Bungie's big new shooter Marathon launches on March 5, and the developer has now warned fans that there may be server queues upon release if demand is high enough.

In a FAQ, Bungie said, "Launch days are busy," and as such, players may encounter "brief queues." Bungie also said it may push new updates live for maintenance, and if that's the case, the developer will release those details on the its Server Status pages on X and BlueSky.

When a big game launches, it's also pretty normal for there to be issues, and Bungie said players can visit the Help pages and forums on Bungie.net to find solutions to known issues. Additionally, players can join the official Marathon Discord and follow the MarathonDevTeam account for the latest information.

The big new Resident Evil game, Requiem, features a terrifyingly realistic spider boss that's sending shivers down everyone's spine. Arachnophobes are definitely shaking in their boots, but so, too, is rapper Ice-T, who had some very simple words for a very ugly enemy.

Ice-T took to X on March 3 to share his thoughts on the boss. In a post late that evening, he said eight simple words: "Gamer Stuff: Resident Evil 9… F*** that Spider."

Those eight words were directed toward Requiem's eight-legged spider menace, the Titan Spinner. A relatively early boss encounter in the NF Building in East Raccoon City, this hairy arachnid is the size of a Hummer and is just as unstoppable. Running away? You almost certainly can't escape since it cornered you in a building. Pumping it with lead? It just shrieks, shrugs the bullets off, and keeps charging you anyway. Trying to hide? Well, you can't because it knows where you are, always. It's not unkillable--nothing is--but it requires patience and persistence to defeat. Get greedy, and you're dead.

While Leon's appearance in Resident Evil Requiem might have been one the worst-kept secrets, the revelation he was sporting what looks like a wedding ring caught fans off guard. You can see the ring on his finger in a couple of Resident Evil Requiem's cutscenes, but it's also displayed on some concept art for his character model.

Talking with PC Gamer, Leon Kennedy's voice actor Nick Apostolides revealed that he's ready for Leon to take a vacation and settle down properly. After all he deserves it.

"I would love to see him kind of settle down for once, maybe open an ice cream parlour. I think he deserves a little break, a little vacation, and maybe fight zombies once in a while." However, what he didn't admit to was whether Leon should be with Ada Wong, or Claire Redfield--much less confirm if Leon is in fact married to either of them.

The ever-popular Marvel Rivals is building up to Avengers: Doomsday throughout 2026, starting with a Loki-centered limited-time mode in April. At the Marvel Rivals Assemble in-person event, the development team unveiled the game's next roadmap, which is pretty much just an image of every MCU Avengers movie logo.

In April, June, August, and October, Marvel Rivals will feature "special events" and new modes tying in with the films The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, respectively. The April event is a 1v6 asymmetrical mode, where one player controls an Infinity Stone-powered Loki and fights six other heroes.

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Naturally, the event will be full of references to the 2012 Avengers film, with Loki donning a skin based on his movie costume and utilizing mind-control and illusion abilities. The opposing heroes also have the opportunity to recreate scenes from the movie itself by summoning the Hulk.

Nintendo has revealed that three new classic games will be added to Switch Online + Expansion Pack on March 10--also known as Mario Day. The most surprising addition might be Mario Vs. Donkey Kong on Game Boy Advance, considering the puzzle-platformer received a Switch remake a couple of years ago.

The other two titles starring everyone's favorite mustached plumber are Virtual Boy games: Mario Clash and Mario's Tennis. The former is a remake of sorts of the original arcade Mario Bros., not to be confused with Super Mario Bros. The latter is actually the first-ever entry in the Mario Tennis franchise and arguably one of the best games released on Virtual Boy. The sports series just saw Mario Tennis Fever come out as a Switch 2 exclusive last month.

Sony is reportedly stopping its plans to release PS5 games on PC, ending an experiment that started a few years ago. The company will still consider multiplatform releases for online games like Marathon, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, and Horizon: Hunter's Gathering, while single-player games like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora are still coming to PC. However, apart from those titles, no other PS5 single-player games are reportedly planned for a PC release.

