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Bungie has been sprinkling details of its massive patch 1.0.6 update for Marathon in the leadup to its release today, April 14. As an avid player of Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter myself, I was keen on the revamp to Recon , which has been my main Shell since the pre-launch server slam. And this update goes beyond hotfixes with massive gameplay changes; only letting you attach one Claymore to Med-Drones, nerfing the beloved Bully SMG, and adding a bunch of new gear to work for is just scratching the surface. There are also a few changes that fundamentally wants players to rethink how they interact with each other. The in-game lore calls it C.A.R.R.I. (CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative), tying the CyberAcme faction to the system itself and it's conveyed to players through ONI, the game's AI character who presides over the story. Now, solo Runners and squads are rewarded for completing contracts and extracting together by giving them a new material called Cybe...

The Dungeon Crawler Carl books are having a moment right now. Matt Dinniman's popular LitRPG series is getting a TV show , a new line of toys, and now a couple of new tabletop offerings are on the docket. Renegade Game Studios just launched a new crowdfunding campaign for multiple Dungeon Crawler Carl tabletop games which has already raised well over $3.5 million in a single day. The initial funding goal was only $250,000. You can find the campaign on Backerkit for all of the details about what's included. And what's included is two full tabletop games launching at the same time, both of which are fully licensed. The first is the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG and the second is Dungeon Crawler Carl: Unstoppable, which is essentially a DCC version of Renegade Studios' popular deckbuilding game . Pledge options range from $1 to $900 with the most expensive one letting you create a character for an official quest. What Is the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG? The official Back...

Bethesda says it is "aware" of the crashing issues some people are reporting when playing Starfield on PS5 and will address them in a hotfix later this week. Within days of Microsoft launching Starfield on rival console PS5 , players began reporting progression-breaking problems on both the base and PS5 Pro models, including freezes , crashes , and save issues . Despite trying a myriad of workarounds, including disabling auto-save, some players have even deemed the highly anticipated port " unplayable " and demanded refunds from Sony. Now, acknowledging the issues on social media, Bethesda Game Studios has responded to unhappy players, writing: "Thanks for sharing your adventures across the Settled Systems this weekend — we’ve loved reading them! "We’re aware of some reported PS5 crashing issues and have narrowed them down to a small number of causes. We’re addressing these in a hotfix we’re aiming to release this week. Thanks for flagging, and we’...

Rockstar Games hackers ShinyHunters released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online . But, crucially, no GTA 6 information appears to have leaked online. The stolen data was viewed by GTA Forums user Lexiture and reported on by Kotaku . It shows GTA Online allegedly generates much more money than Red Dead Online, which doesn't come as a big surprise given the difference in support Rockstar gives each live service. It also shows that PS5 is the platform with the most GTA Online players and revenue, with PC lagging behind even the last generation of consoles on both counts. With the Rockstar leaks circulating, I put this together to illustrate the weekly spending in GTA Online on a platform basis. The data speaks for itself. Per data from GTA Forums, PS5 generates more than half weekly GTA Online bookings, with $4.486M earned per week. pic.twitter.com/lBdqCZBc1B — Derek Strickland (@DeekeTweak) April 13, 2026 GTA 6 is planned for re...

Grand Theft Auto 5 actor Jay Klaitz has shared that he "wouldn’t be surprised" if the satire in Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn’t hit as hard because of "what we see happening in the real world." The performer behind heist mastermind Lester Crest gave his thoughts on the next Rockstar Games title in an interview with Eldorado . When asked about how GTA can approach humor given the state of the world, Klaitz said he could see its impact not hitting quite the same as many may expect. "Don’t get me wrong. It’s still f**king GTA," he clarified. "It’s going to be massive. People will lose their shit. It’s going to be huge, obviously. But it’s a different world to the one 13 years ago when the last one came out. I mean, it's a very different world than it was even a year ago." The tone Rockstar crafted through each GTA game helped transform it into the juggernaut it is today. In IGN’s own 10/10 review of GTA 5 , we called attention to how it ...

Sony Pictures announced at CinemaCon on Monday that they are making an R-rated animated feature film based on the video game Bloodborne . While no details on the movie’s plot were revealed, it is expected that it will follow a hunter battling beasts in the city of Yharnam. There were no announcements on the film’s director, screenwriter, voice cast or release date. The Bloodborne movie is produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation, and YouTuber and gamer Seán McLoughlin, aka JackSepticEye . Lyrical Media is co-financing the Bloodborne movie with Sony Pictures. The Bloodborne game was developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. In our Bloodborne review , IGN awarded the action game a 9.1 score, calling it “an amazing, exacting, and exhausting pilgrimage through a gorgeous land that imposes the feeling of approaching the bottom of a descent into madness.” Bloodborne has made IGN’s list of horror game masterpieces , 25 best FromSoftwar...

The public fallout of ill-fated MMO Ashes of Creation continues, this time with an alleged full breakdown of Intrepid Studios' expenses, revealing "a troubling picture of a company that was on the threshold of financial death at multiple points in its history" and millions of dollars allegedly spent on dubious purchases. YouTuber NefasQS claimed to have "obtained and processed the entire Intrepid Studios general ledger from 2015 to 2026," as well as corroborating documents and records that "help us finally finish most of what remains of the mystery surrounding Ashes of Creation and the implosion of Intrepid Studios." He published the full ledger online and uploaded a video discussing some of the details, including "the interesting numbers ranging from mysterious withdrawals by John Moore (former Intrepid CEO Steven Sharif's husband) to the costs of game development, especially when it comes to outsourcing." Sharif has disputed th...