For the first time since 2023, Epic Games is increasing the price of Fortnite V-Bucks, with the change going into effect March 19. But unlike last time, when Epic simply made each V-Buck pack cost a few dollars more, the changes this time are a lot more complicated and warrant a bit of a discussion. You can read Epic's announcement here, and we'll run through the changes in depth below so you can understand them a little better.

Instead of raising the prices of the different tiers of V-Buck packs in Fortnite, Epic is decreasing the amount of V-Bucks you get for your money--the $9 pack will grant 800 V-Bucks instead of 1,000, the $23 pack will grant 2,400 instead of 2,800, the $36 pack will include 4,500 instead of 5,000, and the $90 pack will include 12,500 instead of 13,500.

It's the change to that second pack that's going to be the most impactful, because there have been many cosmetic bundles that cost between 2,500 and 2,800 V-Bucks, and now folks may need to buy a more expensive pack of V-Bucks or use the new "Exact Amount" top-up feature to buy those bundles. Unfortunately, the top-up is also about to become significantly pricier itself.

In January, developer Jagex announced the removal of microtransactions from its wildly popular 25-year-old MMO, RuneScape. Players rejoiced, but now the other shoe has dropped: It seems that the removal of microtransactions may come at a price--specifically, an increase in the game's monthly subscription fee.

In a new blog post, Jagex detailed plans to increase the game's monthly subscription price from $14 to $15 per month, with the yearly plan increasing from $99.48 to $131.88 per year. The price increase--which comes less than two years after the last time Jagex raised subscription fees for its aging MMO--goes into effect on April 9.

The good news is that this price hike won't affect any players who have an active monthly subscription at a grandfathered rate.

Resident Evil Requiem may be a little too scary for Hideki Kamiya, which is ironic since he directed the original Resident Evil 2 in 1998 and worked on the first RE game as well as Resident Evil Zero. Despite that survival-horror pedigree, Kamiya recently expressed his desire to play Requiem without having to deal with its scarier scenes.

Kamiya's studio, Clovers, posted a clip of the team playing Requiem, which includes Kamiya's remarks about about the franchise.

"I've been saying forever they should make a 'non-scary' mode," said Kamiya. "Look, I just want to enjoy the puzzles ... and the combat. I don't need the scary stuff."

Nintendo has finally given players a glimpse of Elephant Rosalina via a new trailer for the Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park, which launches later this month.

Three minutes and 26 seconds into the trailer, Rosalina appears in her human form, standing near an Elephant Fruit. Once consumed, she transforms into Elephant Rosalina. In addition to her standard teal dress and royal crown, the ever-fashionable princess is still sporting her iconic hairdo while in elephant form, with her bangs covering one eye as they always have. (That enormous elephant trunk is on full display, however.)

Elephant Rosalina has been a topic of discussion among Mario fans for years, with YouTuber Zack Scott commissioning artwork of her back in 2023 that looks surprisingly similar to her appearance in Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park.

Players should not expect Mega Crit to ever add microtransactions to Slay the Spire 2, according to recent comments from one of its developers.

In a recent interview with Destructoid, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano admitted that "a lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release," but that the indie team has no interest in releasing any such content because "we're microtransaction haters." He went on to elaborate that Mega Crit wants "players to experience all of the same content as discussion of game content and balance is sort of our lifeblood."

Mega Crit recently released Slay the Spire 2 into early access on Steam, and it was a massive hit. At the time of this writing, the game has achieved a concurrent player count peak of 574,638, which is higher than Marathon or even Arc Raiders ever achieved. Although Mega Crit could heavily monetize that large player base if it wanted to, and some people might not even complain about it, the studio is only interested in free updates throughout early access.

Former Xbox executive Peter Moore--who helped run Xbox during its earliest days--has come forward to say the console war between Microsoft and Sony was maybe "all my fault." Speaking to The Game Business, Moore said he might bear some of the responsibility for how heated things can get when fans of one piece of plastic argue with fans of another piece of plastic. To be sure, the console wars didn't begin with PlayStation vs. Xbox, as Nintendo and Sega had beef years before.

"Maybe it's all my fault, developing the console wars and getting in each other's faces," he said.

Moore specifically help orchestrate the so-called "console war" based in part on learnings from when he worked at the shoe company Reebok. He said when he was competing with the likes of Nike, Adidas, and Puma, the idea was to "create this sense of competition."

Diablo 4's upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion is making yet another big change to the ARPG's difficulty system, this time increasing the number of Torment tiers from four to 12.

Blizzard revealed the news as part of an interview with ARPG content creator Wudijo. In the interview, associate game director Zaven Haroutunian said the eight additional Torment tiers are an attempt to keep the world and enemies relevant as players grow stronger. The increased rewards from higher tiers is one reason why the expansion is adding a loot filter, Haroutunian said.

