Today’s Gaming News Roundup
This is a great Wednesday for gamers! Fanatical rarely misses with their bundles, and they’ve got a great one for fans of Bethesda games. Let’s see all the details from yesterday’s gaming industry news!
I just picked up five legendary Bethesda PC games for $15, here’s how I built the bundle
Fanatical’s new Bethesda bundle deal is a rare case where you get full control — pick the games you actually want, from Fallout: New Vegas and Oblivion to Dishonored and The Evil Within 2. Fanatical’s new Bethesda bundle deal is a rare case where you get full control — pick the games you actually want, from Fallout: New Vegas and Oblivion to Dishonored and The Evil Within 2. Prices scale with your haul, starting at two for $6.99 or five for $14.99, which brings each game down to just $3.
Fallout 4, Ultimate, and Fallout 3 GOTY are all here. You’ve also got Dishonored 1, 2, and Death of the Outsider. Grab RAGE 2 or Wolfenstein: The New Order and enjoy some proper FPS mayhem.
Some of these games are still priced at $30 or $40 on their own, so getting them for $3 each isn’t just a It’s a back-catalog cleanup opportunity.
Read more at Rock Paper Shotgun
Cyberpunk 2077 developer comments on Switch 2 key cards, says having proper “cartridge with a plug and play experience” is “right thing to do”
CD Projekt is currently getting ready to launch Cyberpunk 2077 on the Switch 2. Unlike many games set to be released on Nintendo’s new console, Cyberpunk is going the physical game cartridge route.
Having Cyberpunk 2077 as a “cartridge with a plug and play experience” on Switch 2 was “the right thing to do”, CD Projekt’s VP of business development, Jan Rosner, told The Game Business. The exec noted the original Switch’s internal storage was “way lower than it is now”, and a “game like this would take up to 80 percent of your internal memory if you don’t have an external memory card”. Nintendo players “are quite receptive” to that “plug and play experience”, Rosner furthered, and so CDPR knew having a physical cartridge version of Cyberpunk 2077 for Switch 2 with no download required was “a goal that we wanted to achieve” from early on.
Grand Theft Auto 6 dropped a whopping 84 brand-new screenshots and illustrations, and here’s every single one
Grand Theft Auto 6 recently dropped its second trailer. It was almost three entire minutes filled with plenty of action—both on the streets and in the sheets—but if that wasn’t enough for you, Rockstar also went ahead and dumped 84 brand-new screenshots and bits of artwork to feast your eyes upon.
They’re damn good pics, too, giving us a closer look at 6’s characters and locations.
I really don’t want to cosplay as Darth Vader in Destiny 2, so I’m even more queasy about the announcement of a whole Star Wars-themed expansion
If lightsabers in Destiny is what keeps Bungie going, I guess I’ll suck it up. Let me state from the start that I don’t like fictional universe crossovers. This brings me to today’s Bungie’s livestreamed infosplosion, which details what to expect from the next year of expansions and updates in Destiny 2.
God of War, The Witcher, and Assassin’s Creed (because Ubisoft really does love this stuff) have all appeared in Destiny 2 as paid armor skins, but those sets took inspiration from the source material, whereas the Star Wars stuff looks close to 1:1 copies.
The Wait For Battlefield 6 Won’t Be Much Longer With Full Reveal This Summer
We’re now almost four years out from the troubled launch of Battlefield 2042, making it the longest gap between new entries ever in the multiplayer shooter franchise’s history. We’re now almost four years out from the troubled launch of Battlefield 2042, making it the longest gap between new entries ever in the multiplayer shooter franchise’s history. But Electronic Arts promises fans won’t have to wonder what’s next for the future of Battlefield much longer.
Battlefield 6 is due out by March 2026, the publisher confirmed on Tuesday.
Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
The show kicks off in a few weeks, so AMD APUs could have stiff competition very soon. At the end of last year, I listed a possible Nvidia laptop chip (ie, not just the GPU but the CPU, too) as something I’d really like to see from 2025, and since then we’ve had plenty of intimations that we might actually see such a thing. According to ComputerBase (machine translated), “the official unveiling [of an Nvidia PC chip] is now expected at Computex 2025.”
This wouldn’t be a solo venture, though, as it’s expected to be made MediaTek, based on the Nvidia and MediaTek GB10 chip that sits inside DGX Spark home-user supercomputer (previously called Project Digits). If it is based on GB10, that would presumably mean a processor using its Arm-designed CPU cores rather than custom Nvidia-designed ones. Now, both will be delivering keynotes at Computex on May 19 and 20, respectively, so it makes sense that both companies would use this as a chance to announce an upcoming collaborative consumer SoC.
Previous rumours suggested that the upcoming SoC should have RTX 4070 mobile and Strix Halo-level performance, and ComputerBase speculates that instead of the 20 CPU cores in the GB10, the laptop chips will likely have “perhaps only eight to twelve, and the RAM [is] likely to be a quarter of that or even less, i.e. 32 or 16 GB—depending on which market segment is ultimately targeted.”
Ranking Every Single Rockstar Game
Over the past two decades, Rockstar Games has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the games industry. In the lead up to the eagerly anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2, we came together as a staff to rank every single game that Rockstar developed (this means we excluded published titles like L.A. Noire and Smuggler’s Run).
