Steam & Epic Games Daily

🔥 STEAM DISCOUNTS FOR TODAY:

-86% NBA 2K26 -85% Assassin's Creed® Origins -85% Devil May Cry 5 -80% Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition -75% Red Dead Redemption 2 -75% Kerbal Space Program

🪶 Genshin Impact dropped a new trailer for the silent fallen emissary Nicole: her golden feathers rained down like snapped strings, she's mute, yet her human heart still beats.

In gameplay terms, Nicole is a limited five-star Pyro support who buffs the squad; she shines in teams built around "shabash" characters but is handy in other comps too.

🔥 EPIC GAMES DISCOUNTS FOR TODAY:

-75% Two Point Museum -70% New Lands -70% Travel Cuisine 3: The Sea of Flavours Collector's Edition -70% Dolmenjord - Viking Islands

⚡Asha Sharma pulled a major SHAKEUP at Xbox, she imported leaders from CoreAI and promoted long‑time execs to build an "accessible, flexible and open" platform.

Key moves: Jared Palmer becomes VP of development and Sharma's technical advisor (ex‑CoreAI, GitHub, Vercel); Tim Allen will run design (CoreAI, GitHub, Instacart, Airbnb); Jonathan McKay heads growth (Meta → OpenAI → CoreAI); Fatima Kardar will lead a new personalization org; Jason Ronald promoted. Kevin Gammill exits; David Schloss moves to subscriptions/cloud.

💸 After the surprise success of Crimson Desert, Pearl Abyss says its strategic priorities have shifted, the focus is now on their own titles and monetization. The company sold CCP Games back to CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursso, pocketing a boatload of CASH and in‑game crypto.

Looks like they traded an MMO studio for liquidity to double down on growing and supporting Crimson Desert.

😬 Steam Controller sold out in 30 seconds and shot to the top of Steam's paid chart; Valve priced it at $99, but SCALPERS immediately flooded eBay with ~2x listings.

Valve apologized and says restock is coming. In the wider charts Counter-Strike 2 still rules, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sits at #2, while Vampire Crawlers tumbled out of the top 3. Peak players: Diablo IV, 64,518; Far Far West, 47,256.

⚡️Blizzard ran their 9th poll, 39 concepts across 10 themes. The focus was on seldom‑skinned heroes: Brigitte, Maugu, Mei, plus newcomers Emre, Mizuki and Reactive Kisa.

Kiriko has two looks, Yuno got four, and Mercy is totally absent. Themes go from "Island parties" to "Animal gangsters". BRACE: these cosmetics aren't expected before Season 2-3, 2027. 👀

🚆 Battlefield 6 Season 3, the TRAIN's making a BREAKTHROUGH: classic Golmud Railway has been rebuilt into the expanded Railway to Golmud, now the biggest map in the game.

The map was fully overhauled and enlarged: the train now moves dynamically toward enemy bases, kicking off nonstop clashes. The update drops on May 12 and brings a chunky arsenal (L115, M16A4), ranked matches and a new mode, basically a reboot to pull players back in.

⚠️ Grand Theft Auto 6 is the release hanging over Strauss Zelnick's head: it drops on November 19, analysts expect a massive media event, and anything short will be read as a FLOP.

To be labelled a hit the game must shift at least 25 million copies in 24 hours; even 15 million would be treated as failure given the enormous spend, insiders say the budget has topped $1 billion, and Zelnick reportedly gave the studio carte blanche.

A low‑key Steam launch for The Awakener: Battle Tendency, an action‑RPG that mashes Diablo‑style build depth with MUSOU crowd‑clearing: hundreds of affixes and talents, wave-based combat and about 20-50 hours of loot‑driven progression ⚔️

Not a loud release: peak concurrent players were only 144 and reviews are already mixed. It looks promising on paper, but for now the drop barely registered.