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Breathedge 2 has changed a lot since its demo

Sep 1, 2026, 10:27 AlexP Gaming News Early access

Breathedge 2 enters Early Access with denser exploration, deeper survival and a roadmap promising vehicles, planets, spacecraft and base building.

Breathedge 2 has officially entered Steam Early Access, but the version players can jump into today is quite different from the demo that introduced the sequel. After looking closely at that early slice of the game, RedRuins Softworks decided to rebuild it, putting much more emphasis on the survival, exploration and crafting systems that sit at the heart of Breathedge. According to the studio, the demo was well received, but it also exposed a problem. There were plenty of quests, dialogue,...

Big Ambitions 1.0 finally lets you live like a millionaire

Sep 1, 2026, 09:44 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Big Ambitions 1.0 adds The Hamptons, luxury mansions, chauffeurs, golf, tennis, food delivery and easier business management.

Three years of opening shops, hiring staff, managing stock and carrying boxes across New York have finally paid off. Big Ambitions has reached version 1.0, and this time the game is not only asking you to build a business empire — it is giving you more reasons to enjoy the fortune you worked so hard to create. At the heart of the update is The Hamptons, a new neighborhood designed for players who are well past the struggling entrepreneur phase....

Mortal Shell II gets a huge update just days after launch

Aug 31, 2026, 10:23 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Mortal Shell II’s first major update adds Shell respecs, infinite upgrade resources, better ripostes, boss fixes and performance improvements.

A big post-launch patch has already arrived for Mortal Shell II, and it is much more substantial than the usual first-week cleanup. Just days after release, Cold Symmetry has addressed several of the complaints players raised almost immediately, while also adding some genuinely useful quality-of-life changes. One of the most welcome additions is the ability to respec a Shell. By using Mether’s Severance, players can reset their upgrades and get back the Glimpses they previously spent. That makes experimenting with different...

Fable PC requirements revealed ahead of its 2027 launch

Aug 31, 2026, 09:20 AlexP Gaming News System requirements

Fable brings 1,000+ handcrafted NPCs, deep player interactions and demanding PC specs ahead of its February 2027 launch.

The wait for Fable is nearly over. The game launches on February 23, 2027, and everything we’ve seen so far makes it look like one of the most ambitious RPGs coming next year. It’s not just about exploring Albion, fighting enemies and completing quests — Playground Games is also putting a huge amount of focus on making the world feel alive and giving players plenty of freedom in how they live inside it. A big part of that is Fable’s...

Manor Lords just got a huge reason to come back

Aug 28, 2026, 10:38 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Manor Lords Major Update #8 adds a new map, cows, cider, mead, deeper construction and more—making now a great time to return.

Manor Lords just got one of its biggest updates yet, and if your medieval settlement has been gathering dust for a while, this might be the perfect excuse to jump back in. Major Update #8 brings a chunky list of new features to the game, including a brand-new Wide Valley map, cows, a new crop, cider, mead, expanded construction mechanics and plenty of changes designed to make running a growing settlement feel deeper. One of the biggest additions is the new Construction...

This is the GTA VI gameplay reveal we wanted

Aug 28, 2026, 10:19 AlexP Gaming News Gameplay

GTA VI finally shows 27 minutes of PS5 gameplay, with weightier driving, immersive gun sounds and a stunning look at Leonida.

The wait is finally over. After weeks of leaks, rumors and endless GTA VI discussions, Rockstar has finally given us the real deal: 27 minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI footage captured entirely on a PlayStation 5. And yes, it looks absolutely incredible. Seeing the game running on a regular PS5 makes the whole thing even more impressive. Vice City and the wider world of Leonida look packed with detail, from the streets and traffic to beaches, nightlife and quieter moments...

Path of Exile 2 finally has a full release date

Aug 27, 2026, 11:06 AlexP Gaming News Release date

Path of Exile 2 launches in full on December 11, 2026, bringing the Duelist, swords, Acts 5 and 6, and a free-to-play release.

After almost two years in Early Access, Path of Exile 2 finally has a date for its big 1.0 launch. Grinding Gear Games confirmed that the action RPG will leave Early Access on December 11, 2026, and from that day the full game will be free-to-play. Path of Exile 2 entered Early Access in December 2024, giving players an unfinished but already huge version of Wraeclast while new classes, bosses, balance changes and campaign content were gradually added. Version 1.0...

