Eidos-Montreal has announced a round of mass layoffs, with 124 people losing their jobs and studio head David Anfossi leaving the company.

In a statement, Eidos-Montreal said the cuts are the result of "changing project needs." The layoffs affect people across a variety of disciplines, including production and support.

"Today is a difficult day for our studio and reflects the need to adapt and concentrate efforts where Eidos-Montreal can be most effective," the developer said. "We are deeply grateful to the team members impacted; this decision is not a reflection of their talent, dedication, or performance."

Sony is once again raising the price of the PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro, and PS Portal hardware, and consumers are rushing to purchase the console (or trade theirs in for a better model) before this price increase goes into effect on April 2. Now, gaming retailer GameStop has entered the fray, looking to connect players with Sony's hardware before the price goes up for good.

"We heard the news," GameStop shared in a recent post on X. "On April 2, 2026, Sony will raise the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro to $899.99. We're here to help. GameStop stores nationwide are now offering extra credit on all hardware, so whether you're trading in a base PS5 for a PS5 Pro or dusting off an old console, now's your chance to beat the change and upgrade for less."

GameStop followed up with another post advertising its upgrade program. "Upgrade to a PS5 Pro now for just $349," the post reads. "While you still can." A look at the fine print clarifies that this deal is only available to GameStop Pro members. GameStop's loyalty program offers a number of benefits (like extra credit on trade-ins), but membership costs $25 per year.

Neil Druckmann, the Naughty Dog veteran best known for his work on the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, has teased that there might be more The Last of Us to come.

In a post on Instagram, Druckmann said he came across his original sketches from 2003 for the game that would become The Last of Us, and remarked that it's been a "wild journey." Then he went on to tease that he might not be finished with the series.

"Grateful for every part of it, especially the few stops that remain on the road ahead," he said.

Sony announced massive price increases for its PS5 consoles last week, with the PS5 Pro getting slapped with the biggest price hike out of all of them: a whopping $150, pushing the MSRP of the hardware to $900. The good news is that the new price hasn't gone into effect yet, but the bad news is that time is running out, as you only have until April 2 to get a PS5 Pro at its current price of $750.

Officially, Sony says that "continued pressures in the global economic landscape" have forced its hand, leading to the price increases. With an AI-driven demand for components like SSDs and RAM, it's no wonder that the cost of producing PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles has gone up, with the PS5 Pro in particular being equipped with a 2TB SSD, 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, and 2GB of DDR5 RAM. It's not the first time that Sony has faced issues involving manufacturing costs, but the global semiconductor shortage of the early 2020s pales in comparison to current world events, geopolitical instability, and US president Donald Trump's tariffs.

The PS5 Pro is a great console, if you have the right tech to support it. The build quality is rock-solid, and the internal hardware--along with the improved PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR)--make 4K 60fps games more viable on it. But to see those results, you will need a top-notch TV, and those aren't exactly cheap either. A disc drive is also not included, so if you were planning to watch 4K Blu-rays or play physical games on the PS5 Pro, that's an extra expense to consider.

One of Bethesda Game Studio's Elder Scrolls spin-offs, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, will be shutting down in June, according to a post on the Nintendo eShop.

The free-to-play dungeon crawler and town-builder's last day will be June 30, after which the game's servers will go offline, rendering the entire game inaccessible. In the meantime, all items in The Elder Scrolls: Blades' store will be purchasable with a single Sigil or Gem, so players can "enjoy all the content Blades has to offer," according to Bethesda.

Blades released in 2019 and saw players battling through dungeons to score loot, then returning to town to upgrade and customize the settlement. The game additionally included one-on-one arena PvP battles, with cross-play and cross-progression across devices.

While Crimson Desert has seen huge success since its March 19 launch on consoles and PC, toppling its own concurrent player numbers and selling over 3 million copies to date, the game isn't without its flaws. The narrative is one of them, as it's so confusing that not even Kliff's voice actor was able to make much sense of it.

Speaking on Skill Up's Friends Per Second podcast on March 29 (via Eurogamer), Alec Newman expressed how important writing is for any medium. He said he kept seeking clarity about the story and the characters because the project, to Newman, "felt very much like making a TV series" where the focus kept changing. This isn't a secret--Crimson Desert started as a prequel to developer Pearl Abyss' MMORPG Black Desert Online before transforming into the single-player action-adventure RPG that it is now--but it certainly presented continuity changes for Newman and the other VAs.

