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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival Pries Open the Genesis Configuration in a New Gameplay Trailer - Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games Show Off the Puzzle Box's Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, and Hell Chains Combat Verbs as Doug Bradley's Pinhead Looms Over a Fall 2026 PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S Launch Window
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival Pries Open the Genesis Configuration in a New Gameplay Trailer - Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games Show Off the Puzzle Box's Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, and Hell Chains Combat Verbs as Doug Bradley's Pinhead Looms Over a Fall 2026 PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S Launch Window

Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games dropped a new gameplay trailer for Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival on May 20, 2026, focused entirely on the Genesis Configuration - the puzzle box that powers protagonist Aidan's combat and Labyrinth manipulation. The trailer shows off three named abilities (Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis, and Hell Chains), Doug Bradley returns to voice Pinhead, and Saber is targeting a Fall 2026 launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Savara's Console Launch Trailer Hits PS5 and Xbox - Doryah Games and Ankama's Colorful Action Roguelite Crosses From Steam to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on May 20, One Year After Its PC Debut, and the New Trailer Leans Into the Warrior God's Festival Loop That Made the PC Version a Word-of-Mouth Hit
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Savara's Console Launch Trailer Hits PS5 and Xbox - Doryah Games and Ankama's Colorful Action Roguelite Crosses From Steam to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on May 20, One Year After Its PC Debut, and the New Trailer Leans Into the Warrior God's Festival Loop That Made the PC Version a Word-of-Mouth Hit

Ankama Games and Doryah Games have brought Savara to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S as of May 20, 2026 - one year after the colorful action roguelite first launched on Steam. The new launch trailer leans into the warrior god festival loop that built the PC version's word-of-mouth following. The console builds run at 4K/60 on PS5 and Xbox Series X, with full DualSense support and Ankama-account cross-progression carrying meta state over from PC.

ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies Goes Live on PC Today - ZA/UM's First Game Since Disco Elysium Lands at $39.99 on Steam, Epic, and GOG With Full English Voice Over, Steam Deck Verified, and a PS5 Release Window Still Open for Later 2026
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ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies Goes Live on PC Today - ZA/UM's First Game Since Disco Elysium Lands at $39.99 on Steam, Epic, and GOG With Full English Voice Over, Steam Deck Verified, and a PS5 Release Window Still Open for Later 2026

ZA/UM's first game since Disco Elysium is finally out. ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies launched on Steam, Epic, and GOG today at $39.99, Steam Deck Verified, with a PS5 release still on the board for later in 2026. The espionage RPG follows Hershel Wilk (alias CASCADE), a tormented operant pulled back into the field five years after the failed operation that haunts him - and ZA/UM is explicit that this is a new IP, not a Disco Elysium sequel.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II Goes Live During Warhammer Skulls 2026 - Bulwark Studios' Sequel Makes Both the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons Fully Playable, $39.99 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and Anchors the 10th-Anniversary Skulls Broadcast Hosted by Alanah Pearce
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II Goes Live During Warhammer Skulls 2026 - Bulwark Studios' Sequel Makes Both the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons Fully Playable, $39.99 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and Anchors the 10th-Anniversary Skulls Broadcast Hosted by Alanah Pearce

Bulwark Studios' Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II launched today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99, anchoring the 10th-anniversary Warhammer Skulls 2026 broadcast hosted by Alanah Pearce. Both the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons are fully playable this time, four distinct leaders shape each faction, and early PC reviews call out a locked 60 FPS at 4K with no patch-day fires - rare for a 2026 Warhammer 40K launch.

Thick as Thieves Goes Live on Steam Today - Warren Spector and Paul Neurath's OtherSide Ships Its Co-op Stealth-Heist Debut for $4.99 With 16 Contracts, Two Maps, and Six Pieces of Gear, an Introductory Campaign Designed to Grow Over Time Rather Than Hold Back for a $70 Release Window
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Thick as Thieves Goes Live on Steam Today - Warren Spector and Paul Neurath's OtherSide Ships Its Co-op Stealth-Heist Debut for $4.99 With 16 Contracts, Two Maps, and Six Pieces of Gear, an Introductory Campaign Designed to Grow Over Time Rather Than Hold Back for a $70 Release Window

OtherSide Entertainment's long-gestating immersive-sim heist game arrives on Steam for $4.99 today, six months after the studio dropped its planned PvPvE direction for solo and two-player co-op infiltration runs through alternate-1910s Kilcairn. The launch package: 16 contracts, two replayable maps, six gear pieces, dynamic stealth in the Thief/Deus Ex tradition, and a deliberately small entry price that the studio plans to grow with future content drops rather than a single $70 box.

