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Weekly Roundup: Commodore’s Future, Xbox Courts Godot Devs, Big Updates for Subnautica 2 & Helldivers 2, Elder Scrolls Devs’ New Game, and Mechas!

June Kopos
5 min read

Commodore Looks Beyond Nostalgia Commodore is set to unveil a new product on June 16, marking what CEO Christian Simpson describes as the company’s first major step beyond retro-focused hardware. The device is neither the Commodore 64 Ultimate nor another nostalgia-driven release, but part of a broader effort to build a future-facing product lineup following …

PlayStation State of Play June 2026: Every Announcement, Trailer, Release Date and Surprise Reveal

Wayne Goodchild
11 min read

Sony’s June 2026 State of Play packed a ton of exclusives and long-awaited reveals into its hour-plus runtime, including major third-party partnerships, horror games, action RPGs, fighting games, classic franchise revivals, and live-service updates (but not that many of these). Oh, and hardware announcements, for all the gamer gearheads out there. The event was headlined …

Weekly Roundup: Obsidian Delists The Outer Worlds as Warzone Shuts Down, Marathon Season 2, and New Handhelds from Acer and Lenovo

Wayne Goodchild
8 min read

Obsidian Delists the First Outer Worlds Obsidian announced this week that it would be removing the first Outer Worlds game from multiple storefronts, namely: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC App, Windows Store, Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, and PlayStation 5 – it was removed from this console yesterday, and all other storefronts on May 27. …

Godot Launches Official Asset Store Ahead of Major 4.7 Engine Update

June Kopos
2 min read

Godot has officially launched its new Asset Store, introducing a dedicated marketplace for developers to discover, share, and manage plugins, tools, templates, and other community-made content. The platform is expected to gradually replace the older Godot Asset Library and will become more closely integrated with the engine starting with Godot 4.7. According to the Godot …

Star Citizen Hits $1 Billion in Funding, Reveals Odin Battlecruiser

Wayne Goodchild
5 min read

Star Citizen, the sci-fi MMO that started development in 2012, has now reached $1 billion in lifetime funding, despite still not having a proper release date. Over 6.5 million people have pledged their support for Star Citizen, and while the game is technically in early access, it is playable  (it’s also available to play for …

Weekly Roundup: Destiny 2 Support Ends, Ubisoft’s AI Plans, Subnautica 2 Controversy, Spellcasters Chronicles Cancelled, and Broken Sword Movie Announced

June Kopos
6 min read

Bungie Confirms Destiny 2 Final Update as Studio Eyes New Beginnings On May 21, 2026, Bungie announced that Destiny 2 will receive its final live-service content update on June 9, 2026, bringing nearly a decade of active development on the title to a close. In a post published on the Bungie website, the studio said: …

Thick as Thieves Review: Trapped in the Shadow of Other Stealth Games

Wayne Goodchild
11 min read

Thick as Thieves is the debut title from OtherSide Entertainment, a new studio founded by Warren Spector (Studio Director of Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows) and Paul Neurath (Exec Producer for Thief: The Dark Project and Thief: The Metal Age). It was released on May 20 on PC via Steam (it’s coming to PS5 and …

Powkiddy Release New Retro Handheld With RK3326 Chipset and 3.5-Inch IPS Display

June Kopos
2 min read

Powkiddy have revealed a new budget retro gaming handheld, the ROYIBEILA P36S, offering Linux-based emulation hardware for under $50. The handheld is listed with a 3.5-inch IPS display running at 640×480 resolution, a Rockchip RK3326 processor, 1GB of DDR3L RAM, and support for multiple retro gaming platforms. The P36S includes dual analog sticks, stacked shoulder …

Valve Removes NSFW Tags from Steam

Wayne Goodchild
2 min read

Valve has updated Steam’s tagging system by removing the platform’s broad NSFW tag and replacing it with more specific descriptors designed to improve game discovery and content filtering. The company said the changes are intended to help users better identify the type of content included in a game while improving recommendation accuracy across the storefront.  …

ASUS ROG XREAL R1 AR Glasses Deliver 240Hz Gaming and a 171-Inch Virtual Display

June Kopos
2 min read

ASUS Republic of Gamers and XREAL have opened global pre-orders for the ROG XREAL R1, a new pair of gaming-focused augmented reality glasses unveiled earlier this year at CES 2026. ASUS describes the device as the world’s first 240Hz micro-OLED gaming AR glasses, targeting handheld, PC, and console players looking for a portable large-screen gaming …

Weekly Roundup: Forza Horizon 6 Leak, Stop Killing Games Success, Dead Space 4 Doubts, Nintendo Switch 2 Price Hikes, and More

June Kopos
8 min read

Stop Killing Games Wins Key California Battle Against the ESA The Stop Killing Games movement has secured a significant victory in California after lawmakers rejected major objections from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) against the proposed Protect Our Games Act.  The ESA opposed the bill by claiming players purchase licenses rather than true ownership of …

RPCS3 Devs Draw a Line Against “AI Slop” as PS3 Emulator Faces Flood of Low-Quality Code

June Kopos
4 min read

The developers behind PS3 emulator RPCS3 have publicly pushed back against what they describe as a growing flood of “AI slop” code submissions targeting the emulator’s GitHub repository. The team says contributors have increasingly been submitting poorly understood AI-generated pull requests (merging their code with the main code) that introduce regressions, bugs, and unstable behavior …

Call of the Elder Gods Review: The Illusion of Choice

Wayne Goodchild
10 min read

Call of the Elder Gods is out from May 12 on all major platforms (I played it on PS5). Developed by Out of the Blue Games and published by Kwalee, it’s a Lovecraftian adventure light on horror and heavy on fantastic puzzles. I really enjoyed it…with a few caveats.  Great (Old Ones) Expectations Is there …

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