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QLD:Budget balancing act as debt climbs for 2032 Games host

Queensland's government is walking a fiscal tightrope as it balances a record infrastructure spend while providing cost-of-living relief in the budget.

AAP

The most hated Call of Duty game gets another chance at life in Xbox Game Pass' second wave of titles for June 2026

Microsoft has announced the second batch of games coming and leaving Xbox Game Pass for the second half of June 2026, including Call of Duty: Vanguard, EA Sports FC 26, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4.

Windows Central

Xbox Games Showcase 2026 — all the news, reveals, and announcements at Microsoft’s biggest gaming event of the year

Xbox Games Showcase returned for 2026, offering new reveals and trailers for some of the biggest upcoming games, including Fable 4, Gears of War: E-Day, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 and more.

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I fundamentally don’t understand who the GameSir Pocket Taco is for — and, after testing the Game-Boy-style clamshell mobile controller, I’m not sure it does either

I tried out the GameSir Pocket Taco, a vertical mobile controller that’s fun on paper but marred by its muddled execution.

TechRadar

Protesters shift Olympic park fight beyond fences

Campaigners say their fight to protect Brisbane's Victoria Park is moving from the parklands to the courts and Canberra as work starts on the 2032 stadium.

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Forza Horizon 6 is now available on Xbox Game Pass, just as fourteen other games have been revealed for May 2026's second batch and beyond

Microsoft has unveiled the second wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass for May 2026 and early June 2026. Alongside that main attraction, which is Forza Horizon 6, this batch includes other titles like Jurassic World Evolution 3, Remnant 2, and Echo Generation 2, to name a few.

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The video games industry wants to keep killing games, actually

Games industry, please stop killing yourself.

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Directive 8020 is Dark Pictures' most ambitious entry yet – and its most forgiving

Supermassive Games' latest entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology, Directive 8020, is a welcome evolution of the interactive survival horror series. But while new stealth mechanics and its forgiving Turning Points feature push the series in a refreshing new direction, the game lacks the bite of the series' prior offerings.

TechRadar

Forza Horizon 6 is driving into Xbox Game Pass this month, along with heavy hitters like Doom: The Dark Ages and Subnautica 2, and more

Microsoft reveals Xbox Game Pass's first batch of new games coming in the first half of May 2026, and it's stacked with highly anticipated titles like Forza Horizon 6 and Subnautica 2, and critically-acclaimed hits like Doom: The Dark Ages.

Windows Central

A new wave of Xbox Game Pass titles lands this week, including a Vampire Survivors spin‑off and classic Final Fantasy

Vampire Crawlers, Final Fantasy V, Aphelion, KILN, and more games are coming to Xbox Game Pass during the second half of April 2026.

Windows Central

Elizabeth Banks Blasts Trump's White Women Voters, Says They Should 'Become Revolutionaries' Like Effie

Elizabeth Banks has criticised the voting choices of white women in the 2024 US election and urged political awakening, referencing her Hunger Games character Effie Trinket during a podcast interview.

International Business Times UK

'Sunrise On The Reaping' Trailer Promises To Change The Hunger Games Forever

We finally have a new look at the biggest Hunger Games ever.

Inverse

Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group — 'ShinyHunters' takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or it will release confidential data

The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom.

Tom’s Hardware

Everything announced at the Xbox Partner Preview March 2026 — SEGA, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere, and more

Another Xbox Partner Preview showcase has come, giving us a closer look at new Xbox and PC games and updates coming from Microsoft's game dev partners.

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The Guardian - UK

The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue

Huge cuts announced this week show that truly no developer working in games is safe from corporate whims

The Guardian - UK

Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money

The creators of All Will Rise on standing up to the tech giant – and joining the No Games for Genocide movement

PC Gamer

More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing

My.Games is pulling the plug on two online shooters with two very different histories.

The Conversation

More Canadians are watching the Paralympics. Our research shows why that matters

Nearly 31 million Canadians watched Team Canada compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina earlier this year. With the Paralympics underway, fandom research suggests that millions are expected to tune in again.

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Paralympics great to make winter debut in Nordic sports

A two-time summer Paralympics gold medallist headlines the Australian team named for the biathlon and cross-country events at the winter Para Games.

The Guardian - UK

Heraskevych’s ‘helmet of memory’ forces IOC on to PR back foot at Winter Olympics

Skeleton racer sacrificed his dream of winning a medal and succeeded in putting the horrors of the war in Ukraine back on the agenda

The Guardian - UK

‘Distracting and sad’: Olympics chief laments ICE protests and Epstein fallout

ICE agents will be in Milan for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics while the LA Games chair has been named in the new batch of Epstein files

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Platformer Games of All Time

Dark Souls has nothing on these all-time frustrators.

The Independent UK

This just in from The New York Times: Its first 2-player game, and an evolving business model

There's a lot more to The New York Times than its news stories, and that's by design

Inverse

'A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms' Is Already Setting Up Its Central Mystery

We may have just met Ser Duncan the Tall, but he may already be an unreliable narrator.

Tom’s Guide

I like Apple’s iOS 26 update but the new Games app is a letdown — here's why

Now that iOS 26 has been out for a few months, it's time to revisit the Games app introduced with that software update. In my experience, it's really falling short.

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