Today's Gaming Pulse
Resident Evil Requiem launches free demo after 7 million copies sold
Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem, which has sold over 7 million copies since its release three months ago, is now offering a free demo on Steam, Epic, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2. The demo lets players experience early chapters with protagonist Grace Ashcroft, though progress cannot be transferred to the full game.
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Xbox Series X Transformed Into a Gaming PC with 3D Printed Components, Low-Profile RTX 5060, and NUC 12 Extreme
Enthusiast PhaseTech has converted an Xbox Series X into a fully functional gaming PC by installing an Intel NUC 12 Extreme compute card, a low‑profile Gigabyte RTX 5060 GPU, a 600 W Flex ATX PSU, and a 120 mm exhaust fan. Custom 3D‑printed brackets and a back panel were designed to mount the components and adapt the Xbox chassis, including a salvaged DVD‑ROM drive and modified front power button. The system boots with CPU and GPU temperatures around 75 °C, demonstrating that the Series X shell can house a high‑performance SFF build. The project foreshadows Microsoft’s Project Helix, which aims to blend Xbox and PC gaming on future hardware.
Xbox PC App Plagued by Bugs, Steam Runs Smoothly
these weird bugs happen far too often with game launches on the Xbox app for PC. I can’t remember the last time I had a problem buying or downloading a game on Steam
Boosteroid Expands Cloud Gaming Capacity in France, Poland, and the Czech Republic
Boosteroid has increased its cloud‑gaming server capacity in France, Poland and the Czech Republic, scaling each location’s power two to three times. The expansion adds to a network that already hosts roughly 13 MW of compute across 14 sites launched in...
Poll: Rate the Xbox Game Pass Games Lineup for March 2026
Microsoft unveiled an 18‑title Xbox Game Pass lineup for March 2026, adding 13 brand‑new games across Premium, Ultimate and PC tiers. The slate features two day‑one releases—Nova Roma and Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf—and high‑profile RPGs such as Cyberpunk 2077, Disco Elysium:...
Wuthering Waves Teams up with 三月兽 Goods (MarchMonster·Goods) for a Gothic-Themed Merch Collab
Wuthering Waves has teamed up with Chinese merch brand MarchMonster·Goods to launch a gothic, vampire‑inspired merchandise line featuring Rover and Phrolova designs. The collection mirrors the darker aesthetic of the game’s Version 3.2 update and will go on sale soon, though...
Grand Library Investigation Answers in Crimson Desert
Crimson Desert’s side quest “The Weight of Knowledge” tasks players with investigating a stolen forbidden tome at the Grand Library. Players must interview five NPCs—Raphael, Grunil, Anselmo, Tarho, and Javier—to piece together alibis and identify the culprit. The correct sequence...
Pokémon Pokopia: How to Raise Your Environment Level
Pokémon Pokopia’s environment level measures how much players improve each zone, unlocking new challenges, recipes, and items at the Pokémon Centre. The guide outlines seven practical actions—watering dead flora, boosting Pokémon comfort, befriending creatures, establishing a personal home, relocating Pokémon,...
Open-World Adventure Game CookieRun: New World Announced for Console, PC, and Mobile
South Korean developer Devsisters unveiled CookieRun: New World, an open‑world adventure built on Unreal Engine that will debut on console, PC and mobile in 2029, marking the franchise’s 20th anniversary. The announcement came alongside a slate of new titles, including...
Players Demand Full Story‑skip After Endless FF14 Cutscenes
The discourse over the 2X cutscene speed skip was so funny. Anyone who spent 100 hours ignoring the boring story of vanilla Final Fantasy 14 was wondering why there was no skip story completely option lol
Maybe Cleaning a Cabin in the Woods Is a Bad Idea In Horder Trailer
"Hoarder" is an upcoming indie title that starts as a cleaning simulation before spiraling into existential horror. Players clear a trash‑laden cabin, only to discover a Lovecraftian undersea abyss beneath the basement. The game blends physics‑based trash sorting, resource gathering,...
