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Valve continues to monitor the commercial performance of titles on Steam. Valve has once again published its weekly financial summary for Steam. The data covers the period from September 30 to October 7, 2025. In the overall rankings, Battlefield 6 (pre-orders) was outranked by the free-to-play Counter-Strike 2, with Valve claiming a third spot as...
The franchise is set to return with Battlefield 6, and IGN’s writers took a look back at the series’ previous releases. From that retrospective they put together a ranked top ten. IGN’s roundup spans both newer releases and classic entries from the franchise. The much-maligned Battlefield 2042, however, did not make the cut. IGN’s top...
Need for Speed: Rivals captivated fans for many years. Support for Need for Speed: Rivals’ online features has recently ended. Electronic Arts took the servers offline, and players bid farewell to the beloved title: keyur14: “Need for Speed Rivals’ online functions are shut down. It’s sad to part with you, friend — we’ll always miss...
White House Responds After Zach Bryan Shares Snippet Containing ‘ICE’ Lyric Zach Bryan headlined the Great Oak Stage at BST Hyde Park on June 28, 2025, in London, England. Gus Stewart/Redferns Zach Bryan sparked criticism from the White House after posting a short excerpt of an unreleased track that includes a line about immigration enforcement...
The campaign AI has been behaving differently than the developers intended. The team behind the global strategy Total War: Warhammer 3 published a new developer diary describing the issues they encountered while working on the game’s artificial intelligence. They explained that, to allocate and spend resources effectively, the AI depends heavily on a set of...
MiSide continues to inspire fans to pursue fresh creative endeavors. Modders recently unveiled a trailer for the alpha build of MiSide: Zero — an unofficial prequel to the MiSide horror experience. Developers Kojo and Nick (@sonnick3D) have secured formal approval to proceed. Their tale focuses on “Zero” — a troubled character who, unhappy in the...
Not everyone is willing to accept the specific rules imposed by payment networks, and some are exploring alternative ways to sell adult games. In 2025, pressure from Visa and Mastercard on vendors of adult games intensified, and projects judged noncompliant began to be removed from sale. Calls for an alternative payment solution followed — and...
The team opted to free the project from VR constraints — a sensible move. Originally released for VR headsets, Rogue Incursion is now available to a much wider audience. The stream goes live at 21:00 Moscow time on our YouTube channel, as well as on VK Play and Twitch. Source: iXBT.games
Photo: Danielle Freiberg/IFC Films Good Boy has quietly emerged as one of 2025’s most surprising indie successes. Ben Leonberg’s haunted-house film — which features his own Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Indy — pulled in over $2.25 million its opening weekend on a roughly $2.3 million production budget, and has been met with generally favorable...
Epictellers Entertainment has drawn the attention of several well-known cRPG developers. Recently, Epictellers Entertainment unveiled the trailer for the spacefaring RPG Starfinder: Afterlight. Peers in the industry — including Owlcat Games, the studio behind the Pathfinder franchise — also responded to the announcement: “Paizo’s worlds have always held special meaning for us, and at Owlcat...