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros — Here's how it handles

Aug 27, 2026, 10:46 AlexP Gaming News Gameplay

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros goes hands-on, revealing classic RTS gameplay, unique faction mechanics and hero-driven battles.

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros has finally gone hands-on, and the biggest surprise is how traditional it feels. Underneath the HBO licence is a straightforward base-building RTS, much closer to Age of Empires than to a soulless licensed IP. You set up an economy, expand across the map, take territory and raise an army. You win either by holding enough ground or by tearing down your opponent's seat. ...

Crimson Desert Enhanced arrives after 17 patches and 6 million sales

Aug 26, 2026, 11:16 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Crimson Desert Enhanced arrives free with major 2.0 story changes, new skills, and five months of post-launch updates behind it.

A lot of AAA games nowadays spend their first months fixing their rough edges, but Crimson Desert had a plan and stuck to it. Pearl Abyss’ open-world action adventure launched on March 19, 2026, and its first few months have been ridiculously busy. The game passed 6 million copies sold worldwide in just 83 days, while Pearl Abyss kept piling on updates rather than simply moving on to the next big thing. By August, Crimson Desert had received 17 patches, bringing...

The latest Metro 2039 trailer looks absolutely stunning

Aug 26, 2026, 10:45 AlexP Gaming News Gameplay

Metro 2039’s new gameplay trailer brings back the claustrophobic feel of Metro 2033 with stunning visuals and deeper immersion.

Metro 2039 has just shown off its latest gameplay at Gamescom Opening Night Live, and the new “Renegade” trailer only needs around two minutes to make one thing clear: the Metro is still an absolutely miserable place to be. Thankfully, that is exactly why we want to go back. The footage immediately brings back memories of Metro 2033. Tight underground spaces, weak lighting, abandoned corners and the constant feeling that something unpleasant could be hiding just outside your flashlight beam...

SILENT BREATH wants to hear you scream

Aug 25, 2026, 09:06 AlexP Gaming News

SILENT BREATH reaches 1.0 with co-op, a True Ending, new scares and its clever microphone-based horror mechanic.

Most horror games are happy enough when they make you jump. SILENT BREATH takes things a little further: it actually listens for the scream that comes afterwards. The setup is wonderfully cruel. You head into a dark, photorealistic forest looking for missing people, knowing that something out there is waiting to ruin your night. Meanwhile, your microphone can become part of the experience, so panicking too loudly is not exactly the smartest survival strategy. Naturally, that sounds easier than it is. Between...

Steam has a new obsession: How To Fish

Aug 25, 2026, 08:37 AlexP Gaming News

How To Fish turns fishing into multiplayer madness, becoming a viral Steam hit with over 340,000 concurrent players.

Fishing games are usually about patience, peaceful lakes and waiting for the perfect bite. How To Fish apparently looked at that formula and decided it needed guns, ridiculous physics and several friends making terrible decisions together. Released on Steam on August 20, How To Fish comes from Dazed Games, a tiny Swedish studio formed by just two programmers, Carl-Vilhelm Johansson and Melvin Olsson. Somehow, their wonderfully silly take on fishing has turned into one of 2026’s biggest indie surprises. Within only...

Don’t judge Brigador Killers like a finished game yet

Aug 24, 2026, 10:25 AlexP Gaming News Early access

Brigador Killers brings mech mayhem, old-school inspiration and big ideas to Early Access, despite mixed reviews.

Brigador Killers is the kind of sequel that clearly did not want to play it safe. Instead of simply giving players more mechs, more guns and more buildings to flatten, Stellar Jockeys and Gausswerks have pushed the original Brigador formula in a much bigger direction. You can still climb into heavy vehicles and turn city streets into rubble, but now you can also get out, fight on foot, scavenge weapons, manage equipment and steal whatever machine looks useful next. It makes...

The strange success story behind Project P.I.T.T.

Aug 24, 2026, 09:47 AlexP Gaming News

Project P.I.T.T. turns rubber ducks, factory building and a giant abyss into an unexpected solo-dev Steam success story.

