CS2 is a billion-dollar industry, with millions of dollars' worth of skins changing hands every day. While Steam has its own marketplace, a huge part of the trading activity also takes place on third party platforms. But why do players use them when the Steam Marketplace already exists? Wh
Pokemon spent twenty five years treating multiplayer as something that happened in a menu. You battled, you traded, you went back to your own quiet single player world.
Game rewards are entering a quieter design shift. A satisfying payoff can arrive through a decision, a hard-won insight, or a fresh approach to the next session instead of only a rising number on a menu. This is an observable direction in current design, not a rule for every game, yet it changes how progression can hold attention and give pl
Four friends kill a boss. One sword drops. Everybody wants it.
Big Walk sold more than one million copies in its first six days after launching on 4 August 2026, and it did so while PlayStation Plus members could play it for free that same month, according to Game Developer. Nobody was buying a file. They were paying to spend an evening getting lost in the bush with friends.
The best shared setups are built around problems you can actually solve: clearer screens, reliable controllers and enough performance to keep the game running. Spending more does not guarantee a better night, so the useful question is simple: what is getting in the way of everyone having a good time?
Multiplayer games are no longer unusual. Friends form teams, complete missions together and spend entire evenings working toward the same objective. In the U.S., the Entertainment Software A
The 2026 NFL season kicked off on September 9, with Seattle hosting New England in a Super Bowl LX rematch, and the American Gaming Association expects Americans to wager $29.5 billion on the season through regulated sportsbooks. Many of those fans warmed up in Madden NFL 27, which launched on August 13. New research suggests those hours on
Most online casino content talks about slots, which are as solo an experience as gaming gets. What it talks about less is live dealer, the format where a real human deals cards or spins a roulette wheel via video stream, multiple players sit at the same table, and the decisions made by one person affect the rhythm for everyone else. It is not
Ranked wins are satisfying because they reduce a complicated match to a simple result. Yet a victory can hide poor positioning, wasted resources, or late communication, while a loss can contain a sound decision worth repeating. Wins remain useful outcome data, but they cannot explain every choice and pattern behind the score.
Cheap Steam games can come from Steam sales, bundles, or digital marketplaces that list discounted keys. Eneba is a practical option once the desired platform license and region are clear, because its product pages can show platform information and regional compatibility. Verified merchants and legitimate digital products give buyers a trans
EA Sports FC 27 arrives on 25 September, with early access from 18 September. It lands nine weeks after Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in a World Cup final that broke television records on three continents. So the old argument is back. Are fans quietly choosing FIFA over the real game?
Gaming has changed a lot over the past few decades. Playing a game once meant sitting in front of a television or computer. Today, it can mean competing against people around the world, watching a professional tournament, following a streamer or joining for a few rounds of
PEGI confirmed in March that from June 2026, any newly submitted game selling paid random items carries a minimum PEGI 16 rating, with social casino titles pushed straight to 18. Six weeks earlier, New York's attorney general had sued Valve over the loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2, calling the mechanic quintess
For two players who want to start now instead of installing first
Gaming has become increasingly social, even when you are sitting alone in front of a screen. Players now share sessions, clips, recommendations, reactions, strategies, achievements and entire game moments across services that sit alongside the games themselves.
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute put a number on something we've all felt. In their study on game load times, player experience dropped by an average of 1.92 points on a five-point scale for every minute of game launch time, and 2.58 points per minute when loading a level. Waiting has a price, and it's measurable.
Pokie games have evolved. One exciting feature is the addition of a bonus reel, which increases the number of ways to win.
Somewhere around minute twenty of a typical PEAK run, someone is dangling off a cliff edge, screaming a friend’s name through proximity chat, while a poisonous mushroom slowly ruins someone else’s afternoon three ledges up. Nobody planned this. That’s sort of the whole game.
Somewhere in a REPO run, a piano is stuck halfway through a doorway. Two players push from opposite angles. A third yells directions that contradict each other. A fourth just spotted something moving in the next room. Nobody’s screaming about the monster yet. They’re screaming about the piano. That’s usually how it goes.
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