When IO Interactive and Sony announced a 007 First Light PS5 controller inspired by the game, people quickly pointed out that the controller's design looked like it was meant to evoke James Bond's trademark barrel logo. Except it didn't really, and it turns out that was by design.

Art director Rasmus Poulsen told Eurogamer that what IO was trying to achieve was to reference "more how the UI of the game feels."

"So rather than simply making a franchise stamp, it relates to our product, in the sense that it has that UI sense--and then it has more of a, dare I say, 'Sun' flavor, referring back to the title," he said. "So there's some things about light and shadow that we wanted to play with."

The upcoming Battlefield movie is reportedly attracting a bidding war, and now the names of the five studios said to have submitted bids have emerged in new reporting.

The Wrap reports that Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony, Universal, and Netflix have all submitted bids to acquire the package. Christopher McQuarrie, known for his work on the Mission: Impossible series, is reportedly set to write and direct, with Oscar-winner Michael B. Jordan on board as a producer and possibly the star.

The report did not include any further details on the bidding, including fees or other deal particulars that could be in play. In any event, a bidding war is no surprise, as The Hollywood Reporter said the package was set to become the "biggest bidding war of the year" among Hollywood studios.

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a big departure from the tried and tested format of past Lego adaptations, with this adventure pulling from a wide and storied history of Batman and letting it loose in a large, open-world Gotham City. It's looking like an ambitious title that helps explain its higher-than-expected PC requirements.

Perhaps the most eye-catching line in the PC requirements for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is for system memory. Even for the minimum requirements, you'll need at least 16GB of RAM to help support the game's open world. While that might not have been an issue a year ago, the ongoing RAM crisis driven by the needs of AI data centers makes that a very expensive upgrade if you're still stuck on 8GB.

It is, however, good to see that the highest tier has managed to stick to 24GB, after developer TT Games managed to reduce it from 32GB after some outcry. Outside of memory requirements, you'll likely not need an extremely modern rig to have a good time in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Even recommended specification don't require graphics cards with more than 8GB of VRAM, which is a rarity for many modern game releases. You'll also only require CPUs from two or three generations ago, which is nice to see as well.

Prominent industry leaker NateTheHate has asserted that a Star Fox game for Switch 2 is still in the works, despite Nintendo not announcing it in April as was previously reported.

Replying to a user on Twitter (via GamesRadar), NateTheHate said, "I do not doubt the game's existence. Several outlets/people have spoken on the game beyond me, as well." He admitted that the timing he had heard for the announcement, however, appears to have been wrong, though it's possible plans had changed internally at Nintendo.

As said several days ago: I do not doubt the game's existence. Several outlets/people have spoken on the game beyond me, as well.
Timing for reveal was off the mark & wrong. That's a miss by me.

Star Fox has seen a resurgence in public attention via The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, in which Fox McCloud made an appearance despite there never being any crossovers between the two franchises in their respective games.

Roblox's stock price took a dramatic hit today, May 1, following the company's latest earnings report during which it said new user growth slowed due to the recently released age-check changes. The company also massively decreased its upcoming revenue projections.

Although Roblox's average daily active users jumped by nearly 34 million compared to the same period last year and total hours engaged surged by 43% year-over-year, "bookings growth decelerated" compared to 2025. Additionally, Roblox was banned in Russia in December 2025, and that had an impact, the company said. What's more, management said Roblox's growth was tempered by "greater-than-expected headwinds" related to the new age-check system. New user acquisition was slowed, too.

All of this, combined with a revised download revenue projection for the year of about $1 billion, apparently spooked investors, with Roblox's stock sliding by more 18% today, bringing the company's shares down to around $46. This is down from a 52-week high of about $150.

Season 3 Reloaded is live in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, bringing the brand-new Totenreich map to Zombies mode. The map is set within a Norse fishing town from the WWII era, and the design and story elements definitely take inspiration from Norse mythology. Totenreich also features the brand-new Jotunn Star Wonder Weapon. In this guide, we'll show you how to collect the hidden pieces needed to craft this unique melee-style Wonder Weapon.

• Jotunn Star Wonder Weapon

The Jotunn Star Wonder Weapon can be acquired by completing a hidden in-game quest, which we walk you through in the steps below.

Subnautica 2 and 007: First Light, both of which release this month, were not made using generative AI technologies.

First Light art director Rasmus Poulsen told Eurogamer that it was decided based on a "combined discussion between core executives" at developer IO Interactive that the team would not use generative AI for the James Bond game.

"I think it's a large discussion. I'd rather not dive into the details, because it's complicated," Poulsen added.

