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Season 10 resets everything and introduces major magic overhauls for Wizard and Cleric, a weapon-specific parry system, and two weeks of solo-only dungeon runs.
Slay the Spire 2's latest beta patch brings two fresh Neow relics, a significant rework to Silent's Well-Laid Plans, and sweeping balance adjustments across every character.
Three new Street Fighter 6 fragrance oils turn Juri's hit confirms, Ed's pokes, and Ingrid's stock management into room scents. Yes, really.
Icarus Week 241 brings a new launcher weapon archetype, reverts a controversial screw recipe change, and previews next week's Workshop Flashlight.
Blizzard's latest hotfix rebalances Protoss and Terran against Zerg, with Command Center cost cuts and Colossus buffs leading the charge.
PEAK's 0.65.d beta patch squashes the item-clipping gremlins that've plagued wall interactions and overhauls Helping Hand stability.
Patch 0.1.6 brings vacation day accumulation, proper mirror reflections, and fixes for everything from giant pasta to self-proposals.
Minecraft Dungeons II sends you across two worlds to stop a new evil. Pre-orders are live with exclusive cosmetics and hero skins.
Behaviour Interactive's security team has announced mandatory software and driver updates coming 30th July. Players running older versions of certain utilities may lose access to the game.
War Thunder's latest patch brings a new tactical map feature for weapon linking and fixes a persistent handling bug affecting Chinese fighters.
Ubisoft is bundling a full 4K remaster of Rayman Origins with every edition of Rayman Legends Retold at no extra cost. Two platformers for $39.99 when both launch on October 1st.
Store Update 11.1.0 lands today with crash fixes and anti-cheat improvements. Expect a longer first boot.
Hotfix 8.1.1 lands today with critical stability fixes and a revert to Shadow Walkers' weapon behaviour following the larger Patch 8.1 rollout.
Europa Universalis V's latest patch cracks down on mercenary abuse while giving all nations a baseline trade boost. Several crash fixes round out the update.
A quick maintenance patch addresses several lingering bugs, including issues with Abyss and Typhoon, plus a fix for Mac users unable to access replays.
Dear Passengers racked up over 500,000 Steam wishlists and 40 million trailer views in under 24 hours. Then viewers spotted a Jeffrey Epstein reference in the official reveal.
ACE Team's Lovecraftian co-op horror drew massive pre-launch interest, but middling reviews and performance issues on PC and console tell a very different story on day one.
Sony's July PS Plus lineup leads with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Rise of the Ronin, but the two PS2 classics buried at the bottom of the list are the picks I'm most excited about.
The game that started it all is finally getting a modern remake, but with Veronica and a potential RE Zero remake in the pipeline, don't expect to see it anytime soon.
Overwatch 2 is experimenting with 6v6 formats to tackle Tank role stress and match consistency. Two Quick Play Hacked events will test Flex Queue and Dynamic Queue.
Team 4 is testing 6v6 formats through Quick Play Hacked events to address tank role stress and match fairness, with two experiments running later this month.
Terrain rendering gets a serious overhaul with culling and shading optimisations that halve benchmark times. Talking NPCs, improved vertex painting, and a brand new docking system round out this week's update.
Ubisoft's remaster gets its first major patch tomorrow, tackling save corruption, ship disappearances, and several quest-blocking bugs that have frustrated players since launch.
A small but solid update lands for Apex Legends, squashing a persistent Wildcard bug and flagging a known cosmetic issue the team is already chasing.