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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW May update brings 16 new games including day-one streaming for Forza Horizon 6 and 007: First Light, expands RTX 5080 Blackwell architecture access across nearly 4,000 games with DLSS 4 and Reflex, and celebrates Firaxis' 30th anniversary with classic strategy titles.
Radical Fish Games launches Alabaster Dawn in Steam Early Access on May 7 — a top-down action RPG from the CrossCode creators featuring DMC-inspired combat with four elements and eight weapon types, a world that transforms as you play, and ten hours of content in the initial build.
Age of Empires IV's Yue Fei's Legacy expansion launches May 7 with an 8-mission campaign following the legendary Song Dynasty general, a new playable Jin Dynasty civilization with mounted villagers and mobile economy, four new ranked maps, and two new biomes.
Bandai Namco unveiled Kunimitsu Tekken 8 gameplay at Evo Japan 2026 — the kunai-wielding ninja launches May 27 for Season 3 Pass holders, kicking off a roadmap that includes Bob in Summer and Roger Jr. in Autumn.
Wax Heads, the cozy-punk record store sim from Patattie Games, launches May 5 on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch with 80+ in-game records, 30+ original songs, and 60+ hand-drawn customers.
Gambonanza, the chess roguelike with 150+ rule-bending Gambits, launched globally May 1 on Steam, iOS, and Android — a solo-dev project that turned a 170,000-strong Next Fest demo into a polished premium release.
Dead as Disco hits Early Access on May 5 with rhythm-synced combat, 30+ tracks, and a My Music mode that turns any song into a boss fight — after a demo that reached 1.2 million players.
Farming Simulator 26 launches May 19 on iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch — pointedly skipping PC and current-gen consoles. GIANTS shipped full feature parity with FS25's desktop build, plus a new Challenge System designed specifically for phone session design.
Take-Two's Q4 earnings call locks in for May 21, and Rockstar's pattern of dropping major GTA marketing beats days before investor events makes Trailer 3 between May 13–20 the easiest prediction in gaming. Pre-orders may flip on the same day.
Supermassive's Directive 8020 swaps slasher tropes for The Thing-style space horror on May 12 — Lashana Lynch leads an eight-crew Cassiopeia as a real-time roaming alien hunts the ship and a new rewind mechanic breaks Dark Pictures' permanent-choice rule.
Forza Horizon 6's pre-load is live at 134.86 GB on Xbox and 146.4 GB on PC — the largest Horizon install ever — as the game claims #1 on Steam's May wishlist with 500K pre-orders booked ahead of its May 19 launch.
Dragon Quest Smash/Grow brings roguelite dungeon runs and four-player co-op to phones in a free-to-play package that finally gives the franchise a genuine mobile identity.