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Boarding a flight to Texas while asking social media followers how to treat dozens of active bug bites right before a major tournament was a recipe for instant disaster. Longtime Nintendo competitive icon Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman was barred at the last minute from attending Xtreme Fighters Showdown 2026 (XFS 2026) in Austin after his viral...
Voice lobbies and text channels in team-based shooters have a notorious reputation for hostility, and NetEase Games is drawing a hard line in the sand. Following weeks of vocal community complaints regarding unchecked harassment across Steam on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, the developer published an official statement on X confirming a major...
A quiet yet profound tremor just ran through the video game preservation community. Launched in 2024 as the central nervous system for tracking matching decompilation across Nintendo 64, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 classics, decomp.dev has permanently disabled its public index and leaderboard. In a candid farewell statement, the platform's creator, known as Encounter, explained how...
Officially confirmed by Nintendo during the initial unveiling of the Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube library, Pokémon Colosseum remains MIA in October 2026. With its direct sequel already playable on the console for months, the prolonged radio silence surrounding Genius Sonority's cult-classic RPG is testing the patience of longtime fans. Releasing the Sequel Before the Original:...
PlayStation Network backend servers have just revealed the storage footprint for one of this fall's biggest action RPGs. With less than two weeks to go before its October 29, 2026 launch on PS5 and PC, Phantom Blade Zero weighs in at a massive 134.857 GB on Sony's console. Uncovered through PSN database entries tracked by...
Finnish indie studio Skyward Entertainment and publisher Headup have confirmed that a free public PC demo for their 3D action RPG Second Stone: The Legend of the Hidden World will launch on Steam on Monday, October 19, 2026. The public release arrives immediately after the conclusion of the game's closed playtest on October 18, coinciding...
After establishing standalone flagship stores in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, New York, and San Francisco, Nintendo is bringing a permanent physical retail presence to Canada with a brand-new format. Starting Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, Nintendo and EB Games Canada are officially opening North America's first-ever Nintendo "store-within-a-store" experience in downtown Toronto. Tucked...
Launched on October 15, 2026, for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC at $24.99, Disney/Pixar Toy Story 3 Complete Edition is enjoying a near-flawless reception from players. On the official PlayStation Store, the remaster developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Atari currently holds an average rating of 4.97 out of 5...
With two and a half months still left on the calendar, Steam has already shattered its all-time annual release record set in 2025. As of October 16, 2026, tracking data from SteamDB shows 21,388 new games published on Valve's storefront since January, officially overtaking the 21,248 titles released across all twelve months of last year....
Creeping down a pitch-black hallway in minimalist 8-bit pixel art right before the screen violently cuts to a live-action horror film shot with practical prosthetics and stage blood is the defining hook of Tenebris Somnia. Directed by Argentine filmmaker Andrés Borghi alongside Saibot Studios and published by New Blood Interactive, this hybrid survival horror adventure...