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Foretales is now available for free on the Epic Games Store, as this narrative card game for Windows is this week's regular giveaway. It's yours to keep if you snag it by next Thursday. After that...

Amazon Game Studios announces Amazon Luna is now available through Amazon Prime. As of today Prime members in the US and UK can now play games online via a Fire TV. Word is this solves the problem...

A post on Steam outlines changes to how gifting works on Steam, smoothing out a little of the friction that might stand between you and your desire to buy someone a game. Changes include cross-region...

A post from Call of Duty on X details changes to matchmaking based on lessons learned "over the past year" of Call of Duty multiplayer, despite two-plus decades of multiplayer history before that to...

Pass the Fear is now available for Windows PC on Steam, offering a one-way ticket to bullet hell in this roguelike shooter from PlayMud and Paras Games. The Official Launch Trailer takes a look and...

HexNest Games has let slip the Birds of War, as this team-based PvP game of aerial combat is now available for Windows on Steam. Not to be confused with WarBirds, this eschews planes for flying au...

Steam now features Early Access to OFFBEAT, a music tycoon game from Whetstone Games and Pantaloon. This is described as a "real audio tool" allowing you to produce your own music. The twist is your...

Slitherine announces two upcoming games in the Radio Commander series, following on the success of Radio Commander: Vietnam '64. The premise is you'll command your troops over the radio, testing your...

iRacing Studios and NASCAR announce NASCAR 26, saying the new entry in the videogame racing series will peel out on September 18th on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. A first Video Dev Diary...

A new GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 610.82 is now available, adding fixes to the 610.74 driver released two weeks ago. In an increasingly familiar pattern, the last driver release had bugs in...

Shift At Midnight, is now available for PC and consoles, launching a co-op investigation game where up to three players make good use of their third-shift jobs at a convenience shop by sussing out...

Nightmare Frontier has completed Early Access, and version 1.0 of this tactical extraction shooter from Ice Code and Slitherine is now officially available on Steam. The launch is discussed in this...

Slitherine announces Memoir '44, an upcoming videogame adaptation of the World War II tabletop game of the same name. If this rings a bell, that's because Memoir '44 Online debuted as a free-to-play...

SoftWarWare and Slitherine announce ICBM: Escalation - Assassin's Mace, new DLC coming in September to Steam as DLC for ICBM: Escalation, the ballistic RTS game for Windows. This is set in China in...

NC, the artist formerly known as NCSOFT, announces AION 2 Founder's Packs are now available on Steam. The MMORPG sequel will be free-to-play, but these packs provide five days of Advance Access...

Steam is now running a playtest for Loco: Rails & Tails, a co-op railroad action/adventure for Windows from Hot Potato Games. This tasks you and your crew with building rails, riding trains, and...

XBOX Wire announces XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC, making four previous XBOX titles playable on Windows 11 PC and handhelds. If you're thinking that porting a handful of games to a different...

2K Games announces NBA 2K27, the next installment in its annual professional basketball simulation, saying Early Access will begin on August 28th. This reveals this year's cover athletes for its...

Battlefield Comms on X warns of a known issue where NVIDIA GPUs can crash when playing Battlefield 6 on maps featuring large bodies of water. Until a more permanent fix arrives, this recommends...

Steam now features Early Access to Drone Sector, an action/strategy game where you provide close air support on futuristic battlefields as a drone operator. In a post from last week Icosphere and...

Fading Echo is now available for Windows on the Epic Games Store and Steam with a 10% launch discount, offering an action/RPG from Emeteria and New Tales. For a look at this in action we have the...

Steam now offers the launch of Reap and Rush, a roguelike action game for Windows from soothing developer Beijing Pacifier Technology. Gameplay is said to be inspired by Chinese mythology, which the...

Klang Games has begun Early Access to SEED, an MMO life simulation set on a new planet colonized by Earth near the end of this century. This has sprouted for Windows and macOS on the SEED Website,...