According to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, last year's plans for a Ghost of Yotei PC port were recently scrapped and the upcoming action game Saros will also remain exclusive to PS5. Sources intimate with Sony's strategy did mention that plans could change in the future.

Schreier added that several recent PlayStation games have not sold well on PC--partly due to Sony having an inconsistent release schedule for its games--and the company is looking to pivot back toward console exclusives. Schreier noted that Sony hasn't been launching its AAA titles day-and-date with PC, and as a result of that unpredictable cadence, it won't suffer many consequences if it pulls back on its PC releases.

Prolific Call of Duty leaker TheGhostOfHope says he's received a legal demand from Activision to stop leaking Call of Duty content. Even stranger, Activision has publicly responded.

"Activision has legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information related to Call of Duty/Activision and I am complying with their demands," the former leaker (who goes by Hope online) shared on X. "Still gonna stick around and chat about Official Call of Duty info and anything not related to leaks/confidential information. Cheers for these past few years."

Hope had spent the last few days posting leaks regarding upcoming content for Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, including event rewards, changes to the games' content launch schedules, and information about Black Ops Royale, a new "Blackout-inspired mode" playable on Warzone's Avalon map starting March 13.

Tencent's stakes in various American video companies could be at risk, as US President Donald Trump's administration is debating whether the Chinese company's investment poses a security risk.

According to The Financial Times and Reuters, "several people familiar with the internal deliberations" are assessing Tencent's investments ahead of Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. The FT's sources added that Tencent has been negotiating with the US administration's Committee on Foreign Investment for years now, but the acquisition of Clash of Clans studio Supercell--which has a huge US userbase--reignited fears surrounding the company.

Tencent is well-known for having invested in many video game companies across the world, including a 28% stake in Fortnite-maker Epic Games. It also owns Riot Games (League of Legends and Valorant) and has stakes in other notable video game companies like From Software, Krafton, Larian Studios, and Ubisoft.

Developer Iron Galaxy has denied reports that it is working on a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas, though it's widely expected such a game is indeed in the works.

In a social media post, the studio said, "Nope!" There is nothing to see here" in regards to the claim that Iron Galaxy was possibly working on a new Fallout project. The rumor stemmed from a February 26 post from Iron Galaxy (below) that showed Fallout: New Vegas' "Please Stand By" loading screen.

The developer said in its new statement that this was "just a behind-the-scenes look at our company meeting" during which Iron Galaxy was planning to discuss upcoming projects internally.

The war between the United States and Iran appears to have had an unexpected spillover into the world of gaming. Iranian drone strikes have hit web servers in the Middle East, which has coincided with some issues with Fortnite.

Epic Games acknowledged the issue on social media and added that "players may be experiencing increased latency. We're rerouting to nearby local servers in the region to try and improve this, and will keep you updated on any further developments."

According to the Associated Press, the Iranian drones took down two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates, while a third facility in Bahrain was also damaged by a drone landing.

Resident Evil Requiem is already a big hit for Capcom, as it reached 5 million sales in just five days. The company says that it achieved this sales milestone faster than its previous mainline release, Resident Evil Village, and it was quicker than the recent remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4.

There were already signs that Requiem was off to a strong start, as the game reached a new series record of over 344,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it has so far been met with a positive reception from both critics and fans alike. This number was double that of Resident Evil 4 Remake (168,191) and triple that of Resident Evil Village (106,631), making Requiem the biggest launch in the franchise's history to date.

Capcom says one of the keys to success here was the idea to focus on broad appeal without losing the identity of the game, through the use of multiple difficulty settings and the option to switch between first-person and third-person perspectives in real-time. This, in turn, allowed players to fine-tune the experience to suit their individual tastes.

Many of last week's PS5 deals are continuing this week, including the awesome sales at both PlayStation Direct and Woot. However, both of these sales will be wrapping up soon, making this your last chance to cash in on some of the best deals we've seen in the early months of 2026. There are also a handful of new deals to explore, including a variety of DualSense price cuts and additional game discounts--including Borderlands 4 for $45 (was $70) and Dragon Age: The Veilguard for just $10 (was $20). If you're hunting for a cheap PS5 console, your best bet remains the PS5 Digital Edition: Fortnite Flowering Chaos Bundle, which saves you $100 and comes packed with exclusive content for Epic's battle royale.

