Gaming

shapez 2 left Early Access on April 23, 2026 and is on a 20% introductory discount through May 7. Its Steam page shows 7,984 user reviews at 97% positive overall.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launches July 9, 2026 across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Steam Deck, Ubisoft+, and cloud platforms. Standard edition pricing starts at $59.99.

Behaviour Interactive has laid off part of its external development team after demand for mobile and casual partner work weakened. The Dead by Daylight studio said the number of affected employees is undisclosed.

Control Ultimate Edition is live on iPhone and iPad for $4.99. Remedy's App Store listing adds touch controls, controller support, MetalFX, and hardware ray tracing on qualifying devices.

The team behind Project: Eden's Garden said on April 26 that production is over. The game will stop here, but the Unity codebase known as DREditor is still being prepared for open-source release.

Reports from April 25 say some PlayStation digital games now need an online license refresh every 30 days on updated systems. Does It Play says an anonymous insider described the issue as an exploit fix gone wrong, but Sony has not issued a public explanation.

Facepunch says s&box will open on Steam on April 28, 2026 for $20. The same update closes the long-running Developer Preview and says only 40,000 of roughly 800,000 preview users will keep access.

Valve has added new beta Steamworks reporting tools for Steam Deck Verified games, letting developers see 30-day average framerate charts and opt-in user survey results. The survey appears after at least 10 minutes of play, and Valve says variance data and Playable-game support are planned next.

Fortnite will open immediate self-service refunds for D4vd cosmetics on Tuesday, April 28, while Epic says support refunds are already available now. The company has not said whether the singer's items will be fully removed from the game.

A new leak reported by Tom's Hardware says Intel killed discrete Xe3P "Celestial" gaming GPUs long ago, leaving Battlemage as the latest Arc gaming card and pushing any Druid replacement no earlier than late 2027. Xe3P still appears on data-center and integrated graphics plans, but not on the gaming dGPU many PC players expected.

Road to Vostok has sold more than 250,000 copies on Steam a little over two weeks after its Early Access launch. Developer Antti says that run funds the full roadmap, with one more stability patch due in 2-3 weeks and Build 2 "Nomads" aimed at Q3 2026.

Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis launched on April 24 at $16.99, then followed with a Ver. 1.06 update that rewrites parts of the English script. Creator Fuyuki Hayashi says players raised localization complaints across Steam reviews, the Community Hub, X, YouTube, and Discord, and the new patch is the first pass at repairing that damage.