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Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn launches on Steam and GOG on July 23 at 10AM EDT for $18.99, while the Xbox release is delayed and likely moving to August.

The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Florida resident after investigators alleged fake Steam-listed games infected about 8,000 PCs and helped steal at least $220,000 from roughly 80 crypto wallets.

Boiling Steam estimates Steam Machine sales at 12,000 to 15,000 units per week from its July 18 No. 2 Steam Global Top Sellers position and $1,049/$1,349 pricing.

An r/pcgaming post shared that Windows 10’s ESU program has been extended by one year, moving the security-update end date from October 2026 to October 12, 2027.

Reuters, citing The Information, says Microsoft has considered spinning out or restructuring Xbox as a wholly owned subsidiary, while Satya Nadella said Xbox must become a sustainable business after 25 years of investment.

Star Citizen has crossed the $1 billion crowdfunding mark on Roberts Space Industries’ official funding page. The r/Games thread focused less on celebration and more on the project’s 13-year development span, live alpha state, and the gap between funding scale and final release.

A new Vanguard update has rendered DMA cheat hardware permanently inoperable for Valorant cheaters. Riot clarified that regular PCs are completely unaffected — only dedicated cheat devices that use DMA firmware are targeted.

Unknown Worlds acknowledges that Subnautica 2's no-killing philosophy will frustrate some players but says it remains a fundamental design constraint with no plans to change.

A Tom's Hardware survey reveals 60% of PC gamers won't build a new system in the next two years, as AI infrastructure demand has caused RAM prices to triple and GPU costs to surge significantly.

Valve has opened a reservation system for the new Steam Controller starting May 8, 2026. Drawing on lessons from the Steam Deck's chaotic launch, Valve will fulfill orders sequentially — starting with US and Canada next week, followed by UK, EU, and Australia.

GTA 6 will launch exclusively on consoles on November 19, 2026. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed no PC version at launch, citing Rockstar's longstanding console-first approach.

Early Access pirate game Windrose was generating up to 130,000 SSD write operations per second without players' knowledge. Developer Kraken Express patched the issue on April 30, reducing writes to 20-30 per second.