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🏴☠️ Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced premieres on 23 April at 19:00 MSK on YouTube, Ubisoft is finally showing the pirate remake starring Edward Kenway: sun-drenched Caribbean, ship combat, treasure hunts and Blackbeard.

Insider whispers say it's more than a visual polish: Edward's story was reportedly expanded while the modern-day segments were cut. Platforms and final release date are still unknown; journalist Tom Henderson claims a 9 July launch. INSIDER?

🐭 MOUSE: P.I. For Hire, a BOOMER‑shooter for old‑school heads: vintage Disney visuals paired with Boltgun/early DOOM vibes.

Performance is stellar: at 1440p on max with DLAA it stays above 200 FPS, and with DLSS in Quality it doesn't drop below 250 (CPU bound in NPC‑heavy spots); outside intense scenes it often sits around 400. No stutters, very smooth, weird that such simple-looking art eats resources (no ray tracing, characters are animated planes), but optimization works. Gameplay is straight-up fast and fun: familiar, predictable weapon behaviour without heavy punch, steady progression unlocks weapons and mobility gadgets (yes, the tail‑hook), plus lockpicking, a card minigame, collectibles and light side tasks. Story is a noir pastiche that doesn't take itself seriously, not a masterpiece but fits the tone. Short, stylish indie that any shooter fan should try; cons are resource appetite and a modest narrative. 🐭

🤨 The limited‑edition DualSense Marathon for PS5 dropped about 18% in price just weeks after launch, a rare turn for a themed collector pad. The look's solid (white shell, black + neon‑green Marathon accents) but it was too understated and simply FLOPPED with buyers.

Compared to Sony's usual sellouts, this pad didn't become a sought‑after collectible and started losing value fast.

🔍 Esoteric Ebb puts you in the shoes of a resurrected cleric, a deliberate pick, says dev Kristoffer Bodegård, chosen for both gameplay breadth and narrative weight.

He calls the class "overloaded with possibilities": spellcasting, healing, melee and heavy armour let you approach fights and conversations in many ways. The plot, investigating a tea‑shop explosion during the city's first democratic elections, plus a binding to the god Urt, folds detective beats with politics and questions of faith and identity. WILD

Dungeons & Kingdoms devs are NOT GIVING UP, they've published a roadmap for the next updates.

Upcoming patches will bring: trade & logistics with NPC merchants; an immigration system; ground spawns and expanded world exploration; raids on settlements plus defence mechanics; a gnome faction; continuous UI polish and bug fixes. Devs say these systems are interlinked and will roll out gradually, making the game world more alive and genuinely dangerous as your kingdom grows.

🔫 Bungie is nerfing the shotgun WSTR in Marathon, game director Joe Ziegler confirmed on the Steam blog: the next update drops on April 21.

WSTR has been ruling close quarters: after the patch it won't down a player with a blue shield or higher in two hits, giving targets a chance to fight back; green shields still fall to two point‑blanks. The community is split: some want changes to fire rate and spread, others argue instant point‑blank kills were straight up OP. Bungie's got a long history of balancing (Destiny, Halo), so expect more tweaks to shake up the meta.

🧱 Castle Craft by Twin Earth and Astra Logical, another Minecraft-clone that left Early Access after 11 months and launched with 50% off. HALF-OFF.

A voxel sandbox fused with tower-defense, strategy and action. Patch 1.0 adds a level editor with shareable maps, a quick battle mode, day/night and weather, and the headline feature, fluid simulation (water, lava, swamps) that affects gameplay plus two new buildings to handle them. Optimizations and bug fixes are in. No multiplayer yet, the two-person team calls netcode a hard problem but may add it later. 💧

RUMOR: Eidos Montreal and Marvel are reportedly eyeing a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy 🔥

The first game got rave reviews for its story but underperformed commercially, blamed on a bad release window and fallout from the failed Marvel's Avengers. Recent internal shakeups and the cancellation of Wildlands, plus an upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 port, have sparked chatter that the studio might give the franchise a second shot. No official word yet.

⚡️ Nioh 3 gets a FREE update on April 27, a proper drop for players who crave tough builds and nasty challenges.

The patch brings Battle Scrolls, high‑difficulty side missions that grant unique skills; the Stone of Repentance, an item that beefs up accessory stats at the cost of much tougher gameplay; and tweaks to certain Blessings to broaden build options. Producer Kohei Shibata promised further updates and paid DLCs. Patch details will arrive soon. The game is already out on PS5 and Steam (PC).

🤦 WHOOPS: Gran Carismo appeared on PS5 and PS4 under a new title, Grand Car Racing, at launch.

Why? Sony's legal team flagged the obvious similarity to Gran Turismo, so the publisher rushed a rename and updated the store listing. The funny glitch: the storefront title is changed, but promo art and screenshots still carry the old name.