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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.