Itch.io Bundle Sells 127 Games and Assets for $10 to Aid Laid-Off Developers
The bundle turns a $1,023 catalog into a $10 purchase, channeling industry-wide layoff anxiety into direct mutual aid through a union-operated fund.
Automaton
Games
Daba: Land of Water Scar Demo Shows Maturity at ChinaJoy 2026
The demo's deliberate design choices, like the three-choice weapon menu, show the developers addressing player feedback and refining the game's signature combat mechanics.
Automaton
NTE's New Healer Irohi Turns Downed Allies Into Sheep
Irohi's kit bends the standard rule that downed characters are out of the fight, turning them into persistent assets and making her a strategic healer that changes team composition.
Automaton
Oshi no Ko Puzzle Star Adds New Summer Splash Gacha With Arima Kana and MEMcho
The Summer Splash banner and the Club feature launch together, pairing a limited-time gacha with a social system meant to keep players active through the month.
Denfaminicogamer
GRAIN ROT Launches on Steam With Wooden Robot Possession Horror
The game's pre-launch traction, with over 250,000 wishlists and 350,000 demo downloads, indicates strong demand for cooperative horror experiences that emphasize physics-driven chaos and resource management, potentially setting a benchmark for indie horror releases on Steam.
Denfaminicogamer
Tank Shooter Tyr Opens Steam Playtest With Hovercrafts and Teleporting Vehicles
The playtest gives players an early look at Tyr's vehicle customization and ability system, including teleporting tanks and sonar pulses, ahead of its Q3 2026 release.
Denfaminicogamer
Cheaters in Black Ops II PS5/PS4 Port Force Max Levels on Other Players
The ports bring classic multiplayer to current consoles, but the cheat damage undermines the experience and raises questions about the port's security.
Automaton
NBA 2K27 Gameplay Trailer Drops, August 19 Info Event Set
The August 19 stream will reveal the full scope of NBA 2K27, and the trailer plus feature list show 2K is leaning into community feedback, including a cross-platform Auction House and new MyPLAYER options.
ASCII.jp
Programmer Runs Doom With 544 Regex Rules, One Frame Takes Minutes
The project demonstrates that DOOM can run through pure string rewriting, relying on the Turing completeness of regular expressions, which is a notable technical curiosity in the long history of unusual DOOM ports.
Automaton
NTE's Limited-Time Auction Event Draws Players Who Want It Permanent
The event's popularity, including calls for it to be made permanent, shows that limited-time minigames can become a major draw for the open-world RPG.
Automaton
Fantasy Frontier Echo of Cube Adds Sky Tower Floors 36 to 40 and Summer Event
The update expands the endgame dungeon and introduces a summer event with new guardian spirits, giving players fresh goals and rewards.
ASCII.jp
TATSUJIN and Raiden Designers Team Up for TATSUJIN EXTREME
The interview reveals that the two designers, who worked on rival vertical shooters during the genre's peak, only began working together recently, with Saito joining TATSUJIN Inc. in 2021.
Denfaminicogamer
Amnesia: The Dark Descent New Version Quietly Listed for Late 2026
The quiet listing of a new version of the 16-year-old horror classic, buried in financial statements rather than a formal announcement, signals Frictional Games is revisiting its most acclaimed work while its next major project, ONTOS, approaches release in 2027.
Automaton
Star Sand Island Sets August 18 Full Release With PS5 and Switch 2 Versions
The full release converts a well-reviewed early access farming sim into a multiplayer co-op title with a wider platform footprint, including the Switch 2's mouse-controlled building mode.
Automaton
Gundam W Challenge Mode and Altron Gundam EW EX Join G Gen Eternal
The Gundam W content drop gives players a new high-difficulty mode with series-only unit restrictions and a limited-time gacha centered on Endless Waltz units.
ASCII.jp
Parapara Puzzle Steam Page Opens With 36 Dot-Animation Stages
The Steam page reveal confirms the project is on track for a 2026 release and gives players their first look at how the animation-repair puzzle works.
Automaton
Path of Exile 2 Freeze Bug Finally Fixed After Year-Long Hunt
The fix ends a roughly year-and-a-half investigation that required the developers to build a dedicated replay system and ship a full test PC setup to NVIDIA before the driver vendor assigned an engineer.
Automaton
P5X Ver.4.6 Update Adds Summer Shark Event and Miyu Summer Wave
The Ver.4.6 update keeps P5X's seasonal content moving with a summer event, a new ★5 character, and a new synergy story, all running through mid-August.
ASCII.jp
Teipen Survivor Launches Today on iOS and Android
A YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers now has a mobile game, and Toydium is handing the pre-registration rewards to all players rather than only those who signed up early.
ASCII.jp
Star Ocean: The Second Story R Review Finds a Wildly Ambitious RPG
The review positions the remake as a definitive version that justifies its existence through deep, player-driven systems rather than just visual upgrades.
Anime News Network
Bomu Bomu Animals Steam Page Opens With Wishlist Registration
The Steam page launch and wishlist registration signal that AGE's idle desktop mining game is moving toward its summer 2026 release window.
ASCII.jp
Roguelite How Many Dudes? Hits 7,382 Concurrent Players on Steam
The game's immediate popularity, reflected in its concurrent player count and positive reviews, suggests the dude-swarming auto-battler formula is resonating with players right out of the gate.
Automaton
Gay Bar Management ADV SODOMY FATALE Leaves Early Access on Steam
The full release completes the story arc that early access players helped shape, with the developer committing to continued fixes and quality improvements.
ASCII.jp
SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed Gets September 4 Release
The sequel arrives roughly a decade after the original, which drew over 10 million players, and keeps the item-based racing formula while adding an 8-player online mode, 64-player tournaments, and a story campaign.
Automaton