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It now supports 4K upscaling.Over the weekend, Crimson Desert received a new patch (known as Patch 1.02.00) that made a bunch of changes to the game, including a 4K enhancement to the Performance Mode on Xbox Series X.Until last Saturday, Crimson Desert only supported 4K upscaling in the Quality and Balanced modes on Xbox's most powerful console, but the feature has now been extended to the Performance Mode that runs at a native 1080p.
The PC version is better, but Xbox is still an option.I don't know about you, but I've been fascinated by everything to do with Artemis 2's mission to the moon over the past few days.and now I want to try something similar in an Xbox game!
For both the Free Lanes and Terran Armada content.The game is getting its first (and probably biggest) major update of 2026 this week with the arrival of the Free Lanes and Terran Armada content, the former of which is free and the latter of which is paid.Back in March, we covered the specifics of this content in more detail elsewhere on Pure Xbox:Read the full article on purexbox.com
Today is a bank holiday in the UK, which means we are probably asleep, but we've scraped together a little themed conversation piece article to comfort you in our absence.Specifically, it is Easter Monday, which isn't a bad time to talk about resurrection - for 'twas on Easter that the worshippers rolled back the chocolate egg from the Cave of Character Creation and discovered that the Easter Bunny had started New Game Plus.No, you are not allowed to object that technically, every videogame character who isn't subject to permadeath counts as resurrected, providing the player fails at least once.
Though it faces some early growing pains, Maul: Shadow Lord proves to be another strong addition to the Star Wars canon, and one that prioritizes more than just the iconic Sith Lord himself. Read our spoiler-free review of the show's first eight episodes.
HUGE discounts for great games!Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Spring Sale 2026?There are a whopping 2000+ titles discounted as part of this year's sale, and over 80 of them have been reduced by 90% or even as much as 95% for the next two weeks.
Simulators are becoming much more popular on Xbox these days, and that's leading to floods of them arriving on Series X|S as of late.Well, this past week or so I've been playing Car Dealer Simulator on Xbox - and its varied systems and mechanics are starting to sink their teeth into me.In Car Dealer Sim, you start out with pretty much nothing.
All of them unplayable by the end of the month.A new month has begun, and therefore we've got more server shutdown notices to bring your way for Xbox games in April.Firstly, we've got King of Meat which is going offline on April 9th - a dungeon crawler game that literally only released a few months ago, but reportedly suffered terrible sales and is therefore getting scrapped after less than a year.
Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen has given Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary his seal of approval more than halfway to the Moon.
I'm on a hiking holiday in Eryri till Tuesday 14th April, tramping up slopes and wading through lakes of heather without a care for the depressing world of 'high' technology.I am Going Primitive, living as my Celtic ancestors did, with naught but a smartphone and a Crunchyroll subscription to ward me against Nature's ravages.Read more
An Elden Ring fan appears to have given us a look at the set of the upcoming movie adaptation, and fans of FromSoftware's action RPG masterpiece are getting very excited indeed at what looks like a game accurate statue of Marika.
Crimson Desert appears to be changing quicker than a musical theatre actor that has 90 seconds to put on a new outfit before their next number is up. A new update arrived in the action RPG earlier today, bringing with it nothing ...
FromSoftware has an obvious penchant for secrets, their games are just littered with them. This is probably best exemplified in Elden Ring for the simple fact that the game is unapproachably massive, you're more than likely to find at least one secret somewhere along the...
I am not going to drudge up the half decomposed discourse around whether games are art or not. They most certainly offer up a huge range of experiences that other mediums do not. Experiences that wrench the heart, that cause tears of joy, that get you to rethink your very existence, that cover that period in time where developers started having kids and birthed the dad game. And then there...
As part of patch 1.02.00.The latest update for Crimson Desert has officially been rolling out across Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S today, and when it comes to the Xbox Series X in particular, there's been a notable improvement for the game's performance mode.It's mentioned in the patch notes for Crimson Desert Patch 1.02.00 that the dev has added a "4K upscaling option to Performance Mod...
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two have seemingly held some layoffs this week. As spotted by Game Developer, the company's head of AI Luke Dicken shared a post on...
It isn't particularly difficult to find a simulation game of some kind that allows you to carry out the most mundane of tasks these days. Now you'll have no trouble finding domestic chore life sims like Lawn Mowing Simulator or Leaf Blower ...
A serious value for Xbox players.When Xbox Game Pass Premium was first introduced back in October, we didn't know how the service would hold up long-term. Yes, at the time we declared it a great value...
Daemons of the Shadow Realm premiere review: The anime adaptation offers an intriguing premiere with thrilling action and some big surprises.
Everything from their ban philosophy, design timelines, and their thoughts on the current competitive meta were discussed.
Some early predictions!What's leaving Xbox Game Pass in May 2026? Well, Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything just yet, but based on some games that were added to the service this time last year, we can at least make a few predictions ahead of time.We know that a lot of Xbox users want more advance notice of games leaving Xbox Game Pas...
From a new take on Stranger Things to the return of Homelander, Darth Maul, and a (new) Man on Fire, here are our picks for what to stream this month.
Including at least two new Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 6-10! We've not got any major reveals coming up, but there are still plenty of intriguing indies on the horizon, along with at least two Xbox Game Pass titles in the form of Final Fantasy IV and
An Easter weekend special!Welcome to your first weekend in April! With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 entering Game Pass Premium a few days ago, we suspect there'll be a bunch of Xbox players jumping into
Garth DeAngelis remembers being in the room when Firaxis chose to ditch XCOM: Enemy Unknown's procedurally generated maps. Despite being a feature of the original 1994 game, when Firaxis tried to build the tech for their reboot of the turn-based tactical classic 15 years later, it was causing major headaches.
What’s going on with Prime Video's Mass Effect TV show? According to a new report, it’s on “the verge” of a series order, but the boss of Amazon TV has allegedly requested rewrites to make it “more appealing to non-gamers.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is reportedly on-track to run for five seasons, with the $1 billion Prime Video show said to be still under the protection of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ “magical halo.”
The pace of game-changing updates for Crimson Desert shows no sign of slowing down, after Pearl Abyss patch 1.02.00 made a number of significant improvements players had asked for. Check out the patch notes.
Deborah Ann Woll’s back full time as Karen Page for Season 2 Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, and her character isn’t messing around.
McDonald's has introduced a brand-new Pro Game Menu and an 'Archie' device that will keep you from going AFK while you're eating, but it's only available in Türkiye.
A RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 superfan has created what is believed to be the longest rollercoaster ever built in the game — and it’s so long that even a googol can’t be used to describe how many years it takes to ride it.
Fast and free delivery (ships from the US) and sold by the official manufacturer.
At the Game Developers Conference last month, I sat down with Behaviour's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote, and creative director Dave Richard, to talk to them about Dead by Daylight's tenth anniversary.
The WW1 series is arguably the most "realistic" approach to the first-person war-shooter genre in the market today, and WW1 Gallipoli, coming out sometime this summer, is the next entry in that long-running franchise. From my all-too-brief time with it on the show floor at PAX East, it might be the best WW1 game so far.
Naughty Dog creative director Shaun Escayg posted a picture of a cannon in Trinidad & Tobago alongside the tease, “Research,” and fans think it has to do with Uncharted 5.
I had the pleasure of recently asking Dead by Daylight's creative director Dave Richard and Behaviour's head of partnerships Mathieu Cote if there were any stones left unturned for spinoffs that they wanted to see happen. And Richard's got one specific idea in mind: a soulslike. Elden Ring, but Dead by Daylight.
Plus, Pokémon TCG Perfect Order is even cheaper than yesterday and Super Mario Galaxy for Switch.
The Dead by Daylight team at Behaviour Interactive has opened up about what they say are “significant” changes coming with their upcoming matchmaking rework.
The truly great comedies stand the test of time, and sometimes change the genre forever. These are the best comedies ever made!
Jack Black has a clear idea who he would like to play in Red Dead Redemption 3, should Rockstar make the game: Jack Black.
"A mysterious broadcast calls to all survivors of the blood plague".It's been a long time since Xbox first announced State of Decay 3, but it's finally almost ready to start public playtesting, with a "mysterious broadcast" from Undead Labs announcing plans for multiple Alpha Playtests in the near future.You can watch this broadcast up above, which shows off a few bits of concept art and...
It's only been out for two days!Two days ago, a game called Content Warning officially released on the Xbox Store for Xbox One, Series X, Series S and PC, and it's already racked up just under 50 reviews on the US version of the store - amounting to a 4.7/5 rating.This is a formerly Steam-only title that has a whopping 30,000+ user ratings on that platform (with a "Very Po...
Proximity Media, the company co-founded by Sinners mastermind Ryan Coogler, is working on an Animorphs TV show for Disney+.
Get a free download voucher for Resident Evil: Requiem.
Uses Tandem OLED tech found in the LG Gallery Series TVs and Apple iPad Pro.
Petit Planet, the cozy space sim from the creators of Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero, doesn't have an official release date, but at least it has a new closed beta on April 21 for PC, iOS, and Android.
Same warranty as buying brand new.
Viggo Mortensen will not reprise his role as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, director and star Andy Serkis has confirmed.
Marvel's newest Spider-Man series is revisiting an iconic but controversial chapter of Peter Parker's past. We chat with writer Dan Slott to learn more about The Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Another day one surprise!We've got our 11th announcement for Xbox Game Pass in April 2026 after just two days of the month!This one is for Tiny Bookshop, which is an amazing Nintendo Switch and PC game that first released last year. In it, you play as someone who's left their life behind to open a travelling bookshop, with the game serving as a casua...
Top-down, pixel-art stealth-action – old-school NES-style – is back on the menu with Intravenous 3, the latest in the retro-styled series where you play single-player or in two-player co-op as Steve and Sean as they use real-time tactics to try and survive an enemy manhunt.
In addition to WiFi 7 networking, the BE10000 also has four 2.5Gb ethernet ports.
If you need to get your crime kicks before Grand Theft Auto 6 launches in November, Cash Heist City - built entirely in Unreal Editor for Fortnite - might be just what you're looking for.
Fractured Blooms’ unsettling twist on the farming sim got to me. Not because it scared me—though it certainly did—but because it made me feel like I was losing my mind. Contending with forces beyond my comprehension, I tried my best to go through the motions of a normal day on the farm. But it took me too long to do my laundry, so I’m pretty sure I opened up a portal to Hell in my bedroom and planted a demon in my garden.
In Outbound, the upcoming open-world cozy crafting adventure from Square Glade Games, it’s about freedom. The ability to be untethered from society, free to go where you want, and just be. After five hours behind the wheel experiencing that freedom for myself, I think I might just be one of those people.
As Dead by Daylight rapidly approaches its 10th anniversary, the developers at Behaviour Interactive have shared their secret to a successful live-service game: “You have to start by not making a live game.”
ID@Xbox is serving up great games on a weekly basis.If you were an Xbox fan in the Xbox 360 era, you'll almost certainly remember the Xbox Live Arcade program (and indeed the Xbox Live Indie Games program), which allowed creators of a smaller size to bring their games to the platform digitally, and gave us some of the most popular titles of the generation li...
If the next generation of players can’t afford to play video games, then the next generation of gaming is no longer guaranteed.
The latest freebies for XGP subscribers.The Xbox Game Pass Perks program is continuing to add a bunch of freebies for Game Pass members throughout April 2026, including for the likes of Sea of Thieves, Minecraft,
The human colony on Tau Ceti IV has been abandoned for half a century, as far as anyone can tell. The only exports leaving the planet are those nabbed by Runners in mechanical bodies, like fruit pickers at the end of the universe. But there are imports, too, of a sort: elements pulled in from other extraction shooters, which reveal the kind of experience Bungie wanted to make. ...
"What's happening?".There's been a lot of talk about Xbox backwards compatibility in 2026 already, especially since Xbox teased some kind of revival for the program at GDC a few weeks ago, but at the moment, we have no idea what we'll be getting. Will it be brand-new additions for console? The arrival of Xbox backwards compatibilit...
With NBA 2K26 arriving later today!With April now in full swing, and with NBA 2K26 having been randomly announced for Game Pass earlier this week, we wanted to issue a reminder that the first three Xbox Game Pass additions of the month have now begun rolling out!
Here's a look at some of the most notable ones.It's always difficult to know what to buy in Xbox's massive sales, and that's especially the case with the Xbox Spring Sale 2026, which features over 2000 games in all - one of the biggest sales we've ever seen on the Xbox Store.With that in mind, we thought we'd pick out a bunch of games in the Sprin...
Surprise, Friday WAP attack! No, I've (hopefully) not mucked up the time the WAPs are posted, as I did last time this particular RPSponsibility was trusted to me. It's a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the bank holidays around Easter. More time for playing games, in theory. Assuming you don't get trapped in a giant chocolate egg or something equally terrifying.
Avoid paying the GoPro tax and go with this other waterproof 4K option.
The devs of Dead by Daylight tell me they're extremely committed to keeping the game going as long as possible with support, crossovers, and all sorts of updates. So committed, in fact, that a sequel to the game is off the table.
Iffy as my own sense of aesthetics in Pokémon Pokopia might be, at least I am not actively causing a second apocalypse to befall the world of Pokopia, like one player is doing by sucking up the entire ocean and destroying all the land in Bleak Beach.
In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, "we don't play it safe. We take chances." He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a mul...
Integrated multi-filament printing and stable CoreXY structure all for just $270.
The S3225QC uses a Samsung quantum dot (QD) OLED panel with 120Hz refresh rate.
The developer of 2025 surprise indie "friendslop" darling Peak is asking players to be a little more gracious to the studio when requesting updates, saying, "Neither us or [co-developer] Aggro Crab are live service studios, any update is a bonus not a right."
Netflix revealed a first look at two new Peaky Blinders sequel series starring Jamie Bell as Duke Shelby, son of Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby. Barry Keoghan played Duke in the recent film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. The new cast also includes Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski.
Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some "final" and "vital" veteran help to get their work over...
Brian Cox, the first actor to ever play Hannibal Lecter on screen, will play another serial killer in Season 2 of Dexter: Resurrection. Cox will reportedly portray Dom Framt, aka The New York Ripper.
"The year is 2009," opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game's alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of the world that differed greatly from my actual experience of worrying about swine flu and whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! was cool any more. And yet that is the reali...
Pokémon TCG Perfect Order Booster Boxes are 25% off at Amazon right now.
The Marvel MaXimum Collection assembles a who’s who of arcade-y Marvel gems. Each game comes with a healthy suite of options and settings that do their best to painstakingly preserve every pixelated frame in the batch. From the arguable crown jewel, X-Men Arcade, to the cult classic Silver Surfer, it seems like the preservationists at Limited Run Games are living up to their reputation with yet another museum-like collection.
Universal cables perfect for your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, or Apple iPhone 17.
Disney has confirmed the episode release schedule for Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, including individual episode titles.
The live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series is officially in development at Peacock, according to a report from Variety.
The Testaments Season 1 review (no spoilers): The Handmaid’s Tale sequel lays out the process of indoctrination and offers a troubling but beautifully produced adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Producer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Matt Reeves (The Batman) are teaming up for a streaming series adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities for Apple TV. Kelley will script the adaptation of the bestselling Tom Wolfe novel, which was previously adapted for the big screen as a notorious 1990 box office flop directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis,
It's been a busy start to the year.What a crazy few months we've had in the world of Xbox, eh? It's normally pretty quiet around this time of the year, but Asha Sharma has taken the role of Xbox boss, we've had multiple sho...
This electric assisted bike can go up to 23mph with a range of up to 45 miles.
After directing live-action classics like Parasite and Snowpiercer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is making his first animated feature film, titled Ally. The first image from Ally was released today. The movie follows "a curious and endearing piglet squid" who dreams of starring in a wildlife documentary.
Steven Spielberg has started to peel back the curtain on his upcoming sci-fi blockbuster, Disclosure Day, which he says is inspired by the question of whether aliens are here with us on Earth.
You can still save big on PS5 games, Blu-rays, and more even after Amazon’s Spring Sale.
I've not had a punt at Slay the Spire 2 myself yet, I've been too busy coming up with an excuse for not having played the first one, but the general read I've got on it is "it's more Slay the Spire!" This can be interpreted much the same as a vote for Bart be...
From romance to fantasy and much, much more, here are the best book releases launching April 2026.
The most popular galaxy projector on Amazon.
DLSS has been around for 8 years now, and it's changed a lot. Here's everything you need to know.
Lucasfilm has confirmed Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Season 2 ahead of the debut of Season 1 on streamer Disney+.
Perfect Order is out now, but which Pokémon cards should you be hunting for if you’re looking to pull a profit? Here's the most valuable cards to keep an eye out for when ripping packs at the moment.
I've never really been able to wrap myself around raising sim games such as the Princess Maker series. The framing of them feels like it could quite easily teeter over the edge into something uncomfortable, and in more modern entries such as Umamusume outright parasocial (and often exploitative). But lo and behold, a...
Nintendo seems keen for you to remember that the Switch 2's C Button exists, now GameChat is a premium feature.
This is the smallest power station I've seen, weighing in at under 3 pounds.
My roughly 2-hour build time with the 830-piece set was some of the most fun I've had doing a build for IGN.
I think it's entirely possible that I have not known true happiness since going through the childhood experience of going to your local Easter egg hunt, and finding a facsimile of an egg you can later trade in for the chocolate variety hidden in the plainest of views (but you're five, so you proudly show it to your half-interested parents none the wiser). I miss the th...
The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That's not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve's info gathering not being bulletproof, but it ia a good chunk higher than t...
Marvel is giving fans added incentive to read Avengers: Armageddon #1 this summer, as the crossover comes bundled with an exclusive Magic: The Gathering card featuring Wolverine, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Red Hulk.
A surprising advantage for the lesser-powered system.It's not very often that we expect the Xbox Series X to beat the PS5 Pro in terms of visuals or performance, but apparently that's the case with the new upgrade for Assassin's Creed Unity, which has a graphical advantage on Xbox.This is according to the fine folks at
Our April IGN First "cover story" is underway with Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred! As we kick off our coverage today, get an exclusive first look at an in-game cutscene from Diablo 4's upcoming second expansion.
Here's the best comics and graphic novels releasing in April 2026 that are absolutely worth reading.
The Marvel Legends Series Incredible Hulk Premium Roleplay Fists are now available to preorder for $99.99. They're set to be released this year on July 1.
HBO has announced plans to launch a major documentary charting the making of its big budget new Harry Potter TV series.
Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre references and parallels there, so let me boil it down for you: this appears to be Darkest Dungeon plus gravity.
Brian Raffel, the 36-year veteran and co-founder of Madison, WI-based Raven Software, is retiring. During his time Raven went from working closely with id Software on Heretic and Hexen to working on Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and, most recently, Call of Duty.
The director of The Last of Us multiplayer spinoff has spoken out on the “devastating” impact of its cancellation, which he only found out about 24 hours before Sony made it public.
A massive celebration for Xbox's 25th anniversary.Woah! Following the announcement of Xbox FanFest in LA for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 earlier this week, it's now also been revealed that the Xbox FanFest Tour will be stopping at no less than eight destinations this year!Specifically, the following countries will all be...
Preorders are live at select retailers for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's 4K steelbook, standard 4K, Blu-ray, and even a Walmart exclusive 4K with a collectible tin. Here's where you can preorder them right now.
Are you having fun being Kliff MacDuff? How would you like to be Kliff MacDuff with an acute case of gastritis? It appears that open world RPG Crimson Desert has a secret "food consequence" system, cut during development. It offers 50 different "foo...
Jack Black has debuted a new song about Super Mario for the launch of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, following his previous viral hit Peaches. But why isn't this fresh tune actually in Nintendo's new film?
This looks better than the Xbox app itself.Truth be told, we pretty much never engage with the actual Microsoft Store app for Windows. If we're going to play PC games, it's either through the dedicated Xbox PC app, or another storefront like Steam and the Epi...
PUBG has its sights set on Fortnite as it aims to become “A global cultural icon”. Here's how the original battle royale is tackling the future, starting with sci-fi roguelite mode, Xeno Point.
I poured a full weekend into Songs of Glimmerwick's demo content and came away wanting more in a way that honestly reminded me of discovering Stardew Valley for the first time as a young adult, or (further back) of being a kid stumbling into Harvest Moon for the first time and realizing I could just live in this little world that I’m contributing to. Except, Songs of Glimmerwick pleasantly surprised me with somehow more layers of whimsy and fairytale wonder than either of those, and it makes me ...
