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Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

The new system, enabled by default, generates review scores based on your specific language, rather than all of them.

PC Gamer

Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs

"Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us"

GamesRadar

Nvidia GeForce Now just leveled up — RTX 5080 performance for 5K 120 FPS gaming and lower latency than a PS5 Pro

Nvidia GeForce Now is getting a major update that brings RTX 5080 performance to its cloud gaming platform, including 5K resolution with 120 FPS, thanks to DLSS 4, over 4,500 with Install-to-Play, and even up to 90 fps on the Steam Deck.

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Xbox hints that Xbox Cloud Gaming will become "more affordable" soon, across more regions, with comments on 'Xbox Next Gen' in tow

In the latest Xbox Podcast, Xbox platform architects Jason Beaumont and Jason Ronald offer some updates on the future of Xbox hardware, cloud, and more.

Windows Central

Coral Island shows pulling off Stardew Valley's multiplayer isn't easy, as the farm sim's devs "sincerely apologize" for the single-player bugs and other issues that crept into its latest update

The long-awaited 1.2 update launched last week

GamesRadar

Assassin's Creed Shadows beats Mario Kart World and Elden Ring Nightreign to be the top-selling 2025 game in Europe this year, but EA Sports FC 25 has still managed to sell more

How could you, EA Sports FC 25?

GamesRadar

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 18, 2025)

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

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There's already a rollback mod so you can once again kill the bosses in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers who were rendered unkillable in a patch

No more Pokémon-style fainting.

PC Gamer

My favorite new desktop buddy on Steam is a cat that goes fishing

What if your wallpaper was a little fishing cat? What then?

PC Gamer

Cars have had real-life DLC for a while, but now Volkswagen’s gone full pay to win, locking a car's max horsepower behind a subscription

Pre-order now and save 10% on your horsepower subscription.

PC Gamer

Steam's new Performance Overlay is more accurate than Task Manager, says Valve — GPU utilization monitoring comes directly to Steam in latest client beta

Valve’s Steam Beta is testing an overlay that tracks GPU usage more accurately than Windows Task Manager, including multi-process games. Early rollout is inconsistent, but once stable, it could give gamers real-time, reliable performance stats without extra apps, rivaling tools like MSI Afterburner.

Tom’s Hardware

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2's new "Enhanced" version just launched on more platforms — that includes PS5, believe it or not

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 stood tall as one of the best Xbox games of 2024, and now it's on PS5 — with a free upgrade to the "Enhanced" version available on Xbox and PC.

Windows Central

I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years

The protagonist of The Children of Clay should have also considered doing his thing in the morning.

PC Gamer

You can now play the OG Dawn of War on a modern machine without a million patches

I implore you to give it a try.

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With GTA 6, next-gen exclusives, and a console comeback on the horizon, Xbox risks sitting on the sidelines — here's why

Hardware definitely isn't Xbox's focus anymore, but with all of its extra-curricular distractions, it could end up missing this easy opportunity to actually sell more Xbox Series X|S consoles than usual.

GamesRadar

Revenge of the Savage Planet dev says "if just the people who have already wishlisted" the game buy it in the next month, "you would get more DLC"

A free Steam demo dropping next week should help

The Independent UK

‘Financial companies shouldn’t be in this position’: How more than 20,000 NSFW video games fell under censorship

A mass purge of sexually explicit games exposes the little-known yet all-encompassing system of ‘financial censorship’ practiced by payment providers such as Visa and Mastercard, reports Io Dodds

PC Gamer

The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'

1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.

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Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can't easily be dismissed

Optional Web3 stuff and AI generated flavor text don't help its appeal, but the PlanetSide 2 connection brings a lot of cred.

Windows Central

"Why abandon your game's identity?" — A vocal minority is trashing Battlefield 6, but I'm having a blast with the open beta

Battlefield 6 kicked off its second open beta weekend on Thursday, August 14, and some of the hype I saw during the first weekend has died down. Despite the game being trashed by a vocal minority, I'm having a ton of fun.

PC Gamer

'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server

Won't get fooled again.

PC Gamer

Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale

There are a lot of really good deals in this year's Humble Summer Sale, but Robocop for a fiver is surely one of the best.

PC Gamer

Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type

Bongo Cat got friends.

PC Gamer

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently

A bizarre move.

Windows Central

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is broken by a push to censorship— select bosses and characters can no longer be killed, leaving the story riddled with plot holes

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been drastically altered due to backlash from players in China decrying the game's depiction of famous Chinese historical figures.

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