People Playground mod malware forces Workshop shutdown. Infected addon deletes saves and infects user content, highlighting Steam Workshop security gaps.

A new Sony patent outlines AI‑generated, personalized “podcasts” fronted by game characters to deliver PS5 news, tips, and recommendations.

AYANEO’s Pocket S Mini ships with a 4,700mAh battery instead of 6,000mAh, and buyers get a free Pocket Air Mini as the company’s latest damage control move.

iiSU Alpha v5 delivers a major UI and dual‑screen upgrade while backing away from the overambitious social features that helped tank its original hype.

Midwinter is being rebuilt as a faithful PC remaster in Rust/Bevy, keeping its 1989 mechanics and huge frozen map while adding modern visuals and QoL.

Super Storm Buster is a dark sci‑fi SNES shmup aiming for huge bosses, dense bullet patterns, and real hardware carts, with a Kickstarter campaign incoming.

Yuji Horii is getting a 160-page, RPG-styled biographical manga in Japan, charting his path to creating Dragon Quest, supervised by Horii himself.

Radical Reflux’s Magenta Sky & Welcome 2 The Machine form a linked cyberpunk duology for the ZX Spectrum, following rebel-in-training Clark in the u_nvrz saga.

A new fan project restores online play and DLC for Lord of the Rings: Conquest, giving Pandemic’s ill-fated final game a second shot at multiplayer life.

Romero’s new Catacomb 3-D mini-doc shows how id nearly stuck with lucrative Keen, and how one scrappy texture-mapped dungeon pushed them toward Wolf3D and Doom.