Amid criticism that new Overwatch hero Anran looks too much like other female heroes and not enough like her own previous appearance in an animated short, Blizzard has committed to updating the hero's appearance during Season 1.

Overwatch game director Aaron Keller announced the upcoming change in a video on social media, saying that the team is currently planning how to make Anran "look and feel more like the fierce older sister that we all envision her to be." While he says the team is proud of the work that has gone into the hero, "we agree that she can be even better if we get this aspect of her right in game."

Keller adds that this change has been in discussion internally since last week, but that the team "wanted to wait until we had confirmation of exactly what we can do." For now, there are few details on what changes will be made and when they will be live in game, though Keller says that the studio hopes to be able to make this update during Season 1.

Last year, a No ICE in California bundle raised over $105,000 for the LA-based Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Now, the person behind that fundraiser has launched a new one for No ICE In Minnesota that offers players over 1,400 indie games, which is a dramatic increase from the 500 plus offered in the previous bundle.

JesstheHuman launched the No ICE in Minnesota on Itch.io bundle with contributions from 651 creators. So far, almost $30,000 has been raised for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. This organization offers free legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in both Minnesota and North Dakota. The ILCM also offers outreach to its local communities to share information about immigration laws while advocating for policy changes that recognize universal human rights.

Some of the PC games included in this bundle are listed below:

Late last year, indie horror game Horses was banned by Epic Games Store just ahead of its debut. Because Horses had already been banned by Steam in 2023, this gave studio developer Santa Ragione a greatly reduced chance to break even. Santa Ragione has since called out Epic over the cancellation, and now Epic has responded to the former's claims.

While speaking with Game File, Epic vice president Steve Allison said, "We love [Horses'] studio," but reiterated that the game's adult content warranted its removal. Santa Ragione responded on social media, and wrote, "Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game's content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal ... They do not 'love that studio,' they have effectively ghosted us."

Brian Sharon, Epic Games' senior communications manager, subsequently told IGN that Horses was flagged for violating the Epic Games Store's policy guidelines about inappropriate, hateful, or abusive content.

Riot Games has confirmed that it is laying off 80 2XKO developers fewer than three weeks after the fighting game's console launch. For the time being, a smaller team will work on "key improvements to the game," and its 2026 Competitive Series will go on as planned.

2XKO is a League of Legends spin-off fighting game that has been in the works at Riot Games for about a decade. It's a tag-team fighter built for co-op play. After years of behind-closed-doors testing and several betas, it entered early access on PC in November 2025. On January 20 of this year, 2XKO launched on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Unfortunately, a new blog post from Riot Games indicated that 2XKO hasn't been as successful as the studio hoped for. "As we expanded from PC to console, we saw consistent trends in how players were engaging with 2XKO," executive producer Tom Cannon wrote. "The game has resonated with a passionate core audience, but overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size long term."

World of Warcraft's current big bad Xal'atath has been shrouded in shadow for years, but a new animated short is giving fans their best look yet at her origins and motivations--if she's telling the truth.

Titled Supremacy, the animated short shows Xal'atath confronting Nexus King Salhadaar, leader of the Ethereals. Salhadaar is reluctant to join Xal'atath and her army of the Void, at first fighting back. But once Xal'atath appears in person to make her case, Salhadaar can't help but listen.

Rather than using brute force alone, Xal'atath instead tries a different tactic to convince Salhadaar to join her. She offers to tell him "the truth no one living has heard." That truth is that Xal'atath was once, long ago, mortal. As the short flashes back to show a young, bald girl being consumed by the Void, she recounts how she lost her world to the Void, just like Salhadaar's world of K'aresh was destroyed by the Void Lord Dimensius.