Our planet is under attack from the Star Spores, and they've warped life on Earth into ferocious uber-bugs. Even worse, a nasty alien has made its new home directly attached to your head. But it's not all bad news - your new best friend has provided both the strength to fight back against the mutated horde, and control over a weapon that can tip the balance of the battle in humanity's favor: the ChainStaff. As you traverse the surreal landscape, you'll encounter your fellow soldiers, stranded in harsh environments. Do you rescue your comrades, or listen to the alien voice in your head and harvest them for upgrades? If you can persevere and defeat the Star Spores, perhaps you can save everyone...including yourself.

Abject Abyss is a first person horror adventure. Take the roll of Ernest Sheffield, a technician, and one of many staff employed by the enormous Luminary Corporation on the distant world of Marzanna. It's been steady work for two years, but everything is about to fall apart. Explore your surroundings to find useful items. Stims and medications to heal wounds, lost security key fobs, clipboards with vital information, and more scattered across the dark corners of the facility. There are many dangers inside the collapsing facility, and Ernest isn’t a soldier. Evade danger with care and cunning, and when that fails? Run.

Pokémon Champions is coming to Nintendo Switch and compatible smart devices! Enjoy traditional Pokémon battles using familiar mechanics such as Pokémon Types, abilities, and moves, enabling rich and varied battle strategies that Trainers know and love. Pokémon Champions also supports cross-platform battles between Nintendo Switch and compatible smart devices. Compete against players from all over the world in Ranked Battles or go for some easy-going fun in Casual Battles. You can also play together with family and friends in Private Battles, too! Pokémon Champions will also be compatible with Pokémon HOME, the cloud service for Nintendo Switch and compatible smart devices, allowing you to partner up with certain Pokémon from past games in the Pokémon series and Pokémon GO.

Welcome to Legends of Elumia! Give in to rich, fun gameplay where players explore secret dungeons to gain epic loot, engage in multiplayer adventures, quests and fierce battles against in-game enemies or other real time players. Legends of Elumia offers a rich, sustainable economy where you truly own your characters. Harness unique character bonuses, trade valuable crafting materials, and claim land as you wage epic wars. Engage in deep guild progression and shape the world through strategy and ownership.

Lego Marvel: The Avengers Helicarrier (509 Pieces)

$61.19 (was $80)

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When a Lego set is retired, you can usually bet its value will increase on the resale market. Fortunately, Walmart and Amazon aren't hiking the price on the discontinued Lego Marvel Avengers Helicarrier, and both sites are offering a pretty good discount on it. Officially retired in December 2025, you can get this Lego Marvel set for $61.19, an almost $20 savings off of its usual $80 price tag.

Lego Marvel: The Avengers Helicarrier (509 Pieces)

$61.19 (was $80)

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This 509-piece replica of the iconic aerial base of operations used by Nick Fury and the Avengers has been a popular option for several years now, thanks to it hitting a sweet spot for being big enough to be a highly detailed diorama piece. Once fully constructed, it measures over 13 inches long and 8.5 inches wide.

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Almost three decades have passed since The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrived on Nintendo 64 and set a new standard for 3D action-adventure games. Even to this day, the title is revered as one of the best video games ever created. So, if the remake report is true, it wouldn't be surprising to see Nintendo keep the core experience intact, while focusing on updating the visuals on Switch 2. But that would be a missed opportunity to transform the classic into a modern marvel that caters to today's audience.

In 1998, the developers behind Ocarina of Time created a revolutionary camera system with Z-targeting. By pressing the trigger button on the Nintendo 64 controller--which was equipped with a single analog stick--players could lock on to enemies for battling or key in on characters for engaging in dialogue. This 3D gameplay breakthrough actually came about during a theme park visit in Tokyo, according to an Iwata Asks interview in 2011. One team member remembers a ninja show in which a samurai caught a chain, linking the two adversaries. Meanwhile, another developer noted a fighter won a 1-vs.-20 battle because only one enemy attacked at a time. You can see how both of these origins led to the creation of Z-targeting.

