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Bethesda veteran Pete Hines exits after Microsoft reshuffle
Pete Hines, Bethesda’s longtime vice‑president of marketing and public relations, left the studio in 2023 following Microsoft’s 2020 acquisition. He said he stayed to protect the studio’s efficient development culture but grew powerless as Microsoft restructured the Xbox hierarchy, ultimately departing after the Starfield launch.
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By the numbers: PlayVS acquires LeagueSpot
The VAS Convergence Grip, dubbed the Bullet Deviation Foregrip, arrives in Warzone Season 3 as a Battle Pass unlock. It delivers significant vertical recoil stabilization and first‑two‑shot accuracy improvements across most weapons. The attachment is especially valuable for assault rifles, LMGs, and harder‑to‑control SMGs. While horizontal recoil gains are modest, the foregrip quickly becomes a staple for competitive loadouts.
Camelot Unchained has moved into Early Access, accompanied by a new "Unchaining Camelot" video that explains how each realm’s identity drives every game system. The three realms—Vikings, Arthurians, and a third—each host six classes and three races, shaping player roles...
Madfinger Games' extraction shooter Gray Zone Warfare saw a dramatic resurgence after the March‑released Spearhead update, with daily active players climbing to 126,600 and monthly peaks up 1,076%. The update introduced over 100 new tasks, 25 fresh locations, eight weapons,...
Team Beef’s Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR – Brutal Edition arrives on PlayStation VR2 on April 9, delivering a rebuilt shooter tailored for virtual reality. The update adds slide mechanics, blade‑dash attacks, dual‑wielding, hand‑mounted UI, and physical journal interactions, sharpening...
Square Enix confirmed it is evaluating a PC version of its new fighting RPG, Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, after an interview with Siliconera. The title currently launches exclusively on iOS and Android, featuring portrait‑mode gameplay. While no release schedule or...
Lucas Pope, the indie auteur behind Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn, announced he will no longer publicize in‑progress ideas out of fear they could be harvested by AI or competitors. He remains committed to solo development, handling...
KLabGames and gumi have announced My Hero Academia: United Survival, a free‑to‑play smartphone spinoff of the popular anime series. The game will launch on iOS and Android later this year for a global audience, with China excluded from the initial...
The article lists ten habits that can turn Stardew Valley from a soothing sandbox into a source of stress, including constant comparison, aggressive min‑maxing, over‑expansion, and hoarding. It recommends focusing on a single specialty, keeping the farm modest, embracing slow‑burn...
Activision’s Black Ops 7 season‑three update nerfed the Swordfish A1 marksman rifle, lowering its damage and recoil. Despite these changes, many players argue the weapon still delivers one‑burst kills and remains overly dominant. Community chatter also highlights the Deadeye Drone as another...
Radiant: Guardians of Light, originally released on PC, has launched on iOS and Android, expanding its reach to mobile gamers. The game offers a co‑op beat‑em‑up experience with manual combat, RPG progression, and a roguelite trial mode that randomizes levels...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an unscripted two‑hour keynote at GTC 2026, unveiling more than a dozen AI‑focused gaming announcements. The event in San Jose attracted over 30,000 attendees, underscoring the growing appetite for AI‑driven technology in entertainment. Huang highlighted...
Composer Yuzo Koshiro announced that the opening and ending theme songs of the 2005 crossover RPG Namco X Capcom will be released on major digital streaming platforms on April 11. The tracks – “Subarashiki Shin Sekai” and “Itsuka Kitto, Tsuki no Shita de” – will use the original 48 kHz/24‑bit master sources,...
Lucy Blundell, a gray‑ace indie developer, unveiled Ace & Aro: Heart‑to‑Heart on International Asexuality Day. The PC visual novel mimics a meetup for asexual and aromantic people, offering a two‑hour slice‑of‑life experience without traditional romance goals. By integrating barcade minigames and optional...
Blizzard introduced a hidden fourth phase to L'ura, the new raid boss in World of Warcraft's Midnight Falls, catching top guilds off guard during the Race to World First. The company also nerfed the boss's Phase 1 Heaven's Glaives attack, slowing...
