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⚡️ Dead by Daylight 2 isn't happening, project lead Mathieu Côté and Behaviour Interactive confirmed. NEVER

They're doubling down on long-term support: the live game morphed over 8 years from an indie horror into a genre giant, and a numbered sequel would split the playerbase, erase progress and cosmetics, and jeopardize dozens of licensed characters that cost thousands of hours to secure. The studio says engine and graphical upgrades can be done inside the existing client, making a separate "2" technically redundant.

⚡️The Division 2 kicked off the anniversary season Rise Up to mark the studio's 10-year milestone.

Headliner: the new mode Escalation, a HARDCORE endgame gauntlet with 10 tiers, a token system and no checkpoints: one mistake costs resources and progress. Rewards include a new rarity, Prototypes, with unique augments and boosted stats. Meanwhile Retribution was reworked around Black Tusk, clearing checkpoints drops exclusive blueprints and rare raid/DZ exotics.

⚔️ At GDC co‑founder Eric Chen unveiled Tides of Annihilation, a slick, high‑octane Character Action from veteran team Eclipse Glow Games.

The pitch: not a literal Arthur retelling, the Round Table is a springboard. Protagonist Gwendolyn fights alongside fellow knights; combat is built around team interplay inside a single‑player campaign. Built on Unreal Engine 5, designed to run well on PC/PlayStation/Xbox, with close work with platform holders and new graphics tech. The studio deliberately avoids the current soulslike trend in favor of fast Character Action and aims to launch an original IP for a global audience. HYPE

⚔️ Deadly duels and quick runs: what's coming to Slay the Spire 2 from Mega Crit?

Co‑founder Casey Yano says the studio is prototyping three experimental modes, a competitive format for RANKED players, a sped‑up short‑run mode for quick sessions, and fresh social mechanics beyond standard co‑op. All features are currently prototypes; only stuff that preserves balance and doesn't bloat the game will make the final cut. Quality over quantity.

📬 Embark Studios is returning LOOT to ARC Raiders players who lost gear during a 12-hour outage overnight on April 2.

Lost kits, including the new guns Canto and Dolabra, will arrive via in-game mail after mass crashes. Despite being hailed as the Best Multiplayer Game 2025 and selling 12M copies, the Steam population dipped from 250k to 140k. Devs are banking on the April patch Riven Tides (new map + ARC-class boss) to revive raids and the endgame.

⚡️ Capcom revealed Ingrid, the FINAL fighter for Season 3 of Street Fighter 6.

The season pass is winding down: players should be able to try Ingrid by the end of spring; the new teaser only shows her design, gameplay footage will come later. Season 3 already added Sagat, Viper and Alex. SF6 is available on PC (Steam), PS4/PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch 2 with Russian text.

😈 Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, the new story trailer «Queen and the Saint», an IGN exclusive, lands April 28.

Blizzard teases an uneasy alliance between Adreona and Akarat: following the paladin's triumph the expansion leans into psychological drama, faith warped by unseen forces, light reduced to a veil for the DARKNESS; players face a "faith and fire" road, choosing between devotion and doubt as defenders' morals unravel.

🤝 May 7 Age of Empires IV launches Yue Fei's Legacy, a campaign about defending the Song and bringing in legendary general Yue Fei.

The headline feature is the new faction Jin: it plays around political subjugation of settlements and heavy gunpowder tech, mounted grenadiers and bespoke artillery. Multiplayer gets four new maps, fresh biomes, a new soundtrack and trials. DIPLOMACY over pure swordplay, expect political warfare and explosive firepower 🎯

⚡️Arknights: Endfield is reworking the GACHA, studio Hypergryph admits the system was too messy and is planning a major reform to tear down the PAYWALL and give F2P players a shot at top squads ✨

Lead dev Ryan says they'll merge some currencies in the UI, boost free rewards and add starter character selectors for newcomers; the team is analyzing survey data now to balance the economy and make progression transparent

🎭 Games Workshop just dropped a trailer for The Emperor Protects, a full-fledged musical set in Warhammer 40,000.

Sisters of Battle and Space Marines sing about "burning xenos" and Dark Millennium ballads; the cast turned out to be known cosplayers, so the AI-rumors are busted. A candid making-of even shows producers seriously debating how to musicalize Trazin the Infinite. Premiere is set for April 1, 2027. Fans already want the prank turned into a real stage show. WILD 🤯