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One of my favourite weeks of the year is here: Summer Games Done Quick 2026 begins and anyone with a passing interest in games should dip in

Some people get very excited for our annual non-E3 blast of games news in June. Others await the Q3-Q4 release window rush of games with glee (although, this year, I find it a bit more scary than I do exciting). My favourite time of the gaming calendar, though, is split between two six-month blocks: I celebrate the arr...

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Valve updates SteamOS to improve your WiFi download speeds, and it's available on Steam Deck with a couple of caveats

Valve has rolled out a change to SteamOS that should help devices using a WiFi antenna get better download speeds. This latest version, 3.8.14, was released over the weekend. The change-log only lists two changes, and one of them is pretty consequential. The new version fixes an issue that caused WiFi speeds to be limi...

1 month ago ๐Ÿ‘ 5
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"Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch": What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer

Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl. The tabletop-inflected sport is broadly similar to American football, though there are opportunities for even greater violence on t...

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Dark Souls Isn't โ€œEspecially Difficultโ€ According To Tekkenโ€™s Director

FromSoftware titles, particularly those created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, are widely considered some of the most punishing in video games. Intricate level design, littered with brutal enemies, easy-to-learn/difficult-to-master mechanics, and unforgiving boss fights make them the gold standard for challenge.

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Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima "really sad" about Sony ending physical disc production, and says lack of media ownership has "frightening" possibilities

Hideo Kojima has spoken about Sony's cessation of physical video game disc production, with the director behind Death Stranding expressing that the news made him feel "really sad". Read more

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How to Get Mega Seed in Grow a Garden 2 (Mega Moon Event Guide)

Mega Seed is a mythic rarity seed in Grow a Garden 2 that you can collect from the map server during the Mega Moon event, but since this event only fires at night, you've got a tight 2-minute window to catch it. Track the day-cycle meter above your screen to time it correctly.

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10 FPS Games That Are Bonafide 10/10 Masterpieces

Updated July 6, 2026, by Mark Sammut: We've updated this article with two indie FPS games that are 10/10 masterpieces: Trepang2 and DUSK.

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Games With Deep Base-Building Freedom

Updated July 6, 2026, by Mark Sammut: We've added a few more great base-building games: Subnautica and RimWorld.

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Watch Night of the Living Dead and other public domain horror movies inside this creepy dollfest

Isla de las Muรฑecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who've gone missing in a particularly cursed location. "Players must investigate mi...

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Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first 'dopamine site', so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It's hardly a classic, but it's not terrible either. At one cent per 10 minutes of content, how can you resist? It's only five pleasantly tactile mouse clicks away.Maybe you can't resist. During Steam's seasonal sales it's possible to scoop up dozens of games for less than $5 a...

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'Break Away from PlayStation Equals Living Room' Sony Wants PS6 to Compete With PC

When asked about how PlayStation can compete with PC gaming, three key figures from Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) stated that the PlayStation 6 experience should move beyond the living room. PlayStation listed some key points in how it plans to let users enjoy their games away from the couch.

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Another self-own for Sony: Marvel Tลkon's PC version is unavailable in over 100 countries thanks to our old friend PSN again

Remember how Sony sneakily added a PSN account requirement to Helldivers 2 after launch, thereby making it unplayable in the long list countries PSN still hasn't been rolled out to? And then Sony region-restricted a bunch of PC ports in those same countries, like God of War Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Tsushima, an...

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