If you’re planning out a PC build and have been hoping to get ahold of one of the new Nvidia Blackwell graphics cards at a reasonable price, this might be as good of an opportunity you’ll get in the near future. Walmart is offering a retail boxed PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB graphics card for just $599 shipped. Mind you this is still $50 over MSRP, but it’s the best price I can find right now for a standalone 5070 GPU and the first time I’ve seen this card drop below $600 this year.
For a limited time, purchase an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card and get a free digital download code of Resident Evil Requiem Standard Edition on Steam while supplies last. The promotion ends on March 16 and the redemption deadline is April 16. Full details on Nvidia’s official website here.
PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC Graphics Card for $599
The GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is an excellent choice for 1080p or 1440p gaming. Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 offers a slight performance improvement over the RTX 4070 Super, which was and still is an excellent GPU. The fps gain is greater in games that support DLSS 4.5 with multi-frame generation. Read our RTX 5070 review for our hands-on impressions. This PNY model features a slim 2.4-slot triple-fan cooling system and a slight overclock.
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We’re just a few days away from the 98th Academy Awards. Ahead of this year’s Oscars celebrating 2025 in film, we’re here to share how you can watch, plus break down the nominees, host, presenters and performers, and what’s new for the 2026 ceremony.
Read on below for everything else you need to know about the Oscars.
When are the Oscars?
The Oscars will take place on March 15, 2026, from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles at the new time of 7pm ET/4pm PT/11pm GMT. The broadcast is expected to run for three hours, but you can almost certainly count on it going long.
How can I watch the Oscars?
The Oscars will be be televised on your local ABC station. It will also be streaming live on Hulu. (We’re still a few years out from the Oscars on YouTube.) If you’re interested in the pre-show arrivals and red carpet interviews, ABC’s coverage will begin at 3:30pm ET/12:30pm PT and E!’s will kick off at 4pm ET/1pm PT.
Who is hosting the Oscars?
Conan O’Brien – who also starred in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You alongside Best Actress nominee Rose Byrne – is hosting the Oscars for the second year in a row. O’Brien was announced as the 2026 host two weeks after the 2025 Oscars, saying in a statement, “The only reason I’m hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech.” To refresh your memory, Brody dragged on for nearly six minutes accepting the award for Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist.
“There’ll be some explosions, CGI will be used,” O’Brien told ABC News about Round 2. “I see this second Oscars as an opportunity to take things up a notch,” especially now that he’s well-informed on crucial standards and practices, like always keeping an Oscar statuette upright.
What’s new at the Oscars this year?
The Academy Awards are rolling out a new category for the first time since 2001’s addition of Best Animated Feature Film: Achievement in Casting will get its debut after being announced in 2024. The award will go to a casting director, but the criteria for winning sounds unexpectedly more complicated than someone who can put together a list of top-notch actors. The first-ever nominees are:
Presenters include: Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Evans, Kumail Nanjiani, and Maya Rudolph. Last year’s winners Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison, and Zoe Saldaña, as well as 2025 nominee Demi Moore, are also among the group of presenters. Javier Bardem and Chase Infiniti, who starred respectively in F1 and One Battle After Another but did not receive individual nominations, will also present. (Infiniti’s omission in the Supporting Actress race is considered one of the big snubs of this year’s awards.)
Who is performing at the Oscars?
The telecast will include two major “moments” that the show producers are calling “more than just performances — they expand into cinematic tributes that celebrate the relationship between music and storytelling and why these films resonated so deeply with audiences around the world.” These are “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters and “I Lied to You” from Sinners, both nominated for Best Original Song this year. (The other nominated tracks — “Train Dreams” from Best Picture nominee Train Dreams, “Dear Me” from the documentary Diane Warren: Restless, and “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from the documentary Viva Verdi! — will not be performed live.)
The singing voices behind Huntr/x — Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami — will perform “Golden,” accompanied by “a fusion of traditional Korean instrumentalists and dance, celebrating the folklore and cultural inspiration that anchors the story behind this animated blockbuster.”
Sinners’ breakout star Miles Caton and singer-songwriter Raphael Saadiq will perform “I Lied To You,” officially described as exploring the “role music plays in the film’s storytelling for a cinematic live moment.” (Hopefully that means it attempts to replicate the electric, glorious fever dream of the film’s scene the song comes from.) Blues musicians Buddy Guy and Bobby Rush, rapper Shaboozey, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, and actresses Li Jun Li and Jayme Lawson will join, along with musicians Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, Eric Gales, Alice Smith, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram.
