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Montabi brings monster collecting and deckbuilding together in a clever way

Aug 7, 2026, 12:01 AlexP Gaming News

Montabi mixes monster collecting, deckbuilding, and tactical combat in a colorful roguelike, with a positive early reception from players.

Montabi might look like another cute creature-collecting game at first glance, but there is a lot more going on under the surface. What makes it stand out is the way it combines three very different ideas: collecting monsters, building a deck, and fighting on a tactical grid. It has a little bit of Pokémon in its creature collecting, some Slay the Spire-style card strategy, and even a touch of Mega Man Battle Network in the way positioning matters during fights. The...

GTA VI’s extended look could finally show us how the game really plays

Aug 7, 2026, 11:32 AlexP Gaming News

GTA VI’s August 27 Extended Look could finally reveal real gameplay, major features, and Rockstar’s next-gen vision.

Rockstar Games is getting ready to pull back the curtain on Grand Theft Auto VI once again, with Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look arriving on August 27. While Rockstar has stopped short of calling it a full gameplay showcase, the timing makes this presentation especially exciting. After years of trailers, screenshots, characters and cinematic glimpses of Leonida, this could finally be the moment we get a proper look at how GTA VI actually plays. The presentation will...

The Ranchers could become the ultimate countryside life simulator

Aug 6, 2026, 09:52 AlexP Gaming News Early access

Discover how The Ranchers blends farming, co-op and open-world life into a promising countryside sim with huge potential.

The Ranchers has been a long time coming. The project first gained attention in 2022, when RedPilz Studio launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than €245,000 from over 3,600 backers. What began as an ambitious idea for a countryside life simulator gradually grew into a much larger game, mixing farming, home building, business management, exploration and multiplayer inside one open world. The main idea is simple: leave the stress of city life behind, buy a piece of land and build...

Judgment day begins in HellSlave II: Judgment of the Archon

Aug 6, 2026, 09:24 AlexP Gaming News

HellSlave II returns with deeper builds, tactical combat and a darker world packed with demons, loot and deadly choices.

HellSlave II: Judgment of the Archon throws players into a dark fantasy world where humanity is trapped between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Six Demon Lords have spent thousands of years tearing the world apart, but Heaven’s solution is hardly heroic. The Archon of Judgment has arrived to destroy the corrupted world completely, leaving players with one seriously dangerous option: embrace demonic power, defeat the Demon Lords and stop divine annihilation before everything is erased. Like the original HellSlave,...

Retrowave 2 turns neon highways into the perfect relaxing drive

Aug 5, 2026, 10:05 AlexP Gaming News

Retrowave 2 delivers relaxing drives on gorgeous neon highways, synthwave music and plenty of stylish customisable cars.

Neon lights stretch across the horizon, synthwave music fills the air and traffic flashes past as you speed along an endless highway. That is the simple but incredibly stylish experience at the heart of Retrowave 2, an arcade driving game built for players who want to switch off, relax and enjoy the road. Each run begins by selecting a car and one of the game’s colourful environments. The objective is to weave through traffic, maintain high speeds and perform risky near...

Waterpark Simulator is bigger, busier and funnier with four-player co-op

Aug 5, 2026, 09:30 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Waterpark Simulator 1.0 adds co-op, custom slides, and deeper progression while its all-time Steam record climbs by 44%.

Running a waterpark was already a wonderfully messy job in Waterpark Simulator, but the full 1.0 release has turned the popular solo management game into a much bigger and more chaotic adventure. With four-player online multiplayer, custom-built slides, a new map and an expanded progression system, the update gives players far more ways to build, manage and accidentally destroy their aquatic empire. The response has been impressive too. Following the 1.0 launch, Waterpark Simulator reached a new Steam peak of more...

Project Zomboid build 42.20 nearly doubles its Steam player record

Aug 4, 2026, 09:26 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Project Zomboid Build 42.20 expands survival, boosts multiplayer and smashes its all-time Steam player record.

