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Belgian indie Maracas Studio's cosy postal sim Cat Mail Co. has landed on Steam sitting at 90% Very Positive, with physics-based parcel sorting, a moonlit mystery, and 4-player co-op. Here's what's real and what's marketing.
Pocketpair took Palworld out of early access on July 10 with a monster of an update: two new regions, 72 new Pals, a level cap bump, and a frozen $29.99 price. Steam peaked above 850,000 players on launch weekend.
Riot revealed League of Legends Classic at the MSI 2026 Finals, a Season 3 throwback mode arriving July 29 with 60 champions, old runes and masteries, and community-voted balance patches modelled on Old School RuneScape.
An unannounced Halo multiplayer game codenamed Project Ekur has reportedly been scrapped. The claim came from insider Rebs Gaming and was backed by Windows Central's Jez Corden, but Microsoft has never confirmed the project existed.
Ubisoft's pirate-era remake gets a date. Black Flag Resynced lands on PS5 on 9 July 2026 with reworked parkour and combat, new scenes from original writer Darby McDevitt, and ray tracing across all modes.
Benoit Richer, game director on Assassin's Creed Hexe, has left Ubisoft. His departure follows the project's creative director exiting two months earlier, leaving Ubisoft's next major Assassin's Creed entry without two of its senior leads.
Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem has shifted 7 million units in roughly two months since its February 26 launch, making it the fastest-selling game in the franchise's history. RE4 Remake needed a full year to hit a similar milestone.
Square Enix unloaded a packed FFXIV Fan Fest 2026 keynote: sixth expansion Evercold lands January 2027, the base game arrives on Switch 2 in August, and the next alliance raid is a Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover with khara, Inc.
Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild revealed Graveyard Keeper 2 at the Triple-i Initiative Showcase. The cult medieval cemetery sim returns with conveyor belt automation powered by reanimated corpses walking underground, and it's already past 400,000 wishlists.
The long-running Classic Plus private World of Warcraft server is closing on 14 May 2026 after eight years, ending a community-built expansion of vanilla WoW. Blizzard won the copyright injunction following a September 2025 lawsuit.
Ukrainian studio 4A Games has revealed Metro 2039 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC this winter. The next mainline Metro introduces a new fully voiced protagonist, with returning author Dmitry Glukhovsky writing from exile after his eight-year Russian prison sentence.
German studio 6side has pushed a major update to the Dawn of Defense demo, adding elevation-based map generation that turns high ground into a real strategic advantage. The tower-defense-meets-RTS-roguelite has now passed 70,000 Steam wishlists and 60,000 demo players.