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Game Developer / Aug 17, 2026

How Forbidden Solitaire brought solitaire games to the forefront

Its success has allowed Grey Alien Games to reach out to more Steam players than ever.

Relevant for PC players because hardware, storefront, and platform shifts can affect game performance, pricing, and server communities.

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PC Gamer / Aug 17, 2026

SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years

Here I am with your weekly reminder that the ongoing memory/SSD crisis isn't going anywhere soon. The CEO of Phison has spoken about the state of affairs in 2026 and beyond—and it's all looking rather doom and gloom for the average consumer.According to a Commercial Times report, Phison chief Pua Khein-Seng said that he expects NAND flash prices to keep rising, as he's been told it will take four years for new prod

PC gaming
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

Mortal Shell 2 review: A monumental heavy metal sequel with the spirit of a '90s PC game

A few hours into your sojourn across Mortal Shell 2's harsh realm of Fainweald, you might stumble upon a tavern called The One Legged Wolf. In a monstrous land inhabited by pasty-faced brigands who refer to you as "brev" right before shanking you, this watering hole exudes novelty. Here, said thugs congregate to make merry and listen to the strums of the shirtless lute-player on stage. Even if you do as I did, and ac

PC gaming
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

Boardroom beat-em-up Stick It to the Stickman punches its way out of early access next month, complete with neurolinkage and an "absolutely absurd finale"

Fetch your finest presentation materials about lines on graphs going upwards and proceed to try and beat your colleagues to death with them. Stick It to the Stickman, the roguelite beat ’em up which Anger Foot devs Free Lives have been bashing into shape for a year and a bit is set to emerge from early access on September 23rd. Read more

Indie
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Leakers suggest Chronicles of Elyria boss is working on ElyriaMUD and income generation

Yes, dear readers, Chronicles of Elyria is back in our headlines again, and no, it’s not for any particularly heartening reasons. Since it has been awhile, a refresher: COE is the Kickstarter-funded sandbox MMORPG that has been a slow-moving train wreck ever since, with an abrupt cancellation of development, an unsuccessful lawsuit lodged against the studio by […]

MMO RPG Industry
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches" are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest

There's a running joke in the world of THEA-TAH that Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play made up entirely of quotations. I often get the same feeling when I play a fantasy RPG, and especially a fantasy RPG created with toolkits such as EasyRPG or RPG Maker that come with their own freely reusable assets, resulting in a slew of homebrew RPGs that can seem interchangeable, on the surface. Read more

RPG
Eurogamer / Aug 17, 2026

Filling Big Walk with people who had no one to play with demonstrated how deceptively profound it can be

Suddenly, I'm alone. Where there was once cacophonous sound all around me, now there is none. Where there were once blobby people with sausage noses waggling their Playdough arms all around me, now there are none. All I see is a forest rapidly darkening, and all I hear is the sound of nothing, beating like the sound of my heartbeat in my ears. The contrast is unnerving. Where has my pack of people gone? I don't want

PC Gamer / Aug 17, 2026

Warner Bros. mentions existence of 'second installment of Hogwarts Legacy,' and that's about it

First reported by Game Informer, Warner Bros. Discovery provided the slightest of acknowledgements that a sequel to 2023's Hogwarts Legacy is in the works as part of a recent letter to its shareholders.It's the sort of victory lap / "Gentlemen, to money!" deal you usually expect of the form, and I cannot overstate how tiny the HogsLegs mention is. "We expect Games [capitalization theirs] to more meaningfully contribu

PC gaming
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Once Human offers refunds to players who bought a swimming pool they couldn’t swim in

When Once Human’s latest update advertised a Summer Echoes cash shop pack that offered, among other things, a flashy looking pool furnishing for player houses, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Starry Studio writing that characters could “have a blast in the super-large pool” would mean they could swim. Apparently, that was not actually the case […]

Live service Industry
PC Gamer / Aug 17, 2026

Toymaker Mattel launches a new game studio with a focus on Roblox and Fortnite that could signal a growing shift in where studios spend money

10 billion hours in RobloxToy company Mattel is getting into the videogame business with the launch of Mattel Game Studios, which it says "will develop, publish, and operate original interactive experiences inspired by Mattel’s portfolio of iconic brands." But the approach it's taking to that task is rather different from what we've seen in the past.The launch of the new division actually arises from a previous ent

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MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Grab a Stormforge Steam demo key to play early today – ahead of tomorrow’s public release

If MOP’s Chris’ hands-on with the Stormlight Archive-inspired co-op RPG Stormforge sounded like a storm you want to fling yourself into this week, we’ve gotchu covered: Roboto Games has granted us keys for the demo – before its public debut tomorrow. “The Stormforge demo lets players test the character creation with three available classes (Warrior, […]

RPG PC gaming
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

First Impressions: The delicate balance of Stormforge’s dangerous and creative multiplayer survival RPG

If there’s one thing I’ve learned playing the number of survival sandboxes and survival RPGs that I have, it’s that there is a pretty broad spectrum of general experiences they offer. Sometimes they’re laid back and colorful. Sometimes they’re hard-bitten. Sometimes they’re full of horror. Other times it’s whimsy. My brief time within Stormforge, the […]

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