Josh Groban and the Los Angeles Master Chorale will also perform, we’ll speculate during the In Memoriam segment.
What are this year’s Oscars nominees?
Read on for the nominees in some of the top categories, but you can check out the full list of nominees here.
Best Picture:
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle after Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle after Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best Actress:
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Best Director:
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle after Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Which nominees are expected to win?
Though the ballot is a lot of the same movies being celebrated in many categories, a clear winner hasn’t pulled ahead in many of the key races, with a few exceptions. KPop Demon Hunters definitely has Best Animated Feature Film in the bag. Best Actress will probably go to Jessie Buckley as Shakespeare’s grieving wife Agnes in Hamnet, despite the earned fervor around Rose Byrne’s performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. The screenplay awards will repesctively go to Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Original and Best Adapted. Outside of that, other categories are a coin toss, usually between One Battle After Another and Sinners.
Though Timothée Chalamet was practically the presumptive winner in Best Actor as a ping pong hustler in Marty Supreme a few months ago, taking the early win at the Golden Globes, that stance has position has cooled; the SAG Award went to Michael B. Jordan for his twin brothers, Stack and Smoke, from Sinners. Another key win from the Actor Awards was Amy Madigan taking the trophy for Supporting Actress as Aunt Gladys in Weapons, which people have taken as an indicator of an impending Oscars win over Teyana Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another.
What’s the controversy this year?
There are two, kind of. First of all, this is the first year where AMPAS voters must attest to having actually seen all of the films they’re voting on, a new rule imposed for the first time (!!) a few months after last year’s awards. (Voters can log this after watching films through the Academy screening app, which would automatically track whether or not something has been played, or click a box that pledges they’ve seen it in a theater or by other means.)
The other one, closest to the ceremony and therefore the one that will live on in the Discourse up until the event, is the fact that Timothée Chalamet dissed opera and ballet, in the context of concern about the state of movie theaters.
“I admire people — and I’ve done it myself — who go on a talk show and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to keep movie theaters alive, y’know, we’ve gotta keep this genre alive,” he said during a Variety and CNN town Hall with his Interstellar co-star Matthew McConaughey. “And another part of me feels like if people want to see it, like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it. I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive,’ even though no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I just took shots for no reason.”
“That’s not a shot, I hear what you’re saying,” McConaughey responded.
The video clip started going viral late last week, nearly two weeks after it was originally posted — after the window for Oscars voting had closed on March 5. It won’t directly impact his chances, but it’s enough to rile patrons and providers of the fine arts: Many institutions, including the Metropolitan Opera, the English National Opera, and the Royal Ballet and Opera, posted rebuttals on social media praising their artisans or making a case for him to come to a show. Plenty more have fired back, calling his take shades of “disrespectul”. The comments made their way to The View and Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, where Colin Jost quipped that Chalamet “made the comment on a press tour for his movie about… ping-pong.”
Spectrum48’s Philip Sinclair has spent 15 years rewilding a field, “rewilding” being a process of restoring ecosystems to something like a state of ‘natural’ equilibrium. Now, he’s making a videogame about it. That game is Grow Wild, which is currently accepting playtest sign-ups. It sees you restoring biomes across the globe, touching down on sickly square arcadias like an avenging angel equipped with a trowel, magnifying glass, and probably some tartan-pattern slippers, out of shot.
It makes me think a little of Viva Pinata, but it’s populated by representations of non-digital creatures, flowers and trees with convincing growth cycles. There are some lovely ‘time lapse’ shots in the trailer, below.
Surprise, farmers! Natsume has today planted the first seed for its upcoming all-new Harvest Moon game, Echoes of Teradea, confirming that it’ll sprout onto both Switch 1 and 2.
We don’t have a release date just yet, though the dev has shared a fair amount of information about what we can expect from this one, teasing new love interests, exploration abilities and more.
This month, purge Tyranid swarms in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, run the show on the gridiron in EA Sports Madden NFL 26, slip back into stylish heists with Persona 5 Royal, or brave a nightmarish pilgrimage in Blasphemous 2. All these titles and more are available in March’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*. And as announced in the latest State of Play, PlayStation Plus Premium welcomes classic arcade fighting in the form of Tekken Dark Resurrection. The full lineup will be available to play on March 17.