Microsoft has confirmed the batch of games leaving Xbox Game Pass this month, and among them is Grand Theft Auto 5.
Original Xbox and Xbox 360 classics.The Xbox Spring Sale 2026 has now officially begun, and as usual for a big sale like this, we've got almost 100 games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras that have been discounted!There's actually a lot of stuff in here that very rarely gets discounted as well, including the likes of the Dead or Alive games...
Following the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, fans of the franchise are wondering if creator James Cameron will get to realize his ambition of following it up with Avatar 4 and 5. While the legendary writer and director has yet to confirm either movie is 100% happening, an Avatar producer sounds convinced both are on the way.
Surprise! The first three instalments of Capcom's storied Resident Evil franchise — 1996's Resident Evil 1, 1998's Resident Evil 2, and 1999's Resident Evil 3: Nemesis — are now available to play on Steam.
The movie version of Cats was so bad that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber got a dog.
Crimson Desert players have found a way to fly across the map like Neo from The Matrix, although they’re not sure if it’s a bug or a feature.
As part of Xbox Free Play Days.The latest edition of Xbox Free Play Days officially begins today, and it's all geared around Assassin's Creed this week, with five games from Ubisoft's franchise available to play from April 2nd to April 6th.As far as we know, these titles become available from 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST, and they don't require Xb...
Valve have taken the wrenches to the homepage of the Steam store, with a design refresh now out in beta form. It's certainly an improvement if you're a fan of wider screenshots, infinitely scrolling pages, and/or having more details fired at your face when you hover over a game.
The games industry makes billions every year, but is trapped in a cycle of live-service games and studio shutdowns. Does anyone actually care, though? Or have we fallen out of love with 'traditional' video games?
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has said he's aware of a limit to the number of people who will play his games — which is one of the reasons why he's making Mario movies.
Amazon has a bunch of great deals on PS5 games right now, with several top offers now under £25.
Legends of the Round Table isn't just a turn-based RPG, it's an extravagant 13th century puppetshow with live medieval lute music and a boisterous, singing narrator you can all but visualise prancing around the stage, splashing mead over the less important courtiers. It's also a jousting experience in which you can juice up yo...
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has already begun breaking box office records following its explosive launch into theaters yesterday, despite middling reviews.
The power of a simple joke!Yesterday, we highlighted an April Fools' joke about something called "Xbox Game Pass Flex" and how we thought it might convince a few people, but there's another joke that had many people questioning whether it was true or not!Going through the daily Googl...
Steam is "refreshing" the look of its digital storefront "to make it even easier for you to find new games by displaying more content and information." Here's what's new.
Following the murder of a speedy movement exploit, Marathon developers Bungie have a bunch of other weapons in the arsenal of the uber-...
An early build of GTA 4 has been taken offline by what appears to be a DMCA notice.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie actor Charlie Day has namechecked Luigi Mangione as one of his favorite Luigis, in an interview that has quickly gone viral and will likely cause a few upended tea tables within Nintendo.
Wake up, the Residents are Evil again. Well, what I mean to say is that the oldest Evil Residents, the most classic of Resident Evils, have now hit Steam in the nicely revamped form they took on when GOG brought them back to PC a...
Everything that's leaving soon.Microsoft has revealed the next six games leaving Xbox Game Pass in early April 2026, with all of these being highlighted as "leaving soon" on the official Xbox mobile app.The most notable departure here is Grand Theft Auto V, ...
With The Boys Season 5 almost upon us, showrunner Eric Kripke has discussed the creation of this fifth and final season of Amazon’s Prime Video superhero show. And in doing so he has revealed that it has become almost impossible for the writers to effectively parody modern America.
S&box is an upcoming open source game development platform, built using a modified Source 2 engine. Out on 28th April, it's the work of the very same Garry Newman behind the legendary Garry's Mod, who's been working on a spiritual successor at his company Facepunch Studios (also the developers of Rust, and originally known as T...
NASA’s launched the rocket Artemis II on April 1st on the first manned mission to the moon in over 50 years. All this moon chatter got us thinking about how Hollywood has chronicled humankind’s relationship with our closest celestial neighbor. We’ve settled on these 12 projects – 11 movies and one miniseries – you might want to add to your queue if you’re still over the moon about Artemis II.
What exactly happens at the end of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie? Are there post-credits scenes? And what's next for the world of Mario on the big screen?
Makes the PS5 look like a whole new console.
There are no shiny Pokémon in Pokopia. But players have managed to find another rare "variant" to hunt down; this time, it's furniture.
The newest LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart adult set, available exclusively at the LEGO Store, features Luigi in a Mach 8, which made its video game debut in Mario Kart 8.
Super Meat Boy 3D proves that Meat Boy can work in three dimensions, even if some perspective-related issues keep it from reaching the heights of the 2010 classic.
Revealed yesterday exclusively on IGN, Dark Horse's newest art book centered around The Legend of Zelda is available for preorder on Amazon as of today.
Use as a second monitor for your laptop or a travel-friendly display for your Nintendo Switch.
Everyone gets the deals!It's time for the Xbox Spring Sale 2026! This year's selection has begun with a list of over 1000 discounted games, plenty of which are major AAA titles (even including some 2026 releases), so there's some great stuff to choose from.This is a bigger selection than the Xbox Spring Sale "Preview" that went live for Xbox Game Pass members last week, so if you've already rooted through that, it's still worth looking through the sale again for...
Everyone gets the deals!It's time for the Xbox Spring Sale 2026! This year's selection has begun with a list of over 2000 discounted games, plenty of which are major AAA titles (even including some 2026 releases), so there's some great stuff to choose from.This is a bigger selection than the Xbox Spring Sale "Preview" that went live for Xbox Game Pass members last week, so if you've already rooted through that, it's still worth looking through the sale again for...
And it's arriving this week!Surprise! Xbox has randomly announced today that NBA 2K26 is coming to Game Pass this week, arriving for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass members on Friday, April 3rd.The bizarre timing of the reveal has even led people to question whether it's an April Fools' joke, but w...
The First Berserker: Khazan, the action RPG set in the Dungeon Fighter Online universe, is celebrating its one year anniversary
It's only been about two months since it was announced that Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe would be coming to Apple TV, but you wouldn't think so based on the author's progress on the first screenplay.
Korean boy band BTS has released the music video for their new song 2.0, and it pays homage to one of cinema’s most memorable action scenes: Oldboy’s iconic hallway fight.
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
And last chance, PS5 and PlayStation Portal prices go up tomorrow.
Any toys-to-life stuff? How about Rock Band or Guitar Hero?You know what? I've been really tempted to play some Disney Infinity 3.0 lately. I own the Xbox One version — not the Xbox 360 version shown in the image above — and it's still great fun to play as a huge Star Wars fan.At the same time, I can't help but glance over to Steam and see the
It’s April Fools’ Day 2026, and that means it’s once again time to comb through another round of the best jokes and pranks the gaming industry has to offer.
Disney has revealed a ton of exciting details for 2026's D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, including ticket prices, when the tickets will go on sale, and a tease of its "largest and most innovative D23 show floor."
Nintendo's efforts to patent the idea of summoning a videogame character and letting it fight another character have suffered a significant reversal in the USA, even as the Mario makers continue a copyright infringement lawsuit against Palworld developers Pocketpair in Japan.The United States Patent and Trademark Office has now revoked the character-summoning patent in question, though their decision is "non-final".Nintendo have two months to respond and argue their case.
Check out the schedule for every Apple Original this month.
As filming for the Highlander reboot starring Henry Cavill continues, one of its stars has hyped up the action scenes fans can expect to see, while confirming one big character change.
The best earbuds for iPhone.
Invincible Season 4, Episode 5 Review: Even if you heed Robert Kirkman warnings about Invincible’s forthcoming brutality, you still won’t be prepared for “Give Us a Moment.”
Cyberpunk TCG is off to a strong start after a record-breaking $15 million Kickstarter, but can it sustain momentum beyond launch and survive in an increasingly crowded market? We take a look at the challenges it’s already facing, and how it can address them.
Buying a RTX 5090 GPU by itself would cost you $3,800.
The Slinky Dog set is made up of 1311 pieces and includes two minifigures: Slinky Dog and Woody. The bookends are made up of two different-sized LEGO books with Slinky Dog attached at either end.
What other skins might we see?We're getting closer and closer to the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved later in 2026 (exact date TBD), and we've also got a peek at a new in-game skin — you can see it up above, and it's quite evidently inspired by Fanta!That's because it's part of a new Xbox promotion in which free content is being given away for various games including Halo,
Official figures put Crimson Desert at 4 million sales in just under two weeks, but how much money has it made? One analyst believes they’ve worked it out.
Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus Monthly games lineup for April 2026, confirming earlier leaks that spilled some — but not all — of the games.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade for Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for $29.99 right now at Walmart, a $10 drop from its list price of $39.99.
Funko is celebrating April Pool's Day by revealing a brand new wave of Deadpool figures inspired by the live-action Marvel movies.
A first look at a bunch of new Commander cards from Magic's next set.
LEGO has announced a big surprise for fans of its beloved Bionicle range, with a new minifigure set to launch as soon as next month.
It's no secret that Rapunzel's hair is the stuff of legend, but even we didn't realize that those golden locks of this Disney Princess, specifically from the Rapunzel Audio-Animatronics figure from Tokyo DisneySea, would catch the eye of some crows and cause them to rip it out to help build their nests.
A new Netflix documentary series will tell the story of one of the greatest football players of all-time, Ronaldinho.
Stormgate is set to go offline-only at the end of April, with developers Frost Giant Studios having announced that the server provider for the strategy game's multiplayer modes have decided they no longer want to be a server provider for online games.That's a byproduct of said provider, Hathora, having been taken over by an AI company who plan on using their latest purchase "to work on compute orchestration for AI inference at scale".Read more
As Crimson Desert approaches two weeks on sale, modders are unearthing more of its secrets. One of these appears to be a fleshed out food risk system, which has all the ingredients to give eating in the game some genuine consequence.
Fans of last year's gloriously painful literal walking sim game Baby Steps have a wild theory about its onesie-clad screw-up of a main character, Nate: they think he's the son of Uncharted's Nathan Drake, and they have a shocking amount of evidence to prove it.
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has discussed having a "vague idea" for Peach and Rosalina's true relationship while making the original Super Mario Galaxy — something the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie finally gives "some meat" to.
Check out all of the movies and TV shows coming to Paramount's streaming service this month.
The new game releases in early access on April 30th.We've got another Game Pass confirmation for April!It's been announced that Ubisoft and Hooded Horse have teamed up with Xbox to bring Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era to both the Xbox PC app and PC Game Pass on April 30th, which happens to be its early access release date.<...
Including titles you might not even be aware of!There was a time when we used to scan the "Top Paid" Xbox charts all the time for an idea of how certain games were selling on the platform, but unfortunately they're not as good as they used to be - they only seem to get updated on rare occasions now, and there aren't specific charts for each region anymore (they're all rolled into one instead).Nevertheless, there are still some interesting results we can pull out of them, and particularly at the moment where we're seeing some unlikely games finding their way into the top 100 paid games on the Xbox Store as things stand.
Zach Cregger, director of the upcoming Resident Evil movie reboot, has said he expects fans of the franchise will “crucify” him if it deviates from the lore.
Fortnite has released its first major update since last month's devastating layoffs, which left more than 1,000 staff at Epic Games out of work. Today's additions to battle royale gameplay are comedic yet sizable — and will only last 24 hours.
PlayStation has officially announced Project Playmo, its next-generation DualSense controller that can literally play games for you, act as an opponent in a fighting game to help improve your skills, and even order you a pizza with the power of AI.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era will release in PC early access on April 30th, Hooded Horse and Ubisoft have announced.The new strategy RPG from developers Unfrozen is the first freshly baked HOMM game in over a decade, and will launch with a mixture of familiar and new modes, spanning singleplayer and multiplayer.Read more
Resident Evil director, Devil May Cry producer and former Tango Gameworks boss Shinji Mikami is now making games for Shift Up, developers of Stellar Blade.Shift Up have acquired Mikami's new company Unbound, which he founded in 2022 after leaving Tango. Read more
I'll be honest right off the bat. As a single player Elder Scroller, the Elder Scrolls Online's never managed to hook me for more than a few hours. I've given it a couple of goes, usually during periods when it's gone free to play, but have always bounced off its vast
It actually sounds plausible.You have to be careful what you're reading on days like this! If you hadn't clocked it yet, today is April Fools' Day, and therefore we're seeing loads and loads of fake stories doing the rounds on the likes of social media.One that's been getting a lot of attention actually relates to Xbox. The folks over at Insider Gaming posted a story this ...
The USPTO has rejected Nintendo’s controversial 'summon character and let it fight' Pokémon patent, after it was heavily criticized by IP lawyers last year.
Crimson Desert NPCs are stealing the show.
New Seasons content also unveiled for 2026.We've had a new announcement for PC Game Pass overnight, as it's been revealed that Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Online is finally coming to the Xbox PC app on June 2nd, 2026 - and it'll also include Xbox Play Anywhere support.This means that if you already own The Elder Scrolls Online for your Xbox console, you'll get a free PC ...
Milly Alcock is set to play Supergirl in the next big DC Universe movie, and with that comes an intense scrutiny from fans. But, she says, she already has experience working under the microscope of fandom: on Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon.
Pokémon Go is celebrating April Fool's Day with a big in-game surprise — and the best part is that it really isn't a joke.
Ho, wasteland packmules and sticky-fingered ornithologists! Embark have released a sizeable Arc Raiders update. Titled Flashpoint, it introduces a new shotgun, SMG and deployable together with a Close Scrutiny map condition, a fresh breed of Arc enemy, some cosmetic bundles, and a feeding boost for Scrappy t...
A ramen shop in Japan has proudly declared it has become an official Warhammer retailer, selling Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar miniatures alongside noodle soup.
Mark Gerhard, CEO of MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy, has said that the studio are indeed planning to add a new mission to the game which will "share some of the evidence of the sabotage".That'd be the sabotage from a malevolent third party which the exec's been alleging MindsEye faced around launch for a while now, with Gerhard also claiming that an investigation into it is currently in the hands of "authorities" in the UK and US.Read more
Nine months of fantastic new games are ahead of us!There are hundreds and hundreds of games that will be releasing on Xbox in 2026, and we've whittled down the current list into just 30 Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S titles that we're most looking forward to this year as things stand.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Jack Black has suggested that the unannounced but inevitable third Super Mario Movie will arrive in three years' time.
Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has bought Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami's new studio, Unbound, and will help to create and publish its next game.
Crimson Desert has now hit the 4 million copies sold mark, two weeks after launch.
In our exclusive interview, Love and Deepspace Director Lizi Cheng explains how her team gamified romance, periods and the hunkiest boyfriends.
Daredevil: Born Again Episodes 2 & 3 Review: A two-episode release week initially continues a slower start in Season 2’s second episode, before the third episode adds more forward momentum and exciting action.
The Spring 2026 anime season will include a wave of returning favorites, new original shows, and anticipated adaptations.
Here's everything you need to know about watching the momentous launch and mission of NASA's Artemis II, which will send humans toward the moon for the first time in 50 years. Read on to learn how to watch Artemis II's launch, what you can expect, who will be aboard, what it means for the future of space travel, and more.
While you might think an action-oriented, period superhero show might be considered a drama, Spider-Noir will reportedly campaign in the Comedy category of the Emmys instead.
Experience the rise of Mark Grayson as the titular hero.
There is always a risk with a live service game, or any game with only competitive elements, that it enters the Cool For Some Zone.This is a space that exists within a given game and also around it, a place where you can pull off Sick Tricks as a result of movement tech not purposefully included in the game, but born as an incidental result of mashing buttons in just the right way.And until today, Marathon found itself in said zone, but Bungie have made the call to patch out the offending issue.
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It's not often we see amiibo discounted at such low prices anymore.
Get a PS5 Pro for around $700 while you still can.
Call of Duty fans are up in arms after Activision announced a first look at its upcoming Black Ops 7 Half Baked Tracer Pack featuring Dave Chappelle.
Scream 8 is reportedly in the works, following the record-breaking box office success of Scream 7.
It’s your last chance to shell out less on this limited-edition box set during Amazon’s Spring Sale.
Mortal Kombat fans can save $100 on the top-notch Arcade1UP cabinet today.
But I think the thing that endures in the ever popular PS1 aesthetic in the indie horror scene is that nasty griminess that just feels so at home.And Vultures - Scavengers of Death, a turn-based, extractiony take on Resident Evil, looks like it'll stay true to that vibe. Read more
The full Alien franchise, Euphoria Season 3, and the final episodes of Smiling Friends are all coming to HBO Max in April.
If you're thinking of getting a VPN subscription, now's a great time to do so with savings and this extra Amazon perk.
Today, the official Nier social account teased some sort of new project called Nier: Cosmic Horror. And as hopeful as one might be that this finally means another Nier game, Nier fans know that the odds are not in their favor on this one. Because we've been here before.
Monopoly Fourth Wing Edition is up for preorder at Amazon now with a release date of July 15, 2026. Just like the books themselves, this board game adaptation is meant for adults only with a 17+ age rating.
Last call for deep discounts on incredible movies and binge-worthy TV shows.
Improv made the Ryan Gosling hit Project Hail Mary great… but how much does it owe to the directing duo of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s previous alien buddy movie that never happened -- the Han Solo origin movie?
For people of a certain age, the revival of the late-'90s arcade sports game Backyard Baseball might rekindle a lot of good memories.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie features an in-universe explanation for why Star Fox hero Fox McCloud is suddenly mixing with Mario and Bowser — and it opens the door to a full Super Smash Bros. film.
At the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan, I sat down with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri to find out how they collaborate together, why they went to the galaxy for the sequel to the Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the grand plan to get Pikmin into everything.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Pikmin, is also a known Pikmin lover. That guy is always gassing up the little fellas, and he recently admitted to us that he's on a mission to put Pikmin into absolutely every Nintendo thing he can.
After 40 years of evolution, Shigeru Miyamoto says he believes Mario has finally become a "person" in a sense, thanks to that film debut.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review: Illumination ditches an engaging story in favor of a pipe-bursting amount of Easter eggs.
Build a Rocket Boy CEO Mark Gerhard says that the studio is preparing to add a new mission to its game, MindsEye, which will include "evidence" supporting his repeated claims that the game was sabotaged by bad actors.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2?It's been a really busy month for Xbox Game Pass, and as that month comes to an end, we thought we'd take a look back at what Microsoft has served up for us over the past few weeks - including some major AAA additions!Of course, we're talking about the likes of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth when we refer to the AAA titles, all of which are pretty fantastic acquisitions for the service in our opinion.
Well, the time has finally come. After releasing almost a decade ago, The Long Dark finally wraps things up today with today's release of Wintermute's fifth and final episode, The Light at the End of All Things. It's been a long time coming (the free episode update was
Games Workshop has set Warhammer 40,000 fans on high alert after it published the first ever official artwork of daemon Perturabo, primarch of the Iron Warriors traitor legion.
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord and Spider Man: No Way Home lead the Disney+ streaming lineup in April.
On the same day as the Forza Horizon 6 launch!That's exactly what we're getting, as THQ Nordic has announced today that the game will be re-released for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PS5 on May 19th, 2026.We don't really know, although a PS5 rundown is reported to mention "native 4K rendering", "smooth and stable 60 FPS gameplay" and a Photo Mode (no word on specifics for Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S yet).
There is no such thing as a free lunch.Still, in Crown of Greed, a fantasy real-time strategy game inspired by the likes of Majesty, the old adage certainly holds true.And with its release today, it can even be put into the test!
The world's number 8 tennis player talks about the real tennis skills required to master the popular Nintendo Switch 2 game.
It's a vertical mouse that brings your hand into a more natural position, while retaining the beefy internals to make this a suitable mouse for gaming workloads.Currently, it's down to just $60 from Amazon USA on the final day of the Spring Sale, marking out a new low price, which is always nice.Read more
Avatar: Fire and Ash is available to purchase digitally today for $19.99 on VOD platforms like Prime Video. There has yet to be any news about a Disney+ streaming release date.
Zendaya is one of Hollywood’s most popular — and most profitable — actresses, with tons of upcoming projects on the way. But it seems as though the starlet is thinking about pumping the breaks soon for fear of fans and audiences getting “sick” of her.