Here's a look at the best PS5 deals for the week of March 2, 2026, including price cuts on games, accessories, and consoles.

Actor Ben Stiller sent some people into a tizzy recently after he posted "GTA" on social media, with some theorizing it has to do with Grand Theft Auto VI or the franchise in general.

That's not the case, though. Stiller is a huge fan of the New York Knicks, and his "GTA" post was no doubt in reference to Knicks point guard Jose Alvarado, and a defensive play he is particularly famous for. For him, it's an acronym for "Grand Theft Alvarado." In last night's game, Alvarado had a steal, which no doubt encouraged Stiller to head to his keyboard and post what he posted.

Marathon's open server slam has concluded and its full release is imminent on March 5. If you're ready to jump back into Tau Ceti for the full experience of Bungie's new extraction shooter, here's when you'll be able to start playing.

Marathon will have a simultaneous launch in all regions and across platforms, which includes PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The simultaneous launch means Marathon won't launch until early on March 6 in some time zones. Check out the release time in your time zone below:

• 10 AM PT
• 12 PM CT
• 1 PM ET
• 6 PM UTC
• 7 PM CET

• 3 AM JST
• 5 AM AEDT

Marathon had a free open server slam over the weekend, attracting a peak of 143,000 players on Steam in its first day. While player numbers dropped as time went on, with some players seemingly put off by the complexity and sometimes steep learning curve of the extraction shooter, Bungie reported that players were having more fun with the game the deeper they got into it.

Surgent Studios has revealed its next game: FixForce. Sticking to the studio's pattern, FixForce is completely different from what Surgent has done before--unlike grief-driven metroidvania Tales of Kenzera: Zau and surreal first-person horror game Dead Take, FixForce is a chaotic cooperative game in which you play as a team of robots charged with repairing a post-post-apocalyptic world.

Designed for up to six players, FixForce sees you and your friends each take control of a robot and do your best to complete repair jobs within a time limit. Viewed through first person, you primarily complete assignments with a tool that allows you to telekinetically pick up, rotate, and throw junk or machine parts scattered throughout the environment to solve environmental puzzles. Your tool can also affix items to others, allowing you to construct makeshift bridges, ramps, and towers to aid in exploration.

To confound your team's efforts, each of you spawns in with a battery representing your health, and hazards will chip away at that health if you're not careful. You can't survive being in water, for example, and occasionally enemy bots will latch onto your character's chassis and begin sucking away your battery. Allies can help you--making a walkway for you to get out of a pool you accidentally fell into, for instance, or pulling off the energy-sucking enemy bots and tossing them away--but they can harm you too. With a simple click (purposeful or by mistake), you can push an ally off a ledge to their demise or steal their battery to power something you need.

In trying to understand something new we have a tendency to draw comparisons to the familiar. That's probably why, in a 30-minute showcase of Control Resonant's gameplay, attendees mentioned Dark Souls, the Batman Arkham games, Alan Wake 2, and Bayonetta. Everyone has a lens they want to look through to bring the unfamiliar into focus.

Remedy insisted that the biggest influence on Control Resonant is its predecessor, Control. The only influences that director Mikael Kasurinen and combat designer Sergey Mohov overtly acknowledged were Neon Genesis Evangelion and Sucker Punch's InFamous: Second Son.

The former, a story about a traumatized boy defending a city from alien incursions using a biomechanical humanoid mecha in the hopes he will be able to understand himself and earn approval from others, is an apt point of reference for Control Resonant's protagonist Dylan Faden. Dylan, the brother of Federal Bureau of Control's director Jesse Faden, is a powerful parautilitarian who has abilities by way of a connection to an otherworldly entity called Polaris. Despite showing huge potential, Dylan was deemed to be unstable, going so far as to kill or cause the deaths of other FBC agents. In the events of the first game, Dylan was left in a coma after having The Hiss, another hostile entity, purged from his body.