Throwback strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is delayed to 2026, but a new demo on Steam means you can play some of it right now for free

It’s going to take a little longer than expected for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, the throwback turn-based strategy game announced in 2024, to be ready for its early access release. Instead of rolling out this year as planned, Unfrozen and Hooded Horse now say the game will arrive sometime in 2026. This…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard’s most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it’ll figure them out in the next few months

World of Warcraft’s upcoming Midnight expansion recently went into its first alpha phases of testing, and Blizzard has chosen to give an unprecedented number of players access to a dramatically early phase of development. That’s not surprising, as the company is enacting one of the most significant shakedowns of the player experience ever implemented in…

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A Minecraft Movie sequel is coming in 2027, because iffy reviews couldn’t stop it from chicken jockeying its way to almost $1 billion so far

Reviews for A Minecraft Movie were a bit mid, as PC Gamer’s resident movie pro Chris Livingston put it, and that 47% critics consensus tells no lies. But the people loved it, and there was never any real question that it would get a sequel once that record-setting opening weekend hit. In fact, it was…

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Battlefield 6’s bots tea-bag when they’re scared, sacrifice themselves, and are so blissfully unaware they couldn’t kill me while I was AFK texting

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps. This week I’ve been: observing Battlefield 6’s bots in the natural habitat, feeling a lot like David Attenborough. During my many hours putting Battlefield 6 through its paces in early access,…

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EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it

This week, the first season pass arrived for the recently-reborn Skate in an update that—as a quick glance at the Skate subreddit will tell you—isn’t being received very well, with players complaining that a spattering of superficial challenge additions are being used to justify a pile of new microtransactions. The most reviled among Skate’s new…

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