"I don't want to say they kept changing the goalpost, but we started off recording with cards of the different parts of Pywell and the various characters," Newman said. "He's from this faction and he's from that faction, and I kept just saying, 'Yes, but what is happening?'"

Castlevania fans can now sink their teeth into the entire Netflix anime without breaking the bank. Castlevania: The Complete Series Limited Edition Box Set features all four seasons of the Netflix anime based on Konami's gothic horror action-adventure game franchise, and it's available on the cheap as a part of the Amazon Big Spring Sale. First released in 2025, the box set is currently available for $115, a 26% discount from its standard price of $155.

In addition to all four seasons of the anime, the Castlevania: The Complete Series Limited Edition Box Set also includes:

If you're anything like me, as soon as Pokemon Pokopia declared the need for paper to complete the next step of the Team Initiation Challenge, you suddenly forgot how on earth to craft it. Thankfully, I figured it out via a painstaking method of deduction. Luckily for you, I wrote it down so you don't have to talk to tens of Pokemon before remembering the right way to get it done.

There are several Pokemon that can help to make paper, but before that, you'll need to gather up some bundles of Wastepaper. These will be given to specific Pokemon in order to craft it into normal paper. You can find Wastepaper in the Sparkling Skylands in abundance, so head there to get as much as you need.

After that, you'll need to track down a Pokemon with the Recycle ability. From my earlier hours in the game, I remembered Trubbish having this exclusive specialty, so I headed to him for all my paper needs. You could also ask the likes of Metang, Garbador, Magnezone, Koffing, Weezing, Cinccino, Porygon, Porygon2, Beldum, or Metagross. Remember, if you're ever wondering which specialty a Pokemon has, our full Pokopia Pokedex has you covered.

Oh sure, your Steam library might be unreasonably enormous, but what your life is really missing is the finicky organization that collectors crave. A new game is aiming to replicate that feeling by letting you nicely organize your actual Steam library onto shelves.

Boxroom, announced as part of Steam's House and Home Fest, looks and plays a lot like other home designer sims like House Flipper. The major difference here is that you're just designing one room, and it can creates a virtual space to store your whole Steam library. A demo is available now that lets you try out the concept with a random assortment of your Steam games.

The trailer shows lots of flexibility in organizing your room, not all of which is available in this demo. But you can place some shelves and sort through your game collection to place them on those shelves, which is very satisfying for those of us who are fastidious about having everything placed just-so.

A new update for the popular RPG Crimson Desert has seemingly removed some of the generative AI art that fans discovered in the game recently. The patch notes alluded to this, with developer Pearl Abyss saying the new update would offer "visual improvements" that included replacing "select 2D visual assets to better align with the game's art direction."

Pearl Abyss previously confirmed that Crimson Desert launched with AI-generated art assets that were not meant to be published in the final game. The studio also said it should have disclosed the game's use of AI prior to launch.

An in-game painting featuring horses with too many limbs was replaced by a new piece of art. You can see the new art below, as captured by GameSpot.

Is a Switch 2 price hike coming? Many are theorizing that this will happen at some point in the future due to the so-called "RAMaggedon" and other factors, and even Nintendo's own top boss said he cannot rule out a price increase. Now, Dr. Serkan Toto of research group Kantan Games has said he believes the Switch 2 may see price hike, and it could happen by the end of the year.

"I would be very surprised if the Switch was still $450 in the US at the end of 2026," he told GamesRadar.

He added that "people get used to everything," and that includes price increases for gaming hardware. Or at least that's what companies like Sony and others who have raised prices already are betting on, he said. Sony, for its part, just announced a second price hike for the PS5, while Microsoft raised Xbox prices in 2025.

Fans of Lego and Star Wars can get their hands on Jango Fett's iconic ship at a serious discount right now. The massive Lego Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Jango Fett’s Starship set is currently on sale at Best Buy for only $56--a 20% discount from its standard $70 sticker price. The set can be shipped to you, or you can choose to pick it up at your nearest Best Buy location (where available).

The Lego Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Jango Fett’s Starship is a 707-piece kit designed for builders of all ages. The completed vehicle sports recognizable armaments featured in the Star Wars prequel films, including four blasters that can fire Lego stud pieces, and a section of dropping seismic drop charges as seen in the asteroid chase scene with Obi-Wan Kenobi from Attack of the Clones. The build also features rotating wings, a cockpit section that opens and closes with two seats for minifigures, and a service cart that doubles as a mobile platform and display stand with ammunition storage. Along with the vehicle, the kit also includes three detailed minifigures: Jango Fett with jetpack and blaster pistols, young Boba Fett (sans helmet, of course), and the very tall, very weird-looking Kaminoan Lama Su.

