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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.

343 Industries will release the next update for its sci-fi shooter Halo: Infinite on April 30. It will add a new in-game item store, The Exchange, for getting customization content via Spartan Ponts.

Developer Mojang has announced that the next free update for its sandbox game Minecraft will officially be known as the Tricky Trials update when it rolls out sometime later this year.

Bethesda Game Studios released its big 'next-gen" update for Fallout 4 this week. However, the update also came with a number of bugs across its PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms.

The Razer Kaira HyperSpeed wireless gaming headset works with Xbox consoles as well as PCs with 50 mm audio drivers. It's hit a new all-time low price of $89.99 at Amazon for a limited time.

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.

The Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is adding more older Blizzard games to its library this week, along with the highly anticipated historical city builder game Manor Lords, and more.

Blizzard Entertainment is now hiring for a number of positions for a new but currently unannounced game, a few months after its survival game was canceled after several years of development.

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.

Razer has launched its newest high-end gaming PC mouse, the Viper V3 Pro. It has a 35,000 DPI optical sensor and is very lightweight at just 54 grams. It's now available for an MSRP of $159.99.

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.

To promote the current Disney+ Marvel animated series X-Men 97, Microsoft is giving away a custom Xbox Series X console with art that's also an exclusive X-Men 97 comic book story.

Manor Lords, the city builder game from the one-person dev team Slavic Magic. has reached the 3 million wishlist milestone on Steam before its April 26 release for PC and Microsoft PC Game Pass.

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.

Meta announced its Meta Horizon OS, used for its Meta Quest mixed reality headsets, will be used by third parties to make their own VR products, including Microsoft on an "inspired by Xbox" device.

Microsoft will hold another of its ID@Xbox Digital Showcase streaming events on Monday, April 29. It will be streamed on IGN's site and social networking accounts starting at 1 pm Eastern Time.

The popular third-party game mod hosting site NexusMods has been experiencing heavy traffic in the last few days, which, it says, is due to the Fallout TV show that has boosted Fallout player numbers.

The Turtle Beach REACT-R wired Xbox and PC game controller comes with quick-access audio controls and two extra mappable buttons. It's available at a new all-time low price of $29.99 at Amazon

Now that it has finished its reorganization, Embracer Group has revealed plans to break itself up into three standalone and publicly traded companies, each with different gaming properties.

7 Days To Die, the zombie-themed survival game from developer The Fun Pimps, will get to version 1.0 in June on Steam. That means it will finally leave Early Access after launching in August 2013.

At £41, the X10 is not only affordable, but the specs are respectable, too, and the craftsmanship and performance reflect that of more expensive controllers. There must be a catch though, right?

Uncapped Games officially revealed itself this week. The Tencent-owned studio has veteran RTS game developers and plans to fully reveal its "paradigm shift" RTS game in June during Summer Game Fest.

Developer Stoic Games has posted a new developer interview about its upcoming Microsoft Xbox Game Studios-published game Towerborne, concentrating on the creation of its Truffleclub monster.

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.

Razer has just released a new mobile phone and tablet game controller, the Razer Kishi Ultra. The design is similar to what PC and console gamers get in a controller. It's now on sale for $159.99.

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.

The Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is adding six more games to its library this week However, League of Legends will soon be removed from the service due to an upcoming game update.

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.

Void Interactive has now confirmed that a hacker attack resulted in the theft of the source code for its PC tactical shooter game Ready or Not, along with console builds of the game.

Beta and Delta Xbox Insiders, along with PC Gaming preview users, can get new updates that include a list of additional Xbox Cloud Gaming titles that can be played on mice and keyboards.

Blackbird Interactive has lowered the PC system requirements for its upcoming space-based RTS sequel Homeworld 3. It's also revealed some details about the first year of its post-release content.

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.

Sony has revealed the system requirements for the PC edition of its historical third-person action game Ghost of Tsushima, along with other features, ahead of its release on May 16.