PlayStation Plus subscribers have several blockbuster games to look forward to this month, as Sony has revealed its Game Catalog additions for May 2026.
Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's open world adventure set in a galaxy far, far away, headlines the pack, alongside the return of Rockstar's cowboy sequel Red Dead Redemption 2 (which, of course, includes access to Red Dead Online). The addition of Star Wars Outlaws comes just in time for the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu in theaters, the first new Star Wars movie since The Rise of Skywalker came out in 2019. And Red Dead Redemption 2 returns amid an online frenzy for more information on Rockstar's next game, GTA 6.
Fantasy adventure Bramble: The Mountain King also joins PS Plus...
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Every great RPG begins with a world. It might be a snow-covered village on the edge of civilisation, a neon megacity hiding danger in every alley, or a ruined wasteland where every survivor has a story to tell. But before players can explore your world, you need the tools to build it.
That’s where PVGames Presents The Ultimate 2D RPG Kit comes in. This massive software bundle brings together a huge collection of high-quality 2D assets for RPG developers, including tiles, character creator kits, monsters, icons, and themed environments across fantasy, sci-fi, and post-apocalyptic settings. With 37 items in the full Pro bundle, it’s designed to help creators bring rich, varied game worlds to life for a fraction of the usual cost...
If you're looking to expand your library of physical games ahead of summer, we have some fun news: Amazon has slashed the price of quite a few PS5 games.
From Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds to Demon's Souls and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, we've spotted a solid selection of these discounted titles that are well worth scooping up right now.
Alongside having some truly excellent discounts, some of these deals even mark brand new best prices at Amazon. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is one that's currently sitting at a brand new low price at the retailer, according to price tracker camelcamelcamel. Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut is another that's hit an all-time low price, as has Yakuza Kiwami 1+2.
There's also plenty of games in the...
Four of Overwatch's most iconic heroes will cross over into Fortnite, via a major game update set to go live tomorrow.
Overwatch OG heroes Tracer, Mercy, Genji and D.Va will all land on the Fortnite battle royale Island as part of a new collaboration with Epic Games' battle royale, as glimpsed today in a cinematic trailer. This shows Fortnite hero Jonesy carrying his wounded buddy Fishstick, and the pair sheltering while under fire as the villainous Ice King and his minions look to finish them off. It looks bad for our heroes — until Mercy arrives and heals them.
"Heroes never die!" declares Mercy, as Tracer, Genji and D.Va arrive. "The cavalry's here," Tracer says, uttering her own infamous catchphrase.
Artwork shown at the end of...
Ahead of Forza Horizon 6's fast approaching launch, Xbox and Crunchyroll have announced a new crossover promotion tied to Crunchyroll's ongoing Ani-May celebrations, giving subscribers an exclusive in-game reward.
Until May 31, Crunchyroll members can claim a free Car Voucher for Forza Horizon 6, allowing players to redeem any vehicle from the in-game Autoshow at no additional cost.
The promotional member perk for Crunchyroll lands just ahead of Forza Horizon 6's release on May 19, with Premium Edition owners getting early access from May 15.
The crossover is also part of the streamer's wider Ani-May event, which currently includes a heavily discounted subscription offer for both new and returning customers. Crunchyroll is offering...
Mina the Hollower hooked me, cementing its hold during a fight with a giant animated statue called the Duchess. Mastering the hammer's charged swings, I depleted her first health bar, forcing her to sprout tentacles that burrowed under the arena floor before erupting where I stood. I died a few times, but by the fourth or fifth try, I grasped her patterns. I read her tells, strafing and dodging instead of squaring up, landing charged hits when she committed to an attack. Finally defeating this monstrosity with a glimmer of health remaining, I felt like I was releasing a massive weight, like I could finally breathe again. This fight encapsulates Mina — punishing at first, but only until you get the rhythm down, and then deeply...
PlayStation 5 exclusive Saros has sold around 300,000 copies in its opening fortnight, generating over $22 million in revenue, according to analyst data.
Analytics firm Alinea Analytics called the debut "slow but interesting," albeit tagging it as a "niche game" that's currently only playable on Sony's console. It's selling "a little slower" than Sony-owned studio Housemarque's previous game, Returnal, Alinea Analytics added.
Analyst Rhys Elliott suggested that Returnal's stronger 2021 launch could be down to a smaller number of console-exclusive first-party games available at the time, suggesting it appealed to "early adopters" of the PS5 who "inherently buy a lot of new games at full price" and were "dying for something to play."...
Ubisoft has announced a real-life Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced treasure hunt with a $500,000 prize, buried somewhere in the Caribbean.
