Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there’s no end in sight

The flood of retail simulators on Steam is nothing new: the trend seemed to land with torrential force in late 2024. But it’s fascinating, to me at least, how many of these things are still being released every week, and how many of them seem to actually reach an audience despite their rudimentary appearance. Last…

Pokémon Company Announces Facial Recognition Scans In Japan

In a bid to counter Pokémon TCG scalping and ‘prevent crime,’ Pokémon card stores in Japan are introducing a new facial recognition system The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a “facial recognition system” that will check to see if someone has entered a store “more than…

Task Bar Hero has normalized real money item auction houses, and Blizzard must be raging

Tim is the CEO and co-founder of Publisher Collective, Project N, and Network N Media, and as such was also PCGamesN’s very first Editor. Published: July 26, 2026 The fifth most popular game on Steam, right now, is Task Bar Hero. Over the last few days, I’ve become semi-obsessed with it. It’s a side-scrolling RPG…

Rick and Morty’s season 9 finale had to be that brutal, showrunners say

Morty Smith has been through a lot over the course of nine seasons of adventuring with his grandpa Rick Sanchez in Rick and Morty. He’s had his consciousness fragmented into a video game’s NPCs, fled his own dimension, buried himself, and met his brilliant, evil doppelgänger. Season 8 ended with Morty facing his greatest fears,…

Miyamoto Says Players No Longer Care About Hardware Specs

Ever since the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo’s home consoles have seemed a lap or two behind the competition. The lesser processing power and graphics have generated plenty of jabs and jokes towards the company, but it never stopped Nintendo from laughing all the way to the bank. In a new interview, Shigeru Miyamoto expresses that consumer…

Become an Anime Billionaire codes (July 2026)

Making it big toward the end of July as a contender for the most hilarious new thumbnail of the month, these new Become an Anime Billionaire codes will get you up to that ten-figure bank balance before you know it. We’re not entirely sure how the logistics of this one really work, but the gameplay…

Baten Kaitos Remaster Dev Helped Out With Xenoblade Chronicles’ Switch 2 Edition

Nintendo has previously called on external developers such as Panic Button to assist with first-party game updates, and it’s now been revealed the Japanese developer Logicalbeat worked on the Switch 2 version of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. This information was shared on the company’s website and by its representative director Yoshiki Domae in a social…

Jimothy, The Viral Raccoon, Is Becoming An Earnable WoW Pet

Jimothy, the short-spined raccoon who has captured the hearts of the internet, is coming to World of Warcraft. Over the past few weeks, Jimothy the raccoon has gone absolutely viral, as Seattle locals share images and videos of the animal celebrity going about his daily life. He’s hard to miss, as his unique spinal condition…

If you miss the straightforward action RPGs of the past, try the generous demo for Darkstone Restoration

Before action RPGs relied on seasonal ladders and DLC treadmills there was Darkstone, a 1999 hack and slash where you clicked on things until they died and liked it. It had some interesting ideas, like the companion mode that lets you switch between two player-characters, the other controlled by the CPU while you took the…

Cyan Worlds Gives A Look At Cancelled Myst Sequel

In 1993, Cyan Worlds’ Myst changed PC gaming forever. While few could get beyond the first few puzzles, the computer rendered landscape and vibey music illustrated what could be squished into nascent CD-ROMs. It was the best-selling computer game until The Sims, and still commands space to this day. Despite this, the series has not…