting in the closure of two of its internal studios, Near Light and Compass studios. Confirmed in a statement on the company's LinkedIn page, the layoffs will impact studios across nDreams' suite of teams as the company gets restructured to put nDreams Elevation at its core, though only the aforementioned Near Light and Compass will be shuttered. Between the studios, 78 developers are impacted by the closures. […]

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Build a Rocket Boy, the studio co-founded by Mark Gerhard and Leslie Benzies, the latter of which was a long-time producer at Rockstar who worked on several Grand Theft Auto titles, has announced another round of mass layoffs after its debut project, MindsEye, was one of 2025's catastrophic disasters. In a statement posted to the studio's LinkedIn page, Gerhard calls the layoffs "a deeply painful decision," and that "letting colleagues go is never something any leader wants to do, and I know the impact this will have on individuals, families, and our wider community." That said, in the face of […]

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EA and Respawn are trying to bring the hammer down hard on cheaters in Apex Legends by making some changes in how it'll respond to players caught using devices like Strikepacks, Cronus, and XIM. If you are caught using any of those devices or devices like them, you will be permanently banned from Apex Legends. Moreover, Respawn has said that it "will not entertain appeals for leniency on accounts confirmed cheating." So if Respawn confirms that you've been cheating, you will have no recourse for getting back into the game, and just creating a new account will simply just restart […]

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has come out on top once again in his dispute with how platform holders dictate the relationship that developers have with their users. After starting disputes with both Apple and Google years ago, which initially took popular Epic Games titles like Fortnite off Android and iOS mobile platforms, Epic and Sweeney's dispute with Google has finally come to a close. To be clear, Fortnite has already made its return to iOS and Android when Epic was finally able to launch a mobile version of the Epic Games Store worldwide back in 2024 (though Australians had […]

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Ubisoft has provided a major update on what's coming next in the Assassin's Creed franchise as we near the one-year anniversary of its last major release, Assassin's Creed Shadows. Firstly, we can finally stop calling the Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake a 'rumoured' game, because Ubisoft has finally officially confirmed the remake to be on its way and that it is indeed titled 'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced,' which was the title that leaked in December 2025. In a blog post on the official Ubisoft website titled 'Assassin's Creed: Into 2026,' recently named head of AC content, Jean Guesdon, appears […]

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In a little more than two months, we'll be able to jump into IO Interactive's latest major game, 007 First Light. The storied Hitman developer taking on a James Bond story felt like a match made in heaven when it was first revealed all the way back in 2020. As we wait to find out if we were right about IO and James Bond being as good as peanut butter and chocolate, IO Interactive has just released a new deep-dive into the game, with the studio focusing in on its version of Bond and the cast of classic 007 characters. […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 really did a number on how players look at major upcoming games. Yes, it's now an incredibly successful RPG, but its launch is an event that no one will soon forget, and CD Projekt RED's blatant misdirection regarding how the game ran on last-gen consoles has made players incredibly weary of any big game that doesn't put console gameplay footage front and center, and now, Crimson Desert, one of the most anticipated titles of 2026, seems to be feeling the ripple effects from that launch. To be clear, we have seen footage of Crimson Desert running on consoles, […]

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After Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier initially pointed to PlayStation, "backing away from putting their traditional single-player games on PC" on a podcast, he's now published a longer report, which digs a bit deeper into the situation. Essentially, it seems Sony has decided to pivot its strategy of putting its more traditional single-player games on PC, shifting back to keeping them as PlayStation console exclusives. Now, both Ghost of Yotei and Saros won't make the jump to PC as a result. That means PC players who loved Returnal or Ghost of Tsushima on PC will have to buy a PS5 if […]

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Resident Evil Requiem is finally here, and you can join the 159K people currently playing it on Steam at the time of this writing if you want to. From everything we've seen and heard since its release at the end of last week, it's been a huge hit, and while thousands of players are still digging their way through it, plenty of players are already looking towards what's next. Which, if the rumors are true, will be a Leon-focused DLC. That's at least what reliable Resident Evil leaker, Dusk Golem, is pointing towards. In an extended thread on X (formerly […]

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Well, the moment we all felt was coming has finally arrived. Highguard, the maligned live service raid shooter from former Apex Legends developers at Wildlight Entertainment, is permanently shutting down next week, on March 12, 2026. When the servers go offline, it will have lasted for only 45 days between its January 26 launch and March 12. The news was announced via the game's official X (formerly Twitter) account, with a statement from the studio that begins by saying, "Today we're sharing difficult news. We have made the decision to permanently shut down Highguard on March 12." It continues to […]

