Alternate history 1950s Soviet Kyiv shooter You Are Empty: Absolute Edition released
ZOOM Platform have revived another retro game here, with You Are Empty: Absolute Edition getting released with its alternate history 1950s Soviet Kyiv.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition is coming to Steam with major upgrades for the classic
The Arkane Studios and Ubisoft classic Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was originally released 20 years ago, and now a new overhaul mod is on the way.
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Bullet Banshee puts a survivor-like spin on classic shoot ‘em up action
Bullet Banshee is a vertical-scrolling shoot ‘em up that blends in the survivor-like bullet heaven mechanics for upgrades to great effect.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios hit by cyberattack
Another recent incident, Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios revealed they’ve been hit in a cyberattack.
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Luanti (formerly Minetest) reveal a major ContentDB security incident
The team behind Luanti (formerly Minetest), just recently announced a security incident with their ContentDB system.
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Insane fever-dream retro FPS ‘Divine Frequency’ is out in Early Access
Divine Frequency is a new GZDoom / UZDoom powered FPS fever dream, one where you get to experience the total collapse of reality.
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Build up a party of complete idiots in Outcast Tales, out now and it’s free
Developed by Hardlane Studio and published by Inner Pocket, the story-rich adventure sends players into a post-apocalyptic frontier in search of riches.
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Command a being formed from thousands of leaves in Leafborn
Top marks for some protagonist originality here in Leafborn, with your character made up of a thousands leaves.
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Steam Scream Fest V is here with discounts on spooky games
Steam Scream Fest V has arrived and with it lots of discounts on various different types of games that will make you need fresh pants.
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Classic survivor-horrors Ecstatica and Ecstatica II get re-released with upgrades
Originally released in the late 90s, Ecstatica and Ecstatica II are survival-horror games with a unique style not to be missed.
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Half-Life: Alyx updated to bring Foveated Rendering on desktop
Valve are still adding in improvements to the excellent VR game Half-Life: Alyx, with the latest update out now.
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Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops
The media subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable is Intel IPU8 support being introduced for the next-gen image processing unit in high-end Nova Lake laptops.. ⌘ Read more
Microlandia, a deeply simulated city-builder gets a big game engine upgrade
Every single citizen counts in Microlandia, a deeply simulated cozy-looking city-builder. And now, it should work better than ever.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 2.1 adds A-Life NPC visualisation distance options
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from GSC Game World has another free update out now, and it sounds fun if you have a powerful PC.
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Guide: Steam Frame tips and tricks
Now that I’ve had a good bit of time with the Steam Frame, and gone through some common issues and questions - here’s some Steam Frame tips and tricks.
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Here’s 17 upcoming VR games worth keeping eyes on
Got your Steam Frame or any other VR kit and want to follow some interesting upcoming games? Here’s some potentials for you that could be good.
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Pick up many quality puzzle and physics games with two new Humble Bundles
Start your week with two more fresh sets of games with the Phunkier Physics and Puzzlers to Puzzle You bundles.
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Steam’s useful Personal Calendar gets a full release
I forgot it was ever a Beta, because Steam’s Personal Calendar is actually one of the most useful features they’ve added to the store recently.
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Epic’s Tim Sweeney believes AI notices on Steam are a “political statement” for the “hate mob”
Valve requires developers to disclose AI-generated content in games and on Steam store pages, something Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t happy about.
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Steam Next Fest - October 2026, here’s the most-played demos so far
Valve sent word via email as Steam Next Fest - October 2026 beings to wind down about what has been the most popular during this event.
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Getty Images Files For US Bankruptcy, Advances Restructuring Plan
Reuters reports:
Last week, Getty announced plans to file for bankruptcy, marking a major reset after its planned merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed under the weight of heavy debt and growing competition from AI-generated imagery. Getty said the affiliates of the Getty family and Koch Equity Development, which committed to provide up to $533 m … ⌘ Read more
I’m tied up for most of the day today, but I’ll see what I can get running here later tonight. Very cool! 🤩🤘
👋 Introducing (_after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it’s like $0.70 USD I think. Don’t use this for anything big please (not yet), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run
Be ready for spooky season with new games from Fanatical’s Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026)
Fanatical have launched their Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2026), another good chance to save some monies and get new games.