Ubisoft Has Actually Buried $500,000 in the Caribbean for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Gold & Crystal Hunt Sets 15 Puzzles, an Encrypted Bottle, and a Five-Year Dig That Opens November 9
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Ubisoft Has Actually Buried $500,000 in the Caribbean for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced - Gold & Crystal Hunt Sets 15 Puzzles, an Encrypted Bottle, and a Five-Year Dig That Opens November 9

Ubisoft and Unsolved Hunts have buried a real chest in the Caribbean to mark the July 9 launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. Gold & Crystal opens November 9, packs 15 puzzles and an encrypted bottle behind a $39.99 entry, and is designed to take two to five years for someone to crack.

Annapurna Calls Mixtape Delisting Rumors 'a Lie' - Beethoven & Dinosaur Confirms All 28 Songs Are Locked in Perpetuity, So the Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, and Iggy Pop Aren't Going Anywhere
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Annapurna Calls Mixtape Delisting Rumors 'a Lie' - Beethoven & Dinosaur Confirms All 28 Songs Are Locked in Perpetuity, So the Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, and Iggy Pop Aren't Going Anywhere

Annapurna Interactive shut down rumors that Mixtape would be delisted over expiring music rights, confirming all 28 licensed tracks are paid in perpetuity. Creative director Johnny Galvatron told Kotaku the team paid extra at signing so the soundtrack - Joy Division, Iggy Pop, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Cure, and more - can never lapse.

Xbox Game Pass May 2026 Wave 1 Is Fully Live - Subnautica 2, Mixtape, Outbound, Black Jacket, Call of the Elder Gods, and Elite Dangerous Are All In the Library Right Now Ahead of Forza Horizon 6 on May 19Game Pass
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Xbox Game Pass May 2026 Wave 1 Is Fully Live - Subnautica 2, Mixtape, Outbound, Black Jacket, Call of the Elder Gods, and Elite Dangerous Are All In the Library Right Now Ahead of Forza Horizon 6 on May 19

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.

LEGO 2K Drive Gets Delisted on Every Digital Storefront May 19 - 2K Quietly Pulls Visual Concepts' Open-World Racer After Exactly Three Years, With Online Servers Locked to Close on May 31, 2027
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LEGO 2K Drive Gets Delisted on Every Digital Storefront May 19 - 2K Quietly Pulls Visual Concepts' Open-World Racer After Exactly Three Years, With Online Servers Locked to Close on May 31, 2027

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.

Marvel Rivals Season 8 Launches With Devil Dinosaur Stomping Into the Vanguard Roster - NetEase's Sins of Alchemax Update Drops Twitch Drops, a Cyclops Tease, and the First Prehistoric Bruiser in the Hero Shooter
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Marvel Rivals Season 8 Launches With Devil Dinosaur Stomping Into the Vanguard Roster - NetEase's Sins of Alchemax Update Drops Twitch Drops, a Cyclops Tease, and the First Prehistoric Bruiser in the Hero Shooter

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.

AMD's FSR Redstone Is the Biggest Upscaling Reset in Three Years — ML-Powered Upscaling, Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration, and Neural Radiance Caching All Rolled Into One RDNA 4-Exclusive Stack With 200+ Games Already Onboard
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AMD's FSR Redstone Is the Biggest Upscaling Reset in Three Years — ML-Powered Upscaling, Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration, and Neural Radiance Caching All Rolled Into One RDNA 4-Exclusive Stack With 200+ Games Already Onboard

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.

Subnautica 2 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the YearGame Pass
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Subnautica 2 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the Year

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.