Sony announced new MSRPs for the PS5 family on April 2, with the digital edition jumping to $600, the disc‑drive model to $650 and the PS5 Pro to $900. The hikes reflect soaring component costs and suggest the current console generation will...
In March 2026 the TrueAchievements community added 13 new Xbox walkthroughs, expanding its library of achievement guides. The most notable entry is a comprehensive walkthrough for the sprawling RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which awards 8,646 TrueAchievement points. Walkthroughs span a range of genres—from...
Firestar73 won the 2026 Pokémon Orlando Regional Championships but was stripped of the title after judges deemed his post‑match celebration unsportsmanlike. The celebration involved removing headphones, standing, and punching the air before shaking hands. Officials reversed the result, awarding the...
Steam is developing a feature that predicts a PC's frames‑per‑second output for any game before purchase. The tool will draw on Valve's telemetry, which already collects anonymous hardware specs and in‑game FPS data from millions of users. By matching a...
Direct‑to‑consumer (D2C) sales continued to set new records in Q4 2025, with Playtika reporting $250.1 million, representing 36.8% of its quarterly revenue and a 43.2% year‑over‑year increase. Modern Times Group saw its D2C contribution rise to 32% of total revenue, up...
Ubisoft released Patch 1.02.00 for Crimson Desert, extending 4K upscaling to the Xbox Series X Performance Mode. Previously limited to Quality and Balanced modes, the update now upscales the native 1080p output to 4K while preserving the target 60 FPS frame rate. Early...
Xbox Game Pass is showcasing three low‑commitment, cozy titles—Minami Lane, Easy Delivery Co., and Unpacking—perfect for an Easter break. Each game can be finished in under eight hours and carries modest achievement hurdles, making them ideal for casual play. The...
Electronic Arts’ Respawn has abruptly removed Storm Point from Apex Legends’ map rotation just two weeks after its re‑introduction, citing crashes on certain devices. The temporary fix replaces the map with a daytime version of E‑District across all game modes while...
Roblox’s Bridger Western has introduced JoJo‑style Stands, adding a high‑risk, high‑reward power tier to the western‑themed RPG. Players can obtain Stands via rare Stand Arrows, which carry a 50% chance of instant character death, or safer Stand Shards with a...
SonicFox released the final tier list for 2XKO ahead of the April 7, 2026 addition of Akali as the game’s 13th champion. Despite being nerfed in recent patches, Ekko remains the top‑ranked character, while Ahri, Teemo, Illaoi and Yasuo are identified as...
Felice Entertainment announced that the full version of Mochiko The Samurai will launch on PC via Steam on April 10, following an Early Access debut on March 9. The action‑RPG blends blade‑and‑magic combat, features a full Japanese anime voice cast,...
Blizzard Entertainment announced that the Diablo 4 "Lord of Hatred" expansion launches on April 28, 2026, introducing the new Skovos island chain and concluding the Age of Hatred saga. The update adds a Warlock class and lets pre‑order customers start with a...
Level‑5 will host its Vision 2026 livestream on Friday, April 10, 2026, promising a surprise slate of upcoming titles. The studio’s most anticipated project, the detective RPG DECAPOLICE, which was delayed to 2026, could finally be unveiled. Recent releases include Fantasy Life i: The...
The mobile‑gaming job market is buzzing with senior hires and promotions across leading publishers. Scopely added ex‑Rovio product manager Anastasia Kuprina and former Gameloft manager Aravind Iyengar, while Google Play brought in former Netflix producer John Faciane and appointed Jamie...
Illumination and Nintendo’s co‑produced Super Mario Galaxy Movie earned $372.5 million worldwide in its debut, the strongest opening of any studio film this year. The $110 million‑budget sequel drew massive family crowds despite a 40% Rotten Tomatoes score, highlighting the commercial pull...
A former Nintendo sales executive warned that the upcoming Switch 2 will likely see its retail price rise, citing global RAM and storage shortages, inflation and tariff pressures that are already driving up console costs. Nintendo is attempting to soften the...
Heartopia has marked 30 million downloads with the launch of the Whimsical Tea Party event, introducing new outfits, furniture sets, and a Cheshire Cat pet costume. The update also slashes prices for original pet outfits by up to 66.7% and reduces...
