MONGIL: STAR DIVE follows the lively journey of protagonists Verna and Cloud. Players can enjoy the unique narrative as they undertake various guild missions alongside Cloud and Verna, who each have a special destiny. Throughout these missions, players can explore the game’s distinctive universe and encounter charming Adventurers, adding to the thrill of the adventure. Battles in MONGIL: STAR DIVE focuses on “simple action,” allowing players to enjoy exhilarating and dynamic battles with easy controls. Players can form their party based on character traits and experience spectacular action sequences through tag play. Players can tame Monsters using the abilities of Nyanners, the game’s mascot character shrouded in mystery. Tamed Monsters will receive special powers, which can be used strategically in battles or crafted into ‘Monster-ring’ that players can equip on and customize their characters.

A new update arrived for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on April 14 for both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. With this game patch, Nintendo is celebrating the franchise's 25th anniversary and providing a few bug fixes as well. Players who download the update will receive an anniversary gift and special letter from Nintendo.

Downloading the version 3.0.2 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons gifts players with a new item called the Leaf Statue. This statue is designed as Animal Crossing's iconic leaf icon. In terms of size, this is a villager-size decorative item, and it even lights up. Players will just need to check their in-game mailbox to receive the Leaf Statue, and there's even a thank-you note from Nintendo.

The letter thanks players for 25 years of the franchise. The design of the in-game letter also pays homage to the very first game with a stamp of the Nintendo 64 logo, which is the platform of the very first Animal Crossing game released on April 14, 2001.

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Crimson Desert is, in many ways, exactly the type of game I've been waiting for.

It's got the enormous, sprawling setting of, say, an Assassin's Creed title, minus the laundry list of quests that often cause me to burn out on Ubisoft's massive open-world games. It encourages freedom and experimentation much in the same way as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but with a more consistent narrative drip-feed that keeps me coming back for more. Sure, it starts off a bit slow, but so far, it's largely been a fun ride. In fact, Crimson Desert is probably the best game I've played so far in 2026. Or it would be, if it weren't for the little twinge of doubt in the back of my mind that tingles every time I load up the game and leaves me wondering, "Is this AI?"

A large part of the discourse surrounding Crimson Desert has been a fairly black-and-white discussion about whether the game is "good." If all gaming discourse took place in a vacuum, I'd say it's a pretty solid 7/10 RPG. But we don't live in a vacuum. We live in a world where studios are increasingly outsourcing their work to generative AI and refusing to disclose it. Developer Pearl Abyss did just that with Crimson Desert, releasing the game on March 19, despite the fact that it was unpolished and featured a frustrating storage system, a bizarre control setup, and blurry graphics on PlayStation 5. Oh, and a load of AI-generated "placeholder" art that was "unintentionally" left in the game.

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Windrose is a new pirate survival game that allows you to tackle the pirate world as a lone captain or with a crew of your friends in online co-op. Multiplayer is fully supported, but there are some rules and restrictions that you'll want to know about before you attempt to play with your friends.

Below, we'll go into everything you need to know about co-op multiplayer in Windrose.

Co-op multiplayer explained in Windrose

For starters, Windrose only supports online co-op, meaning that there is no option for local split-screen co-op. You can only invite players to a world if they join on a different PC and they're connected to the internet.

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The Metro game series has never shied away from dark, disturbing subject matter, with warring factions fighting for control over what's left of a devastated post-nuclear-apocalypse Moscow. Despite this, series author Dmitry Glukhovsky says Metro 2039 is shaping up to be even darker.

Writing on Twitter (via PC Gamer), Glukhovsky made a very bold statement: "This Metro game will be darker than anything you've seen before."

This Metro game will be darker than anything you’ve seen before

— Дмитрий Глуховский (@glukhovsky) April 14, 2026

This is a series that has seen the absolute plight of humanity, as well as the mysterious Dark Ones, all while enormous, mutated animal creatures reign supreme above the metro station. It's a series where you're often given two choices, both of which are dark and disturbing, and must determine which one is the least horrible. Death is just around the corner for nearly any character, and there is very slim hope for the future. If Glukhovsky is this confident about 2039, then it might be best to alternate with something a little more cheerful when it eventually releases.