Project Zomboid has always been one of gaming’s most detailed zombie survival sandboxes, but Build 42.20 has pushed the apocalypse into an entirely new league. The massive update has now reached the Stable branch, bringing back thousands of survivors and helping the game set a new Steam player record of more than 121,000 concurrent users. The biggest attraction is the transformed map. Knox Country has effectively doubled in size, adding redesigned towns, new settlements, hundreds of basements and a huge selection...

Crimson Desert’s major update turns trading into a real adventure

Aug 4, 2026, 09:05 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Crimson Desert update 1.16.00 adds 133 trading posts, dynamic supply & demand, bigger profits, and three hotfixes arrive later.

Crimson Desert’s massive update 1.16.00 has arrived, and it gives players a whole new reason to explore every corner of Pywel. While combat, quests and technical performance have all received improvements, the real star of the patch is a major trading overhaul that transforms buying and selling goods into a proper open-world activity. Following Patch 1.13.00, the update adds an impressive 133 new trading posts across the map, greatly expanding the number of places where players can purchase, transport and...

PAW Patrol: Dino World brings co-op fun to Dino Island

Aug 3, 2026, 10:10 AlexP Gaming News

PAW Patrol: Dino World brings dino rescues, colorful exploration and family-friendly co-op fun to Dino Island.

PAW Patrol: Dino World takes the colourful exploration of PAW Patrol World and gives it a prehistoric twist, sending Ryder and the pups on a brand-new adventure filled with dinosaurs and rescue missions. Set on Dino Island, which first appeared in Season 13 of the television series and also provides the setting for PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, the game is not a direct adaptation of the film. Instead, it tells its own standalone story while using the same...

Corsair Cove gives the pirate genre a fresh strategic twist

Aug 3, 2026, 09:40 AlexP Gaming News

Discover Corsair Cove, a colorful pirate city builder packed with clever planning, lively pirates and island adventures.

Pirate games usually promise sword fights, cannon fire and treasure maps, but Corsair Cove takes a different route. Instead of handing players a cutlass and sending them across the ocean, it asks them to build a thriving pirate settlement on a rugged island where flat land is almost as valuable as gold. That unusual idea has clearly found an audience, with the game launching to Very Positive Steam reviews and climbing beyond 12,000 concurrent players during its opening days. The big...

The Elder Scrolls Online is here to stay, says Nick Giacomini

Jul 31, 2026, 12:04 AlexP Gaming News

Nick Giacomini says ESO is here to stay with Skyrim content, combat updates and ambitious new features arriving in 2027.

The Elder Scrolls Online has been welcoming adventurers into Tamriel for more than a decade, and its latest leadership message makes it clear that the journey is far from over. Following the recent Bethesda layoffs, Game Director Nick Giacomini has reassured players that “ESO is here to stay,” while stressing that the team is not interested in simply maintaining the game. The goal is to keep expanding, improving and building new experiences for its enormous community. That commitment comes with...

Palworld’s latest update makes Sunreach and boss battles more stable

Jul 31, 2026, 11:35 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Palworld update 1.0.2 fixes crashes, boss bugs, multiplayer issues, controls and performance across Sunreach adventures.

Palworld’s full 1.0 launch introduced plenty of new adventures, but a release this big was always going to bring a few wild bugs along for the ride. Update 1.0.2 is now available, focusing on crashes, multiplayer stability, broken encounters and progression problems that could interrupt players while exploring the game’s latest content. One of the biggest fixes targets the Panthalus battle. Dedicated servers could previously disconnect during the encounter, while individual players sometimes crashed in the middle of the...

Sker Ritual brings classic zombies action to a haunted island

Jul 30, 2026, 11:14 AlexP Gaming News

Sker Ritual blends co-op horde action, Celtic horror, and powerful Miracles in a thrilling fight against the Quiet Ones.

Sker Ritual is a fast-paced supernatural shooter built around one very simple idea: survive as long as you can while increasingly nasty enemies flood the map. Set on the eerie Sker Island in 1914, the game throws players into a desperate fight against the Quiet Ones, twisted creatures created by the mysterious Siren’s Song. It can be played alone or with up to three friends, making it equally suitable for tense solo runs and chaotic co-op nights. The clearest comparison is...

