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Battlefield 6 surpasses record half a million concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever.

Tom’s Hardware

The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents

This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.

PC Gamer

Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2

Save on games and support small dev teams at the same time, now through August 14th.

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Battlefield 6’s open beta crosses 500,000 concurrent players, nearly five times more than 2042’s full release

This makes Battlefield 6 the most popular BF title of all time.

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Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta

Google does not seem to be making good on its promise to make Chromebooks gaming laptops.

PC Gamer

Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?

It's 2025 A.D. We've sequenced the human genome. We wield the power of the atom. Why can't we make logging in an easy task?

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The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator

Manage anxiety, fatigue, and dopamine levels, and try to keep yourself alive in Unemployment Simulator 2018.

PC Gamer

The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027

It looks very much like Tencent does not want to tangle with Sony on this one.

PC Gamer

10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes

I guess the lawsuit has already had some effect

GamesRadar

Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff

Studio boss Mike Bithell said the team was unable to land a "new larger scale project" to work on.

PC Gamer

"CoD won't be lazy anymore": Ex Blizzard boss predicts a beating for Call of Duty at the hands of Battlefield 6, says Activision's FPS "has gone downhill for years"

"We'll all get better FPS games for it," says Mike Ybarra

GamesRadar

Square Enix down ¥11 billion in game sales because it can only re-release Kingdom Hearts so often, but says don't worry boss, we've got some great JRPGs in the chamber

More Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Octopath Traveler are on the way

GamesRadar

Gaming on a Chromebook is about to get a lot more difficult

Steam gaming will soon be gone from ChromeOS –but you've got a few months left to play

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Tom’s Hardware

Google to kill Steam for Chromebook beta in 2026 — Installed games will 'no longer be available to play'

Google is discontinuing Steam on Chromebook by 2026, with devices losing installed games.

GamesRadar

Mafia: The Old Country debuts to the second-best reviews in the series, but has been beaten in Steam player count by a version of every past entry so far

Lots of people must be loyle to their capo

Inverse

The Wildest New Strategy Game On Steam Makes You A Superstar Villainess

The power of streaming is enough to defeat an army in a strangely compelling new strategy game on PC.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not just football with blood’: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed

A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads – here’s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league

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Player One

New on Steam: 'Mafia: The Old Country' Will Explore the Origins of the 'Mafia' Story

"Broken Arrow" was released on August 8, 2025, and has "Very Positive" reviews on Steam.

Windows Central

Battlefield 6 Beta has now beaten Call of Duty's all-time player count on Steam, closing in on 500K (UPDATE)

Battlefield 6's beta climbs the Steam charts and takes off on Twitch

Windows Central

PlayStation Says It Is "Moving Away" from Hardware Centricity — Could More PlayStation-to-Xbox Ports Be On The Way?

As Xbox comes to dominate Sony's own PlayStation Store, the famed firm is asking itself why it shouldn't do the same. Can we expect even more Xbox games from PlayStation in the future? My guess is "yes."

Windows Central

Two revolutionary 90s shooters shadow dropped on Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, and PC — Complete with enhanced performances, online multiplayer crossplay, and more

Bethesda has just shadow-dropped Heretic+Hexen onto Xbox, Xbox Game Pass and PC. This game is a remastered compilation of the cult classic Heretic and Hexen games with upgraded framerates, online and local multiplayer support, quality-of-life implementations, and more.

GamesRadar

30 years later, Doom-era FPS cult classics Heretic and Hexen get "definitive re-release" on PC and consoles complete with 2 new episodes from id and retro powerhouse Nightdive

Heretic + Hexen is available now on Steam, PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox

GamesRadar

A bunch of "nerds" are turning Risk of Rain and Diablo into a roguelike with a secret ingredient I'd never expect, and I can't get it out of my head

A small Korean team's Shape of Dreams is shaping up to be a special kind of roguelike

Inverse

17 Years Later, A Classic Co-op Game Just Became Forever Replayable

'Castle Crashers' just got a new downloadable content pack 17 years after its launch, adding a new custom character creator and a fresh coat of paint for the game's presentation.

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