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The Witcher 3 Breaks Its All-Time Steam Player Record 11 Years After Release

More than a decade after its original release, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has managed to achieve something few games of its age ever do: set a brand-new all-time player record on Steam. Following the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, players have returned to the Continent in huge numbers. According to SteamDB, the game reached a new peak of 137,724 concurrent players on Steam on October 4, 2026, beating every previous record the RPG has set since its debut. For an eleven-year-old sin
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Warlock Developers Want Players to Feel Powerful, Even If That Means Being Overpowered

Balancing a video game usually means making sure the player never becomes so powerful that the challenge completely disappears. The developers behind Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, however, are approaching that problem from a slightly different direction. Instead of asking whether a spell is too powerful from the beginning, developer Invoke Studios wants to make sure the abilities are fun first. If that means making the player ridiculously powerful for a while, so be it. The balancing can come
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Rockstar Publishes New Rules for What Mods Are Allowed to Do

Modding has been an important part of Rockstar Games’ PC community for years, with players transforming games such as Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 through everything from graphical improvements to completely new gameplay experiences. Now, Rockstar has published clearer guidelines outlining what mod creators are and are not allowed to do with its games. The rules could have significant implications for the modding community, particularly for creators who modify existing characters
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Star Wars: Zero Company Reportedly Passes One Million Sales in Its First Month

Bit Reactor’s tactical Star Wars adventure appears to be enjoying a strong commercial debut, with PC accounting for the vast majority of estimated sales. Star Wars: Zero Company has reportedly passed an important milestone less than a month after launch. According to estimates from market intelligence firm Alinea Analytics, the turn-based tactical game has sold more than one million copies across PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S since its release on August 27. Alinea Analytics The figure ha
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Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Somehow Still Alive After Nearly Two Decades

If you thought Beyond Good & Evil 2 had quietly disappeared into gaming history, think again. Ubisoft’s famously long-running project is apparently still alive and in active development, nearly two decades after it was originally announced. The latest sign of life comes from Ubisoft writer Rik Godwin, who revealed that he has been working on Beyond Good & Evil 2 for the past few months in a support and consulting role. Godwin even noted that he had checked whether he was allowed to publi
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Sony Wanted to Cancel Kojima’s Physint, So Xbox Stepped In

Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited return to the espionage genre has taken a surprising detour. Physint, the upcoming action-spy game widely viewed as a spiritual successor to Kojima’s legendary work on Metal Gear Solid, is no longer being developed in partnership with PlayStation. Instead, Xbox has stepped in. According to Kojima, PlayStation Studios unexpectedly informed Kojima Productions in mid-June 2026 that it intended to cancel the Physint project. Rather than abandon the game, Kojima Production
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Ubisoft Is Finally Testing Steam Games Without the Ubisoft Connect Launcher

PC gamers may finally be getting something they have requested for years: the ability to launch a Ubisoft game purchased on Steam without first being dragged through Ubisoft Connect. Ubisoft has begun testing a new system that removes the requirement to install and launch the full Ubisoft Connect PC application when playing certain Ubisoft titles through Steam. The experiment starts with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and if everything works as intended, Ubisoft says the technology will gradu
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Cyberleek: GTA VI Leaks, Crypto Controversy and the Anonymous Figure Challenging Rockstar

For years, Rockstar Games has guarded Grand Theft Auto VI with the kind of secrecy normally reserved for unreleased technology or classified documents. Then, in August 2026, an anonymous online figure calling itself Cyberleek punched a sizeable hole through that wall. What initially looked like another collection of gaming leaks quickly became something much stranger. Unreleased GTA VI gameplay appeared online. A manifesto attacked modern gaming business practices. A cryptocurrency became intert
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The remake of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag can be released before the summer

More rumors around Edward Kenway. The mythical remake of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag can be released before the summer. According to Ubisoft's financial report, all upcoming games on the menu must be released before the end of March 2026. The report also mentions a title that has not yet been revealed and this may well be Ubisoft's pirate adventure. As I said, the remake of Black Flag has not yet been officially unveiled, but there are many rumors pointing towards it. The voice actors in the ga
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World of Warcraft gets virtual currency

Microtransactions in a monthly fee game, critics say. After some rumors, Blizzard confirms that virtual currency is coming to World of Warcraft. The currency is called "Hearthsteel" and is launched with the next expansion, Midnight, which will be released next year. The currency is to be used to trade gadgets for the houses that are part of the expansion. In a description, it is emphasized that many things will still be free, and which rules apply to what will be sold. Criticism has been heard o
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Subnautica 2 delayed to 2026 – to avoid paying out a huge bonus?

