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Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa says the fan backlash to Nvidia’s AI-yassified Grace Ashcroft from the DLSS 5 demo was actually ‘a positive.’ The intensity of the negative reaction, he argues, proves the original character design was successful enough to make players genuinely defensive of her appearance.
Valve’s redesigned Steam Controller launched May 4 for $99 and sold out in roughly 30 minutes. The controller introduces TMR magnetic thumbsticks, capacitive Grip Sense for automatic gyro activation, dual angled trackpads, four rear buttons, and 35+ hours of battery life. A magnetic charging Puck doubles as a wireless 2.4GHz USB-C transmitter.
Kill It With Fire 2 hits Nintendo Switch on May 7 for $14.99 with full four-player online co-op and the new Humans vs. Spiders PvP mode. The chaotic spider extermination sim from tinyBuild brings its full arsenal of absurd weapons to portable play.
NVIDIA's GeForce NOW May update brings 16 new games including day-one streaming for Forza Horizon 6 and 007: First Light, expands RTX 5080 Blackwell architecture access across nearly 4,000 games with DLSS 4 and Reflex, and celebrates Firaxis' 30th anniversary with classic strategy titles.
Radical Fish Games launches Alabaster Dawn in Steam Early Access on May 7 — a top-down action RPG from the CrossCode creators featuring DMC-inspired combat with four elements and eight weapon types, a world that transforms as you play, and ten hours of content in the initial build.
Age of Empires IV's Yue Fei's Legacy expansion launches May 7 with an 8-mission campaign following the legendary Song Dynasty general, a new playable Jin Dynasty civilization with mounted villagers and mobile economy, four new ranked maps, and two new biomes.
Bandai Namco unveiled Kunimitsu Tekken 8 gameplay at Evo Japan 2026 — the kunai-wielding ninja launches May 27 for Season 3 Pass holders, kicking off a roadmap that includes Bob in Summer and Roger Jr. in Autumn.
Wax Heads, the cozy-punk record store sim from Patattie Games, launches May 5 on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch with 80+ in-game records, 30+ original songs, and 60+ hand-drawn customers.
Dead as Disco hits Early Access on May 5 with rhythm-synced combat, 30+ tracks, and a My Music mode that turns any song into a boss fight — after a demo that reached 1.2 million players.
Take-Two's Q4 earnings call locks in for May 21, and Rockstar's pattern of dropping major GTA marketing beats days before investor events makes Trailer 3 between May 13–20 the easiest prediction in gaming. Pre-orders may flip on the same day.
Supermassive's Directive 8020 swaps slasher tropes for The Thing-style space horror on May 12 — Lashana Lynch leads an eight-crew Cassiopeia as a real-time roaming alien hunts the ship and a new rewind mechanic breaks Dark Pictures' permanent-choice rule.
Forza Horizon 6's pre-load is live at 134.86 GB on Xbox and 146.4 GB on PC — the largest Horizon install ever — as the game claims #1 on Steam's May wishlist with 500K pre-orders booked ahead of its May 19 launch.