A peek at the new Xbox boss's account activity.It feels like a lifetime ago now, but all the way back in late February, new Xbox boss Asha Sharma shared her Xbox gamertag with the community before being criticised for "faking" it with an artificially inflated gamerscore, to which she clarified that her whole family was sharing the account and that she'd be limiting it to just herself from now on.Read the full article on purexbox.com
DC Studios has released a new trailer for Supergirl, showing off plenty more of Jason Momoa’s Lobo, and setting the scene for Kara Zor-El’s fight to save Krypto the Superdog from death.
If you're looking to fit in a break from social media discourse in the near future, it's looking like May is going to be a good time for it.That's because ZA/UM's followup to Disco Elysium, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, is launching around then. Read more
Tickets are officially on sale for IGN Live 2026, IGN’s two-day celebration of gaming and entertainment filled with celebrity panels, exclusive game reveals, trailers, live stage shows, hands-on demos, screenings, collectible merch, thousands of giveaways, and so much more.
Find out why The Undertaker Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures might just be the next great comic book Western in our exclusive preview.
A major French consumers group is taking Ubisoft to court over the publisher's ending of online support for The Crew in March 2024, rendering the notionally singleplayer-friendly open world racer unplayable.They're acting with the backing of the Stop Killing Games movement, who want publishers at large to stop yanking servers and taking games offline.Read more
Shape of You singer Ed Sheeran has said he turned down the chance to appear in Fortnite, as he doesn't play the game.
Recent price hikes spell out an expensive future.PS5 Pro will become $900 from next week.Shortly after the announcement of said PS5 price hikes, the folks over at GamesRadar spoke with various analysts about where the industry is headed, and what next-gen console prices could look like.
It takes all of the games you've either bought for pennies in a sale and never got around to playing or paid through the nose for on release and have put 1000 hours into out of sheer sunk-cost fallacy.It sticks their front covers onto boxes you can use to fill a cosy customisable computer room.Read more
Here are some of the best PS5 game deals available at Amazon before its Big Spring Sale comes to an end, including Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Unicorn Overlord, and more.
Pokémon Pokopia will host a collaboration with furniture giant IKEA.
There is a tiny wild sun trapped inside my crystal tower.The relative gloom inside the tower implies that the structure’s external radiance is also a reflection.The skies of Lucid Blocks are dark and cloudy even by day, inasmuch as ‘day’ means anything in the game.
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is the very definition of ‘playing it safe’. That’s going to be enough for a lot of people who haven’t upgraded in a while, but anyone who already has a relatively recent device – unless they really want the new privacy screen – is probably safe sitting this one out.
There's a ton of movies arriving to the platform starting on April 1, followed by various Peacock exclusives and originals throughout the month.
Nintendo games are about to get more expensive. Or less. Depending on whether or not you want a physical copy, and how you read its recent decision to charge different prices for physical and digital games in the U.S. What's really going on? As usual, I have turned to a panel of industry experts to explain.
Letters have been sent by the US Federal Trade Commission to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe, reminding them that there could be hell to pay if they deny customers access to their services because of said customers' political or religious views.Potential discrimination against those with Trumpy views are the body's main concern, but their push could also impact the buying of NSFW games.Read more
Ever wanted to see Master Chief longingly looking into the horizon from the confines of a carbonated can? Your dream has finally come true.
The Last of Us fans believe creator Neil Druckmann has dropped a notable Part 3 tease.
Including many coming to Game Pass!A new month is about to kick off, and looking at the list of games coming to Xbox in April 2026, it's actually quite ridiculous how many great-looking indies are on the way over the next few weeks!Many of them are on Xbox Game Pass, too.
Dark Horse's best-selling series of The legend of Zelda art books is expanding again, as the company reveals The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom—Secrets of the Zonai.
2K has revealed that it will be fundamentally changing how its Ringside Pass works in WWE 2K26 following widespread criticism from the community.
The latest Masters of the Universe trailer is packed with new details, chief among them a first listen at Jared Leto’s take on villain Skeletor.
This Anker Zolo option provides up to 30W of power for speedy charging, and has a hefty 20,000mAh capacity in a compact size.At the moment, this power bank is at the lower part of its price cycle on Amazon judging by price tracking graphs, working out to £25 on Amazon UK and $34 on Amazon USA.The latter deal is part of the final day of the US Amazon Spring Sale, too.
Netflix announced Tuesday that Season 2 of their live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series will premiere on June 25, 2026. The third and final season wrapped production in late 2025 for an expected 2027 release.
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation changes your frame generation multiplier in real time, in order to keep your frame rate close to your monitor's refresh rate. But how well does it work?
Improvements to the Xbox full screen experience.We've got an interesting new update for the Xbox app on the ROG Xbox Ally today!Multiple new features have been added to the Xbox full screen experience, and they'll make things a little more convenient for Xbox handheld users.
Andrew Garfield has accepted that he'll likely be answering questions over another possible return as Peter Parker until he's "90."
The Drama Review: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya lead a tense, darkly funny relationship stress-test film.
A trip to a Scottish second-hand flea market has resulted in a stunning discovery: a 360 dev kit previously owned by Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games complete with an early beta build of GTA 4.
The fantasy genre of books is more popular than ever, with classics and new authors appearing all the time.
Eidos Montreal, developers of the most recent two Deus Ex entries, have laid off 124 staff.At the same time, they've announced that they're "parting ways" with veteran studio head David Anfossi, who'd been in that post for just under 13 years.Read more
The team has supported multiple Xbox studios.In another bit of disappointing industry news this week, Eidos-Montréal has announced that 124 employees have been let go — alongside the departure of the team's studio head, David Anfossi — as "a result of changing project needs and impacts across production and support teams".The studio took to LinkedIn to announce the unfortunate news, while noting that "a transition plan is underway, and further updates will be shared as new leadership is finalized".
Disney executives are reportedly keen on fully buying Fortnite at some point.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fans have been waiting at the starting gates for the release of Steel Ball Run’s second episode, or failing that, any information about when it will be appearing, following the release of Episode 1 on March 19.
Look out for previews next week.Forza Horizon 6 is just around the corner, releasing on May 15th for early access and May 19th for the full release, and some people are playing it already.Last night, various content creators started taking to social media to reveal that they've been checking out Forza Horizon 6, and that the embargo for previews will apparently lift on April 8th at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST.
Rec Room — the virtual reality social club where you play games, hang out in the locker room, customize your appearance, and party with friends — is shutting down on its 10th anniversary.
With the first few months of its latest target release year drawing to a close, the modders behind Skyblivion are looking to make some "final" and "vital" veteran additions to their team in order to get the ambitious remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine over the line.This comes after a delay late last year, which saw Skyblivion's arrival pushed to 2026, following some accusations from a former dev that it was being rushed out of the door.Read more
Amazon has released audience data for Fallout Season 2, showing the video game adaptation is a huge Prime Video hit.
Nintendo has released a major new update for Mario Kart World, which rebalances items, adjusts recovery times, and adds another battle mode.
Deus Ex and Tomb Raider developer Eidos-Montréal has announced a wave of layoffs alongside the departure of head of studio David Anfossi.
Solid savings on collections, first volumes, and more.
Don't sleep on these Disney, Star Wars, Batman, and more LEGO deals in the midst of Amazon's Big Spring Sale.
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Now’s the perfect time to revisit the adventure before The Super Mario Galaxy Movie lands this week.

You’ll rarely find this top Xbox and PC controller this cheap.

Target is offering a rare 'Buy 2, Save $30' sale on popular new Switch games. The promotion is running from now until April 4 and includes quite a few first-party Switch 2 games.
Amazon's Spring Sale rumbles on, and in its final days in the 'States, it's knocked a staggering 37% off one of the beefier processors in AMD's current lineup - the 12 core/24 thread Ryzen 9 9900X.At $315 from Amazon USA, it's dropped to a new low price from the big online retailer down from a previous price of $370 or thereabouts, although Amazon is stating a bigger 37% discount on its $499 list price.Read more
No one has ever truly unlocked the Platinum trophy for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus on the PlayStation Vita – until recently.
Alec Newman, the actor who plays Crimson Desert protagonist Kliff, has discussed his work on the game, and revealed how the story and characters changed significantly during development.
Taking place this June!With today's announcement of the 2026 Xbox Games Showcase ft. Gears of War E-Day Direct, we're finally set for another look at Microsoft's upcoming Gears of War title this summer.<related ids="199274">Read the full article on purexbox.com
It's your last chance to save before the 25% price increase.

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The best high-end TV deal in March comes in the nick of time.
There wasn't an official one for XGS 2025.Last year though, there wasn't one in June - Xbox fans actually decided to host their own community version to make up for it (there was an official one at Gamescom though).New Xbox boss Asha Sharma says she's "heard clearly" that the in-person Xbox FanFest events are valued by the community, and that's why this latest one is returning to LA for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026.
There wasn't an official one for XGS 2025.Last year though, there wasn't one in June - Xbox fans actually decided to host their own community version to make up for it (there was an official one at Gamescom though).New Xbox boss Asha Sharma says she's "heard clearly" that the in-person Xbox FanFest events are valued by the community, and that's why this latest one is returning to LA for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026.
I know exactly who Kliff, the protagonist of Crimson Desert, is.Though, the actor who played him has now outlined that throughout the game's regularly shifting development - which included a name change for its main character - he pushed Pearl Abyss to make the character more than just a stoic line-grumbler.Read more
An ancient, work-in-progress version of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV has reportedly been discovered on an Xbox 360 development kit at a car boot sale, somewhere up Edinburgh way.Dating back to November 2007, about six months before the open world game's launch, it's said to contain a cut model for a Liberty City river ferry that once featured in a trailer.While we only have the buyer's word that the development hardware - "a phat white Xbox 360 XDK with a Rockstar North label on it" - is legit, former Rockstar technical director Obbe Vermeij has, at least, verified that GTA 4 was once supposed to have a ferry, though he doesn't have much to share about the presence of materials for what appears to be a canned GTA 4 zombie minigame.
"I screamed, I shouted, I cursed the developers’ mothers".As we mentioned earlier today in our "final Xbox Game Pass additions for March 2026" roundup, Super Meat Boy 3D is launching day one for the service on Tuesday (March 31st), and the reviews have therefore gone live already.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Join Nightholme creator Alex Amancio (previously the creative director on Assassin's Creed Unity and Assassin's Creed Revelations) as he walks you through his new multiplayer horror game, Nightholme. In it, up to three players join a "multiplayer horror hunt experience that offers dual stealth and action gameplay" and "navigate a corrupted open world, racing to summon and slay the Gloomfiend, while deciding whether to avoid other hunters, or become their fear."
The Well Is Not Empty, a stylized first-person psychological horror game developed by tweakEra. Players will explore a dark, abandoned underground structure beneath a village that's been deprived of water. Investigate the occurrence, find hidden secrets, and survive at all costs. The Well Is Not Empty is coming soon to PC (via Steam).
Embark Studios has unveiled a closer look at the new Vaporizer Arc unit, the Close Scrutiny map condition, and everything else coming to Arc Raiders in tomorrow's Flashpoint update.
The Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL first launched back in mid-2024 as a more affordable alternative to the Swiss brand's all-conquering G915 TKL.It retained enough of the fundamentals - solid chassis, snappy low-profile switches, reliable wireless connectivity and so on - to make it feel like a strong value proposition at the time, although with current sales, has been made an even better one.I'm currently seeing it for its best prices in a while on both sides of the Atlantic - that's £95 on Amazon UK and $70 on the Amazon USA - the latter is part of the final couple of days of the Amazon Spring Sale.
Now’s the perfect time to add new figures to your collection.
Nintendo will be "furious" with last week's major leaks that detailed numerous Switch 2 games set to launch throughout the rest of 2026 and into 2027, including a Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake and launch details for the next big 3D Mario platformer.
When James and I published our impressions of anime racer Screamer the other week, I mentioned I was keen to give its online races a go once it’d pulled out of the garage.Would the sights and sounds of sliding around its twisty tracks and slamming into real people make for as much fun as I’d had racing the computer in its story mode?Read more
A brand new Switch and Switch 2 game sale has just gone live at Target, featuring a "Buy 2, Save $30" promo for a limited time only.
They argue that such tactics can hurt the industry.Just under a week ago, a report started getting a ton of attention when it suggested that new Xbox boss Asha Sharma might be considering a price revamp of sorts for Xbox Game Pass, potentially in the form of a new tier that could offer cheaper access to the service.From a consumer standpoint, we're always going to be happy with lower-priced options, but Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director has warned about the negative impacts it could have.
For example, Firaxis narrative director Cat Manning recently started a Bluesky thread "of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know".The replies and quote-posts include thoughts from people with credits on fairly big games.At one end of the spectrum, you have Apex Legends engineer Jay Stevens jauntily observing that "a navmesh is a very handy thing to have, even in a multiplayer game without NPCs", which I maybe half-understand, and sounds like it could be the opening to a Broadway song of some kind.
Crimson Desert Patches Are Delighting Fans, but Some Say They're Making the Game Too Easy and Now Want a Hard Difficulty Mode.
The Wachowskis’ 2008 cult classic Speed Racer will be available for purchase digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on May 19, 2026.
With the PS5 Pro price increase imminent, buyers are racing to pick up the console before the hikes hit. But some PlayStation fans aren't convinced, sparking a fierce debate on whether it's worth submitting to the FOMO that's taken hold.
"It’s time for another look at the future of gaming".The Xbox Games Showcase for 2026 will officially take place in just a few months' time, and the special "Direct" taking place after its conclusion will be for none other than Gears of War: E-Day.As always, we can expect a mountain of reveals for Xbox during the main show itself, most likely including in-depth looks at Fable and Halo: Campaign Evolved, along with plenty of announcements for titles that we've never seen before.
Microsoft will hold its major annual Xbox Games Showcase on June 7, with Gears of War: E-Day getting this year's dedicated post-show Direct.
Astarion actor Neil Newbon reacts to HBO's Baldur’s Gate 3 TV show.
Darth Maul's story has taken plenty of twists and turns since his original appearance in The Phantom Menace. Here's everything you need to know before watching the new animated series Maul: Shadow Lord.
InZOI, PUBG maker Krafton's competitor to The Sims, launched a year ago in early access form, and at a recent Q&A session at the studio’s Seoul office, IGN learned all about the struggles and successes of its first 12 months.
Release dates for every April Xbox launch.Welcome to our roundup of all new Xbox games coming out in April 2026!Below, we've listed every Xbox game with an April 2026 release date, including all confirmed Xbox Game Pass titles for April 2026 so far.
Last week's leak of the main PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for April 2026 has today been followed up by the reveal of a second game.
The design director of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has refuted claims of "skill-based damage" after a new Sony patent suggested plans to dynamically adjust player skills — both up and down — for "an even playing field" during cross-platform play.
Ah, I see what's happened: the Maw has eaten Friday again, and swallowed next Monday for good measure.As ever, the normies are calling this a "bank holiday weekend".There are various festivities planned - apparently, some bunny has been running around laying chocolate eggs.
HBO's boss wants its Harry Potter TV series to "not have a huge gap" between seasons — but has admitted the show won't be annual, and its second year of production is still at the script stage.
In the wake of the cancelation of the divisive Starfleet Academy, Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir has revealed Paramount rejected his pitch for a new Star Trek show, and has called modern Star Trek “s**t.”
The most unlikely of finds at a car boot sale.The GTA 4 community has been buzzing this weekend with the discovery of an unseen beta for the game, and it originates from the most unlikely of places - a car boot sale in Edinburgh.Yes, someone took to the GTA Forums the other day to reveal how they'd paid just £5 for the Xbox 360 development kit with a "Rockstar North" label attached to it, and they found beta content for GTA IV inside of it.
Epic Games' mass layoffs led a programmer with terminal brain cancer to lose his life insurance, leaving him and his family struggling to find new coverage.Following news of the situation breaking, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has said the company have reached out to the programmer - Mike Prinke - and that they "will solve the insurance".Read more
Resident Evil fans think they've found yet another hint at a Code Veronica remake, hidden within the recently-launched Requiem.
Epic Games has said it will "solve" the insurance of a former Fortnite employee living with terminal cancer, following widespread criticism of the company's decision to lay them off.
Bethesda has delisted mobile RPG The Elder Scrolls: Blades from all platforms as it prepares to permanently shut it down on June 30.
Try this on for size, then: Riftborne is a real-time sci-fi grand strategy game that's controlled using an old-fashioned, "terminal-style" interface.Seize your silly computer mouse and feed it unto the dog.Read more
Including a new day one title!Indeed, we've got three games coming to the library across the last two days of this month - including the pictured Resident Evil 7 and a brand-new day one drop.Here's the lowdown on your final Xbox Game Pass additions of the month (March 30-31):Read the full article on purexbox.com
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has a release date and a budget price point.
Pearl Abyss' bashing of their massive open-world into a more palatable shape continues, with Crimson Desert's latest patch packing a bunch more tweaks to controls and adding some new animals to ride around on.It also looks to have begun swapping out those AI paintings the studio previously claimed were accidentally left in it on release, though the patch's wording around this change is fairly vague.Read more
PUBG: Blindspot is closing down later today (March 30) after just 53 days, meaning it won't leave early access.
Invincible VS has confirmed Conquest as the 18th playable character in the upcoming 3v3 tag fighting game, completing the launch roster. We also have word of the first two DLC characters.
Release date for the series is still yet to be confirmed.
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Konami's quirky new platformer brings good times, but occasionally hits a brick wall.
Crimson Desert has hit a new Steam concurrent player peak during its second weekend, after another game-changing update brought a raft of improvements to the open world action adventure.
Project Hail Mary has shot past the $300 million mark at the global box office, with Imax proving to be a huge draw with cinemagoers.
Today, for the first time in forever, Disneyland Paris has officially opened up the gates to not only its renamed Disney Adventure World park, but also to a World of Frozen land that brings to life the Kingdom of Arendelle in a way never done before.
Lions, sharks, Men on Fire, and (more) Stranger Things are all new to Netflix in April.
Easter is nearly here, and what could be a better gift to put in a basket than a LEGO set?
Available now on the Xbox Store.All the way back in 2004, a little-known game called "Ghost Master: The Gravenville Chronicles" made its debut on Xbox following its PC release a year earlier, and that game has just received a new remake for Xbox Series X and S!The new version is Ghost Master: Resurrection, described as " back the essence of the classic, now infused with stunning new graphics, a powerful new engine, and refined mechanics that will leave you screaming for more."
After the disaster of the 1993 Mario movie, it seemed like Nintendo would never try Hollywood again. But 30 years later, it struck gold with the billion-dollar Super Mario Bros. Movie – this is the story of how that happened.
So far, Microsoft has been rather sporadic when it comes to putting Call of Duty titles on Xbox Game Pass.The title in question — as some of you may have guessed by now — is 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.That double whammy led to MW19 beating its best-ever concurrent player record on the platform - and it even overtook the modern Call of Duty launcher at the same time, which hosts the free-to-play Warzone.
In the midst of a massive year for the brand.We thought it was going to busy with the 25th anniversary celebrations and the releases of Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Gears of War: E-Day and Halo: Campaign Evolved, but we never considered that Phil Spencer would retire and Asha Sharma would take the role of Xbox boss!Project Helix was announced as the next Xbox console, we got our first Xbox Series X|S dashboard update in ages, and reports have suggested she's supposedly axed the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign and is looking at ways to make console & Game Pass "more enticing".
Super Mario Bros. has a solid cast of characters who are thrust into a psychedelic smattering of scenes hastily glued together in nearly offensively stupid ways, but it’s also strangely ambitious at times.
Our first 2027 games announced!This week's Xbox Partner Preview wasn't exactly light on Game Pass reveals; we got 14 new announcements as part of the March showcase.While most of these titles are set to drop this year, the event did give us our first glimpse at what to expect from Xbox Game Pass in 2027, with three games now scheduled for the service next year.
Sundays are for deciding to re-watch The Sopranos.Specifically that episode in which Tony gets a bad tummy and then talks to a fish.The person who's emerged from the bathroom, tripping over the plant on the way, is bald and reeks of alternative comedy.
DLSS 5's AI generated game "enhancement" has gone down like a lead balloon in the gaming community.But there's plenty of love out there for the humble Game Boy Advance, a dinky little machine with a 16MHz processor that could barely handle more than 20 polygons on screen.And still, I'd rather play V-Rally 3 on the Game Boy Advance than see another frame of Starfield being butchered by Nvidia's devisive new tech, that takes infinitely more energy to generate than the twin-AA powered GBA could ever dream of.
