Bungie has revealed the closed alpha test requirements and PC specs for Marathon, its upcoming shooter game. The test will be conducted across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in North America from April 23 to May 4.

In order to qualify for the alpha test, players will need to join the official Marathon Discord channel and Bungie will invite selected participants. The lucky winners need to be located in North America, be 18 years old or older, have access to a PS5, Xbox Series X|S, or PC, and have a Bungie.net account in good standing.

The alpha test requires all players to have a Bungie.net account, and presumably the full release will, as well. A PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live account is not required to play the alpha test, but will be once Marathon officially launches. Friend invites are not supported during the alpha, although friends will be able to group up with each other if they were selected participants.

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Fallout: Season 1 Steelbook Edition (4K Blu-ray)

$40

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After earning stellar reviews from both critics and viewers in 2024, Fallout: Season 1 is leaving the Vault and coming to Blu-ray later this year. There’s still no official release date--but preorders for the Fallout: Season 1 4K Steelbook are now open at Amazon. Best of all, this release comes with a premium steelbook case, giving you a cool way to display it in your collection.

Fallout: Season 1 Steelbook Edition (4K Blu-ray) $40

There’s still a lot we don’t know about this upcoming 4K steelbook collection. We do, however, know that it’ll include both a 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray version of the hit show’s first season. Beyond that, much is unknown--including the steelbook artwork.

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Bonus features are yet to be revealed for the Blu-ray release. We’d expect to see the usual assortment of interviews, commentaries, and behind-the-scenes featurettes. Expect to learn more once Fallout Season 1 has a firm release date.

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Last year, Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 recaptured the spirit of the classic survival-horror game. This year, Bloober Team is following that title with Cronos: The New Dawn, an original sci-fi/horror game. Now, Bloober Team has offered fans an advance look at Cronos' gameplay, which may remind some players of Dead Space.

Cronos puts players in the role of a Traveler who has gone back in time to extract human survivors from the aftermath of an apocalypse. In this timeline, the end of the world happened in the 1980s, and mankind's survival depends on the Traveler's ability to rescue key individuals from the past.

Unlike Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland, the Traveler is very well-armed. However, the monstrous creatures known as Orphans are also more formidable. Their bodies are made of human flesh, and the trailer warns players not to let the Orphans merge. When that inevitably happens, even the Traveler's arsenal may not be enough to put the merged creatures down.

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We’re getting ever closer to the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages on May 13, and Xbox is celebrating its imminent arrival with a trio of limited-edition items, including an $80 Xbox Wireless Controller with an eye-catching design. Two of them are already available, while a third drops later this month. After checking out the new gear below, be sure to also read our Doom: The Dark Ages preorder guide--several editions are up for grabs, including a premium $200 bundle packed with exclusive goodies.

Doom: The Dark Ages Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller $80

Featuring a gorgeous design inspired by the Doom Slayer’s armor, this standard Xbox controller features a rugged green, grey, and blood-red design. It’s also colored asymmetrically, with one analog stick red and the other grey, and one bumper orange while the other is grey. Toss in face buttons with letters from the Sentinel alphabet, a red mark of the Slayer on the right grip, and a battle-worn aesthetic, and you’ve got a brutal-looking controller that’s a perfect fit for Doom fans.

The controller is available to ship now from the Microsoft Store and launches at major retailers this Friday, April 18. You can preorder the Doom Limited Edition Xbox Controller at Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop.

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Doom: The Dark Ages Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller is a Microsoft Store exclusive. With a bold red design and a transparent red case, you can glimpse inside at the inner workings of this premium gamepad. Like the standard Elite Series 2 Controller, this one gets you customizable button profiles, interchangeable thumbsticks, back paddles, and trigger locks for faster actuation.

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Wrap your console in the loving embrace of this Hell-inspired tech fabric. It’ll put the mark of the Slayer front and center on your console, with the rest of the fabric offering a textured design. You’ll fasten it to your console using a Velcro enclosure, meaning you won’t need any additional tools, adhesives, or advanced DIY experience.

The pricey Doom-inspired console wrap is also exclusive to the Microsoft Store.

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Want to start ripping and tearing ahead of The Dark Ages release on May 13? Then check out the Doom Anthology. It’s seeing a nice discount right now, allowing you to get a 5-inch replica of the BFG with LED lights and a stand, plus six games in the storied franchise. It’s available on Switch, PS5, Xbox, and PC, though the best price cut is for Switch.

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In 2022, Rockstar Games introduced GTA+, a subscription service that provides a variety of perks and bonuses in GTA Online. With GTA 5 Enhanced bringing GTA+ to PC for the first time recently and GTA 6's release coming up this year, we're running through everything you need to know about GTA +. Do you really need to sign up for yet another subscription service? Only you can answer that, but below you'll find a breakdown of the key facts about GTA+ to help you decide.

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• What Is GTA+?
• Free Games And Other Perks

What Is GTA+?