Crimson Desert Gets Yet Another Major Patch - Pearl Abyss Drops Version 1.06.01 Hotfix Just One Day After 1.06.00 to Unblock the Vault of Vengeance Abyss, While Owning Up to an Accidental Damiane Armor Bug
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Crimson Desert Gets Yet Another Major Patch - Pearl Abyss Drops Version 1.06.01 Hotfix Just One Day After 1.06.00 to Unblock the Vault of Vengeance Abyss, While Owning Up to an Accidental Damiane Armor Bug

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.

Team17 Locks Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to a June 18 Launch Across PS5, Xbox, and PC With a Free Open Beta Weekend May 29 to June 1 and Era-Specific 50v50 Jungle Warfare
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Team17 Locks Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to a June 18 Launch Across PS5, Xbox, and PC With a Free Open Beta Weekend May 29 to June 1 and Era-Specific 50v50 Jungle Warfare

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 Just Announced Deadzone Rogue 2 With a June 2026 PC Demo — The Earth-Set Roguelite FPS Sequel Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 After the Original Cleared 750K Sales
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Prophecy Games Just Announced Deadzone Rogue 2 With a June 2026 PC Demo — The Earth-Set Roguelite FPS Sequel Lands on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 After the Original Cleared 750K Sales

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.

Froggy Hates Snow Drops Its Launch Trailer as Digital Bandidos' Snowguelike Roguelite Lands on PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Steam at .99
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Froggy Hates Snow Drops Its Launch Trailer as Digital Bandidos' Snowguelike Roguelite Lands on PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Steam at .99

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.

MercurySteam's Blades of Fire Hits Steam Today With a Free Version 2.0 Drop — New Game Plus, a Brutal Titanium Difficulty, Photo Mode, and a Brand New Crafting Layer Across Every Platform
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MercurySteam's Blades of Fire Hits Steam Today With a Free Version 2.0 Drop — New Game Plus, a Brutal Titanium Difficulty, Photo Mode, and a Brand New Crafting Layer Across Every Platform

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.

Black Desert's May 14 Patch Drops 207 Updates, a Top-to-Bottom Warrior Awakening Rework, and the Star of Nostos Campsite Teleport Lifeskillers Have Been Begging For
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Black Desert's May 14 Patch Drops 207 Updates, a Top-to-Bottom Warrior Awakening Rework, and the Star of Nostos Campsite Teleport Lifeskillers Have Been Begging For

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.

Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch
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Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch

Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks have shipped the cross-play patch that's been the most-requested feature since Absolum launched in October 2025, finally letting all four console and PC versions of the rogue-lite beat 'em up share lobbies for two-player online co-op.

Devolver and Croteam Just Announced The Talos Principle 3 as the Grand Finale of the Trilogy
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Devolver and Croteam Just Announced The Talos Principle 3 as the Grand Finale of the Trilogy

Devolver Digital and Croteam unveiled The Talos Principle 3 today as the final chapter of their philosophical puzzle trilogy, launching on PlayStation 5 and PC in 2027 with a cosmic journey across a dozen worlds inside a reality-bending space called the Anomaly.

007 First Light Has Officially Gone Gold Ahead of Its May 27 Launch
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007 First Light Has Officially Gone Gold Ahead of Its May 27 Launch

IO Interactive's young James Bond origin story 007 First Light has gone gold, with the developer confirming the May 27 launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam is locked in. PC gets full path tracing, PS5 Pro gets a bespoke enhanced mode, and Switch 2 follows in Q3.

Outbound Just Hit Game Pass Day One — Square Glade Games' Camper Van Cozy Open World Goes Live on PC and Xbox May 11, With PS5 and Switch a Three-Day Wait BehindGame Pass
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Outbound Just Hit Game Pass Day One — Square Glade Games' Camper Van Cozy Open World Goes Live on PC and Xbox May 11, With PS5 and Switch a Three-Day Wait Behind

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 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.

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.

