Gaming

A hot r/Games post highlights Bungie’s latest message on Marathon: CPU optimizations are coming, smaller updates should arrive faster, and the studio expects years of ongoing work.

A hot r/Games post is circulating Kotaku's interview with former project director Vinit Agarwal, who said Last of Us Online was around 80% complete before the project was canceled.

r/Games highlighted Valve’s latest Steam storefront experiment: a redesigned Store Home now available in the Steam Client Beta, with larger artwork, clearer recommendation context, updated hover behavior, and new sections that pull discounted wishlist items and DLC into the main discovery surface.

r/Games surfaced a notable PC back-catalog move: the original Resident Evil trilogy on PC and Breath of Fire IV are now on Steam, bringing older Capcom releases into the platform with updated rendering, localization, and quality-of-life work tied to the earlier GOG versions.

The official Mortal Shell II gameplay reveal confirms beta registration, Steam and console wishlists, and a 2026 release window for a standalone sequel built around three warrior Shells and a hostile interconnected open world.

Bethesda says Starfield's Free Lanes update arrives on April 7 with improvements to exploration, customization, combat, and more, landing at the same moment as the game's PlayStation 5 debut.

Frost Giant says Stormgate's multiplayer and other online features will go dark at the end of April after server partner Hathora was bought by an AI company, while an offline patch and a future online return remain only tentative plans.

A U.S. patent examiner has issued a non-final rejection of all 26 claims in Nintendo's battle-mode patent after a Director-ordered reexamination, reopening scrutiny of a patent tied to the wider debate around companion-battle mechanics.

NVIDIA's latest app beta adds Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, alongside higher 6X generation limits and a new frame-generation model for select games.

Capcom says Pragmata has gone gold, giving the long-delayed sci-fi action game a firmer runway into its April 17, 2026 launch on console and PC.

Hinterland has released Episode Five: The Light at the End of All Things as a free update for existing owners, bringing The Long Dark's long-running WINTERMUTE story to its finale.

New FTC warning letters to Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, and Stripe do not target Steam directly, but they reopen the debate over how much power payment processors can exert over digital game storefronts.