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Yuji Horii Just Confirmed a Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary Livestream for May 27 — The 'Next Game' Will Get an Announcement, Five Years of Silence on Dragon Quest XII Could Finally Break, and Square Enix Pulled the Original Reveal Within Hours
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Yuji Horii Just Confirmed a Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary Livestream for May 27 — The 'Next Game' Will Get an Announcement, Five Years of Silence on Dragon Quest XII Could Finally Break, and Square Enix Pulled the Original Reveal Within Hours

Yuji Horii confirmed via the KosoKoso podcast that a Dragon Quest 40th anniversary livestream airs May 27 with news on the next game — almost certainly Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate. The original podcast clip was pulled within hours.

Genshin Impact Just Confirmed Luna VII Drops May 20 — Klee's Hexenzirkel Comes Out of Hiding, Sumeru Gets Two More Archon Quest Acts With Dottore at the Center, and Nicole Is Already Being Called the Better Bennett
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Genshin Impact Just Confirmed Luna VII Drops May 20 — Klee's Hexenzirkel Comes Out of Hiding, Sumeru Gets Two More Archon Quest Acts With Dottore at the Center, and Nicole Is Already Being Called the Better Bennett

HoYoverse confirmed Genshin Impact 6.6 Luna VII drops May 20 with Nicole, Lohen, and Prune — the first playable members of the Hexenzirkel — plus two new Sumeru Archon Quest acts and a Dottore boss fight.

Battlefield 6 Season 3 Drops May 12 With the Franchise's Biggest Map Yet — Railway to Golmud Is Four Times Mirak Valley, Cairo Bazaar Hits Mid-Season, and REDSEC Finally Gets a Ranked Queue
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Battlefield 6 Season 3 Drops May 12 With the Franchise's Biggest Map Yet — Railway to Golmud Is Four Times Mirak Valley, Cairo Bazaar Hits Mid-Season, and REDSEC Finally Gets a Ranked Queue

EA's Season 3 update goes live on Tuesday, May 12 with Railway to Golmud — a Battlefield 4 remake that's four times the size of the largest existing BF6 map — plus a packed three-stage roadmap, a rebuilt vehicle damage model, REDSEC Solos, and the long-promised Ranked Battle Royale Quads.

Wuthering Waves Just Confirmed Its Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Crossover Lands in 3.4 — Lucy Headlines a Limited Banner, Rebecca Is Free for Every Player, and David Martinez Shows Up in the Trailer
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Wuthering Waves Just Confirmed Its Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Crossover Lands in 3.4 — Lucy Headlines a Limited Banner, Rebecca Is Free for Every Player, and David Martinez Shows Up in the Trailer

Kuro Games' May 7 trailer locks in the long-rumored Cyberpunk: Edgerunners collaboration for Wuthering Waves Version 3.4 in June. Lucy joins as a paid 5-Star Resonator on a limited banner, Rebecca is being given to every player for free through the event, and David Martinez makes a cameo that's stopping just short of confirming him as a third playable.

Takashi Tezuka, the Quiet Architect of Mario, Zelda, and Yoshi, Just Announced He's Leaving Nintendo on June 26 — More Than 150 Game Credits, 42 Years on the Job, and a Final Bow That Closes One of the Industry's Greatest Careers
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Takashi Tezuka, the Quiet Architect of Mario, Zelda, and Yoshi, Just Announced He's Leaving Nintendo on June 26 — More Than 150 Game Credits, 42 Years on the Job, and a Final Bow That Closes One of the Industry's Greatest Careers

Co-creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Director of A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Island. Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Pikmin 4. After more than four decades and over 150 credits, the 65-year-old Takashi Tezuka is retiring from Nintendo on June 26, 2026.

Blizzard Just Sent the Zerg Crashing Into Diablo Immortal — The Aeon of Stars Crossover Hits May 13 With a Tal'darim Boss, a Baneling Legendary Gem, Infested Rifts, and a Conqueror Mode Variant Where StarCraft Factions Pick the Powers
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Blizzard Just Sent the Zerg Crashing Into Diablo Immortal — The Aeon of Stars Crossover Hits May 13 With a Tal'darim Boss, a Baneling Legendary Gem, Infested Rifts, and a Conqueror Mode Variant Where StarCraft Factions Pick the Powers

Limited-time crossover runs May 13 to June 10. Four-player Dark Ascension boss fight against Tal'darim Templar and the Ascended Archon. New Legendary Gem 'Baneboil' unleashes Banelings and stays permanent after the event. Infested Elder Rifts spawn Zerg with a Feral Hydralisk boss. Conqueror Mode gets faction-themed shrines for Terran, Zerg, and Protoss builds. The most ambitious crossover Blizzard has ever shipped on phones.