Crimson Desert Cracked By Pirates
Pearl Abyss added Denuvo anti‑tampering to Crimson Desert just days before launch, yet pirates released a functional crack within roughly 24 hours. The bypass employed a new Hypervisor method, previously used to crack titles like Borderlands 4 and Like a Dragon:...
Saros Dev Explains How the PS5 Game Is More Approachable, Customisable Than Returnal
Housemarque released a new video outlining how its upcoming PS5 exclusive Saros diverges from the studio’s previous roguelike, Returnal. The game introduces a permanent progression system using Lucenite, allowing players to unlock lasting buffs and abilities. A Carcosan Modifiers system...
FBI Probes Malware in Steam Games, Threatening Millions of Users
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into malware embedded in games distributed through Valve's Steam platform. Officials say the inquiry could affect millions of gamers and put the trust model of the world’s largest PC game store...
Disappointed AC RPG Feel Lacks Black Desert's Snappiness
comments like this annoy me but its my fault for not being clearer. obviously CD boasts a more robust move set. but the game FEELING is AC RPG and i love most of the AC RPGs. so this wasn’t even bashing...
Designer Reveals Favorite Puzzle and Plans Patch Fix
NEW: At GDC, I asked Blue Prince lead designer Tonda Ros to pick the game's best and worst puzzles The former was easy for him The latter was tricky, and led him to telling me about a puzzle he might tweak in...
What Are The Best Daily Challenges In Pokopia?
The guide shows how to farm Life Coins in Pokopia by leveraging daily challenges that refresh at 5 am and are accessed through the Pokécenter PC. It recommends establishing a consistent multi‑zone loop that prioritizes high‑efficiency tasks such as habitat cycling,...
Xbox AI GM Haiyan Zhang Moves to Netflix Gaming
Haiyan Zhang, general manager of gaming AI at Xbox, is leaving Microsoft after 13 years. Zhang is joining Netflix’s gaming team
Arc World Tour 2025-2026 Finals Early Results, Stream Ft. RedDitto, Andross11, Leffen, Gamera, Tatuma, Daru, Umisho, Monarch, ZangiefDream and More
The Arc World Tour 2025‑2026 Finals convened in Goyang, South Korea, featuring Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, and Under Night In‑Birth 2. Each of the two flagship titles carries a $100,000 prize pool, while Under Night offers $50,000, with...
Resident Evil Requiem Brought the House Down in February | Circana
Resident Evil Requiem emerged as the best‑selling video game of February 2026, topping PlayStation, Xbox and PC storefronts. The overall video‑game market grew 1% year‑over‑year, while content spending remained flat thanks to a 27% surge in subscription services. Hardware revenue...
Imp Ambush
Under the desk looking like an imp about to jump the Tarnished with mad bleed damage https://t.co/OpL4ITkgAL
How To Find All Items In The Compendium In Everwind
Everwind’s in‑game Compendium automatically records every object a player encounters, offering detailed stats, location data, and experience values. The guide breaks the Compendium into five sections—Tutorials, Creatures, Crafting, Foliage, and Natural Resources—and enumerates every item, from basic ingots and planks...
All Alchemy Materials in Crimson Desert and Where to Find Them
The Destructoid guide catalogs every Alchemy material in Crimson Desert, pairing each item with its approximate zone in the sprawling Pywel region. It notes that spawn points are largely random within those zones, with many insects appearing only at night...
Embrace Unconventional Controls for Authentic Gameplay Feel
fwiw i always love control schemes that don’t conform to homogenized standards. i love that CD uses buttons weirdly. my issue was always feel. that’s where the AAA homogeneous features are.
Assassin's Creed Shadows Mechanics Will Appear In Other Games
Assassin's Creed Shadows launched a year ago on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, earning an 81 Metacritic score and praise for its Japanese setting. The title introduced micropolygon rendering, ATMOS audio, and a dynamic weather system that reactively changes. Ubisoft’s...
Jagex Reveals RuneScape's Road to Restoration Player-Owned Housing Overhauls
Jagex has unveiled a major revamp of RuneScape’s Player Owned Housing, raising the Construction skill cap to 120 and allowing furniture to be crafted directly in‑house. The new system discards the rigid square‑grid in favor of hallways, varied room shapes,...
