Mark's most anticipated PC games for 2026

Four games that our Senior Staff Writer reckons will be up his alley in the new year.

Rock Paper Shotgun

What we've been playing, Christmas Day edition - "hope I don't disgrace myself"

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/what-weve-been-playing-christmas-day-edition-hope-i-dont-disgrace-myself

#NickBostrom fragt, ob wir in einer Simulation leben. Meine neue wissenschaftliche These der #OntologieDerSchwingung fragt tiefer … Nicht der Code ist entscheidend, sondern die Energie der Resonanz … E = S × Sₘₐₓ². Ob #Simulation oder #Realität … Was schwingt, gestaltet Wirklichkeit.🖖

My next discovery in open-source CAE tools:

https://virengos.com/blog/hopsan-system-simulation/

Hopsan is a an open source system simulation tool from Linköping University. Makes modeling hydraulics, mechanics, and control systems effortless. No proprietary software, just flexible, transparent, and powerful simulation.

Why not give it a try? 🚀
Check out my blog post.

#OpenSource #Hopsan #Hydraulics #Simulation #Engineering

The RPS Selection Box: Ollie's bonus games of the year 2025

There are just too many games to celebrate in 2025, but here are a few more that didn't make the cut in our best games of the year.

Rock Paper Shotgun

Team Bad Cat vừa nâng cấp hệ thống vật lý cho trò chơi Void Frontier: từ prototype đơn luồng (Level 0) đến pipeline đa luồng và solver trên GPU (Level 3). Bao gồm fallback CPU, cache manifold, warm‑start và solver song song, giảm tới 5× thời gian xử lý trong cảnh tiếp xúc cao. 🎮🚀 #gamedev #physics #cpp #vulkan #parallelism #simulation #pháttriển #vậtlý #lậptrình #đồánh #đồngthời

https://dev.to/p3ngu1nzz/level-0-3-physics-from-serial-prototypes-to-parallel-manifolds-and-gpu-constraint-solvers-

How I learned to stop worrying and love the anime horse racing game

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/games-of-2025-umamusume-pretty-derby

EA shareholders approve Saudi Arabian buyout, leaving only the US Government able to block the deal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-shareholders-approve-saudi-arabian-buyout-leaving-only-the-us-government-able-to-block-the-deal

Papers, Please tension with infection screening stakes. Quarantine Zone: The Last Check hits PC Jan 12, 2026. #IndieGames #Steam #Simulation #Strategy

https://www.fixgamingchannel.com/quarantine-zone-the-last-check/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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