Steam’s beta client finally makes friend notifications behave on Deck
Valve's October 28 Steam beta fixes friend-join alerts that vanished in a rush, respects toast sound settings, and speeds up the Quick Access Menu on Deck.
05:22The Duskbloods slips to 2027 for a final rules and balance pass
FromSoftware has pushed The Duskbloods, its Switch 2 exclusive, from 2026 to 2027, citing a final pass on game rules and balance after August's network test.
Microsoft says Game Pass dragged Xbox down, and the rebound it forecasts is tied to game launches
Microsoft's outlook for a stronger Xbox second quarter cites the timing of content launches. Game Pass doesn't appear in the outlook remarks.
Rockstar let Edge watch 90 unscripted minutes of GTA 6, and the getaway looks harder than the heist
Pedestrians with 600,000 animations, storms you can see coming and a car-theft app with consequences: Edge's studio visit is about systems, not set pieces.
05:29Valve admits Next Fest lets low-quality games through, and tells developers to out-build the AI clones
Valve offered no new screening and no AI rule in Busan, as reported by Inven Global, so the job of beating clones lands on the developers…
Steam’s Personal Calendar is out of Labs for good, and Valve’s “no paid placement” line is the part worth holding it to
The feature itself is a tidy upgrade. The promise that nobody can buy a slot in it is the claim we can't check from the outside.
GOG pulled its store and launcher offline for “maintenance” on PHP patch day, and didn’t say why
Going dark on the day of a critical PHP fix may well have been the right call. Leaving customers to guess why wasn’t.
Steam’s Achievement Sets finally stop DLC from wrecking your 100% completion
Valve's new beta splits achievements into base-game and DLC sets that developers can add without patching. The seasonal part is the bit to watch.
A congressman wants game purchases to mean ownership, and NBA 2K25 is his exhibit A
The bill isn't written yet, and its poster child keeps more of its offline modes than the pitch admits. It still aims at the right thing.
The ESA’s piracy hit list leads with Anbernic, but G2A and Cronus Zen are the names PC players should notice
A trade-body filing quietly puts the key reseller and the cheat box in the same bracket as torrent sites.
19:30GTA 6’s launch trailer is out, and Bloomberg’s report says the budget didn’t top $1.5 billion
Rockstar's 90-second launch trailer debuts a Justice single, while Bloomberg's report covers Project Americas, the delays, 4,711 staff and a shorter wait for the next game.
19:05“No offense to Zelda”: Activision’s CMO says MW4 and GTA 6 are 2026’s two biggest games
Tyler Bahl says GTA 6 brings more eyeballs to Modern Warfare 4, while Circana's data shows Ocarina of Time's purchase intent is far higher per potential…
15:11Crimson Desert’s boss says critics didn’t get enough time. Her company promised them a month
Pearl Abyss Europe's CEO blames the review window for Crimson Desert's 77 Metascore. The record says the real gap is between launch week and a summer…
15:11GTA 6 leaker threatens to release the full game, but only if its memecoin hits $30 million
Cyberleek says it will release a complete GTA 6 build unless Take-Two apologizes and offers physical copies, and it has tied the release to a $30…
