⚡️ Riot dropped gameplay for Akali in 2XKO, she joins the roster on April 7.
The trailer lays out her kit: high speed, mobility and constant pressure, slick dashes across the arena, leg strikes, throwable kunai and fast, cinematic combo chains. The standout is the smoke veil that lets her vanish, reposition and close in for surprise counters; the moves are a clear nod to her League of Legends toolkit, making the switch to a fighter feel organic. NINJA energy 🔥
🍲 Hidden kitchen: modder claramercury restored a cut food‑risk system to the PC build of Crimson Desert, and it's WILD.
The buried files contained a full system with 50 skills and 15 categories: elemental resistances, combat buffs, temperature effects. Food could heal, poison, intoxicate or debuff stats. There are three difficulty presets, the hardest forces strict dietary management. Looks like Pearl Abyss removed it to avoid overloading players, but fans can now probe the depth of the scrapped ideas themselves.
🤪 Goat Simulator 3 has landed on Nintendo Switch, pure CHAOS: trademark absurdity and a fresh trailer from Goat Direct 2026.
At the show Coffee Stain Studios laid out its roadmap: the Switch release includes both local and online co‑op for chaotic open‑world sessions, and a GameShare feature on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 lets you share the game over local wireless even if friends don't own a copy.
⚡️ Gears of War: E-Day is expected this year, but The Coalition chose to release a prequel instead of immediately moving on to Gears 6, actor Liam McIntyre has confirmed.
According to McIntyre, the team feared burnout: building a full numbered trilogy today could take up to 15 years, so E‑Day functions as a deliberate pause to rethink and refresh the franchise. Numbered entries aren't dead, a release date and updates on the Gears 5 finale are likely to be revealed at the summer Xbox Showcase. WILD
💸 According to outdated data from Alinea Analytics, Crimson Desert pulled in over $200M, but those figures clearly don't mesh with the reported 3M copies sold.
Analysts found a strong audience overlap: 38% of PS5 owners also played Dragon's Dogma 2, while shared titles include Assassin's Creed Shadows and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Preorders alone generated more than $20M.
The GOG‑polished trilogy Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998) and Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) has arrived on Steam, a 2024 effort by Capcom and GOG, initially released as a GOG exclusive and now ported to Steam.
Until April 15 they're 50 % off, roughly ~1,817 tenge or $5 per game; no Russian language. GOG's fixes include new rendering options, modern controller support and smooth alt‑tab; the Steam builds, however, include DRM, Enigma. Purchases from the Russian region are UNAVAILABLE. Also hitting Steam is another GOG‑tweaked Capcom classic, an adventure RPG at the same price and with the same regional block. 💀
👀 Tyler McVicker claims he uncovered a LEAK inside Valve files, a «staggering» batch tied to HLX, the rumored Half-Life 3.
The data was pulled from recent Deadlock and Dota 2 updates that run on Source 2. Miners found the biggest technical dump in years, with a huge focus on choreography, Valve's interactive-cinema sequences, which are usually recorded in late, costly production stages.
Russian CLUTCH: AoeXe crowned champions of the Point Blank International Championship 2026 in Seoul, March 28-29 🏆
They took the $100,000 top prize after a bumpy start, a group loss to Indonesian favorites, then a rebound vs a Turkey, Azerbaijan combo to reach playoffs. The grand final against Brazil's RV went down to the last map «Тайная обитель» (Secret Sanctuary), where the youngest player, Vladimir «r1chh» Lyashchenko, landed the final shot and was named MVP.
Nikita Buyanov dropped fresh prestige stats for Escape from Tarkov: the prestige system rolled out in 2024 lets players reset for unique cosmetics and perks, but the entry bar is high, level 55, the Kappa container and locked elite skills.
Over 24k players reached prestige 1, under 9k made prestige 2, and only 593 worldwide climbed to prestige six, meaning six full resets from zero. Devs plan to expand the system to 10 tiers; prestige persists through global wipes. BRUTAL 😳
Crosswind Crew is making the co‑op survival Windrose, but for the Japanese market they leaned on Pocketpair, the studio behind Palworld ⛵️
The partnership was revealed in a trailer; a demo at the «Играм быть» festival kicked up Steam interest, with early access slated for 2026. On April 9 the team will present the game at The Triple-i Initiative 2026.
