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Oct 12Mon
  3. PC Gamer38

    Steam Week in Review: The Curious Case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's Dubious PC Debut

    Wonder Boy in Monster Land, a 1987 arcade game that never received an official PC port, appeared on Steam on September 28 under publisher Retro Maniac with the name misspelled as "Wonderboy." Original composer Shinichi Sakamoto called the port illegitimate and noted it is unavailable in Japan, while the listing is said to be a ROM running in the MAME emulator with the Sega logo removed. The page remained live as of the article.

Oct 11Sun
  4. PC Gamer62

    Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update reworks the whole map and adds new heroes

    Valve's Deadlock has received the City Never Sleeps update, which reworks the entire map, adds new neutral monsters, and gives the lanes and mid-map districts new looks. The update also introduces new heroes including Deadman Danny, Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Solomon, and Baba, plus many new conversations and voice lines for the existing cast. The author, who has put in 350 hours, calls the reworked Cursed Apple one of his favorite game settings in years.

  7. PC Gamer60

    Squadron 42 Steam page goes live with system requirements and a Q2 2027 release window

    Squadron 42 now has a Steam page listing system requirements and a Q2 2027 release date. The requirements make no mention of ray tracing-capable GPUs or DirectX 12, though the install size is still 150GB. Game director Chris Roberts said in August that the Star Citizen singleplayer component was delayed out of 2026 to avoid clashing with GTA 6, and a new trailer featuring Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman accompanied the page.

  9. Kotaku38

    New Deadlock Hero Solomon's Reload Animations Reference Real Chess Matches

    Valve's upcoming Deadlock added the chess grandmaster hero Solomon in its recent "City Never Sleeps" update, alongside five other heroes. Each time Solomon reloads, the pieces on his board rearrange into a layout based on his remaining ammo count, with every position taken from an actual historical game. Fans have picked up on the detail, which references matches including the 1851 "Immortal Game" and Deep Blue's 1996 win over Garry Kasparov.

  12. Kotaku58

    AI-driven driving sim's Steam demo costs $1,000 a day, four-person team takes a bank loan

    Easy Fox's DMV simulator Teach My Little Sister How To Drive uses an AI chatbot as the student sister players instruct to pass her exam. A Steam page update says demo players grew more than twentyfold over the past month, pushing operating costs above $1,000 a day and forcing the team to take out a bank loan, a cost it says will factor into the final price. The four-person team says it hopes to keep the demo running but may close it earlier than expected before release, a decision it has not yet made.

  19. PC Gamer62

    Deadlock adds a chess wizard hero as its concurrent player count passes Team Fortress 2's all-time peak

    Valve's Deadlock reached 262,145 concurrent players after adding the latest of six new heroes, surpassing Team Fortress 2's all-time peak of 253,997 according to SteamDB. The figure excludes TF2's Xbox 360 and PS3 players from The Orange Box. The new hero is Solomon, a chess mage whose gun is a chessboard that players say recreates a different historic game state on each reload depending on bullets loaded.

Oct 10Sat
  4. PC Gamer8

    Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted

    A PC Gamer writer has pitched a batch of new Deadlock character concepts, including the Summer Mummy from Heathcliff, a baseball-playing minotaur, the Loch Ness Monster's child, three gnomes in a trench coat, a boxing haunted suit of armor, a big spider, Humpty Dumpty, and the rest of the monkey the Monkey's Paw came off of. The piece notes Deadlock already has draculas, werewolves, and a Frankenstein, but is missing foundational cryptozoology and occult elements like a mummy.

Oct 9Fri
  1. PC Gamer42

    Valve gives devs real-world Steam Deck frame rate data

    As of October 1, Valve has given developers access to frame rate data reported by Steam Deck users, showing what percentage of sessions run at each frame rate. The data is only from users who opt in, and Valve claims a majority of Steam Deck players have opted in. Developers can use it to adjust graphical options, though it currently only applies to Verified games and can't be used in the verification process.