The hoard is made up of specially-minted solid gold coins (collectively worth $350,000) and a rock crystal skull adorned with a red opal jewel (valued at a further $150,000) — a nod to Black Flag's mysterious macguffin.
This prize has been dubbed "The Lost Treasure of Edward Kenway", referring to Black Flag's pirate-turned-Assassin hero, and will be available to claim to anyone who solves an elaborate treasure hunt with 15 elaborate riddles. While the puzzles will be Black Flag themed, however, no prior knowledge of the game will actually be necessary.
The whole scheme is a collaboration with...
Konami's recent relaunch of its long-dormant Silent Hill series continues to pick up speed, with Silent Hill 2 Remake topping 6 million players, and Silent Hill f topping 2 million sales.
While I too clocked that interesting distinction Konami makes between "players" and "sales," it nonetheless strengthens the horror franchise, firming up its future as we move towards the upcoming Silent Hill: Townfall and Bloober Team's Silent Hill 1 Remake.
To celebrate the news, Konami is offering a 40% discount on the Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f Dual Pack, which, predictably enough, bundles both games together in one purchase for $71.99.
Silent Hill f takes us not to the titular town but instead to 1960s Japan, where we follow Hinako...
If you’ve been following the Forza Horizon series for years, you already know the feeling. That moment when a new Horizon game gets announced, and suddenly you’re counting down the days until you’re tearing through a whole new locale.
Well, Forza Horizon 6 is shaping up to be exactly that kind of game. It’s bigger, bolder, and packed with features that feel like they were designed specifically for long-time fans.
From its setting to its soundtrack, here are five confirmed features in Forza Horizon 6 that have us seriously excited.
1. Japan Is the Perfect Horizon Location
Let’s be honest. If there’s one place that feels like it was built for Forza Horizon 6, it’s Japan.
This is the home of drifting culture, legendary street racing...
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic won't be another bloated single-player game that takes over half a decade to develop, game director Casey Hudson has insisted. Via an interview with Bloomberg, we learned a few new details about the highly anticipated Star Wars RPG, which aims to be a spiritual successor to BioWare's much-loved Knights of the Old Republic. Hudson talked a bit about the aspirations for the final product, both for how long it will take to produce and how long it will take players to finish it.
For starters, Hudson isn't backing down on his claims that Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic will release before 2030, but doesn't have an exact release date in mind. He noted that he has never spent more than four years on a...
The early access launch of Subnautica 2 appears to be the latest game hit by pre-release leaks in a matter of days, after players managed to access both LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and Forza Horizon 6 before their official launch dates.
Aquatic survival adventure Subnautica 2 is meant to arrive in early access for Xbox Series X/S and PC this Thursday, May 14. But over on reddit, what appears to be screenshots and a clip of PC gameplay have just been posted.
Fans say that an unknown person apparently streamed the game last night, after somehow obtaining a working copy. It's an odd situation, so soon after confusion over exactly how Forza Horizon 6 leaked, and separately, a similarly bizarre situation where one player was...
Last week, we exclusively revealed Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, and today we'd like to introduce you to nine enemy types – and no, they're not all Xenomorphs – who will look to have you screaming "Game over, man!" as you fight together with up to three friends in the upcoming four-player PvE third-person shooter due out this summer for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Some you'll remember from the first game, and some are new. And the developers wanted us to make it clear that there are more enemy types you'll face than just these nine.
We're spotlighting seven of the Xenomorph alien types you'll run into in Fireteam Elite in the gallery below, plus two different android foes (though one of them has more than two legs...). Say hello to the...
Former Tekken director, Katsuhiro Harada, has established his own game development company, VS Studio.
Drawing on his 31 years of experience at Bandai Namco, Harada has teamed up with SNK Corporation — the developer/publisher best known for its Neo Geo system and fighting games like The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, and Samurai Showdown — to found a studio that is "beyond tradition, crafted to perfection."
The "VS" part of the newly formed studio's identity has "various meanings," reflecting the roots in Video game Software design — games, in other words — as well as "versus" in the sense of taking on a challenge. According to Harada, it also holds multiple other meanings symbolizing innovation and competition, too, including...
They’re calling it the biggest entertainment launch of all time – a record GTA VI is set to smash, currently held by none other than its own direct predecessor. It seems like a no-brainer that developers Rockstar and publisher Take Two will be popping champagne corks like a 21-gun salute come November, but will it be a party or a funeral? The only difference, after all, is context.
