The art of rally team's new off-road exploration game has a Steam Next Fest demo now, and its best pitch is not horsepower. It is mud, maps, co-op wandering, and taking the long way around.
Summer Game Fest impressions make Legacy of Atlantis sound smaller than a modern blockbuster. For a Tomb Raider remake, that could be a feature, not a warning label.
Umbral Sands arrives June 23 for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, adding Scorch exposure, a Fight Cave, rare rewards, and a magic carpet before the survival RPG heads toward 1.0.
Bounce 2 sells itself like a lost Atari sequel, but the Steam game is real: a strange, scrappy PONG brawler built for local chaos, online matches, and CRT obsessives.
A focused six-hour game can feel more generous than a giant map packed with chores. Time is part of value now, whether publishers want to admit it or not.
Capcom says the Code Veronica remake lined up because Resident Evil has spent years circling Leon. That makes Veronica more than a nostalgia slot on the schedule.
Playground's reboot is betting hard on Albion's people, with hand-built routines, grudges, romance, jobs, property trouble and enough social mess to feel like Fable again.
Halo: Campaign Evolved adds harder bonus missions about Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson. That could help the remake, if it knows when to stop explaining.
A good launcher should feel like plumbing: invisible until you need it. Steam earned trust by getting close. Too many rivals still confuse platform strategy with interruption.
Microsoft is turning Xbox Mode into a controller-first Windows gaming layer. That is good news for handheld players, as long as desktop users can keep the mouse, keyboard, and beautiful mess they already like.
Fobri's Steam co-op oddball launches today with gnomes raiding human houses, crafting gear, and serving the High-Gnome. It sounds hilarious. Now it has to prove the joke can survive real sessions.
A small Android tracker has reportedly sent more than 600,000 alerts for free-to-keep Steam games. Useful? Sure. But players should still be picky about what they install and how loudly it pings them.