Design director of systems Colin Finer told PC Gamer in a separate interview that 12 Torment tiers makes the increased rewards for each tier "more granular." However, while Torment will go all the way up to 12, most players aren't intended to ever reach that point. The game's highest difficulty will instead be aspirational, with game designer Aislyn Hall stating Torment 12 is going to be "really f****** hard."

Arvore and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality have released a new trailer for The Boys: Trigger Warning, offering a first look at VR gameplay and confirming that it'll release later this month.

The Boys: Trigger Warning lands on Meta Quest 3 on March 26, about two weeks before the fifth and final season of the Prime Video TV show begins on April 8. A PlayStation VR2 port is also in development, but does not yet have a release date. The game follows a man named Lucas Costa who teams up with The Boys in order to rescue his daughter and get revenge on a group called The Armstrongs.

One of the more impressive-looking games of March 2026 is easily Crimson Desert, as the open-world fantasy game looks rich with bandits, brigands, and beasts to conquer across the beautiful--yet brutal--continent of Pywel. Is your PC up to the challenge of rendering all those pixels and just how well will it run on console? Developer Pearl Abyss has released official PC requirements and the targeted performance levels for consoles for the game, which runs on the studio's proprietary BlackSpace Engine.

The PC requirements aren't too demanding if you're aiming for a 1080p experience at 60 FPS, but once you start looking to push the visuals up to the sweet spot of 1440p or beyond, that's when you'll need to start investing in some expensive PC hardware. No matter which performance level you target, the game will require you to have at least 16GB of RAM and an SSD with 150GB of storage capacity available.

Over on consoles, the performance targets from Pearl Abyss detail the resolutions and frame rates Xbox and PlayStation players can expect on their systems. With the exception of the Xbox Series S, console users will have three modes to choose from: Performance, Balanced, and Quality. PS5 Pro owners can get an upscaled 4K resolution from the Performance and Balanced modes, while the Quality mode offers a native 4K at 30 FPS.

First announced in 2016, Jay And Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch finally has a release date--and it's very soon. The game starring the legendary stoners will arrive on April 20, or 4/20 as it's known in stoner circles.

The beat 'em up hails from developers Interbang Entertainment and Digital Eclipse. The game will launch on April 20 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

Chronic Blunt Punch is a side-scrolling tag-team beat 'em up in which players control Jay and Silent Bob as they go on an adventure that takes them "to the gates of hell itself." The game bills itself as a love letter to classic beat 'em ups but with updated features and controls. "This isn't a typical button masher," the developer said.

Nintendo, Universal Pictures, and Illumination waited a long time to unveil Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and an even longer period before revealing that Donald Glover will lend his voice to the friendly dinosaur in the film. But apparently someone guessed that Glover was playing Yoshi all the way back in December 2024.

X user silversfan06--who posts as Silver the Hedgehog--shared a post that's now gone viral for its simple prediction: "Donald Glover as Yoshi."

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No one is more surprised about the accuracy of that prediction than Silver, who responded to the now popular post with the following message: "I don't know, I just thought it was good casting." Silver has also shared a few humorous responses to calls for more predictions.

Legendary action movie star--and former California governator--Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he's in talks to reprise several of his signature roles for new Conan the Barbarian, Predator, and Commando movies.

"They did an additional Predator, and the director [Dan Trachtenberg] has been doing a great job of that. Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We've talked about it," Schwarzenegger said at this year's Arnold Sports Festival (via Variety). "As a matter of fact, Fox Studios has kind of rediscovered Arnold. They've come to me and said, 'We want you to do Predator, we just got a script for you to do Commando 2.'"

Schwarzenegger also commented on the long-in-development King Conan, which will be helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, the director behind the last four Mission Impossible movies. "It's a great story where Conan was 40 years king [as] king and he gets complacent, and now he gets forced out of the kingdom, slowly," Schwarzenegger said (via THR). Then there's conflict, of course, and then he somehow comes back, and then there's all kinds of madness and violence and magic and creatures."

In the days since its Steam reveal, PocketGame's first-ever non-mobile title, Pickmon, has stirred up a lot of controversy. Described on Steam as a "multiplayer open-world survival crafter" in which players team up with their Pickmon to "fight, farm, and build industrial empires while thwarting a shadowy organization's plot," it's not hard to see why so many folks are calling it a Pokemon rip-off.

The thing is, it's not just a Pokemon rip-off. It's also a Breath of the Wild rip-off and a rip-off of the pre-existing Pokemon-like Palworld, which also faced accusations of being a Pokemon clone when it launched in 2024. Pickmon's Steam description is almost identical to Palworld's description, which reads, "Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called 'Pals' in this completely new multiplayer, open-world survival and crafting game."

A closer look at the game's trailer reveals the sheer level of shameless copycatting for all to see.

As Activision promised, the new mode for Call of Duty: Warzone looks like a proper throwback to the franchise's first battle royale, letting fans grapple-hook and glide around the game's Avalon map like it's 2018. New gameplay footage from the official Call of Duty YouTube channel shows that the upcoming Black Ops Royale mode contains plenty of references to the original Blackout mode.

