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 will now grant meaningful mitigation early on, with negative resistance values adding strategic debuff opportunities. NPCs will also receive scaled armor, making armor‑penetration abilities more relevant.
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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...
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...
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...
Evo Japan Claims This Year's Street Fighter 6 Bracket Is the Largest Fighting Game Tournament Ever, but There's a Few...
Evo Japan 2026 announced 7,158 registered players for Street Fighter 6, potentially making it the largest fighting‑game bracket ever. The event attracted 9,523 participants across all titles, with SF6 alone outpacing the combined total of the next four games. While the...
VCT Pacific Stage 1 Launches Ticket Sales for April 3rd Opener
Ticket sales for VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Pacific Stage 1 opened on March 20, offering fans access to the April 3 opener at Seoul’s SOOP Sangam Colosseum. The seven‑week split runs through May 17, featuring 12 teams split into two groups, with a double‑elimination...
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Promoted Launch with ‘50 Elizabeths in L.A.’ Event
Netmarble staged a high‑visibility "50 Elizabeths in L.A." event on March 14 at L.A. LIVE, featuring fifty cosplayers to promote the upcoming open‑world RPG The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin. The showcase included gameplay demos, photo zones, merchandise giveaways and a live broadcast,...
Google Just Made Four Big Upgrades to Android Gaming on Your Windows PC
Google announced four major upgrades to its Google Play gaming experience on Windows PCs, expanding the catalog of paid titles that are fully optimized for desktop controls, adding a dedicated PC section in the mobile Play Store, enabling a single...
Seven Knights Re:BIRTH Adds Solo Leveling Content in Crossover Update
Netmarble released a crossover update for Seven Knights Re:BIRTH featuring the popular Solo Leveling franchise. The update adds four Solo Leveling heroes—two legendary and two rare—along with a themed pet, equipment, and limited‑time events. A new Sudden Raid mode introduces...
Arc System Works Launches River City Saga: Journey to the West Website Ahead of 2026 Release
Arc System Works America unveiled the official website for River City Saga: Journey to the West, an action‑roguelike slated for a 2026 release. The game reimagines the Chinese classic Journey to the West with Kunio‑style versions of Sun Wukong, Zhu...
"As Soon as It Fired up, He'd Get up and Go to Lunch": How Age of Empires' Developers Tested Mission...
Ensemble Studios’ Tony Goodman used an unconventional method to gauge Age of Empires scenario difficulty: he would start a new level, leave for lunch, and if the AI defeated him before his return, the mission was deemed too hard. This...
Game Pass Hit TCG Card Shop Simulator Adds Two Big Features in Latest Update
TCG Card Shop Simulator received its March 2026 patch, bringing the game to version 0.70 and edging it closer to a full 1.0 release. The update introduces a tournament‑hosting system, allowing players to set up prize shelves, schedule events, charge...
Roblox Moves to Take a Cut of All Brand Integrations on Its Platform | Exclusive
Roblox announced it will begin charging creators a fee for publishing brand integrations, with charges scaling based on user traffic and engagement, slated to roll out in 2027. The policy is presented as a move to standardize ad labeling, improve...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Almost Had One More Choice At The End That Got Cut
Dragon Age: The Veilguard originally featured a post‑ending conversation where Morrigan and the Inquisitor asked the player why they bound Solas, but the scene was cut. Writer Trick Weekes explained the dialogue would have let players articulate their motivations, mirroring...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 English Artbook Pre-Orders Go Live on March 23
Udon Entertainment and Pix’n Love will publish the English‑language Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 artbook, with pre‑orders opening on March 23 at 11 a.m. PT and closing May 6. Buyers in the United States must order through Udon, while European customers will use Pix’n Love. The book...
Buzzfeed Says Its New AI Slop Games Are Inspired By Nintendo
Buzzfeed is branching into AI‑generated mobile games with the launch of Conjure, its first offering from the new Branch Office unit. The game asks users to submit daily photos, which the AI then spins into quirky creepypasta‑style narratives. Buzzfeed cites...
Tales of Berseria Remastered Feedback Survey Includes Wallpaper
Bandai Namco has launched a two‑week global feedback survey for Tales of Berseria Remastered, rewarding participants with a mobile wallpaper. The questionnaire probes purchase timing, platform, enjoyment, new features, and demographic data, while also asking broader series preferences. The survey...
Compete For Free: SlotsUp Launches Exciting Tournaments
SlotsUp has introduced its first free tournament series, featuring EvoPlay slots and crash games, to drive user engagement without requiring deposits. Players join weekly and monthly events, earn points, and compete on a live leaderboard for prize pools. The platform...
Major SteamOS Update Adds Support for Steam Machine, Even More Third-Party Hardware
Valve released the SteamOS 3.8 preview, adding initial support for the upcoming Steam Machine and expanding compatibility with both AMD and Intel platforms. The update upgrades the OS to an Arch Linux base, kernel 6.16, and a Wayland‑enabled KDE Plasma desktop. It...