Sony Just Took a $765 Million Impairment Loss on Bungie — Marathon Failed to Land, Destiny 2 Kept Sinking, and the 2022 Acquisition Has Now Burned Through More Than 20% of Its $3.6 Billion Price Tag
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Sony Just Took a $765 Million Impairment Loss on Bungie — Marathon Failed to Land, Destiny 2 Kept Sinking, and the 2022 Acquisition Has Now Burned Through More Than 20% of Its $3.6 Billion Price Tag

Sony's FY2025 results add another $565 million Bungie writedown on top of October's $200 million one, totaling $765 million in impairments — more than 20% of the original $3.6B acquisition price. Sony cited Marathon's failed March launch (currently 6,000-15,000 concurrent on Steam) and Destiny 2's continued engagement decline.

Xbox Just Dropped the Forza Horizon 6 Launch Trailer With a Hidden Ken Block Tribute and an Initial D Cameo — Premium Early Access Hits in Exactly One Week, Public Launch Eight Days After
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Xbox Just Dropped the Forza Horizon 6 Launch Trailer With a Hidden Ken Block Tribute and an Initial D Cameo — Premium Early Access Hits in Exactly One Week, Public Launch Eight Days After

Playground Games' launch trailer landed overnight, exactly one week before May 15 Premium Edition early access and 11 days before the May 19 wide launch. The 90-second cut sneaks in two easter eggs the Forza community has already pulled apart frame-by-frame: a Ken Block Gymkhana NINE drift recreation at 0:48, and an Initial D Mount Akina face-off between a white-and-black AE86 and an FD3S RX-7 at 0:58.

PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models
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PS5 Sales Just Cratered 46% as Sony's Earnings Pivot Hard to AI — Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio Are Already Shipping a Tool That Generates Facial Animation in Seconds, Plus a Hair Pipeline That Eats Real-Life Video and Spits Out Strand-Level 3D Models

Sony shipped 1.5 million PS5s in Q4 FY25 against 2.8 million a year earlier, blaming a global memory crunch driven by AI data-center demand. PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino spent the rest of the call pivoting to AI tooling — naming Mockingbird (facial animation, used by Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio) and an unnamed hair pipeline that converts video of real hairstyles into strand-level 3D groomed models.

Sea of Thieves Season 19 Act 3 Drops May 14 With Last Ship Standing — A Six-Crew, Sloop-Only PvP Brawl in the Sea of the Damned, And Rare Has Already Confirmed It's Returning as a Permanent Live Event After the Season Ends
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Sea of Thieves Season 19 Act 3 Drops May 14 With Last Ship Standing — A Six-Crew, Sloop-Only PvP Brawl in the Sea of the Damned, And Rare Has Already Confirmed It's Returning as a Permanent Live Event After the Season Ends

Rare's Season 19 Act 3 update launches Thursday May 14 with Last Ship Standing — a sloop-only, six-crew battle-royale mode set inside the Sea of the Damned, running through June 18. The mode hands a meaningful Allegiance bonus to the surviving crew and is explicitly slated to return as a recurring live event beyond Season 19. Day-one on Game Pass, Steam, PS5, and Xbox.

Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test
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Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test

Sony and Guerrilla just unveiled Closed Test #2 for Horizon Hunters Gathering, running May 22-25 on PS5 and PC (Steam) with sign-ups via the PlayStation Beta Program. The test adds two new playable Hunters (Ensa, an Oseram smuggler; Shadow, a Carja covert operative with a tame Stalker machine), a new region called Breakers' Bounty, an Ashwater Valley narrative episode, two new difficulty tiers (Hard and Merciless), and NPC-assisted solo play — quietly killing the cancellation rumors that have been circling the project for months.

Microsoft Just Launched the Xbox Game Dev Update Show — Episode One Dropped PlayFab Foundation Mode for Free, DirectStorage 1.4 With Zstandard Compression, the New Xbox PC Remote Tools, and a Marketplace Rebuild for Console, PC, Phones, and Cloud
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Microsoft Just Launched the Xbox Game Dev Update Show — Episode One Dropped PlayFab Foundation Mode for Free, DirectStorage 1.4 With Zstandard Compression, the New Xbox PC Remote Tools, and a Marketplace Rebuild for Console, PC, Phones, and Cloud

Microsoft launched a recurring dev-focused show on May 7. Episode one made PlayFab Foundation Mode free for every Xbox game across seven service pillars, shipped DirectStorage 1.4 with Zstandard compression, opened the April GDK, debuted Xbox PC Remote Tools, and kicked off a multi-surface Marketplace rebuild. Project Helix got a closer look — Xbox Magnus AMD SoC, FSR Diamond AI upscaling, dev kits in 2027, late-2027 launch.