It's a credit to Ocarina of Time that variations of Z-targeting are still incorporated in modern games. However, dual sticks have been a part of the fabric of console gaming for roughly 25 years now, so players are much more comfortable navigating 3D space.

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Star Wars Eclipse, the upcoming Star Wars game from Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream, remains in development but progress is said to be "very slow going." NetEase, which owns Quantic Dream, could re-evaluate the project if the studio's upcoming free-to-play multiplayer title does not meet expectations, a report said.

According to Insider Gaming, Quantic Dream has completed a "good portion" of the game, but sources told the site the rest of it is not progressing at the expected rate. A source added that Quantic Dream held discussions with studio owner NetEase about hiring more staff, but this did not happen.

The report added that both Quantic Dream and NetEase are looking to Quantic Dream's free multiplayer game Spellcasters Chronicles to help bring in money to contribute to ongoing funding for Star Wars Eclipse. Spellcasters Chronicles is a 3v3 online multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before, and it entered early access in February this year. The game is free but makes money from microtransactions; revenue figures for the game are unknown, however.

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After years of development, and significant upheaval that led to half the development staff being laid off and a major change to the project, Liquid Swords is releasing its first game, the gritty crime game Samson: A Tyndalston Story, on April 8 for PC. The studio was founded in 2022 by Christofer Sundberg, the outspoken and opinionated co-creator of the Just Cause series at Avalanche who branched off to start a "zero-nonsense" studio in Liquid Swords.

As Sundberg sees it, modern, traditional game development has become overwhelmed by "distractions that affect quality and motivation," and Samson coming to market this week will show off what a studio with that charter is capable of delivering.

GameSpot caught up with Sundberg this week to discuss his new game, the comparisons people are making to GTA, and its $25 price point. Sundberg also shared details on how Liquid Swords had to pull back the game's scope and ambition as a result of the layoffs in 2025 that the team said were necessary to keep the studio afloat for the long term.

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Crimson Desert players, not content with exploring its massive open world, are now taking to the stars, and what they've found up there is surprisingly detailed.

As originally discovered by ItemRelocationClub on YouTube (via PC Gamer) and further highlighted by NikTek on X, a mod for Crimson Desert granting protagonist Kliff unlimited stamina allows those with a lot of patience to infinitely aerial stab their way into the cosmos.

This apparently takes several hours to accomplish, but once there, the view is certainly impressive. From space, players can actually see the curvature of Crimson Desert's world, far away galaxies, and other celestial bodies. Upon descending back to the earth, Kliff even seems to light on fire upon reentering the world's atmosphere, though this could just be a side effect of the equipped lantern making it appear that way.

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After a year and a half, there's finally another DLC expansion available in Starfield. The Terran Armada expansion costs $10 for all non-Premium Edition players, and it comes alongside the Free Lanes Update, which delivers a slew of additional content to the Settled Systems.

Of course, if you own the Terran Armada expansion, you likely want to hop straight into that after downloading the new update. Unfortunately, the expansion isn't automatically added to your mission log in Starfield, as you need to manually start the first quest before you're able to begin fighting the Terran Armada. Below, you can see exactly what you need to do to start the Terran Armada DLC.

How to start the Terran Armada expansion in Starfield

For starters, Starfield recommends players be level 50 or higher to start the Terran Armada DLC. While you can certainly stretch that level requirement and only be around level 35-40, you'll want to be fairly far along in the main story before attempting the expansion.

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Starfield's long-awaited arrival on PlayStation 5 is finally here, and it's brought with it a new "Free Lanes" game update (on all platforms) in addition to the new Terran Armada DLC, and we've got all the details on Starfield's latest DLC and the 1.16.236 patch notes.

