Doom: The Dark Ages will have its own homage to H.P. Lovecraft's elder gods, including what looks to be a Cthulhu-like deity.

id Software is continuing their hyperviolent machismo trilogy with Doom: The Dark Ages, which uses bullet hell mechanics to deliver on its "stand and fight" theme. A big part of Doom Eternal and Doom: The Dark Ages has been the influence of pop culture media, particularly the power fantasies you'd see in a summer popcorn flick, and we're seeing more of a sci-fi/horror approach with today's reveal.

The studio has highlighted a new area in Doom: The Dark Ages that looks like it's right out of Lovecraft's nightmares. The Dark Ages has a special new area called the Cosmic Realm, and it's teeming with monstrosities like the new cacodemon, which can stun players with its attacks, a twin-bladed cosmic baron, and even a sword-wielding cyberdemon with wings.

Nexus Mods has chosen to re-host a controversial gender designation mod for Oblivion remastered.

If you've played the Oblivion remake, you might've noticed a change in how the body types are described. There's no male or female genders, just Body Type 1 and Body Type 2. Someone made a mod called Body Type Selector that changes this back to the male/female options and uploaded it to the Nexus Mods site.

At first, Nexus Mods removed the mod and all subsequent uploads, but after a review, the Body Type Select is now being allowed. It turns out it's not the mod itself that Nexus Mods has a problem with, rather the intent of the mod's uploader. Nexus Mods had banned the original uploader of Body Type Selector because of what they had said in public comments on the mod page.

Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer reassures fans that the titles on Xbox Game Pass should also continue to be made available for purchase.

Microsoft's core business is centered around software and services, and Xbox Game Pass combines both into one monthly subscription. But Game Pass offers a unique kind of interference to traditional models: the "cannibalism" of game sales, that is to say consumers may buy a month of a lower-cost subscription for $20 instead of paying $70 for a new game. This effect has been documented in the FTC v Microsoft trial.

In a recent interview with Variety, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer gives an update on Microsoft's ethos around Game Pass as it pertains to this effect. Following the $70 billion Activision merger, Microsoft basically wants to maximize its chances of making money on video games. That means the full gamut: game sales, subscriptions/streaming, breaking exclusivity on its franchises and selling them on Sony and Nintendo platforms.

The hit video game Split Fiction is receiving its own movie adaptation starring Sydney Sweeny and from the director behind Wicked, Jon M. Chu.

A new Variety article has revealed that Split Fiction, developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts (EA), will be receiving its own movie adaptation, with the script for the movie being written by "Deadpool & Wolverine" screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

For those who don't know, Split Fiction is a co-op title that follows a pair of authors, Mio and Zoe, as they embark on an adventure through the stories they have written. The game was written and directed by Josef Fares, who also wrote and directed Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out (2018), and It Takes Two (2021), with each of these titles being a co-op-driven experience.

The bloody world of Berserk is crossing over into Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal with special timed events.

Blizzard's Diablo series is about to have one of the best-fitting crossovers in the history of gaming. Berserk is bringing its cursed behelits to the already-sinful world of Diablo's Sanctuary, offering custom bosses, cosmetics, and items that are stylized after Kentaro Miura's legendary manga.

The events are a little bit different for each game. Diablo Immortal is having the Struggler's Path event, which runs from May 1 - 30. It sounds pretty involved, complete with an eclipse that shows up every minute and transports users to a hellish underworld. There's also a boss fight with Nosferatu Zodd, a Crimson Behelit legendary gem, and of course cosmetics--the infamous Berserker Armor and Griffith's White Hawk set. There's also log-in rewards for Immortal players when the event is active.

Remedy Entertainment, mostly known for its cerebral action games, is taking a big leap with its first self-published project...but some of that risk will be mitigated with subscription deals with PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass.

Today, Remedy announced that it's new game FBC: Firebreak will release on June 17 as both a premium $40 game and as a title included in Sony's and Microsoft's game subscriptions. Remedy has confirmed FBC will launch day one into PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium as well as Xbox Game Pass for console and PC.

The news brings a perspective to the self-publishing market as it pertains to mid-scale independent developers like Remedy, who are taking a lot of potential risk by self-publishing a game alone, but also entering a rather saturated market of online shooters.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is selling better on PS5 than it is on Xbox and Steam, analyst firm Alinea Analytics predicts.

A year ago when the Fallout TV show came out, Microsoft had more best-selling first-party games on the PlayStation Store than Sony did. This trend showed the full extent of Microsoft's owned IPs and illustrated PlayStation gamers' willingness to buy Xbox exclusives. The latter is something Microsoft has counted on and PlayStation has now reinforced itself as an integral part of its competitor's business.

While we typically can't exactly quantify the results of these trends in precise numbers, analyst firms track the performance of these games in their respective online stores and make predictions. According to Alinea Analytics, Bethesda's big-budget Indiana Jones game is actually selling better on PlayStation than it is on Xbox and Steam--a trend that may speak to the conditioning of these subset of consumers.

EA's new Skate game will require an online connection in order to play, game developer Full Circle has confirmed.

A new Skate is coming soon, but the sim has now been morphed into a live service game that's free-to-play and doesn't cost an upfront purchase. The flip side is that Skate will now be monetized with microtransactions, and is now an always-online game. The developers confirmed the news in a blog post, saying that Skate was built from the ground up as a digital world that gets updated over time.

"The game and city are designed to be a living, breathing massively multiplayer skateboarding sandbox that is always online and always evolving," Skate developer Full Circle said in a recent blog post.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by Sandfall Interactive, has sold half a million units in just 24 hours after its release, according to a recent announcement.

Sandfall Interactive is celebrating the launch of the turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and what better way to celebrate than to announce how many units the game has sold? According to the official Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 X account, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has surpassed more than 500,000 copies sold, presumably across all the platforms it has released on. As for PC, SteamDB data indicates the game reached its peak all-time player count of 71,225 as of today, with that being an upward trend.

Steam players have also responded to the release of the title quite positively, with the game receiving a 91.69% Steam rating across approximately 7,000 reviews. For those who don't know much about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, here's a brief overview. Players will take members of Expedition 33 on a quest to destroy the Paintress in order to prevent her from painting death again. Players will embark on an epic journey that takes them across a world inspired by Belle Époque France.

NVIDIA has supposedly set a launch date for the RTX 5060 vanilla version, and the GPU is apparently going to debut on May 19.

That's according to VideoCardz, which tapped its sources to discover that this is the intended release timeframe which is being communicated by NVIDIA to its third-party graphics card making partners.

If this speculation is correct, it means that the RTX 5060 is only just over three weeks away.