Shift Up—the South Korean studio behind Stellar Blade and GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE—has acquired Unbound, the Tokyo-based new studio founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. It’s a major power move: Shift Up says the deal strengthens its global PC and console publishing ambitions, while…
ZA/UM has finally put a hard date on Zero Parades: For Dead Spies: the studio’s next dialogue-forward RPG hits PC on May 21, 2026, and the team is reiterating that the PS5 version is still on track for 2026—just later in the year. It’s a big moment for anyone starving for another Disco-style,…
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has reportedly pushed past 2 million copies sold, and the catalyst is exactly what PC players have been arguing for years: a proper PC port that didn’t arrive ages after the conversation moved on. New estimates peg the game at 425,000 copies sold in its first week on…
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…
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…
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…
Pearl Abyss has publicly acknowledged the backlash to Crimson Desert’s control scheme and says a patch is already in the works to address the “discomfort many players have experienced with the controls.” The studio also apologized to keyboard-and-mouse players for what it calls an unsatisfactory…
Resident Evil Requiem just got a major new way to play on PC: a freshly released VR mod called RE9VR that lets you experience the full game in virtual reality. Created by modder Talemann and available now via NexusMods, it’s an ambitious, feature-rich attempt to turn Capcom’s latest survival-horror…
