Free Play Days – Marathon (Server Slam), Atari 50: Anniversary Celebration, The Sinking City Remastered and More

Category: Games February 26, 2026 Free Play Days – Marathon (Server Slam), Atari 50: Anniversary Celebration, The Sinking City Remastered and More Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox Lock in this weekend and try something new with Free Play Days! Atari 50: Anniversary Celebration, Stuffed, Moving Out 2 and Anno 117: Pax Romana are available this weekend…

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of demos available at Steam Next Fest, we’ve narrowed down our must-play cozy game demos to save you the stress of searching for yourself

I’m always excited to sift through the pages and pages of demos available at Steam Next Fest, but I can’t lie, even I get a bit exhausted after scrolling for god knows how long. Let’s be real, we all want to play the next big cozy game ahead of time, but the sheer amount of…

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‘We expect supply constraints to be the headwind to gaming in Q1 and beyond’ says Nvidia, although it claims demand and inventory levels are ‘healthy’

AI and data center revenue was very much the focus of Nvidia’s recent earnings call, while gaming took something of a backseat. This won’t come as a surprise to most of you, I’m sure. However, Nvidia executive vice president and chief financial officer Colette Kress did dedicate a small segment of her opening remarks to…

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Project Windless creative director says the developers chose a 9-foot warlike rooster goliath as their protagonist because literally ‘every candidate’ interviewed to work on the game wanted to play as one: ‘All of them—and we were like, OK’

In Sony’s February State of Play, Krafton Montreal revealed Project Windless, an open world action RPG set in the world of acclaimed Korean fantasy series, Lee Youngdo’s The Bird That Drinks Tears. With the books’ first English translation being published later this year, Project Windless will be the first exposure for many in the West…

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Microsoft’s execs can’t stop hooting and hollering about AI, but Xbox’s new overlords promise ‘We’ve got no pressure’ from up top that would ‘flood our ecosystem with slop’

We had one of those weeks where decades happen recently: not only did we get hit by Sony’s closure of Bluepoint, but the next day clocked us with the retirement of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who’s dipping out of the company after almost 40 years. Xbox president Sarah Bond, who was expected to take…

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You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think

If you’ve been thinking, like I have, that we’re still some way off seeing AI being used in games for more than just upscaling or frame generation, then it’s time to think again. That’s because it turns out that Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of only a tiny number of games to use neural…

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