Incredibly priced, feature-rich, and blazing fast networking bundle, but it might not be around for very long.
I don't want to reignite the discourse around JRPG as a term, but it certainly was used in quite a derisive and othering manner in its earlier years.Then there's Eurojank, a sort of real but not technically real genre that describes ambitious but imperfect games made by European developers.And Andrii Verpakhovskyi, designer on the original Stalker games, doesn't think such jank should be geologically categorised.
Proof that you don't need to spend a lot of money to get a good gaming-focused monitor.
Use as a second monitor for your laptop or a bigger screen for your Nintendo Switch or handheld gaming PC.
The mystery of what you should price your game is one that I am sure will continue to remain mostly unsolved.On Steam there have been plenty of occasions where regional pricing differences haven't gone down well, primarily due to games costing too much based on local wages.However, a new Steam update should now make it easier for devs to set better regional prices.
It sounds like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios' future projects won't be translated entirely by human hands.Earlier today, a Reddit post was shared to the game's subreddit from Max Hejtmánek, a Czech to English translator and editor on the developer's most recent game, where he claimed that yesterday, March 27th, he was laid off "in favour of using AI for all translations going forward." Read more
The problem with playtesting is that it is impossible to predict every last thing any given person may do once a game is out in the wild.I imagine a live service game like Arc Raiders to be extra difficult, given how many playstyles need to be accounted for.And based on a recent interview, it sounds like some of the team at Embark took an approach that involved a randomiser determining their own playstyle from day to day to make sure they weren't just playing one way.
It's been a little over a year since the release of Wanderstop, the debut game of Ivy Road, itself a studio made up of Stanley Parable, Gone Home, and Minecraft talent.Since then, the developer has been trying to find funding for its next game, Engine Angel, but in January announced that this had been unsuccessful, with layoffs taking place as a result.Now, the studio has announced that it is, unfortunately, shutting down.
Nearly triples your Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 playtime.
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
Amazon Resale has used "like new" units for just $228 a pair instead of $479.
So many fantastic games on offer!Xbox's big Spring Sale for 2026 has begun in preview form, with more than 600 games now available at discounted prices for Game Pass members.The sale will open up to all Xbox players shortly (likely with even more games added), but it's safe to say that we've been having a good browse already to see what's what.
Fans of AMC's Dark Winds and the novels by Tony and Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels will be excited to check out the latest Humble Book Bundle that will get you 30 of these books (a $451 value!) for just $18. Proceeds from this bundle supports Trees, Water & People, which strives to improve lives by helping communities to protect, conserve, and manage their natural resources.
Score these top e-readers at a healthy discount.
All the confirmed reveals so far.Looking for a complete list of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in April 2026?Without further ado, here's the list of all new games coming soon on Xbox Game Pass in April 2026 (so far):Read the full article on purexbox.com
Including five more Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for March 30 - April 3!We haven't got any major AAA releases lined up for the next few days, but there are still plenty of interesting indies to look out for, while Xbox Game Pass is treating us to five additions highlighted by Resident Evil 7 and Super Meat Boy 3D on March 31st!
A brilliant keyboard from Corsair, but is any mainstream board worth such a high asking price? And what gamers does this premium option best suit?
Rather than move forward with spinoffs that cling to the original The Lord of the Rings movies, maybe the time has come to give the franchise a full, Harry Potter-style reboot.
Welcome to the final weekend in March!This week, the clocks change here in the UK, which means an extra hour of much-needed sunlight - at the expense of an hour's sleep of course.When we're not adjusting our body clocks for British Summer Time, here's what we're playing over the next few days:Read the full article on purexbox.com
Products include the Fire TV Stick, OBD II car scanner, salmon DNA serum, Apple AirPods, and more.
You see, I asked everyone what they were playing this weekend on Thursday, rather than the usual post-lunch scramble on a Friday.Perhaps Valve surprise released Half-Life 3 and everyone is playing that instead.I can only hope they thought to go into the CMS and update the article accordingly.
From family classics to strategy favorites, these discounted games deserve a place in your collection.
Character actor James Tolkan, best known for playing no-nonsense authority figures who chewed out Michael J. Fox and Tom Cruise, respectively, in Back to the Future and Top Gun, died Thursday at age 94.
Score two bestselling romantasy hits and get a third book free.
One of LEGO's coolest sets gets a rare price reduction.
There's never been a better time to get lost in the world of romantasy.
Amazon's dropping prices on the full range of iPads, including the baseline model, iPad Air, and mini.
John Hannah will reprise his role as Jonathan Carnahan, the unscrupulous brother of Rachel Weisz’s character Evelyn O'Connell, in The Mummy 4. Hannah appeared in the first three Mummy movies, although Maria Bello subbed for Weisz as Evy in the last entry.
Project Hail Mary Rocky Plush, Electric Air Duster, Power Banks, Nintendo Switch 2 Games, 4K Movies, and more.
Hundreds of albums are included, from Beyoncé to Led Zeppelin.
Discount LEGO sets for March 2026 include Mario, Disney, and Fortnite
Despite Nintendo's best efforts, a price hike on the Switch 2 certainly seems like a possibility.
With 2002's Resident Evil remake, Capcom reinvented the genre it defined, and the new version of the Spencer Mansion taught us fresh lessons in horror after we thought we knew everything there was to know.
Back in 1996, survival horror was a brand new genre. Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion was built to teach us how to play it.
Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion is a 30 year-old design miracle built on a spiral of progression that takes us deep into uncharted territory.
In the latest interview from the dev team behind Pragmata, they said that they're hand-crafting one of the levels in the game to look like it was AI-generated, despite it being fully made by humans.
Entertainment memorabilia dealer Propstore sold a light-up C-3PO head from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for just over $1 million at their spring live auction this week. This sum surpasses the $843,051 paid for a C-3PO head from A New Hope in 2023.
It is more of a premium upgrade if you've got the cash and the PC needed to drive a high-res and high refresh rate screen, but definitely worth it as someone who made the switch to a 32-inch 4K 240Hz option just like this Samsung Odyssey OLED G8.This screen is down to $849 from Amazon USA in the Spring Sale, marking out a hefty $450 discount on its previous high price - it has been closer to $900 and this exact price in more recent weeks, though.Read more
From spellslingers to goad, here are the Commanders coming with Secrets of Strixhaven's precons.
The program was added to Ultimate almost six months ago.It's been almost six months now since Xbox announced that, as part of a massive overhaul to Xbox Game Pass, a service called "Ubisoft+ Classics" would be integrated into the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass tiers.In the process, around 40 games from Ubisoft's back catalogue were added for subscribers, with some of the highlights including multiple Assassin's Creed titles, Far Cry 3, Skull and Bones and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
Nearly triples your Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 playtime.
Neil Newbon's performance as Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 is among the most memorable in the game, and that's saying a lot given how many amazing actors are in there cooking. Newbon's clearly proud of the good work he did as Astarion - but he's not interested in rehashing that performance again and again.
Spring cleaning just got a whole lot easier.
Of all the games we expected to get the free upgrade treatment for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, 2017's Hello Neighbor was not one of them!Nevertheless, this new "Next-Gen Update" sounds like a pretty meaty overhaul.As detailed on social media, Hello Neighbor is now said to run at 60FPS, complete with "4K & HDR support for stunning visuals", improved lighting, shadows and reflections, higher resolution textures and enhanced post-processing.
Apple TV's For All Mankind enters the mid-aughts and early 2010s as the Mars colony Happy Valley continues to grow and tensions start developing back on Earth.
Free-to-play tactical shooter PUBG: Blindspot is being shut down by developers Arc Team and publishers Krafton a whole couple of months into its early access career.Launched on February 5th, it will cease service on March 30th.Read more
The Logitech G703 Lightspeed isn't one of the mice I can personally attest to using, but it's got the makings of a solid choice from the spec sheet - a reliable 25,600 DPI Hero senor I've used in some of the brand's other mice and a reliable Lightspeed wireless connection, plus a more ergonomic, contoured shape, and up to 35 hours of battery life.Currently, this rodent is on the receiving end of a hefty discount in the 'States for Amazon's Spring Sale which makes it $60 from Amazon USA - that's its best price of 2026, and a solid price for such a potent rodent.Read more
Crusader Kings 3's latest "Realm Maintenance" update, all about improving and adding to the base game's established systems, is out now in beta form.It includes a big ledger full of spreadsheets you can use to keep track of the world, a rework of accolades, and makes the lives of older rulers even more miserable.Read more
Microsoft has confirmed that its new gaming boss Asha Sharma personally killed the company's controversial "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign — because, ironically, "it didn't feel like Xbox."
Slay the Spire 2 developers Mega Crit have rolled back aspects of last week's big STS2 balancing update, which nerfed a number of cards according to the broad objective of making infinites – that is, cunning combos that let you prolong your turn forever - harder to accomplish.The patch in question isn't even formally part of the roguelite deckbuilder yet – you have to opt into the Steam beta branch to test it out.Read more
Amazon has plenty of Magic: The Gathering deals right now as part of its Big Spring Sale, including the TMNT Draft Night box for about $40 off the regular price.
MS spokesperson confirms it's been nixed by the new Xbox boss.Following a report earlier this week that suggested new Xbox boss Asha Sharma had directed the scrubbing of the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign, it's now been confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson.We don't know who the spokesperson is, but they responded to Windows Central with a very short statement mentioning that the campaign "didn't feel like Xbox" and that Asha Sharma is "leading a reset of how we show up".
The best deal possible on a PS5 right now is the limited edition Fortnite bundles, which are now effectively a $200 saving compared to the incoming price hikes on April 2.
We've got a couple of big releases on the Xbox Store today for fans of retro games!Both the Marvel MaXimum Collection and Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection have just released, and they're getting decent reviews so far.Let's start with the Marvel MaXimum Collection, which doesn't yet have enough reviews to generate a Metacritic average, but nevertheless has received some good scores - 7/10 seemingly being the most common so far .
Well, aside from those AI paintings which were left in it on release.Developers Pearl Abyss, currently in the midst of trying to patch up a lot of the other holes players and critics have pointed out, have now made clear they're aware that their tale of people witrh grey manes fighting evil bears isn't the best.Read more
A new Star Fox game and a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake are among numerous unannounced Nintendo games reportedly headed to Switch 2 this year.
PS5 price hikes signal a scramble to buy the console before it jumps up in price in a matter of days, with new buyers potentially saving up to $200 if they act fast. Here's where you can find PS5 consoles before the new price increase hits.
Pearl Abyss CEO talks Crimson Desert's success, story, and what's next.
Series S looking like a bit of a bargain!Sony has today announced what our good friends at Push Square are calling "gigantic" PS5 price increases, including a $200 price bump on the company's flagship PS5 Pro console.Of course, Microsoft has done similar things in recent months and years - heck, we even compared just how much Xbox Series X and S had changed in price from 2020 to 2025 back in November, with some fairly substantial jumps over the last five years or so.
If you didn't happen to catch The Criterion Collection's flash deals, you can still find discounts in Amazon's Spring Sale.
Glen Powell plays Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the actor has confirmed.
Resident Evil's unofficial lore master has weighed in with his thoughts on Resident Evil Requiem, which adds a sizable new chapter filled with story revelations to Capcom's veteran horror franchise.
In ZIPIT's splendid story-driven photography sim The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish, you are a young witch living on the back of a huge, aerial catfish – a benevolent flying island of trees, fountains and windchimes that puts me in mind of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.The catfish is sad that the skies are so empty nowadays, so you must use a magic flute - see, we're definitely in Zelda's orbit - to transform into a similarly gravity-agnostic eel, which eats clouds and poops them out as various creatures.Snapping photos of those creatures grants you seashells, which turn into more clouds when thrown into the fountain.
The first impressions from players are very positive.Yesterday marked the release day for Square Enix's Life is Strange: Reunion, but there wasn't a whole lot of fanfare around it - mainly because the reviews were so few and far between.We don't exactly know what's happened here, but the Metro reported that their review copy only arrived on the same day as release (March 26th), and that they suspected most other outlets would be in the same boat.
One of the best deals we've spotted amongst the many Magic: The Gathering deals is for the full set of Scene Boxes from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set, which is currently on sale for $60 off its regular price.
Sony has announced price rises for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal, blaming “continued pressures in the global economic landscape.”
As players get further into the sprawling Crimson Desert, they’re finding new ways to play around in its gargantuan open world and with the many, many mechanics and systems. One way in which fans have found fun is to play Crimson Desert like it’s a cat sim, with some even honoring the memory of their IRL cats who passed away.
Crimson Desert's fantastically flexible combat system allows you to fight however you want, at least until bosses turn up and dictate your play style.
There's been a lot of talk about Xbox Game Pass recently and whether Microsoft might be trying to implement a cheaper version of the program for subscribers (thanks to a report that was widely shared earlier this week), and so it's pretty interesting that one Xbox fan claims to have spotted a new Game Pass codename behind the scenes.The latest one was published on March 18th when they shared that TRITON was a new "Game Pass codename".Read the full article on purexbox.com
Teyon and Nacon have revealed Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish, a new "semi open world" first-person single-player RPG set in the World of Darkness table-top universe.Where stablemate series Vampire: The Masquerade is about a secret society of bloodsuckers, Hunter is about the humans who stalk and kill those bloodsuckers together with werewolves, ghouls and, well, anything remotely monstrous or supernatural.Read more
Disney will reportedly stand firm over the look of its live-action Moana remake, despite online ridicule of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's wig.

The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel has rapidly climbed the charts to become the best-selling comic at Amazon this week - here's why.
Up until now, that's been the sort of sound you only hear in Resident Evil Requiem when a spooky monster may or may not be sneaking up on you.Thanks to a new patch from Capcom, though, it could now also signify that you've just taken a cute photo of the spooky monster about to ruin Grace or Leon's day.Read more
Homelander actor Antony Starr has responded to the constant Resident Evil Wesker fan casting calls.
List of bug fixes also included.Capcom has detailed its latest patch for Resident Evil Requiem — which is out now on Xbox and other platforms — and this latest title update contains the first major feature to be added to the game post-launch: photo mode.Yep, a new in-game photo mode headlines the new Resident Evil Requiem update, and we have a small list of bug fixes and tweaks as well.
The JSAUX ModCase is our second favourite Steam Deck case, serving as a more affordable alternative to the Dbrand Project Killswitch.It's an affordable means of protecting your handheld PC while also having the modularity of more expensive cases.The deal we've spotted is on the base option, which is coming in at $25 from Amazon US in the current Spring Sale.
Pokémon Go is planning to add an in-game item that automatically catches Pokémon, without you having to lift a finger.
As hinted at by previous peeks at it, which were set in 1915 and 1943, Like A Dragon devs RGG Studio are jumping around in time with their upcoming historical brawler Stranger than Heaven.They've confirmed via a fresh trailer that it's set in five different decades and, arguably more surprisingly, five different Japanese cities.Read more
Save on a pair of Magic: The Gathering precons for you and a friend to play with right out of the box.
Alien Deathstorm is the new sci-fi FPS from Rebellion, developers of skull-popping shooter series Sniper Elite and the recent, Very English survival game Atomfall.What is Alien Deathstorm about?Why, it's a visual novel about a neurodivergent person growing up in the big city HOHO OF COURSE NOT, it's a game about aliens in which there is a storm that will make you dead, set in another collapsing extra-terrestrial colony full of dependably phat, lived-in 1980s technology.
Save on Lorcana starter sets and Disney booster boxes in Amazon's latest Spring Sale deals.
Project Hail Mary is doing so well at the global box office that there’s talk of turning it into a franchise with a sequel.
Pokémon TCG's 151 Booster Bundle has recently seen an aggressive, short-term value spike - a 93.48% rise in value the past three months, and a massive 33.35% jump in the last 30 days alone. So what's going on?
Resident Evil Requiem has been updated today with a major new patch that adds the game's photo mode, plus other improvements. Check out the patch notes.
On March 26, a female store clerk at Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo in Japan was fatally stabbed by a man, who then turned the weapon on himself. Both died of their injuries in hospital later that evening. Today, Japanese news outlets have revealed that the perpetrator was the victim’s former boyfriend, and had previously been arrested for stalking her.
But his princess is in another sandcastle.
There's a small catch: Just one color option is available now at a discount, in "Sand Gray". Thankfully, it's a dark gray shade that will pair well with anything.
A quick joke is not worth sacrificing one of our best tools in the fight against generative AI.
The Pitt continues to grow more tense and stressful by the week, with “6:00 PM” doing a fine job of showcasing several characters reaching a psychological breaking point. Read our full review.
Showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi preview the fifth season of the Apple TV alt-history series, For All Mankind.
LiFePO4 jump starters are safer, last longer, and work better in cold weather.
Game engine maker Unity, whose tech powers many games, from 2025 hits like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Peak to anticipated 2026 offerings like Mouse: P.I. for Hire and Replaced, announced its preliminary Q1 financial results today. The company expects to beat forecasts.
There's a whole bunch of great Pokémon TCG deals available right now online as part of Amazon's 2026 Spring Sale.
I've already spoken once today about my intrigue around permanency today, so why not keep that train running.Star Wars Zero Company, a strategy game with XCOM in its veins and execution, is continuing on its spiritual predecessors lineage by having the most controversial of all video deaths as a main feature: permadeath. Read more
The appearance of AI in art is nothing new, hell, Mr. Movies himself Steven Spielberg literally made A.I. Artificial Intelligence near the start of the millenia.Now what we have is the Donkey Bollocks AI that produces garbage facsimiles of things we know and actually like.But that doesn't mean it's not worth considering AI, and I really need you to bear with me here, within our art, as that's exactly what the team behind Pragmata did (without touching the stuff).
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
Netflix is raising its prices once again. As updated on its website on March 26, all three of Netflix's plans are seeing hikes, starting today, by $1-$2 each.
IGN interviews Gearbox on Borderlands 4's first Story Pack DLC: Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned.
There are some excellent third-party Switch 2 games on sale at Amazon this week.
One of the big reveals at today's Xbox Partner Preview showcase was that of Stranger Than Heaven, which has already been announced by SEGA before, but today got revealed for Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere.No release date though!That's seemingly because there's a lot more to be revealed yet — Xbox and SEGA have announced a new showcase taking place on May 6th/7th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am GMT called "Xbox Presents".
A Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo has been out since yesterday, and it's pretty quickly made it apparent why Nintendo put heavier restrictions than usual on media sharing from this game specifically.
Goofy co-op puzzle-platformer Frog Sqwad has a new trailer, new platforms, and a narrowed release window of June 2026.
Bluey’s Happy Snaps will soon let gaming fans see a classic cartoon from a new perspective when it launches fall 2026.
It would be a reasonable assumption to make that there are only so many variations on football games you can make.Ultimately, no matter how many bells, whistles, or rocket powered cars you throw at it, it always comes down to getting a ball in a net and shouting SCOOOOOORE.Except in the case of Nutmeg!, a "nostalgic deckbuilding football manager" which looks like it features more faxing than any sort of kicking, but I mean that in an endearing way, promise.
You may have fond memories of going out to recess and hearing rumors that the Pokémon Mew could be found under a truck just outside the S.S. Anne in Pokémon Red and Blue. They weren't true then, but now, 30 years later, Pokopia players are making this legend real...sort of.
Turtle Beach is updating its Nintendo Switch 2-licensed Rematch RGB Wireless Gaming Controller line with a couple of new controllers that feature light-up designs, one of which gives some much-needed love to everyone's favorite cosmic mother figure, Rosalina. Alongside the new controllers, the company also announced a new glow-in-the-dark PlayTrek travel case for the Switch 2.
Our favorite controller for Xbox and PC just got a new price drop in Amazon's Spring Sale.
Equipped with well-regarded Sony STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensors for low-light video recording.
Dispatch and Hades 2 - the latter on Xbox Game Pass!If you look at Metacritic, Hades 2 was actually the second highest-rated game of all of 2025 across every platform, racking up a ridiculous 95/100 average review score.Its Xbox release date is now set for April 14th, 2026, and the best bit is that it's launching on Xbox Game Pass as well.