GTA V remains one of the most expensive games ever made, with a combined development and marketing budget believed to be well over two-hundred and fifty million dollars, numbers already utterly eclipsed by GTA VI’s protracted, beleaguered development cycle which has been marred by hostile data breaches and various internal struggles, but is also reportedly...
Not that long ago, it didn’t even seem like we were going to see a sequel to The Sinking City at all, since Ukrainian developer Frogwares was hit just as hard by the economic and material consequences of Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022. But in 2024, The Sinking City 2 was announced, in 2025 the Kickstarter to help fund it was completed, and earlier this month, I got to spend a couple of hours soaking in its cosmic juices. There are some differences small and large in this sequel – a different story and protagonist, a different titular sinking city, and scaling back from an open-world adventure to a more survival horror action game – but doesn’t this help the series float above its peers?
A few things are pretty similar between...
IGN recently spoke to Bioshock developer Ken Levine about his new game Judas and his thoughts on the ever-changing world of game development. He explained why cutting-edge tech and ultrarealism weren't appealing to him as a creator.
"I don't think we've ever been a company that was like, oh my God, we need the latest and greatest technology. In the rendering space we've never been a company; outside of SWAT 4, we never really tried to do ultrarealism in our games," he explained.
"It's expensive, and it doesn't age as well as sort of more stylistic things because BioShock still looks good, I think, because it wasn't trying to get every nut and bolt super realistically rendered. It was realistic-looking, sort of, but it was more...
In a recent interview with IGN, Ken Levine explained why his next game Judas has been 10 years in the making. He revealed it's not because of technology but because the team was focused on creating stories that will respond to you when you're playing.
"The reason it took so long is not really related to rendering technology or anything like that," he said. "It was figuring out how we crafted the system, this narrative Lego system that is combining modular elements together dynamically at runtime to make stories happen that are very reactive to the player."
"So we had a technology, and then we had to figure out how to write a story for that. Like how do we write stories at maximum leverage? As much as you love the stories from...
It's been quite the journey, I know, but it's almost here — Subnautica 2 is dragging us back down beneath the waves on May 14.
Subnautica 2 is an open-water survival game from the creators of the original Subnautica series, wherein you can play alone or with friends and explore alluring biomes and discover fascinating creatures, crafting vehicles, tools, and bases to help survive a mysterious alien world. While there have been a few wobbles — including a painfully public falling out between developer Unknown Worlds and publisher Krafton — the game is finally releasing into early access later this week.
As an early access title, Subnautica 2 launches as a work-in-progress, which means you may experience some issues and bugs along the...
I have bad news for fans of EA's unsettling horror series, Dead Space — former writer and producer, Chuck Beaver, thinks a fourth instalment of the acclaimed sci-fi series is unlikely due to low sales despite its "fervent fan base."
Talking on the FRVR Podcast, Beaver admitted that the "numbers just aren't there," adding that to recoup the costs of the franchise's high production values, any new game would need to sell over 10 million copies — a tall order for even a breakout horror game.
“Any of the Resident Evils are selling around seven million [copies], that’s a pretty good number," Beaver said. "But, you know, companies now are looking for the next Fortnite. They need something that is a perennial moneymaker… something like a...
Forza Horizon 6 developer Playground Games is following through on its threat after the game was leaked online ahead of the official release date, with one pirate reporting a hardware ban until the year 10,000.
Overnight, the Microsoft-owned studio threatened to ban anyone it found had accessed the leaked build of Forza Horizon 6, while denying it emerged as a result of a Steam pre-load issue.
"We are aware of reports that a build of Forza Horizon 6 has been obtained prior to its release and can confirm this is not the result of a pre-load issue," Playground said in its statement. "We are taking strict enforcement action against any individuals found accessing this build including franchise-wide and hardware bans. We encourage fans to...
Crimson Desert developer and publisher Pearl Abyss has issued its latest financial results, revealing just how much money the breakout hit adventure game has made for the company, while also confirming plans to explore DLC.
The single-player open world fantasy action game has sold a hugely impressive 5 million copies since going on sale on March 19. Korean company Pearl Abyss reported its financials for the first quarter of 2026, so up to the end of March. That means its revenue figures only include a couple weeks of Crimson Desert sales.
Still, up to the end of March, Pearl Abyss said Crimson Desert brought in KRW 266.5 billion (approx. $178.8 million). Interestingly, the sales split between console and PC is approximately 50:50...
Neowiz and Round8's Lies of P sequel has now "entered full production phase."
While we already knew that a sequel to the critically and commercially acclaimed 2023 soulslike was on the way, South Korean company Neowiz — which co-developed as well as published the soulslike adventure — has now confirmed, via its latest financial report to investors, that its prototype has been "approved," paving the way to a "full development phase." Unfortunately no release window was mentioned.
