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Crow Cottage releases How Empires Work
Players automate taxation, build roads and employ aristocrats to administer an expanding state.
Read the dispatch ↗Carlsen and Nakamura return with five Speed Chess titles each
Chess.com announced a $250,000 tournament, with Sindarov making his debut and live finals in London on February 5–7, 2027.
Read the dispatch ↗Absolutely Games releases ghost-train puzzler Fangtopia
Players connect scattered islands by rail, complete landmark objectives and place habitats for werewolves and yetis.
Read the dispatch ↗Sunfire releases Silly Typing Game with 100-plus power-ups
Players arrange upgrades for adjacency bonuses and share custom word packs through Steam Workshop.
Read the dispatch ↗Sindarov wins Clutch Chess with an unbeaten final day
Three wins, three draws and a bishop sacrifice against Nakamura secured the title in Saint Louis.
Read the dispatch ↗Borgild and Kaija lead Northgard Battlegrounds’ new Bear clan
Funday’s village-building auto-battler is out in Early Access, with four clans and 41 new Loki cards.
Read the dispatch ↗Grian’s Final Life starts October 30
Grian confirmed the date on Instagram alongside a purple-lit character poster.
Read the dispatch ↗Factorio’s last major update packs a better rocket
Version 2.1 reaches stable, with mixed cargo launches, platform transfers and a new calculation for ship drag.
Read the dispatch ↗Jono saves its communal obstacle courses for a rematch
The shared-character platformer adds a Room Archive, best times and looping record replays.
Read the dispatch ↗Zero Company leaves one percent for disaster
Patch 1.2 adds campaign modifiers for fallible assist fire, enemy critical hits and increasingly lethal defeats.
Read the dispatch ↗We Were Here Tomorrow takes its walkie-talkies beneath the ice
The two-player puzzle series enters Norček Industries, with separate tools, missing researchers and crossplay between PC and consoles.
Read the dispatch ↗HeroQuest hands you the keys to Zargon’s dungeon
Nomad Games’ newly announced PC adaptation includes online co-op, a playable villain and a quest editor with community sharing.
Read the dispatch ↗Caves of Qud’s next caravan carries playable trees
Diaspora arrives December 9 with animal and plant characters, longer-reaching spears and saltbacks you can ride into a moving bazaar.
Read the dispatch ↗Ocarina of Time gives its boss rematches a stopwatch
The Switch 2 remake’s Hall of Fallen Foes puts defeated monsters on pedestals and records rematch times.
Read the dispatch ↗RimWorld’s new engine loads 1,500 mods in six minutes
Ludeon’s Waylith-powered 1.7 beta cuts a colossal modpack’s loading time from fourteen minutes and keeps existing colonies moving.
Read the dispatch ↗Beef closes Coxie’s 6,572-hour RuneScape pet hunt
Jagex confirms the fastest collection of all 71 pets by in-game playtime. The last arrival was a little cow.
Read the dispatch ↗Solomon takes his chess pieces into Deadlock’s streets
Valve’s newest hero sends bishops, rooks and a queen into battle as Deadlock passes Team Fortress 2’s recorded Steam peak.
Read the dispatch ↗Galactic Racer’s upgrades took a lap around the tabletop
Fuse Games tested its racing progression with Post-its, scribbles and dice before Shade hit the circuit.
Read the dispatch ↗Triple-A Minesweeper gives the grid a neural HUD
Mike Lacher’s browser parody adds comms chatter, unfinished business in Paris and a yellow diamond that does the thinking.
Read the dispatch ↗Mike Tomlin opens his twelve-year Minecraft city
A waterfront hotel, aquarium apartments and a surprisingly thorough approach to public bathrooms.
Read the dispatch ↗Hikaru takes Chess.com blitz past 3500
A 3503 peak in Greece, a last-round win for Artemiev and a second speed-chess record in the same week.
Read the dispatch ↗Car Park Capital opens its parking empire October 9
Big Auto’s new tycoon sim has car vending machines, drive-through toilets and a Florida map with amphibious cars.
Read the dispatch ↗Jonathan Blow’s puzzle moving company opens October 8
Order of the Sinking Star sends a fantasy hauling crew into a realm of magic mirrors, skipping stones and more than 1,000 puzzles.
Read the dispatch ↗Awonder Liang’s hawks go 12 for 12
Four 3–0 sweeps gave Liang the Seirawan Chess title, with seven seconds on the clock for one particularly nasty hawk check.
Read the dispatch ↗Oh!Ware gives mancala a dangerous marble collection
Chris Perry’s new strategy roguelike sends elemental marbles through a mancala board, with floods and poisonous vegetation complicating the arithmetic.
Read the dispatch ↗Minecraft’s fourth dimension and a cushion monorail
The Sift arrives in Java and Bedrock in 2027. September’s Minecraft Live also featured ice caves, a frozen zombie and an unexpected use for soft furnishings.
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