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😬 Neverness To Everness's launch on 29 April 2026 was overshadowed within a day: players spotted a city billboard so close to a frame from Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You that they accused Hotta Studio of AI SLOP.

CEO Yan Lei had publicly said AI was only for rough work and refs, not final assets, now the community says that promise was broken. Hotta hasn't commented on the specific banner; some gamers call for a boycott, others call it an homage. The silence plus the studio's Tower of Fantasy history fuels distrust.

⚡️ RUMORS: the Hogwarts Legacy sequel is said to push beyond the castle, insiders claim players will be able to explore London, its districts and muggle suburbs, including Diagon Alley and Privet Drive.

According to Culture Cave and other sources, the world will be much bigger, with closer ties to the upcoming HBO series and possible online co‑op plus a full Quidditch mode. No official reveal yet, but expanding the map outside Hogsmeade looks like a top priority.

🤠 Far Far West stormed Steam charts, 250,000 copies sold in 48 hours with 97% positive reviews, an unexpected indie hit of robot cowboys. A chaotic co-op shooter for 1-4 players, it's a Wild West + sci‑fi mashup in the vein of Helldivers 2 and Deep Rock Galactic. Squad up, blast monsters, complete missions, and maybe make it back home. COWBOYS

Sins of a Solar Empire 2, in update 1.6 «UI Horizons» Stardock essentially ditched AI portraits for hand‑drawn art, answering fan backlash and unifying the visual style 🎮

The patch fully overhauls the UI, adds new faction‑select screens and a built‑in map editor, tightens defensive balance, makes enemy AI act smarter and streamlines save handling, the game runs more modern and stable now. MAD

Design director of ARC Raiders, Virgil Watkins, explains why launching a new extraction shooter today is way riskier: the market's saturated, niches are taken and player attention is glued to established titles.

Watkins isn't calling it dead, extraction shooters originally catered to hardcore players but grew when devs simplified core mechanics and made them more accessible. That shift proves new projects can still succeed, they just need the right approach to the audience. SHOT. ⚡️

Steel Artery: Train City Builder launches on May 15 on Steam, a survival-strategy city-builder announced by Crytivo and SoulAge23, all set inside a colossal moving train.

You'll grow a carriage-by-car metropolis with indirect control: the game leans into logistics and constant adaptation to shifting regions of the Empire; each carriage has a role, housing, industry, services. Balance your economy, meet citizens' needs and follow a narrative campaign centered on a grand mission to glorify the Emperor. WILD 🚂

👀 10 minutes of gameplay from the cancelled expansion Quake 4: The Awakening have LEAKED.

More than twenty years after the original, a clean, watermark‑free clip from Ritual Entertainment surfaced, a rare peek behind the curtain of old‑school FPS design. Fans are speculating the leak might be tied to a potential Nightdive remaster, which could include The Awakening as bonus material if it ever ships.

👀 INFbuilds flooded the Tower leaderboard in Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred, same nickname occupying the top spots.

It's not a single superplayer but a squad from portal InfinityBuilds led by streamer Mekuna. Their PROMO is simple: prove the guides work by clearing the toughest content at 150-level difficulty with mathematically tuned builds. Blizzard is watching for fair play, while InfinityBuilds treats leaderboards as a live storefront to catch casuals looking to learn the current meta.

🤖 Randy Pitchford of Gearbox posted an AI selfie that barely looks like him, a whiteboard in the shot reads «Borderlands 4» and «New IP», and players flipped out.

He called it a "silly joke", but after the game's mixed September reception fans interpreted the image as a hint that jobs might be cut in favor of neural nets. Pitchford snapped back, insisting the company doesn't use AI in customer products. PISSED

⚔️ Watt Studio dropped a cinematic trailer for Tsarevna: Age of Tales, a Russian-flavored hack-and-slash starring the Swan Tsarevna, a warrior who dared death.

Combat is explicitly ballet-inspired: elegant combos, flowing motion and pinpoint strikes; you'll explore a dangerous, fairy-tale world and master complex attack chains. Planned for PC and already addable to your wishlist on Steam. SLICK