There's a lot that has been said about Microsoft's new head of its gaming division and the Xbox platform, Asha Sharma, particularly with regard to the fact that she's coming into the world of video games from an outsider's perspective. But by the same token, she's also (at least publicly) made it abundantly clear she is trying to listen and learn from those already ingrained in the industry, and she just showed that same sentiment once again by reaching out to one of PlayStation's former bosses, Shawn Layden. While Sharma represents the next era of leadership for one of the […]

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Despite Starfield's arrival on PS5 landing directly in the middle of the pack when it comes to sales numbers compared to other recent ports of Xbox-published games to PlayStation, its sales were enough to bring the game back to the top of the United States sales charts. Its weekly sales charts, that is. Circana executive director and video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella reported that for the week ending on April 11, 2026, which was the week during which Starfield arrived on PS5, it was the best-selling game in the US for the weekly sales charts. Not only did the […]

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After it was first rumored to get its full reveal last week, only for a new set of rumors to push the reveal to this week, today Ubisoft finally came out and confirmed that Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will get its full reveal this week in just two days time on April 23, 2026, with a full premiere on YouTube. The company also acknowledged that the remake has long been the video game industry's biggest open secret, and in a post on the official X (formerly Twitter) account announcing the premiere, a short teaser opened by calling it "Gaming's […]

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Xbox has revealed the second batch of games joining Xbox Game Pass for the remainder of April 2026, and it's a much more solid wave of entries compared to the first batch, if only because the games listed are actually new entries to the service and not just a bunch of games previously already available at the Game Pass Ultimate tier moving down to Premium. The new entries include a wave of games launching directly into Xbox Game Pass, including titles previously announced like Double Fine's upcoming Kiln and Poncle's new Vampire Crawlers. It also includes Aphelion, the upcoming sci-fi […]

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Samson: A Tyndalston Story is the debut game from developer Liquid Swords, the studio founded by Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Avalanche Studios and one of the creators of the Just Cause series. Now, after a less-than-ideal launch earlier this month, Sundberg and the team are committed to making Samson work, with a flurry of bug and technical fixes on the way, and a console release scheduled for its 2026 roadmap. Samson was meant to be a smaller-scaled, double-A sized game, according to Liquid Swords, but even within that scope, the game still launched with a lot of technical issues. […]

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Ex Machina, Civil War, Warfare, and 28 Years Later writer Alex Garland is leading the charge on an upcoming Elden Ring movie being made by A24 with Bandai Namco collaborating - this much we've known since May 2025. Now, the latest update from Garland and company is that the film has a release date set for March 3, 2028, and the full cast has been selected, though it's unclear what roles everyone will be playing. In a press release Bandai Namco confirmed that the film is in production (though that much was already obvious after footage of the set leaked […]

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The BAFTA Game Awards 2026 are here to round out the last major awards show focusing on games from 2025, and while we're all expecting Clair Obsucr: Expedition 33 to take home the top prize, that's not entirely a foregone conclusion. Is what could be said if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn't win the award for Best Game, but as the awards are now wrapped up, Sandfall Interactive was once again the last team left on stage before the show ended, taking home Best Game and adding another GOTY award to its already impressive supply. But this was not a […]

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The BAFTA Game Awards 2026 are currently ongoing at the time of this writing, and while the only game awards show that regularly includes announcements for upcoming games in between the actual rewards is Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards, the BAFTAs were going to try doing a bit of that this year. They were going to try, at least, with a trailer for The Quiet Things, a first-person narrative game telling an autobiographical story about trauma and child abuse, debuting at this year's awards. Until someone decided the trailer's content wasn't right for the show. That's what Alyx Jones, founder […]

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Iron Galaxy Studios, the studio that led development on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 and also co-developed PC ports for The Last of Us Part I, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, and several other titles is now the latest studio to announce layoffs in 2026. A statement was posted to the studio's LinkedIn page to confirm the cuts, though the studio did not disclose the number of people who are losing their jobs. A report from Game Developer did, however, add that the company is "drastically" cutting down its size. These cuts come […]

