A sidescrolling roguelite platformer, Steam Deck air hockey and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. If you're looking for something new to play this ...
PC Gamer

After half a decade, Valheim 1.0 finally has a release date

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Polygon

Path of Exile 2 is officially leaving early access soon

Path of Exile 2's long path to 1.0 is finally winding down. On Thursday, developer Grinding Gear Games held a digital livestream detailing the latest patch (0.5, "Return of the Ancients"), during ...
PC World

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 source code on GitHub for its 45th anniversary, according to PCWorld, including kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots. This historically significant software, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.
Game Rant

‘It's All Going to Change’ Pocketpair Teases Massive Palworld 1.0 Launch

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...
Polygon

Racing games are making a comeback in 2026

It would be inaccurate to say that the racing game genre has been in a total slump over the last few years. After all, Mario Kart World was one of the best-selling games of 2025 — as was the ...
GitHub

HY-Motion 1.0: Scaling Flow Matching Models for 3D Motion Generation

HY-Motion 1.0 is a series of text-to-3D human motion generation models based on Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and Flow Matching. It allows developers to generate skeleton-based 3D character animations ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Possibly the most complex space strategy game yet made has just received its last major update before 1.0 release

Back in 2022, Sin began her impressions of grand strategy space game Terra Invicta with the comment that "I pity anyone who has to review, or god help them, write a guide for Terra Invicta, because ...
Game Rant

Escape From Tarkov's 1.0 Release Might Shoot Itself in the Foot

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap After years of system overhauls, wipes, and balance experiments, Escape from Tarkov is finally set for its 1.0 release on November ...
PC Gamer

9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game

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