With Steam launch concurrents at an all-time low for Destiny 2’s latest expansion, I think Bungie is finally paying the price for years of mistakes—the biggest being the time it removed paid content

This week, a new expansion launched for Destiny 2. The Edge of Fate marks the start of a brand new saga—and ushers in a major overhaul to some key systems, seemingly aimed at making the game more accessible for newcomers and more sticky for its remaining playerbase. In theory, then, this should be a big…

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DayZ creator’s monster-hunting survival game gets major new DLC offering brutal endgame challenges with lavish loot: ‘Survival games should be challenging, after all’

Back in June at the PC Gaming Show, Rocketwerkz revealed what’s next for its co-op survival game Icarus: A major DLC called Great Hunts Campaigns that effectively turns Icarus into a first-person monster hunting game. Rocketwerkz said at the time that Great Hunts would launch “soon,” and today it got more specific by announcing that…

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Final Fantasy 14 warns players that it’s time for an upgrade as Microsoft gears up to end support for Windows 10: ‘Support for this operating system is a difficult proposition’

Square Enix has made an announcement today which may seem small now, but will cast a bigger shadow as we approach the spooky season of October, which marks the end of support for Windows 10. “Final Fantasy 14 support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025,” an official blog post says. “Microsoft will…

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Gabe Newell reckons AI tools will result in a ‘funny situation’ where people who can’t program become ‘more effective developers of value’ than those who’ve been at it ‘for a decade’

Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev. The full interview is yet to surface but a few shorts from the conversation have been released, including one about Newell’s daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“), and his thoughts on why startups chasing VC money makes no…

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I am now slightly obsessed with Uncle Bot, a Chinese robot in people clothes that’s rapidly becoming a social media sensation

This robot being tested in China runs frighteningly well 😬 pic.twitter.com/xI8YVqgyNDJuly 11, 2025 Ordinarily, I’m not one to jump on whatever the current social media/viral sensation happens to be this week, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. A poster on Chinese social media site Douyin uploaded a video of a humanoid robot running…

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