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Lost In Cult has been nominated for Media Brand of the Year at the MCV/DEVELOP awards!🔥🔥 Exciting to see half the list is print media! Big congrats to our lovely peers and partners in all categories. Hate to say you ain't seen nothing yet, but... 😏 mcvuk.com/business-new...

Really, really enjoying Promise Mascot Agency. 👍 What a special, unique game that breaks up the wholesome exploration type formula with essentially a business sim management, that feels as if Grasshopper Manufacturer had dipped their toe in this genre-blender. Highly recommend.

US citizens simply will not receive any products anymore. This isn't a trade tax anymore, it's not an effective tax that US end consumers will swallow, it's just a trade killer. Nobody will import at these costs. Prepare for no trade and exorbitant expenses. Unbelievable chaos.

Huge blow to LGBT+ rights and to an established decades-long truth. As ever, absolutely zero thought or clarity to what this means for trans men. And no real thought given into what this will practically mean for trans women either, who were the only group whose lives would be seriously impacted.

Niantic (Pokémon GO) has laid off 68 people, following its acquisition by Saudi Arabia state-owned Scopely for $3.5bn. (Read more: GamesIndustry)

Announcing KENJI ENO 55: Soundworks! 🔥 We're just hit after hit @lostincult.co.uk. Ecstatic that we're working on an official curated vinyl boxset of the acclaimed Japanese composer's work on May 5 (and more soon after). (Lost In Cult newsletter)

Dune: Awakening has been delayed slightly to June 10. (Read more: Gematsu)

BeDo - a precision-platformer about sentient dough floating through 40 levels - is coming to Steam on April 30. (Support indies by wishlisting on Steam)

Nintendo UK has reiterated once again that Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games include the upgrade content on-cart. (I don't doubt anyone still questioning this, as comms have been a mess) (Read more: Nintendo Life)

A Minecraft Movie has surpassed $551M at the box office - and likely to beat Super Mario Bros. as the highest-grossing video game movie. (Read more: Deadline)

Metal Gear in Concert orchestra is coming to London's Royal Albert Hall on November 1. (Read more: VGC)

Assassin's Creed Shadows is now the 2nd best-selling game in the US this year so far, behind only Monster Hunter: Wilds. (Read more: PSU)

Gamurs Group - owners of Destructpid, Twinfinite, Dot Esports, Siliconera, The Escapist, and more - has laid off more people. PC Invasion has also been shut down, with its content absorbed into Prima Games. (Read more: GamesIndustry)

An interesting deep-dive on the financial numbers of OpenAI - the company that is changing/destroying the world, just to lose money on every customer - billions in losses a year. (Read more: Where's Your Ed At blog)

Ubisoft has released Chroma - an open-source tool for accurately replicating colour blindness over a video game screen. The tool is available freely on GitHub for all developers. (Read more: Ubisoft News)

Playin' NAIAD 👌

Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and other Nintendo Switch 2 games and accessories have gone up for pre-order on Amazon UK. (Amazon UK affiliate link)

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has launched on iOS/Android today, in an attempt by Ubisoft to increase their ROI on the game. (Read more: Engadget)

Star Wars: Zero Company announced - a single-player turn-based tactics game from Respawn and Bit Reactor. Full reveal on April 19. (EA page)

Nvidia says it is moving a portion of its AI chip production to the US. (Read more: Tech Crunch)

MOBA-style game VELEV has announced its shutdown, just 5 days after launching into Early Access. (Read more: Delisted Games)

Supermoves: World of Parkour developer Makea Studios is shutting down. (Read more: Insider Gaming)

Borderlands movie director Eli Roth has spoken on the critically and commercially panned adaptation, saying filmmaking of that scale during COVID was virtually impossible. (Read more: Dark Horizons)

Retro-futuristic puzzler American Arcadia is coming to PS4/PS5, XB1/XBS, and Switch on May 15. (Read more: Gematsu)

Japanese developer A,I is shutting down after 35 years, having developed 14 Super Robot Wars games and many Bomberman titles. (Read more: Automaton)

Japanese retailers are asking the gaming public for help on how to combat Nintendo Switch 2 scalping. (Read more: Automaton)

Sony is raising the price of the PS5 in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, due to inflation and exchange rate fluctuation. PS5 Pro prices remain unchanged, with external Disc Drive prices decreasing. (Read more: PlayStation Blog)

Trump is now backtracking on his previous backtrack of the US-China tariffs, saying the electronics exemption he announced on Friday were not announced. (Read more: Eurogamer)

I've actually not played many 2025 video games so far! What are some of your favourite or notable 2025 AAA and indie games of the year so far? 🤔

GAME's head office and warehouse is shutting down, with its fittings, furniture, and equipment now up for auction. (Read more: Eurogamer)

Infinity Nikki is coming to Steam on April 29, with 200k wishlists reached. (Read more: Noisy Pixel)

DOOM + DOOM II's recent re-release is getting a physical release. This big collector's edition includes a box that plays DOOM, a mini Cacodemon that plays DOOM, and lots of other extras. (Limited Run Games store)

Horror-puzzler Ao Oni: The Horror of Blueberry Onsen is coming to the Switch on April 25. (Read more: Gematsu)

Daughter-raising sim Magical Princess announced for PC. (Read more: Gematsu)

SEGA characters from Super Monkey Ball, Altered Beast, and Fantasy Zone are coming to Sonic Rumble from April 11. (YouTube trailer)

Minecraft's soundtrack and reboot chime has been preserved and inducted into the US National Recording Registry. (Read more: GamesIndustry)

Chingling is set to get its first Pokémon card for the first time in 15 years. (Read more: VGC)

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is coming to Switch 1/2, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series, and Steam on August 21. The game will not have a physical release. (Read more: Gematsu)

Nintendo has confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will not contain the DLC. (The physical release will have the NS2 upgrade on its cart, though). (Read more: VGC)