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Order of the Sinking Star Is Coming to Nintendo Switch 2 This Year - Jonathan Blow's 1,000-Puzzle Narrative Adventure From the Witness Team Just Landed an Overview Trailer and a Surprise Console Confirmation
news3 months ago

Order of the Sinking Star Is Coming to Nintendo Switch 2 This Year - Jonathan Blow's 1,000-Puzzle Narrative Adventure From the Witness Team Just Landed an Overview Trailer and a Surprise Console Confirmation

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 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the Year
news3 months ago

Subnautica 2 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the Year

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.

Crimson Desert Gets Yet Another Major Patch - Pearl Abyss Drops Version 1.06.01 Hotfix Just One Day After 1.06.00 to Unblock the Vault of Vengeance Abyss, While Owning Up to an Accidental Damiane Armor Bug
news3 months ago

Crimson Desert Gets Yet Another Major Patch - Pearl Abyss Drops Version 1.06.01 Hotfix Just One Day After 1.06.00 to Unblock the Vault of Vengeance Abyss, While Owning Up to an Accidental Damiane Armor Bug

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.

Slime Rancher Finally Slides Onto iOS and Android on May 26 - Playdigious Is Bringing Monomi Park's Vacpack Sandbox to Mobile at $8.99 With Touch Controls, Three Difficulty Modes, and Full Controller Support
mobile3 months ago

Slime Rancher Finally Slides Onto iOS and Android on May 26 - Playdigious Is Bringing Monomi Park's Vacpack Sandbox to Mobile at $8.99 With Touch Controls, Three Difficulty Modes, and Full Controller Support

Playdigious is bringing the original Slime Rancher to iOS and Android on May 26 for $8.99 - full game, all five content updates, three play modes, no ads or IAP, and full controller support across both platforms.

Team17 Locks Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to a June 18 Launch Across PS5, Xbox, and PC With a Free Open Beta Weekend May 29 to June 1 and Era-Specific 50v50 Jungle Warfare
news4 months ago

Team17 Locks Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to a June 18 Launch Across PS5, Xbox, and PC With a Free Open Beta Weekend May 29 to June 1 and Era-Specific 50v50 Jungle Warfare

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 Just Announced Deadzone Rogue 2 With a June 2026 PC Demo — The Earth-Set Roguelite FPS Sequel Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 After the Original Cleared 750K Sales
news4 months ago

Prophecy Games Just Announced Deadzone Rogue 2 With a June 2026 PC Demo — The Earth-Set Roguelite FPS Sequel Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 After the Original Cleared 750K Sales

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.

Froggy Hates Snow Drops Its Launch Trailer as Digital Bandidos' Snowguelike Roguelite Lands on PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Steam at .99
news4 months ago

Froggy Hates Snow Drops Its Launch Trailer as Digital Bandidos' Snowguelike Roguelite Lands on PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Steam at .99

Digital Bandidos' digging-survival roguelite Froggy Hates Snow is live across PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and Steam for .99, with a launch trailer that walks through the 16 maps, ten unlockable frogs, 60-plus tools, and the dedicated peace mode for players who just want to shovel snow.

Honkai: Star Rail's 3rd Anniversary Phase 2 Just Brought Evanescia Live Alongside a Tribbie, Sunday, and Feixiao Rerun Triple Running Through June 1 on iOS, Android, PC, and PlayStation
mobile4 months ago

Honkai: Star Rail's 3rd Anniversary Phase 2 Just Brought Evanescia Live Alongside a Tribbie, Sunday, and Feixiao Rerun Triple Running Through June 1 on iOS, Android, PC, and PlayStation

HoYoverse flipped the switch on Honkai: Star Rail's Version 4.2 Phase 2 yesterday. Evanescia, a new five-star Hunt-path resonator, headlines the Crimson Moon's Hunt banner, while the Indelible Coterie rerun banner pulls Tribbie, Sunday, and Feixiao into a single rate-up window that has not been seen in nearly a year.

MercurySteam's Blades of Fire Hits Steam Today With a Free Version 2.0 Drop — New Game Plus, a Brutal Titanium Difficulty, Photo Mode, and a Brand New Crafting Layer Across Every Platform
news4 months ago

MercurySteam's Blades of Fire Hits Steam Today With a Free Version 2.0 Drop — New Game Plus, a Brutal Titanium Difficulty, Photo Mode, and a Brand New Crafting Layer Across Every Platform

Blades of Fire lands on Steam on May 14, 2026, and 505 Games is treating it more like a relaunch than a port. The free Version 2.0 update ships simultaneously to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Epic, and Steam, adding New Game Plus, Titanium difficulty, photo mode, Transmutation crafting, Anvil Trials, and a new Arcana system.

Black Desert's May 14 Patch Drops 207 Updates, a Top-to-Bottom Warrior Awakening Rework, and the Star of Nostos Campsite Teleport Lifeskillers Have Been Begging For
news4 months ago

Black Desert's May 14 Patch Drops 207 Updates, a Top-to-Bottom Warrior Awakening Rework, and the Star of Nostos Campsite Teleport Lifeskillers Have Been Begging For

Pearl Abyss pushed the May 14 Black Desert build live with 207 changes, a serious Warrior Awakening rework that leans into the berserker fantasy, a Drakania tune-up, and a new Star of Nostos crafting item that finally lets gatherers teleport from a campsite to their residence and back.

ALLfiring Hits iOS and Android Globally Today With Voxel Anime Worlds, a Three-Character Swap System, and Free-to-Play Combat From the Ring of Fire Team at GENMUGAME
mobile4 months ago

ALLfiring Hits iOS and Android Globally Today With Voxel Anime Worlds, a Three-Character Swap System, and Free-to-Play Combat From the Ring of Fire Team at GENMUGAME

GENMUGAME's voxel-meets-anime action RPG ALLfiring is live worldwide on iOS and Android as of May 14, 2026, built around a real-time three-character squad swap, a hub fortress called Theseus, and a roughly 2GB free-to-play download with gacha-driven monetisation.

Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch
news4 months ago

Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch

Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks have shipped the cross-play patch that's been the most-requested feature since Absolum launched in October 2025, finally letting all four console and PC versions of the rogue-lite beat 'em up share lobbies for two-player online co-op.