The 45-minute-long video contains an interview with Raven Software's Pete Actipis, who explained how the development team approached translating older Blackout concepts into Warzone. The video then shifted to several matches of Black Ops Royale with teams led by eSports players JoeWo and Repullze.

Actipis showed off high-tier loot zones during one of the matches, comparing them to the zombie-infested areas in Blackout. Viewers also observed that several sound effects return from Blackout, including the circle-closing alert noise, which should bring back some memories for hardcore Black Ops fans.

Bloober Team--the studio behind 2024's Silent Hill 2 remake, 2025's Cronos: The New Dawn, and the recently announced Layers of Fear 3--just gave an update on some of its upcoming titles, including the mysterious Nintendo-exclusive title codenamed Project M.

"At this stage, we are satisfied with the direction in which the project is developing," Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno said (per Inwestycje.pl, via machine translation by VGC).

Babieno also noted that Project M has gone through "some organizational changes" and has been transferred to a new development team.

The gaming calendar is starting to heat up, but if you're looking for some freebies, then you can check out everything that Amazon Luna has to offer in March. Amazon Prime members can claim these 13 PC games and eight more via the cloud for a total of 21 freebies.

As a reminder, all of the free games that you claim through Amazon Luna are yours to keep forever, even if your subscription expires. If you aren't a member, you can sign up for Amazon Luna for as little as one month to take advantage of the subscription and its freebies.

Available right now, you can pick up one of the best Borderlands 2 expansions--which has since been turned into a standalone experience--turn human flesh into a canvas for art in Tattoo Tycoon, and test your military might in Siege of Avalon.

Pokemon Pokopia might be the sleeper hit of the year, but it's a game that you'll have to shell out a little bit extra for if you're planning to grab it through Amazon. With the game in high demand, Amazon temporarily hiked the price on the physical edition of Pokemon Pokopia up from $70 to $80, but at the time of writing, it has dropped back down to $70--possibly due to some bad press and people complaining online. Still, Amazon could have set a worrying precedent for the future.

What makes the situation even stranger is that Pokemon Pokopia is a Game-Key Card release--that means there's no game on the cartridge, as it's essentially an authentication key that you can use to download the game directly to your Switch 2 console and play it so long as it remains inserted. Third-party studios have largely embraced this format for a wide variety of releases, but Pokemon Pokopia is the first Nintendo exclusive to adopt this physical format, which has raised questions amongst video game preservationists about the future of their purchases.

Amazon is also offering a digital download code for Pokemon Pokopia at its MSRP for $70, but what's really worrying here is that the company could kickstart a new trend with game releases. After all, if the largest online retail platform can get away with charging more than the listed MSRP, what's to stop other retailers from doing the same? Back when we started to see video game prices increase from $60 to $70 starting in 2020 for standard editions, the industry quickly shifted to this new pricing status quo, and we've even seen Nintendo launch games like Mario Kart World for $80.

Is the Fallout 3 remaster real? Bethesda refuses to comment on the rumored game, and recent teases like a countdown timer linked to the second season of Amazon's Fallout series have revealed nothing so far, but fans might have just been tossed a crumb of copium by an unlikely source: Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's toy company.

New figure listings for upcoming action figures from McFarlane Toys have been spotted online, with one particular line (via r/GamingLeaksAndRumours) of "ELITE EDITION 7IN – FALLOUT 3 REMASTERED – #13 T-45B NUKA COLA" catching the attention of Fallout fans. While it might be a bit of a stretch to bank on a single toy listing revealing the existence of Fallout 3, it wouldn't be the first time that one of these companies has done this.

Toy manufacturers typically get information on upcoming games well in advance so that they can produce collectibles in time for a game's launch, and in one example, McFarlane Toys revealed that Titanfall 2 was in development.

It's Mario Day, but instead of announcing any new Mario content, Nintendo set a May 21 release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

A video debuting on the Nintendo Today smartphone app showed what players will do in the company's next first-party Switch 2-exclusive title. The video, titled "Creature Discovery," has Yoshi jump into the eponymous "mysterious book" to find a bubble-blowing creature.

Disturbingly (but very much in character), Yoshi attempts to eat the round-headed critter, finding it to taste soapy and bitter. As the video demonstrates, Yoshi can ride inside its bubbles and carry the creature on its back to create more bubbles. The creatures can also change and add to their abilities by eating fruit, opening up several platforming possibilities.

Like most everything else in life, Fortnite V-Bucks are going up in price, Epic Games has announced. Epic Games had a blunt and transparent reason for raising prices.

"The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we're raising prices to help pay the bills," the studio said. The new prices go into effect on March 19.

You can see a full breakdown of the new prices in the graphic below. Epic Rewards members get 20% back on purchases in Fortnite, as well as Fall Guys and Rocket League, when made through the Epic Games Store or Epic's own payment system on PC, iOS, and Android.