If you're looking for something to play this weekend, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is currently having a free trial weekend, and it arrives just in time for the new Season 3 launch.

Now through April 6, everyone can play all 30+ multiplayer and Zombies maps, along with 8+ multiplayer modes and 5+ Zombies modes. You can check out some of the free content in the video below. The free trial arrives on the same day as Black Ops 7 and Warzone's big Season 3 update.

Additionally, new playlists are now available in Black Ops 7, including Demolition and Season 3 Moshpit. What's more, double XP is turned on through April 6, so everyone jumping in with the free trial or the full game will be doubly rewarded for a period of time.

On March 25, 2013, Digital Extremes launched a free-to-play sci-fi action title called Warframe, putting players in the roles of the Tenno, fighting against interstellar evils across the galaxy. What started with humble beginnings has now grown into one of the most successful live-service games on the market, and after celebrating Warframe's 13th birthday, and with its new sibling, Soulframe, Digital Extremes wants to prove it still has plenty to offer its fans.

GameSpot sat down with Warframe community director Megan Everett at PAX East 2026, just after she completed a Warframe- and Soulframe-focused panel on the main stage. We spoke about the new Shadowgrapher update, Warframe's jump to Nintendo Switch 2, the studio's stance on generative AI, and more.

The latest Warframe update adds a new playable character to the mix in Follie, an imposing figure who uses inks and paints as weapons in battle. The limited-time game mode introduced with her, Follie's Hunt, forces players into a 4v1 showdown with Follie that invokes similar feelings to horror title Dead by Daylight or other similar asymmetric multiplayer games.

The month has just begun, and if you're looking to grab a few free games, then you can check out everything that Amazon Luna has to offer in April. Amazon Prime members can claim these 12 PC games and eight more via the cloud for a total of 20 freebies. One of the best games being offered this month, XCOM: Enemy Unkown Complete Pack, is available right now, and it's perfect for anyone looking to engage in some high-stakes turn-based tactical action.

As a reminder, all of the free games that you claim through Amazon Luna are yours to keep forever, even if your subscription expires. If you aren't a member, you can sign up for Amazon Luna for as little as $15 for one month to take advantage of the subscription and its freebies.

• XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Pack (GOG)
• Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties (Epic Games Store)

• A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home (Epic Games Store)
• King of Retail (GOG)

• Snake Core (GOG)
• Monster Harvest (Epic Games Store)
• Detective Agency: Gray Tie Collector's Edition (Legacy games code)

• Neo Cab (GOG)
• The Pale Beyond (GOG)

• KinnikuNeko: Super Muscle Cat (Epic Game Store)
• Fantasy General (GOG)
• Pinball Spire (GOG)

Prime subscribers will also be able to play the following new games in March via the Luna channel:

Season 3 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone is loaded with new content across all modes, and the big update also comes bundled with additional anti-cheat protections. Activision's latest Ricochet anti-cheat blog reveals an additional crackdown on unapproved third-party hardware and new verification requirements for new accounts on PC.

Last season, Call of Duty's Ricochet anti-cheat detections received upgrades designed to target unapproved third-party hardware, such as the Cronus Zen and XIM Matrix devices that could be used to alter player inputs and offer an unfair advantage. Season 3's update continues the fight against those third-party detections with an evolved detection system.

"Our detections focus on how inputs behave during gameplay, not just which device is plugged in. This allows us to identify patterns that fall outside expected human play, even as device setups change," the publisher explained. "With Season 3, we are expanding our detection systems that target these tools."

Fox McCloud is probably better known as a Super Smash Bros. fighter than the protagonist of the Star Fox franchise these days, but last week saw two unexpected developments for the anthropomorphic hero: 1) Glen Powell announced he voices Fox in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and 2) There's a reported Star Fox game coming out soon for Switch 2 . According to the Star Fox leak, the upcoming game will supposedly feature "classic-style" action. In other words, it will play like Star Fox 64 and be an on-rails shooter. That's fine and dandy, but I'd argue Nintendo needs to take a different flight path with this new Star Fox.

Rather than retread old territory, this rumored Switch 2 game should look to Hades 2 for inspiration, as the critically acclaimed roguelite best exemplifies how to mix story with replayability--two things Fox and his flight crew's upcoming adventure to take out Andross will need. Though this might seem like a departure from the original Star Fox, Star Fox 64 already incorporated roguelite aspects, as saving Slippy in a level could lead to alternate pathways through the Lylat System. Plus, the arcade nature of the 1997 title leads to a very short playtime to complete, something that arguably would be deemed unacceptable today--especially if Nintendo charges a premium price of $70.

So let's get started with our roguelike recommendations for this new, but unofficial, Star Fox game. The Great Fox can act as a main hub, where Fox can chat with General Pepper about his overall mission before heading out in the Arwing. Obviously, this flagship will serve as an important location that Fox returns to whenever he gets shot down on his adventure. It'd be nice to maybe see Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad hanging out here, too. Maybe Fox can only choose one wingmate at a time, with each companion offering different power-ups or abilities on a run. For example, bringing along Falco ups your Arwing's firepower, while picking Peppy leads to more tactical debuffs on enemies.

We are shy of two weeks out from the launch of Crimson Desert, and while I personally have been enjoying my time with the game, I feel it has been one of the more egregious examples of a modern trend in gaming: titles releasing as 1.0 when they should be releasing as Early Access.

Since the launch of Crimson Desert, the game has added a storage chest at the main hub for players to offload items they don’t want to carry, but also don’t want to lose. It’s added a bunch of fast travel points all over the map, including one at that main hub; before this, it took hours of gameplay to unlock a fast travel point, even if you were kind of close to that location. It’s also added new items known as Refinement Tokens, which allow players to quickly upgrade any low-level gear they come across to something more usable, without having to waste a bunch of resources in doing so. These aren’t little tweaks and fixes; these changes completely transform the experience of playing the game.

Before digital releases and internet connectivity, patches were nearly impossible, especially on consoles. Once a game was out in the wild, that was pretty much it. No changes could be made; any issues with the game or exploits players could leverage were forever etched into that experience. Now, developers are able to make alterations weeks, months, or even years after a game’s release. I do lament the idea of things like Pokémon Red and Blue’s Missing No., or the backward long jump in Super Mario 64, being removed in update patches if those games were to have been released today.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now in theaters, but don't call it a sequel to 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It was never designed to be a sequel to that film or a re-telling of Super Mario Galaxy the game.

In an interview with Polygon, Illumination boss Chris Meledandri said the team kicked around ideas for a follow-up to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and some of the possibilities included a Super Mario World or Super Mario Odyssey movie. However, the qualities of Super Mario Galaxy--including the cinematic and dramatic opportunities--were "immediately exciting," he said.

"Just the whole feeling of the drama that's associated with Rosalina as a character and how that's reflected in the music of Galaxy. That feeling was something we thought could really inform a new story," Meledandri said.