I quite like a bit of permanency in games.So despite honestly not caring all that much for zombie games, I'm still a bit interested in Dying Light: The Beast and its new Restored Land update which introduces a mode where if you kill a zombie once, it truly is gone for good. Read more
A ridiculous amount of new XGP reveals!Xbox's March Partner Preview showcase is now over, and it was absolutely stacked with Game Pass reveals.Of the 19 games that were showcased during the event, 14 of them are coming to Xbox Game Pass day one - including some massive titles like Hades 2, Stranger Than Heaven and The Expanse: Osiris Reborn.
A different direction for Sam.As part of the Xbox Partner Preview showcase today, Devolver Digital has announced Serious Sam: Shatterverse, and it's a bit of a different direction for the series both in theme and in terms of the folks developing it.Shatterverse is "a multiversal multiplayer FPS based on the adventures of boomer shooter legend Sam ‘Serious’ Stone" - and Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive is the team making it.
You and two other morally dubious alien treasure hunters have an expedition go wrong, and find yourselves having to tactically blast through some baddies in order to secure some relics in timely fashion.Well, at least that's situation the three protagonists of Vaunted, a newly announced tactical RPG, find themselves in.Read more
Preorders are live for a new Blu-ray box set of The Office's Superfan episodes, with over 25 hours of new scenes that weren't in the original broadcast.
How The Expanse: Osiris Reborn handles the extreme amount of time it takes for space travel.
Everything we saw at today's event.Today marked the first Xbox Partner Preview showcase of 2026, with the event focusing on third-party reveals that are coming to Xbox (and Game Pass in many cases) at some point in the near future.The show was 30 minutes long, with some of the highlights including Hades 2, Dispatch, Stranger Than Heaven, Stalker 2: Cost of Hope, Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish and so many other great games!
Not-so-cozy farming sim Grave Seasons has locked down a release date of August 14, 2026, for PC and consoles with its new trailer.
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has confirmed that Stranger Than Heaven will take place across not two, not three, but five separate time periods.
The dust is now beginning to settle on the Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026!If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can catch the full thing over at our live coverage page, and we've also provided a separate recap of everything that happened as part of the show.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Dispatch, the hit superhero workplace comedy game, will finally land on Xbox consoles this summer.
The brilliant Hades 2 is finally coming to Xbox next month, and will be available from launch via Xbox Game Pass.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is getting its first proper expansion this year, titled Cost of Hope, and it looks stuffed to its icky mutant gills with classic STALKER series beats that the base game – while a powerfully engrossing survival FPS – missed out on.The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant returns as an explorable, doubtless horrible addition to the game’s open world, and the story concerns the conflict between the rival Freedom and Duty factions that’s been simmering since the original STALKER.Read more
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is making a big splash with a slew of announcements, all revolving around its first gameplay trailer.
Say hello to Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish.Well, the vampiric series is back with another sequel - this time being developed by the folks behind Terminator: Resistance and Robocop: Rogue City, Teyon.Yep, this was a super-unexpected reveal from the Xbox Partner Preview today, but Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish is indeed coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC in Summer 2027.
Sniper Elite developer Rebellion has announced Alien Deathstorm, a first-person shooter with otherworldly weather and deadly creatures.
Survival horror first-person shooter Stalker 2 is getting its first major story expansion this summer. As revealed at the Xbox Partner Preview showcase, Stalker 2: Cost of Hope is coming to PC, Xbox Series X and S, and PlayStation 5 and brings with it “dozens of hours of gameplay.”
The last one was only in 2024 with Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, bringing back the original game's Max Caulfield.And now we come to now with a potentially odd entry, Life is Strange: Reunion, which is out today.As the subtitle suggests, and where the oddness comes in, Reunion reunites Max with the surprising return of Chloe Price.
During today's Xbox Partner Showcase, Devolver Digital showed up to reveal a brand new Serious Sam game. But it's not being made by the usual developer, Croteam. Instead, Dead by Daylight dev Behaviour Interactive is wandering into the blast zone with Serious Sam: Shatterverse.
The World of Darkness is expanding with Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish, a first-person action game based on a tabletop classic.
Sonya Walger, known to legions of Lost fans as Penny, has been cast as Freya in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming God of War TV series.
I dunno if you heard earlier this month, but PlayStation are reportedly breaking up with us PC folks, at least when it comes to the PS5's biggest singleplayer hitters.Asked where Returnal devs Housemarque's new game Saros - due out next month - fits into that, its director has opted to remain tight-lipped.Read more
Amazon has dropped prices on all of the Dune books, including art books from Dune Part One and Two.
The Pokémon Company is already considering a future where the total number of pocket monsters available hits "maybe 10,000."
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has a demo out now. But a word of caution if you're playing the demo yourself: don't play too much. Eventually all your Miis will lock themselves in their houses and only robotically talk about buying the full version.
Microsoft will soon give fans a peek behind the curtain to see what its third-party partners are up to with the March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview, and we’re here to share all of the highlights.
30 minutes of third-party Xbox reveals.Welcome to the Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026!This is the first version of this specific showcase we've seen in 2026, and as the name suggests, it's focused around third-party games.
For you avid readers out there, a part of the Amazon Spring Sale is the return of their popular buy 3 books for the price of 2 promotion, which includes dozens of popular novels, comics, magazines, kids' books, and more.
Stephen Bissette's Tyrant is arguably the greatest comic book about dinosaurs ever published, and it's making a big comeback in 2026.
Having re-launched Splitgate 2 as Spligate: Arena Reloaded late last year, 1047 Games have now kicked off early work on a new shooter.Details are scarce aside from the fact you'll be able to move around in it and that 1047 CEO Ian Proulx reckons it should appeal to fans of Titanfall and Call of Duty Blops 3.Oh, and that you can sign-up for to playtest it now.
Live now through Sunday evening!The latest edition of Xbox Free Play Days has officially begun, and Microsoft has two games for us as part of the program this weekend - including Train Sim World 6: Thomas & Friends Edition (sorry, it's not the recently-released Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor that's included here).
I have two dreams as mayor of an island town in Nova Roma, the new early access city-building game from Lion Shield and Hooded Horse.One is to erect a fantastic water network for my people - a sturdy yet poetic lattice of aqueducts, following their deft gradations down from the mountain rivers to cisterns gracefully spaced amid the insulae, forums, circuses and temples.My citizens will learn to treat water frivolously, swilling and pissing it away in their decadence, much as they did in the Rome of old.
Housemarque has made PS5 exclusive Saros kinder in response to Returnal feedback — but it's still fundamentally difficult.
Housemarque’s follow-up to Returnal takes what made the 2021 third-person “looper shooter” so acclaimed and twists it into a whole new cosmic horror bullet-fest that aims to surpass its predecessor. And from playing three hours myself, I think it's doing just that.
Get your first look at Sin & Siege, a new strategy game sprinkled with tower defense and roguelite elements set in a half-destroyed Hell being attacked by heavenly forces. Harvest souls and the Seven Deadly Sins to increase your power, while spells and defense towers protect your domain.
While the scope of layoffs has stunned employees, industry analysts have told IGN that cost-reduction within Epic Games was inevitable amid growing external pressures and costly industry battles.
How community-made maps inspired Forza Horizon 6’s new Rush events.
On March 26, a female store clerk working at Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo in Japan was stabbed by a man, who then turned the knife on himself. Both died of their injuries, according to Japanese outlet Jiji News’ latest report.
Everything you need to know to preorder Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, including pricing of physical vs. digital, where it's available, and what the game is about.
Ditto has spiked in popularity thanks to Pokopia, and now the amorphous blob's price is rising in the TCG, too.
Starfox hero Fox McCloud is part of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Nintendo has just confirmed, sharing a new poster for the film.
Slap bang in the middle of this range of options is the Ryzen 7 9700X, an eight-core and 16-thread processor that can be had for decent money.It's currently $265 from Amazon US in the Spring Sale, working out to a genuine reduction on a decent option for most folks that makes for a much more compelling option if you want to change over to AM5 from an older system, or want to upgrade your existing rig to the latest generation.Read more
Daredevil: Born Again Episode 1 spoiler review: The episode sets the stage for DD's second season with a premiere that offers some intriguing elements to explore as we go forward. And also offers a cool-looking new variation on DD’s costume!
What are the best games of 2026? We've rounded up every game that's scored 8/10 or above on IGN this year.
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has gone viral again, not because of his latest in-game innovation or taste in movies, but because of his superhuman power of smell and distinctive cologne.
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned how Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" advertisement on the official Xbox Wire website had been mysteriously removed, and that ad is still giving off a "404 Not Found" message at the time of writing.This naturally led many people to conclude that the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign was being scrapped by Xbox, and although that hasn't been confirmed by Microsoft, a recent report from The Information suggests that it has indeed been "axed" at the direction of new Xbox boss Asha Sharma.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Capcom has apologized for Street Fighter 6's Alex and Patricia "incest" controversy, and announced a patch is on the way.
Earlier this week, Sony shuttered another of its first-party studios, Dark Outlaw. While we've seen an unfortunate trend of Sony-owned studios closing, particularly those developing live-service games like Concord developer Firewalk Studios in 2024, it turns out Dark Outlaw was not working on another ill-fated live-service shooter.
Save on Spider-Man, Avatar, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collector Booster boxes from Amazon.
From Universes Beyond to Universes Within, here are some of the best Magic precons on sale right now.
Up until Bethesda's announcement that it'll be getting some robot army DLC next month and the yassification of its faces by Nvidia's DLSS 5 tech, I'd not thought about seeing how Starfield's modding scene is getting on for a little while.That's now changed, because they've finally gotten seamless custom animations working.Read more
Pearl Abyss has already made significant, meaningful changes to Crimson Desert following a rocky launch, but patches can't fix the game's biggest problem.
Amazon’s latest deal lets you grab three Spider-Man movies for the price of two, including 4K sets and full collections.
Perhaps sensing competition in the field of Japan-flavoured arcade racing games, Forza Horizon 6 devs Playground Games have revealed the open-world vroomer’s system requirements.Agreeably, they’re a sensible balance of attainable low-end fare – at 1080p, a GTX 1650 and 16GB of RAM are apparently all that’s needed for 60fps – and the kind of hulking graphics bricks that you’d expect for 4K ray tracing.Only the most baby-oiled of hypercars for the RX 9070 XT owners, you understand, though support for lil’ handhelds like the Steam Deck is confirmed as well.
Including a surprise addition!Yes, we did round up all of what were this week's XGP additions a few days ago - but we've had a surprise inclusion today, so we're going to re-remind you folks of what's coming to the library specifically on Thursday, March 26th.Without further ado, here are your two new Xbox Game Pass additions for today (March 26):Read the full article on purexbox.com
There's an excellent sale on a ton of incredible DC Compact Edition Comics at Amazon right now - buy 2 and get another 1 free. That includes Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, All-Star Superman, Batman: The Court of Owls, and more.
Players and developers should boycott Nvidia's AI-stuffed DLSS 5 tech, with hopes that it'll force the compny to "think about going back to giving us what we want".That's the appeal being made by Dave Oshry, CEO of indie studio New Blood Interactive, who's been asked for his take on the neural rendering gubbins Nvidia exec Jensen Huang's recently been adopting a multitude of tones as he's tried to convince critis that they've just got it all wrong.Read more
These are the best gaming deals in Argos' Big Red Event sale, including discounts on PlayStation 5 Pro consoles, Call of Duty Black Ops 7, and plenty more.
Daredevil: Born Again only began streaming its second season yesterday, but its star Charlie Cox has already given a clear hint at how it all ends.
Games Workshop has finally pulled back the curtain on the 11th Edition of Warhammer 40,000, which is due out June 2026.
Game Pass members get the deals one week early!This year's promotion has begun with one week of exclusivity for Game Pass members, before the sale is blown open to all Xbox players in the near future - seemingly on April 1st or 2nd.We have over 600 games discounted here, including some of the biggest and best Xbox titles available.
Nearly triples your Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 playtime.
Amazon Resale has used "like new" units for just $228 for a pair.
Game Pass members get the deals one week early!This year's promotion has begun with one week of exclusivity for Game Pass members, before the sale is blown open to all Xbox players in the near future - seemingly on April 1st or 2nd.We have over 700 games discounted here, including some of the biggest and best Xbox titles available.
Now's a great time to dive into some romantasy.
French author Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers is one of the most famous novels of all time, later begetting a slew of movie and television adaptations. But you might not have known that the Musketeers were based on actual historical figures. Yes, D'Artagnan was a real guy and now his long lost remains may have finally been found under the floor of a Dutch church.
30% more battery life compared to the original gen 1 model.
Ecovac's newest robot vac is full of the latest and greatest tech, plus it's on sale right now.
Pokémon Champions' producer Masaaki Hoshino says only "final evolution" Pokémon will be available at launch, possibly with exceptions for some like Pikachu and Eevee.
What if Riz Ahmed was Bond? The actor’s new streaming series Bait answers this question in hilarious and unexpected ways.
Samsung's new flagship phone was released on March 11 and is now shipping.
Today only, you can get an extra 20% off already-discounted PS5, Switch, and Xbox games and accessories in Woot's sale.
Amazon's latest 'Buy 2, Get 1 Free' deal includes every Dungeon Crawler Carl book so far.
The first Harry Potter show trailer is here, revealing a first look at how HBO is bringing classic Hogwarts staff and students to TV with the story of the Philosopher's Stone this Christmas.
Even J.R.R. Tolkien didn't like the idea of a sequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so why is Warner Bros. going ahead with one anyway? Here's why we have reservations about Shadow of the Past.
Visceral Games' final chapter.However, the folks behind the Dead Space series created the story campaign for the soon-to-be-delisted Battlefield Hardline, and that makes it one of the most interesting entries in the entire franchise - and something worth owning before it disappears from the Xbox Store.It's not perfect by any stretch, but it's one of the most interesting 'realistic' shooter campaigns in recent memory.
Designed for ages 18+, but this set is a wonderful choice for builders of all ages.
Even in this early state, Combo Devils is showing a ton of promise as a fusion of a traditional 2D fighter with a Smash Bros.-like platform fighter. Here's our full hands on preview of Combo Devils.
The Sennheiser Momentum 4 rivals Sony and Bose headphones that cost $100-$200 more.
I am shocked to discover that this is the first time we've written about Amberspire, the new sci-fi city builder from Nic Tringali, developer of starfaring monastic strategy game The Banished Vault.It's set on a gas giant moon, looks a bit like isometric Sable, features dice with arcane symbols, and challenges you to "cohabit" with an ecology of ooze, silica and rust, rather than turning everything into a mall.Read more
The Samsung S90 is our pick for best gaming TV of 2026.
There are plenty of discounts worth checking out during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale.
Plus a handful of "Handheld Optimised" titles.Every month, we like to bring you a roundup of the Xbox "Update" that Microsoft reveals over on the official Xbox Wire website, but there's actually not much new content in the March 2026 update that we haven't covered already.For example, the update talks about the new Xbox dashboard features that were rolled out to Insiders recently, as well as a few new dynamic backgrounds and the further unveiling of Project Helix at GDC - all of which we've highlighted:Read the full article on purexbox.com
You see, I fell down a cliff midway through Big Walk, and spent the night floundering about in the ocean.Nights in Big Walk last moments.Read more
Nearly triples your Nintendo Switch or Switch 2 playtime.
Nintendo has announced that it will now charge different amounts for digital and physical copies of the same Switch 2 games, beginning with next month's launch of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.
Phwoar, look at that striking steeple on the horizon, I thought after arriving in Crimson Desert’s first town.I was playing a man I was fairly sure I couldn’t give a toss about, embroiled in a conflict I also couldn’t give a toss about, but that tower.‘Train can wait,’ I replied, ‘must take in the visual majesty of this faraway tower and maybe visit it to see if there’s anything interesting to do there’.
Ahead of launch on Xbox Game Pass this May, Playground Games has detailed the key PC specs required for Forza Horizon 6, including confirmation of ray tracing features and ROG Xbox Ally compatibility for its new open-world racer.The team has provided detailed PC specs for Minimum, Recommended, Extreme and Extreme Ray Tracing setups - with an additional note that Forza Horizon 6 will work on both the Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally handheld devices.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Use as a second monitor for your laptop or a bigger screen for your Nintendo Switch or handheld gaming PC.
Amazon's Spring Sale has officially kicked off, but all of the best physical media deals are hidden in its '3 for 2' sale.
It essentially takes any spare M.2 drive you might have laying around and turns it into a fast external SSD, with minimul fuss and for a lot less cash than just buying a whole new portable drive.At Amazon, it's down to £16 in the UK and $16 in the USA.The latter is for Amazon's Spring Sale in the States, while the one in the UK is more of a cyclical discount, judging by the price history.
Sony's collaboration with Honda to make cars that streamed PlayStation 5 games has now been scrapped.
Have you heard of this game called Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator yet?It only came out for PC on March 17th, and it's already climbed up to eighth in the "Top Sellers" GB chart on Steam as things stand.An official FAQ for Retro Rewind posted back in November of 2025 mentions that players should not "expect console ports", as the current focus is very much on the PC version.
From Commander decks to booster boxes, here are the best deals in Magic during Amazon's sales event.
It wasn’t that long ago that the 4K, 160Hz, 27in panel of the Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG would put it out of reach for anyone who didn’t have access to a sovereign wealth fund, yet here it is, discounted to just £319 / $299.That’s only about half what it would cost to buy a new graphics card capable of actually running 4K games.Read more
Harry Potter fans will likely have to wait multiple years between seasons of HBO's upcoming TV series, the streaming service has admitted.
Two new KPop Demon Hunters themed meals are coming to McDonalds, along with a berry flavored Derpy McFlurry, on March 31
The best gaming laptop deal from the Lenovo Spring Sale.
Our first partner preview of the year!As confirmed a few days ago, Microsoft will host its latest Xbox Partner Preview showcase this week, featuring a bunch of third-party titles from the likes of SEGA, GSC Game World, Owlcat Games and others.Alongside the announcement of this year's first Xbox Partner Preview, the team also confirmed some of the specific games that'll feature - so we're going to talk about those down below, along with all the other details you need to know about the March 2026 event.
The Hbada X7 Smart Ergonomic Chair is an ambitious powerhouse packed with features like an auto-tracking lumbar system, mechanical massage, and a ventilated cooling seat. While the steep price tag, hefty weight, and short warranty might give you pause, its unparalleled level of therapeutic relief makes it a compelling investment to minimize the fatigue of prolonged sitting.
The best way to play as the most underrated version of the Blue Bomber.
Capcom's brilliant Resident Evil 4 Remake is celebrating its third anniversary, but there's one person who won't be celebrating: the game's infamous merchant, who players have left more than 3 trillion in debt.
The Wolverine V3 Pro itself, however, feels very right indeed.It's a solid and endlessly comfortable wireless pad, whose buttons are enriched with the pleasant mechanical clickiness of a high-end mouse.Cost-wise, it’s also a lot less now than when I got mine: Amazon US has it at 35% off during their Spring sale, while in the UK, Scan has it down from £190 to £130.
Where other gaming earbuds rely on software to let in ambient noise, the Asus ROG Cetra open wireless earbuds sit outside your ear canals letting you hear your surroundings at all times. For some people – parents of young kids, for example – that's a godsend, and it's backed up by impressive battery life and a comfortable fit.
Introducing Play Faster, a minimalist precision platformer purpose-built for speedrunning. It features built-in tools to support that, like input display, a replay system, instant retries, and practice mode; as well as anti-cheat and anti-splice to best make sure it has fair competition and leaderboards.
The potential for the next-gen Project Helix Xbox is high, provided Microsoft tells gamers exactly what sets the machine apart from the competition.
It takes place in a living book, where each chapter is illustrated according to a different cultural heritage, extending from Europe to China.As a roving general-hero, your job is to build a settlement by filling in the blank pages with your magic brush, giving rise to both fortifications and lovely wild spaces.Then, you must fight off waves of badniks who threaten to set the paper alight, reducing your pop-up terrain to ash.
Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2026 is live now, with big savings on popular Apple products like iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and more.
Metacritic has today revealed its list of top game publishers for 2026 (based on their 2025 output), and this year, Microsoft has made the top five - beating out the likes of Sony and Nintendo in terms of average Metascores.Based on its 2025 releases, Microsoft managed a Metacritic average rating of 80 - with Forza Horizon 5's PS5 port being the team's best game with a score of 92.In fact, Xbox's PS5 ports have massively boosted the overall output from last year, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5 being Microsoft's second best-rated game.
Hideo Kojima stressed to his team that he wanted to ensure that players jumping into Death Stranding 2: On the Beach would have a great time "all the way to the end."
