In spite of launching a handful of unquestionable winners this generation like Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Helldivers 2, or Ghost of Yōtei, PlayStation Studios has struggled with making the PS5's tenure super exciting. Of course, development cycles going totally off the rails and first-party exclusives (outside of Nintendo) becoming less and less important overall are part of the problem, but a failed live-service push can't be over-looked, either.
Nintendo has been off to a strong start this year, and Pokémon Pokopia, which is releasing later this week, is shaping up to be the massive hit many suspected. Far from slowing down before we're well into the spring season, the company has just announced a new Indie World showcase stream, and it's coming this week.
Marathon's Server Slam was a strange experience for me. I went in with all expectations swept aside, a clean operating table on which I could dig through the guts and bones of Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter, sterilised from pre-conceived scepticism and optimism alike. After around 20 hours with the game over the weekend I can tear off my gloves and say with confidence Marathon is riddled with premium, top-shelf Bungie gunplay.
More trusted voices are adding their weight to The Witcher 3 DLC/expansion rumour, as we hear that it's not the desert area of Zerrikania the add-on will take us to but somewhere nearer a place we know - the forested land of Velen.
Resident Evil Requiem is pretty good, or at least that's what we thought. The game is also selling quite well, with its Steam numbers reaching a record high for the horror franchise. It now has topped Metacritic's most popular ranked list as well.
Pokémon has always excelled at the strange spin-off. This isn't to say they're always good (looking at you PokéPark games), but they're always guaranteed to make you think, 'What? Really?' From watching TV with Pikachu, a Nobunaga's Ambition crossover, and Pokémon Project Studio (which I'm sure we all hold dear to our hearts), I do feel like I should be immune to Pokémon spin-off bizarreness by now. And yet, the announcement of Pokémon Pokopia still caught me off guard.
So there's quite a lot happening on Steam in 2026. Earlier this year, we reported that Valve has lined up an eye-watering 22 themed fests over the course of 2026. That means there's some sort of promotion or festival every 2.4 weeks, on average, until 31st December. These themed weeks are planned to run on top of the now-traditional Next Fests (which take place in February, June, and October), and the well-received seasonal sales in spring, summer, autumn and winter, making for a grand total of 29 Steam promotions overall. Yeesh!
Marathon's Sever Slam weekend is over now, and with the game ready to launch later this week, players are now either more convinced they'll be playing the hell out of it or skipping since it's not really rewriting the extraction shooter genre. In any case, its early numbers are promising enough, and now we're hearing about the first traditional Bungie mysteries which have popped up in-game...
Well into WH40K: Space Marine 2's second year of post-launch content (both free and paid), publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive might've run into the game's first major hurdle: its voice pack DLC isn't going down well with veteran players.
With the Marathon Server Slam concluded, developers at Bungie have released one final weekend recap post addressing concerns, teasing future tweaks, and confirming they've "heard" requests for a dedicated duo queue.
Patricia Summersett, the voice of Princess Zelda in four Legend of Zelda games – Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, and Hyrule Warriors spin-offs Age of Calamity and Age of Imprisonment – can "write in Twilight Princess Hylian".
A former senior writer from Sony Santa Monica has revealed the studio is working on "a new franchise within the God of War universe".
Resident Evil Requiem is likely now the biggest Resident Evil game in the franchise's history, sporting a concurrent player count on Steam high enough to rival even multiplayer games.
Bungie is continuing to respond to your feedback during Marathon's Server Slam event, paying particular attention to your thoughts on the UI, PC performance, and those pesky weasel error codes.
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