ConnexionBungie is finally ready for a Marathon 'gameplay reveal'
Also there's a pink robot cat.
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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 7
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The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe
BattleTech: Gothic will have its own mini-line of miniatures and games.
© Catalyst Game Labs
Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
Not my favorite gaming experience.
© id Software, Nightdive
You really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently
It sold over 100,000 copies in just a few days.
© Double Cross
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
© Motiviti
That game jam based on Oblivion's terrible persuasion wheel actually produced some good, weird ideas
Spin the wheel to figure out what your gun does.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MpYjZtqRAq4qjd3qCmAcie.png "A screenshot of game jam submission Blade & Wheel. A character wielding a sword awaits input from the user interface, a "wheel" on which the words "cower, "attack," "attack," or "struggle" are arranged.")
© Graeme Borland
Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
The DLC will launch alongside a free content update, though both are still "months away."
© Eremite Games
In 'a bit of an experiment' Rust's latest update makes softcore mode even softer, and some changes may be brought over 'to the vanilla game in future'
New jungle biome also teased.
© Facepunch Studios
Pacific Drive's 'largest ever' update adds endless expeditions to the vehicular survival game, but it's a big change to how saving works that has me pondering a reinstall
"The main storyline and expeditions routes can be completed in parallel, so you’ll benefit from progress in either!"
© Ironwood Studios
Dishonored and Prey's director says 'I could see myself working on Dishonored 3 right now' but the chances of that happening is in the realms of 'science fiction'
"I had a document about Dishonored 3."
© WolfEye Studios
Party with wizards and get stuck in a Medusa timeloop in Indiepocalypse's latest anthology of unusual games
The unique bundle-zine's been going since 2020.
© Maisie and Alex
Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 6
Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.
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The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last
A bear, too.
© Iconiq Studios/Crystal Dynamics
YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing
"Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch CS case opening videos instead."
© LocalThunk
Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died
Petras had a long and illustrious career in the games industry, mostly at Blizzard Entertainment.
© Blizzard Entertainment via Fandom
The remaster of D&D classic Neverwinter Nights 2 still hasn't been announced, but it's already Steam Deck verified
I'm vibrating out of my seat.
© Obsidian
Assassin's Creed Shadows fixes Valhalla's biggest mistakes
But it doesn't go far enough.
© Ubisoft
'Sweet Liberty, the automatons are invading Minecraft!' Helldivers 2 player commemorates the game's most famous battle by recreating it in Mojang's survival game
Digging for freedom.
© Microsoft, Red Monster Thing
Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators of XCOM's Long War mod, just got a massive update that adds exofighters, improved diplomacy, and 'advanced weapons' for its alien menace
New patch brings "improvements across Earth and space".
© Hooded Horse
After a whopping 13 years in development, the Battle for Middle-earth's Extended Edition mod finally gives the beloved RTS the full Peter Jackson treatment
"Middle-earth Extended Edition returns".
© EA
Abiotic Factor's next update will bring a whole new upgrade system and fix attacks on your base: 'We've heard a lot of feedback about base assaults and how they just kinda stink'
Cold Fusion is coming soon.
© Deep Field Games
Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 5
Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.
© Future
We haven't even gotten over the sting of $70 games and now Nintendo's asking people to pay $80 for Mario Kart
Could the $80 standard come to PC next?
© Nintendo
After being laid off from his triple-A 'dream job', this developer made a game about a disgruntled ex-employee seeking revenge on the corporate world
In Vindefiant, your character "unleashes his powers and sparks a path of rage and destruction to get revenge on his former employer."
© Blakey Games
Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio gave up on the System Shock remake because the cyberspace sequences were 'too hard,' and I can't tell you how disappointed I am right now
I kid, of course. Mostly, anyway.
© Nightdive Studios
Phasmophobia events for 2025: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts
A handy calendar for visits from the Jackalope, Blood Moon cult, and Krampus.
