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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

GOG are giving away Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy to celebrate their Preservation Program

By Liam Dawe,
GOG are celebrating their Preservation Program where they revive classic games, with you able to claim a free for keeps copy of Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy.

Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for January 2026

By Liam Dawe,
With a fresh month here now it's February 2026, here's your most up to date look at what has been popular for players on the Steam Deck.
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Steam Survey for January 2026 shows a small drop for Linux and macOS

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2026, showing Windows getting a small bump while Linux and macOS drop.

Valheim gets a big birthday update with optimizations, Steam Deck upgrades and new content

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim is celebrating five years of Early Access with a big upgrade that should make it perform better everywhere, especially on the Steam Deck.

AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

By Liam Dawe,
During AMD's latest earnings call that covers the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su gave a small update on Valve's Steam Machine.

ScummVM v2026.1.0 is a huge new release with tons of new supported games

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM is an excellent tool that preserves a lot of classic games with new game engines to run on modern platforms and a huge 2026.1.0 release is out now.

Team Fortress 2 Classified (formerly Team Fortress 2 Classic) has launched on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Team Fortress 2 Classified (formerly Team Fortress 2 Classic) is a mod for Valve's Team Fortress 2 updated with refreshed visuals, new game modes and more.

Story-heavy tactical CRPG 'ATOM RPG 2' announced

By Liam Dawe,
If you love classic Fallout and Wasteland styled tactical CRPGs, you may want to keep an eye on the newly announced ATOM RPG 2.

Steam Machine & Steam Frame FAQ - RAM and storage crisis to blame for no pricing or dates

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have put up an official explainer on why we haven't gotten released dates or pricing for the new Steam Hardware like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60

By Liam Dawe,
It's not a good time to be buying anything computer related right now, and the Raspberry Pi team just upped their prices for the second time recently.

Upgrade your theme park as OpenRCT2 updates just as new Humble Bundle drops

By Liam Dawe,
Not only can you grab a bunch of RollerCoaster Tycoon games from Humble Bundle, but the modern open source engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was upgraded.

Firefox will get AI controls to turn it all off

By Liam Dawe,
Something that might help calm the masses against generative AI, Mozilla announced that AI controls are coming to Firefox.

Hardcore single-player survival FPS Road to Vostok arrives April 7

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a showcase for Godot Engine, Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival FPS that has a new trailer and release date for Early Access.

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI

By Liam Dawe,
With GOG under new ownership, they're trying some new things (like generative AI) and they just did an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit.

Epic Games Store saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games have release their 2025 Year in Review for the Epic Games Store, and they appear to be doing doing quite well compared to previous years.

Bash Moto is an upcoming 90s themed beat 'em up motorcycle racing game

By Liam Dawe,
Welcome back, Road Rash. An indie developer is reviving the classic beat'em up motorcycle racing game with Bash Moto - and it looks worth keeping an eye on.

The new TerraTech Legion trailer has me itching to play it

By Liam Dawe,
TerraTech Legion brings brick-based vehicle building to the bullet heaven / survivor-like genre, and I absolutely cannot wait to play the full game.

Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory

By Liam Dawe,
Anyone have fond memories of retro Windows? Well, now you can make a slide show factory in this automation sim that has a demo available.

Civilization VII major update "Test of Time" will stop the forced civ swapping

By Liam Dawe,
Celebrating the first anniversary of Civilization VII, the developers at Firaxis put up a new video and developer blog post going over some big changes coming.

Get some quality action in the Sci-Fi Shooters 2.0 Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The Sci-Fi Shooters 2.0 Humble Bundle has launched with 7 quality action games to fill up on, here's all the details you need from it.