Xbox VP Lori Wright Exits, Leaving 3rd‑party Helm
Xbox corporate vice president Lori Wright is departing the company "in the coming weeks" according to a LinkedIn update. Wright led the platform's 3rd party relations, including global partnerships & business development for Xbox. https://t.co/jfUhlQ8cWR
Crimson Desert: How to Find Every Fish
Crimson Desert introduces a robust fishing system that supplies health‑restoring food and a reliable source of in‑game currency. Players can unlock fish species knowledge, then use the map to pinpoint exact spawning spots. The guide explains the counter‑intuitive reeling technique—pulling...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Outlines Planned Changes to Make Armor & Resistances Meaningful (and Nuanced)
Visionary Realms announced a major combat and progression overhaul for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, revamping armor and resistance mechanics. The new system ensures armor upgrades provide noticeable benefits at all levels, including spellcasters, and scales with player progression. Resistances...
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Warframe Players Fear The Game Has Been Hacked After Receiving ‘Nefarious Invites’ [Update]
Warframe players reported receiving bizarre, often offensive in‑game invite messages, prompting fears of a hack. Digital Extremes investigated and confirmed the messages resulted from altered invite text fields, not from compromised accounts or data breaches. The studio deployed a fix...
Mario Kart Tour Changed To 18+ Thanks To Brazil Age Rating Update
Brazil’s rating board has upgraded Nintendo’s mobile title Mario Kart Tour to an 18+ classification, citing its in‑app purchase model rather than any explicit content. The change aligns the game’s rating with Brazil’s new focus on protecting minors from loot‑box‑style monetisation. In...
How To Find And Beat Every Boss In Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 adds four boss encounters, with three active at launch: Dark Voyager Echo, Ice King, and Dread Punisher Squibbly. Each boss drops valuable loot, and Dark Voyager Echo already provides a mythic shotgun, while the other two currently...
HBO’s The Last Of Us Casts A Cis Actor To Play Its Trans Lead
HBO announced that Kyriana Kratter, a cisgender actress, will portray Lev, a transgender boy, in the third season of its adaptation of The Last of Us. The casting decision has ignited criticism because Lev’s gender identity is pivotal to the storyline...
Pokémon Pokopia Player Builds a Stunning Recreation of Pokémon Red/Blue's Kanto Region
In Pokémon Pokopia, player Quenca has begun a meticulous recreation of the original Kanto region from Pokémon Red and Blue, reproducing the map up to Viridian City. The project leverages the game’s Palette Town sandbox, combining pre‑fabricated structures with hand‑crafted...
Gods, Death & Reapers Announces Alpha 6 Playtest Taking Place End Of April
Gods, Death & Reapers announced an Alpha 5 playtest scheduled for April 30 1:00 a.m. PDT through May 4 9:00 a.m. PDT. The test follows the smaller Alpha 4.1 playtest held in December and will be accessible through the Wolcen Studio Playtest Program. Existing invited players can join automatically via...
Is There Romance in Crimson Desert? Everything You Need to Know
Crimson Desert, an open‑world action title, does not include any traditional romance mechanics. The narrative centers on protagonist Kliff and other characters, emphasizing honor, personal struggle, and world‑building rather than love interests. While the game’s structure resembles titles like Red...
After Layoffs, Lost Ark Teases Roadmap To Assure Players Content Is Still Coming Despite 'Times Like These'
Lost Ark’s development team announced that, despite a recent round of layoffs affecting the studio and broader Amazon Games cuts, new in‑game content remains on schedule. A forthcoming roadmap video will outline updates slated for April, May and June, including...
AI Art Suspected in Crimson Desert Sparks Quality Concerns
Seems very likely that at least some of the in-game art in Crimson Desert was generated with AI. Whether that's by design or poor quality control over a sprawling development pipeline, it's really gona poison the well for some https://t.co/q8ogbsvWII
Best Xbox Game Pass Games to Play This Weekend (March 20-22 2026)
Polygon highlights three standout Xbox Game Pass titles that never received sequels: Sunset Overdrive, Immortals of Aveum, and Quantum Break. Each game offers unique gameplay—over‑the‑top parkour and chaos, magic‑based FPS combat, and a hybrid live‑action narrative experience. The article argues...