Capcom Just Shadow-Dropped Leon Must Die Forever for Resident Evil Requiem — A Free Roguelike Mode That Sends Leon Kennedy Through Wrenwood, the Rehab Ward, and Raccoon City Central Camp Until the Timer Kills Him
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Capcom Just Shadow-Dropped Leon Must Die Forever for Resident Evil Requiem — A Free Roguelike Mode That Sends Leon Kennedy Through Wrenwood, the Rehab Ward, and Raccoon City Central Camp Until the Timer Kills Him

Capcom shadow-dropped a free Resident Evil Requiem update on May 8 adding Leon Must Die Forever — a roguelike Extra Games mode starring Leon S. Kennedy. Five difficulty ranks, randomized routes through Wrenwood, the Rehab Ward, and Raccoon City Central Camp, an Ability Enhancer system with bronze/silver/gold perks, star-ranked weapon drops from Red and Blue enemies, and a Special Content shop for permanent unlocks. PS5, Xbox Series, PC, and Switch 2.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Is Real — Cold Iron and Daybreak Just Confirmed Four-Player Co-Op, a Specialist Class You Custom-Build From Every Other Class, and a Summer 2026 Drop on PS5, Xbox, and PC
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Is Real — Cold Iron and Daybreak Just Confirmed Four-Player Co-Op, a Specialist Class You Custom-Build From Every Other Class, and a Summer 2026 Drop on PS5, Xbox, and PC

Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak just announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 with an IGN-exclusive reveal trailer on May 7, confirming Summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC with full crossplay. The sequel jumps from three-player to four-player co-op, adds a customizable Specialist class that mixes major and minor abilities from every other class, and ships with dedicated Horde maps at launch.

Teyon's NACON Connect Dev Diary Just Sold the Hardest Pitch Yet for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish — A First-Person Open New York Where Talking a Vampire Down Beats Shooting It
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Teyon's NACON Connect Dev Diary Just Sold the Hardest Pitch Yet for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish — A First-Person Open New York Where Talking a Vampire Down Beats Shooting It

Teyon used NACON Connect 2026 on May 7 to drop a Pillars of the Hunt dev diary for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish. The first-person, single-player action-RPG sets you loose in an open New York where you can finish missions with stealth, gunplay, or a non-lethal Persuasion-and-Investigation build that talks vampires down instead of shooting them. Summer 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, with Game Pass day one.

Forza Horizon 6 Pre-Load Goes Live at 134 GB on Xbox and 146 GB on PC — And It Just Vaulted to #1 on Steam's May WishlistGame Pass
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Forza Horizon 6 Pre-Load Goes Live at 134 GB on Xbox and 146 GB on PC — And It Just Vaulted to #1 on Steam's May Wishlist

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.

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core Drills Into Early Access on May 20 — Five New Classes and a Full Roguelite Overhaul
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Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core Drills Into Early Access on May 20 — Five New Classes and a Full Roguelite Overhaul

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into Early Access on May 20 with five new classes, procedurally generated caves, and terrifying new alien species — a full roguelite reinvention of the co-op mining franchise.

Hogwarts Legacy Is Free on the Epic Games Store Right Now — But the Clock Runs Out Today
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Hogwarts Legacy Is Free on the Epic Games Store Right Now — But the Clock Runs Out Today

Hogwarts Legacy is free on the Epic Games Store until May 3. Claim the $60 open-world wizarding RPG for nothing — once it's in your library, it's yours to keep forever.

Subnautica 2 Hits Early Access on May 14 — Four-Player Co-Op Dives Into Steam's Most Wishlisted Game
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Subnautica 2 Hits Early Access on May 14 — Four-Player Co-Op Dives Into Steam's Most Wishlisted Game

Subnautica 2 enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op, a brand-new alien ocean world, and a $29.99 price tag — after surviving one of gaming's messiest developer-publisher disputes.

The Outer Worlds Base Edition Goes Dark on May 27 — Obsidian Quietly Promoted Spacer's Choice to the Definitive Cut
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The Outer Worlds Base Edition Goes Dark on May 27 — Obsidian Quietly Promoted Spacer's Choice to the Definitive Cut

On May 27 the original Outer Worlds is delisted from Steam, GOG, Epic, and the Microsoft Store. Obsidian is patching the much-hated Spacer's Choice Edition into the definitive version and pushing it to existing owners for free, with grenades, DLSS 3, and a corrected lighting pass arriving the same day.

Blizzard Just Disabled Diablo 4's 'Limitless Rage' Aspect After Barbarians Hit Quadrillions of Damage in a Single Hit
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Blizzard Just Disabled Diablo 4's 'Limitless Rage' Aspect After Barbarians Hit Quadrillions of Damage in a Single Hit

Blizzard has temporarily disabled the Limitless Rage barbarian aspect in Diablo 4 after players combined it with Melted Heart of Selig and Endurant Faith to deal quadrillions of damage in a single hit. The community manager's response was unusually fast — and surprisingly forgiving.

