🎣 Rockstar turned up the heat in Red Dead Online: five times the RDO $ and XP are on offer until May 4.
Join free‑roam fishing trials or sell your catch to butchers, new players can grab a rod for FREE in any shop or catalogue. From Apr 7-13 the "To Arms" mode returns: survive to wave five and score the blue 'Prieto' poncho. The event is meant to pump up RDR2 multiplayer activity ahead of a busy 2026 release schedule.
🌋 11 bit studios held a «Future of Frost» showcase: the studio revealed the Frostpunk series has reached 11 million players and dropped a trailer for Breach of Trust, the DLC for Frostpunk 2, due on 23 June 2026.
Breach of Trust is set in New Edinburgh beside a volcano, tremors, ash-filled skies and citizens ready to distrust their leader; DLC test sign-ups are open (you can SIGN UP), the roadmap teases a third add-on Surge in 2026, dev diaries and info on Frostpunk 1886 are coming, the original is headed to Switch, and the series is currently on sale on Steam.
🕯️ Yoshihisa Kishimoto, creator of Double Dragon and Kunio‑kun, has died at 64, his son announced the news. LEGEND.
He began his career at Data East and later moved to Technos Japan, helping shape classic arcade titles and the beat‑'em‑up scene. The gaming world is saying goodbye to one of the formative creators of that era.
HYPE 👀: fans are primed for a Persona 6 reveal at the summer Xbox Games Showcase, with whispers pointing to June 7, 2026.
Atlus stays tight-lipped, but a long partnership with Microsoft makes June a natural stage, the showcase unveiled Persona 4 Revival last year, whose launch is tied to early FY2027. Insiders like eXtas1s warn the event might focus on P4R details and push a full P6 announcement later
⚡️RUMOR: insider Rebs Gaming claims Halo: Campaign Evolved is nearly content-complete, the campaign is reportedly playable start to finish and is eyed for a possible summer release.
Expect prologue missions featuring ODST, brutes and a new Covenant faction; a skins system rooted in the classic Mark V armor but no in‑game store. Only polish and balance remain, and Brian Jarrard has previously said this monetization route isn't planned.
🧹 Another PURGE: Sony pulled a bunch of shovelware from the PS Store, spotted on PSNProfiles, titles like Jesus Simulator, Urban Driver Simulator, Water Blast Shooter, Wet Gun, Racing Car Chaos and Supermarket CEO Simulator vanished.
Shovelware = cheap, quickly made games, often trophy farms; earlier this year over >1000 projects were removed. Observers link this wave to the Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming. On Steam Jesus Simulator drew heat for generative AI, an empty world and weak dialogue, though some praised its educational angle.
👀 Fog lifts on April 9, Klei Entertainment is teasing a new Don't Starve
Fans are MIND-BLOWN: they cracked the studio's puzzle and unlocked a secret teaser site. Waiting for official confirmation and more clues as the date approaches.
🚨 BRAWLS, shootouts and car chases, the release trailer for crime action Samson sets the tone.
Out in two days, 8 April at 16:00 MSK. Samson is the debut from Liquid Swords (founded in 2020 by an Avalanche co‑founder and the so‑called 'father' of Just Cause, Christofer Sundberg), a story‑driven third‑person crime action where you play Samson McCray: deep in debt to gangsters, racing to pay up and save his sister. Expect cinematic brawls, shootouts and high‑speed car chases. Launching on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store) for $24.99. No Russian localization.
📈 Leak in Steam: dataminer Roadrunner spotted Framerate Estimator code in SteamDB, a new FEATURE to estimate a game's fps before you buy.
You'd enter your CPU/GPU/RAM, the tool compares your setup to other players' rigs and shows a graph with an estimated FPS range, an approximate, not exact, forecast. You can save multiple devices (like the Steam Deck) and use it right inside the store instead of third‑party sites such as Can You Run It?. No release date yet, though some users report being asked to share frame‑rate data, which hints at early testing.
📸 Playground Games and Xbox are rolling out "Art of Driving", a mini‑series that's less about settings and more about Japan: Larry Chen drives the country, talks culture, food and locals, and ties it to Forza Horizon 6.
First episode drops April 7 on the Forza YouTube channel, the trailer is already out. The race launches on May 19, 2026. WOW.
