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The Steam Programming Fest is now live on Steam through September 14 at 10 AM PT. These next four days will allow you to pretend to be a 1337 h4x0r. Dust off those Cheeto bags, crack open a cold one (Mtn. Dew), and prepare to code as you've never coded before (because you probably haven't).

Taking a look at some of the "Popular Discounted" titles participating in the sale, we can see some real hidden gems. I don't know. Maybe...

Friendship ended with PlayStation, now XBOX is new best friend?

In January 2024, Hideo Kojima's Kojima Productions and PlayStation's Hermen Hulst announced that they were partnering on a new action-espionage title called Physint. This deal would see PlayStation publishing the Kojima-developed title, making it a PlayStation 5 exclusive release.

Outside of a brief update in August 2025 where Kojima shared some of the stars that will appear in the game and a poster, not...

Waterworld but with a robot instead of Kevin Costner.

The Last Caretaker development team, Channel37, says that they hope to release version 1.0 of the game in spring 2027. If all goes according to plan, the game will leave Early Access and become officially available on PC and XBOX, as well as Game Pass.

The Last Caretaker first entered Early Access in November 2025. The game has received seven major updates and has sold over 400,000 copies. Players have averaged "approximately...

Plus Wardogs, 007 First Light, and More.

Nvidia updated its list of DLSS-supported titles this week with a generous handful of new and updated games. Some games are getting DLSS 4.5 support, while at least one on the list, NBA 2K27, is the single title that receives DLSS 5 support.

The addition of DLSS to PUBG: Battlegrounds is perhaps the most notable inclusion in today's list. DLSS support for PUBG was first announced in August 2018 alongside the launch of Nvidia's...

Will thankfully be limited to the RTX 50 Series and completely optional.

Nvidia will officially release DLSS 5 on September 3, starting with NBA 2K27. This new "3D-Guided Neural Rendering" iteration of DLSS will be possible only for those with Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and laptops. It will also be completely optional if you aren't a fan of what it does to the games it's used in.

Nvidia claims that DLSS 5 is "a major step forward in using AI to...

Ah, a new entry in the PPU.

Escape from Playtime is a newly announced 4-player co-op title set in the Poppy Playtime universe. Mob Entertainment shared a first look at this title.

In Escape from Playtime, players take on the role of the "Cute-yet-disturbing Smiling Critters." As these Smiling Critters, you are tasked with finding materials that will be used to build a mysterious project "that promises escape from the factory." Players will have to...

Can you survive... this new Steam Fest?

This week opens with a new Steam Fest from Valve. The Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest includes deals on, well, games that focus on survival. These are the games where you forage, hunt, craft, and just try to survive in all sorts of exotic locations such as out at sea, in space, and even your own backyard.

Touching grass has never been more frightening for a gamer.

Looking at some of the most popular games currently...

It's a real dog-eat-dog world out there.

Gravhounds is an upcoming 1-4 player co-op action builder set to release to Early Access on PC, XBOX Series X|S, and Game Pass on November 2, 2026. The game's announcement trailer was shown at gamescom Opening Night Live and provided viewers with a look at "the game's chaotic, physics-driven mayhem."

Players are tasked with working together to build defensive fortifications as they work towards extracting valuable resources...

But how much of this release was created with AI?

Panache Digital Games released 1666: Amsterdam into Early Access today on PC via both Steam and the Epic Games Store. For $29.99 you can help shape the final product of the game by letting the developers know what does or does not work.

The team at Panache has certainly already heard the feedback about their extensive use of generative AI slop for many of the art assets. Many of those assets reared their ugly heads back...

We don't kink-shame here.

Valve just kicked off their newest Steam Fest at 10 AM PT today. The latest is the Steam Pins and Pegs Fest, and it's a Fest focused entirely on getting pegged.

I don't actually know because I haven't looked up the material for this Fest. Surely that's what this Fest is about, right? What else could they possibly mean? ...

Oh boy.

Agefield High: Rock the School is now available through Steam. This game has consistently promoted itself as being inspired by the "raunchy" coming of age teen comedies from the early 2000s. It's also taken heavy inspiration from Bully, the 2008 Rockstar Games title that everybody keeps wanting to see a sequel for.

Critic reviews for Agefield High are few and far between at present. Of the four professional reviews that have gone live, the high score...

It's all thanks to the Switch 2 release.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was just released on the Nintendo Switch 2 today. The game has been available on other platforms since April 2025 but the patches have been severely lacking. The game released with rather significant performance issues on nearly all platforms, perhaps due to the fact that it's an Unreal Engine 5 coat of paint on top of Gamebryo for game logic. That's a real one-two punch of performance issues working...

A new gameplay feature was shared.

Those of you eager to drop into the mystery of 1666: Amsterdam won't have too much longer to wait. Panache Digital Games says that they will launch their debut action-adventure into Early Access on August 25, 2026.

This Early Access release will hit both Steam and Epic and will be priced at just $29.99. A demo for the game has been available for a while now. It's dubbed as the "Prologue" and offers players a taste of some...

Life’s a game, and we’re all just players. The question is, what’s your strategy?

Valve shared word that the Steam Cyberpunk Fest is set to run from August 3 to August 10, beginning and ending at 10 AM PT on those dates.

In case it wasn't obvious, the Steam Cyberpunk Fest will include plenty of deals and offers, maybe even some demos and developer streams, for all sorts of games where low-lifes and high-tech are the norm.

As per usual, Valve put together...

Solve that case at any cost.

The second episode for Fallen Aces is now available! Episode 2: Shadow of Death should be available as an update for this noir-tinged FPS.

For those who forgot about what transpired in Episode 1, you can either replay that episode or you can simply watch the Episode 1 Recap video below. Of course there is also a new trailer for Episode 2 included below.

Fallen Aces is now a part of a "Stealth Trilogy" pack from New Blood...