Elsewhere in the financial report, the company intimated that income generated by Lies of P DLC, Overture, had now "stablized," and it was now "executing strategies for global IP franchising and fandom-centered operations to drive robust revenue growth." Oh...
After months of concerns regarding 007 First Light's performance, IO Interactive has confirmed the upcoming Bond game will run at 60fps. When 007 First Light's gameplay was revealed in September 2025, fans grew concerned about the game's performance. The frame rate appeared to be pretty choppy, particularly during big, busy action sequences.
IO Interactive seems to have used its extra time on First Light's development to smooth out performance issues, and has confirmed that the game will run at 60fps on the PS5 Pro and will hit 60fps in performance mode on base PS5. 007 First Light will also have a quality mode, which will allow the game to have higher fidelity, but run at 30fps.
IOI hasn't addressed performance on Xbox Series X, but...
Call of the Elder Gods, from developer Out of the Blue Games, handles a careful balancing act between story-focused adventure and puzzle solving with grace. As the long-awaited follow-up to 2020's Call of the Sea and its emotionally gripping puzzle-box adventure, it's another rare Lovecraft-inspired game that effectively wields the surreal mystery and emotional stakes of confronting the unknown, rather than the macabre aspects of cosmic horror you may expect. The original game focused on exploring a winding, lush island that gradually revealed deeper mysteries and crushing loss with its protagonist, Norah, and Call of the Elder Gods continues the story as a noticeably tighter sequel with two new protagonists who embark on a parallel...
Things have sure been heating up for the Steam Machine over the last couple weeks. On top of shipment data suggesting Valve's mini gaming PC is coming soon, code found in the latest Steam update hints at the different versions of the console that'll be available.
Spotted by Wccftech, it seems like there will be four different versions of the Steam Machine, along with two versions of the Steam Frame, available at launch. However, while this does suggest there will be plenty of choices for the upcoming hardware, nothing yet indicates just how much the Steam Machine will cost.
Luckily, even though we still don't know how much the Steam Machine will cost, it does seem like Valve will be employing the same reservation queue that it just...
Fans think Gears of War: E-Day could be coming as soon as September, because of a WWE teaser.
Recently announced at Backlash in Tampa, Florida, Triplemania is the biggest event of the Lucha Libre AAA calendar. AAA is a subsidiary of WWE and will be hosting the premium live event over two dates in September, the 11th and 13th. The latter will take place in Ciudad de México, while the former’s location has yet to be revealed.
But how does this all link to Gears of War? Well, the upcoming prequel, E-Day, is set to sponsor the event, as the logo for the game can be spotted at the end of a trailer posted on the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide's social media accounts.
Is this significant? Well, kinda. Games don’t normally receive this sort of...
Arguably the most famous episode of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica TV series is also one of the first, called 33. In it, every 33 minutes, the relentless Cylons show up like clockwork to pursue Galactica, driving the crew to the breaking point. It was a brilliant concept for a TV show, and a very similar idea works quite well for Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes. This roguelike strategy game about leading a small fleet on a quest to link up with Galactica immediately after the destruction of Caprica borrows that ticking clock and combines it with an unceasing barrage of both missiles and crises, giving a tense edge to its strategic resource management and relatively simple 2D tactical combat.
It's definitely worth watching at least...
Making the leap to space feels like a big departure from the usually grounded horror of the previous games in Supermassive's Dark Pictures anthology series. But Directive 8020 reminded me that the sense of isolation, living in a bubble surrounded by forces hostile to human life, makes the dark beyond a great fit for this genre. Kicking off the second "season" of these self-contained tales of terror, the four-year hiatus after 2022’s The Devil in Me has brought a number of much-needed technical improvements and gameplay tweaks – though some of them are more well-considered than others.
Directive 8020 follows the suspenseful journey of the Cassiopeia, a sleeper ship sent to scout for humanity's first exoplanet colony. This is framed to...
The sequel to Stellar Blade will not be published by PlayStation, developer Shift Up has confirmed — something that could point to a multiplatform launch for the forthcoming game.
Instead, Korean company Shift Up will take on publishing duties itself for Stellar Blade 2, or whatever the game ends up being called. In an earnings relase, Shift Up said this move would help ensure its franchise's "unique appeal" was communicated to players "more directly and effectively."
The first Stellar Blade launched as a PlayStation 5 console exclusive in April 2024, with a PC port then launching just over a year later in June 2025. Its arrival was received positively on both platforms, with players saying its gameplay mixed elements of NieR...