Ubisoft's April 22 update expands The Crew 2's Hybrid Mode with offline livery creation, online-to-offline livery export, pilot and vehicle stat imports, and a new 'Back to login' option for faster online/offline switching.
Ubisoft's April 22 Hybrid Mode update lets The Crew 2 players create offline liveries, export saved designs from online play, and carry pilot and vehicle statistics into offline saves. The patch also adds a faster return-to-login option as Ubisoft continues its post-shutdown preservation push for the series.
Stop Killing Games reached a European Parliament hearing on Apr. 16, with organizers reporting positive responses from MEPs after presenting the case for future game-shutdown rules.
A fan-made NieR Reincarnation offline project surfaced on April 13 using private servers, and Japanese developers told AUTOMATON WEST that moving live-service systems local can approach the cost of building a new game.
The r/pcgaming post about Larry Kuperman is more than a retirement note. In PC Gamer’s GDC interview, the longtime Nightdive executive framed remasters as preservation work, rights cleanup, and promises kept to players, which makes his departure feel like a marker for a broader era in game catalog stewardship.
Stop Destroying Videogames has entered formal European Commission review with 1,294,188 verified signatures, setting up a European Parliament hearing and an official response due by 2026-07-27.
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.
Steam now lists Transport Tycoon Deluxe as a March 12, 2026 release from Atari and Chris Sawyer, turning one of PC simulation’s classic gray-market staples back into an officially sold product.