DoubleDown (DDI): Gaming Growth Amid Competition
DoubleDown Interactive reported Q4 2025 revenue of $95.8 million, up 17% year‑over‑year but missing consensus, while full‑year revenue hit a record $359.9 million driven by acquisitions. Earnings per share surged to $9.72 versus the $0.61 estimate, though net profit fell to $24.1 million...
Solana Foundation President Says Web3 Gaming 'Is Not Coming Back'
Solana Foundation president Lily Liu announced on X that blockchain gaming is dead, igniting a wave of commentary. Her remark was a reaction to a misleading Polymarket post about Meta shutting down its metaverse division. Liu’s X bio humorously lists...
Crimson Desert Players Debate Whether Some In-Game Paintings Are AI-Generated Or Just Sloppy
Pearl Abyss’s new action‑adventure Crimson Desert sparked debate over in‑game paintings that may be AI‑generated. Players shared screenshots of bizarre artworks, including a chaotic centaur battle and a strange woodcut, questioning whether they are placeholders, sloppy design, or AI‑created. The...
Hex Sweeper: A Hexagonal Minesweeper Game
Hex Sweeper is a free browser‑based Minesweeper variant that replaces the classic square grid with hexagonal tiles, giving each cell six neighbors. Developed by Toronto‑based Gamesanova using the Phaser framework, the game offers three board sizes and multiple difficulty settings...
All Chaos Cube Locations in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2
Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 introduces 70 hidden chaos cubes as part of the “Path of the Voyager” quest, with 40 currently discoverable across the map. The cubes are clustered in groups of five near points of interest such as Wonkeeland, Latte...
Good Til Canceled: Where You Play as a Chip CEO
Good Til Canceled is a browser game built with Phaser 3 by Sergey Alexashenko that lets players act as a chip‑maker CEO, echoing Jensen Huang’s rise at NVIDIA. The title riffs on the trading order “good‑til‑canceled” and ties directly to NVIDIA’s GTC...
Roblox Seeks Share of Developers' Ad Revenue
New: Roblox wants a piece of developers' ad and sponsorship revenue after more than 4 years trying to break into the ads market. https://t.co/wbbaENSlke
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: A Deep Dive Into PS VR2 Mode
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches a free PS VR2 mode for PlayStation 5, delivering immersive cockpit interaction using the Sense controllers. The team tackled technical hurdles such as foveated rendering, flexible scaled rasterization, and a novel frame‑duplication technique to keep frame rates...
With All the AI Slop Flying About, I'm Glad Valve's Still Celebrating Real Artists with the Latest Steam Sale
Valve’s Spring Sale on Steam is spotlighting human artists Tiffany Diep and thanhuki, celebrating their key‑art and animation work amid a wave of generative‑AI graphics flooding the industry. The platform is offering free stickers and profile cosmetics through its Points...
Funi Raccoon Is Another Wonderful Pile of Rubble to Sift Through on Your Computer
Funi Raccoon, a new 3D platformer collectathon from Crayon and Kit of the Crayon Eating Company, launched on Steam this week. The game blends surreal, collage‑style visuals with whimsical mechanics, such as train‑hopping and hidden button puzzles. A free demo...
Crimson Desert Trophies Revealed for PlayStation 5
Koei Tecmo unveiled the complete trophy roster for Crimson Desert on PlayStation 5, detailing 35 distinct awards ranging from combat mastery to exploration feats. The top‑tier Platinum trophy, "Pywel Legend," requires players to earn every other trophy, effectively demanding 100% game...
Space Marine 2 Messed Up Its Voice Pack DLC So Bad It’s Been Refunded And Made Free
Saber Interactive released a $5 Chapter Voice Pack 1 for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, promising 450 new lines but delivering incomplete re‑voicing for only three of seven classes. Players encountered frequent voice swaps and a predominance of grunts, leading to an overwhelmingly...