Something for the Weekend – 25/04/26

It’s a beautiful sunny day immediately, and a morning tour has meant that this week’s spherical up just a little later within the day than ordinary…. so let’s hop to it, as a result of it’s been a reasonably large week for bulletins and critiques!

Within the Information This Week

• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been revealed, and it’s coming out in July
• Splatoon Raiders snags a July release date for Switch 2
• Square Enix unveils Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold – coming in January 2027
• Final Fantasy XIV is coming to Switch 2 in August!
• Here’s your first look at the Elden Ring movie – confirmed for 2028 release
• Xbox Game Pass loses day one Call of Duty, but it’s getting cheaper because of it
• Age verification will roll out for PlayStation in the UK and Ireland in June
• Xbox gets a new logo, a new mission, and reports of more changes to come
• From Sayonara Wild Hearts to Stray, Annapurna brings 5 games to Switch 2
• The REPO Cosmetic update launches May 7th, adds three magic staffs
• Golf With Your Friends 2 swings for a Fall 2026 release

Video games in Assessment & Featured Articles

The decide of the bunch was Housemarque’s Saros, which is launching for PS5 subsequent week and takes their riff on the roguelite and bullet hell shooters to the subsequent stage.

• Saros – PS5 – 9/10 (video review)
• Minos – PC – 8/10
• Mini Tank Mayhem – PC – 8/10
• Vampire Crawlers – PS5, XSX|S, NSW, PC – 7/10
• Smash It Wild – PS5, XSX|S, NSW, PC – 7/10
• Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss – PS5, XSX|S, PC – 5/10

We additionally had just a little {hardware} evaluation for the Final UX5000 headphones from Dom, whereas Miguel shared an early verdict on Morbid Metal‘s early entry launch.

I then had a trio of previews. Heave Ho 2 was an uproariously good time at New Recreation Plus final weekend, whereas Petit Planet is channelling plenty of cosy vibes from the corporate behind Genshin Affect, and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is placing a better emphasis on discovery for its newest platforming journey.

Ending up for the week, What We Played featured Saros, Vampire Crawlers and Changed.

Trailer Park

See the gameplay overview for Black Flag Resynced

Deep Dish Dungeon brings foodie dungeon crawling to Xbox, PC & Game Pass this autumn

Beastro has cooked up a launch date

Try the instruments of the commerce in Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions

That’s the spherical up for this week. Hope you may have an awesome weekend forward and we’ll see you again right here on Monday!