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An Elden Ring movie from A24 and acclaimed filmmaker Alex Garland is on the way, and if the movie keeps up with the popular popcorn bucket trend, fans believe they've worked out the perfect idea for it.

A post by FromSoftCentral (via GamesRadar) offers up the suggestion that Iron Fist Alexander should be the official popcorn bucket for the Elden Ring movie. Indeed, it's not difficult to imagine the jar being filled with buttery popcorn that moviegoers inevitably devour before the film even starts.

Iron Fist Alexander being the popcorn bucket would also be kinda weird because he is a living jar with ambition to become a mighty warrior, so eating popcorn out of his body means he is probably dead.

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One of the hallmarks of any Lego Batman game is the Caped Crusader's wardrobe. GameSpot can exclusively reveal that in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, the hero will be suiting up in the shinobi threads that he donned for the 2018 anime movie Batman Ninja.

While Batman started his adventure in feudal Japan equipped with his modern-day crimefighting outfit, it wasn't long before the battles took a toll on his equipment and he decided to embrace his new role as the Bat Clan's prophesied hero. It's a weird film, but one that did give us a Batman dressed for war in a suit of custom-made samurai armor and a Kabuto cowl shaped like his signature cowl. The suit itself would change once more, taking on a ninja-inspired look for Batman's climactic battle against the Joker.

According to the Wayne-Tech stats, the Batman Ninja outfit is average when it comes to nostalgia--the anime film isn't even 10 years old yet--but in the fields of aura-farming and intimidation? It scores really high.

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Disney's 20th Century Studios has announced a deal to develop a movie based on 99 Nights in the Forest, one of the most popular games hosted on Roblox.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century won the rights in a "competitive" dealmaking process, though no other potential bidders were divulged, nor was the fee that 20th Century paid disclosed.

99 Nights in the Forest is developed by Grandma's Favourite Games and hosted on Roblox, and it ranks as one of the most popular games on the platform. The game was only just released in March 2025, and in that time, it's had more than 25.9 billion visits, according to the game's public stats. It had more than 174,000 concurrent players today, April 14, and peaked at 14.2 million players to rank No. 3 overall for peak concurrents.

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On the surface, Windrose might not look like an overly challenging survival game. You're a pirate who crash-lands on an unknown island, and all you have to deal with for the first several hours are dodo birds, boars, and some drowned zombie-type enemies. However, as you'll quickly learn, combat in Windrose can be extremely difficult, as enemies can deal massive amounts of damage to you in just a couple of hits.

To avoid seeing the death screen and having to run miles to retrieve your lost items, you want to ensure you're stocked up with as many healing items as possible. You can see a full breakdown of every way to heal in Windrose in the guide below.

Best ways to heal in Windrose

Unfortunately, at the start of Windrose, your options for healing items are pretty limited. In fact, the game doesn't give you any way to heal yourself for free off the bat, as you need to craft and loot ways to restore your HP for the most part.

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Marathon is getting a mid-season update today, and Bungie is placing an emphasis on teamwork while offering new players incentives to join the game. The biggest change is the CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative, which gives solo players and teams rewards if they finish objectives and extract themselves at the same time.

As laid out by Bungie, C.A.R.R.I. rewards will be paid out as CyberAcme Commendations, which can be used to purchase weapons, Reputation Packs, and other items from the C.A.R.R.I. Armory. However, the C.A.R.R.I. Armory will only be available through the end of Season 1.

To encourage more collaboration among players, Bungie is introducing a new feature called Stay Together that will allow runners who exfill together at the end of a run to keep the team-up going as a new crew. Players can also revive a downed enemy with the new Mercy Kit consumable with an eye towards turning them into an ally. However, Mercy Kits won't work on members of a player's crew or on the player themselves.

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