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GSC Game World has officially pulled the tarp off S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s first major post-launch expansion, Cost of Hope, and it’s not some bite-sized mission pack. It’s a massive, nonlinear story add-on launching Summer 2026, promising dozens of hours of new content, two new…
Owlcat Games has confirmed it’s using generative AI during development of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, but insists none of it will survive into the shipped product. The studio says the tech is being used strictly for prototyping and technical iteration—not for final art assets, writing, or voice…
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s next big swing, Stranger Than Heaven, just got a new trailer at the March 26 Xbox Partner Preview — and it finally puts real numbers on the game’s ambition: five explorable cities across five distinct eras (1915, 1929, 1943, 1951, and 1965). It’s a massive scope jump for the…
Nacon and Big Bad Wolf Studio have unleashed a four-minute “Gameplay Overview” trailer for Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss, offering the clearest look yet at how this Lovecraftian narrative investigation game actually plays. The big takeaway: this isn’t just spooky vibes and tentacles—it’s a…
Starbreeze is taking another swing at the Payday formula—this time by going all-in on virtual reality. Payday: Aces High has been revealed as a new, officially licensed VR co-op heist game built “from the ground up” for headsets, and it’s slated to launch in Q3 2026 on Meta Quest and SteamVR. After…
Bungie’s Marathon just dropped its fourth map, Cryo Archive, and it’s the rare competitive shooter space that genuinely feels new: a raid-like, puzzle-box labyrinth that fuses PvE pressure with PvP threat in a way the genre almost never even attempts. The catch? It’s currently weekend-only, demands…
Two years after Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched with zero traditional expansion in sight, Capcom has dropped a “special celebratory artwork” for the game’s second anniversary—and fans are treating it like a treasure map. A mysterious blue-lit figure, a translated in-world note referencing griffins and a…
Pearl Abyss has rolled out Crimson Desert update Version 1.00.03, a chunky quality-of-life and balance patch that finally adds private item storage at camp and dials back boss difficulty again after an already-notable day-one adjustment. It’s live now on Steam and PlayStation, with Xbox, Epic Games…
Mega Crit is pushing back on the growing panic around Slay the Spire 2’s first major beta balance pass, telling players bluntly that the controversial changes are “the first of many” and that “no change is necessarily permanent.” The message lands after a wave of backlash—most visibly a surge of…
Crimson Desert has stumbled into a fresh post-launch firestorm: players have flagged what appear to be AI-generated art assets in the shipped game, and developer Pearl Abyss has now admitted some AI-made 2D props made it into the final release “unintentionally.” The studio says those assets were…
