Why You’ll Love to Hate Styx

Category: Games February 18, 2026 Why You’ll Love to Hate Styx Franck Piberger, Community Manager at Nacon Not every hero fights for glory or is destined to save kingdoms. Not every legend is born from noble sacrifice. Some are forged in shadows, driven by selfish ambition, bad decisions, and an impressive lack of moral standards….

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Arc Raiders design director says players ‘never worked together’ in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies ‘encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions’

Arc Raiders is a fascinating social experiment, and also occasionally a videogame. Even as someone on the outskirts, I’ve sunk hours into watching social interactions play out between rats and good guys, chucked into a pressure cooker where you can kill each other, but are never forced to. Speaking to PC Gamer’s own Tim Clark,…

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Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act

Earlier this week, the district court of the Western District of Washington favoured Valve Corporation in its 2023 lawsuit against Leigh Rothschild and his associated companies, on all counts, including breach of contract and the violation of Washington’s Patent Troll Prevention and Consumer Protection Acts. Rothschild is an inventor with a huge array of patents…

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After a glitch botched Overwatch’s first big post-reboot event, it’s sending out the rewards—including 14 lootboxes—out to players anyway

Overwatch’s grand return has, for the most part, been pretty damn good. I mean, it’s not like the game ever went away, but it certainly feels like it’s having a little resurgence since dropping the ‘2’ in its name, adding five new heroes, and doing a big ol’ overhaul of its UI. True 2026 is…

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DayZ creator calls to ‘normalize delaying games,’ that consumers can show Xbox and Sony ‘that delays are okay’ and, oh, ‘Personally: don’t preorder games, folks. Commercially: please preorder games’

Dean Hall, creator of DayZ and CEO of RocketWerkz, has a message for the world: let’s all be more chill about game delays. Especially devs who, Hall reckons, can often work themselves into far too much of a tizz about avoiding delays, sometimes to the detriment of the final game. Hall’s remarks came as part…

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