After a record-breaking September, ‘it’s safe to say Steam’s yearly revenue will blow past $20B for the first time’

The first six months of the year were Steam’s biggest, thanks to continued growth in back-catalogue sales as well as blockbuster new releases like Forza Horizon 6 and Resident Evil Requiem. As industry analysts Alinea Analytics report, September was another record breaker based on their estimated figures. “Steam generated $1.7 billion in September 2026,” Rhys…

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Masters of Albion, Peter Molyneux’s final game, just got a huge update and, [vigorous, lips-pursed nodding of approval], suddenly the old god game magic is back

Masters of Albion‘s ‘New Beginnings’ update launches today, and it overhauls and upgrades many of the original early access release’s systems. The above video gives an overview of what’s new. I bought Masters of Albion when it launched in April. But after scoping out what’s new in this update, I feel the moment that I…

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One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it

ABOVE: A brief gameplay clip from Radiosol. You can’t spend too long in the sunlight. TripletConcept TripletConcept “A journey through a desolate world burned by a planetary cataclysm” I related this experience in PC Gamer’s work chat and multiple of us bought Radiosol, called by its developers “a journey through a desolate world burned by…

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‘Open world fatigue’ is one reason indie RPG Entropy is borrowing from the classics: ‘PS1, PS2, GameCube games really never outstayed their welcome’

Indie RPG team Lovely Hellplace is undeniably retro-focused: 2024’s Dread Delusion and the early access Entropy are crunchy and polygonal as hell. But that also extends to design. Dread Delusion was like a stripped-down Morrowind, while Entropy is a classico JRPG with some PC gaming DNA spliced in. When I spoke to lead developer James…

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How to conquer Kuttenberg

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is about a lad named Henry and his small role in kicking Sigismund of Luxembourg out of Bohemia in the name of the imprisoned King Wenceslas I. Henry and his newfound pals conspire, heist, assassinate, and sabotage to loosen the usurper’s grip on the economic stronghold of Kuttenberg, but what they…

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