Alysa Liu stole the show at the Winter Olympics this year, becoming the first US women's skating gold medalist in more than 20 years. After the Olympics, Liu said she wanted her own Fortnite skin, and while that hasn't happened yet, Fortnite is adding a new emote based on her performance at the Olympics Exhibition Gala.

The Stateside emote, as it's called, is available now for 500 V-Bucks. As you can see in the video below, it's an impressively faithful recreation of Liu's performance

The Stateside Fortnite emote is based on Alysa Liu's performance at the Winter Olympics Exhibition Gala pic.twitter.com/YRTdzZEs75

In February, Liu told USA Today that she would love for Epic to create a Fortnite skin based on her. "I would buy it!" she said.

Warhorse Studios, the Czech developer behind the Kingdom Come RPG franchise, has confirmed it does use artificial intelligence systems, but its investments in this space are not meant replace humans.

In a Reddit AMA, Warhorse said, "Some team members find AI useful during early stages of production. However, we do not use AI-generated content in the final game and we have no plans to change this in the future."

This question came up in part due to the AI-based controversy surrounding Warhorse after a developer, Max H., said their job as a translator was made "obsolete" as part of a bid to make the company "more effective" and to "save finances."

Zach Cregger, the director of the upcoming Resident Evil movie, has revealed which scene scared him the most in the game series, and it was a spooky scene from 2021's Resident Evil Village involving a baby that hunts you down.

Prefacing his comments with the disclaimer that he was playing Village in virtual reality, Cregger told the PlayStation Blog he was disturbed at the scene where players enter the dollhouse, go down into the basement, and assemble the big doll on the table. As part of this scene, a giant baby emerges that comes after the player.

"There was something about the sounds that baby made, and the lights cut out, and you're running through these halls, and you have to hide under a bed," he said.

Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil movie, which he also wrote, does not adapt any of the game stories or feature characters from the games. Cregger has now explained why he wanted to a make a movie inspired by the games but not necessarily based on them, why re-telling Leon's story wouldn't be a good idea, and how he expects fans of the games to react.

In an interview on the PlayStation Blog, Cregger said that while his movie does not adapt any of the stories from the games, it does follow a similar format. That format is that the movie will follow a character from point A to point B, taking viewers on a "crazy journey" that keeps escalating.

"That feels so cinematic to me. So I wanted to tell a story that could take place in the Resident Evil world, but wasn't telling a story that the games had already told. To me, I would feel like there's kind of no winning there if I were to tell Leon's story, because the games do such a great job," he said. "It would just be kind of redundant, and ultimately, I think, disappointing. So I would rather just kind of celebrate everything I love about the games by telling the story that could exist on the sidelines of one of the games."

After making two successful and well-liked Kingdom Come role-playing games, Czech developer Warhorse is reportedly going to make a The Lord of the Rings game next. That's unconfirmed for now, but the developers recently reacted to the rumor during a recent Reddit AMA.

Asked about the Lord of the Rings rumors, Warhorse said, "We cannot really disclose our future plans :) But we are staying in RPG genre!" The developer added, "Like any good game studio, we're working on a new game. We don't want to stray far from what we know, so we'll be sticking with RPGs for now."

Pressed in another question to say if the new project is a The Lord of the Rings game, Warhorse said, "We are hard at work on ... something. I cannot disclose details but I can tell it is a huge, immersive RPG."

World of Warcraft continues to expand its real money shop offers, with developer Blizzard now selling home exteriors for $40.

Housing is WoW's latest and greatest new feature, having arrived in full with the MMO's recent Midnight expansion (though players who preordered Midnight got early access to parts of housing late last year). Blizzard first started selling housing items for real money back in February, with a shockingly-low-priced set of plushies that could be used for home decorating.

Those low prices didn't last long, however, because in March, Blizzard began selling individual trees for 750 Hearthsteel (or $7.50) alongside an expensive bundle. Somewhat predictably, player outrage saw Blizzard quickly cut prices.

I began playing Slay the Spire 2 shortly after my colleague wrote up a piece on how its phenomenal multiplayer makes it an early game of the year contender. Within an hour of starting it, I, too, was utterly hooked. In the time since, I have poured a whopping 40 hours into Slay the Spire 2, yet even after sinking that much time into the game, I can't get over it. I adore how fast-paced, strategic, and immensely satisfying it is, regardless of if you're playing solo or with friends. And that first time I hit the Spire and became aware of the greater gimmick at play? That's definitely one of my favorite gaming moments of 2026 thus far.

