DayZ Badlands is scheduled for October 2026, with more than 5,000 rebuildable structures, restored wells, and a Code Lock system. The Road to Badlands update is already live with a first batch of expansion-inspired content.
The Chicken Police studio's next game puts a clone janitor on a space station swallowed by a sentient black hole, with stealth, strange mutations, and a lot of very suspicious machinery.
The deflection-focused souls-like platformer arrives as a day-one Game Preview title, while BlazBlue: Entropy Effect X and Relooted move into Game Pass Premium.
EA Sports FC 26 joins EA Play for Xbox PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. That makes it easier to try, but Steam's mixed reception is worth reading before you commit to another season.
The Dread Delusion studio brings its new retro-styled RPG to Steam today. Here is what players should know before jumping into its first act.
Treyarch brought the original Black Ops games to PS4 and PS5 through Iron Galaxy. The nostalgia is real, but expectations should stay firmly in 2010.
Rockstar is giving GTA Online players a July art-gallery job and a free current-gen GTA 5 upgrade for eligible PS4 and Xbox One owners.
A huge open world can be wonderful, but the six-hour game is starting to feel like a gift: focused, memorable, and honest about the time players can spare.
Eurogamer found 1,704 Steam Next Fest demos with generative AI disclosures on SteamDB. That does not make every demo suspect, but it does make the label worth checking before you wishlist.
The European Commission will not force publishers to keep games playable after shutdowns. It is still opening talks on end-of-life standards, which gives players a narrower but real pressure point.
Kwalee Labs CEO Hollie Emery says the entire Luna Abyss team has been made redundant only weeks after launch. The shooter is still worth playing, but the timing is a nasty reminder that good reviews do not always protect developers.
Steam earned trust by fading into the background. Rival launchers can compete, but only if they stop turning every play session into account maintenance.