The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is free on Epic for the next week

Microsoft has announced details of its next ID@Xbox Digital Showcase.

Cities: Skylines 2 is still having a very rough time, to the point where every player who bought the recent Beach Properties DLC will soon be offered compensation, and its devs are delaying the Bridges and Ports Expansion as well as the console release of the base game.

According to everyone’s favorite dataminer Billbil-kun, the next two free games coming to the Epic Games Store are Industria and Lisa: The Painful Definitive Edition. The titles will be available from April 25 until May 2 and will replace The Big Con and Town of Salem 2.

While Xbox Game Pass is set to gain a selection of fantastic Day-One releases in the back half of April, subscribers may want to act fast to play the six games leaving the service in the coming weeks. To offset the amount of titles the platform offers, Microsoft always removes a handful of games whenever it brings in a new selection for players to experience. While that might sound like a bad deal, it makes sense given the already massive catalog on offer and users can still pick up the departing games for a discount before they eventually leave.

The space exploration adventure of can be a memorable journey, but there are plenty of things to do even after you reach the game's end. Developer Obsidian Entertainment, experts in the RPG genre, have made a galaxy fully impacted by your personal choices. The corporate-run space colony of this game is directly impacted by your decisions, making it almost infinitely replayable.

Steam’s next week-long celebration will pay tribute to that most treasured of genres, the first-person shooter. The PC marketplace’s FPS Fest kicks off next Monday, letting loose a hail of discounts and playable demos for shooters that prefer things from the first-person perspective.

Fallout games are having a moment in the wake of glowing reviews for the new TV series adaptation on Prime Video. Amazon has added two of the series’ best games as freebies for Prime members on Luna, its cloud streaming service. Fallout 4 is also getting some love, as Bethesda said it will drop the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S update for the 2015 game on April 25.

Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are now free for Amazon Prime members.

New Worldis bringing back Springtide Bloom next week. The event returns to get Aeternum all spring ready, with flowers all over and of course, the wasps that come with them.

The first major decision players have to make in is whether to redirect power to the town of Edgewater or the Deserters at the Botanical Lab. Your ship requires a new Power Regulator to get offworld and your only option is to take it from one of the factions. As part of, you have the opportunity to decide which faction loses out.

A new Helldivers 2 patch fixes plenty of in-game crashes, after developer Arrowhead had to recommend players let the game "rest" this past weekend due to persistent crashes.

The early months of 2024 have seen Microsoft stepping up its efforts to bring its first-party Xbox titles to audiences on rival platforms, with Hi-Fi Rush having released for PS5 and Obsidian duo Pentiment and Grounded both having launched for PS5 and Switch. Sea of Thieves arrives for PS5 later this month, and though Microsoft hasn’t officially announced further plans to bring any other of its games to rival consoles beyond that, reports continue to insist that there’s more stuff in the pipeline.