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PEGI is retroactively bumping digital games with loot boxes and gacha to PEGI 16 via IARC, breaking with the US ESRB ratings for EA, Roblox, and Valve.
Surveying 5,000 teenagers aged 15 to 17, France's ANJ and ARPEJ found that 39% play hybrid gambling-style games, led by GTA Online's Diamond Casino (26.3%) and US sweepstakes apps like CrownCoins and McLuck.
Following two months of unpaid wages and a Stockholm District Court bankruptcy order, Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg confirms that Liquid Swords is permanently closing its doors.
Featuring 7,164 active demos on SteamDB (8,202 tagged overall) and at least 1,054 generative AI disclosures, the October 2026 Steam Next Fest has sparked fresh calls for a native No-AI filter in Steam's Discovery Queue.
Up to $165,000 in inventory, including factory-sealed 1990s Zelda and Pokemon collector editions preserved for 30 years, was stolen during Saturday's smash-and-grab at Paris's iconic Sat.Elite retro game store. Here is why the loss resonates across the global collecting community.
BeamNG.drive launches on PS5 for $24.99 alongside Update 0.40, bringing 2,000 Hz soft-body physics, 4-player local split-screen, FSR 3, PSSR on PS5 Pro, and force-feedback wheel support.
By demonstrating access to the hidden Debug Settings menu on PlayStation 5 firmware 14.10, the minimum system version required for Grand Theft Auto VI, developer Gezine has achieved a notable kernel milestone. Yet Sony's hypervisor defense remains unbroken.
Claim Bad Cheese and Agent A: A puzzle in disguise free to keep on the Epic Games Store before October 22, plus the final hours of Battlefield 6 on Steam.
Launched natively on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 16, 2026, Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition leans heavily on NVIDIA DLSS to reconstruct a 1080p output from a 360p handheld and 540p docked internal resolution.
Independent developer rockonthehill has unveiled nearly three minutes of work-in-progress gameplay for a free PC VR mod bringing full-body IK, manual reloads, and two-handed weapon handling to the Gears of War: E-Day campaign.