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Steam really does have a festival for just about everything. After events celebrating board games, trains, hidden objects, social deduction, typing, oceans and even horses, Valve is now turning its attention to pins, pegs and everything in between. The latest Steam Pins & Pegs Fest is now live, bringing discounts of up to 90% across hundreds of games and DLC. The event focuses on games featuring mechanics inspired by bowling, pinball, pachinko and similar arcade-style experiences. Valve has also paired the...

At first glance, Sandustry looks like the kind of small automation indie you might scroll past without thinking twice. Then you notice that it was built by a solo developer, recently launched into Early Access, peaked at around 12,500 concurrent players on Steam, and is sitting at roughly 97% positive reviews. Suddenly, this little pixel factory game looks a lot more interesting. Developed by Erik Lantto, Sandustry takes the familiar joy of building increasingly complicated production lines and mixes it...

Phantom Blade Zero has spent years turning heads with some of the slickest combat footage we have seen from an upcoming action game. Fast sword clashes, dramatic parries and over-the-top kung fu choreography have always been the main attraction. But during its latest State of Play Gameplay Deep Dive, S-GAME finally showed that there is a proper RPG hiding underneath all that stylish action. Previous trailers mostly focused on spectacle. Boss fights, cinematic duels and flashy weapon moves made the...

After years of mysterious trailers, cryptic interviews and enough unanswered questions to fill a Keyblade-shaped filing cabinet, Kingdom Hearts IV has finally decided to show us what it actually looks like to play. The latest extended trailer offers a much meatier look at the long-awaited sequel, with plenty of gameplay footage and, perhaps most importantly, confirmation that several of Disney's biggest icons will be stepping into the spotlight. Yes, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy are playable. Your favourite Disney heroes are...

You have barely recovered from the last wave of releases, but the gaming calendar has apparently decided that mercy is overrated. This week brings a particularly strange assortment of games, ranging from cosmic horror and time-travel drama to punishing Soulslike combat, enormous mechs and another trip into the radioactive nightmare of the Zone. August 17 - 23 releases Things get properly unpleasant on August 18 with The Sinking City 2, Frogwares' latest descent into Lovecraftian horror. The sequel takes the original...

Sony’s reported plans to phase out support for new physical PlayStation discs have sparked plenty of backlash, but one industry analyst believes the move was always likely to happen. With the PlayStation 6 potentially arriving with a price tag of around $1,000 / €860 / £740, Sony could use the extra revenue from digital games and PlayStation Plus to help subsidize its next-generation console. The shift away from physical games has understandably been criticized as another way for Sony to...

Intel's handheld lineup could soon have a cheaper option. According to leaker Jaykihn, who has a pretty solid track record with Intel leaks, the company may be preparing a Panther Lake chip designed for handheld gaming with a "4+0+4+4" configuration. In plain English, that means four P-cores, no E-cores, four low-power E-cores, and four Xe3 graphics cores. That's a much smaller setup than the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme chips currently found in high-end handhelds such...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has come a long way since its rough launch, but GSC Game World clearly isn't finished rebuilding the Zone. Update 2.0 feels less like another patch and more like the developers asking players to come back and see how much has changed. Arriving as a free update on August 20, it brings major visual, gameplay, AI and technical improvements that could make returning to the Zone very tempting. One of the biggest changes comes under the...

PEAK has already enjoyed one of the most surprising multiplayer success stories of the last year, and its latest update proves that players still aren't ready to stop climbing. The Final Ascent, the game's last major content update, arrived on August 11 and quickly brought a huge wave of players back to the mountain. The update introduces two new biome variants, GLOOM and THE CITADEL, giving groups even more dangerous places to explore. GLOOM takes PEAK into darker and creepier...

Creative Assembly has officially detailed Grey Seer Thanquol, the long-awaited Skaven Legendary Lord who is headlining the upcoming Lords of the End Times expansion (Update 9.0), launching on September 24, 2026. Leading Clan Scruten, the iconic arch-schemer brings new campaign mechanics, monstrous battle units, and devastating magical versatility to the Total War: Warhammer 3 sandbox.  ...

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam has officially launched, opening up a completely new battlefield for Team17 and Expression Games' tactical FPS franchise. This time, instead of the battlefields of World War II, players are taken to the Vietnam War, where jungles, rivers, and challenging terrain can directly affect how each battle unfolds. With large-scale multiplayer and gameplay built around coordination, the game continues to focus on an experience where a single soldier cannot decide the outcome of a battle alone. Every...

Lootbound officially launched on Steam on August 14, taking players into a dark fantasy world where each run starts with a single character and gradually grows into a full party. Combining tactical roguelite gameplay with turn-based combat, loot management, and elements inspired by D&D, the game puts a strong focus on route choices, party building, and making the most of every piece of equipment. One of its standout features is the grid-based inventory system, where the position of your equipment...