Cyclops actor James Marsden has admitted to lying about not being in Avengers: Doomsday, but now he’s free to tell the truth, he says he’s delighted with the comic-accurate X-Men suit.
Pretty Lethal review: Ballerinas go ballistic on the bad guys – and Uma Thurman! – in this uneven but entertaining action romp.
The puppeteer behind Star Wars droid BB-8 has said Disney's divisive sequel trilogy will eventually become as beloved as the saga's prequels — in around a decade's time.
Slay the Spire 2's multiplayer component is a lovely, sociable game of tactical chemistry and unity in the face of hideous door-based lifeforms, but inevitably, the modders are trying to ruin the bonhomie by adding PvP. Read more
"To our Xbox Series X|S players...".Almost three weeks since Assassin's Creed Unity got its free current-gen upgrade after more than a decade following its 2014 launch, Ubisoft has issued a patch for the strange lighting bug that cropped up on Xbox Series X|S consoles.<related ids="198423">Read the full article on purexbox.com
Shares in Pearl Abyss, the developer and publisher of Crimson Desert, skyrocketed today after the company announced 3 million sales — addressing a significant stock price collapse that occured around the game’s launch.
Not caring about hardware release dates, obviously.The second next best thing is to equip a Steam Deck with Ugreen’s handy 9-in-1 docking station, which is down from $60 to $40 in the Amazon US Spring Sale – and isn’t all that expensive in the UK either.Read more
Following Epic Games' mass layoffs, a Fortnite producer has said that the devs left behind "cannot even fully understand" the sort of impact the job cuts will have on the game during this year and into the future.Read more
Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to end its long run of exclusivity in theaters with a digital release at the end of March.
The Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless has been a long-time favourite mechanical keyboard of mine.That's because of its highly functional, near-full-size layout, its smooth, lubricated switches, and just the sense that the entire package feels thoughtful and well-put-together.I tried looking for a deal for in in the UK, sadly to no avail, though our US pals will be happy to learn it's currently $130 from Amazon US in their Spring Sale (that, for some strange reason, is happening over a week after the UK one ended).
He and a small team at Valve have been testing out different applications, in what Wolpaw assures us isn't a "concerted" effort at implementing the soul-regurgitating, workforce-abrading gadgetry in any particular new game.Wolpaw's current feeling is that generative AI isn't very good at anything "creative", like cracking jokes.But he does think Large Language Models could make for entertaining NPC voice reactions in games such as Grand Theft Auto and, indeed, Wolpaw's own Left 4 Dead, because AI is marvellous at being a fawning little gopher.
HBO boss Casey Bloys has discussed the "serious security" around its Harry Potter TV series, in the wake of death threats sent to Snape actor Paapa Essiedu.
A "fan-driven collaboration designed to give players a new way" to play EverQuest is on the way: EverQuest Legends.
Marathon has been out for a few weeks now, and we’ve yet to get an official sales figure. So, how’s it doing? According to one analyst: “Marathon hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted.”
These are the best video game deals that you can find in the 2026 Amazon Spring Sale.
Invincible Season 4, Episode 4 Review: Mark takes a trip to hell and meets Bruce Campbell. It’s less interesting than it sounds.
The new standard for Nintendo Switch 2 Editions.
Xbox has just opened up registrations for a free Once Human closed beta on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, which is taking place from March 26th through to April 8th.This is an open-world supernatural survival game that released on Steam back in 2024, and has a "Mostly Positive" average based on over 80,000 user ratings.The full console version is planned to release later in 2026 for Xbox and PS5, and this closed beta will give players a taste of what to expect from the free-to-play multiplayer experience.
Sony's main PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for April 2026 has been leaked online.
Around the turn of the new year, Fallout: London developers Team FOLON teased plans to drop the second of the brilliantly British Fallout 4 mod's second DLC in early 2026, assuming no hiccups got in the way of those plans.Sadly, it seems that's exactly what's happened, necessitating the "skeletal crew" still working on the mod to push Last Orders beyond a projected April release window.Read more
Tekken 8's development team has released a statement promising to address the "strong community response" arising after hundreds of fans left negative Steam reviews, bringing the fighting game's recent reviews rating down to "Mostly Negative" on Valve's platform.
Fortnite staff who survived yesterday's mass cull of workers say they're unable to comprehend the impact on the game's future this year "and beyond."
Reacher star Alan Ritchson acted in self defense in a recent fight with a neighbor that went viral on the internet, and will not face criminal charges, according to local police.
Don't miss out on a mega PS5 and Nintendo Switch video game sale that only lasts one day.
Grade A refurbished with 90-day warranty.
Set 14 years after the passing of Frodo, and inspired by an early section of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 review: This season is packed with too many characters and subplots, some far better used than others. But the central story of Matt Murdock’s quest to take down Mayor Fisk remains compelling, backed by cool and exciting action scenes.
Gruv's latest 4K sale lets you bundle 3 movies for $30, and it happens to include tons of comic book movies.
PlayStation has reportedly shut down Dark Outlaw Games, a studio hired by the console maker to make an unknown first-party title, as well as laid off a number of other individuals involved in mobile development.
I've heard Cornwall is quite lovely this time of year.Ah, no, sorry, I think I've gotten myself too enveloped within BRINE, a fast and heavy footed boomer shooter where you play as an angry fisherman who must defend the strange country from "crustacean cultists and piscine horrors." Read more
NetEase Games isn't worried about balance in Marvel Rivals as its roster expands with more playable heroes, but don't expect to see any original characters anytime soon.
Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma just got back from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, where she seemingly made the rounds among both high-level executives and indie developers in an effort to lay out her vision for the brand to come. And reportedly, one component of that may involve making Xbox Game Pass more affordable.
Avengers: Doomsday is expected to be a dramatic conclusion to Phase Six of the MCU. Naturally, then, everyone is wildly speculating about what's going to happen in it, but the only people that know are those working closely on the film itself...and also,apparently, the Marvel Rivals developers.
Let's travel back in time, roughly to the late 2000s and early 2010s.It was a time where indie games were becoming more of a defined Separate Thing from blockbuster games.But to me personally, there is no more quintessential indie game from that era than Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP, which against my wishes has turned 15 today.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has shut down its controversial video generation app Sora, the company announced Tuesday. As a result, Disney has exited the $1 billion investment deal it made last year with OpenAI that would have allowed Sora to license Disney-owned characters and content.

Foot Locker is offering on-court performance through Nike Book 2 Men's Basketball Shoes and Air Jordan 1 Mid SEs by blending iconic basketball heritage with modern street style.
Judging by the teaser trailer, Spider-Man: Brand New Day will offer up a Marvel Cinematic Universe that is chock-full of villains, vigilantes, and heroes.
It sounds like Sony are continuing to do what they presumably coldly view as cost cutting.According to Jason Schreier, often known for his insider information, and a leak shared in a ResetEra thread, Dark Outlaw Games, a studio set up by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell, is being shut down.It's unclear how many people this includes at this time.
We know that Xbox and Halo Studios are gunning for a 2026 anniversary release with Halo: Campaign Evolved (despite no official launch date yet) - and as is the norm with modern AAA development, it looks like the Microsoft first-party team has brought a familiar co-developer on board to try and make that happen.Coming by way of long-running Halo reporter Rebs Gaming, Abstraction Games — which worked as co-developer on the likes of Halo: The Master Chief Collection and lots of other big games — is helping out with the Halo: Combat Evolved remake.According to the report, Abstraction has a much bigger role with Campaign Evolved though, including work on combat, level design, modernising gameplay mechanics and more.
The idea is to make one Xbox build work across multiple devices.There's still a lot we don't know about Xbox's next-gen Project Helix console, but we do know that it'll support both console and PC games, and that in theory should make it an easier console to develop for than the Series X and S.Xbox Portfolio GM Chris Charla (who's best-known for his work with the ID@Xbox program over the years) recently spoke about this in an interview with IGN, explaining that it'll "certainly" be easier for developers to bring their titles to Project Helix in the next generation.
Fancy forming your own opinion of Peter Molyneux's supposed final ever game, Masters of Albion?Well, you can, maybe, if you're lucky enough, as Mr. Molyneux himself has put out a call for you to sign up to beta test the game ahead of its release next month. Read more
Plus, save on a dashcam, an RGB lamp, Blu-rays, and more ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale.
HBO has described its commitment to the upcoming Harry Potter TV series as a "financial investment we wouldn't normally make" in order to bring the series' full story to life.
Sintopia, the very Bullfroggy strategy management game from developers Piraknights and publishers Team 17, will release on April 16th.That is, a god sim parked on top of a management game, albeit with a greater emphasis on automation than you might recall from Bullfrog's heyday.In Sintopia, you are the middle manager of Hell.
The year is 2026, and a new-but-not-really EverQuest is on the way.Announced today, EverQuest Legends is the same MMO some of you have been playing for coming up to 30 years, just without all the years of expansions.And there's a few modern upgrades.
Involving lower-priced tiers and maybe even a partnership with Netflix.It's been a busy old month since Asha Sharma took the reigns as Xbox boss over at Microsoft HQ, and according to a new report from The Information, she's already considering how she can lower costs for Xbox Game Pass.The report says that, "according to people she’s spoken to", Sharma has explored ways to make Game Pass (and apparently even consoles) more "enticing" to more people, which could involve a new tier of XGP in the process.
Chainsaw Man Chapter 232 has officially released, and it seems to actually be the final chapter.
Marvel Rivals is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, according to its developers in an interview with IGN. We just don't know when.
The Pokémon Company has announced a Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 release date for its upcoming free-to-play battler Pokémon Champions, alongside a paid starter pack which provides "useful in-game items."
Fans of Project Hail Mary can now own their very own Rocky plushie, with preorders for the new collector's item now available online. Amaze Amaze!
Epic Games have announced that they're laying off over 1000 staff today, March 24th.In the wake of that news, the publishers have announced that three Fortnite modes are being permanently sunsetted.Meanwhile, one of the studios Epic own - Horizon Chase developers Aquiris - have announced plans to pull downloads for the first two games in their arcade racing series offline later this year.
Introducing Arbiter 131, a real-time tactical sci-fi strategy sim for PC by developer Ikon with a narrative focus in which you play as the titular Arbiter, analyzing citizen data to prioritize targets and remotely commanding police units. The question is, will you follow orders?
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is expanding his newest shared universe with the release of Uri Tupka and the Gods, and we've got an exclusive preview of the new book.
A massive shakeup for the Fortnite owner.Epic Games has announced the shocking news that over 1,000 employees are being laid off from today, attributing "the downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025" as the driving force being this massive company-wide shakeup.CEO Tim Sweeney took to the Epic Games blog to make a statement on the move, whilst also looking ahead for the future of both Epic and Fortnite.
The UK games industry is "seeing a decline of unprecedented scale and speed" according to the latest research done by video games industry trade association TIGA.According to TIGA's report, 1,537 development jobs were lost overall in the sector during the year-long period leading up to September 2025, marking the first downturn on that front in 14 years.Meanwhile, studio numbers have fallen and startup companies are struggling.
If there’s one thing showrunner Adi Shankar wants to impress upon fans about the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, it’s that the animated series is getting much bigger. So much so that Shankar is comparing it to the gulf between 2005’s Batman Begins and its 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight.
In a company-wide letter, CEO Tim Sweeney blamed both "industry-wide challenges" and "challenges unique to Epic", including a downturn in Fortnite's popularity.In addition to the layoffs, the company have made more than $500m in cuts by reducing contracting, marketing, and closing open roles.Sweeney, a strong advocate of AI, says the layoffs "aren't related to AI".
Marvel has announced a release date for The Punisher: One Last Kill, its upcoming one-off special starring Jon Bernthal's gun-toting antihero, ahead of his appearance in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Sung Kang says he was inspired by the death of his friend and costar Paul Walker to engage the car community and make a brand-new racing movie, whose teaser trailer debuted exclusively with IGN.
The Razer Viper V4 Pro is a powerful gaming mouse with incredible accuracy that’s perfect for competitive gamers, but you’ll have to come to terms with its minimalism.
IGN can exclusively reveal the new red band trailer for The Furious, an action film currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Xie Miao (The New Legend of Shaolin, My Father Is a Hero) and Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat, The Raid) is directed by Kenji Tanigaki (Enter the Fat Dragon, Master of Thunder).
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale.
Amazon's full-color ebook reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, is on sale for its all-time low price. You can also save a bunch on a bundle that includes accessories.
The popular MMORPG is on its way to Xbox Series X and S!It was all the way back in 2017 that Albion Online first arrived on PC, and the free-to-play MMORPG is still going strong here in 2026.Better yet, the team has just announced that it's finally making its Xbox console debut this year!
Chris Charla, the general manager of portfolio and programs at Xbox, has been with Xbox for 16 years, and worked on ID@Xbox for 13. At this year's GDC, I was able to formally interview him about his job, the indie landscape, and what's on the horizon for Xbox and its third party relationships.
Roguelite clone-stabber (and upsettingly effective paranoia generator) It Has My Face is skulking out of early access this month, a Steam news update confirming its 1.0 release for April 3rd 2026.I’ve been following IHMF since its impressive first demo under the name DoubleWe, and its short, highly-strung bursts of deduction and one-hit-kill violence are as cleverly staged as they are stressful.Read more
Warframe creative director Rebecca Ford explains the enduring appeal of the free-to-play action-RPG as it turns 13.
At long last, 1978's animated The Lord of the Rings movies is getting the collectibles it deserves. Check out our exclusive first look at these stylish figures.
The GameSir G7 Pro doesn’t cost nearly as much as other high-end controllers, but it brings everything to the table and largely succeeds.
Warframe interview with creative director Rebecca Ford on Steam charts obsession, upcoming updates, and the Nintendo Switch 2 version.
They've just introduced a Widescreen Fix update for the PC version.True Crime: New York City is one of those games that could fit the bill, although we're certainly not getting our hopes up.The 2005 action-adventure game was published by Activision as the final entry in the series following 2003's True Crime: Streets of LA, but it's always remained locked to the original Xbox, PS2, GameCube and PC.
Having reached the point of making their case to the European parliament, the Stop Killing Games's organisers are having to think about keeping their campaign going in the long-term.For example, they're setting up set up NGOs to advocate on the issue of server shutdowns rendering online-only games impossible to play.Ironically, though, one of the factors the group see as helping ensure their efforts don't end up fading into background noise is the depressing regularity with which games like Highguard are dying in a fashion that's difficult to ignore.
Fans have ridiculed the appearance of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in Disney's upcoming live-action Moana remake, which has been compared to a "T-Mobile commercial" in comments online.
The Boys creator and showrunner Eric Kripke has warned fans not to expect big battle scenes in Season 5, simply because the Amazon Prime Video show doesn’t have a Game of Thrones-style budget.
We've talked this month about how pleasantly surprised we've been with the new features that have arrived specifically for Xbox consoles, and we've got another one rolling out today to Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insiders!This is a "cloud save sync" indicator that's going to be visible when viewing the Game Card tile on any game you like, revealing the current status of your game save.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Crimson Desert has an incredibly designed world that's a joy to explore, but I wish there was more to find in its beautiful locations.
If you read our verdict over the weekend, you’ll know that Mark and I found the anime-flavoured Screamer reboot to be a delightfully exaggerated bit of slidey arcade racing – albeit one that, in the story-based Tournament mode, sometimes becomes randomly, viciously hard for no readily apparent reason.Judging by Screamer’s first update, which launched yesterday alongside game access for Digital Deluxe pre-orderers, those difficult spikes were an oopsie on the part of developers Milestone.Rather than send themselves on a Driving Awareness Course, though, they’ve "tweaked AI behaviors in various events to bring them closer to the intended difficulty," while announcing a future balance pass for the game’s difficulty settings.
Including two first-party additions!Microsoft has added three new dynamic backgrounds to its Xbox Series X|S collection here in March 2026 - two first-party efforts from the Xbox team, alongside a brand-new drop to coincide with the release of epic RPG Crimson Desert.Read the full article on purexbox.com
Save on a whole host of great sets at Amazon right now, with discounts of up to 40% on booster boxes.
You know that feeling of simultaneous delight and dismay you get when you finally roll the credits on a really good game? Well, a new report claims that that feeling is not only real, but has a name, too: "post-game depression."
Who would win in a fight between Tom Holland's Spider-Man and Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin? According to the latter, we'll never know for sure unless Marvel and Sony "get their s*** together" and sort out the character rights.
Crimson Desert has sold an impressive 3 million copies in just five days.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has decided to try something a bit different in his latest defense of the company's recently revealed DLSS 5 neural rendering tech.No longer does he throw cold coffee in the faces of critics and bellow 'you're dead wrong, and you better give me something on this guy or you're toast'.Instead, he sits on the desk like a teacher playing it casual - saying that he understands where critics are coming from, but still insisting that the tech's benign.
As players work their way through Crimson Desert, they’re discovering more and more unexpected things they can do in the open world. We’ve seen players learn they can tag team to an extent, cook meat with light from their sword, and even catapult themselves across the map with the power of trees. But this next find… well, I don’t think anyone saw this one coming.
Nintendo has reportedly cut back on manufacturing Switch 2 consoles following weaker than expected holiday sales for the console.
The deadline to redeem a free download voucher for Resident Evil: Requiem has been extended.
Equipped with well-regarded Sony STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensors for low-light video recording.
PAX Aus 2026 will take place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from October 9-11.
Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again will premiere on Disney+ soon after the streamer ends its latest discount.
One of the few gaming PCs priced under $2K this year that can run any game in 4K.
Fast and free delivery (ships from the US) and sold by the official manufacturer.
Disney has revealed the official trailer for its live-action reimagining of Moana, and it features our first look at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Maui (and his tattoos!), Tamatoa, Te Kā, and much more.
Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos should give us a decent look at Magic lore before Secrets of Strixhaven arrives next month.
Marvel is clearly pleased with the reception to Wonder Man, as the MCU series has just been renewed for a second season on Disney+.
Pair it with the Sonos Sub Mini for even greater savings.
Three new games are coming to Apple Arcade for April 2026.
Get in on this deal ahead of the Amazon Spring Sale.
With lots of talk about Project Helix coming out of GDC 2026, we know a little bit more about Microsoft's next-gen vision - including high-level details on the hardware, how developers will be able to make use of it, and the fact that Xbox is trying to bring everything together in a more seamless PC-meets-console ecosystem.That has us thinking, will the next-gen Xbox support physical games at all?Surely Microsoft has a plan to let us use our physical Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S libraries?
Paramount+ has announced that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will end with its upcoming second season, which recently wrapped filming. "We will finish strong," co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau promised fans.
Last chance to save on the Disney+ and Hulu bundle, plus deals on the LEGO Game Boy, Kindle, MTG, and more.
The Samsung S90 is our pick for best gaming TV of 2026.
"You will no longer be able to purchase it".We've got a big delisting and server shutdown announcement to bring your way today, as EA has announced that the 2015 shooter Battlefield Hardline will be delisted in May and go offline in June.This is specifically for the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Battlefield Hardline, as the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions have long since been delisted, and the PC release isn't actually being affected as part of today's announcement.
A huge plot point from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — and indeed, all of Nintendo canon — looks to have been spoiled by a ratings board listing.
Sordid, flesh-eating medieval tactics RPG Wartales is getting a new Fires in the Capital DLC expansion in April.It adds a wartorn metropolis to the game - Isandrin, crown jewel of Edoran and home of the Legion.As the boss murderer of a troupe of thugs, you are under no obligation to save Isandrin from escalating factional tensions.
That sound you can hear in the distance is someone mumbling in-teh-grih-teh, because a key bit of RuneScape's in-teh-grih-teh-focused 2026 additions has gone live today, March 23rd.It's part one of the Havenhythe expansion, which Jagex are touting as the MMORPG's largest area embiggening yet.Read more
Buying a RTX 5090 GPU by itself would cost you $3,800.
The Rock is currently losing Fortnite's new season vote that asks players to pick a side between his in-game character and a wintry villain.
Amidst the 40+ games releasing on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this week, we've got a survival PvE multiplayer game from the creator of DayZ known as ICARUS: Console Edition, which officially releases on March 26th.This game has been on PC for years now, where it holds a "Mostly Positive" score on Steam based on almost 30,000 user ratings, and now it's officially making the jump to consoles.The first couple of reviews have dropped this afternoon, along with raw gameplay footage of both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions.
