Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has offered a tease for the future of the game series and revealed that he wants to see a character from Street Fighter come to Mortal Kombat some day.

Speaking to Collider, Boon was asked to tease whatever NetherRealm has coming up next, whether that be the rumored Injustice 3, a new Mortal Kombat, or anything else. He said he would "probably get in trouble" if he did so, but he said, "We're definitely pursuing another Mortal Kombat game."

Beyond a new entry in the storied series, Boon said there are new things brewing "with other forms of media and whatnot" for the Mortal Kombat franchise. "So, we've got a lot of great announcements that are coming," he said.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's new World Update 21: Australia has arrived, and in addition to adding more cities, airports, and three-dozen new points of interest, the update includes a new mission meant to honor the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS). This is the largest fire service in the world, made up of nearly 70,000 volunteers, and it's a big job in the country where bushfires are an ongoing threat. Devastating fires in the country in 2019/2020 made international news, with millions of acres burned, more than 30 human deaths, and more than 1.5 billion animals losing their lives due to the blazes.

One technique that firefighters use to put out fires in Australia is aerial firefighting, which is where the MS Flight Simulator crossover comes in. The game is adding a mission where players will use a water-bombing technique to put out a fire in the state of New South Wales, home to Sydney. This involves piloting a specialized aircraft and dumping a huge amount of water on a fire to help put it out.

In the game, players are called to put out a fire near Coffs Harbour. The mission involves players piloting an aircraft to a body of water where they scoop it up and then fly to the fire to help put it out.

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The Walt Disney Company released its latest earnings report today, and included in the announcement was an update on the games business. In particular, Disney said it sees gaming as an area of growth, saying gaming is an area of the business that doesn't deliver "significant revenue" yet but is "strategically important" to the company overall as it looks to the future.

CEO Josh D'Amaro said Disney's $1.5 billion investment into Epic Games and Fortnite speaks to Disney's eagerness to do more in gaming.

"Interactive platforms are an increasingly relevant medium for younger audiences to engage with characters and stories, and our collaboration with Epic Games is central to our efforts in this space," he said. "Our characters are among the most popular across the Fortnite universe."

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Patience usually pays off when it comes to new games, as a few months after launch, a steep discount isn't uncommon. Nintendo is one of the few exceptions to that rule, as, apart from a rare sale, prices for its first-party titles largely remain the same for years on end. Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé recently commented on this strategy, comparing the games to "Kyoto craftsmanship" that are designed to offer a complete and crafted experience from day one.

"The Nintendo mentality is, we're shipping a game complete," Fils-Aimé said in an NYU Game Center lecture. "It's ready to play. There's no day one update that's going to take three hours, and part of it is, it's a different mentality. That is their [Nintendo's] thinking. I liken this to the idea of Kyoto craftsmanship. The company is headquartered in Kyoto. A city known for its fine craftsmanship: linen, china, pottery, that is Kyoto. I'm convinced that Nintendo, as a company, has that same type of mentality. We are going to build the best games, we are going to send them out feature complete, and as a result--this is where sometimes customers push back--we don't discount our games."

Fils-Aimé would then reference how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild never received a permanent price discount from the day it launched. A quick look at the eShop listing for Breath of the Wild confirms this, as Nintendo is still selling it for $60 almost a decade after it first came out, and dozens of the company's other first-party games are still listed at their launch price.

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Star Wars Galactic Racer Standard Edition

$50 | Releases October 6

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Star Wars Galactic Racer Deluxe Edition

$80 | Releases October 6

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Star Wars is known for its lightsaber duels and intergalactic dogfights, but later this year, the franchise's love for high-speed anti-gravity racing will also be back in the spotlight. Star Wars Galactic Racer reignites a need for speed in a galaxy far, far, away on October 6, and preorders are now live for the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC versions of the game. There are multiple physical and digital versions up for grabs, including the $50 Standard Edition, $80 Deluxe Edition, and a giant Collector's Edition. Each version also includes a few unique in-game cosmetic items as preorder bonuses if you purchase a copy ahead of launch.

Star Wars Galactic Racer Preorder Bonuses

All preorders for Star Wars Galactic Racer include an exclusive livery for your speeders and a player banner for multiplayer. PS5 owners will get a blue and white livery that looks like it was inspired by everyone's favorite astromech droid, R2-D2, while Xbox owners get a speeder skin that features the same design but in green.

Star Wars Galactic Racer Standard Edition $50 | Releases October 6

The base physical game, Star Wars Galactic Racer features a story-driven campaign, plenty of speeders to collect, and dangerous circuits to race them on across the infamous Outer Rim. As mentioned above, preordering the game will unlock the exclusive speeder livery and multiplayer banner.

