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Paralives launched in Early Access and immediately dominated Steam, selling over 250,000 copies in the first eight hours and generating an estimated $8.75 million at a discounted price; it climbed to the #1 Global Top Seller on Steam within minutes, with a peak of about 78,603 concurrent players, while comparing to InZOI’s 87,377 peak, signaling a very strong launch momentum for this life-sim title.
TEVI's Fauna Arcana DLC adds a new chapter where Tevi travels to Rabina Island to search for a missing companion, with new abilities, maps, and challenges, launching June 25 on PC via Steam; a console release has not yet been announced.
IO Interactive has confirmed that 007 First Light will not offer pre-loads on Steam or Xbox; PlayStation 5 will be the only platform with a mandatory preload, allowing an early download. The exact reason isn’t stated, though piracy concerns are speculated. The game (~80 GB) will download at release on Steam/Xbox, while PS5 players can preload. It targets 60 FPS on most platforms except Xbox Series S due to RAM/GPU headroom, and fans are upset about the lack of preloading.
Paralives has released in Steam early access after seven years of development, offering in-depth character creation, house building, and a single world where characters can work, form relationships, and start families. The launch omits weather/seasons and a robust animal lineup, but the team plans free roadmap updates over the first two years to add weather, seasons, vehicles, family trees, a calendar, editable towns, and NPC story bits. The developer also notes that Patreon funding ends with past locked posts becoming free, and the game is available at a discounted launch price.
Alinea Analytics data indicate Forza Horizon 6 sold around 4.9 million copies across Xbox and Steam by May 22, including four days of early access and roughly three days of main release, with over 3 million players accessing the game via Xbox Game Pass. Playground Games had earlier cited 6 million players, and SteamDB reported a concurrent PC peak over 300,000 during opening weekend. While third-party figures should be treated cautiously, the numbers align with official claims and suggest FH6 is performing strongly across platforms.
A PC Steam demo for Brigandine: Abyss is now live, featuring the first two chapters from both story modes (Gran Dragnica and Scarlet Will). Save data from the demo cannot be transferred to the full game, which is scheduled to release on August 26 for PC, with PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2 versions arriving on August 27.
RPG fans get a vibrant week of releases, including Birushana: Winds of Fate on Switch, LumenTale: Memories of Trey (Switch/Windows), Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered, Stardust: Wish of Witch, Mina the Hollower, and Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar expanding to PS5 and Xbox, with colorful visuals and a mix of genres from visual novels to monster-collecting and turn-based strategy across multiple platforms.
Electronic Arts has quietly removed The Sims Medieval from digital storefronts, pulling it from EA App and Steam with no public announcement. Existing owners can still access and play the game, but new buyers cannot. The EA Store page shows Not Available, and Steam removed the title as of March 10, 2026 per SteamDB. The 2011 spin-off—which added Pirates & Nobles—has effectively been discontinued, prompting questions about other abandoned Sims titles and potential remasters.
As Destiny 2 heads toward its final June update, some fans retaliate by review-bombing Marathon on Steam, blaming Bungie and Sony for Destiny’s decline; the negative campaign dropped Marathon’s rating from 86% to 77% after roughly 250 reviews in three days, before Marathon supporters countered with hundreds of positive reviews. The piece notes Bungie’s continued investment in Marathon, including a PvE mode next season and ongoing content updates, while Destiny 2’s own missteps leave its future uncertain.
Destiny 2 is ending its live-service updates with The Final Shape’s final content drop on June 9, 2026; Bungie says the game will remain online, but the move follows a Bloomberg report of upcoming layoffs and no active Destiny 3 development. On Steam, over 2,500 players have posted reviews—ranging from nostalgic tributes to a large negative review-bomb campaign as the community reflects on the game’s nine-year run.
GameNative, an Android app built on Pluvia, lets you install and play Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, and standalone PC games offline on Android, with a default “known configs” feature that auto-optimizes game settings. Creator Utkarsh Dalal envisions the app could replace handheld PCs like Steam Deck within two years, leveraging Proton/FEX and community Turnip drivers to boost compatibility on ARM devices. The project is free and open-source, with plans for store partnerships and OEM integration, while Valve’s tooling indirectly benefits Android gaming. Nevertheless, x86-Android compatibility remains a challenge, though newer Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 hardware and expanding GPU driver support are narrowing the gap.
Forza Horizon 6 is nearing 5 million sold with estimates of 4.9 million units and up to $325 million in revenue; 1.7 million copies were Advanced Access. 42% of sales come from Xbox players (across PC, console, and cloud). Over 3 million Game Pass subscribers played during launch week, and revenue is nearly evenly split between Steam (49%) and Xbox (51%), with China accounting for about 13% of Horizon 6 Steam players.
FuRyu announced a remastered EXSTETRA coming to PC via Steam on July 30 worldwide, with PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and Switch versions in development. The remaster marks the game’s first release outside Japan (originally 2013 on PS Vita and 3DS) and will offer English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. The RPG follows Ryoma, a high schooler who becomes the savior “Prisma” and can awaken Prisma Knights with a kiss to share EXS energy, featuring an enchantment system and a world merged with a doomed Tokyo-like setting called Amazea.
Subnautica 2 debuts as the fastest-selling Steam game of 2026, moving about 4.1 million copies and earning around $100 million in its first week (with total players likely above six million due to Xbox Game Pass), and despite Krafton’s earlier attempted cancellation, Unknown Worlds’ self-published release marks a major early success for 2026 and the studio.
Playground Games’ Fable is set for a cross‑platform launch in autumn 2026, arriving on Xbox Series X/S, Game Pass, Steam, and PlayStation 5 as the company signals a broader platform strategy amid Xbox’s exclusivity reevaluation.