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  1. PC Gamer22

    Looking Back on 10 Years of Overwatch: The Promises Kept, and Where Team 4 Goes From Here

    Overwatch has crossed the 10-year mark, and game director Aaron Keller and associate game director Alec Dawson reflected on the highs and lows and where the game stands now. Keller revealed Team 4 is deep into development on Season 1 for 2027 and is already discussing what Season 1 will look like in 2028, aiming to keep the game fresh in a different way each year. Dawson confirmed map reworks and tweaks will continue, stressing that Overwatch remains a home for many players.

Oct 11Sun
  1. Eurogamer40

    Krafton thinks PUBG Ded.Net's pulpy gameshow hyperviolence and roguelite twist can make it the next big battle royale

    Krafton's Wisconsin studio PUBG Madison is developing PUBG Ded.Net, a third-person battle royale shooter in which players are contestants in an ultra-violent gameshow. Its twist is a pick-three-style roguelite system that carries across consecutive matches, where upgrades and injuries from one game affect the next. Creative director Dave Curd says chasing that power-up fantasy is meant to take the edge off losing.

Oct 10Sat
  1. PC Gamer22

    WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again

    A PC Gamer MMO column argues that World of Warcraft: Forever, by casting off modern conveniences, has become casual friendly again. The author, who has a 9-5 job and doesn't consider himself a hardcore WoW player, says leveling in Forever is chill, built around 40-minute adventures that don't change if you come back a month later. By contrast, retail's seasonal structure demands intense play and resets much of your progress at season's end, often pushing casual players away.

  2. Polygon22

    Marathon Is the Scariest Horror Game of 2026

    A Polygon editor calls Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon the scariest game he has played in a long time, largely because dying means losing all the gear you brought in and looted. Playing solo as Rook turns the experience into straight survival horror, and this week streamer Shroud called the game "a little too sweaty" while Ninja rage quit on launch day.

Oct 9Fri
  1. PC Gamer30

    WoW: Forever dev says 'there's a real longing for that slower, more deliberate pace' in MMOs: 'A deliberate pushback on this go go go nature'

    World of Warcraft: Forever associate production director Clay Stone says there's a real longing for a slower, more deliberate pace in MMOs, calling it a deliberate pushback on the "go go go" nature. He pointed to the success of Classic, the 2023 response to Hardcore, and players who skipped Season of Discovery because seasons felt ephemeral. Stone says Blizzard is deliberately building WoW Forever to answer whether it's too late to start with an emphatic "no."

Oct 8Thu
  1. IGN22

    From Ultima Online to World of Warcraft: How MMORPGs Built (and Lost) the Live-Service Throne

    IGN traces how MMORPGs pioneered live-service gaming before losing that crown to modern live-service titles. Roblox's 123 million daily players now dwarf the combined historical peaks of World of Warcraft, RuneScape, EverQuest and their peers, while Aion 2 launched this week and landed on Steam's Most Played list, with Guild Wars 3 on the horizon. The piece includes interviews with Ultima Online creator Starr Long and EverQuest co-creator Bill Trost.

  2. IGN34

    From Minecraft Survival Games to Fortnite: How Live-Service Turned Games Into a Battle Royale for the Top Spot

    IGN traces the history of live-service games, noting the battle royale market was valued at $11.2 billion last year and is expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2035. Norwegian YouTuber Dennis Vaeride is credited with launching the first Minecraft Survival Games server in April 2012, while Brendan Greene's shrinking-circle concept led to PUBG's Steam Early Access launch in March 2017 and Fortnite's free-to-play battle royale mode later that year. Ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah says you have to believe you can dethrone one of the top two players in the genre, or you shouldn't be doing it.

  3. IGN36

    Live-Service Games Keep Getting Cancelled — Is This the Beginning of the End?

    15 of the 19 major live-service games launched in 2025 had lost over 80% of their initial playerbase by the end of January this year. PlayStation has halted or cancelled over a dozen live-service games in the last decade, and Naughty Dog cancelled The Last of Us Online. Veteran developers say enough cancellations and shutdowns have created a trust issue among players.

Oct 7Wed
  1. PC Gamer62

    Arc Raiders Frozen Trails hands-on: the grapple hook is the highlight, the skill tree rework is not yet transformative

    A PC Gamer writer spent 3 hours with the Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it using the new grapple hook. The green tier gadget can climb buildings, swing between rooftops, descend safely, stick to almost anything, and be redeployed midair with no cooldown or use limit, allowing chained swings. The update also adds a launcher that tethers two objects and a grenade that yanks Arc bots to the ground, which the writer did not test thoroughly. The reworked skill tree mixes old and new abilities with mutually exclusive branches, and the writer found most nodes to be incremental stat boosts that do not change play in the short term, while the new Pendola Pass map feels visually distinct for its snow but familiar in the areas they visit most.

  2. GameSpot69

    Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail preview: new frost map, skill tree overhaul, and battle pass

    Arc Raiders has released Frozen Trail, its first major update since the studio moved to a semi-annual cadence, and the author calls it a hefty, inventive makeover after a few hours of play. It adds a frost-themed map, a raid-style map event mixing puzzles and combat, new weapons and enemies, a skill tree overhaul, customization spaces called Outposts, a new gun-buffing system, weapon cosmetics, and a multi-tiered battle pass. Embark Studios announced in May that it was shifting to semi-annual major updates to give the team more time for meaningful content.

