Video Game News 5/12/2026

#SuperGame
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Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games

SEGA Cancels Its Super Game Project

SEGA Cancels Super Game Project and Moves Away from Live Service

Sega's Super Game is canceled

SEGA Has Cancelled Its Super Game Project, And Is Moving Away From Live-Service

Don't Worry, Sega Is Still Reviving Multiple Legacy Franchises

Sega Has Officially Cancelled Its "Super Game"

SEGA says it canceled Super Game and will focus less on Games as Service

Sega's "Super Game" has been cancelled, but revivals of classics like Crazy Taxi and Golden Axe are still moving forward

Sega reports $31.6m net loss during FY26, cancels 'Super Game' project amid strategic pivot

Sega Cancels Super Game And Shifts Focus From Live Service Games

#Horizon6
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Forza Horizon 6 leaking early was "not the result of a pre-load issue", developers Playground say, while threatening "franchise-wide and hardware bans"

Forza Horizon 6 studio threatens ‘franchise-wide and hardware bans’ for anyone playing its pirated leaked build

Forza Horizon 6 Modders and Pirates Are Already Getting Banned

Forza Horizon 6 leak not a "pre-load issue," Playground Games claims as dev bans entire bloodlines for playing pirated copies

The Forza Horizon 6 ban reminds us that Playground Games hates modding

Forza Horizon 6 - Everything To Know

Forza Horizon 6: Stop Building A Messy Garage

Forza Horizon 6 Dev Bans Pirate Who Leaked Gameplay Footage Until the Year 10,000 — but Faces Uphill Battle Plugging the Leak

#Rejects
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'Your Proposal Is Neither Credible Nor Attractive': eBay Rejects GameStop's 'Unsolicited' Acquisition

eBay rejects acquisition proposal from GameStop (GME)

"Your Proposal Is Neither Credible Nor Attractive" - eBay Rejects GameStop's Takeover Bid

eBay has rejected GameStop’s takeover bid and says offer not “credible”

eBay's Rejection Letter To GameStop's $56 Billion Bid Pulls Absolutely No Punches

eBay rejects GameStop acquisition offer

eBay shoots down 'neither credible nor attractive' $56 billion GameStop offer from CEO who says 'I'm not going away. I'm a pain in the ass'

eBay Rejects GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56 Billion Offer to Buy the Company, Calls It 'Neither Credible nor Attractive'

#Switch2
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Nintendo announces limited Switch 2 console & game bundle, ahead of planned price rise

Nintendo announces limited time Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle

Nintendo Switch 2 is Getting a Choose Your Game Bundle in Early June for $499.99

Nintendo Switch 2 Choose Your Game Bundle coming June 2026

Nintendo Announces Switch 2 'Choose Your Game' Bundle

US: Nintendo launches Switch 2 choose your game bundle this summer

#Valor
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Crimson Desert Studio is Exploring DLC, Among Other Ways, to “Broaden the Game to The Next Level”

Crimson Desert’s Secret Village Is Too Strange To Ignore

The Perfect Anti-RPG: Why Crimson Desert Ditched the Grind

Crimson Desert Has Already Made $180 Million, And Its Developers Are Just Getting Started

Crimson Desert increases Pearl Abyss Q1 earnings more than fivefold to $220.6m

How to get the Sigil of Valor in Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky

Crimson Desert Update Lets You Tame Special Mounts

Crimson Desert Dev Pearl Abyss Confirms Plans to 'Broaden the Game to the Next Level' — Including DLC

#BattlestarGalactica
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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes review - an iffy take on the sci-fi series that had me contending with Cylons, sabotage, and STDs

Brutal space strategy roguelite Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is out now

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes Review – Brutal Fleet Survival Done Right

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes Review

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes Launch Trailer Released

#TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTh
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Mineru Construct amiibo release date finally revealed

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom 'Mineru's Construct' amiibo Is Finally Getting Released

Mineru’s Construct amiibo launches 17th September

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gets new Mineru's Construct amiibo in September

Nintendo Confirms The Legend of Zelda Amiibo Due Later This Year, Featuring Tears of the Kingdom Character

#PalworldOnline
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Palworld Online Trademark By Pocketpair Spotted Online

Could Mithrall Replace Albion Online?

