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This weekend's PC game deals include a bundle for automation and management fans, a double giveaway from the Epic Games Store, Earth Appreciation Festival discounts, and a lot more.

Mojang just added three more perks to its Realms Plus server hosting service for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. This includes monthly access to character items, additional world render distance, and more.

Colossal Order's new update for Cities: Skylines 2 is carrying the promised Beach Properties DLC content for free, DLSS 2 support for Nvidia players, as well as performance improvements and bug fixes.

Microsoft's latest Free Play Days event for Xbox players brings Railway Empire and Prison Architect for Game Pass Core subscribers, while TramSim is available for any Xbox player to try out.

Bethesda has pushed out the next-gen update for Fallout 4 right on schedule. It carries native Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions, wide-screen support, Steam Deck verification, and more.

This week, the Epic Games Store is offering copies of Industria and LISA: Definitive Edition to keep for free to PC gamers. The double freebie drop will run until next Thursday, May 2.

Bethesda has announced that the Fallout franchise saw almost five million players in a single day across its games. The most recent entry, Fallout 76, saw one million players enter its online world.

The Armored Paws update for Minecraft has gone live, and it carries the Mob Vote winner armadillos as a brand-new animal, eight wolf variants, and even fresh armor to keep them safe.

Massive and Ubisoft have pushed out an update for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and it carries a new 40FPS targeting performance mode for consoles, Intel's XeSS upscaling tech for PC, and more.

EA is finally adding the grand Star Wars adventure Jedi: Survivor to its EA Play basic subscription program. This also means Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members are also gaining access.

This weekend's PC game deals include a freebie from the Epic Games Store for fans of 90s nostalgia, free events from Grounded and Golf with Friends, an FPS festival, Xbox specials, and more.

Warhorse Studios has officially confirmed Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and it's coming later this year to PC and consoles. The medieval RPG will be continuing Henry of Skalitz's storyline.

The Xbox Free Play Days promotion is back with three more games for Xbox Game Pass Core and Ultimate members to try out, and this time it's Dungeons 3, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, and I Am Fish.

The Big Con from developer Mighty Yell is the latest game that has gone free to claim from the Epic Games Store. The title offers a cross-country road trip adventure where you rip people off.

Cities: Skylines II's launch hasn't exactly gone as smoothly as Paradox Interactive had hoped. Alongside refunds for Beach Properties DLC, development is changing focus to improve the base game fully.

Rare has announced that its pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves has seen 40 million players across Xbox and Windows since its launch six years ago. The title is just about to launch on PlayStation 5.

Supergiant Games has announced the beginning of the Hades II Technical Test. Players can now sign up to get a chance to test out a slice of the game ahead of the upcoming Early Access launch.

Microsoft's Flight Simulator team has delivered its sixth City Update for Flight Simulator. The latest update brings visual upgrades and better detail to seven cities in the region.

CD Projekt RED is offering PC players a chance to try out its upcoming The Witcher 3 REDkit modding tools early. Steam Workshop support has also been announced as a surprise for the popular RPG.

Ori-developer Moon Studios' No Rest for the Wicked, and medieval strategy game Manor Lords are what are officially supported in Nvidia's latest 552.22 GeForce Game Ready driver release.

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Game Pass's available games list again, this time adding seven new titles to its services. At the same time, Xbox Game Pass Core library is expanding by three games.

This weekend's PC game deals include bundles for drifting and deckbuilding fans, a Ghostrunner freebie from Epic, plenty of Fallout on discount, and one to play for free, among many more specials.

The Kingdom Come: Deliverance universe may finally be about to expand. Developer Warhorse Studios has announced a reveal event from a new game, which insiders say is a sequel to the popular RPG.

After a major delay, Bethesda is finally launching the "next-gen" update for the 2015-released RPG Fallout 4. It carries Performance mode and Quality modes, ultra-wide screen support, and more.

Microsoft is offering Bethesda's multiplayer experience, Fallout 76, for all Xbox players to try this weekend. Meanwhile, PGA Tour 2K23 and Classified France '44 are joining Xbox Free Play Days.

Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Gigantic: Rampage Edition, Broken Roads, and more titles are getting official support by Nvidia for its GeForce NOW cloud streaming subscription service this week.

Ghostrunner is back as a giveaway on the Epic Games Store. The slick cyberpunk action game has you taking the role of a ninja that can even deflect bullets with a katana. The giveaway lasts a week.

EA has reportedly pulled the plug on future Dead Space plans after the remake failed to reach expectations. Developer Motive is working on an Iron Man game and future Battlefield titles instead.

In an unusual team up, Ubisoft and Dead Cells studio Evil Empire have announced a partnership to develop a new action Roguelike titled The Rogue Prince of Persia. Out next month on Steam.

The EA Play Standard and EA Play Pro subscription services are going through a price hike for monthly and yearly members. The changes are affecting EA App, Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms.

Blizzard Entertainment games are coming back to mainland China. Following the 2022 breakup, Microsoft and NetEase have entered a new agreement to bring back both old and new titles to the country.

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have revealed Star Wars Outlaws will have players building a crew to conduct one of the biggest heists in the galaxy. The open-world entry is out this August.

Ubisoft may have leaked the release date of its upcoming action-adventure game Star Wars Outlaws right before a major announcement. The title is being developed by Massive Entertainment.

Microsoft may be planning to unveil the next entry in the Gears of War franchise in June. A report states that the Xbox Games Showcase will reveal Gears 6, the next Call of Duty, and more.

Rare has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 version of Sea of Thieves has Shared Progression and cross-play with other platforms. DualSense support, exclusive cosmetics, and more are coming too.

Microsoft's latest Xbox Free Play Days promotion is carrying three games to try out. From them, Call of Duty Modern Warfare III's multiplayer, and The Elder Scrolls Online are for all Xbox players.

Nvidia's brand-new GeForce Game Ready 552.12 WHQL-certified driver comes touting support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone Season 3, as well as Diablo IV's ray tracing upgrade.

This week the Epic Games Store has two freebies on offer. The Outer Worlds from Obsidian Entertainment's RPG coffers, and the Thief reboot from Eidos are now available to claim for PC gamers.

Ubisoft has announced that the 2024 edition of its yearly Ubisoft Forward presentation will kick off this June with announcements and updates on upcoming releases by its many studios.