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Polyarc has finally pulled Moss off the VR shelf. Moss: The Forgotten Relic combines the original Moss, Moss: Book II, and the Twilight Garden DLC into one flatscreen package with new cutscenes, a smart-follow camera, an optional skip-combat mode, and a reorchestrated Jason Graves score - landing summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, Switch, and PC.
FuturLab has put a hard deadline on its Square Enix crossovers in PowerWash Simulator: the free Midgar Special Pack and the free Croft Manor Tomb Raider Pack both get pulled from every storefront at 3pm BST on May 19, 2026. Anyone who hits the Add to Library button before then keeps them forever, and anyone who waits loses access entirely.
Forza Horizon 6's review embargo lifted on May 14 and the verdict is in: a 92 Metacritic average across 60+ reviews has launched it past Pokemon Pokopia and Resident Evil Requiem to sit atop 2026's leaderboard, and Playground Games has now matched or beaten the score of every previous Horizon for six entries straight.
AMD's FSR Redstone is a four-pillar neural-rendering stack — ML upscaling, ML frame generation, ML ray-regeneration denoising, and on-device neural radiance caching — that launched RX 9000-exclusive in December 2025 and now ships in 200+ games with RDNA 3 retrofit due in July and RDNA 2 support targeted for Q1 2027.
Brazil's Anatel regulator just leaked Microsoft's unreleased Xbox Cloud Gaming Controller and Xbox Elite Series 3. The cloud pad packs Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, a Realtek chip, and a 500mAh battery so it can talk directly to xCloud without a phone or console as middleman.
Marmalade Game Studio just launched the Ticket to Ride: Round the World Ticket - a bundle wrapping all ten expansions, two ticket packs, and forward access to future maps into a single buy. Poland drops as the tenth expansion, and Pennsylvania is confirmed as the next big addition.
Housemarque just dropped Finding Carcosa: Becoming Arjun, a behind-the-scenes featurette for Saros that follows actor Rahul Kohli through performance capture and reveals how Arjun Devraj's defining vocal register emerged from a rushed, traffic-jammed recording session in LA.
Arc Games and Thekla just confirmed Order of the Sinking Star is launching on Nintendo Switch 2 this year alongside Steam. Jonathan Blow's first new game since The Witness packs over 1,000 hand-crafted puzzles, four interlocking worlds, and five named playable heroes - including a talking boat.
Subnautica 2 hit Early Access on May 14 and immediately set a 467,582 concurrent Steam peak with over a million copies sold in the first hour, burying nine months of pre-launch drama on the way to one of 2026's biggest game launches.
Pearl Abyss shipped Crimson Desert hotfix 1.06.01 on May 12, just one day after the major 1.06.00 patch that added Special Mounts, an extraction system, Night Tone Mode, and a new Oongka skill kit. The hotfix unblocks Vault of Vengeance progression and the studio also owned up to an accidental Damiane armor bug.
Team17 and Expression Games confirmed June 18 as the launch date for Hell Let Loose: Vietnam across PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. A free open beta weekend runs May 29 to June 1, and the Standard Edition is priced at .99 alongside a .99 Deluxe with uniform packs and 2026 Field Supplies.
Prophecy Games unveiled Deadzone Rogue 2 this week with a full announcement trailer, confirming a PC demo in June 2026 and console releases across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2. The sequel trades the original's space station setting for a devastated Earth overrun by a mechanical army led by an entity called Monarch.