  3. Eurogamer22

    My favourite thing about Aion 2? The freedom to make a freaky lil' guy in a world of beautiful people

    Aion 2 has arrived as a free-to-play MMO with meaty combat and challenging boss encounters. Its character creator offers countless adjustable settings, letting the author roll up a tiny red-eyed, green-haired oddball. He spent just over £20 on premium cosmetics for the character and found that smaller stature makes vaulting obstacles pleasingly nimble.

Oct 6Tue
  1. Pure Xbox48

    Gears of War: E-Day Multiplayer Preview: Horde Siege and Versus Make Me Feel Like a Kid Again

    Gears of War: E-Day entered Premium Advanced Access last week, giving the author hands-on time with the final builds of Versus and Horde Siege. Versus launches with four modes, including Conquest, where teams claim zones to reach four points, and Demolition, built around planting and defusing a bomb. The 12-player Horde Siege adds a mod system for weapon-altering attachments, and the author says playing as Marksman with the Longshot has fully converted them to the mode.

Oct 3Sat
  1. PC Gamer22

    Valve's patch note supremacy

    Valve's big Deadlock patch this week came with patch notes styled as a tourism brochure for the game's refreshed New York City, walking readers through four major districts with custom artwork for new items and mechanics. The piece traces Valve's history of bespoke update pages back to Team Fortress 2, noting that Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 changelogs are comparatively regular, functional bullet lists.

Oct 1Thu
Sep 30Wed
  1. PC Gamer22

    Embark should've added a PvE mode to Arc Raiders a long time ago

    Embark is finally testing a PvE mode for Arc Raiders, a change the author believes should have come much sooner. He recalls the fun of early co-op fights against high-value arcs, but says PvP lobbies later filled with liars, assholes, and cheaters. Embark has admitted a large chunk of the playerbase is PvE orientated, though there's no guarantee the test leads to a permanent addition.

  2. Rock Paper Shotgun62

    I perished in the flesh pipes of Darktide's Depths of the Damned update, and you will too

    Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has released the Depths of the Damned update, whose centerpiece is a new mission called Spillway set in Tertium's water treatment facility; the author calls it the biggest addition since the Skitarii arrived. Having played it once, the author says it still alternates fierce wave combat with quieter traversal but runs longer than Rolling Steel and No Man's Land, includes a graffiti memory puzzle, and can throw a traitor Captain at you. The update also adds two new weapons, the Thugshot and the Cruncher, which the author finds hard-hitting but slow.

Sep 25Fri
Sep 24Thu
  1. 游戏LOOK62

    Aion 2 Steam test peaks at 73,000 concurrent players as monetization and art debates carry into global launch

    Aion 2's global Steam PC stress test, which began on September 17, reached 73,000 concurrent players on SteamDB, with the full release set for October 5. The article recounts the backlash from its earlier Korea and Taiwan launch over stat-boosting items in loot boxes and core features locked behind paid memberships, and notes that NCsoft adjusted or removed some disputed items during the test. It also covers overseas discussion of differing male and female character outfits and NCsoft's broader push to move beyond traditional MMOs.

Sep 23Wed
  1. 触乐62

    EA Sports FC 27 hands-on: The Grounds football open world and UT Collection

    EA Sports FC 27 launches on September 25, with Ultimate Edition owners getting in a week early, and a hands-on look focuses on the new football open-world mode The Grounds and the UT Collection. The Grounds supports up to 100 players in one shared space, where players create an avatar and take part in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 street matches, skill challenges and NPC quests while leveling up. In Ultimate Team, the new Collection lets players sort player cards and rate sets to earn Hall of Fame players, while corner and SBC changes remain largely incremental.

Sep 15Tue
  1. 触乐22

    Chuapp Talk: "Your Time Is Running Out"

    EA Sports FC 26 has reached the end of its lifecycle, with Ultimate Team no longer running new events and its web and app versions shut down. Playing only the web-based pack-opening mode, the author earned 4.16845 million coins over the year, about 350,000 a month, enough to buy each season's 500,000-coin paid pass without extra spending. Ultimate Team data resets every year, pushing players to FC 27, while FC 26 still costs at least $69.99.

Apr 30Thu
  1. VG24740

    Petit Planet preview: HoYoverse's first foray into family-friendly games is very careful to colour within the lines

    Petit Planet, HoYoverse's first family-friendly social sim, has launched its second beta test and is being compared closely to Animal Crossing. It swaps the usual desert island for a desert planet in space, but the preview finds few new ideas and no confirmed release window. The beta also flags content made with generative AI, with NPC real-time dialogue likened to the 20-year-old indie game Façade.

Mar 6Fri
  1. VG24762

    Marathon launch day Steam player numbers are about half those of the Server Slam

    Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon has officially launched, peaking at 88,337 concurrent players on Steam, a little over half of the 143,621 peak concurrent from its Server Slam test. The open test had offered almost all classes, two maps and many gameplay and progression systems. The game currently holds a Very Positive user review rating on Steam based on over 4,600 reviews, and the author notes the weekend may push numbers closer to the Server Slam heights.

Feb 27Fri