taskey Announces Midnight Toybox, A Death Game Board Game
The demo also enters Steam Next Fest from October 20 to October 27, 2026, giving taskey's first game release a public test window before the December launch.
GAME Watch (Impress), 4Gamer.net
Games
Longplay Studios Sets Free November 18 Release for Terminus: Day Zero on Steam
The studio is expanding the Terminus world with a short free Steam release told from a child's perspective, while a store page for Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2 is already open.
Game Spark
Mike Klubnika Releases Kuso UI Championship Game Volume.art For Free In Browser
Volume.art turns the pastime of building deliberately terrible UI into a playable collection, and its r/badUIbattles credit ties a browser toy to a community that has been trading bad sliders for years.
Automaton
Two Point Museum Adds Free Little Kitty, Big City Collaboration Content
The crossover pulls Little Kitty, Big City's exploration loop into Two Point Museum's exhibit economy, giving the management sim a themed content drop rather than a cosmetic tie-in.
4Gamer.net
Mad Mimic's S.T.A.R. Targets a Bright Roguelike and an Asian Publisher
Mad Mimic already has a Steam page and secure funding, but no publisher, and it says it needs marketing help in the Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese markets, which makes the Asian partner search the story behind the trailer.
4Gamer.net
Pirate Version of Deserters Hits Planned Steam Release
A nine-year rebuild had finally reached the point of overseas publishing talks and a Steam version; the cracked version landed in the same Chinese-speaking market that localization was being prepared for, and the developer now says the business case is gone.
Game Spark
DQM4 Demo Puts Bianca And Flora In The Lead
The demo positions the two heroines as the differentiator: recruitment affinities and support effects give Bianca and Flora separate playstyles while both stay in the story, so the choice shapes tactics more than it removes content.
Inside
NightCoop Open Beta Brings Eight-Player Cyberpunk 2077 On October 24
A fan mod is offering shared-world campaign co-op with host-owned progress and majority-vote dialogue, a structure that sidesteps the save conflict that normally makes multiplayer mods messy.
Game Spark
Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Pulls 91 Percent Very Positive on Steam
The campaign is being judged on its own, before multiplayer and DMZ are in anyone's hands, and the early numbers put it near the top of the series on Steam.
Game Spark
PS5LM Plus Runs Llama.cpp Models On A Jailbroken PS5 GPU
Running as a home screen app instead of a jailbreak payload lifts the usable memory ceiling from about 6GiB to 12GiB and opens the GPU through Vulkan, the difference between a demo and a model that can be left running.
GIGAZINE
Spy Maid Boy Opens Steam Page as a Maid-by-Day Spy Raising Sim
The pitch started as a gal game and drifted into a maid-boy raising sim because the developer put in everything he likes, which is the kind of personal premise a small publisher like Waku Waku Games can carry to Steam without a genre hook.
Game Spark
Unity HQ Team to Visit Japan for Unite Tokyo 2026 Keynote
The CoreCLR and URP migration sessions are aimed at developers who have to move existing projects, which puts the practical cost of the Unity 7 transition on the agenda a year before the release.
GameBusiness.jp
Silver Pines Opens To Strong Reviews Across PC, PS5, Xbox And Switch 2
For a debut studio releasing a Lynch-indebted Metroidvania in an October horror window, four platform Metascores clustered at 85 or above is the kind of reception that turns a small release into a word-of-mouth title, and at least one critic put it above Silent Hill: Townfall.
Game Spark
Made by Hand Opens Steam Page as Players Get Stuck Sanding
The playtest feedback shows the appeal landing on the labor itself rather than the finished furniture, which is the right signal for a simulator whose loop is measurement and sanding before it is selling.
Game Spark
Estella Demo Update Adds Three Songs And A Chapter One Theme
Shochiku Games is using a demo patch and a Steam Next Fest run to keep Estella in front of players ahead of a winter early access launch that carries Chapter 1 and roughly 40 songs.
4Gamer.net
Penguin Colony Brings Lovecraftian Madness to Antarctic Shores
The release puts a Lovecraftian horror premise behind a penguin protagonist, trading the usual human viewpoint for an observer who can only watch the collapse happen.
4Gamer.net
Free Volleyball Game uVolley Leaves Steam at End of 2026
The delisting is a quiet cleanup rather than a loss: a free game whose updates stopped after December 2022 is being pulled from Steam while its developer points players toward a remaster, and the existing build stays playable for anyone who claims it now.
Automaton
Kayac Opens Steam Page For Chopstick Simulator
Kayac's store page commits the publisher to a free-to-play bean-grabbing game built on one narrow joke about grip, with a Steam listing as the only public signal of when it might arrive.
Automaton
Hori Opens Amazon Preorders For Electric Ocarina Of Time After Hori Store Sellout Demand
The product arrived at general retail because of demand, an early sign of how Nintendo is pricing and stocking accessories tied to its remake of Ocarina of Time.
GAME Watch (Impress), Inside
GALLERIA Bundles FFXIV Tournament PC with Logitech G Peripherals
The bundle prices the peripherals below their combined standalone cost, listing them as worth over 68,000 yen when bought separately.
4Gamer.net, GAME Watch (Impress)
Sweeney Says AI Brings A New Golden Age Of Gaming
The debate around Sweeney's comments splits on whether faster production means better games, a question Epic is already answering in how it builds Unreal Engine 6.
Automaton
UMAWALK: Step-Count Horse Training Game Arrives on iOS and Android
UMAWALK treats the phone as the thing to be limited, converting idle screen time and early sleep into horse stats, and it ranks weekly races by walking volume rather than raw step count.
ASCII.jp
Polyscape Partners With LivAI to Bring AI Agents Into Game QA and IP Supervision
Polyscape is selling AI that walks through a game and audits it against its own settings and the law, which pushes generative AI past draft assistance into compliance review, a role studios have kept with people.
4Gamer.net
Square Enix Warns of Unauthorized FFXIV and Dragon Quest X Logins
Square Enix frames this as credential reuse from other companies' leaks rather than a breach of its own services, and it has named a second MMO, Dragon Quest X, under the same account system.
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