Out today, Journey Of The Garden Rose is the latest "old school 3D action-adventure" from Renegade Sector, a developer whose affection for pulp beams forth from every pixel.Ugh, why don't I have a palace that looks a bit like a vintage four-colour horror comic.Read more
LEGO Game Boy has dropped to a new all-time low price at Kohl's, but you have to enter a promo code at checkout to get the deal.
One of the weirdest and greatest Hellboy spinoffs is back in this exclusive preview of Giant Robot Hellboy Returns #1.
From Universes Beyond to Universes Within, here are some of the best Magic precons on sale right now.
Sandra Hüller's portrayal of government bureaucrat Eva Stratt is a stand-out in a movie filled with spectacle, comedy, and heart.
Resident Evil Requiem makers Capcom have outlined their current stance on using AI in a summarised investor back-and-forth released alongside their latest financial results.The publishers plan on using the tech to try and improve the "efficiency" of their development process, but say no AI-generated content will make it into the final versions of their games.Read more
Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup!We have a few games spread over the course of the coming week here, including indie hit Absolum which makes its Xbox debut in just a few days' time.Here's a quick breakdown on what's coming to Xbox Game Pass this week (March 24-26):Read the full article on purexbox.com
Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, known to fans as Yoshi-P, has admitted that long development cycles right across the Final Fantasy series make it "harder" for new players or younger generations "to engage with" the franchise.
Regardless of whether Intel would say it out loud, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus both represent an attempt to right the wrongs of the original Arrow Lake/Core Ultra 200S family.These two Core Ultra 200S Plus (or Arrow Lake Refresh) processors do, in comparison, achieve some appeal.Not only are Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus slower in games than AMD’s best chips, they once again fail to convincingly outpace Intel’s own back catalogue – the 2023 vintage 14th gen processors, included.
Capcom tweeted a piece of artwork to celebrate Dragon’s Dogma 2's second anniversary. Nothing unusual about that in itself, but fans were quick to notice details in the picture which may hint at a possible expansion.
Diablo-ish Minecraft spin-off Minecraft Dungeons has a sequel, and said sequel's coming out at some point in 2026.Well, Mojang say, "all was well until it wasn't".Read more
Dying Light: The Beast developer Techland has announced a new edition of its first-person zombie-slaying game. It's called Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land, and it includes the full game, all post-release content, and new Restored Land content. It launches on March 26 and is free for existing players of Dying Light: The Beast.
A generous price drop has seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare break its own Steam concurrent record over the weekend, hitting an all-new high of 61,667 peak players and making it more popular than last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Valve's PC platform.
Urgh! What's happening? The air feels dreadfully recycled all of a sudden. Food dissatisfies, music grates, punchlines flop like stunned seagulls - everything seems somehow overfamiliar. We have entered a Lull. There are few Big Games out this week - little in the way of Big Sequels or New IPs From Triple-A Veterans or other projects that make you say "oh! That one" - and the Maw is makin...
Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process.
SEGA, GSC Game World & more will feature!Microsoft has today announced an Xbox Partner Preview event for March 2026! The third-party focused showcase takes place later this week, and will feature the likes of SEGA, GSC Game World, Owlcat Games and more.Here's what Xbox has to say about its Partner Preview event ahead of time:Read the full article o...
Star Wars actor John Boyega has revealed he's spoken with new Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni about a return to the franchise, after previously suggesting he was done playing former stormtrooper Finn.
Microsoft has announced an Xbox Partner Preview showcase for this week. It’ll provide updates for a number of games, and bring with it “new reveals.” Here's what to expect.
As Crimson Desert players make their way further into the game, they’re coming to understand some of its more puzzling design choices. Chief among them is that creature mounts other than your horse are not permanent. And while the coveted endgame dragon is a permanent addition, its use has a 15 minute real-time time limit, and then a 50 minute real-time cooldown that's impossible to speed up.
MW4 is coming...Earlier this month, we got our first hint at what to expect from Call of Duty 2026 as branded soda cans began showing up at certain retailers, but over the last few days, some official happenings in the world of COD have provided real teases about this year's title. It's very much looking like
It seems clear that the Masters of Albion team is making a game that sounds fun to them.Fun, but not promising to revolutionize the world.And it’s good to see Molyneux back at the helm of a god game once again.
Just a few weeks on from the launch of Pokémon Pokopia, players are already pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the game — including the creation of several working calculators.
"Join the competition and race side by side with fearless drivers".One of the games we mentioned in our latest "Next Week" roundup here at Pure Xbox on Saturday was Screamer, which is an arcade racing title that's launching across multiple platforms (including Xbox Series X and S) on March 26th.We've been keeping a keen eye on this one for...
Huggghh-puuuhhhhh. Hughhhhh-puhhhh. If you've decided to try pedalling away in attempt to master Crimson Desert's bike-like controls
Marathon developer Bungie is "watching and ingesting" your thoughts and feedback about its new mode, Cryo Archive.
Crimson Desert Steam reviews are improving, moving up from ‘mixed’ to ‘mostly positive’ on Valve’s platform as developer Pearl Abyss releases game-changing updates.
Harry Potter TV series actor Paapa Essiedu has spoken out about the racist abuse he's suffered since being cast as Hogwarts professor Severus Snape.
Live now on PC, Xbox update to come.Developer Pearl Abyss has today detailed patch 1.03 for its open-world RPG Crimson Desert, and it brings some major improvements to the game across all platforms, including on Xbox Series X|S and PC. The update is now live on PS5 and most PC storefronts, with Xbox consoles getting version 1.03 "at a later time"."Patch 1.00.03 will become avai...
Final Vanguard is a real-time sci-fi 4X grand strategy game that puts an unusually big emphasis on migration. We've seen migration mechanics in many 4X games – pops can shuffle about in
The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer have paid tribute to Nicholas Brendon, the actor who played Xander on the cult classic TV series, who has died at the age of 54.
Ah, it turns out the eyebrows raised by suspiciously AI generated-looking art found throughout Crimson Desert weren't wrong in their lanate liftage. Dev...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss just released a patch that makes a number of significant improvements, but one that players are already praising lowers the difficulty of one of the hardest activities in the game: the archery minigame.
“We will continue to improve both controller and keyboard/mouse controls moving forward,” says studio.
Bluey has officially arrived at Disneyland, complete with 'Bluey's Best Day Ever!' party at Fantasyland Theatre, themed food and merch, and so much more. To ensure you don't miss a thing, here's everything you need to know about this big arrival of the beloved blue heeler and his family and friends. And yes, this is for real life!
Project Hail Mary has launched big at the global box office, bringing in an impressive $140 million during its opening weekend.
Both had worked at the company for around a decade.We've got a couple more departures to share from Team Xbox, as it's been announced this week that both Lori Wright and Haiyan Zhang will be leaving Microsoft soon, with both having spent around a decade each at the company.Lori Wright was the Corporate Vice President of Partnerships, Business Development & Marketing at Xbox, in which her role involved "publishing and platform partnerships, content licensing,...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has launched a “comprehensive” audit of all in-game assets after admitting the use of AI-generated images in the final release should have been disclosed.
It's been getting hype ahead of its PC release.Over the past few months, you may have come across a game known as Samson - it's been highlighted at a few showcases, and it's being created by a new studio (Liquid Swords) formed by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg.Unfortunately, Samson is just a PC game for now, but the developer has confirmed that a console version is planne...
Matt Murdock – aka Daredevil! – is back for Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again, but he’s sporting a new look this time around… a costume the show’s producers are calling the "blackout" suit.
But like all Just for You deals, it only shows up for certain people!It's been a long time since Microsoft gave us any kind of meaningful discount on the Xbox Series X, but certain Xbox fans are suddenly noticing that a major "Just For You" deal has started appearing for them on the Microsoft Store!This discount sees the Xbox Series X being red...
Ed (RPS in peace) has, finally, posthumously, got his wish: another Screamer. This one’s gone all cyberpunk and/or anime-styled, with a heavy focus on story – it follows multiple, multinational mer...
Tedious characters and difficulty spikes notwithstanding, Screamer is a unique and confidently assembled racer that feels like the result of locking Blur in a room for 12 months with nothing but a Crunchyroll subscription.
Sundays are for waking up in a Holiday Inn and finding that the breakfast buffet hash browns are glued to the bottom of the serving pan. Tarnation! I bellow like an enraged thunder god, like Vesuvius at full bloom, and stab the tray wildly with my knife and fork. I am dragged away by heavyset teenagers, who are about to heave me into the canal when I protest that I haven’t yet ...
Crimson Desert is, by many accounts, a video game. A not necessarily good one, a perhaps just ok to occasionally baffling video game that appears to be big for the sake of winning a pissing contest. It is also potentially a video game that is not being entirely honest about certain art assets being human-m...
We've found all of the Star Wars movies and TV shows you can add to your growing 4K Blu-ray collection.
"Return to the world in an all new action RPG adventure".We've had a new Xbox first-party game announcement today! It's been revealed as part of Minecraft Live! that Minecraft Dungeons 2 will officially be coming to Xbox, PC, Switch and PS5 in Fall 2026, and it'll be available on
Last month, a post caught some kind of virus and did the rounds, pondering why kids don't care about Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest so much anymore, wondering what they do plan now, and anecdotally findering that most of them just play Pokemon. And I truly have to wonder if Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki "...
I'm going to say it: bullet hells are more stressful than Souls-likes. Why are there 10,000 orbs approaching me, promising me misery and death! And I have to both tactfully dodge them while also staging a front myself? The visual information alone is enough to deteriorate the mind, memorising a list of attack patterns from some big dude with a sword seems like chump change by comparison. So this ...
Palworld has honestly lived, and thrived, a lot longer than I honestly expected to. I guess the people really do want Pokemon with guns! As since its launch two years ago (ignore the coffee I've spat over my screen at that passage of time), there have been announcements for spin-offs in the form of
Mojang Studios has officially announced that Minecraft Dungeons 2 is in development with plans to launch this fall.
Mojang has unveiled more information about updates coming to Minecraft in 2026, including the release date for Tiny Takeover and a sneak peek at the Chaos Cubed game drop.
Minecraft World, a theme park based on the popular video game from Mojang, will officially bring Creepers and Crafting Tables to the real world when it opens its doors in 2027.
Slay the Spire 2 is, quite notably, a game in early access. This means many things, but most importantly it means that any changes that are made aren't necessarily final, they're just more tests to see what does and doesn't work. The roguelike deckbuilder's first proper update
Mojang Studios has returned for a March 2026 edition of Minecraft Live, and we're here to pick out all of its biggest announcements and reveals.
Enjoying the new open-world RPG?The talk of the town this past week in the gaming world has definitely been Crimson Desert, with the Pearl Abyss RPG taking the world by storm in recent days. In fact, this one has been hyped for some time now, and has planted its ...
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has issued a message to players addressing complaints around the game’s controls, which have been widely criticized.
Resident Evil has often punched above its weight, but ambitious attempts to put the survival horror series on Nintendo's Game Boy and N64DD led to two famously scrapped projects.
Before Capcom created one of the greatest games of all time, Resident Evil 4 went through a quadruple cycle of death and rebirth. For the series' 30th anniversary, we explore the four canceled versions of Leon's ultimate adventure.
Before Capcom finally created Leon and Claire's nightmare in the RPD, Resident Evil 2 was a very different game. For the series' 30th anniversary, we take a look at Hideki Kamiya's cancelled RE "1.5" prototype.
Time to start saving up!With Steam hosting its big Spring Sale right now (featuring multiple Xbox Game Studios titles), it's no surprise that questions are starting to be asked about the Xbox Spring Sale 2026, which is set to begin in the near future.The official date of the sale hasn't been announced at the time of writing, but it should be j...
Project Hail Mary's alien Rocky holds the Ryan Gosling movie together.
Including three new Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for March 23-27! We've got a ton of great games arriving on Xbox consoles over the next few days, including the likes of Life is Strange: Reunion, ICARUS: Console Edition,
Are you surviving the desert heat?Welcome to another weekend! It's been a busy week on Xbox once again, with the likes of Crimson Desert launching on Series X|S, Disco Elysium hitting the Game Pass libra...
Does Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat justify its existence? The pseudo-reality show is back for a second season, but should it be?
I truly hope the sun has got his hat on this weekend as I'm cycling out to family in the countryside and I'd rather not arrive soaked through by rain. Granted, I will be arriving soaked through with sweat, but I am happy with this outcome. For reasons I can't quite fathom, self-wetted clothes are bearable, weather-wetted clothes are intolerable.
A competent, iterative update to a series that has been making competent, iterative updates for the better part of a decade.
Over the last few decades we've had a ton of Batman movies, each with their own bespoke stories or as adaptations of some of the best comic tales around.
A complete episode from the first season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Star Force: The Fugitive Alien 2," which hasn’t been viewed by the public since its original air date of November 24, 1988, has been uploaded to YouTube.
Nvidia has confirmed that the new DLSS 5 algorithm is redrawing games based on a 2D image input and motion data. That's not great!
Integrated multi-filament printing and stable CoreXY structure all for just $270.
After testing the iPhone 17e, I found Apple's latest smartphone follows a fairly compelling formula.
The Last of Us Season 3 is coming together, as HBO has reportedly cast Michelle Mao and Kyriana Kratter as Yara and Lev.
Review: The sequel to Bollywood’s biggest hit, the violent spy saga Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a naked piece of political propaganda that lacks the momentum of its predecessor.
Did the remaster give you a new appreciation for it?We've got a big birthday to celebrate today! Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is officially celebrating its 20th anniversary, having first released all the way back on March 20th of 2006 for the Xbox 360 and PC.It's since gone on to be known as an all-time classic, of course, and was followed by the beloved
Crimson Desert just launched yesterday to a bit of a chaotic and mixed reception from critics. That hasn't hampered its sales, but those two million players are starting to stumble into some concerning issues in their first day in Pywel, including the presence of what may be AI-generated art assets.
This much is certain: I am a raccoon, somewhere in Norwich, and I am trying to catch a train. The trains are regular but they move past at such speed I can barely see them. I attempt to board and am launched like a squashy varmint bullet, hurtling beyond the level boundary into oozy pink checkerboard oblivion. The drunken background music alternates between welcoming me to the Water Zone and t...
Compatible with ROG Xbox Ally... and Project Helix?With lots of Xbox's catalogue now available on PC platform Steam, we're always curious to see when Microsoft hosts sales over there - particularly in the wake of ROG Xbox Ally<...
John Carpenter's Cathedral is the first full-length graphic novel written by the legendary master of horror. Here's what to expect from this terrifying new book.
When bosses have assessed my work over the years it's usually taken the form of nervously watching their cursor bounce around a Google Doc. They would delete overwrought lines here, add detail to unclear statements there, and sometimes strike our intros that weren't getting to the point – thank goodness I learned my lesson ther...
Crimson Desert's controls aren't a pain in the bum. You just need to get used to them. You also need to get used to not being able to run the game if you've got an Intel Arc graphics card. You instead need to get used to asking for a refund on this game you can't run. These are all things Pearl Abyss have said about their...
Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and the Night King will join Fortnite tonight, as part of a new Game of Thrones crossover.
According to an official Xbox roundup at least.Shadow drop alert! It's been revealed today via the official Xbox Wire blog that RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is apparently arriving for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on March 25th, 2026.This is a game that had not been announced for Xbox ahead of time, but it does indeed ...
Unleashed is set to launch April 10 in China, with an English release date of May 8.
Earlier this week, the modders behind a Fallout: New Vegas expansion called Fallout Chicago released their f...
Image Comics' hit series Lost Fantasy is getting a new spinoff called Fireborn, and it's cowritten by none other than singer Franklin Jonas. Check out our exclusive preview of the new series.
Creative Assembly's Total War games offer up a wide spread of factions, from rampaging Gauls to furtive and disgusting Wood Elves, but they're all a little beholden to the ancient game of rock-paper-scissors: spears beat cavalry, cavalry beat swords, swords beat spears. I think Creative Assembly generally do an impressive job of softening that triangular countering logic by means of ter...
Crimson Desert has hit 2 million copies sold just a day after launch, although it has suffered a mixed response from critics and players.
The track racer is no longer getting major updates.IGN's most recent look at Forza Horizon 6 focuses on the improvements made to cars and customisation this time around, and there's an interesting nugget of information here regarding Turn 10 Studios and how they've helped out with this year's Forza Horizon game.Indeed, Turn 10 re...
Nintendo is developing an updated Switch 2 model with a removable battery, according to a new report.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come ending explained: We delve into how Radio Silence’s latest game plays out.
"Ask for help anytime or anywhere you're playing".If we go back to this time last year, we mentioned how then-Xbox boss Phil Spencer was "excited" about the ongoing rollout of Microsoft Gaming Copilot - an AI-powered service that aims to provide support for your Xbox experience.It's a service that's proved controversial with Xbox...
Fans are convinced that the Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer has been edited to digitally remove several hidden characters from a specific scene — something Marvel has done several times before.
Unlike the exceedingly slow preceding month of January, February 2026 had a steadily moving line of new releases to shake up the U.S. sales charts, with Resident Evil Requiem debuting as the best-selling game of the month and, thus far, the entire year.
Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit has outlined the game’s first big post-launch patch, which will be of particular interest to players given it comes with a huge balance pass.
It's been a while since Ubisoft and Netflix announced they were doing an Assassin's Creed TV show. The good news is that filming's now kicked off on it, with Ubisoft taking the opportunity to confirm that Ancient Rome's ...
'Hopecore' space movies like Project Hail Mary and The Martian teach us that it's the little things that matter most.
Slay The Spire 2's first actual proper major update is upon us, an avalanche of balancing tweaks and fixes for the roguelite deckbuilder that has approximately two goals: making some of those insectile cards less appalling, care of the
Ryan Gosling has confirmed he's had discussions with Marvel to play flame-headed hero Ghost Rider.
Project Hail Mary screenwriter Drew Goddard has said that the Sony hack of 2014 killed his “big” Spider-Man movie about the Sinister Six.
"We got an unusual amount of stuff done".This week, Xbox Insiders received some new dashboard features thanks to what feels like the first meaningful console update in ages - and...
Last week, the folks behind PEGI (Pan European Game Information) - the age rating system used for games in Europe outside of Germany - announced plans to update their age rating criteria with four new categories. Games which fea...
Despite what you think about Crimson Desert, there's no doubting that it's equal parts unqiue, janky, gorgeous, and never boring.
Over Your Dead Body review: Jorma Taccone remakes a Noomi Rapace domestic comedy thriller, for better and worse.
Marathon game director Joe Ziegler has posted a defence of the decision to release the game's new Cryo Archive map as a weekend-only event. The time restriction has unde...
Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series will be set in Ancient Rome, and kick off in the year 64 AD.
If you’re playing Crimson Desert on PlayStation 5, you might have noticed blurry visuals no matter which mode you’re playing on. Well, you’re not alone. But the good news is that players believe they have found a fix.
The SteamOS 3.8.0 update is available to try now on the Preview branch, and it’s the first to bring "initial support for the upcoming Steam Machine hardware." That is, of course, merely a passing mention of Valve’s
Well, it was never going to wrap up that neatly, was it? It turns out that the emergence of an internal memo revealing that Subnautica 2 is a...
Ubisoft has reflected on the legacy of Assassin's Creed Shadows, a year on from the samurai blockbuster's launch.
Crimson Desert launched to big Steam concurrents, but it’s currently on a “mixed” user review rating on Valve’s platform, with most of the complaints revolving around the controls.
How the Xbox versions stack up.Here we go, folks! Crimson Desert is officially out now for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and so we can finally get our answer on how well the game is running across both consoles thanks to some early release day footage.We're looking to Fuzion Xbox Testing for this comparison, which has shared...
Pearl Abyss have released the first proper update for their grand and obfuscatory open world RPG Crimson Desert, introducing a slew of tweaks for the game's many, many systems. The developers hav...
Activist investor Oasis Management Company has acquired a 8.86% in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, parent company of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware.
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1000xResist surprised us in 2024 and developer Sunset Visitor is ready to show off its next game on April 9 during the Triple-I Showcase.
“5:00 PM” is one of the stronger installments of The Pitt Season 2, particularly thanks to a series-best performance from Taylor Dearden. Read our full review.
Crimson Desert looks set to hit big Steam concurrent player numbers after it broke into the top three most-played games on Valve’s platform just minutes after launch.
Project Hadar… It's a completely new game from CD Projekt Red, one that the Cyberpunk 2077 studio has been tinkering away ...