While this deal is only available at Best Buy, plenty of other Lego sets are discounted right now, many of which are part of Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2026 event. Several Star Wars Lego kits are part of the sale, including the 25th Anniversary Millennium Falcon for $68 (was $85), 501st Clone Troopers Battle Pack for $16 (was $20), and the 1050-piece R2-D2 kit for $80 (was $100). In fact, you can even pair the Jango Fett Ship deal above with Amazon's discount on the Attack of the Clones Obi-Wan's Jedi Star Fighter set, which is down to $26 (was $30). Or you could grab a kit based on the upgraded version of the Jedi Starfighter as seen in the Clone Wars TV show and Revenge of the Sith film for $36 (was $45). Just note that these are limited-time deals, and may disappear once Amazon's Big Spring Sale wraps up on March 31.

Crimson Desert has been out for barely two weeks now, having launched on March 19 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, but the game is already toppling its own player count records. This is quite impressive, as Pearl Abyss' latest action-adventure game is a single-player RPG that has steadily grown in popularity in terms of concurrent players as it's moved away from launch, something you don't see happen often with other big-budget, triple-A single-player RPGs.

Pulling the data from the game's SteamDB page shows that it reached 239,045 players at launch, but crested 276,261 players on March 29. That means 10 days after launch, it's seeing 40,000 more simultaneous players at its peak. This suggests that there's not just continued interest in the South Korean studio's high-fantasy action-adventure game, but that the single-player RPG is alive and well.

This isn't necessarily unheard of, but it's certainly something of an anomaly in the games industry as of late. You'd typically expect a multiplayer-focused game like Arc Raiders or Fortnite or Helldivers or Marathon to see a steady increase in players as time goes on. The single-player RPG, though, tends to decline in interest the longer the game is out. This has been true for games like Avowed, Baldur's Gate 3, Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, GTA 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Nioh 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Starfield, and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers--all of which saw a drop in concurrent players the longer these games sat around. There are exceptions, such as The Witcher 3 and Where Winds Meet, that saw RPGs increase this concurrent peaks post-launch.

Amazon's Big Spring Sale ends tomorrow, but there's still time to cash in on some great offers. One of the best deals is for the Lego Ideas Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night, which is currently down to its lowest price ever during Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2026. The 2,316-piece set is just $136 (was $170) and makes for a truly unique bit of home decor once you've snapped all its bricks into place--just make sure to grab the discounted set before the Spring Sale ends on 2026. Amazon also notes that certain locations can still get this in time for Easter, in case you're seeking a fun project for the family or need a cool gift for an artsy friend.

World of Warcraft is getting its first official in-game Pride event as a part of an upcoming patch (via WoWHead). Even better, it's based on a community-organized event that's been raising money for LGBTQ+ charity The Trevor Project for over a decade.

The community-run event, The Running of the Trolls, will be getting some official support in patch 12.0.5. Traditionally taking place on the US Feathermoon server, The Running of the Trolls sees players create new, low-level troll characters and march en masse from the Echo Isles to Silvermoon City (similar to The Running of the Gnomes, which takes place each October to raise money for breast cancer charities). Based on datamined info, The Running of the Trolls has been renamed the Darkspear Dash and will take place this year from June 27-29 to celebrate Pride month. Blizzard and Warcraft Cares--the fan-led community organization that holds the event each year--have reportedly been in talks about making it an official in-game holiday for about two years.

"Just for background, [the] Darkspear Dash micro-holiday is based on the Running of the Trolls, a yearly community event [run by] WarcraftCares, started in 2016, that is held every June to benefit the Trevor Project as the sibling event to the Gnome Run!" founder Dravvie explained on Reddit. "I can't comment on everything that's still in the development stage that's been datamined, but it's been a long process since I first talked with the dev team about two years ago about possibly developing a Troll Run holiday."

Actor Charlie Day voiced Luigi in 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie and reprises the role for this year's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Now, Day has said he would be interested in returning again to the role to be in a movie adaptation of the spooky game Luigi's Mansion.

Speaking to ScreenRant, Day said he would be "thrilled" to come back for a Luigi's Mansion movie, though he was clear he has no idea if such a project is actually going to happen. In any event, Day said Luigi's Mansion is "such a fun game" that could make for a compelling movie.