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Bandai Namco has dropped a curious teaser on X (formerly Twitter) announcing that it'll be revealing "a new RPG" later this week on March 5, at 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 11pm BT. The post is also accompanied with a short video that includes an T for Teen ESRB rating, a shot of a forest with a tower in the distance that reaches into the sky, followed by a character walking with a sword and shield on their back. At that point, the teaser cuts, showing gold text that reads "New RPG reveal" with the March 5th date and […]

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On top of the two Fallout TV series adaptations, the upcoming God of War TV series, the Mass Effect series, and the Wolfenstein series that Amazon has in the works, in September 2025, it confirmed that it is working on a Life is Strange TV series adaptation. The show is set to be written and led by Kaos writer, Charlie Covell, and today, in a new report from Variety, we learned who Amazon has tapped for the show's two lead roles, Max and Chloe. In the case of both casting choices, Amazon and Covell have opted to go for two […]

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Bungie's upcoming first-person extraction shooter, Marathon, is just coming off of its open preview Server Slam, which gave players on PS5 and PC a chance to jump in and try the game themselves for free before it arrives on the aforementioned platforms later this week on March 5, 2026. The preview weekend gave players an opportunity to provide Bungie with a lot of feedback, some of which the studio has already been able to address with fixes that were applied during the server slam, while other issues will continue to be investigated and tweaked post-launch. One thing that's also come […]

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Nintendo hosted its first Indie World Showcase of 2026 and the fourth Nintendo Direct event of the year this morning, with an 18-minute presentation chock-full of indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. While the showcase lacked some of the heavy-hitter reveals we guessed at after Nintendo announced the showcase yesterday, like the release date reveal for Hollow Knight Silksong: Sea of Sorrows DLC or a Vampire Crawlers release date, it wasn't without its big indie announcements. One of the most notable announcements (and the one that closed out the show) was the reveal that Blue Prince […]

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After teasing its arrival in a post on X (formerly Twitter), an Xbox Wire blog post confirms that Cyberpunk 2077 will headline the new batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first wave of games joining Microsoft's gaming subscription service for March 2026. It's the second CD Projekt RED title to arrive on the service within the last two weeks, after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrived on February 19, 2026. However, just like The Witcher 3's arrival, the catch here is that it'll only be available to console players, so if you're a PC player who […]

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The Wolf Among Us 2 has been missing for so long that it's started to reach mythical levels of 'games in development hell.' It's been nearly a decade since it was first revealed, and in that time, a lot has happened. Now, a new rumour points to the game's development having been restarted for (at least) a second time, and that it's being co-developed with an unnamed studio in Argentina. It claims that it'll be ready by 2027, and that we may even get a remaster of The Wolf Among Us to go along with it. Firstly, a reminder of […]

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Before Call of Duty: Warzone established itself as one of the most popular battle royale games ever when it arrived in 2020, Call of Duty's first brush with battle royale came in 2018's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 with its Blackout mode. Today, Activision revealed that it is bringing Blackout back - sort of. Black Ops Royale is a new, "Blackout-inspired" battle royale mode that is getting added to Call of Duty Warzone, and just like Warzone, it will be free for players to jump in. The new mode arrives next week on March 13, 2026, and brings back […]

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Update 09/03/2026: On top of being tied with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem is now the highest-rated game on the PlayStation Store by its five-star user rating review system. Spotted on ResetEra, the game has over 51K ratings with a score of 4.91/5, while Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sits at 4.85/5 based on over 92K ratings. Its larger sample size is definitely a factor in why it has a lower score, but the point stands that Resident Evil Requiem is really resonating with players. Original Story 02/03/2026: Resident Evil Requiem arrived on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, […]

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Digital Extremes has revealed that the next major free update for Warframe titled "The Shadowgrapher" will arrive later this month on March 25, 2026. Which, is also the same day that Warframe will make its debut on another platform, following its arrival on Android devices last month. The official Nintendo Switch 2 version of Warframe will launch alongside the Shadowgrapher update on March 25. The news was revealed in the studio's latest DevStream with its 193rd installment, teasing a bit of what's to come in the Shadowgrapher, and showing off the game's 64th playable Warframe, Follie, along with her abilities […]

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While one of this week's upcoming showcases was taken off the calendar today, another has been added. Nintendo announced it will host an Indie World Showcase Direct tomorrow, March 3, 2026, at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BT. The showcase will be roughly 15 minutes long and provide updates on upcoming indie games heading to the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, and it is the first Indie World event since the last one took place on August 7, 2025. Last time, we were told not to expect Hollow Knight Silksong news, since the game's release date had […]

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