In a recent blog post detailing the game's new content, Bethesda described the Free Lanes update as a "game-wide evolution, touching everything from space travel and late game content and progression to gear and ship customization and outpost building," with "countless improvements in between." In addition to the Free Lanes update (which, true to its name, is available free of charge), players can also take the game's new DLC, Terran Armada, for a spin. Terran Armada is--according to Bethesda--"a new story packed with repeatable content and tons to discover."

So what exactly is the Free Lanes update?

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Marathon's latest update brings its mighty knife down a few pegs, with developer Bungie reducing its lunge distance and majorly nerfing the amount of bonus damage granted by the Melee Damage stat.

Though it might not seem like it at first glance, Marathon's knife, a weapon every runner comes equipped with automatically, is among the most powerful weapons in Bungie's extraction shooter. Since launch, it's featured a Halo Energy Sword-esque lunge and enough damage to bring down even well-geared hostile runners in a single blow with the right upgrades.

As of update 1.0.5.3, that is no longer the case. The knife's lunge distance has been trimmed by 10% along with a 20% reduction in its targeting angle. But that's not all that Bungie has changed. The Melee Damage stat also received an overhaul, reducing the maximum amount of bonus damage against Runners granted by the stat from 100% to 50%. Bonus melee damage against enemy NPCs is unchanged.

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After the PS5 Pro launched, many players wanted a Cyberpunk 2077 update, but CD Projekt Red originally said it had no plans to use the console’s extra power. Now, in 2026, that has changed thanks to a major upgrade to the PS5 Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaling technology. This update arrives on April 8, and CDPR has shared details about the new features players will see when they revisit Night City.

The first big change is that Cyberpunk 2077 will now have 4K visuals and advanced ray tracing. Kuba Knapik, CDPR's VP global art director, said the studio added BVH8--or 8-way Bounding Volume Hierarchy--to bring more advanced ray-traced lighting, shadows, and reflections to the game. This helps bring the team's original artistic vision to life.

Players will have three graphics modes to pick from. Ray Tracing Pro turns on all ray tracing features. Performance mode focuses on the highest frame rate. Ray Tracing mode offers a balance between performance and quality, with some ray tracing effects and a target of 60 frames per second.

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Fans of retro-inspired games got a treat to cap off 2026 with Marvel Cosmic Invasion. A love letter to the beat-'em-ups of the '90s, the game features a stacked roster of Marvel heroes taking on Annihilus and the armies of the Negative Zone, and if you enjoyed that nostalgic throwback to coin-munching arcade games, you'll want to check out this new deluxe art book that goes behind the scenes on it. Priced at $30, preorders for Marvel Cosmic Invasion: The Art of the Game will be available soon at Amazon and Barnes and Noble before its release on August 4.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion: The Art of the Game$30 | Releases August 4

This 120-page volume is packed with a comprehensive gallery of concept art, sprites, and other illustrations, as well as explorations of the game's level designs and commentary from artists and developers. It features hardcover binding and measures 8.5 by 11 inches, making it a great coffee table book. As mentioned above, preorders go live soon at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and local bookstores. We'll update this post once those links are live.

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It's almost that time of year again, when every corporate entity temporarily gives its logo a rainbow makeover and publicly reaffirms its commitment to inclusivity. But before we get to Pride Month, we have to get through 4/20, which Call of Duty is celebrating with a pair of skins depicting Thurgood Jenkins, the fictional character from 1998's Half Baked, played by comedian and noted transphobe Dave Chappelle.

"There's something going on at Frankencense & Burr Pharmaceutical, and Thurgood Jenkins is right in the middle of it," reads a recent Activision blog post announcing the upcoming collaboration. "The master of custodial arts takes his chance to have some fun and save a friend, memorialized in this Bundle inspired by the 1998 hit comedy, Half Baked."

I'm old enough to remember the days when Chappelle was known for being funny rather than being a bigot. I grew up watching Chappelle's Show, and like many comedy fans, genuinely enjoyed the guy's work until he started making unfunny jokes about the LGBTQ+ community, with a large amount of vitriol aimed at the trans community and female sexual assault victims specifically.

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