NTE is a supernatural open-world RPG developed by Hotta Studio. The story begins in the city of Hethereau, where you play as the first "unlicensed" Anomaly Hunter. You will join the antique shop Eibon, which relies on taking on Anomaly commissions from the public to stay afloat. Alongside your diverse and extraordinary partners, you'll explore various urban mysteries, experiencing an array of adventures filled with laughter and tears, and crafting your unique urban saga.

It is a weird time for sex on the internet. We live in both an era of extreme sexual permissiveness and constant restriction. Formerly niche fetish terms like "gooning" have reached mainstream usage. The advent of machine learning has made deepfake pornography more common than ever, to horrifying effect. The release of the Epstein files has revealed how pervasive sexual exploitation is. Yet, ID-restriction laws have been passed in the UK and Australia, and several US states have floated or passed similar laws. Dozens of sexually explicit games were banned from Steam and Itch last year, in large part thanks to payment-processor pressure. Tomodachi Life exists at this curious intersection between permissiveness and restriction.

In early community-made videos, Tomodachi Life players made their little Miis talk about lesbian sex, frotting, and other sexual acts and innuendos, taking advantage of the game's surprisingly lax text filtering. This is not the first Nintendo game to create room for such a community--in 2015's Splatoon, some players posted more explicit images and text in the early hours of the morning, when the game's kid-focused playerbase was less likely to see it--but Tomadachi Life's cutesy mundanity makes it an especially subversive space for horny posting.

One Bluesky user, baffled that the game lets her type "lesbian sex," laughs along with the strangely coherent conversation that follows (and several other copycat posts on Bluesky have followed that one). On Twitter, streamer Blake Jennings' Mii befriends "human Shrek" by discussing "clapping your booty cheeks." And multiple posts on both Bluesky and Twitter describe the game as "writing boobs on a calculator," and that feels like an accurate assessment. Making your grandma say "farting" may be tamer than making outright innuendos, but both driven by a similar sort of glee. The player is turning the game to their whims, and the game is letting them.

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Pokemon Go's Steeled Resolve event is officially underway, shining the spotlight on various steel types like the debuting Orthworm. That isn't the only special Pokemon you can encounter in the mobile game right now, however. The event also brings back the elusive shiny Meltan.

This shiny mythical Pokemon only appears during special events, making it rare even among shiny Pokemon. However, finding one involves persistence and a particular item called the Mystery Box, which you can only obtain through some convoluted means. Here's a full breakdown on how to get the Mystery Box and catch shiny Meltan before the Steeled Resolve event ends.

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How To Catch Meltan

Unlike most Pokemon, Meltan doesn't normally spawn in the wild. Rather, the mythical Pokemon will only appear after you've opened the Mystery Box--a special item that you'll receive after you've linked your Pokemon Go account to Pokemon Home (or Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu or Let's Go, Eevee for Nintendo Switch).

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Soon you'll be able to weep at the loss of your favorite operative at your very own table; XCOM is getting a tabletop game. Developer and publisher Firaxis announced the game as part of their 30th-anniversary celebration, which accompanied a brand refresh.

Exact details for the XCOM board game are still under wraps. Modiphius Entertainment, also known for the Mass Effect board game and Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, is handling development. Like many other video game adaptations, the tabletop game will feature miniatures. In the announcement, Firaxis said the game will be inspired by XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the franchise reboot from 2013. The board game's price and release date were not announced. You can sign up on the official website to get future details in your email inbox.

This is not the first time XCOM has gotten the board game treatment. Way back in 2015, Fantasy Flight published a tie-in, co-op XCOM game. That one focused on the "meta" layer of XCOM--i.e. choosing what research to complete, building out parts of your base of operations--rather than the tactics-focused combat of the game's missions.

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If you're on your last life, you could consider purchasing a Super Mario coffin for your funeral. The (unofficial) tie-in went viral after a Brazilian manufacturer posted promo videos for the coffins, showing off Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Princess Peach themed designs.

Each coffin is painted in the character's distinctive color and emblazoned with their logo: the M and L hat symbols for Mario and Luigi, a mushroom for Toad, an egg for Yoshi, and a crown for Peach. Otherwise the coffins are ordinary and interchangeable with each other, featuring gold detailing and the conventional boxy shape. Brazilian urn and coffin manufacturer Bignotto is responsible for the wacky designs. It posted a few videos on its official Instagram page, zooming in on the details of the designs while remixed Super Mario Bros. music plays in the background. This isn't the first time Bignotto has turned to pop culture for its products; it has also promoted Barbie and Fairy OddParents coffins.