Creative Assembly Just Confirmed Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Will Let You Blow Up Cover — And It Could Reshape the Entire Series
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Creative Assembly Just Confirmed Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Will Let You Blow Up Cover — And It Could Reshape the Entire Series

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will feature heavy destructible terrain, with forests, walls, and fortifications all destroyable via bombardment. Battle product owner Dave Petry walked through the system on the May 1 Show & Tell stream — and explained why cover-cracking ordnance changes the rhythm of every battle in the 40K universe.

Two Weeks From Launch, Forza Horizon 6 Drops Its Final Tokyo Showcase — Here's Everything Playground Games Has Confirmed About the Series' Most Vertical Map Ever
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Two Weeks From Launch, Forza Horizon 6 Drops Its Final Tokyo Showcase — Here's Everything Playground Games Has Confirmed About the Series' Most Vertical Map Ever

Forza Horizon 6 launches May 19 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and Playground Games has used the final stretch to detail Tokyo City, the Snowy Alps, the new 540-degree steering model, the Bracelet progression system, and seamless races. Here's the full breakdown of what's confirmed two weeks out.

Coffee Talk Tokyo Pours Its First Late-Night Brew on May 21 — Toge Productions Returns With Latte Stencils, Lo-Fi Jazz, and a Whole New Cast of Tired Souls
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Coffee Talk Tokyo Pours Its First Late-Night Brew on May 21 — Toge Productions Returns With Latte Stencils, Lo-Fi Jazz, and a Whole New Cast of Tired Souls

Toge Productions' cozy late-night cafe series returns May 21 with a new Tokyo setting, a 20-character cast, cold drinks, latte-art stencils, and a Tomodachill social-feed system that feeds back into dialogue. Andrew Jeremy is back on soundtrack duty, leaning into city pop.

Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Reviews Land at 84 on Metacritic — Critics Call It the Best Diablo Expansion in Years
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Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Reviews Land at 84 on Metacritic — Critics Call It the Best Diablo Expansion in Years

Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred earns an 84 on Metacritic with critics praising the new Warlock class, the Mephisto campaign finale, and sweeping endgame improvements.

INDUSTRIA 2 Launches Tomorrow — Bleakmill's Narrative FPS Returns to a Hostile Parallel Dimension
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INDUSTRIA 2 Launches Tomorrow — Bleakmill's Narrative FPS Returns to a Hostile Parallel Dimension

INDUSTRIA 2 launches tomorrow on PC. Bleakmill's atmospheric FPS sequel returns to a parallel dimension consumed by a hostile AI, with overhauled gunplay, upgradeable weapons, and a 4-6 hour narrative pitched as precision over scale.

Aphelion Crash-Lands April 28 — Don’t Nod’s Sci-Fi Survival Adventure Hits Game Pass Day OneGame Pass
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Aphelion Crash-Lands April 28 — Don’t Nod’s Sci-Fi Survival Adventure Hits Game Pass Day One

Don’t Nod’s Aphelion launches April 28 as a day-one Game Pass title, sending astronaut Ariane to the frozen planet Persephone in a sci-fi adventure blending exploration, stealth, and shifting realities.

Masters of Albion Launches in Early Access Today as Peter Molyneux's 22cans Returns to the God Game With a Build-by-Day, Defend-by-Night Hook
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Masters of Albion Launches in Early Access Today as Peter Molyneux's 22cans Returns to the God Game With a Build-by-Day, Defend-by-Night Hook

Peter Molyneux and 22cans' ambitious new god game Masters of Albion hits Steam Early Access today at $24.99. The genre-blending project combines city-building, simulation, and action RPG in a Build by Day, Defend by Night loop.

Tides of Tomorrow Launches Today as DigixArt's Plasticpunk Adventure Ties Player Choices Together Across the Community With Online Story-Link
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Tides of Tomorrow Launches Today as DigixArt's Plasticpunk Adventure Ties Player Choices Together Across the Community With Online Story-Link

From the creators of Road 96, Tides of Tomorrow launches today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The plasticpunk narrative adventure uses a novel Online Story-Link system that weaves player choices together across the community.