Leave Comments, Play Quizzes, Earn Badges: Join the GamesRadar+ Community
GamesRadar+ has launched a free, unified membership platform that consolidates commenting, quizzes, badge rewards, newsletter preferences, and magazine subscriptions under a single sign‑up. The new system replaces the former Disqus comment tool with Viafoura and adds interactive games powered by...
Forza Horizon 6 Dev Explains How Turn 10 Has Helped Since Dropping 2023's Forza Motorsport
Turn 10 Studios temporarily reduced its Forza Motorsport work to support Playground Games on Forza Horizon 6, allowing the open‑world racer to inherit advanced car‑detail expertise. The partnership enabled Playground to expand its vehicle art team to its largest ever, delivering higher‑fidelity...
New Report Suggests the Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a New Version, but You Might Not Be Able to Get...
A new report cites Nikkei that Nintendo plans a Switch 2 revision featuring a user‑replaceable battery, but only for the European Union initially. The change is driven by the EU Battery Regulation, which mandates portable devices allow battery swapping by July 31 2026....
Street Fighter 6 Limited-Time Sale on Costumes and Accessories for Characters Used by Capcom Cup and Street Fighter League Winners
Capcom has launched a limited‑time sale in Street Fighter 6 featuring discounted outfits and portraits for the four characters used by the winners of Capcom Cup 12 and the Street Fighter League finale. Outfit 2 and 3 DLCs are 20 % off, making Outfit 3 240...
Hard West II Coming to PS5, Xbox Series
Klabater, together with Good Shepherd Entertainment, announced that its Wild West‑themed turn‑based strategy sequel Hard West II will arrive on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. The game originally launched on PC via Steam in August 2022 and has no confirmed release date for...
Chrono Trigger Character Sprites Used for One Mark Collection Gacha
Square Enix announced a Chrono Trigger One Mark Collection of 15 character sprite charms, to be sold in Japanese capsule‑gacha machines starting March 27, 2026. Each of the seven main heroes appears in two poses—neutral and attack—with a hidden secret...
Matthew Ball Interview: Can New Stores and D2C Turn the Tide on High UA Costs?
User acquisition costs for mobile‑game publishers are approaching $25 billion in 2025, excluding China, and now represent roughly 32% of net revenue. While the figure has slipped from its 2021 peak, ad‑exchange fees are set to overtake traditional UA spend by...
Crimson Desert Won't Work on Intel Arc GPUs, Developer Suggests Users Ask for Refunds
Pearl Abyss confirmed that Crimson Desert will not run on Intel Arc graphics cards, directing affected players to request refunds from their platform. The omission of Arc support was only added to the FAQ after launch, leaving many owners with...
Unknown Worlds Co-Founders' Lawyers Accuse Krafton of "Intentionally Leaking" Subnautica 2 Release Date
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) announced it will not adopt the sweeping age‑rating changes introduced by Pan‑European Games Information (PEGI), citing potential confusion for consumers. PEGI’s new framework, effective June, expands ratings to cover paid random items, time‑limited offers,...
Earn Crimson Desert's Time-Consuming Xbox Achievements with Cloud Gaming Support
Microsoft added Xbox Series X|S achievements for Crimson Desert and enabled Cloud Gaming for Game Pass subscribers on March 19, 2026. The title features 34 distinct achievements totaling 1,000 Gamerscore, with an estimated 300‑plus hours required for full completion. Players...
Five Cheap Xbox Games Under $10 to Grab From the Xbox Store This Weekend
This weekend Xbox’s digital storefront is slashing prices on five popular titles, each under $10. Life is Strange Remastered Collection drops to $7.99, a steep 80% discount, while Tropico 6, Resident Evil Origins bundle, Assassin’s Creed Unity, and Railway Empire fall between $2.99 and...
CD Projekt RED Plans to Release a “Heretofore Unannounced Gaming Project” This Year
CD Projekt RED’s FY 2025 earnings report confirmed a new, previously unannounced gaming project will launch later this year, with analysts linking it to a rumored Witcher 3 DLC slated for September. The company also reiterated that existing titles remain in development...
Supercent and Sumo Digital Sign Strategic MOU to Co-Develop Next-Generation Mobile Titles
South Korean mobile publisher Supercent and UK developer Sumo Digital have signed a memorandum of understanding to co‑develop next‑generation mobile games, with development slated to begin in early 2026. The partnership blends Supercent’s mobile‑first, data‑driven publishing platform with Sumo’s two‑decade...
Environmental Strategy Game Terra Nil Gets Gamepad Support and Steam Deck Verified
Terra Nil, the eco‑focused reverse city‑builder, received a final update that adds full gamepad support and Steam Deck verification. The patch makes the title playable on handhelds and consoles, complementing its existing keyboard‑mouse and Linux native builds. Developers declared the...