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.
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…
15:11Steam breaks its concurrent-user record again, passing 43.5 million on October 11
Steam peaked at 43,505,724 simultaneous users on October 11, per SteamDB, its third record of 2026, with a record 14.46 million of them actually in a…
09:20Epic says its new launcher beats Steam by 46%. It timed the Steam Valve replaced the day before
Epic's Preview launcher is quicker to its store page, but its headline figure was measured against a Steam client that Valve's October 13 update had already…
Ubisoft proposes closing Trials studio RedLynx, cuts 70 in Singapore and opens German exit talks
Up to 52 roles at RedLynx, 70 at Ubisoft Singapore and about 100 across Düsseldorf, Berlin and Mainz are affected as Ubisoft's restructure reaches its support…
Funcom cuts staff to focus only on Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles, and CEO Rui Casais steps down
The Tencent-owned studio is moving to live operations for its two survival games, with chief product officer Scott Junior taking over as CEO at the end…
11:40House House won’t release Big Walk on Xbox while Microsoft is a BDS boycott target
The Untitled Goose Game studio says its co-op hit stays off Xbox "until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets".
Legacy Games is closing its “yours to keep forever” store, and downloads end February 28, 2027
The casual game store stops selling on December 31. After its servers close, purchased games can't be downloaded again.
Nvidia’s Q2 Earnings Blame Memory Prices for Slower PC Sales, and Gaming Isn’t Broken Out Anymore
Nvidia's fiscal second-quarter results, released Wednesday, put a company-confirmed number behind the memory crunch already hitting PC hardware: consumer PC sales were tempered by elevated memory…
07:37Nvidia’s GeForce 616.56 Driver Adds Day-One Support for STAR WARS Zero Company
Nvidia's new Game Ready driver enables DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation for STAR WARS Zero Company at launch and fixes a VSYNC bug in DOOM: The…
07:10Windows 11’s August Security Patch Is Crashing ARC Raiders, THE FINALS, and Marvel Tōkon
KB5121003 broke compatibility with a widely-installed RGB peripheral driver, and Microsoft still lists no known issues despite developers confirming the cause.
