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Enhanced Discovery Features We’ve overhauled the menu homepage to help you find content more effectively. On the right, a new social feed displays your friends’ interactions with games, provided they aren’t marked as private on Steam. In the top-left spotlight, we’re curating a rotating selection of new and overlooked titles to give hidden gems the...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards. (Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard) As the highly anticipated wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce approaches, San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle has shared a unique detail regarding the couple’s plans for their big day: a strict “no gifts” policy. “They explicitly requested absolutely no...

Nakamura Hak Courtesy Photo Among the standout highlights of the 2026 spring anime season, one production—and its haunting musical companion—has captured the collective imagination. The fantasy series Witch Hat Atelier, chronicling young Coco’s magical aspirations, has found its perfect thematic partner in singer-songwriter Nakamura Hak. Her contributions to the series’ ending themes—”Tada Utsukushii Noroi” (Simply...

Valve created a dedicated team to address these technical challenges. Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told The Verge that this group works closely with NVIDIA to improve GeForce support in SteamOS. Users should not expect immediate results. Griffais suggests that full support will unlikely arrive in 2026, with 2027 serving as a more realistic timeline. SteamOS...

Creepy Nuts: Scaling New Heights on Their Debut North American Tour Creepy Nuts. Photo: umihayato | Retouch: Hiroya Brian Nakano The formidable duo of rapper R-Shitei and turntablist DJ Matsunaga—collectively known as Creepy Nuts—have firmly established themselves as the vanguards of Japanese hip-hop. Fueled by the stratospheric global success of “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born,” the viral hit “Otonoke,”...

The Vampire Lestat Sophie Giraud/AMC In The Vampire Lestat—the latest chapter of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire—Lestat, portrayed with magnetic intensity by Sam Reid, almost took a drastically different musical path. Before settling on the iconic rock star persona, showrunner Rolin Jones and his team initially toyed with the idea of making the immortal protagonist...

The first quarter of 2027 will see a surge in game releases, largely due to the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. Sony highlighted God of War Laufey during the June PlayStation State of Play. Santa Monica Studio showed gameplay from the upcoming entry in the God of War series, but the team withheld a...

Many players still view generative AI in gaming with skepticism. Game Oracle analyzed nearly 10,000 titles released on Steam before November to gauge the impact of these tools. About 21 percent of these games disclosed the use of AI during development. Since Valve does not release sales data, researchers used the volume of user reviews...

Avatar: The Last Airbender remains a definitive cornerstone of millennial pop culture. Since its debut in the mid-2000s, the original 61-episode run has blossomed into a massive multimedia empire. From the sequel series The Legend of Korra to a live-action Netflix adaptation, a forthcoming animated project titled Avatar: Seven Havens, and a wealth of expanded...

The story of Counter-Strike Nexon is reaching its final chapter. NEXON announced plans to shut down the MMOFPS Counter-Strike Nexon. This free-to-play title has lived on the Steam platform for over a decade. Counter-Strike Nexon functions as a modified version of Counter-Strike 1.6. It blends classic maps and bomb-defusal gameplay with unique additions like zombie...