Best Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (April 3-5 2026) | Gaming

While neither Good Friday nor Easter are observed as Federal Holidays, a fair number of workers in the U,S. still get today or Monday off in observance of the holidays….

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PlayStation Store Makes 94-Rated Game Only $1.49 for PS5 Users | News World

The PlayStation Store has made a game with a 94 user review score only $1.49 for both PS5 and PS4 users. That said, this PS Store deal is set to…

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The video games we’ve been playing this week | Gaming

4th April Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we’ve been playing. This week, Victoria strongarms her children into playing Super…

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The best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a ‘terribly low 2/10’ | Gaming

One might wonder, given the endless selection of good videogames out there: Why play a bad one? But let me turn that idea around on you. Given the endless selection…

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Grand Theft Auto V is available for free on Xbox and PC until April 15 | Gaming

With the impending release of Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, the hype is real, but so is the time limit on playing its predecessor, GTA V, for free!…

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Skyblivion devs are “on the hunt” for some “final, vital” veteran hands to get the Oblivion remake mod over the line this year | Gaming

With the first few months of its latest target release year drawing to a close, the modders behind Skyblivion are looking to make some “final” and “vital” veteran additions to…

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Adult games may be an unintended beneficiary as FTC pressure payment providers like Visa and Mastercard not to debank Trump supporters, but I doubt it | Gaming

Letters have been sent by the US Federal Trade Commission to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe, reminding them that there could be hell to pay if they…

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US Patent Office rejects Nintendo’s ‘summon subcharacter and let it fight’ patent | Gaming

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected Nintendo’s patent that involves an in-game character summoning a sub-character to aid it in battle. As Games Fray reports, the…

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Dead Party Officially Announced for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S | Gaming

Join the Chaotic Mayhem in Dead Party Developer Radiation Blue and publisher Snail Games USA have officially announced Dead Party, a new co-op action game that blends zombie outbreaks, alien…

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Supergirl Action Figures Reveal Best Look at Lobo’s Bike (And It Looks Fantastic) | News World

Supergirl’s newest trailer made Kara’s core mission throughout the film immensely clear, but it also gave fans a much clearer idea of how Lobo will be worked into the story….

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The impossible alchemy of Lucid Blocks is a reminder that 99% of videogame crafting is boring | Gaming

There is a tiny wild sun trapped inside my crystal tower. I hear its garbled voice and catch the yellow of its fire through the blinding white blocks of…

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Xbox Game Pass Is Losing Its Best Game at the Worst Possible Time | Gaming

Those with Xbox Game Pass Premium and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC are losing access to the subscription service’s…

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Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception | Gaming

Indie Pass – The Subscription for Indie Games, coming April 13! – YouTube Watch On There’s a new subscription service on the block: Indie Pass, which promises access to “a…

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The sequel to Garry’s Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage | Gaming

S&box is an upcoming open source game development platform, built using a modified Source 2 engine. Out on 28th April, it’s the work of the very same Garry Newman behind…

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Nexon calls Arc Raiders a “Trojan Horse” for AI game development | Gaming

Arc Raiders developer Embark might have retreated slightly on the use of AI-generated voices in its game, but company owner Nexon has big plans for the use of AI, and…

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Flagler County mom demands answers after Xbox threat case dismissed, says family is still shaken up | Gaming

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Palm Coast mother said her family is still shaken years after her son received violent threats through Xbox messages — and she’s demanding answers after…

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Original Resident Evil trilogy with GOG’s fresh coat of paint is finally on Steam, but you will have to put up with Enigma DRM | Gaming

Wake up, the Residents are Evil again. Well, what I mean to say is that the oldest Evil Residents, the most classic of Resident Evils, have now hit Steam in…

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Reddit posts can be more important than data, and other lessons from maintaining Candy Crush as a forever game | Gaming

Since its launch in 2012, Candy Crush Saga has grown into one of the most successful tile-matching games in history, surpassing $20 billion in lifetime revenue by September 2023. The…

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DC’s Absolute Batman Makes Superstars Out of Artists | News World

At the end of January, comic artists Nick Dragotta and Daniel Warren Johnson sat at two separate tables in a small conference room at a Marriott Hotel in Monterey Park, Calif. From morning…

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Easter Bunny EggVenture Hops Onto Xbox With A Basket Full Of Fun | Gaming

Easter Bunny EggVenture – now on Xbox and PC Spring has officially sprung on Xbox, and Easter Bunny EggVenture is here to prove that, at times, the simplest ideas are…

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Crimson Desert is now a survival game, thanks to this mod based on an alleged secret “food consequences” system | Gaming

Are you having fun being Kliff MacDuff? How would you like to be Kliff MacDuff with an acute case of gastritis? It appears that open world RPG Crimson Desert has…

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‘There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,’ Samson studio founder says: ‘I think there’s a space for us there’ | Gaming

Samson, the open-world crime brawler being developed by Liquid Swords, looks to me like a Grand Theft Auto game leavened with a healthy dose of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It’s a…

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You can finally play this long-awaited Xbox game soon — its studio is hosting alpha playtests next month, and you can sign up for them now | Gaming

Nearly six years after the game was originally announced in Summer 2020, fans will soon finally have the chance to get their hands on the highly anticipated Xbox and PC…

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Marathon isn’t deathmatch gone wide, it’s multiplayer Alien: Isolation and every other player is a xenomorph | Gaming

The human colony on Tau Ceti IV has been abandoned for half a century, as far as anyone can tell. The only exports leaving the planet are those nabbed by…

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PUBG Xeno Point preview: new co-op PvE mode offers a strange vision of a post-battle royale future | Gaming

For readers of Eurogamer, it may have been a while since you last read much in depth about PUBG – or indeed PUBG Battlegrounds (redundant subtitle duly acknowledged by publisher…

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XBLA Was Amazing, But Xbox’s Indie Program Is Better Than Ever Right Now | Gaming

Again, there are so many intriguing non-Game Pass titles that we could mention from 2026 alone, including the likes of Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor, Carmageddon: Rogue Shift, Escape…

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New Tower Defense Game Looks Perfect for Castlevania Fans (and It Has Everything Other Games Are Missing) | News World

The Castlevania series has some exciting projects coming out this year, but another title that adopts its gothic atmosphere is also taking the tower defense genre by storm. Through just…

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Schrödinger’s Switch 2: Is it failing or soaring? | Opinion | Gaming

Nintendo has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride for the past few weeks. First, we learned that holiday sales of Switch 2 had disappointed, potentially leading to the…

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Pride precipitates a dizzying fall in Ascenders, a climbing game spin on Darkest Dungeon | Gaming

Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre…

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Linux has gotten a 3% usage bump in a month, latest Steam hardware survey suggests  – though, it’s still miles off Windows | Gaming

The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That’s not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve’s info gathering not…

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