Early access is officially here if you plunked down that fabulous moolah for the King of Kings, Attitude, or Monday Night Wars edition of WWE 2K26. But that's not what we're here to discuss. 

WWE Games has confirmed that there are past and present superstars coming to the game via Ringside Pass. I know you have mixed feelings about it. And that's ok. Here are the confirmations so far. 

Matt Cardona - Season 3

Brian Pillman - Season 3

Lady Shani (AAA) - Season 4

La Parka (AAA) - Season 3

Octagon Jr (AAA) - Season 6

Brie Bella - Season 5

Bam Bam Bigelow - Season 5

Torrie Wilson - Season 3

The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) - Season 6

Kelly Kelly - Season 2

The Hardy Boyz - Season 4

Pagano (AAA) - Season 5

That's it so far. If you did get the game early, there's a early adopter locker code for MyFaction. BSTINTWRLD26 will get you 2 My Faction Packs. Enjoy! 

Open-world arcade adventure, The Coin Game, is releasing a 1.0 version on March 19^th for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The release version will include new locations, vehicles, side quests, quality-of-life improvements, performance enhancements, and a new Survivor Mode.

The Coin Game lets you visit an island packed with ticket games and realistic arcades with machines inspired by some of the real-life classics. After playing and earning tickets, you swap them for prizes at various redemption areas. You can also play laser tag, go indoor go-karting, or visit a ‘90s-style indoor mall that has a food court, shops, and a cinema. If you run out of money to play games, you can explore the island to scavenge dumpsters, deliver newspapers, or sell items at the pawn shop.

I want this. Check out the console announcement trailer below:

Despite Q1 of 2026 already winding down, Wizards of the Coast finally has a Dungeons & Dragons roadmap. The roadmap is cordoned with three upcoming "seasons."

Unexpectedly, a Season of Horror straddles Spring and Summer, headlined by Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. Nothing like bringing out the undead after a good thaw. Then a Season of Magic goes from Summer into Fall, with the dryly named D&D Reference Cards leading the way, and the magic-infused Arcana Unleashed taking us from summer vacation into the next school year. 2026 then wraps with a Season of Champions with something yet to be revealed. For suspense.

• Season of Horror
  • Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
    • Pre-order April 13
    • Master Tier (on D&D Beyond) June 2
    • Hero Tier (also on D&D Beyond) June 9
    • Wide release June 16

Also, check out that alternate cover on the right for Ravenloft. Tell me that isn't the most challenging cover design you've seen on a Wizards of the Coast product so far.

• Season of Magic
  • Reference Cards in August
  • Arcana Unleashed, a gameplay expansion, in September
  • Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall, an adventure expansion, also in September, paired up like Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun and Adventures in Faerun were.

• Season of Champions
  • To be determined

Meanwhile, D&D Beyond—the online home for most things Dungeons & Dragons—is going to be working on smoothing out online tools for players and Dungeon Masters.

• Spring: DM Prep
• Summer: Event Finder
• Fall: Player Onboarding, Character Builder 2.0

And partnered content (read as tabletop content that will appear on D&D Beyond but isn't published by Wizards of the Coast) has already been firing off in 2026, and has more to come by the year's halfway point.

• Winter—this stuff is already available:
  
  • Exploring Eberron
  • The Pugilist Class
  • Faster Purple Worm Kill Kill V1

• Spring
  • Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting Part 2
  • The Griffon's Saddlebag Book 1 (I had wondered why Book 2 came out first)
  • Dr. Holin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs
  • Tom Cartos Sticker Packs
  • Northlands Worldbook

And in the real world, four major conventions own the year's beltline:

• Spring
  • Universal Fanfest
  • Gary Con

• Summer
  • GenCon
  • London Fan Expo

Everything I've typed up above is much easier to visualize with the actual roadmap. Behold:

Good news from publisher Wired Productions and developer Caged Element today, which announced that combat racer Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks is finally coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S later this year. If you’ve been itching for a Twisted Metal-style game, this just might be it.

The console version of Speed Freeks will include every update, weapon, map, mode, vehicle, and DLC released so far on PC. It will also support full cross-play across all platforms. You should check out the console announcement trailer below. It makes me feel a little Freeky inside.

Key Game Features:

• Multiple Chaotic Game Modes including Deff Rally, Kill Konvoy and Cusotm Rally
• Authentic Warhammer 40,000 worlds and vehicles.
• Real-Time Co-Op Building and community features.
• The Orkiest Game EVER
• Fast, Brutal, Kunning Combat
• Extensive Customization Options
• A robust creation mode allowing you to build new levels in real time with your friends.

