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Diablo 4 Season 14 has been live long enough for the dust, demons, and absurd damage numbers to settle, and once again the season appears to have a clear winner. This time, the crown belongs to the Rogue, a class that is slicing, shooting, and teleporting its way through Sanctuary at ridiculous speed. Rogue currently stands out because it does almost everything well. It levels quickly, flies through farming activities, melts bosses, and has several powerful endgame options instead of relying...

With Steam's Summer Sale now behind us, bargain hunters are once again looking elsewhere to grow their libraries - and Fanatical is ready with its Build Your Own Simulation Bundle 2026. Featuring a selection of simulation games across several genres, the bundle lets you mix and match your favorites while unlocking bigger savings the more you buy. Pricing is straightforward: The more games you buy, the bigger the savings you'll enjoy. Pick 2 games and you'll pay $6.75 / €6.75 /...

After more than two years in Early Access, Palworld has officially reached Version 1.0, and players have responded in force. Developer Pocketpair's full release propelled the survival monster-collecting game back into Steam's spotlight, peaking at over 720,000 concurrent players during launch weekend. While this doesn't surpass the game's legendary all-time record of more than 2.1 million concurrent players set in January 2024, it marks Palworld's largest resurgence since its explosive debut. The milestone demonstrates that interest in the game remains...

Lenovo has quietly refreshed its Legion 7a gaming laptop just a few months after its debut, adding a configuration that many buyers were waiting for. The updated model can now be equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, bringing a welcome boost in both graphics performance and video memory. When the Legion 7a first launched, it topped out with the GeForce RTX 5060, leaving it trailing its predecessor in certain gaming workloads. NVIDIA has since revised its laptop RTX...

AMD's latest Adrenalin 26.6.2 graphics driver appears to contain several hidden FSR features that haven't been officially announced yet, including support for Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) modes of up to 8x, according to discoveries made using the RadeonTuner utility. AMD has been laying the groundwork for expanded FSR Redstone features for some time. Back in April, the company quietly introduced preliminary Multi-Frame Generation support into the ADLX FidelityFX SDK, hinting that future Radeon GPUs would eventually let users choose different frame...

Rumors surrounding NVIDIA's next high-end graphics card are beginning to surface, with Russian outlet GameGPU claiming the company is preparing a GeForce RTX 5090 SE. If accurate, the card would slot between the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090, effectively filling the gap many expected an RTX 5080 Ti to occupy. According to the leak, the RTX 5090 SE would use a cut-down GB202 GPU, enabling 110 of the chip's 192 Streaming Multiprocessors. That translates to 14,080 CUDA cores...

Valve's next major hardware release is shaping up to be the Steam Frame, a standalone VR headset capable of running games locally or wirelessly streaming more demanding titles from a gaming PC. Ahead of its launch, Valve has quietly added a new "Great on Frame" page to Steam, first spotted by Brad Lynch, highlighting games that are optimized for the upcoming headset. For now, the list is rather short, featuring just four titles: Portal 2,...

Launched into Steam Early Access on June 23, 2026, Layer Land is an ambitious indie open-world sandbox survival RPG developed by PUDDING Co. Ltd. The game sets itself apart in a crowded genre by utilizing actual real-world geographical data to construct its massive map. Players step through mystical gates to explore a vast, fantasy-infused replica of Earth, traversing biomes ranging from scorching deserts and volcanic fields to dense forests and frozen tundras. Survival mechanics dictate the loop: players must gather resources,...

Some games need giant worlds, enormous teams and years of development to get noticed. Buckshot Roulette needed one developer, one shotgun and one deeply unsettling opponent sitting across the table. Created by solo developer Mike Klubnika, this small horror game has grown into one of the biggest indie success stories of recent years. The core idea is wonderfully simple and completely unhinged. Buckshot Roulette takes the rules of Russian roulette and swaps the revolver for a 12-gauge shotgun. You sit opposite...

The video game industry has spent the last few years building an empire of impossible proportions. Publishers bought studios like they were collecting Pokémon cards, promising creative freedom, bigger budgets, and a golden age of game development. Microsoft was one of the biggest collectors of them all, turning Xbox into a sprawling family of developers that included Bethesda, ZeniMax Online, Obsidian Entertainment, id Software, and many others. Now, however, the company appears to be reaching for a very different tool:...

The shell-shattering nightmare is almost ready to return. After years of waiting, Cold Symmetry has finally revealed that Mortal Shell 2 will launch on August 20, 2026, bringing back its grim fantasy universe with a much bigger playground, sharper blades, and plenty of new ways to make players question every decision they make. A bigger challenge with a more accessible design The original Mortal Shell was a fascinating little beast. It took the Soulslike formula, threw it into a gloomy blender,...

By decree of the Imperium's logistical command, six additional Heroic Weapons have entered active evaluation within the Public Test Server of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. These sacred relic-pattern armaments are not mere ceremonial upgrades but battlefield-approved instruments bearing unique machine-spirit blessings capable of altering combat doctrine.     Machine-Spirit Evaluations Reveal New Battlefield Doctrines Following the...