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Star Wars fans looking to spoil themselves can upgrade to the Deluxe Edition, which includes the base game, preorder bonuses, and plenty of extras. This edition includes a stylish steelbook case with the game logo, a slip cover of the Galactic Racer key art, several exclusive speeders, a unique livery and player banner, a digital art book, and unique arcade events to compete in

• Star Wars Galactic Racer base game
• Steelbook case
• Deluxe Edition slipcase cover
• Three exclusive Repulsorcraft speeders
• Deluxe Edition livery and player banner
• Digital art book
• Three unique arcade events
• Preorder bonuses

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At first glance, Neverness to Everness has everything that a gacha game fan wants and needs--cute character models, a supernatural open world, and even realistic cars to drive around in. However, just a few days after launch, some players have begun to spot assets suspected to have been created with generative AI. As a result, popular streamers and even a voice actor that worked on the game have started refusing to work with Neverness to Everness and its developer, Hotta Studio.

In one video, many are pointing out "artifacting"--unintended distortions that occur as a result of using AI to generate an asset. At one point, the character's entire outfit design appears to change after his hand blocks a portion of it.

In another part of the game, players claim that Neverness to Everness features a billboard with scenes from the anime Weathering With You that appear to have an AI filter over them or have been potentially fed into a generative AI tool to create the advertisement. A third observation claims that there is "an 18-minute generative AI anime short film in the theater" in Neverness to Everness.

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Grand Theft Auto VI no doubt had a big production budget, but just how much did the game cost to make? Neither developer Rockstar nor parent company Take-Two has disclosed a number, but Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has now commented on the matter, saying "it was expensive."

He said this in an interview with Business Insider, which also quoted unnamed industry analysts who said GTA 6's budget could be as much as $1.5 billion.

Speaking to Bloomberg, Zelnick said his company has the "most amazing creative teams" and that Take-Two management insists that its creatives "pursue their passions," even if it's expensive.

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Build A Rocket Boy, the developer of MindsEye, has reportedly let go a large number of employees its latest round of layoffs. Although the exact number is currently unknown, it's "roughly 170 members," according to Kotaku.

Many of the now- or soon-to-be former employees have shared the news on LinkedIn and Discord. If the 170 estimate proves to be accurate, that would leave Build A Rocket Boy with approximately 80 staff members left out of the 250 that were in place prior to the layoffs.

Former Rockstar Games executive Leslie Benzies founded Build A Rocket Boy in 2016, and his previous experience with the Grand Theft Auto franchise gave MindsEye a lot of hype heading into its release last year. However, MindsEye was one of the worst-reviewed games of 2025 and its poor reception led to layoffs shortly thereafter. Bizarrely, Build A Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard shared his belief that a concerted effort to trash the game and corporate espionage were responsible for the game's shortcomings.

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Like many modern tech companies, Microsoft is gambling a lot on consumers embracing an AI-powered future. Recent moves have seen Microsoft's AI, dubbed Copilot, integrated into numerous products like Windows 11--to not entirely enthusiastic reception. With AI fatigue among consumers seeming to set in and Xbox's gaming division making some large-scale changes, an executive decision has been made: Copilot for consoles and mobile is officially dead.

Microsoft's recently promoted Xbox division CEO Asha Sharma officially dropped the news today in a post on X.

Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers.
Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get the business…

— Asha (@asha_shar) May 5, 2026

The quick, ignoble death of console Copilot falls in line with all of the recent moves we've seen the Xbox division of Microsoft making--trimming the fat while refocusing on high-quality games. We don't really know what plans existed for console Copilot beyond the already-extant Gaming Copilot app, but whatever they were, they've now been abandoned--and it's possible that Gaming Copilot will follow suit.

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Rebellion, the team behind Sniper Elite and last year's hidden gem, Atomfall, has no expectations "to ever use gen AI on the screen," according to CEO Jason Kingsley in a conversation with GameSpot. "This isn't what we think we should be doing." Still, the CEO added that he feels having an online conversation on the topic has become "very difficult."

"The online discourse, I think, should be more nuanced. I think we should be able to have a better, more meaningful conversation, and discuss ideas. Because some people are totally against any form of AI at all. Other people are totally for every kind of AI possible. And I think the reality has to be somewhere in the middle."

Kingsley said that the idea of "using [gen AI] as part of the tools chain and the process, helping speed up iteration, it may have its practical uses [...] For example, back in the day, one of our big, successful levels in Sniper Elite was a viaduct with a big gun on the top of it. You could take a screenshot of that, and maybe a designer says, 'What would this look like in the snow? Would this play differently in the snow? Would it play differently at night?' We didn't do that, but you could. The designer could put it through a gen AI and say, 'Turn this from an Italian landscape to a snowy landscape, and let me have a look at it. And that means they can explore ideas cheaply and quickly to see whether it's worth exploring with human beings more."

