Rock Paper Shotgun / Sep 5, 2026

What are we all playing this weekend?

This is the first Saturday in a month I've woken up without a blocked nose or a mucus-hurling cough. Trips to Spain, Sweden, and Germany in quick succession and loaded on top of a cross country bike ride may have been a touch to much for my ageing body. Still, at last, I am well. In body, if not in spirit. So, better start playing some games then, right? Read more

Eurogamer / Sep 5, 2026

What we've been playing - "Well this is embarrassing, we're wearing the same outfit!"

Unluckily for you all, Bertie's having a well-earned long weekend (possibly skiing, possibly jumping on the spot, possibly just having a nice lie down after the chaos of it all), meaning you're stuck with me on intro duties for What We've Been Playing this time around. Read more

PC Gamer / Sep 4, 2026

September's schedule of new games, events, and updates refuses to let 2026 go down in history as a slow year for new releases

After a quiet few months, September finally hits the gas, and our list of monthly PC game happenings is filled with brand new adventures, series continuations, 1.0 updates, and events galore. I'm still playing catch-up after Gamescom, and now we've got Tokyo Game Show queued up soon. It's the same schedule every year, but somehow I'm always caught off guard.The Blood of Dawnwalker kicked off the month with a delightf

MassivelyOP / Sep 4, 2026

The Stream Team: Battle to beat the bots in Billie’s Wheelie

Have you been annoyed by bots? Massively OP’s MJ has the chance to beat some bots  — in a race, at least. And they are hamster bots no less! Billie’s Wheelie has added bots to racing, offering opponents to challenge even when friends can’t make it. (They aren’t scared, really.) MJ is eager to make […]

PC Gamer / Sep 4, 2026

As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day 'hype dies down'

The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. Steam concurrents are a useful metric for gauging a game's general popularity, but they paint an incomplete picture. They're a single data point, yet have become the flimsy scaffolding on which the internet builds elaborate headcanon about a game's quality, viability, or deadness. Sometimes dogpiling is so successful, and the resulting perception