*Digital PS5 games available to stream from your library will vary over time, region, and country.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 | PS5
Purge the relentless Tyranid swarms as legendary Space Marine Titus in a spectacular new campaign. Enjoy intense, gory and fast-paced third-person action with hundreds of enemies on screen, from the creators of blockbuster co-op shooter World War Z. Hold at bay the horrors of the galaxy in epic battles on far-flung planets with your deadly abilities and devastating weaponry. Uncover dark secrets to drive back the everlasting night and prove your ultimate loyalty to humanity. Defend the Imperium as your own Space Marine in endlessly brutal and replayable PvE missions supporting up to three players. Pick from six classes, unlocking new skills and cosmetics as you progress. Wage eternal war on your enemies in ferocious 6v6 PvP matches and bring glory to your faction.
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EA Sports Madden NFL 26 | PS5
Step into the All-Madden legacy this season. Experience generational playmakers, unlock rewards, and celebrate football’s greatest coach. EA Sports Madden NFL 26 leverages a new AI-powered machine learning system trained on thousands of plays from nearly a decade of real NFL data to deliver more explosive gameplay – with new player-specific traits, authentic playstyles, and adaptive counters that match on-field tendencies and strategies of NFL quarterbacks and coaches. Burst upfield like Saquon with updated player movement to reflect the explosive athleticism only the NFL can deliver.
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Persona 5 Royal | PS5, PS4
Re-join the Phantom Thieves in a massively expanded and reworked version of the critically-lauded RPG. Expanding on the original 2017 release, Persona 5 Royal comes packed with new characters, confidants, story and locations, and a new grappling hook mechanic for stealthy access to never-before-seen areas. Explore Tokyo, unlock new Personas – demons from within the dream-like dungeons that will fight for you – customise your personal Thieves Den, discover a newly added story arc, cutscenes, alternate endings, and more. Persona 5 Royal retains its signature visual style, while award-nominated composer Shoji Meguro also returns with an all-new soundtrack. Wear the mask. Reveal your truth.
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Persona 5 Royal – Ultimate Edition | PS4
Persona 5 Royal Ultimate Edition includes the game and the Persona 5 Royal DLC Pack, including the costume, battle, and persona DLC found in the Persona 5 Royal Kasumi Costume Bundle, as well as the Persona 5 Royal Battle Bundle, and the Persona 5 Royal Persona Bundle. Prepare for an all-new RPG experience in Persona 5 Royal based in the universe of the award-winning series. Don the mask of Joker and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Break free from the chains of modern society and stage grand heists to infiltrate the minds of the corrupt and make them change their ways.
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Blasphemous 2 | PS5, PS4
The second scripture in the Blasphemous series portends the return of The Penitent One. Awakened in a strange new land, and displaced from his final resting place, The Penitent One is thrust back into the endless cycle of life, death, and resurrection, with no other option than to explore this perilous new world and uncover its long-forgotten secrets. Hordes of grotesque enemies stand in your way, awaiting final judgement by the brutal hand of the Penitent One, with titanic twisted bosses also lurking in the darkness, waiting for their chance to return you to the grave from whence you came. How you tackle the labyrinthian world remains at your discretion, there is no wrong turn to be made, only scores to settle.
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Metal Eden | PS5
Metal Eden is an adrenaline-rush sci-fi FPS. The advanced Hyper Unit Aska is sent on a suicide mission to rescue the citizens’ Cores from the vast monolithic city Moebius once a hopeful new home for humanity now turned into a deadly trap. Blast your way through the Internal Defence Corps in cybernetic warfare, confront the Engineers and uncover the mysteries of the project Eden. Dive into cybernetic warfare against the machine forces that protect the secrets of an artificial world. Fight a diverse roster of tough, agile mecha troops and elemental forces.
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Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria | PS5
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria follows the Dwarves as they embark on a new adventure to reclaim their legendary home beneath the Misty Mountains. Summoned by Lord Gimli Lockbearer, players take control of a company of Dwarves tasked to reclaim the lost spoils from the Dwarven homeland of Moria, known as Khazad-dûm or Dwarrowdelf, in the depths below their very feet. Players will join forces to survive, craft, build and explore the iconic, sprawling mines. Courageous expeditioners will need to be vigilant as mysterious dangers await. Set in a procedurally generated Dwarven realm of Moria, no two adventures will be alike, and every expedition is traversable either solo or online with companions.
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Astroneer | PS5, PS4
Reshape the ground under your feet as though it were made of clay. In Astroneer, players use their deform tool to dig, collect, shape and build anything they wish. Survive on and explore carefully crafted planets that can be entirely deformed and traversed. Our vast solar system includes 7 wondrous planets that players can travel between and explore every inch of, from the entire spherical surface, through treacherous layers of caves, all the way down to the mysterious core. Astroneer is better with friends. Group up with other players and work together to create massive industrial bases or to create fun games in the extensive creative sandbox.