However, my positive experience with the game and my colleague's glowing words fail to reflect how Slay the Spire 2 is being received on Steam right now. Though we (and thousands upon thousands of others) are thrilled with Mega Crit's latest deck-builder, the game's Steam listing states its reviews are "Mostly Negative." So, what's going on here?

For the past month, Slay the Spire 2 has been subject to relentless review-bombing. Whereas the game sat at an "Overwhelming Positive" rating back in mid-March, with 97% of players recommending it to others, it is now listed as "Mostly Negative," with 39% of its roughly 55,000 reviews in the last 30 days being unfavorable. Yet things get more intriguing when you look at where these negative reviews come from.

If you take away the title card from the teaser trailer of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie, it's easy to mistake it as an original horror property. There's no RPD Station, Nemesis, or Wesker to be found, with only a single green herb spotted in the background.

Already, some fans are complaining (as they do) about the movie's apparent lack of connection to the games, lamenting that it isn't a more overt adaptation of the adventures of Chris Redfield, Leon Kennedy, et al. What those folks seem to forget is that some popular games in the franchise have occupied that territory before.

In fact, Resident Evil can be at its best when it strays from its own familiar trappings.

Subnautica 2 finally has a release date, and given that it's Steam's No. 1 most-wishlisted game currently, it's expected to command a lot of attention upon release on May 14. One developer, Square Glade Games, is getting out the game's way for its own upcoming release, Outbound.

Outbound was previously set to launch on May 14, but Square Glade Games opted to move up Outbound's release date to May 11 to avoid a clash.

"Even though we are very hyped for their game and big fans of the franchise, we think that it is best to not compete with such an highly anticipated title on that day," the studio said. "We need to dodge the Leviathan, which means that you can start your road trip on earlier."

Any competitive gamer will tell you that while skill is a huge part of the winning equation, using responsive hardware is equally important. But you don't have to be an esports champion to have a rig that delivers precision input--and thanks to Asus' sale running during Amazon Gaming Week, which runs through May 4, now is a great time to upgrade your setup. The sale includes numerous Asus laptops, monitors, PC gaming accessories, and other hardware in case you're looking to upgrade your setup. We've rounded up some of the best Asus accessory deals in the lists below but be sure to also check out Amazon's full Gaming Week Sale for even more price cuts on PC hardware, consoles, games, and more--including big savings on select Nintendo Switch digital games.

While there's only a handful of Asus laptops in Amazon's sale--and the discounts are admittedly modest--you can still save a few hundred dollars on several models. Some of the biggest discounts include the Asus TUF Gaming F16 (2025) model, which sports the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, Intel Core i5 13450HX CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 512GB of storage for $900 (down from $1,300). For a more powerful option, there's this Asus V16 configuration that's equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, Intel Core i7 240H CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB of storage space for $1,300 (was $1,600). Here's a look at a few more discounted options:

Darker and Darker can continue development and move forward with "full legal certainty," developer Ironmace announced, following a South Korean Supreme Court ruling that upheld a lower court's copyright-dispute ruling and dismissed appeals from both Ironmace and Nexon in what has been a years-long legal battle.

Ironmace was founded by former Nexon employees, who Nexon accused of stealing trade secrets related to a canceled Nexon project codenamed "P3" in order to make Dark and Darker. Ironmace stated it never used stolen Nexon assets or code to create its game.

As reported by The Korea Times, last year, a court ruled Ironmace did infringe on Nexon trade secrets when Ironmace CEO Choi Ju-hyun stored Nexon data on a personal server before establishing the independent studio. The developer was ordered to pay damages, though, importantly, the court also found Ironmace not guilty of copyright infringement. An appellate court later concurred with the first court's ruling, but lowered the amount to be paid to Nexon to 5.7 billion won, or nearly $4 million dollars. South Korea's Supreme Court has now upheld that ruling, seemingly putting an end to issues stemming from Dark and Darker's copyright status.

Naughty Dog's next game is the new, original game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and it will show a "different side" of the developer, according to the game's lead actor.

Tati Gabrielle, who plays the game's protagonist Jordan A. Mun, told IGN that Intergalactic represents "such a different side of Naughty Dog that I think people are going to get really excited for."

Gabrielle did not elaborate further on this, but added, "It seems that they've even challenged themselves in ways of world building. I'm super stoked."

A lot of the news surrounding Subnautica 2 has been focused on the behind-the-scenes drama, but it's now been confirmed that the game will have its early-access release on May 14 for PC and Xbox. But when exactly can you start playing the survival game? Developer Unknown Worlds has now published the official times.

Subnautica 2 unlocks on May 14 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, and you can see more times below. The game has been confirmed for PC and Xbox Series X|S, but not any other platforms.

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