In other Nintendo related news, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie became the highest-grossing movie so far in 2026, though the biopic Michael just stole its number-one spot in US cinemas. If you've been living the dream in Tomodachi Life, here's how to get each personality type in the game.

It appears that Sony has implemented a new feature requiring PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 owners to connect to the internet every 30 days to renew the license on digital games they've purchased. Players who have stumbled into this odd feature are saying all PlayStation Store purchases made after March 2026 now feature a 30-day timer showing how long players have until they must connect to the internet and renew the game's license. Players who fail to do so within the time limit will lose the ability to play recent digital purchases until the game's license is renewed via internet connection. Sony hasn't made any official announcements about this--it's possible it could be a bug--but GameStop is already capitalizing on the bad press surrounding Sony's digital game license timers.

"Play really has no limits at GameStop," the company shared in a recent X post referencing the PS5's 'Play Has No Limits' tagline. "We believe that games should work for players, not against them. If you own it, you should be able to play it anytime, anywhere, whether you are online or offline."

Urging players to "start a real collection you can play, share, and trade," GameStop is offering a deal where customers can get a 10% discount when purchasing two to three preowned games, a 20% discount when purchasing four to five, or a whopping 30% when purchasing six or more preowned physical titles.

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At the inaugural iicon event in Las Vegas today, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick gave a speech in which he gave some hope--but not much--for sequels to L.A. Noire and others.

Zelnick was asked if Take-Two was planning to do more with L.A. Noire. He said, "Yes," before saying, "You never know," according to Game File. More broadly, Zelnick said Take-Two is constantly thinking about where it could take all of its franchises.

"The answer broadly is we're looking at doing something in the future with all of our intellectual property, but nothing to announce," he said, adding that any announcement about a Rockstar franchise would come from Rockstar, not Take-Two.

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Arc Raiders' Riven Tides update adds a handful of quests focused on the newest map so that you can get acclimated to how it plays. But as expected, a few quests will send you to take down some older enemies, such as Collision Course, which asks you to kill a Comet and obtain a Comet Igniter. Luckily, this isn't terribly difficult to do once you know how to approach these potentially deadly ARC.

Before loading into a match to kill a Comet and take its Comet Igniter, it's a good idea to bring an augment sporting a safe pocket. Once you score the Comet Igniter, make sure you extract safely with it. If you die without it in a safe pocket, you'll need to head back into a map and repeat the process.

Whether you're trying to knock out Collision Course or need some Comet Igniters for crafting or projects, here's how to get your hands on them.

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The Blood of the Dawnwalker, the vampire-themed fantasy game from a team of former Witcher developers, is shaping up to be one of 2026's exciting-looking new original games. Its director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, said in an interview that he doesn't think some of its new ideas would have been possible at CD Projekt Red.

Tomaszkiewicz was asked by IGN if he thought he could have made the game's "narrative sandbox" and time-loop elements at CD Projekt Red or another large studio, and he said, "I think I couldn't."

"When you have the big companies which have established IPs, it's really hard to change something or do something really innovative because it's always about being same-but-new," he said. "You already know the playerbase wants almost the same, but new, in comparison to doing something really fresh and new."

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Season 3 of Battlefield 6 arrives next month, and the update is set to introduce the game's largest map to date. Railway to Golmud is revealed as a reimagining of Battlefield 4's popular Golmud Railway map, and the developer has shared a closer look at the map and some key changes players can expect, including major changes to the train.

In the latest blog, Battlefield Studios calls this reimagined version of Golmud Railway a "tribute to the veteran Battlefield community."

"We have better technology than we did 13 years ago," said level designer Luka Grepl-Malmgren. "Two of the original level artists of Golmud Railway are still here at DICE, so we all worked together to not only recreate their work, but also understand what was not possible in Battlefield 4 and bring those ideas to life in Battlefield 6."

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Next to its effective scares, Phasmophobia is a game known for its janky player characters and animations. For some, these rough edges, like the remarkably silly way player-characters move through the world, have been more like a feature than a bug. Kinetic Games has recognized that some players like the jank, but has always maintained its plans to buff out these rough edges, and has today revealed the forthcoming update that will do exactly that.

On May 5, Phasmophobia will get a free patch that the team is calling the Player Character Update, which will bring with it several changes to what investigator avatars look like, but perhaps even more dramatically, how they move and interact with their haunted locales.

The update will finally populate the in-game shop, which has been visibly empty in the safehouse's computer for a long time. Players will be able to choose from one of 12 base character models, then customize their features like clothing, hair color, and "much more," according to the studio. More cosmetic options will arrive in the game over time, and in the week following the patch, players can grab the High Priestess t-shirt via Twitch Drops.

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