The best World of Warcraft players in the world are locked in a neck-and-neck race to bring down Midnight Season 1's final boss on Mythic difficulty, and just when it looked like one guild had done it, a secret boss phase flipped the script.

Team Liquid and Team Echo have been locked in a tight race to bring down L'ura, the final boss of the March on Quel'Danas raid, with each guild just a few health percentage points away from bringing the dark naaru down. Liquid looked to have secured the win on April 4, bringing L'ura down to 0 HP, only for the naaru to secretly have a fourth phase. In an Easter surprise, the boss healed to her full 1 billion health and began overwhelming the arena in darkness, quickly killing the last remaining raiders.

Getting back to that phase has been tricky for both teams, with each having only done it a handful of times. However, each time a team has reached the secret phase, they've been able to glean more information about it. The good news is that with more intel, it looks like the phase itself is relatively simple (though still extremely challenging). Players need to stick close together in a light bubble while avoiding L'ura's lasers and voidlings, as well as be able to heal through massive damage from a raid-wide attack. The even better news is that L'ura takes significant extra damage during this phase. If each team can get to the final phase with most of the raid alive, the boss should go down relatively quickly.

Since it first launched in 2023, Starfield has received numerous expansions and upgrades, and this month is a big one for Bethesda's sci-fi adventure game. Not only is it coming to PS5 consoles, but Starfield is also getting two updates--Free Lanes and Terran Armada. Both of these will be launching on April 7. If you're looking to jump into the new content--or you're planning to get Starfield for PS5--here's when it unlocks around the world:

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Undead Labs' studio head Philip Holt has explained the six-year gap between when State of Decay 3 was announced and its re-reveal this past week.

Holt told Sunny Games that State of Decay 3's announcement trailer from 2020 was not actually of the game. "There really wasn't a game or game team when we were working on that trailer, like, it was so early," he said, adding that only about four or five people were working on the game then.

"The game was in a Word document," he added, as reported by GamesRadar.

Legendary movie director Steven Spielberg has heaped praise on Zach Cregger, the director of the upcoming Resident Evil video game movie based on Capcom's iconic gaming franchise.

Speaking to Empire, the E.T. and Jurassic Park director said he hasn't made a horror movie before and he may never, in part because Cregger's horror movie Weapons was so good.

"I haven't directed a horror film yet, and I've always wanted to, and someday I may. But there have been some great horror films out already that satisfy that itch. When I see a great horror film like Weapons, I don't have an itch I need to scratch," he said. "I see Weapons, and it doesn't make me want to make a horror film that's as scary or scarier than Weapons. It satisfies me so completely, it actually arrests my desire to someday make a really, really scary movie."

Crimson Desert has received another patch that brings several important and welcome changes to the open-world action-adventure RPG. This includes addressing the game's biggest headache: storage space. However, there's a caveat this time.

As part of Patch Version 1.02.00, which is available now on all platforms (with the Mac App Store version currently "in progress"), South Korean developer Pearl Abyss has expanded the number of storage slots you have access to in Crimson Desert. These storage slots, though, are found in Kliff's private storage chest in the Greymane's camp, which you unlock at the start of Chapter 3. You previously started with 240 slots in this lockbox, but now, depending on how much you build upon the camp, you can increase the number of storage slots to a maximum of 1,000.

Greymanes, Patch Version 1.02.00 is rolling out.
This patch adds the Headgear Visibility option, private storage capacity increase of up to 1000 slots depending on the Greymane camp expansion level, and more.
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This is a welcome addition, particularly considering how frustrating storage has been since the game's March 19 launch on consoles and PC. Across reviews, including GameSpot's 7/10 Crimson Desert review, the common refrain has been that inventory management is "aggravating" and "tedious" due to item abundance and space limitations. Pearl Abyss released a patch on March 29 that increased the number of storage slots on Kliff, but players still found the inventory-management system irksome. While this patch doesn't add more slots to Kliff's personal bag, the additional space to his private chest should help assuage some of the concerns regarding the amount of storage you have access to.

Nintendo has announced a new limited-time Switch 2 deal. Anyone who purchases the console can save $20 on the physical or digital version of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 when bought together, and the special runs April 12 through May 9. Participating retailers include Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, and Walmart. Normally $70, both games will cost just $50 with this offer.

Arriving in the wake of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie--which is taking the global box office by storm--Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 includes both of the classic Wii games in one package. Considered to be two of the best 3D Mario games ever made, these interstellar adventures have also received a big update for Switch 2. In addition to an enhanced 4K resolution and improved user interface, players can also jump into extra storybook chapters, and a new Assist Mode makes them more accessible.

The first Super Mario Galaxy game followed Mario on a journey across the cosmos to recover the stolen Power Stars from Bowser, and it introduced the fan-favorite character Rosalina. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the adventure expanded to the distant reaches of space, and Yoshi joined Mario on his quest.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie put up some impressive figures at the box office this weekend, and one beneficiary of that success in the movie theater chain AMC. The company reported today that the April 1-5 five-day period was the best Easter weekend in the company's 106-year history in terms of revenue for combined ticket sales and food and beverage.

More than 6 million people went to an AMC theater in the US or ODEON Cinema location internationally between April 1-5, and that was the highest global attendance for a Wednesday through Sunday period so far in 2026 at AMC locations.

Merchandise was also a huge hit for AMC this past weekend, with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's merch now ranking No. 2 all time for sales and grosses, only behind merch for the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie in October 2023.

Actor Anya Taylor-Joy did not actually barf the first time she voiced Princess Peach for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. She recently clarified her earlier comments, saying she did in fact vomit when doing voice over for the first time, but not for Princess Peach.

She told Entertainment Tonight, "I never said it was Princess Peach. I said it was the first time I ever did voice acting."

The confusion came from an interview with Seth Meyers prior to the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Taylor-Joy recalled a story of a time when she threw up while doing voice acting, but in that interview, she never said it was when she voiced Peach. Despite that, the YouTube video from Meyers was titled, "Anya Taylor-Joy Threw Up the First Time She Voiced Princess Peach in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie."

It has come to light that the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is filming at some of the same locations that Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy shot at in New Zealand. The island country is known for its gorgeous natural beauty, and the live-action Zelda movie is going to tap into that, with scenes filmed near Queenstown, New Zealand.

Specifically, some of the recent filming has taken place in actual Paradise, which is where many iconic scenes from Jackson's movies were filmed, including depictions of Lothlorien, Isengard, and Amon Hen.

No doubt some of the Zelda movie is being filmed on sound stages, like Jackson's movies were as well, but local Reece Reilly said the Zelda film is "being shot predominantly on location."

With a new spin-off animated series coming out this month, Maul is back in the Star Wars spotlight. Since his first appearance in 1999's Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the former Dark Lord of the Sith has become one of the series' most popular characters and has appeared in several video games over the years. Even though Maul has never starred in his own game, his current voice actor believes there is a chance to tell an "incredible" story if given the chance.

In an interview with Discussing Film, actor Sam Witwer shared that he would love to see a Maul video game happen someday. "I've become convinced we could do an incredible story, yeah," Witwer said. "If you asked me, maybe two years ago, I don't know. Yeah, probably, I would have said yes anyway. But now I'm like, 'I know what we can do with him,' for sure."

Witwer is very familiar with both Star Wars and video games. His voice and likeness were used for Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Galen Marek, in 2008's The Force Unleashed and its 2010 sequel. Since then, Witwer has often voiced Maul in TV shows and games, including major roles in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Rebels, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. In Solo, Maul's original actor Ray Park returned to play him in live-action scenes.