GameRant Daily Crossword (June 2, 2026)

Arc Raiders might be getting a PvE-focused map condition according to limited tests for the Chinese version of the extraction shooter

Even if Arc Raiders isn't as high up on the Steam charts as it was a few months ago, it's still doing well and choosing to step away from live-service tradition. Meanwhile, a new Chinese version of the game with region-specific quirks might be teasing a PvE-oriented map condition. Read more

Backrooms And Obsession Beat Mandalorian And Grogu At The Box Office

Disney executives might be starting to get a little uncomfortable looking at The Mandalorian and Grogu's box office numbers. While they're not terrible, the new Star Wars movie dropped to third in the rankings during its second weekend thanks to two films that the minds behind the Mando movie likely didn't consider str...

Lara Croft actress Sophie Turner hints at a long future ahead for Amazon's Tomb Raider series

Amazon may not have officially announced a second season of its Tomb Raider TV series, but Lara Croft actress Sophie Turner already sounds confident there will be one. Read more

Fable's delay into 2027 is the right move, but it'll make looking through the window bars at GTA 6 on consoles slightly more painful

Ah, the Fable reboot isn't coming out in 2026 after all, then. Rumours had suggested the wind was blowing in that direction and Xbox exec Matt Booty chose to interrupt last Friday's chill vibes to confirm that a delay to February 2027's now been set in stone, ripping the plaster off ahead of the impending Summer Geoff...

Upcoming LEGO Minecraft Set for Dungeons 2 Revealed

LEGO has officially revealed The Twisted Warden Battle, a new 438-piece set based on Minecraft Dungeons 2. Scheduled to arrive in mid-summer, the newly announced model will extend LEGO's evergreen theme with a fun build primarily catering to play.

Tekken 8 game director Kohei Ikeda leaves after 20 years at Bandai Namco, amidst on-going series woes

Kohei Ikeda - director of Tekken 8 and 20-year veteran at Bandai Namco - has announced his departure from the company. Read more

Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off

Computex has not even really started yet and already I've seen the two most exciting gaming developments I'll see this week. One is the new Nvidia RTX Spark Arm-based hardware, and the other is Intel's G3 family of handheld processors. It's a game-changing bit of hardware that is delivering on the twin pillars of gamin...

Path Of Exile 2's Free Weekend Brought In More Than 400,000 Players

Path of Exile 2 got a huge new update last week - Return of the Ancients. That combined with the action RPG going free-to-play for the weekend to celebrate resulted in the sequel hitting its highest player count since it entered early access 18 months ago.

Jet Set Radio Sees Footage Leak Ahead Of Summer Game Fest

We're now in Summer Game Fest week, which means the rumor mill is turning faster by the day, and leaks are becoming more and more likely. So far, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has been rated in Europe, and a Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition appeared on the Xbox Store, sparking hopes that information about both isn't too...

Atari acquires Crossy Road maker Hipster Whale for an initial $29.3m

  Australian Crossy Road maker Hipster Whale has a new owner: Atari. The deal is worth $29.3m, of which $3.3m will be paid in Atari shares. Earnouts over the next three years will bring the price up another $10m if Hipster Whale hits its targets. For the twelve months ended January 31 2026, Hipster Whale generated...

Tekken And Bandai Namco Loses Veteran Developer Kohei Ikeda

The Tekken series has been thrown into further disarray today as, following the recent departure of veteran developer Katsuhiro Harada, Bandai Namco just lost another legendary Tekken stalwart.