Latest gaming announcements, leaks, and stories
Bungie has confirmed Marathon's first Open Play Week. From June 2 through June 9 the full game is free on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam to coincide with the Season 2: Nightfall launch, and any progress carries over if you buy in. Season 2 also adds the Night Marsh survival-horror zone, the Sentinel Runner shell, the Cradle, new weapons, and a Runner stat customisation system.
Spanish developer Duck Reaction and UK publisher Perp Games have announced Perceptum, a roughly three-hour psychological horror game scheduled to launch in 2027 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. You play a medium investigating a family's disappearance armed only with a pocket mirror, with influences from P.T. and The Conjuring and an early PC playtest already running on Steam.
Hello Games' free 'The Swarm' update (6.4) is live for No Man's Sky, adding the planet-orbiting Hive of Glass boss, drone swarms for the game's biggest space battles yet, and the eight-week Expedition 22 with Direwasp armour and Flightpack rewards.
Korpi Games and VRKiwi's realistic VR hunting simulator launches on PS VR2 and Meta Quest today for $24.99, offering a 64 sq km open world, up to six-player co-op, PS VR2 haptics and adaptive triggers, and cross-play with voice chat on Quest.
CD Projekt Red has surprise-announced a third Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, co-developed with Fool's Theory and launching in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Geralt returns for a brand-new adventure, with full details due in late summer 2026 - and no Switch version planned.
IO Interactive's James Bond origin story is live worldwide on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, opening to an 88 Metacritic and a 'Mighty' 89 OpenCritic - the highest-rated Bond game since GoldenEye.
BlueTwelve Studio's acclaimed cyber-cat adventure arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 on May 28 with 4K visuals, an improved frame rate and Joy-Con 2 mouse controls - and a free upgrade for current Switch owners.
Marvelous and XSEED's cosy farming-and-market sim, a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar, comes to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on May 28 with all prior updates, full story voice acting and editions from $49.99.
4Divinity and Leap Studio ship Realm of Ink Version 1.0 worldwide today, exiting Steam Early Access to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Epic Games Store with a fresh launch trailer, the campaign's final act, three new bosses, and a full BlazBlue Entropy Effect crossover that adds Oread as a playable second lead character.
Focus Entertainment and Mad About Pandas launch Yerba Buena worldwide today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, with a fresh launch trailer showing off the Oscillator's Copy-and-Paste mechanic, a surreal 1970s San Francisco game-within-a-game premise, and a single-mechanic puzzle-platformer designed in the lineage of Patrick's Parabox and Stephen's Sausage Roll.
Sony rolls a full PlayStation Tournaments layer into Days of Play 2026, with ten featured games, three Golden Tournaments offering double virtual-currency payouts, an exclusive Gran Turismo 7 livery for every participant, a hardware-and-services sweepstakes for anyone who plays a single match, and a $200,000 global cash prize pool anchoring Fortnite's Days of Play Cup.
The Epic Games Store's latest Mystery Game pair gives PC players the full Aspyr-produced Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection - three games, three expansions, Challenge Mode, classic and modern visuals - for free through Thursday, May 28, with Down in Bermuda as the second mystery title.