The Artemis II lunar flyby, launched on April 1, ignited a surge in interest for the space‑simulation game Kerbal Space Programme (KSP). Steam concurrent players jumped from a steady 3,000‑4,000 to a peak of 11,933 on April 5, the highest level since the...
Noxious is a 2D isometric MMORPG built on the Phaser HTML5 engine where every player shares a single, server‑wide world state. The game features ten sequential floors that remain locked until the entire community clears the preceding level, making progress...
The latest sales data shows a robust launch period for several high‑profile titles. Pearl Abyss’s Crimson Desert moved over 4 million units in just 13 days, prompting a full recovery of its stock price. Bungie’s Marathon logged 1.2 million copies and roughly...
LVL Zero, India’s first dedicated gaming incubator, announced its inaugural cohort of ten game startups. The program is financially backed by Mixi Global Investments, Nazara Technologies, and ChimeraVC. Selected companies span mobile, PC, and console titles, reflecting the diversity of...
ASUS unveiled the ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMS, a 34‑inch ultrawide QD‑OLED gaming monitor that supports up to 280 Hz refresh and a 0.03 ms response time. The display adds a proprietary BlackShield Film that improves scratch resistance by roughly 2.5 times and deepens...
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the visionary behind the *Kunio‑kun* and *Double Dragon* series, died on April 2, 2026 at age 64, as confirmed by his son on Twitter. Kishimoto launched his career at Data East, contributing to titles like *Cobra Command* and *Road Blaster*, before moving to Technos Japan...
PhilWeb Corp. has signed a partnership with Travellers International Hotel Group to serve as the system administrator for Newport World Resorts' online gaming platform, NWRPlay. The agreement tasks PhilWeb with providing the underlying technology, system support, content integration, and marketing...
Intel abruptly discontinued its official XeSS plugin for the Unity game engine, removing support for frame generation, temporal super‑sampling, and antialiasing. This follows the release of Intel's XeSS 3.0 SDK only a month earlier, which introduced multi‑frame generation and shared...
The classic 1911 pistol returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 3, offering the highest damage per shot among handguns. It is not part of the Battle Pass but unlocks through completing six Season 3 weekly challenges across any...
So the new Kirby Air Ride is really a remake of the old GameCube one.
State of Decay 3 studio head Phillip Holt recently confirmed the 2020 reveal trailer ahead of the Xbox Series X/S launch was basically fake. Kotaku reported back in 2022 that developers were caught off guard by it, including the zombie...
Puzzle games have surged beyond the pandemic, becoming a daily habit for many Americans. New York Times app users now spend more time on Wordle‑style challenges than on news articles, while quiz‑book sales jumped 24% last year. Neuroscience links the dopamine hit...
Practice should always be harder the actual game. What game are you playing, and how hard are you practicing?
Saudi Arabia's Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC) increased its stake in Capcom from 5.03% (revealed last month) to now 6.04%, This was disclosed in a report to regulators today here in Japan (where the stock market just closed for Monday).
Monolith Soft detailed its deep involvement in Nintendo’s *The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom*, revealing design choices from Ganondorf’s final look to the iconic Horriblins. The studio collaborated closely with Nintendo on a weapon‑combination system that yields more...
cyberpunk with path tracing is next level. i’m gonna just roll a fresh v and do it all over again
Nintendo announced the Fire Emblem Heroes "Unforgettable" summoning event, slated for release on April 7, 2026. The event will feature a roster of Young Special Heroes and introduce new inheritable skill restrictions. Additionally, the 5★ hero Eliwood: Pledged Friend will...
Composer Brian Tyler revealed he wrote most of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie score while recuperating in a hospital bed after suffering a double subarachnoid brain hemorrhage in August 2025. Despite the life‑threatening injury, he continued work to meet the...
World of Warcraft’s Mythic Plus dungeons have spawned a booming third‑party boost market, where skilled players offer services that fast‑track leveling, secure high‑level gear, improve PvP ratings, and earn achievements. Boost providers package power‑leveling, dungeon runs, and personalized support, promising...