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When you're a self-funded, self-publishing studio like Rebellion, the team behind the Sniper Elite series and last year's breakout new IP, Atomfall, you have to find a few ways to stand out from the pack. Steam has ballooned in size in recent years. In 2012, Steam would see about 30 new games per month, or an average of one per day. In March of this year, 2,472 new games hit Steam, or an average of more than 80 new games every day. Between tiny indie teams of as few as one person and mega AAA studios, there are studios like Rebellion trying to survive in the middle, and by many accounts, it's getting harder. But Rebellion has some battle-tested ways to push out of the crowd.

"The key, I think, is controlling budgets and controlling ambition and having a very focused idea," CEO Jason Kingsley told me. "So a lot of our games are named in a way that would allow people to guess what they're all about. Sniper Elite is about being an elite sniper. Zombie Army is--guess what--about an army of zombies, you know?" This sort of simplicity, Kingsley believes, helps consumers quickly make up their minds as to whether a game is for them or not.

"And, you know, even Alien Deathstorm, which we've announced recently, it's about a deathstorm with aliens," he continued. "I know it sounds a bit stupid, but when we don't have the marketing money of people, brilliant people like Ubisoft or Electronic Arts, or whoever it might be, we have to have all those things that will allow people to guess what we are."

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is installing a new group of leaders around her, and most of them, like Sharma, come from an AI background. In a memo to staff announcing the changes, Sharma said the Xbox teams needs to "evolve how we work and how we are organized."

CNBC, which saw the memo, said Sharma added, "Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals."

To that end, Sharma announced that the Xbox team is "bringing in new leaders with consumer and technical expertise we do not yet have."

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In addition to the upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved remake called Campaign Evolved, Microsoft is "definitely" working on remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 and they are in "active development," according to a reputable leaker.

Rebs Gaming reported this recently, adding that these games are moving ahead "regardless of how well Campaign Evolved does." The reported remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 are in "early development," the report said, as relayed by Eurogamer.

These games, if real, would join a third unannounced Halo game that is said to be a Fortnite-like live-service multiplayer game.

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The Star Wars holiday May the 4th was this week, and to mark the occasion, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared a list of the top 10 best-selling Star Wars games in the United States, dating back to 1995.

The best-selling Star Wars game of all time in the US--ranked by dollar sales and excluding DLC revenue--was the 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront reboot from EA and Battlefield developer DICE. Its 2017 sequel ranked No. 3 all time. Respawn's Star Wars Jedi series ranked highly as well, with Fallen Order landing at No. 2 all time and Survivor ranking No. 4. Lego Star Wars games performed exceptionally well as well, taking up four of the top 10 spots on the list. Check out the full top 10 list below.

EA's Star Wars: Battlefront games combined to sell more than 33 million copies as of 2019, and the number no doubt grew since then. Given the immense success of the two games, people wondered why DICE never made a third. In 2021, it was reported that EA rejected a pitch for Battlefront 3 in part because under the terms of EA's current licensing deal with Disney, a potential third Battlefront game would need to sell 20% more copies to generate the same amount of revenue.

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After years of searching, the hunt for Diablo 4's secret cow level is at its end, and the reward is what is without a doubt the most ridiculous item in Diablo history.

Despite developer Blizzard insisting it didn't exist (itself a cow level tradition), the hunt for Diablo 4's cow level began as soon as the game first launched in 2023. In the past three years, players have been acquiring mysterious items thought to be associated with the cow level, with steps that required killing 666 cows, hidden timers, and riddles that took players all across Diablo 4's world. But all the items discovered at the end of these breadcrumb trails had no real immediate use, leading to dead ends.

That changed with the release of Diablo 4's new Lord of Hatred expansion and its addition of the Horadric Cube. By combining items like the stamina potion and rusted bardiche (both references to Diablo 2's cow level), as well as a new item, the Hand of Neyrelle, players have been able to access a new island off the coast of Skovos. Inside a cellar on the abandoned island is ring of cows that look to be preparing for a magic ritual.

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Star Wars Day has come and gone, but many of its best deals are still lingering around like they're Obi-Wan's force ghost--and that's especially true for Star Wars video games. Several titles across PS5, Switch, Xbox, and PC continue to be discounted beyond May The Fourth. So if you happened to miss out on the festivities yesterday, you can still cash in on some price cuts throughout the rest of the week. From Star Wars Outlaws to Knights of the Old Republic, here are the best Star Wars gaming deals available right now. Note that some of these might sell out before the end of the week (many are slated to end on May 7), so be sure to check out anything that catches your eye. You can also head over to our Star Wars Merch Roundup, which has a few lingering deals on watches, shirts, action figures, and more.