Last week, the bombshell exploded: the management of the Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds is disappearing and being replaced by Krafton – who in turn claims that they wanted to keep the management trio. "A shock" said one of the three affected members of the management, but also that "we know that the game is ready for early access release". Now we get new news: the release is delayed until 2026. Krafton claims that the postponement is about feedback after player tests – but is that the whole tr
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Stop Killing Games

"Stop Killing Games" is a consumer movement started to challenge the legality of publishers destroying video games they have sold to customers. An increasing number of video games are sold effectively as goods - with no stated expiration date - but designed to be completely unplayable as soon as support from the publisher ends. https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ Link to European Citizens' Initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home Link to UK Government Petition: https://petitio
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Trailer: New AAA game "Blood Message" surprises

Game developer NetEase is primarily known for mobile games and as a helper for Blizzard in China (as well as for owning a number of pig farms as a side gig). Now they are going to enter the big gaming market with their first AAA game: “Blood Message”. The game is set in ancient China and follows a messenger on a dangerous journey through a country ravaged by rebellion. The adventure is linear, and will contain both action and exploration. “Blood Message” surprised many when the game was announce
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5 reasons why “007 First Light” could be the best Bond game of all time

Swedish MovieZine has spoken to the developers behind the "Hitman" series and the upcoming Bond game "007 First Light", about what we can expect from their take on the iconic spy. “007 First Light” is a new Bond game by IO Interactive, known for its “Hitman” series. The game is in development for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2 – and will be released sometime in 2026. Here we meet a young and inexperienced James Bond who is recruited by MI6 and gets to carry out his first missions
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One of the biggest action RPGs of 2024 is being removed from the Epic Games Store

The controversial online game “Dark and Darker” will be removed from all players’ libraries on the Epic Games Store on November 1. In an email to players, Epic Games writes that the removal is due to a court order in South Korea, between the gaming company Nexon and “Dark and Darker” publisher Ironmace. Earlier in February 2025, a court in Seoul ruled that Ironmace had violated trade secrets by leaking internal information. Players can already no longer purchase “Dark and Darker’s” own currency,
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Dune: Awakening Review (Wait for sale)

DUNE: Awakening Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players. TLDR It's a chore and a grind fest. REVIEW The game-play is solid and the building mechanics are top tier. That's about it. Get ready for a lot of running and drinking. Yes, the water system is rea
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Nintendo may "Brick" your console if you violate the terms of use

The updated user agreement allows them to make a Nintendo device "permanently unusable". Next month, it is time for Switch 2 - Nintendo's next console, which is essentially a more powerful variant of their latest success. Prior to this, they have updated their user agreement and privacy policy, and one of the new points may probably be considered worth raising an eyebrow over. It is in the license section that Nintendo points out that one must not in any way circumvent, modify, decrypt, destroy
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The Oblivion remaster is the third most income-generating game of the year in the United States

After only a week and despite Game Pass-releases. Boom! And then the world's worst preserved secret was finally released. And it went well, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered attracted four million players in just four days. The game is also on Game Pass, but despite this, the sales figures do not seem to slow down. Mat Piscatella from the analysis company Circana actually writes on Bluesky that the game already during its first week became the third best selling game in the US in terms o
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GTA VI - Trailer 2 is released!

Completely without warning a new trailer from GTA we were just released, close to a year and a half after the first. We meet Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval, a love couple with crime as livelihood. They live their lives in a solar and night-drenched vice city (based on Miami). Just like in the first trailer, we get to see Lucia Mucka from prison, but she has apparently not learned for it not long before the couple robs and ravages. Everything is captured on the PS5, according to the final text. Th
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Starship Troopers Extermination is updated with bloodier battlefields

Dead insects stay on the playing field. Anyone who has seen the movie Starship Troopers might remember how the bugs die in piles and how Rico and the gang can climb up on them? Now this will finally be possible Starship Troopers Extermination . With the next patch, the insect corpses will stay on the playing field and be able to form piles that can then be climbed up. The developers call the system Carnage, and it lets the insect bodies remain until you or your fellow soldiers bla
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The settlement builder Republic of Pirates is out – as well as a demo

In Republic of Pirates we get to build and take care of our own settlement among turquoise waters and swaying palm trees, and it's been out since a few days ago on PC. There is also a demo to test, so raise your flag and take it for a test ride. Here there is a resource-based economy to consider as well as diplomatic relations to nurture, but when the words are spoken, real-time sea battles can also be resorted to. To help with that, you must recruit and upgrade well-known pirate captains,
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The Beyond Good and Evil remaster gets a graphic comparison to the original

Ubisoft finally revealed the gaming world's worst-kept secret last week, and Beyond Good & Evil: Anniversary Edition , which is a remaster, was finally released yesterday. If you are interested and curious about how the new version compares to the original, the YouTube channel ElAnalistaDeBits has made a handy comparison video. Among other things, we see samples of slightly improved mountain geometry, vegetation in 3D instead of just flat textures that stick out, properly polished chara
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Steam has beta released the ability to record gameplay videos

And game creators can add specific events that are highlighted. There are a number of solutions for recording your computer gaming, including OBS and Shadowplay. Now Valve is getting into the game by integrating its own solution directly into Steam, which they call Game Recording. The feature is now in beta and includes several features, such as background recording that continuously captures what is happening and saves it to a specific location on one's computer, up to a specific stor
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Cheater exposed in Battlefield 2042 - EA/Dice does nothing

There have been a lot accusations over the past few years about cheaters and hacks in Battlefield 2042. There have been no real proof other than we know that software are available to buy with which you can cheat in the game, cheats like wallhack, aimbot etc. EA have always claimed that there are minimum amount of cheaters in the game and not long ago they even switched out the anti-cheat software to their own software claiming it was better and would stop cheaters. Well, it's not better, it doe
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