⚠️ Heroic is shutting its Dota 2 division, the roster was disbanded after a financial MESS: prize pools cratered, sponsors bailed and commercial efforts flopped.

CGO Robin Nymann admits Dota 2 is extremely hard to monetize. TI 2025 paid only $2.8M, costs keep rising. Players plan to stay together, but the Western scene looks foggy ahead of Valve's upcoming Deadlock

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🔥 WOW: sales of HoMM: Olden Era have topped 500,000 copies, achieved in under 72 hours of early access.

Players left over 6,000 reviews (overall score, 89% "Very Positive"), peak concurrent hit 60,885. Devs already pushed 3 patches addressing critical bugs, balance and network stability (lobby join, reconnection, client sync, timers, the "Diplomacy" skill, build costs for faction Рой). Available on Steam and Microsoft Store...

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🔥 Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced hit its first million wishlists in a week, Ubisoft says that covers all platforms, and with release on July 9 the number will almost certainly keep climbing.

The remake runs on the current Anvil engine and borrows tech from Shadows: dynamic weather Atmos and refined parkour. Players are pissed about no multiplayer, no DLC and the hidden blade not being selectable as a standalone weapon...

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🤨 Civilization 7, Firaxis rolled out the big Test of Time update: you can now take a single civ through all three eras, and legacy paths are replaced by Triumphs.

The studio marked its 30th anniversary and kicked off a Steam sale until May 14 with up to 80% off. Players are MEH: complaints about no Hotseat, poor map options and peak online of ~6,000. Devs admit the issues and promise spring fixes plus a full overhaul of victo...

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🔪 Ubisoft has downgraded the hidden blade to a cinematic finisher, in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced you can't equip the blade as a standalone weapon anymore: the hero fights with paired swords, and the blade only activates for scripted finishers in specific moments.

The change comes with a full combat rework, parries and a stun meter to make fights more dynamic. Players call it a BUMMER and worry it will reduce combat va...

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🤖 E.C.H.O.S., a silicon APOCALYPSE from UNO Games (two-person studio), coming to PC in 2026.

A catastrophe that turned carbon in human bodies into silicon wiped out 100 billion. Survivors on station Tian'gun digitized minds into a quantum system; after 300 years an AI begins resurrecting humanity from that data. Players will dive into virtual memories, solve puzzles and fight for the future in underground complexes. Page on Stea...

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Launch of s&box by Facepunch made $1M on day one, then user reviews flipped negative 🤯

Players blame a plain content shortage: creators aren't producing fast enough and a wave of AI-made modes has flooded the game. Devs point at modders; Harry Newman called policing it «tilting at windmills», promising to remove blatantly weak work but not kill creativity. All launch revenue is being funneled into a user-content support fund and cre...

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