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2026-10-24 6 stories
- Steam Officially Rolls Out A Calendar Feature To Directly Recommend New Games 2 sources
- The 20 Most-Played Steam Next Fest Demos Features Troublemaking Students, Farting Hippos
- Poll: If You're Playing Modern Warfare 4, What Do You Think So Far?
- Paralives' first major update slips to next year, but when it comes you can expect some pretty meaty improvements for all of its main features
- Now it's over, WoW: Forever's beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame
- New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims
2026-10-23 6 stories
- Steam Next Fest: Most-Played Demos So Far Include Fart Together, Emberville, ArcheAge Chronicles
- Sims Competitor InZoi Deletes “Uncomfortable” Post After Fan Pushback
- Leave It To Double Fine To Make The First Single-Player Friendslop Game
- Angelfall First Impressions—A Beautiful Battle Between Angels & Demons
- All Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Twitch Drops & How to Get Them
- 10+ Xbox Games Are Out Today, Including Modern Warfare 4's Full Release (October 23)
2026-10-22 8 stories
- You Can Try World of Warcraft: Forever for Free, but There’s a Catch
- WoW: Forever Is Keeping Its Secrets Close To The Chest
- Over '30 million rounds of PvE were played' over the last week in Arc Raiders but Embark still needs 'a bit of time to understand what the data is telling us'
- I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it
- HUNGER is a Horrific Extraction RPG That Can’t Be Missed
- Captivating cosmic megastructure adventure game Hypnos leaves early access next week, offering up a world I'm desperate to dig into further
- Alice in Wonderland Roguelite Is Free to Try on PS5 Now
- AI Slop Presents A Much Bigger Problem Than Just Flooding Steam Next Fest
2026-10-21 17 stories
- Warhammer 40K fans have some very specific questions about the Blood Ravens' origins, so I put them to Dawn of War 4's director 6 sources
- World of Warcraft: Forever's beta has been extended, as community members mourn the loss of their hunter pets 3 sources
- Football Manager 27 will be free to play for five days before its full release, in "industry first" for a game of its kind 3 sources
- Subnautica 2 adding its "scariest" region ever in next major update, the developers say 2 sources
- Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026 2 sources
- The 15 Best Steam Next Fest Demos to Play Right Now
- Supernatural’s comeback starts today, with more music and VR workouts coming soon
- MW4's camo grind can be sped up in the early stages, here's how
- Modern Warfare 4's DMZ Players Are Losing Loot to Server Crashes Despite Official Fix from Infinity Ward
- Modern Warfare 4 Multiplayer Release Date—Exact Start Time & Date
- Max Miller’s Tasting History Is Coming To Your Tabletop With A New Board Game
- It gives me great nerdly joy that the Next Fest demo on Steam's 100 most-played games list is a shopkeeping sim
- I keep embarrassing myself in front of the nature gods in handpainted 2D roguelike Talaka, whose colourful, combative demo is out now
- Gray Zone Warfare CEO Addresses All Your Issues with Rogue Ops Update
- Don’t Worry, You’re Not The Only One Dying Too Much In Modern Warfare 4’s Campaign
- COD: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ players are spawning in the middle of a road and being flattened before they can do anything
- Can You Play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ Solo?
2026-10-20 12 stories
- All Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Perks & How to Get Them 3 sources
- People who've finished Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on the new YOLO, single-life difficulty share experiences and tips for doing so 2 sources
- New K/DA Firestarter League of Legends Skins Revealed 2 sources
- Subnautica 2 is heading for 'Early access 2.0,' which brings 'one of our scariest regions we've ever done'
- Seven Xbox Games Are Out Today, Including The Next Great Co-Op Adventure (October 20)
- Microsoft won't like this open source project to get Game Pass working on SteamOS and Linux, but I think it's pretty neat
- I played 20 cozy game demos in Steam Next Fest and these 5 made it onto my wishlist
- I know you probably don't have mushroom in your backlog, but fungus looter shooter Mycopunk is now out in 1.0 and looks like the opposite of a shiitake time
- I have seen the future of sports games and it is called just volleyball
- Dig through an infested planet with your giant drill-city and try not to die while you do it in the roguelite city-builder CitaDrill
- 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo
- 'Campaign Is Easily Top Three': Modern Warfare 4's Early User Reviews Are Shockingly Positive