As the wisdom of Smash Mouth once taught, "we could all use a little change." And the just-concluded 2026 Games for Change Festival is here for us, announcing the winners of its 2026 Games for Change...

DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain is now available for Windows PC on the Epic Games Store and Steam, giving rise to a waterlogged Lovecraftian roguelite from Drop Rate Studio and Dear Villagers. This...

astragon Entertainment and weltenbauer have released the Motor Vehicle Accident Expansion for Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, adding new challenges to the first responder simulation for PC and...

This post on Steam announces that X Games San Vansterdam event is now available in skate. Season 4. It's available for PC and consoles, and the Windows edition is Steam, and there are more details on...

Photomaly is now available on Steam, offering Windows gamers a horror game where you manage a photo studio, back when those were still a thing. That's not the only throwback here, as the Release...

When Tides Turn announces Wreckreation 2, an open-world arcade racing game "coming soon" to Windows PC via Steam. The first Wreckreation was released just nine months ago, and did not click, leading...

Polylithic - 1.0 Release Date Announcement Trailer - indie.io.

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Union slams Microsoft for "unfair labor practice", alleging Xbox "unlawfully" laid off staff - GamesIndustry.biz. Disney lays off 100s of employees, with Pixar hit hard - Polygon.

Steam now features Early Access to G-Rebels, an arcade combat flight simulator for Windows from Reakktor Studios and Senatis. This comes with a playable demo, and both the game and the demo support...

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian is now available on Steam, bringing a narrative RPG for Windows from Schisma Games and 101XP. It bears noting that The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is...

Incremental Infinity is now available for Windows on Steam, kicking off a casual strategy game from Rablo Games where you do defend against waves of numbers, which are notorious for incrementing...

FakeFish and Shiro Unlimited announce another closed beta for Frostrail, saying it will get underway in the survival first-person shooter on August 31st. In a twist, signups to test this train-based...

Steam is also now accepting registration for beta testing of QUIET, which begins on August 3rd in this co-op horror game from LINE Games. This sounds like Howard the Duck meets A Quiet Place, as it...

Headup Games and Goon Squad announce Tinker Islands, a multiplayer sandbox game set in a vast ocean, featuring exploration, crafting, and combat. Details are on Steam, which shows this has a "to be...

Steam now offers Early Access to Soulbound: Online, an MMORPG for Windows from SpiderWare. There's an accompanying post on Early Access Monetisation saying a cosmetics store will open "in the coming...

Drag'N Dungeon on Steam (Windows). "Drag'N Dungeon is a grid-free tactical auto-battler where every drop counts. Trapped in a mysterious dungeon, escape by unlocking fierce allies and picking the...

The Call of Duty Blog has a bunch of details about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, the upcoming military shooter sequel. This recaps the game's appearance at Fanatics Fest, has intel on Call of Duty:...

The Steam Train Fest is now underway, kicking off a week-long celebration of railroading. This includes playable demos to sample the genre, and there are new items in the Points Shop to put a fine...

Also now underway is SimFest Workers and Resources on Steam, a third-party event presented by Mythwright, Stray Fawn Studio, and Future Friends Games. This invokes a week-long sale of its own,...

Chronocracy on Steam (Windows). "Build a unique civilization in a flat world! Explore, extract resources, expand, and battle enemies. Use your time management skills to fend off attacks and face a...

Skatesterre - Release Date Announcement Trailer. August 13th.

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Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger - Variety.

After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, -current and former employees- are disagreeing with his optimism - Eurogamer.net.

NACON and Artefacts Studio announce MXGP 26, a new installment in the motocross racing sim coming to PC and consoles this October. Its switch to Unreal Engine 5 is called a "new beginning" for the...

With the Steam Train Fest 2026 getting underway today, Folklore Games announces Manifest Unknown, a manifestly mysterious narrative train simulation coming to Windows PC with a "to be announced"...