GTA+ is a subscription service for GTA Online that originally debuted in March 2022 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The subscription offering came to PC for the first time with GTA 5 Enhanced's launch in March 2025. With GTA 5 Enhanced now available for PC Game Pass, you can subscribe to GTA+ from within Game Pass. That's right: a subscription within a subscription.

Free Games And Other Perks

To begin with, every GTA+ subscriber gets 500,000 worth of GTA$ deposited automatically into their in-game accounts monthly based on their billing date. Members also get a 15% bonus in GTA$ for Shark Card purchases, while they also earn GTA$ multipliers for certain GTA Online missions and modes. Subscribers also get discounts on in-game items, with discounted wares varying month by month.

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Ninja Gaiden has been on a long hiatus, and for fans of the classic 2D games on the NES, it's been even longer. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a classic throwback from publisher Dotemu (Streets of Rage 4, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge) and developer The Game Kitchen (Blasphemous series). But while Ragebound shows their respect for retro craftsmanship, it feels more like an evolution of the 8-bit originals than a broad reinvention. This is still an action-platformer at heart, serving as a respectful homage to Ninja Gaiden classics that picks up right where those left off.

During an extended hands-on with Ragebound I was able to try a lengthy chunk from the early hours of the game: a playable story sequence, tutorial, and then a few stages full of tense combat and new mechanics that fit right into the classic feel of Ninja Gaiden.

In Ragebound, you play primarily as Kenji Mozu, a protege of series protagonist Ryu Hayabusa who is left to defend their village when Ryu journeys to America. When a barrier between the human and demon realms tears apart, the village is beset by demons and Kenji steps up to be the new protector of the realm. But in the course of the story, the demo also introduced a secondary protagonist: the Black Spider ninja Kumori. The Black Spider Clan was a major antagonist in the later Team Ninja games, so in a way, this is bridging the gap between the two eras of the series.

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Terminator 2D: No Fate Day One Edition

$60 | Releases September 5

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Terminator 2D: No Fate Collector's Edition

$120 | Releases September 5

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Terminator 2D: No Fate, a new side-scrolling arcade game based on the beloved action film Terminator 2 and developed by Bitmap Bureau, the creators of the 2019 indie hit Xeno Crisis, launches on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store on September 5. Players interested in picking up a physical copy of the game can preorder the limited $60 Day One Edition or the $120 Collector's Edition now on all three console platforms at Amazon.

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Terminator 2D: No Fate Preorder Bonuses

While there are no preorder bonuses announced for Terminator 2D: No Fate, all physical versions of the game available at launch are limited-edition releases that include collectibles and other extras, so it's worth preordering the game to secure one of these special editions.

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While everyone waits for the leaked The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered to officially get announced, Bethesda apparently has another storied RPG getting a similar treatment in the works: Fallout 3. A new report states the post-apocalyptic game is happening but won't arrive anytime soon.

Industry insider NateTheHate2, who previously nailed aspects of the Switch 2 reveal, replied to a question on X about whether Fallout 3 Remastered was "still happening." The answer was that it's "planned but won't be for a while." There was no other info provided, such as what developer might be tackling the reported project. Fallout 3 originally came out in 2008 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Industry insider NateTheHate2 responds to a question about a possible Fallout 3 Remastered.

Meanwhile, Bethesda Game Studios plans to make Fallout 5, though Todd Howard won't put "dates on anything." That's probably because the wait for more info on The Elder Scrolls VI has taken so long. Instead, for that fantasy-RPG franchise, players can look forward to the impending release of Oblivion Remastered, which has been heavily rumored and then appeared on the Virtuos website earlier this week. It's believed the game will launch next week, though no official confirmation has occurred yet.

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CD Projekt Red has warned Witcher fans that scammers are trying to take advantage of their enthusiasm for the franchise by sending scam emails inviting them to a Witcher 4 beta that does not exist. "This is a scam!" the developer said.

In a post on social media from the game's official account, the studio said it's taken steps to "take this fraudulent messaging down," but in case you still receive an email, be warned--it's a scam.

"If you receive any invites to or stumble upon news of one, we kindly ask you to report the scam using the tools available to you in your email client or the social media platform you are using," the developer said. "Remember: Professional monster slayers don't fall for scams; they see right through them and slay them!"

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Niantic laid off 68 employees after the sale of its games business to the Saudi investment company, Scopely, last month. While the layoffs were already announced, the specific number of employees has now been revealed.

As spotted by Game Developer, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) report published in California shows that at least 68 people will be losing their jobs at Niantic. The layoffs were processed on March 20 and will be carried out on May 20.

Last month, Niantic CEO John Hanke announced that the company would split into two separate companies--one now owned by Scopely and the other, Niantic Spatial, which is focusing on delivering "the promise of geospatial AI." Niantic has confirmed to Game Developer that Hanke's announcement was related to the WARN report, but had nothing else to say about the matter.

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