Project Motor Racing adds triple-screen support in update 2.1

Jul 30, 2026, 10:55 AlexP Gaming News Updates & Patches

Project Motor Racing Update 2.1 adds reworked GT cars, triple-screen support, multiplayer fixes and more.

Project Motor Racing has received one of its biggest patches yet, with Update 2.1 delivering a major overhaul for several popular racing classes, new multiplayer features and a long-awaited display option for serious sim-racing setups. Rather than simply adjusting a few numbers under the bonnet, the update makes substantial changes to how many of the game’s most important cars feel on the track. The headline improvements focus on the GT3 and GT4 categories. Every car in these classes has been updated...

Every wrong answer makes the ghosts stronger in The Alley

Jul 29, 2026, 11:15 AlexP Gaming News

The Alley turns anomaly hunting into a deadly test of judgment, with Korean shamanism, family curses and angry ghosts.

The Alley takes the familiar anomaly-spotting horror formula and gives it a nasty little twist: every strange detail is not just something to notice, but something you must judge correctly before the situation gets worse. A routine walk becomes a supernatural nightmare Players step into the shoes of Soyeon, a high-school student whose ordinary journey...

Fight aliens and master magical powers in Mahou Arms

Jul 29, 2026, 10:54 AlexP Gaming News

Mahou Arms blends magical girls, alien warfare and stylish combat in a colourful anime adventure full of energy and charm.

Mahou Arms throws players into a world where humanity is barely holding on. Earth has been devastated by an alien force known as the Locks, and conventional armies are no longer enough to stop them. The last line of defence is GARDA, a military organisation that sends magically powered fighters into battle against the invasion. Players take on the role of GARDA’s commander and follow the story of Amelia and Susan, two magical girls with very different personalities and fighting styles....

Malware maps and a Discord takeover hit Meccha Chameleon

Jul 28, 2026, 11:42 AlexP Gaming News

Meccha Chameleon patches malicious mod maps, restores Discord, and assures players that the official Steam game is safe.

Meccha Chameleon has built its reputation around colourful camouflage, silly poses and players desperately pretending to be part of the scenery. However, the cheerful hide-and-seek game recently faced a much more serious kind of hiding problem after malicious mod maps, malware and a hacked Discord server created plenty of confusion across its community. Malicious...

Carnival Hunt makes teamwork more important

Jul 28, 2026, 11:01 AlexP Gaming News Early access

Carnival Hunt's wind-up keys turn movement, survival and teamwork into one clever shared resource.

Carnival Hunt may look like another entry in the increasingly crowded asymmetrical horror genre, but its wind-up key system gives every match a wonderfully tense identity of its own. Instead of simply copying the familiar “one monster versus a team of survivors” formula, Beer Night Studio has built the entire game around a single resource that controls sound, movement, survival and cooperation. Players take the role of clockwork Bunnies trying to escape a deadly carnival while being hunted by a powerful...

DragonSword: Awakening escapes gacha and finds Steam success

Jul 27, 2026, 11:47 AlexP Gaming News

DragonSword: Awakening ditches gacha, survives a legal fight and becomes a Very Positive Steam hit with 23,000+ players.

DragonSword: Awakening has one of the strangest comeback stories we have seen from an anime action RPG in quite some time. What started as a Korean free-to-play live service was rebuilt into a premium PC game, stripped of its gacha systems and released on Steam after surviving a legal attempt to stop its launch. Against the odds, the gamble has paid off. Developed by Hound13, DragonSword: Awakening now offers its colourful open world, large roster of heroes and fast tag-team combat...

Dirty Business could be the next big crime simulator

Jul 27, 2026, 11:17 AlexP Gaming News Early access

Dirty Business goes beyond drug dealing with co-op chaos, criminal empires and rapid Early Access updates.

Crime simulators are having a serious moment, and Dirty Business has arrived ready to build an entire underground empire. Developed by Plan Dirty Games, this first-person management game launched in Early Access with solo play and online co-op for up to four players. Instead of limiting players to a single illegal operation, it throws drugs, weapons, counterfeit money, employees and large-scale deliveries into one increasingly chaotic criminal business. The obvious comparison is Schedule I, the hugely popular crime simulator that...

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