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Nintendo's subscription service for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 family of consoles, Nintendo Switch Online, includes a bunch of features for players to take advantage of. The ability to play games online, cloud saves, and most importantly, a library of classic retro titles all the way from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the Nintendo GameCube. Similar to our PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass hubs, this article will break down your options for which tier of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription is worth it for you, followed by a full list of the games available at each tier. […]

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Almost a decade ago, Activision was looking like it would be moving forward with a Call of Duty movie. But it wasn't too much longer before that project was put on hold, and years later, here we are with no film based on the long-running military shooter franchise. Now, after rejecting a pitch from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Activision will look to make a film that "feels really real and infuses that with epic scope" off the backs of Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and Battleship director Pete Berg in time for June 30, 2028. That's the latest update on the […]

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The Galaxies Spring 2026 Showcase is here, featuring a solid hour of game announcements and updates for upcoming games, including a few select world premieres to showcase the latest indie titles coming to PC and consoles. Just as we did with the recent Triple-I Initiative Showcase, this roundup will cover everything that was announced so you don't miss out on adding something to your wishlist or picking up any shadow drops. Some of the more notable reveals include the premiere of Mojo Party, a trivia party game from the people behind the Watch Mojo YouTube channel. The show also included […]

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Despite rumors initially pointing to a reveal happening today, a new report from Insider-Gaming points to Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced getting its full reveal next week. But most importantly, the report claims that we have a release date to look forward to for the upcoming remake. Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will reportedly launch on July 9, 2026. This comes after Ubisoft reportedly held a private presentation for content creators and select members of the press today, ahead of next week's full public reveal. It's unfortunate, of course, that today's reveal was seemingly postponed, but all signs are pointing […]

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All the way back in 2021, a former Ubisoft producer, Jade Raymond, and PlayStation Studios came together to form Haven Studios, a new team that was set to make a new multiplayer-focused game for PlayStation, which was revealed to be a new heist shooter, Fairgames, two years later in 2023. As we've continued to wait for any sign of Fairgames' release, Raymond left the studio, it was rumored to be cancelled at one point, and now, a new report claims it has pivoted to be a new kind of game in what is seemingly the hottest genre around: extraction shooters. […]

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NVIDIA has pushed the latest drivers to get players ready for Pragmata, the latest third-person action game from Capcom which is set to release tomorrow, April 17, 2026. The new drivers help players with all tiers of NVIDIA gear, though anyone sporting the latest RTX 50 Series graphics cards will undoubtedly have the best experience as they can take full advantage of the game's support of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and DLSS Ray Reconstruction. With path-tracing and DLSS 4 both on, players with that high-end hardware can hit upwards of 200 FPS according to NVIDIA. It's also worth […]

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We all know mass layoffs are a major issue the video games industry has been facing for the last several years. It doesn't matter if you helped develop the best-selling game of the year, or if your game died within a year, game developers cannot trust that their jobs will be safe, and a new survey from Skillsearch has just put some numbers to how it is impacting the way developers navigate the industry. Spotted by GamesIndustry.Biz, Skillsearch's Salary and Satisfaction survey collected data from over 1,000 video games industry professionals across Europe, North America, the UK, APAC, and MENA, […]

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Glen Schofield, the Dead Space creator and more recently the founder of Striking Distance Studios, the team behind the Dead Space spiritual successor, The Callisto Protocol, is the kind of industry veteran who is almost always up for sharing his thoughts on what he believes the path forward for the industry is. Last year, while also admitting that the commercial failure that was The Callisto Protocol might have been the last game he gets to direct in his long career, he also talked about the current state of the video game industry and why it's so difficult for anyone looking […]

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The latest batch of games joining the PS Plus Extra Games Catalog have been revealed, and they're headlined by a few big, but admittedly older titles. The Crew Motorfest and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered are undoubtedly two of the bigger titles joining this month, but it altogether makes for a bit of a disappointing batch compared to last month's entries. Unless you're a big fan of squirrels and managing professional football clubs. It's not a bad batch overall, of course, and all of these games will be available as of April 21, 2026. But the issue with Horizon joining the […]

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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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