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A 14-person indie studio just shipped a sustainability-flavored road-trip RPG to Game Pass Ultimate. Build your own house on wheels, source power from sun, wind, or water, and bring three friends along — Subnautica 2's three-day head start was no accident.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.