Spotlights on independent titles, Steam Next Fest demos, and announcements from showcases like Nintendo Indie World.
If you’ve been staring at the Xbox Game Pass library like it’s Netflix at 11 p.m.—endless scrolling, zero commitment—this weekend has a clean, high-impact answer: play the new heavy hitters that just landed, then sample what’s about to hit next week. Hades 2 is now on Game Pass and finally on Xbox…
Charlie Cox — the actor behind Gustave’s voice in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — has finally done the thing fans have been needling him about for a year: he’s played the game. Not finished it, not even close, but enough to say he’s dipped into the opening and understands what players have been…
Hades 2 just hit PS5—and Supergiant Games didn’t simply roll out the red carpet for console players. It immediately followed up with a huge, free post-launch update that overhauls balance, adds fresh narrative and relationship content, and (in a classic Supergiant move) quietly slips in a brand-new…
Fumi Games’ debut, MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, is finally here—and it’s not just a viral art-style flex. Across early reviews, this black-and-white rubberhose noir shooter lands as a confident, characterful FPS with a jazzy pulse, a surprisingly hefty campaign (roughly 12–15 hours in multiple…
Doki Doki Literature Club—the famously deceptive “cute-until-it-isn’t” cult visual novel—has been delisted from the Google Play Store, roughly four months after its Android launch in December 2025. Google reportedly cited a Terms of Service violation tied to the game’s “depiction of sensitive…
Warhammer Survivors is officially happening—and yes, it’s very deliberately cut from the same gloriously compulsive cloth as Vampire Survivors. Developed by Auroch Digital in partnership with Warhammer and poncle (the studio founded by Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante), the new roguelite…
Klei Entertainment is officially bringing Don’t Starve back with Don’t Starve Elsewhere, a new multiplayer survival crafting game revealed during the April 2026 Triple-i Initiative Showcase. It’s still the same darkly whimsical, sketchbook-goth survival you remember—only now it’s built around a…
Microsoft’s first Xbox Game Pass drop for April 2026 is the kind of lineup that changes what you play this month—whether you’re here for prestige indies, a big remaster, or a co-op shooter with serious vibes. Hades II, FBC: Firebreak, and Replaced headline a genuinely packed Wave 1 across Xbox…
Yoshihisa Kishimoto—best known as the creator of Double Dragon and the Kunio-kun/River City lineage that helped define the beat ’em up—has passed away. He was 64. The news was shared publicly by his son, Ryūbō, who said Kishimoto died on April 2, 2026, a loss that lands like a gut-punch for anyone…
April Fool’s Day is back, and 2026’s gaming pranks have a distinct flavor: fewer “we made a fake game” press releases, more weirdly specific bits that either could be real… or straight-up are real. The headline-grabber is Bubsy—yes, that Bubsy—whose publisher Atari is leaning all the way in with…