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• Amazon
• Best Buy
• Walmart
• Target
• GameStop
• Fanatical
• GOG
• Humble

Star Wars PC Deals

Some of the best deals across all platforms are available on PC. For example, you can pick up the Star Wars Triple Bundle for just $22.53 (was $122), pulling together Squadrons, Fallen Order Deluxe Edition, and Battlefront 2 with an 82% discount. You'll also find the iconic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for $2.49 (was $10), and the RPG has held up remarkably well over the years--if it's not yet in your collection, this is a great time to fix that.

Other notable deals include Star Wars Outlaws for $17.49 (was $70), Dark Forces Remaster for $15 (was $30), and the original Battlefront II for $2.49. These games are on sale across a variety of storefronts, though many sales are slated to end in the coming days. It looks like Steam and Fanatical have some of the longest-lasting discounts, though many price cuts will vanish before the end of the week.

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Hitman developer IO Interactive has discussed a number of hot-button issues, including the impact of GTA 6's delay, the status of the game's delayed Switch 2 version, and what's going on with its mysterious fantasy game.

IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak covered these topics in an interview with The Game Business. Regarding the impact of GTA 6's delay from May 2026 to November 2026, Abrak said he would be lying if he said he didn't care about GTA 6 shifting further away from 007 First Light's release on May 27. First Light was originally set to launch in March, which was just a couple months before GTA 6 was supposed to release in May. Then Rockstar delayed GTA 6, and this provided "a bit more breathing room" for First Light.

"GTA is a huge behemoth in our industry," he said. "We never wish anyone ill. They have their good reasons for pushing it. I am certain it’s going be amazing."

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EA has just announced a new free base game update for The Sims 4 that massively overhauls the way infants and toddlers work in-game and introduces a new type of clothing item: the Base Layer, which can be layered under other types of clothing items like tops and pants. The update also includes a multitude of new bug fixes and quality-of-life updates based on player feedback from the EA Forums and other social channels--including a fix for the issue causing photographs of Sims to display an all-black image rather than the actual photograph.

"Over the next few months, the team’s focus is on making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters most to Simmers," EA said in a press release announcing the update. "The goal is to make the game players already know and love feel smoother, more intuitive, and more consistent, based directly on feedback shared across EA Forums, The Sims Discord, and other community channels."

The update goes live next Tuesday, May 12, and will introduce the aforementioned Base Layer clothing items, which include camisoles, bras, binders, and other underclothes. There are a total of 14 base layer items (eight for adults, four for children, and two for toddlers) with over 380 color swatches and variants.

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Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy has vowed to keep FBC: Firebreak online, despite the company planning to release no further updates to the game.

As part of Remedy's latest earnings briefing, the company said, "FBC: Firebreak will remain live and playable." The studio said the infrastructure costs related to this will not be "significant."

On Steam, FBC has seven people in the game right now. The game is also available on console through Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, in addition to being available to buy outright. The game may not have been the success that Remedy hoped for, but fans who are playing it will be able to keep doing so, and that's good news for them.

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May 4 may have come and gone, but Star Wars celebrations are just getting started. With The Mandalorian & Grogu coming out in theaters May 22, fans have plenty to look forward to--and there's no shortage of limited edition collections and sales to check out while you wait. BaubleBar's 20% off Big Summer Kickoff sale is one of them, and it includes the full Star Wars line, featuring earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, pins, bag and phone charms, and storage pouches. If you've been meaning to pick up some of these items for your collection, it's a great time to buy.

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BaubleBar's Star Wars necklaces have a charm bracelet feel, which is a fun touch as you can customize the charm order to your liking. You can also strip charms off and wear any of them as single pendant necklaces. Whether you favor heroes or villains, this collection has something for every fan's tastes.

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• Darth Vader Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)
• Grogu Charm Necklace -- $30.40 ($38)
• Grogu Cluster Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Heroes Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Villains Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Yoda Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)

Star Wars Bracelets

BaubleBar has some great discounts running right now, but the best deal by far is on its Repeating Bracelets and specific styles of the Pisa Charm Bracelet. Both are on sale for just $10 in every style. That includes Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Yoda, Grogu, and C-3PO. The 20% off deal doesn't apply for these items, but they're already so reasonably priced you may as well build yourself a stack. Find all the other Star Wars bracelets on sale listed below.

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