'Palworld Online' has been trademarked, but there's hints of potential AI use

Pocketpair Continues To Defy Nintendo With New Palworld Trademark

Palworld Online logo and trademark filed by Pocketpair in the US and South Korea

#BreakingBads
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Fallout TV show season three casts Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, so of course everyone wants him to play a scientist

Aaron Paul Joins Fallout Season 3, But We Don't Know Who He's Playing

Fallout Officially Announces Aaron Paul for Its Next Season

16 years after attending a Fallout: New Vegas launch event, Aaron Paul gets cast in Fallout Season 3

Fallout Season 3 Will See Aaron Paul Join The Amazon Prime Live Action Adaptation

#Cthulhu
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I've walked the waterlogged streets of The Sinking City 2, and we might finally have a Cthulhu survival horror game to rival Resident Evil and Silent Hill

The Sinking City 2 Preview – Survival Horror Takes Center Stage

The Sinking City 2 feels like a promising balancing act of action, investigation & suspense

The Sinking City 2 Hands-On Preview

The Sinking City 2's Shift To Survival Horror Leaves It Treading For Air

The Sinking City 2 shifts the series to survival horror, and manages to be genuinely unsettling

#Switch2
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Video: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle running on Switch 2, docked and handheld

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Nintendo Switch 2 launch trailer

Review: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle (Switch 2) - An Authentic Indy Adventure Arrives In Fine Form

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's Nintendo Switch 2 port is finally here and it holds up pretty well

"My fear doesn't matter" - Troy Baker reflects on recreating the opening to Raiders of the Lost Ark as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle arrives on Switch 2

Punching Nazis As Indiana Jones Feels Great On The Switch 2

#Supermassive
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Review: Directive 8020 (PS5) - Dull Sci-Fi Thriller Is a Supermassive Letdown

How to play with friends - Directive 8020

Directive 8020 gameplay video — see the first hour here

How to find the correct chemical agents for Anders in Directive 8020

Where to find the key code to Carter's PC in Directive 8020

Directive 8020 Review — Scared Space

#CallOfTheSea
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Call of the Elder Gods Review

Call of the Elder Gods Review

Call of the Elder Gods Review

Call of the Elder Gods Review

#StarterEditionDiscordNitr
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Discord Nitro Now Comes With Game Pass “Starter Edition”

Xbox Game Pass "starter edition" now officially bundled with Discord Nitro memberships, with more benefits coming soon

Discord Nitro subscribers to receive "starter edition" of Xbox Game Pass through new partnership

#StellarBlade
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Shift Up says it plans to self-publish Stellar Blade 2

The next Stellar Blade probably won't be PS5 exclusive, as developer Shift Up reveals intention to self-publish and reach a broader audience

Stellar Blade studio Shift Up breaks from publishing partner Sony for "high-quality self-publishing"

#TheLegendOfZelda
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Even WWE's Biggest Star Wasn't Safe From Nintendo's Lawyers

Nintendo Sent a Cease and Desist to WWE Champion Cody Rhodes

Nintendo Lawyers Sent WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes A Cease And Desist Over His Boots

#DuneAwakenings
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Dune Awakening provides server names, details, and instructions for merges happening May 26

Dune: Awakening Announces Server Migrations and List of Servers Closing Later This Month

Dune Awakening server merges are set for May 20

#Switch2read
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Star Fox and Donkey Kong Bananza reveal new plushies [update: pre-orders live]

Star Fox - Meet The Returning Cast In This Modernised Adventure For Switch 2

Star Fox Is Getting An Adorable New Plush Line In Japan

Preorders for the Star Fox Remake on Switch 2 Are Live at My Nintendo Store UK — With Exclusive Bonuses

#AnimeExpo
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Chaos Zero Nightmare and Miresi: Invisible Future to feature at Anime Expo this year

MIRESI Reveals Significant Transformation of the Invisible Future

#May
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Daily free Monopoly Go dice links (May 2026)

Monopoly Go Free Rolls – May 2026 Links

#BattleWavesMobile
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Battle Waves: Mobile is an upcoming, deck-building auto-battler, promising endless combinations

Battle Waves: Mobile Opens Pre-Registration on Android with Tons of Card Tactics!

#GameShow
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Wordle's getting a TV adaptation made in partnership with Jimmy Fallon’s Electric Hot Dog, please pray for our guides writers

Jimmy Fallon Has Successfully Manifested His Latest Pay Day: A Wordle Game Show

#Subnautica
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The most wishlisted game on Steam - Subnautica 2 gets an Early Access trailer, pre-purchase and pre-loads

Subnautica 2 does a first, offering pre-orders and pre-loads on an early access game

#Trailer
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GTA 6 Trailer 3 Rumors Are Everywhere, But What’s Actually Real?

GTA 6 Trailer 3 Hype At an All-Time High, But Is It Actually Happening Today?

#There
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Former Dead Space Producer Says The “Numbers Just Aren’t There” For a New Game in the Series

Dead Space Producer Doubts Dead Space 4 Will Ever Be Made: 'The Numbers Just Aren't There'