"Minishoot' Adventures is a non hand holding, bullet hell, Legend of Zelda like shoot-em-up with Smash TV elements. If you want a game with all that thrown in, then this game is for you. Don't sleep on this one. It's so good. You're guaranteed to lose your ship." - Joseph Moorer

That's what I said in my review of the amazing Minishoot Adventures. It is a twin stick, top down Zelda-like game, where you guide a ship around a map to free your friends from The Unchosen. Full exploration, upgrading your ship and weapons, and fighting huge bosses is all here, in a nice and challenging package. 

Now, you can get the game on PS5, Xbox Series, and Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, and it is out today. It's a great deal at $15.99, and you can check out the release below, plus a little of my playthrough. 

The year was 2021, the height of a world changing event that we still don't know if we can talk about without getting flagged. Druid City Games tried to get Bloodstone off the ground, but the campaign was halted by production costs, material pricing and ocean freight rates. Needless to say, the world wasn't ready for Bloodstone, because the world wasn't ready for anything. After cancelation, Bloodstone is finally coming. 

Bloodstone has you play as a captured champion forced to fight in an arena for Vanira's amusement. Then Varina gets bored and decides to test you, and other champions to survive. Using a custom dice mechanism, you will get to move, attack, outwit, and survive. There are boss fights, and as you move your miniature around the arena, the fights tend to be endless, with no escape in sight. 

Druid City is pleased to announce that the campaign will be released on Gamefound in Q2, to help reinforce the energy, clarity, and and excitement for the game. You can get more details, as they come, here.

Fireside Games has claimed that you all wanted Hotshots to come back, and they have officially announced their kickstarter in order for you to prove your Firefighting co-op mettle. 

Touted as a press-your-luck board game, you and your crew are living your dream of firefighters against a raging forest fire. You can have up to four people in your squad, and you all will have different roles and abilities. Your fate is determined with every dice roll, and you can either put out the fire as the heroes, or burn as one. And both of those outcomes happen to everyone, which means you truly have to work together. 

The 2017 Origins award winning game will release the kickstarter to it's deluxe edition on April 21, 2026. This edition of the game includes LED Light up Flame Tokens, Uograded Firefighter miniatures, Tile Frames with connectable edges, and expanded content.  

if you want to join the crew, and be notified for the kickstarter, you can do that here. Doing that will net you a Hotshots Badge Patch, and day one rewards. You will obviously get all the updates leading up to the release of the game.

"Only you and your crew can defeat forest fires." Justin and Anne-Marie De-Witt said, probably. 

WWE 2K26 is releasing in a few days and 2K have released a trailer for the Monday Night War edition of the game. 

The Monday Night War edition of the game comes with goodies such as the DX version of Shawn Michaels, nWo version of Macho Man Randy Savage, Roddy Piper '98 and the WCW Thunder arena. This edition of the game also comes everything that's included in the King of Kings and Attitude Era edition as well as the Wrestle Mania 42 pack which will release later in the year.

Early access for WWE 2K26 launches this Friday on PS5, Series X, PC and Switch 2 for those who own the King of Kings, Attitude Era or Monday Night War editions of the game. 

Developer BlackMill Games is continuing its trek through the various theaters of World War I, now moving to the Ottoman front with its new entry in the WWI game series — Gallipoli. Moving from the Italian front of Isonzo to Lower Mesopotamia, Gallipoli will continue to evolve the series’ gritty FPS multiplayer combat.

Gallipoli Key Features:

• Authentic WW1 battles: fight through history with accurate maps, weapons, music and uniforms as a soldier of the British or Ottoman Empire.

• Varied Ottoman theatre: engage in expeditionary warfare across coastal dunes to dry deserts, urban areas & more.

• Realistic combat: get to grips with highly detailed weaponry & equipment and survive through suppressive fire and dust.

• Squad-based multiplayer FPS: join a squad as one of many classes with distinct specializations and work as a team across PC and Consoles with crossplay.

• Never fight alone: AI bots will join the fight over the future of the Ottoman Fronts in public matches, and optionally in custom matches.

This week, BlackMill revealed a first look at one of the Ottoman front maps we’ll be playing on — the Siege of Kut Al Amara. Here, you’ll fight across dunes, trenches, and even the British mud fort. You can check out a glimpse of it in the trailer below.

Today's Pokémon Presents showed off quite a few things to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary, but the biggest reveal of the presentation for a lot of people is probably that of Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves. The trailer gives us our first look at the latest core entry in the franchise including two specially-dressed Pikachus, the games' main characters, and the three new starter Pokémon in Browt, Pombon, and Gecqua. While the trailer doesn't go into much detail about the new region, the description on the official Pokémon website mentions going on a new adventure "through an open world of windswept islands and an ocean of glittering waves"...and there is a lot of water shown in the trailer.

Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves will launch globally in 2027 for the Nintendo Switch 2.