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Epic Is Reportedly Making A Disney-Themed Extraction Shooter

A new report says that the first game to arrive after Epic and Disney’s massive $1.5 billion deal from a few years ago will be an extraction shooter, similar to Arc Raiders, featuring Disney characters. On April 10, Bloomberg revealed, as part of a larger report on Epic’s struggles and future, that it has learned…

The best new movies on streaming and Netflix this weekend (April 10-12)

This is a big week for genre mash-ups on streaming. Thrash combines a disaster story and shark movie as the survivors of Category 5 hurricane must avoid killer fish stalking the streets of their flooded town. The horror thriller swims onto Netflix. Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker and first-time director Gavin Polone blend serial killer…

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – April 10

Pokémon Champions is an interesting, confusing game, because I’m having fun with it, but every decision it makes seems to be bad for one or both of its target audiences. It’s billed as the new hub for competitive Pokémon battling, but it’s also aiming to be an entry point for people interested in the scene….

Ex-Bethesda Exec Says The Elder Scrolls 6 Maker Isn’t Part Of Something ‘Genuine’ Or ‘Authentic’ At Microsoft

Pete Hines had worked at Bethesda for 24 years before he announced his retirement in 2023, just a month after Starfield‘s release. The outgoing VP of comms and marketing said in a new interview that he’d been planning to leave for a while after the Microsoft acquisition concluded because he felt “powerless to do what…

Google Play Store Removes Doki Doki Literature Club Four Months After Launch

Doki Doki Literature Club, the dating sim-themed horror game, has been removed from the Google Play store. According to publisher Serenity Forge, the reasoning provided was that the game violated the storefront’s terms of service with its “depiction of sensitive themes.” Doki Doki Literature Club was first released on Steam in 2017, and is notorious…

Fortnite Adding An Arc Raiders-Style Game With Disney Characters – Report

Epic Games and Disney are working together on multiple upcoming games as part of the mysterious Disney x Fortnite project, and now one of them has seemingly been revealed early–it’s probably not what you expect. Bloomberg reported that the first new game to come from Disney’s $1.5 billion investment into Epic Games will launch in…

Crimson Desert Devs Lay Out Extensive Roadmap For Updates

It’s been roughly three weeks since Crimson Desert dropped, and it seems like developer Pearl Abyss is still hard at work fixing problems that emerged during its less than stellar launch week. Now, the team has shared a roadmap for the game’s next few months, showing off both quality-of-life changes as well as some pretty…

Overwatch director kills a Tracer butt conspiracy 10 years later

Have you ever watched someone have a meltdown as they sketch a police investigation chalk outline over the curve of a video game character’s butt? Maybe you had to be there, but this was the scenario that unfolded in 2016 after Blizzard changed Tracer’s victory pose. And 10 years later, former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan…

With Soulframe, Digital Extremes Didn’t Ask For Permission But Instead, Begged For Forgiveness

Last month, I visited Warframe developer Digital Extremes’ office in London, Ontario, of Canada, to hang out with the team behind Soulframe for a couple of days, interview its various discipline leads, and learn about this studio’s first game in nearly a decade. It was during those initial interviews that I learned Soulframe was a…

YouTube Is Raising The Price Of Avoiding Its Terrible Ads

Don’t expect Rust 2 anytime soon. Do expect to pay more for YouTube Premium. Also beloved spy fish James Pond might not be long for this world if the James Bond rights holders have anything to say about it. It’s your Morning Checkpoint for April 10, 2026. Metallic Terminator Skippy Peanut Butter recently breached my…