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Tekken Dark Resurrection | PS5, PS4
The popular 3D fighting game Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection breaks out of the arcade with all new systems and features! Experience the captivating stories of Armor King and newcomers Lili and Dragunov, unique openings and endings for each character, and even an all-new opening CG movie. Story Battle, Quick Battle, Arcade Battle, and Practice: all the modes you’ve come to expect from the series are here. Fight your way to the top of the leaderboards in Tekken Dojo, deal big damage to strike it rich in Gold Rush, or kick back with your favorite characters in a nice round of Tekken Bowl. Whether you’re in the mood for a hardcore challenge or just some casual mini-games, the options are endless. The highly acclaimed character customization features from the previous game are also included, so use the fight money you earn to purchase items and show off your own unique style!
*PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe lineups may differ by region. Please check PlayStation Store on release day.
The actual, official Mario Day (March 10) may be behind us, but the good news for Mario fans is that a lot of the deals introduced are still holding on strong. If you’ve been checking out some of the great offers on games that have popped up because of this celebratory day, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is one that’s still on sale right now.
Both its digital and physical copy have dropped to $39.88 at Amazon (see it here). Overall, this saves you 34% from its full list price of $59.99. It’s a deal that may not last long as the week goes on, either, so now is the time to scoop it up at this discounted price and save some cash.
Save on Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury at Amazon
Back when it was released, writer Cam Shea reviewed the game and said it’s “Two solid platformers in one” even if he found that neither, “approaches the franchise’s most dizzying heights.” Still, it’s a game we have a lot of love for. It even earned a spot on our list of the 100 best Nintendo games of all time, sitting at number 35.
IGN’s Logan Plant wrote in this huge piece that, “Every level introduces a clever new idea, and the whole experience is enhanced when you add more players to the mix, as 3D World has the best multiplayer in any Super Mario game, no question.” Plant continued on to say that, “The definitive Switch version added the wonderfully experimental Bowser’s Fury, which some hope could be a template for an open-world Mario game in the future.”
Alongside Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, there are plenty more Mario game deals to check out right now. Have a look at our rundown of Mario Day 2026 to see some of our favorites that are still on sale.
Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.
Years ago I was lost in the Shaded Woods, a foggy forest full of moaning trees. I didn’t have enough health to fight the invisible backstabbing murder ghosts, and every time I ran away from the spooky sound of their footsteps, I got lost in the fog all over again.
That’s when a hacker invaded and injected me with hundreds of cursed swords, corrupting my save file and dooming Dark Souls 2 to crash over and over.
It was deep magic, more powerful than any game system or lore, overwhelming the code itself. To uncurse myself, I’d have to embrace the darkness and download cheat tools too.
And now I’ve tracked down my hacker, to thank him.
While it doesn’t have an official release date yet beyond being expected in 2026, Silent Hill: Townfall is now available to preorder. If you can’t wait to get your hands on the next installment in this iconic horror franchise, preorders are live at several retailers for $49.99, which we’ve broken down below (see it here at Amazon). Again, there’s no concrete release date at the moment, but at least by preordering it now you can be all set with a copy that’s ready to boot up the day it’s out.
As of the time of writing, there aren’t any preorder bonuses that have been announced, at least at the moment. If this changes, we’ll be sure to update this with any new information.
What Is Silent Hill: Townfall?
Silent Hill: Townfall is the latest game in the Silent Hill series, developed by Screen Burn and published by Konami and Annapurna Interactive. It follows a character named Simon Ordell who, according to Konami’s page dedicated to the game, “is called back to the island of St. Amelia to ‘put things right’, encountering a town lying quiet beneath a heavy fog, seemingly abandoned but not at rest.” That means Silent Hill is headed to Scotland.
The reveal trailer from this year’s Silent Hill Transmission, featured above, highlights some more elements of the game, including its first-person perspective alongside some of the items and weaponry Simon will get to use, from a gun to a plank to a portable CRTV that looks like it’ll be very helpful to have around.
More Preorder Guides
2026 is already looking like an exciting year for games. If you’re looking for even more options to preorder, have a look through our list of preorder guides below. There’s a great variety to choose from right now, whether 007 First Light has caught your eye or LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.
Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.
The latest Marathon update looks like it will mean an easier time. UESC enemies have been made weaker, the frequency with which they chuck EMP grenades has been reduced, and free loadouts now come with even more ammo. Yet, after spending an hour over lunch being killed repeatedly in Maintenance on Dire Marsh, I can confirm that Marathon has not become a cakewalk.
