
Hearts of Iron IV HOI IV - Open Beta SE Update 1 Notes (13th July 2026)
Paradox's first Open Beta SE update for Hearts of Iron IV softens the doctrine system's rigidity whilst reining in overpowered tank variants and artillery.

Paradox's first Open Beta SE update for Hearts of Iron IV softens the doctrine system's rigidity whilst reining in overpowered tank variants and artillery.

Update 2.3.1 introduces a new Crucible challenge system, expands Last Stand with fresh content, and tightens Frontline platoon rules. Several vehicles face rebalancing.

Serena gets a skill restructure and two new modules, Blair receives a comprehensive overhaul, and a new Void Intercept Extreme mode arrives in beta on 15 July.

Marvel dropped new Avengers: Doomsday concept art at Shanghai's Bilibili World 2026, giving us our clearest look yet at Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom and a roster stacked with returning X-Men.

Disney spent $250 million on a live-action Moana remake nobody asked for. It opened to $95 million globally, barely clearing the bar set by Snow White's infamous flop.

Summer Games Done Quick 2026 looked like it might fall short heading into its last day. It didn't.

Kieron Gillen, the comic book writer behind Immortal X-Men and co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun, wrote all five single-player stories in Arc System Works' Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls.

Id Software says it's still the same studio that made Doom 2016. It's just conveniently ignoring that Doom 2016 was made a decade ago.

Developer Robert Yang says Steam flagged his free experimental game collection as containing 'frequent nudity and sexual content' despite having no explicit nudity, effectively hiding it from nearly every user on the platform.

Pokémon Go's 10th anniversary event brought the original trailer's Times Square Mewtwo fantasy to life. Then it handed a guaranteed perfect Mewtwo to roughly 1,000 invited players and told everyone else to watch.

Pathfinding gets a serious rebuild, squads behave smarter on the move, and gamepad controls finally arrive in Manor Lords' biggest technical update yet.

NetEase has rolled out an emergency balance hotfix for Marvel Rivals following Season 9's launch, with significant adjustments to Strategists, Duelists, and several Team-Up combinations.

After the EU refused to act and California's bill stalled in committee, a Brazilian federal deputy has filed legislation directly inspired by Stop Killing Games, complete with mandatory offline patches and player reimbursement.

Pokémon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary with a Times Square Mewtwo raid that gave roughly 1,000 invited players a guaranteed perfect-stat catch. The millions who've kept the game alive for a decade got to watch it on social media.

Steam's first half of 2026 didn't just break records. It outpaced the holiday season. An estimated $11.1 billion in gross revenue, driven by Chinese players, legacy catalogues, and a few monster launches.

Robert Yang's free collection of award-winning queer games launched on Steam this week, but Valve's content reviewers tagged it as containing frequent nudity and sexual content, hiding it from nearly every user on the platform.

A seven-minute gameplay deep dive reveals Xenoverse 3's standout new mechanic: Soul Switch, which lets your custom character temporarily become a Dragon Ball hero mid-fight.

Five days. That's how long EA's paid progression experiment lasted in College Football 27 before the publisher pulled the plug under a wave of negative Steam reviews and the #CFBPlayDontPay campaign.

Leaked images reveal a collector-grade LEGO recreation of the original 1981 Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, complete with a working joystick, barrel lever, and a $200 price tag.

Days after announcing the largest layoff in gaming this year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named co-leader of a US Federal Reserve task force on productivity and jobs. You can't make this up.

Santa Monica Studio has confirmed God of War Laufey will be available on disc, all but guaranteeing a launch before Sony's January 2028 deadline to end physical game production.

A focused update lands today with bug fixes for missile retargeting, sharper point-defence mechanics, and substantial buffs to TEC, Advent, and Vasari command ships.

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is ending service on October 6, and with it goes Before Crisis, a prequel that Western fans have waited nearly two decades to play. Its first English chapter launched the same day as the shutdown announcement.

Update #3 addresses melee and shooting feedback with hitreg improvements, introduces movement speed penalties for armed characters, and brings a brand new island to explore.