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The 22nd BAFTA Games Awards take place tonight at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads with 12 nominations, followed by Dispatch with nine and Ghost of Yotei with eight across 17 categories.
4A Games officially revealed Metro 2039 today in an Xbox First Look broadcast, confirming a Winter 2026 launch on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic with a return to the claustrophobic Moscow tunnels under the fanatical Hunter-led Novoreich regime.
Coldwild Games' beloved airship tycoon Merchant of the Skies has arrived on iOS and Android for $7.99 as a premium port with zero ads or microtransactions, bringing its cozy trading simulation and base-building to mobile with redesigned touch controls.
Taiwanese studio SIGONO's narrative photography adventure OPUS: Prism Peak launched today on PC, Switch, and Switch 2 to a 91 on OpenCritic, making it the highest-rated game of 2026 so far with its painterly art direction and Kevin Penkin soundtrack.
FIFA Heroes launches April 28 as a free-to-play 5v5 arcade football game on mobile and PC, featuring real players like Bellingham and Kane alongside mythological heroes like Thor and Sun Wukong, each with unique superpowers on street-style pitches.
Tetris and Space Invaders launch their first-ever crossover event on mobile, running throughout April 2026 with three phases including daily rewards, a charity partnership with Dots.eco, and a competitive tournament with a fusion game mode.
Big Bad Wolf and Nacon's Lovecraftian investigation game Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss launches today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, sending players to the sunken city of R'lyeh in a first-person horror adventure built on Unreal Engine 5.
NVIDIA's GeForce NOW adds over 20 titles in April 2026, including day-one cloud access to Capcom's Pragmata with path tracing support, Arknights: Endfield, the Diablo IV expansion, and more. Free-tier loses several popular titles.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is now available across every Xbox Game Pass tier, bringing Virtuos and Bethesda's critically acclaimed Unreal Engine 5 rebuild to millions of new subscribers a year after its original shadow-drop launch.
Sony reveals the PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalog for April 2026, adding eight titles including Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Crew Motorfest, Football Manager 26, Warriors: Abyss, and more, all available from April 21.
Pokémon GO's Sustainability Week 2026 runs April 14 through 20, bringing Silicobra's long-awaited debut, sunglasses-wearing Galarian Corsola, Shiny Toedscool, and a Groudon Raid Hour on April 15. Here's what to focus on.
Nintendo Switch 2 firmware 22.1.0 shipped on April 6 with the usual one-line patch notes, but the timing tells you what's really going on: two major launches are right around the corner, and Nintendo is making sure the pipes are clean.