Industry tracking of Games as a Service (GaaS), including seasonal updates, battle passes, concurrent user tracking, and server shutdowns.
Embark Studios is about to give ARC Raiders a serious visual glow-up on PS5 Pro, and it won’t cost players a cent. Update 1.26 lands April 28, 2026, adding an upgraded version of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) alongside the game’s biggest content drop yet, Riven Tides—a new map, a new…
Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite players can get refunds for D4vd-related cosmetics—but you’ll need to request them, at least for now. The company says refunds are available through Player Support today, with an incoming change on April 28 that will make the process faster via an immediate…
Xbox is rolling out a fresh late-April wave of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate perks, and it’s a surprisingly chunky drop: cosmetics, currency, a returning Skate pack, a Discord Nitro trial, and even a digital comic freebie. It lands at a moment when Microsoft is clearly trying to re-sell the value of…
Final Fantasy XIV Online is finally coming to a Nintendo platform — and it’s a big deal. Square Enix confirmed at the April 2026 FFXIV Fan Festival that the MMO will launch on Switch 2 in August 2026, complete with a free, month-long early access period designed to stress test the port and smooth…
Helldivers 2 is about to go full mech-head. Arrowhead Game Studios has officially pulled the curtain back on The Exo Experts premium Warbond, arriving April 28, and it’s a big swing: two brand-new exosuits headline the pass alongside new weapons, armor sets, cosmetics, and an emote built for equal…
Sony Pictures and Nintendo’s live-action The Legend of Zelda movie has officially wrapped filming, a major milestone confirmed during CinemaCon 2026. With principal photography done and post-production next, the project is now on the long runway toward its May 7, 2027 theatrical release—at a moment…
Pokémon Champions has landed on Nintendo Switch as a free-to-start competitive battler designed to centralise Pokémon’s online fighting scene — and the critical verdict is already crystal clear: the battling fundamentals still slap, but the launch package is rough. Reviewers are praising its…
A brand-new Borderlands game has landed with effectively zero warning — and yes, you can download it for free right now. The surprise release is Borderlands Mobile, a free-to-play looter shooter for iOS that’s currently being described as a limited-time test, developed by Zynga’s NaturalMotion with…
Pokémon Champions is live now as a free-to-start competitive battle game on Nintendo Switch (with a mobile version planned for later in 2026), and the very first thing serious battlers want to know is simple: what can I actually use right now? The answer is surprisingly tight—186 usable Pokémon at…
Team Liquid thought they’d just locked in a world-first kill on L’ura, the final boss of World of Warcraft’s new March on Quel’Danas raid—until the “dead” boss immediately refilled her health bar and revealed a hidden, ultra-hard secret phase. The moment detonated across the Race to World First…