Revenge of the Savage Planet Review – Vengeance Worth Pursuing
In 2020, Journey to the Savage Planet offered enticing exploration and inventive combat as you scoured an unaccommodating alien planet for resources and catalogued its inhabitants. In 2020, Journey to the Savage Planet offered enticing exploration and inventive combat as you scoured an unaccommodating alien planet for resources and catalogued its inhabitants. Stepping into the spacesuit of a hapless corporate employee tasked with exploring planets in remote corners of the galaxy, you immediately get to work scanning every object, creature, and plant.
I loved activating my visor and seeing a ton of previously unscanned items around me. As you explore, you encounter several different beasts, ranging from cute ball-like raccoons to flaming birds that will not hesitate to spew lava at you. The game gives you multiple planets, each with distinct biomes and myriad secrets to uncover, either alone or with a friend, throughout its 12-plus-hour campaign.
Score: 8.5
Genshin Impact Updates Shop to Show How Much You Need to Spend to Guarantee Pulling a Character — and Now Players Want HoYoverse to Sell the Characters Directly
Genshin Impact now reveals how much you need to spend to guarantee pulling a character — and now players just want HoYoverse to sell the characters directly. How much you need to guarantee pulling a specific character varies between $1.98 to $475.20. The figure is based on the base prices of the pulls (without bonuses), and if you hit the max pulls to guarantee the character (180 pulls).
So, while the posted figure assumes the highest possible price if you intentionally don’t buy the higher value (and more expensive) bundles, you could face spending nearly $500 pulling just one character in Genshin Impact.
Exclusive – First Look At The Art Of Marvel Rivals Book
Today, we bring news of a new art book highlighting the unique visual and art palette that makes up Marvel Rivals. The comic book-inspired visuals always manage to capture the essence of the game’s myriad characters, even while frequently adding new twists on the typical character presentation. This book details the birth, evolution, and application of this ‘Dynamic Comic’ style we developed, and I hope it will inspire others.
The celebration of artistic expression across 208 pages of 9×12 paper, packaged together as a hardcover release that launches on September 2 and 3, 2025. The Art of Marvel Rivals will cost $54.99 at launch and comes to us through a partnership between NetEase, Marvel Games, and Dark Horse Books. The Art of Marvel Rivals will cost $54.99 at launch and comes to us through a partnership between NetEase, Marvel Games, and Dark Horse Books.
In the early months since its launch, Marvel Rivals has received high praise from critics and fans alike, and one of the features most commonly mentioned is its distinctive art.
Netflix Layout Getting A Major Overhaul With A Dedicated Tab For Games
Netflix has announced an “upgraded TV experience” that includes a redesign of the main layout, and it includes a dedicated tab for games. They announced an “upgraded TV experience” that includes a redesign of the main layout, and it includes a dedicated tab for games. The update begins its global rollout on May 19, and when it arrives, Netflix said members can expect “better recommendations and an improved interface” to show rs “what matters most to you.
A first glimpse at the new Netflix layout In terms of recommendations, Netflix said the service will show recommended titles “in real time,” with the homepage responding better to viewing and browsing history. “Decision fatigue is real,” Netflix said. Additionally, the service will show more detailed information about each title, including things like a story synopsis, runtime, award wins, Top 10 history, and key casting details.
Best Deals Today: Pokémon TCG, LEGO Cherry Blossom, and More – May 7, 2025
As of May 7, the Pokémon TCG: Mimikyu ex Box is available for $49.99 at Amazon, LEGO Cherry Blossom is just $8.15 alongside a slew of other great LEGO deals, and top tech and game accessories are seeing price drops across retailers. Some items like the Pokémon TCG: Mimikyu ex Box are back for $49.99 after being hard to track down for a while, for example. Here are a bunch of other great deals:
- Xbox Controller – Robot White 0 More controllers ed on-page $50.17 44.99 at Walmart The Xbox Wireless Controller in Robot White is $44.99 at Walmart.
- Vibe Coding Super Bundle 1 $25.00 at Humble, includes 42 courses.
- Dreamegg Portable White Noise Machine 0 $18.99 16.14 at Amazon. This is available for $18.99, and there’s a 15% off coupon on top of that. It’s small enough to carry in a coat pocket or travel bag and includes 16 different white noise and nature sounds.
- Skyrim Vinyl Box Set – 129.98 at IGN Store
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Ultimate Edition is $129.98 at the IGN Store.
- Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 Merch – Ranging from $15 to $64.99 at the IGN Store.
Starfield Beta Update Adds Creation Kit Improvements, More Resolution Options
Starfield’s latest beta update is now available for testing on Steam, with developer Bethesda Game Studio’s official patch notes detailing new Creation Kit options, display settings, and a whole heap of bug fixes. The update brings a few additions to the game’s Creation Kit, where players can both create and download official Starfield user-made mods. A “Very Low” option for the game’s various display settings has been added to help “improve performance” on some devices, and Bethesda has additionally added support for 32:9 and 32:10 resolutions, as well as more 16:9, 16:10, and 21:9 resolution options.
The sci-fi RPG was first released in 2023 for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Bethesda announced at the time that Starfield had been played by more than 15 million players.
What’s Your Take?
That’s all for today’s gaming news roundup! Are you going to pick up the Bethesda bundle from Fanatical? Will you check out the new content in Starfield? Let us know in the comments below, and don’t forget to share this article with your fellow gamers!