Crimson Desert has launched across all platforms, and with it comes a day one update that makes some significant improvements to the game, some balance changes, and various fixes. Pearl Abyss recommended players download the patch “for the best experience.” Check out the patch notes.
Amazon's Big Spring Sale doesn't kick off next week, but we're already seeing some solid LEGO deals at the retailer ahead of the event.
The words "consensus" and "RPS treehouse" are normally alien to one another, as is apparent from all the blood splatter on every new RPS 100. Yet among those of us who’ve been playing open world everything-'em-up
Despite the bugs, Crimson Desert might end up being one of the most well-optimized PC games in years.
Firefly actor Nathan Fillion has explained the decision to set the new animated series after the end of the live-action show but before the events of its follow-up movie, Serenity, and confirmed plans to bring back a fan-favorite character.
Sony Pictures has declared the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the “biggest trailer in history” after it beat the previous 24-hour record held by Grand Theft Auto 6.
Well, you all did it, Cryo Archive has been unlocked in Marathon. Bungie detailed the new mode in a blog post earlier today, where it shared an important thing to keep in mind with the new map: it's only available to attempt on weekends. Aye, you'll need to forgo any social plans you have out in the real world to tackle th...
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive have issued an apology to disgruntled fans over the game's controversial $5 Voice Pack DLC, making it free for all and offering refunds to customers.
Here's everything you need to know about Marathon's Cryo Archive raid that goes live on March 20, which will only be available on weekends.
Spider-Man and Civil War star Kirsten Dunst is reportedly joining A Minecraft Movie 2 to play Alex after teasing her interest in a sequel last year.
Our top rated gaming chairs of 2026.
The entire run of Stranger Things is making its way to Blu-ray and 4K UHD on July 28. You can preorder it now, either in a standard or deluxe edition.
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McFarlane Toys has finally revealed a new DC Multiverse figure based on the most elusive Batman villain of them all - Jack Nicholson's Joker.
According to a report from Variety, the new adaptations are part of a new production partnership between iwot Studios (which owns the IP) and Initiate Studios.
Is it fair to say Cities: Skylines 2's development has been incredibly messy? I'd say it's fair, after all, the game has completely shifted developers in the past few months...
Review: Steel Ball Run: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a thrilling return to the world of the franchise that serves as a good entry point for newcomers.
A release date for one, release window for the other.The XGP news is coming thick and fast at the moment! Following the reveal of 12 upcoming Game Pass titles on Tuesday, followed by Xbox's Kiln release date yesterday, we'v...
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Everything you need to know to preorder The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, including what comes in each edition, where to find the demo, and more.
It's easy to look at a walking simulator like Firewatch and only see what's been stripped out. After all, it's a genre that got its start when developers took the shooting out of first-person shooters. However, look a little closer and you will see how much design can go into the simplest interactions. In the...
Shenmue is a game that will just always be there, I can't quite imagine a world without it. Just hanging around in the background, waiting for you patiently, maybe even coming into the foreground to say hello again because it missed you. That time of saying hello appears to be rearing its beautiful head again, as Ys Ne...
Plus, save on tons of PC and Switch 2 games, a great budget drone, and plenty more.
Right, roll call time. "A barbarian (for all the bonk boys in the audience)". Present. A mage who's the smartypants choice. Yeah. A thief, who's both "classic" and "obligatory". Here. "Rat with saxophone". Yup. Right, that's all of the fantasy trope character types accounted for in Dark Scrolls, a roguelike dungeon-running platformer from the devs behind
DC has revealed an ambitious lineup of new comics for Pride Month 2026, with fan-favorite heroines Dreamer and Galaxy taking the spotlight.
Vampires! They don't just survive now, but crawl too, as evidenced by poncle's follow-up to their tight and already quite influential bullet heaven Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. Which now...
Ah, spring. A glorious season. My allergies are flaring up, strawberry plants are sprouting, there are buds on the cherry tree and-wait, what's that? A Pokemon is still the talk of the town? Hoppip is still in my Pokemon Center? Yeesh.
The co-creator of extremely good horror game Darkwood is making a cleaning simulator, comparable to PowerWash Simulator and
And the Premium Edition is outselling the Standard Edition.There's been renewed debate recently about whether Xbox should stick with its multiplatform plans or go back to exclusives, but we've known for a while now that Starfield would be getting a PS5 release, and it's set to fare pretty well.Starfield's official PS5 release date was reveale...
I reviewed Pokopia, meaning I've been playing it for longer than most people, but I'm still trying to finish the Pokedex, which has way more monsters in it than I expected. I was planning to give up, but I recently learned there's actually a cool reward for finishing it, and now I'm even more invested.
A Stranger Things: The Complete Series collection has been revealed, and will cost you between $199.99 (£149.99) and $269.99 (£219.99), depending on which edition you want.
Fortnite's just gotten a new toolset that'll let folks build Star Wars-themed islands at the start of May, wich is good news for anyone who's ever craved the ability to create a map that somehow validates their Boba Fett and Chawbacca fanfiction.
All playable from now until Sunday night.The latest edition of Xbox Free Play Days has officially begun on the Xbox Store today, with five games available to play until late on Sunday night, three of which are totally free for everyone (even non-Xbox Game Pass subscribers).Here's your full Xbox Free Play Days selection for March 19th to March 22nd, 2026:Read the
Star Trek: The Last Starship is one of the most exciting Trek stories out there right now, and the series is about to kick off a new storyline where Captain Kirk becomes a Borg. Find out what to expect from this horror-fueled new story.
Ubisoft have reportedly laid off all of the game developers at Red Storm Entertainment, with the long-time Tom Clancy studio being repurposed from a place where games are developed to a place that just provides behind-the-scenes tech support. 105 staff have lost their jobs in this downsizing, which follows
There are some excellent third-party Switch 2 games on sale at Amazon this week.
Cosmo D's heady jazz noir RPG Moves Of The Diamond Hand will launch into Steam Early Access on April 13th, the day after I return from holiday. You don't need to hear about my holiday plans, which involve scree slopes and deterioriating knee cartilage. You do n...
His first CEO role since leaving Zynga in 2015.When it comes to former Xbox leaders, we've often heard about what the likes of Seamus Blackley and Peter Moore are getting up to, but Don Mattrick, who led the brand during ...
Ubisoft has announced further layoffs as part of its ongoing cost cutting program, with 105 staff now set to depart veteran Tom Clancy game studio Red Storm Entertainment.
Police in Japan have arrested three men in a Pokémon card-buying scam. The alleged criminals arranged to buy three rare Pokémon cards for $51 million yen (approx. $320,000) from an individual. However, the paper bag they handed over to the victim was just filled with bundles of paper designed to look like real stacks of cash. This clichéd strategy has drawn some amusement on Japanese social media for being like something out of an anime.
Arrrrrrrrrghhhh. Slash. Thunk. Well, we're a man down. It's a good thing that in the genre of strategy sandboxes built on massive medieval melees, there's always someone else about to wander into the frey. Cue the entrance of Kinstrife, a Mount & Bladey game built by former Mount & Bl...
Get your first look at Fields of Aaru, an ancient-Egyptian-inspired, afterlife-set cozy life sim where you'll manage life along the Nile, interact with Egyptian gods, mold the land to your preferences, farm and fish, help the people in town, and more.
Long-awaited improvements to car customization, user-created garages, and the most imaginative Forza Edition cars to date are coming to Forza Horizon 6.
A new teaser trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has confirmed Jim Carrey’s return as Dr. Robotnik.
Without one of Nintendo’s least-loved peripherals, the Pokemon we know and love would never have been created. This is the story of how a simple cable spawned a $100 billion empire.
Specifically the Final Cut edition.We've got a new Xbox Game Pass addition today (March 19th), and it's surely one of the greatest RPGs of all time!Disco Elysium: The Final Cut has entered the Game Pass library for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC users (as...
Sony is reportedly phasing out its 'PlayStation Network' branding by the end of this year.
Nekome: Nazi Hunter is mostly centered on showcasing a weighty, crunchy style of hand-to-hand combat rarely represented in games about World War II. Protagonist Vano doesn't have an arsenal of dieselpunk firearms like BJ Blazkowicz, nor does he have the weaponized set dressing and basic fisticuffs that Indiana Jones uses against unsuspecting fascists in The Great Circle. Instead, he's trained in deadly kill-or-be-killed gutter fighting.
My testing found that the MacBook Neo is sleek, well-designed, and incredibly capable for its price point.
Sarah Michelle Gellar has asked fans not to read a leaked version of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot script, and emphasized that the project was still a work-in-progress at the time of its dramatic cancellation.
He's a really useful engine. So sayeth the sacred texts surrounding star of at least one million mods Thomas the Tank Engine. He's also a really fast engine. Or, at least one of his mates is. So demonstrateth the social media clips I've been watching of ...
Tomb Raider: Catalyst developer Crystal Dynamics says it "remains fully committed to the future development" of the Lara Croft franchise despite suffering its fourth redundancy round in the last 12 months.
An impressive start to Asha Sharma's reign.Yesterday, we were treated to the surprising news that the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles were getting a major dashboard update for the first time in what feels like forever, with multiple features being implemented including custom colour settings, the ability to dis...
Valve is changing how we reload and manage ammo reserves in Counter-Strike 2 via a significant update.
Pearl Abyss, publisher and developer of Crimson Desert, has seen its stock price plunge nearly 30% in what is seen as a reaction to review scores.
They Will Kill You review: Zazie Beetz Kicks Butt in a Bloody Fun Thrill Ride.
The Ugreen Nexode Retractable is our most favouritest Steam Deck power bank, as James decreed with his testing, and by spending his hard-earned money on it – and if it's good enough to earn a top recommendation here, then it's worth you giving it a look over.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now won over 30 different awards across 10 different award shows, and settled happily at a 92 critic score on Metacritic. But its developers truly had no idea how good their game was, as demonstrated by all the silly bets they made and lost on what the game's metascore would be.
At the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last month, I was offered the opportunity to chat with Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, one of the writers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. We sat down in a busy hotel Starbucks for over an hour to talk about her, her work, and her wild, winding path to writing for one of 2025's biggest and best games.
More than 25 years on from filming The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins actor Elijah Wood has said he's still trying to finish reading the books.
This is an article about one of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's writers saying that the developers will not "canonize" one ending over the other, even as they work on future games set in the same universe.
Amazon Resale (formerly the Amazon Warehouse) can occasionally throw up a decent deal on computing hardware, just as long as you don't mind a damaged box or perhaps a missing manual. In this instance, it's allowing for this MSI RTX 5070 Ventus 3X
The embargo for PC impressions dropped last night.Today's the day for Crimson Desert — it releases late this evening at 6pm ET / 10pm GMT, and therefore the first reviews started going live last night for the PC version specifically (there are no Xbox or PS5 reviews until after launch...
This Spider-Man bundle includes nine MTG Play Boosters and a Collector Booster, all for a steep discount at Amazon.
Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics have announced their fourth round of layoffs in 12 months. A total of 20 staff across development and central operations roles have been let go this time, with Crystal Dynamics emphasising they're still "fully committed" to
Save on Draft Night boxes for you to play with friends for Magic's next set, and the current one, too.
Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have provided an update on the hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, insisting it remains “on schedule” for its 2027 release date.
Save on Spider-Man, Avatar, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collector Booster boxes from Amazon.
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered publisher Aspyr has denied using AI-generated assets, insisting the contentious outfits added via the most recent update "were created by our team of artists."
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake for Xbox Series X, PS5, and Nintendo Switch is on sale right now at Amazon. The Xbox Series X version is down to $20, while the PS5 and Switch versions are down to $30.
An interview with Anya Taylor-Joy has gone viral, after the Super Mario Galaxy Movie actress was awkwardly asked to describe a connection between her character Princess Peach and legendary musician Joni Mitchell.
Bang. 29 bullets left. Bang, bang, bang, rattatata. 14 bullets left. I'd better reload, in case someone comes around that corner and I need a full clip on hand to empty into then. NO. THINK ABOUT THE BULLETS YOU'RE USING, Valve yell from their giant Steam-powered tower looming high above the battlefield. I look at my magazine and notice that following the latest
The only way to get a discount on a brand new Switch 2 console.
An action game that makes a promising first impression it doesn't live up to at all.
Certified refurbished from Sonos direct with the same warranty as buying new.
The next generation of gaming hardware will probably look completely different than anything we’ve seen before.
The sixth book in the Harry Potter illustrated collection is releasing this October and the official cover artwork was finally unveiled.
Netflix has reportedly picked Maxwell Jenkins to play Fred Jones, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, and Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley for its live-action Scooby-Doo show.
More than 110 hours in, this ambitious RPG has swung wildly from incredibly cool to gobsmackingly infuriating.
Beats' highest end headphone pairs equally well with iPhones and Android smartphones.
Reviews of Crimson Desert, the new open world fantasy RPG from Black Desert Online studio Pearl Abyss, are surfacing across the internet as you read these words. Out on 19th March, it's the story of Kliff McDuff of the Greymanes, who is trying to ral...
Disney Cruise Line has revealed that its next ship is officially called the Disney Believe. Furthermore, it confirmed it will set sail in late 2027 with experiences inspired by Encanto, Frozen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Moana, and The Little Mermaid.
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During Disney's annual shareholders meeting, it was announced that Lilo & Stitch 2 will be released in theaters on May 26, 2028, and that it will be followed by Incredibles 3 on June 16 of the same year.
Normal review: Bob Odenkirk brings the boom in Ben Wheatley’s satisfactory small-town satire.
Vice Studios could soon help Chains, Dallas, Hoxton, and Wolf break into the movie and TV business after acquiring the film and television rights to the Payday franchise.
NuCaloric is calling.Marathon has pleasantly surprised us with its contracts and their fluidity since the server slam, and NuCaloric’s line of contracts called “Data Reconstruction” are no exception.However, they can catch you out if you're not careful, which is why this guide is here to give you an idea of what you will be coming up against in this contract line, starting with Part 1.Rea...
This electric assisted bike can go up to 23mph with a range of up to 45 miles.
Looking for a mono-black card combo to lay waste to your foes? This Magic: The Gathering duo will do just that.
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"The discs include demos of never released games".Remember the good old days of demo discs? Back in the '90s and the 2000s, it wasn't uncommon for magazines to ship with playable demos on a disc, and that was indeed the case for Official Xbox Magazine for many years.We always love a good excuse to reminisce about them, and one particular Xbox fan known as
Crimson Desert developer and publisher Pearl Abyss won’t show gameplay footage of the Xbox Series X and S version ahead of its March 19 release date.
Everything you need to know to preorder Pragmata, a new game from Capcom coming in April to Xbox, PS5, Switch 2, and PC.
The best gaming laptop deal from the Lenovo Spring Sale.
Double Fine's Kiln will launch in April across PC and consoles, following a series of closed playtests and an open beta on Steam.
Exodus was announced as a fulsome narrative experiment with time dilation, aided and abetted by
ESA Foundation Raises $1.15 Million With Nite to Unite
Hollow Knight: Silksong devs Team Cherry have put out what they're aiming to be the "last significant update" prior to the Metroidvania's first major expansion,
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The team behind the now-cancelled Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot was reportedly told by Hulu that their pilot was too youth-focused, too "small" and featured a lack of Sarah Michelle Gellar herself as Buffy.
Early playtests also announced!We have a new Xbox Game Studios launch date! Kiln, from the fine folks over at Double Fine Productions, officially releases for Xbox, PS5 and PC on April 23rd, 2026 - including on
Bloodsport, the 1988 martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that became a cult classic, is getting a remake.

DC has seemingly reversed one of its most controversial Superman storylines, as a fan-favorite hero finally makes their return to the DC Universe.
New console features are coming.After what feels like months and months of Xbox updates centred around PC and Cloud, Microsoft has today unveiled a new set of Xbox Series X|S console features, rolling out now to Xbox Insiders.Yep, the Xbox dashboard is getting some fresh refinements, including the ability to add more Groups to your home page, new colour setti...
I was five minutes into the excavation of my very first, procedurally generated Lucid Blocks map when I struck Dogblock, Catblock and S'more, in that order. I didn't excavate them, actually. I conjured them by feeding gobbets of occult, dreamlike material into the "Apotheosis" magic circle that is possibly this sort-of-
After increasing prices and getting rid of its free trial, Paramount+ is now offering the best ad-free streaming deal we've seen in 2026.
Starfield is making the journey to PlayStation 5. Here's where you can preorder its Standard Edition for $49.99 or its Premium Edition for $69.99 ahead of its release date on April 7.
Microsoft has announced a fresh set of system features, including the long-requested ability to disable the console's Quick Resume feature for specific games.
Alan Wake makers (Wakers?) Remedy have delivered FBC: Firebreak's final major update, having previously elected to wind down development of the
The late Val Kilmer will be resurrected via AI for an upcoming indie movie — with the blessing of the actor’s family.
Daredevil actor Charlie Cox is working on a new video game project, following his award-nominated turn as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Sony is issuing refunds, will Xbox follow suit?Xbox FPS Highguard has been offline for almost a week now, and we have a few more developments regarding the ill-fated shooter cropping up online this week. The first of those surrounds refunds for the game's DLC, wh...
Even playing just half an hour of Never's End's Final Fantasy Tactics-style tactical RPG with its director left me buzzing. It’s painted in a charming, 2D-meets-3D art style and set in an expansive world, and even my demo held hours of content to explore that I only scratched the surface of.
Horror icon John Carpenter lists his favorite video games of all time, and three he's really looking forward to.
Last August, I wrote about a Baldur's Gate 3 modder who had recreated Candlekeep, the library-fortress which serves as the starting point of th...
A new teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie features Nintendo's adorable Pikmin, marking their latest canon appearance in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Surprise! A new update for the near 20-year-old PlayStation 3 is rolling out today, March 18. Here's what it does.
FH6 "has more potential" in terms of updates & DLC.With the last few Forza Horizon entries, the team at Playground Games has made a big effort to provide post-launch support — with new expansions, seasonal content and plentiful updates — and it sounds as though leaving Xbox One behind with Forza Horizon 6 is going to allow the...
By the time Campo Santo were reaching the end of Firewatch's development, Chris Remo was itching to start over. "I remember feeling, 'God, if we made this exact same game again now, we could take these ideas so much further'." After Firewatch's release, Remo began giving
Titan Comics and Blizzard have joined forces to release Diablo: Dawn of Hatred, a new miniseries that expands the lore of Sanctuary. See our exclusive preview of the first chapter.
If my first session with Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch is any indication, this is going to be a straightforward, arcade-y brawler that delivers exactly what it's supposed to without missing a beat.
Why Steel Ball Run is JoJo’s most bizarre adventure yet: Pony up, partner! Part 7 of the popular anime is not like previous seasons.
What Marvel character is Sadie Sink playing? How do Hulk and Punisher fit in? We break down all the big questions raised in the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer.
The PC version of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has reportedly leaked online. It appears that an unencrypted version of the game was briefly available when Steam open up to pre-loading ahead of tomorrow's (March 19) PC launch.
Robert Pattinson has provided an update on The Batman 2, teasing its "extraordinary" script and calling it “very, very different.”
Games Workshop has brought back another much-loved Warhammer 40,000 character with a flashy new trailer to help set the scene.
Marathon's short time-to-kill can feel unfair, but quick deaths are all part of its delicately balanced risk vs. reward loop.
The CEO of Take-Two Interactive — the parent company that owns GTA developer Rockstar — has called the idea of AI making games like GTA 6 "laughable."
Rob Runesson, co-founder and chief commercial officer of Arc Raiders and The Finals developer Embark Studios, has left the company following public allegations of sexual misconduct with a streamer. According to an Embark spokesperson, Runesson an...
An official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game has raised $7.5 million on Kickstarter, hitting its $100,000 goal in just five minutes and becoming the most-funded trading card game (TCG) in the crowdfunding platform's history.
The first full trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is full of familiar faces, and provides a hint at the identity of Sadie Sink's mysterious character.
Sony has trained a "Protective AI" model on content from Studio Ghibli films in order to create a tool that knows to avoid generating copyright-infringing images, videos and music.
Including an Xbox first-party release!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we've got just the two games moving over to Microsoft's XGP Premium library, including first-party release South of Midnight.Here's what's new on Game Pass Premium today (March ...
Hello everybody! A major technology company executive is talking in this, the year 2026, which means it's time for more wrangling about generative AI tools. Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has spoken at length about why the latest genAI tools aren't going to turn everybody into a game developer and put companies like his out of business, arguing that there are already a lot ...