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Xbox Project Helix has Microsoft's hardware and software teams working together from the beginning. Chief content officer Matt Booty said both divisions got involved early to map out the vision and technical specs. Alpha units reach developers in 2027, and analysts are already calling a 0+ price tag.
Valve just pushed a Steam Link beta to Apple Vision Pro via TestFlight. The app lets Vision Pro users stream PC games wirelessly in up to 4K, but VR game support isn't included yet. When it does arrive, you'll need a compatible motion controller like the PS Sense.
DICE dropped an extended Battlefield 6 roadmap for 2026, and Wake Island is the headline. The classic BF1942 map arrives in Season 4 complete with aircraft carriers and functional flight decks. Altogether, seven new maps are coming between May and the end of the year.
Xbox Project Helix has Microsoft's hardware and software teams working together from the beginning. Chief content officer Matt Booty said both divisions got involved early to map out the vision and technical specs. Alpha units reach developers in 2027, and analysts are already calling a $900+ price tag.
PC Gamer gives the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro an 86/100. This compact mini PC packs solid gaming and productivity performance at a reasonable price. It runs hot under load and you'll need a USB hub, but as a gaming desktop or console replacement, it gets the job done.
Former Epic employees told the LA Times that players grab free games on the Epic Games Store then head straight back to Steam. The store earned $400 million from non-Epic titles in 2025 — below growth expectations, per Epic's own communications team. Epic is now pushing to merge its PC and mobile platforms.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Ranked Battle Season 10 kicks off April 23 at 6am UTC and runs through May 14. No new Mega Stone this time, but all previous ones return as rank-up bonuses — Greninjite, Blazikenite, Sceptilite, and more. One week left to finish Season 9.
Dataminers found code in Steam referencing 'Price History' and '30-Day Low' features. The 30-day low price display already exists in EU countries to comply with the Omnibus Directive. Separately, a 'framerate estimator' was also spotted — it would show FPS estimates based on other users' hardware configs before you buy.
Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty revealed that Blizzard is providing cinematic support for Playground Games' Fable, while Rare is lending multiplayer know-how to Double Fine for pottery brawler Kiln. It's part of Xbox's cross-studio sharing model — what Booty calls 'a culture of cultures.'
Game Freak's new PS5 action RPG Beast of Reincarnation is reportedly priced at $60 standard and $70 Deluxe, per leaker BillBil-Kun. The one-person, one-dog RPG set in post-apocalyptic Japan launches August 4, 2026. Pre-orders go live today.
Capcom's Pragmata earns an 87/100 from PC Gamer. The third-person shooter pairs Hugh, a stranded astronaut, with Diana, an AI android child, as they fight through a hostile lunar base. A hacking system layered on top of tight gunplay makes it one of the most satisfying action games in recent memory. Short at under 10 hours, but hard to put down.
The Future Games Show Summer Showcase returns June 6 at 12PM PDT, promising world premieres, exclusive trailers, and stealth demo drops. FGS Live from Los Angeles follows the same day, then the PC Gaming Show airs June 7 with over 50 PC games.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream director Ryutaro Takahashi says development kicked off in 2017, after he and producer Yoshio Sakamoto agreed they'd run out of room with the 3DS original. The game is out today on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.
Ubisoft reached a settlement with the 61 workers at its Halifax studio, shut down just weeks after they unionized in December. CWA Canada says terms are confidential, but developers felt Ubisoft 'respected the union.' The publisher has kept cutting jobs across other studios since.
Starfield leaked for Switch 2 through Taiwan's ratings board, just one week after the RPG hit PS5. Bethesda's sci-fi epic only moved around 140,000 copies on Sony's platform in its first week. No official confirmation yet, but a Nintendo port looks inevitable.
A physical disc version of Red Dead Redemption on PS5 has leaked ahead of an official announcement. Dealabs' BillBil-Kun confirmed the release for May 7, priced at €34.99 in Europe.
Pokemon Champions review is out from Game Informer. The turn-based battles that made the franchise famous are intact and satisfying. The rest of the package is another story. Out now on Switch 2, iOS, and Android.
Mouse: PI for Hire review is in from PCGamer, and it's glowing. The reviewer calls it the best shooter they've played in a long time. The noir-style, rubberhose animation FPS brings together a set of elements that shouldn't work — and they do.
He-Man: Dragon Pearl of Destruction has been delayed. Bitmap Bureau's beat 'em up was less than two weeks from its original release date when Limited Run Games pushed it to summer 2026. No new date has been confirmed yet.
Hades II Switch patch notes are out. Supergiant's roguelike just got a bonus content update on both Switch 1 and Switch 2, dropping the same day as the game's PS5 and Xbox console debut. The full notes are in.
Pete Hines, the former Bethesda VP who retired three years ago, still has things to say about the studio's reputation. He thinks Bethesda's open world complexity doesn't get the credit it deserves. His challenge to critics: go build something like it in Red Dead Redemption 2.
The James Pond trademark is in dispute. Eon Productions, the company behind the James Bond film rights, filed opposition against a new James Pond application. James Pond was a 1990s fish-spy gaming character, and someone is trying to bring the franchise back.
Surface Hub is discontinued. Microsoft is ending production of the Surface Hub 3 and killing plans for a Surface Hub 4. The 50-inch and 85-inch collaborative touchscreen displays won't have a successor.
The Netgear router ban is over, at least for now. The FCC granted Netgear conditional approval to keep selling its routers despite the US ban on Chinese-made networking hardware. No explanation was given for the decision.
Metro 2039 reveal is happening Thursday, April 16 at 10am Pacific via an Xbox showcase. 4A Games confirmed the news. It's the fourth mainline Metro entry, based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels, and 4A says the war in Ukraine has directly shaped the game's direction.
Game Pass price change is coming, according to Xbox head Asha Sharma, who told Microsoft employees in an internal memo that the service 'has become too expensive for players.' This is six months after the top tier jumped from $20 to $30 a month. Sharma says they need a 'better value equation' and will shift to a more flexible model.
007 First Light spoilers, including what appears to be the game's ending, are circulating online after Indonesia's game ratings board made them public through a security flaw. Over an hour of classified footage for IO Interactive's Bond game is out there, plus cutscenes from Bandai Namco's Echoes of Aincrad.
The Pragmata review from VGC gives Capcom's new sci-fi shooter a 4 out of 5. The short version: it's good, charming, and unmistakably feels like something that could have shipped in 2008 alongside Vanquish. That's not a knock. Hugh's moon adventure is compact, weird, and worth your time.
The LG G6 OLED review is out after three weeks of testing by TechRadar. Picture quality scores 5/5 — the big jump is reflection handling, which now beats the Samsung S95F in bright-room conditions. Gaming specs are solid too: 4K at 165Hz across four HDMI 2.1 ports, and a measured input lag of 8.9ms. The 65-inch starts at $3,399.
LG OLED power cycling is becoming a real problem — more users are reporting their TVs shutting off during bright screen flashes, and it's not just older panels. If you game on an LG OLED, this is worth paying attention to.
Microsoft Surface prices just jumped $500 due to the global RAM shortage — and it hits the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 hardest. If you were waiting to buy, that window just closed.