© Kinetic Games
I loved the Nintendo Switch, but the Switch 2 looks like every other console now: A worse PC with a few exclusive games
The Switch was a bolt from the blue. The Switch 2 is ho-hum.
© Nintendo
Microsoft employee escorted out of 50th anniversary event after protesting sales to Israel: 'You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands'
Ibtihal Aboussad interrupted AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's address to criticize the company's work with the Israeli military in Gaza.
© Getty Images
Months before Schedule 1 was a Steam top seller, its solo dev was worried he was 'kneecapping' himself by not putting 'drug' in the title
"I think it's a pretty poor name."
© TVGS
Unity CEO rails against the 'idiocy' of the metaverse: 'I experienced all those new platforms and just thought they were garbage'
"I was completely confused by them."
© Meta
I'm losing my mind over Inzoi's massive river sharks
Players are catching the biggest "fish" in the smallest places.
© Krafton
Tekken 8's newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there's a 'disconnect between what the community wants' and what the developer is doing
It's not looking good for Tekken 8 Season 2.
© Bandai Namco
The 'Stardew Valley-like' genre desperately needs a real name and I have the perfect answer
We can't keep calling them Stardew-like, farmlife without a farm, and "basically Animal Crossing" forever.
© NPC Studio
The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god
Willingly do I pledge myself to the Gigacrake.
© Capcom
The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year
A 300-card set will lay the groundwork for what Riot hopes will be a hit.
© Riot Games
13 years after it was first teased, the official Mewgenics trailer is here with live-action sexual dysfunction, brutal violence, a divine grudge, and more than 100 truly awful cats
It's not often I point to a videogame trailer and say "you gotta see this," but you gotta see this.
© Edmund McMillen
Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
© Monster Couch
Repose's demo is short, but this 2D horror game is already feeling like something out of Severance
I have a job to do, I'm just not sure what it is.
© Akupara Games
Nintendo has delayed Switch 2 pre-orders in the US 'to assess the potential impact of tariffs' and it feels like a straight warning of the hardware price rises to come
One of the horsemen of the hardware pricing apocalypse?
© Getty Images / wellesenterprises
Dice 'n' Goblins is a charming little dungeon-crawling RPG with some deceptively clever systems under the hood
The 'g' in RPG stands for goblin.
© Tsukumogami Software
Keychron's M5 wireless ergonomic mouse has an 8K polling rate for 'ultimate control in gaming scenarios' making it a gaming mouse with a, err, twist
Ergonomic comfort and gaming chops are sometimes unhappy bedfellows, but this mouse has an interesting specs sheet.
© Keychron
A Minecraft Movie's director says he'd love to make Another Minecraft Movie: 'It'd be amazing'
"The world's infinite."
© Warner Bros
Disney Dreamlight Valley Eggstravaganza event 2025: everything you need to know
Spring has sprung in Dreamlight Valley.
© Gameloft
You won't have to leave the Amazon app even when buying from other retailers thanks to the company's new 'Buy for Me' agentic AI bot
It will track delivery progress too.
© Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Miyazaki says calm down, FromSoft will keep making 'singleplayer-focused games' in future even though its current obsession is multiplayer stuff
Well, thank heavens.
© FromSoftware / Nintendo
The RTX 5060 Ti is rumoured to cost the same as the RTX 4060 Ti, which may leave it wide open for an AMD RX 9070-based assault
GPU pricing matters, especially when we're talking about the lower end of the stack.
© Future
Krafton's first stab at a life sim game is going swimmingly as Inzoi managed to shift over 1 million copies in its first week
That's a lot of people managing a lot of Zois.
© Krafton
Assassin's Creed Shadows' huge but shallow open world is proof that we've lost the Nemesis System just when we need it most
The games keep getting bigger and more impressive, but the content is stagnating.
© Monolith Productions, WB Games
Ubisoft frantically patches nudity back into Far Cry 4 after accidentally patching it out
We've all been there.
© Ubisoft