PC Gamer reports that New Blood CEO Dave Oshry has recommitted to GOG after publicly questioning the storefront’s long-term health, promising broader parity that includes sales, demos, one-click mods, and day-and-date launches.
Insider Gaming reports that the Battlefield communications team will delist Battlefield Hardline from PS4 and Xbox One storefronts on May 22, 2026, with online services on those consoles ending on June 22. The PC version remains on sale and online.
Techland says Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land bundles the full game, all post-release content, and a new ruleset where enemies and loot do not respawn normally. Existing players receive the March 26 update for free.
Xbox says its March 26 Partner Preview will feature third-party updates, new reveals, Game Pass news, and named appearances from Stranger Than Heaven, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, and The Expanse: Osiris Reborn.
Gearbox and 2K say Borderlands 4's March 26 update should lift average PC frame rates by roughly 20% while cutting crashes and stutter since launch.
Capcom says generative-AI-produced materials will not be implemented in shipped game content, while the company continues evaluating AI for development efficiency and productivity.
Pearl Abyss published Crimson Desert Patch Notes Version 1.00.03 on March 23, 2026, saying the PlayStation build went live at 02:15 UTC and other platforms would follow later. The notes bundle controls changes, 120Hz support, faster travel improvements, Private Storage, and a wide pass on quests, performance, and stability issues.
Push Square reported on March 21, 2026 that Sony removed hundreds more titles from the PS Store and wiped entire catalogues from additional publishers. The report says the move expands Sony's shovelware crackdown and raises new questions about AI knock-offs, easy-trophy farms, and storefront quality control.
Moderators announced on VNDB that founder Yoran "Yorhel" Heling died on March 17, 2026. The news turned into a wider preservation story because the Visual Novel Database has become one of gaming's deepest long-running archives for the genre since launching in 2007.
Tom's Hardware reported on March 15, 2026 that Markus 'Doom' Gaasedelen unveiled the Xbox One 'Bliss' exploit at RE//verse 2026. The report says the double voltage glitching attack reaches the boot ROM path, enables unsigned code at every level, and is effectively unpatchable because it targets silicon.
TechRadar reported on March 21, 2026 that PlayStation Network suffered a weekend outage and that Sony’s official status page flagged issues in Gaming & Social. The page later returned to all services online, but users in the US and Japan were still reporting login and online-play failures as recovery rolled out unevenly.
In a March 22, 2026 statement reposted to r/Games, Pearl Abyss said some 2D visual props in Crimson Desert were made with experimental generative AI tools during early development and were unintentionally left in the final release. The studio says it is auditing assets, replacing affected content in patches, and tightening disclosure processes.