A game about feeding rubber ducks into a mysterious corporate abyss sounds like the sort of idea someone comes up with at 2 a.m. and forgets by morning. Somehow, Project P.I.T.T. turned that exact concept into one of August’s more unexpected indie success stories. Developed largely by solo developer Froke, the project began around a year before release as a small experiment inspired by incremental games and automation. Instead of watching numbers increase on a menu, the idea was to...

Subway has entered ARC Raiders, and yes, there is exclusive gear

Aug 21, 2026, 10:13 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

ARC Raiders adds new Phantom Targets content, gameplay fixes and a surprising Subway collab ahead of Frozen Trail.

ARC Raiders has been keeping its Rust Belt busy lately. Embark Studios rolled out Update 1.42.0 on August 18, continued the mysterious Phantom Targets storyline, made some welcome gameplay improvements, and then followed it up two days later with something nobody had on their extraction-shooter bingo card: a collaboration with Subway. The biggest piece of Update 1.42.0 is the second part of the Phantom Targets event. Shani’s investigation has now traced the strange signals to Wasps acting very differently from normal....

Cozy Marbles turns marble runs into a chill sandbox

Aug 21, 2026, 09:46 AlexP Gaming News

Cozy Marbles turns childhood marble runs into a relaxing physics sandbox full of creative builds, races and cozy fun.

Few things are as satisfying as watching a marble survive a track you spent far too long building. Cozy Marbles takes that simple childhood pleasure and turns it into a surprisingly flexible physics sandbox, created by solo developer Pixel Pea Games over roughly two and a half years. Now available on Steam, the game starts with a familiar idea: connect a few track pieces, drop in a marble and see what happens. From there, things can become much more complicated than...

Low-Budget Repairs turns terrible DIY into a full-time job

Aug 20, 2026, 09:49 AlexP Gaming News

Low-Budget Repairs turns terrible DIY into comedy, with messy jobs, clever mechanics and a few technical issues at launch.

Most simulator games want you to become incredibly good at your chosen profession. Low-Budget Repairs has a much funnier idea: what if being a questionable handyman was the entire point? Low-Budget Repairs arrived with plenty of attention behind it. The game had already passed an impressive 1.2 million Steam wishlists before launch, suggesting that a huge number of players were ready to embrace its deliberately messy approach to home renovation. Cutting corners is basically the job Set in a fictional version of 1990s...

15 minutes of Black Myth: Zhong Kui gameplay

Aug 20, 2026, 09:18 AlexP Gaming News Gameplay

Black Myth: Zhong Kui goes from an empty folder to 15 minutes of stunning gameplay, showing a huge leap beyond Wukong.

A year ago, Black Myth: Zhong Kui barely existed in public. When Game Science revealed the second entry in the Black Myth series at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025, the studio said the project was still in early development and there was no in-game footage ready to show. Fast-forward exactly one year, and things look very different. Game Science released a full 15-minute gameplay video, giving players their first real look at combat and parts of the story. The footage was...

Subnautica 2’s Buddy System makes co-op feel like co-op

Aug 19, 2026, 09:55 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Subnautica 2 Update 1.2 adds voice chat, revives, easier item sharing and new tools that make co-op feel truly connected.

Subnautica 2 launched into Early Access on May 14 with one massive change from the original game: proper four-player co-op. Swimming into an alien ocean with three friends sounded fantastic, but in practice, multiplayer could still feel like four separate survivors who happened to share the same map. Update 1.2, which is coming out on the 19th of August, appropriately called Buddy System, is designed to change that. The biggest addition is proximity voice chat. Instead of relying entirely on an external...

Bodycam is taking FPS realism to another level

Aug 19, 2026, 09:35 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Bodycam’s Locked & Loaded dev diary shows how Reissad Studio is pushing FPS realism, immersion and weapon handling even further.

Bodycam has always sold itself on one simple idea: what if a multiplayer shooter looked and felt uncomfortably close to real footage? With its new “Road to Locked and Loaded” Dev Diary, Reissad Studio is showing that it wants to push that idea much further than impressive graphics alone. The first dev diary focuses heavily on the systems being rebuilt for the upcoming Locked & Loaded update, especially animations, weapon handling and loadouts. Instead of simply adding another map or a...

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