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Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more
That day is here! Factorio 2.1 stable has arrived as a big clean-up release along with new platform support with their Native Linux version.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition pulled from sale due to mass complaints
Oh dear, oh dear. Generative AI strikes again? The recently released Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition was pulled down after mass complaints.
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Epic Games has gone completely off the deep end with AI
Oh Epic Games, what have you become? An AI shell of your former self. Please make it all stop.
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GameMaker announce their next-gen runtime GMRT will be free for commercial use
GameMaker continue advancing their new next-generation runtime for developers, and they’ve had a nice announcement today that will save devs some monies.
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Check out ‘Clicky Islands’, a unique blend of incremental and city-builders
You might lose quite a few hours to this one! Clicky Islands from Karrot Games and Pocketpair Publishing has a fun genre mixture.
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Fanatical’s Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026) has some top hits for cheaps
With multiple games new to bundles here, Fanatical have launched the Build your own Legendary Bundle (Fall 2026).
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METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux next-gen update are out now
The brand new next-gen updates are now available free for both METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux - here’s everything that’s new and improved.
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Legacy Games store is closing down
After being around in some form since the 90s, the time is officially up for Legacy Games as they’re set to close down.
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Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.
I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.
There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.
The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.
Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.
The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.
But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!

Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners update brings improved modding, better HDR, new content and more
CD PROJEKT RED have released another major free update for Cyberpunk 2077 adding new content from the Anime, along with other tech upgrades.
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Another set of 15 demos to try in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition
Another chance for you to find your next favourite, with our second set of demo highlights from Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has an exciting new gameplay overview trailer
We’ve got another close look at Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV ahead of the December release, with an impressive new trailer.
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Serious Sam: The Third Encounter gets teased by Croteam and Devolver Digital
Back for another helping of ridiculous action, Croteam and Devolver Digital have revealed Serious Sam: The Third Encounter.
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Epic Games Launcher Preview is slowly becoming actually usable on Linux
Epic Games recently announced a new in-development preview of the Epic Games Launcher, which has Linux support and recent updates have made it not so crap.
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Electronic Arts (EA) to shut down BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect
After Electronic Arts (EA) was sold off, the inevitable has happened - they’re doing some restructuring and cutting jobs.
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Stellaris: Willpower expansion set for launch on November 23
Launching alongside another free update version 4.6 ‘Corona Borealis’, the Stellaris: Willpower expansion arrives November 23rd.
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Combolands will take away all your free time
Combolands blends together Balatro-styled score mechanics with a mini city-builder, that has you chasing scores and placing down tiles. It’s delicious.
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HEADCUTTER is a real juicy looking upcoming shooter
HEADCUTTER is an upcoming sci-fi spaghetti western FPS with brutal combat, destructible environments, and lots of gore.
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THE FINALS gets a huge update with enhanced destruction and a free for all mode
One of the few competitive online first-person shooters that works on SteamOS / Linux, THE FINALS just had a massive upgrade.
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OpenXR gets a cross-platform Spatial Windowing API
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality under the OpenXR umbrella continues levelling up, with a new Spatial Windowing API that sounds exciting.
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RTS game Theatre of War: Rearmed set for release on December 9
Bringing together all the classic Theatre of War RTS games into one upgraded package, Theatre of War: Rearmed set for release on December 9th.
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Here’s another 15 demos worth checking out in Steam Next Fest - October 2026 edition
With the increasing amount of slop on Steam, you may need just a bit of help to sift through it to find something special to play.
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Play with friends with the Social Multiplayer Games Collection from Digiphile
Digiphile (former Humble Bundler staff) just launched their new Social Multiplayer Games Collection.
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Get more fun VR games in the Flat2VR Humble Bundle
In the need for more good VR experiences? Got you covered here with our round-up of the brand new Flat2VR Humble Bundle.
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Russian Satellite’s Close Shadowing of Radar Imaging Satellite Is a Big Deal
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from TWZ: A Russian satellite, Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in s … ⌘ Read more
AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan
Many asked for this and AMD have finally delivered - today they announced AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 support has expanded to older hardware.
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