"Not that you would make it like a horror movie for kids, but it could have some more sort of jump scares in it, which would be fun," he said. "It does seem like it would make a great movie, but I am not... They don't put me in charge of movie studios and for good reason. I got no idea."

Developer Pearl Abyss continues to work diligently on its open-world action-adventure game Crimson Desert, with the South Korean studio releasing a new update for consoles and PC that addresses many of the game's issues. This includes reducing the stamina cost of certain movement abilities and decreasing loading times for fast travel, making it far less time-consuming than before.

The studio took to X on March 29 to announce that patch version 1.01.00 would start rolling out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S over the weekend. With it hitting just about every platform--except for the Epic Games and Mac App stores, as those are still in development--Pearl Abyss thoroughly detailed everything found within Crimson Desert's latest update. There are five new mounts--including boss mounts like the Icicle Edge Alpine Ibex and Rock Tusk Warthog, and legendary animals such as the Silver Fang and White Bear--to tame and ride, as well as improvements to the UX so you can do things like decide when to use keys on locked doors or cook meals at once instead of selecting ingredients individually. These are good QOL changes.

Pywell is a huge map, one that can take up to two hours to cross in its entirety on horseback. There are fast travel-points, but activating them takes forever as you watch protagonist Kliff--or the two other playable characters, Damiane and Oongka--slowly saunter through an Abyss portal for at least 15 seconds as if they're strolling for a coffee. This update reduces the loading times for fast traveling (as well as reviving, which is another welcome change); however, Pearl Abyss didn't specify exactly how much quicker fast traveling is now, but in our testing, the loading time has been cut down to about 10 seconds. Speeding this action up will let you get back into the action faster and traverse more of Pywell without putting your controller down and watching a short walking sim film.

The Walt Disney Company's new CEO, Josh D'Amaro, is a big fan of video games, and one former Disney executive believes D'Amaro would be smart to do even more in gaming going forward. This could include a buyout of a gaming company like Epic Games.

In an interview with CNBC, Kevin Mayer--a former Disney and TikTok executive who now runs Candle Media--said D'Amaro will need to take "bold steps" to help Disney make more money and grow its stock price. One part of this could be doing more in gaming, he said.

Mayer called out how D'Amaro championed the $1.5 billion investment into Epic Games for a Fortnite project, saying it was a "great move." However, Mayer said D'Amaro needs to "figure out" how to turn gaming overall at Disney into a growth driver. One way he could do that is by opening the checkbook and buying a gaming company, Mayer said.

The original God of War celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2025, but Sony waited until early in 2026 to reveal that the long-requested remake of the first trilogy is finally on its way.

God of War Trilogy Remake will tackle God of War, God of War 2, and God of War 3. Aside from the third game, they haven’t appeared on a console since the PlayStation 3 era. The very first thing that Sony revealed about this remake trilogy is that TC Carson, the first voice of Kratos, will reprise his role for the first time since God of War: Ascension in 2013. Christopher Judge replaced Carson for the 2018 God of War and its 2022 sequel, God of War: Ragnarok.

There haven’t been many details shared about the God of War Trilogy Remake, aside from Carson’s return and the news that the studio behind the mainline games in the series, Sony Santa Monica, is working on it. As new information rolls in, GameSpot is building our guide for everything we know about the God of War Trilogy Remake so far.

Microsoft has confirmed the date for its annual Xbox Games Showcase, where it'll show off several games. Kicking off on Sunday, June 7, at 10 AM PT / 1 PM PT, the Showcase will be followed by a deep dive on Gears of War: E-Day. If you're interested in watching, the livestream will be broadcast across the official Xbox YouTube and Twitch channels.

Microsoft says that the livestream will feature first gameplay looks and news on games from its first-party studios, as well as several reveals from its third-party partners. Immediately following Showcase, Gears of War: E-Day developer The Coalition will reveal new details and gameplay for its upcoming title, which is set at the start of the catastrophic start of Emergence Day in Gears of War lore. Xbox FanFest will also return during the Showcase, with this year's event looking back at 25 years of Xbox and the future of the brand.

Details on Gears of War: E-Day have been very sparse since the game was first announced during the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase. The game features Gears icons Marcus Fenix and Dom taking on the Locust for the very first time, and earlier this year, creative director Matt Searcy commented on how The Coalition is aiming to recreate the spooky vibes of the original Gears of War.