Latest gaming announcements, leaks, and stories
Annapurna Interactive’s narrative adventure Mixtape launches May 7 on all platforms and day one on Game Pass, following three friends through one last night of 90s high school nostalgia.
Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly pulled in over $300M and 5M+ copies on PS5, but Microsoft's other multiplatform ports are quietly underperforming — and combined with a 33% hardware revenue collapse, it's pushing Xbox to actively reconsider exclusivity ahead of the May 7 Project Helix reveal.
Forza Horizon 6 launches May 19 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and Playground Games has used the final stretch to detail Tokyo City, the Snowy Alps, the new 540-degree steering model, the Bracelet progression system, and seamless races. Here's the full breakdown of what's confirmed two weeks out.
Toge Productions' cozy late-night cafe series returns May 21 with a new Tokyo setting, a 20-character cast, cold drinks, latte-art stencils, and a Tomodachill social-feed system that feeds back into dialogue. Andrew Jeremy is back on soundtrack duty, leaning into city pop.
Microsoft will showcase Project Helix at a public developer event on May 7. The next-gen hybrid console-PC runs a custom AMD chip and can play both Xbox and PC games from Steam and GOG.
Supermassive Games’ Directive 8020 launches May 12, bringing sci-fi survival horror with a shapeshifting alien threat, five playable characters, and the studio’s first online co-op mode.
Heroes of Might and Magic returns with Olden Era, now available in Early Access on Steam and PC Game Pass. The 30th anniversary entry features six factions, three game modes, and a 25% launch discount.
Paralives enters Early Access on Steam May 25, offering a grid-free life sim with no paid DLC. The community-funded alternative to The Sims features freeform building, an open world, and over a million wishlists.
007 First Light from IO Interactive launches May 27 on PS5, Xbox, and PC, with Nintendo Switch 2 delayed to Q3. The young Bond origin story borrows heavily from Hitman's design DNA, introduces a Tac Sim replay mode with leaderboards, and arrives with a Lana Del Rey theme song produced by David Arnold.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's free PS VR2 update launched today, April 30, bringing all 125 aircraft to virtual reality on PlayStation 5 alongside Sim Update 5. The update is being widely described as the killer app PS VR2 has been waiting for, with Asobo's frame duplication tech and full controller-redesigned cockpit interactions making console VR flight sim genuinely viable for the first time.
Microsoft's Q3 FY26 earnings show Xbox hardware revenue down 33% and overall gaming revenue down 7%, but Game Pass crossed a $5 billion annual run rate for the first time and Microsoft now reaches 500 million monthly active gaming users across platforms.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick used an iicon Las Vegas panel to confirm GTA 6 marketing will start imminently, signal the game's pricing will be reasonable rather than radical, and offer a careful you-never-know tease about a possible L.A. Noire return. Trailer 3 watch is officially on.