⚡️ WILD roguelike slasher Morbid Metal lands in Early Access on April 8, published by Ubisoft, developed by SCREEN JUICE.
Set in a bleak future: swap characters on the fly, chain unique abilities into brutal combos, and upgrade between runs, but death wipes the run's progress. Launch price is $13.49 (then $17.99). PC only on Steam, no Russian localization, demo available. Started as a university project, grew into a full game, get ready to tear robots apart. 🔥
⚡️ Behaviour Interactive says Dead by Daylight won't get a sequel, the studio will keep it alive as a service.
At GDC in a talk with IGN, Mathieu Cote and Dave Richard said they'll roll out updates, crossovers and gradual tech improvements instead of a new game: players have already invested time and money, the team doesn't want to split support between two titles, and big graphical/platform jumps could ditch users with weak hardware. They'd rather KEEP the current game running into the next decade.
🤯 Crimson Desert surprised the environment artist behind Red Dead Redemption 2, David O'Reilly says in his teardown that the game's water simulation looks, in many ways, better than the rivers he built at Rockstar.
He stresses he's judging as an artist, not a coder: the visuals show cascades, slow zones, pools and a tendency for water to seek horizontal equilibrium, behavior closer to real hydrodynamics. Rather than baked flowmaps, Crimson Desert uses a live sim reminiscent of FLIP, adapted for real‑time with a simplified vertical axis; Pearl Abyss hasn't revealed tech details, so O'Reilly's conclusions come from visual analysis, and it's honestly MIND-BLOWING
🚀 Starfield lands on PS5 on April 7, Bethesda detailed the Sony edition. On PS5 Pro there are two modes: Visual, 4K / 30 fps, Performance, 60 fps (resolution TBD). Upscaling uses PSSR.
DualSense support: adaptive triggers convey recoil for personal weapons and ship cannons; the light bar reflects your health/ship status; the speaker plays audio logs and comms; the touchpad uses taps, holds and swipes for camera, map, scanner and to open inventory/quests/upgrade menus. The release also arrives with the Free Lanes update and a paid story DLC.
⚡️HYKE: Northern Light(s), the pixel action-RPG from Blast Edge Games has quietly landed on Apple Arcade on 2 April 2026. A top-down 2D adventure set in a world wrecked by a war between humans and witches: you play young witch Hyke, driving a van while searching for her mother. Came out with almost no announcement, subscribers got a proper SURPRISE 🎮
⚡ Gothic 1 Remake has bumped its system requirements on Steam, the new specs are noticeably higher than the demo's, signaling a real graphical leap. BUMPED 😳
Minimum: Windows 10/11 64‑bit, CPU i7‑7700K / Ryzen 5 1600X, 16 GB RAM, 8 GB VRAM (RX 6700 XT / RTX 2070), DirectX 12, 60 GB storage; Recommended: CPU Ryzen 5 2600X / i7‑7700K, 32 GB RAM, 12 GB VRAM (RTX 3070 Ti / RX 6800 XT), DirectX 12, 60 GB.
⚡️Frédérick Raynal, creator of Alone in the Dark, has launched a Kickstarter for a new title on the SEGA Mega Drive, PopCorn: Duel, and has already pulled in roughly half the funding.
The project reworks his 1988 PopCorn and ships three builds on one cartridge: PopCorn: Duel (new), a Mega Drive port of the original, and PopCorn 2026 (remaster). The headline tech is a physical PopCorn Spinner controller using Hall sensors (~4096 steps/rev) for true "infinite" rotation and an authentic ARCADE feel. 🌀
⚡️WILD, South of Midnight on PS5 suddenly climbed the Metacritic ranks: the PlayStation build sits at 80.
The port to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2, released on March 31, 2026, reignited interest in the adventure from Compulsion Games, which originally launched on April 8, 2025 for Xbox/PC; Xbox and PC versions sit at 77 and 75 despite no major technical differences.
⚡ Arena Breakout: Infinite kicked off its fifth season, DISTORTION: a major update that flips the pace, with the standout being Distorted Valley, a map drenched in anomalies and supernatural effects.
Raids now grant unique powers (shields, temporary invulnerability, ally-based healing), plus dynamic events like a mystic bell and shrinking evac points that force constant adaptation. The update adds new modes, "Boss Gathering", "Masters Tournament", "Wastes", seasonal tasks, a rewards system and fresh weapons: T192, FAMAS and smoke grenades. One of the weirdest seasons so far.
On the March downloads chart of the PS Store, Crimson Desert landed at the top, despite a mixed reception it still climbed to #1. It's loud, polarising and very much in the HYPE.
Sony's monthly lists come in pairs (left = NA, right = EU). The release shows side-by-side entries like MLB The Show 26 / Crimson Desert and Resident Evil Requiem / Resident Evil Requiem among many others 😏
