PUBG: Blindspot, the first proper PUBG spin-off, is a bit of an oddity. Despite the Steam page for its Next Fest demo saying the game was "inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds", and has a dinky little PUBG sticker above its logo to prove it's part of the wider PUBG universe, it's pretty clear from the second you choose a character and jump into a 5v5 Demolition match that another game has been a much bigger inspiration here: namely, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege. 
Merry Monster Hunter Wilds day to all those who celebrate. Capcom's dino-basher has been going from strength to strength since Worlds became a breakout hit back in 2018, and Wilds doubles down on that open world monster-mashing experience with style. It's a great time to start playing Monster Hunter if you're new to the series, and we've got a whole Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough to help you every step of the way through the main campaign.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has published an open letter detailing the company's plans for 2025, including new ways of collaborating, mobile improvements, and more monetisation.
MercurySteam, the developer behind Metroid Dread, has announced its next game: Blades of Fire.
For reasons totally unrelated to the release of Monster Hunter Wilds, Palworld developer Pocketpair has given its team a "special holiday" today, 28th February.
The Elden Ring Nightreign network test proved a surprise success, giving a handful of lucky players an early taster of this multiplayer spin-off on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X/S ahead of the 30th May release. Nightreign's central hook is a compelling, too: a blend of Souls combat and Fortnite-inspired PvE multiplayer with plenty of strategic depth, though the game marks the return of some familiar technical limitations from Elden Ring - including performance issues in both quality and frame-rate modes. Also a surprise is the lack of any PS5 Pro patch update to take advantage of the mid-gen refresh. 
Bikes. Pelt them down a hill faster than the speed of sound, brake late, then skid the back wheel round to take a corner and narrowly avoid a poodle out doing its morning ablutions. Weave in and out of the wheelie bins round the back of the garages because you thought it looked cool on Ski Sunday. This is what I hoped for in Wheel World, Messhof's new open-world bike riding adventure/racing game that also happens to be about a ghost bike (Ghost Bike being its original, and probably better, name). The Steam Next Fest demo delivers on bike-feel (that's a term people use, OK!) but I'm left wondering how the supernatural flavour will shine through.
UPDATE 3.30pm UK: Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has announced that the game's Galactic War has now been unpaused.
UPDATE 12pm UK: Monster Hunter Wilds has broken through the one million concurrent players milestone on Steam.
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Gibson has partnered with CRKD to create two "exclusive" Guitar Hero / 
EA has released the source code for classic strategy games in the Command & Conquer series along with Steam Workshop support, opening the game to modders.
Split Fiction developer Hazelight has shared the PC specs for its upcoming co-op caper. You can check out the minimum and recommended PC Specs for Split Fiction below.
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