⚡️ Hazelight and Josef Fares, co‑op MASTERS: combined sales have topped 50M copies.
Breakdown: It Takes Two, 30M, A Way Out, 13M, Split Fiction, 7M. You don't need two purchases to play with a friend, there's a free pass, so the actual player audience can be roughly doubled. The team is already on their next game and a screen adaptation of Split Fiction is in the works. 🎮
🎁 Pokémon Champions has landed on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2, during the first months after launch new players receive a powerful Gen 1 Pokémon they can keep on their team.
Jump in during the launch window to grab a FREE Gen‑1 teammate for your roster, a perfect excuse to start early and not miss the promo.
🚨 Road to Vostok has landed in Steam Early Access, 25% off until 21 April, and a free demo is available.
Set on the Finland, Russia border, the survival loop is scavenging, finding shelters, trading with NPCs and planning raids into the deadly Vostok zone, death means total progress loss (PERMADEATH). Non‑linear design: play cautiously and explore, or go full‑on into violent clashes with hostile factions.
FIRST-EVER Watt Studio dropped the first gameplay for art‑slasher TSAREVNA, Age of Tales, a dark Slavic fantasy about the surviving Swan Princess wandering a post‑catastrophe world 🩰
The twist: combat built on classical ballet, rhythm and choreography are your attacks. Devs brand it the "ballet slasher" and roped in Alena Kovaleva from the Bolshoi to stage the moves. It looks wild, elegant and utterly original.
Open beta for Callsign: Cedar goes live only in China, the test runs on BiliBili from April 10 to April 20. A verified BiliBili account is required to join.
It's a tactical real‑time strategy with gacha elements from Naroda, set on the colonised moon Knox, home to animal‑eared, tailed anthropomorphs. You play a young commander exploring, fighting and trying to change the fate of Earth and Knox. The test is region‑locked, but gameplay clips will leak, GET READY 🐾
IndieGO announced Midnight Souls, a mystical pixel adventure with RPG elements from indie creator Sergey Bolshakov. You arrive in Romashkovye Hills for an online date that spirals into a grim thriller.
You'll face inner fears, solve puzzles, tackle mini-games and help the cat Charlie; choices directly affect characters' fates. The vibe mixes HORROR, dark comedy and nostalgia as the town's calm façade peels away, uncovering creepy secrets 💀🐈⬛
⚰️ RIP for PS3: Electronic Arts will shut down online services for Dragon Age: Inquisition on April 28, the servers ran for 12 years.
Only the co‑op multiplayer on PS3 goes offline; PC, PS4 and Xbox versions are unaffected and the single‑player campaign stays playable. There will be no online trophies. Multiplayer was never the core of the game, but players should back up their saves before the shutdown.
⚡️IGN's preview makes it obvious WHY Gothic 1 Remake is priced at 2700 ₽. The Alkimia Interactive remake faithfully rebuilds the grim vibe of the Valley of Mines, refreshing controls and physics while keeping the original combat rhythm, fights feel much more responsive. The story gains a new mage arc for Mixir, NPCs now have believable routines and drives, and female characters finally get proper weight in the plot. Progression stays strict (your faction still locks out other skills), and learning the orc language opens diplomatic options. Small in scope, but full of classic soul.
⏳ Short pause: Embark Studios pushed the weekly ARC Raiders update, patch 1.23.0 is scheduled for April 8. JUST a one-day shift (weekly bugfixes usually drop on Tuesdays), so fixes arrive a day later, no drama.
The devs are still riding their ambitious ten‑year plan after the win at The Game Awards 2025: the game already got Stella Montis and the boss Matriarch, and early 2026 they're aiming for four major updates, Flashpoint helped lock in the momentum.
😬 IGN uploaded 20 minutes of Samson: A Tyndalston Story gameplay, then pulled the video after viewers ripped it to pieces.
The footage shows Samson McCray returning home, driving, UI and combat, but players slammed the build for graphical glitches, crashes and rough polish, calling it a second‑rate MindsEye and a total FAIL. IGN removed the clip, but the leaks remain online.