REPLACED Finally Arrives After Years of Delays — A Cyberpunk Pixel-Art Platformer That Stuns the Eyes Even When It StumblesGame Pass
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REPLACED Finally Arrives After Years of Delays — A Cyberpunk Pixel-Art Platformer That Stuns the Eyes Even When It Stumbles

REPLACED, the long-delayed cyberpunk 2.5D platformer from Sad Cat Studios, has finally launched on PC and Xbox Series X|S with stunning pixel art and fluid combat, though auto-save issues and minor technical bugs keep it from reaching its full potential.

Metro 2039 Finally Gets an April 16 Reveal — 4A Games Breaks Five Years of Silence
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Metro 2039 Finally Gets an April 16 Reveal — 4A Games Breaks Five Years of Silence

After seven years since Metro Exodus, 4A Games has confirmed a digital presentation on April 16 for the fourth mainline Metro game, Metro 2039, continuing Artyom's story with a darker, anti-war tone.

Final Fantasy XIV Quietly Restores Online Store Gifting After Four Years — Here's What You Can Send Now
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Final Fantasy XIV Quietly Restores Online Store Gifting After Four Years — Here's What You Can Send Now

Square Enix restored Final Fantasy XIV's Online Store gifting feature on April 2, 2026, after four years of restrictions. Mounts, minions, emotes, and four other categories can now be gifted to friends, with a new three-day friends-list cooldown to prevent fraud.

Don't Starve Elsewhere Revealed: Klei Returns to Survival Crafting With Magic, Jumping, and Co-op Layered Worlds
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Don't Starve Elsewhere Revealed: Klei Returns to Survival Crafting With Magic, Jumping, and Co-op Layered Worlds

Klei Entertainment has announced Don't Starve Elsewhere, the first new mainline Don't Starve game since 2016. Revealed at the Triple-i Initiative 2026 showcase, it adds magic, a jump button, and a multi-layered vertical world to the studio's signature dark survival formula.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed

Bitmap Bureau and Mattel team up for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, a 2D arcade brawler launching April 28 with three playable heroes, 12 stages across Eternia, and two-player local co-op.

Replaced Brings Its Gorgeous Cyberpunk Pixel Art to Xbox and PC on April 14 With Day-One Game PassGame Pass
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Replaced Brings Its Gorgeous Cyberpunk Pixel Art to Xbox and PC on April 14 With Day-One Game Pass

Sad Cat Studios' long-awaited cyberpunk 2.5D platformer Replaced launches April 14 on Xbox and PC with day-one Game Pass availability, bringing over 850,000 wishlists worth of hype to its pixel-art vision of an alternate 1980s America.

Slay the Spire 2 Teases Three New Modes While Weathering a Storm of Negative Reviews
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Slay the Spire 2 Teases Three New Modes While Weathering a Storm of Negative Reviews

Mega Crit reveals plans for competitive, short-run, and multiplayer modes for Slay the Spire 2, even as the Early Access title weathers nearly 10,000 negative Steam reviews over controversial balance changes.

Invincible VS Throws Down With an Open Beta April 9 Ahead of Its April 30 Launch
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Invincible VS Throws Down With an Open Beta April 9 Ahead of Its April 30 Launch

The Invincible universe gets a Marvel vs. Capcom-style 3v3 tag fighter from Quarter Up, with an open beta running April 9-11 on PS5 and Xbox before its full April 30 launch with 18+ characters.

Mouse: P.I. For Hire Channels 1930s Cartoon Noir Into a Jazz-Fueled FPS on April 16
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Mouse: P.I. For Hire Channels 1930s Cartoon Noir Into a Jazz-Fueled FPS on April 16

Fumi Games’ hand-drawn rubber hose FPS puts players in a 1930s cartoon noir world as detective Jack Pepper, voiced by Troy Baker, blending investigation puzzles with explosive gunplay when it launches April 16.

GTA 6 Console Launch Locked for November — PC Release Still Has No Date
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GTA 6 Console Launch Locked for November — PC Release Still Has No Date

GTA 6 is confirmed for a November 2026 console launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but Rockstar has yet to set a date for the PC version.