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Xbox Game Pass's May 2026 first wave is fully playable: Mixtape, Outbound, Black Jacket, Call of the Elder Gods, Elite Dangerous, and Subnautica 2 are all in the library now, with Forza Horizon 6 dropping Day One on May 19. A breakdown of every game, who made it, and where it fits.
Nintendo has locked the long-promised Mineru's Construct amiibo from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to a September 17, 2026 release for $34.99, featuring fully articulated posable arms and a new glow-in-the-dark paraglider fabric unlock. Pre-orders are already live at every major retailer.
2K Games has confirmed LEGO 2K Drive will be delisted from every digital storefront on May 19, 2026 - exactly three years after launch - with multiplayer servers locked to shut down on May 31, 2027. Visual Concepts' open-world LEGO racer joins a growing list of mid-decade live-service casualties as its three-year license window expires.
NetEase's Marvel Rivals Season 8 went live on May 15, 2026 with Devil Dinosaur as the first prehistoric Vanguard, a Sins of Alchemax storyline, a Cyclops tease for later in the season, and Twitch Drops for a Rogue costume running through June 12.
After months of leaks, the Fortnite x Overwatch crossover is finally live with Chapter 7 Season 2 Act III: Answer the Call. The Play Now gameplay trailer confirms four Overwatch heroes - Tracer, Mercy, Genji, and D.Va - playable in Fortnite with hero-inspired abilities and weapons, plus new POIs, NPCs, quests, and a Porsche Cayenne with Overwatch livery. Epic dropped the 40.40 update on May 14 and the trailer immediately after.
Stormind Games has rolled out the story trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy, the third and final chapter of its Italian survival-horror trilogy. The trailer reveals Lady Dimitrescu voice actor Maggie Robertson as the title villain, brings Akira Yamaoka onto the score, sets the action in a Sicilian villa 14 months after six girls vanished, and pulls in Cissy Jones to round out the cast.
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.
PlayWay's long-running Car Mechanic Simulator franchise lands on phones today with Car Mechanic Simulator - PMC, a free-to-play, touch-built spinoff that hands players a workshop, a diagnostic scanner, and a wallet's worth of project cars. iOS and Android are getting it simultaneously on May 16, with in-app purchases sitting alongside ad-supported progression rather than gating the core repair loop.
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.