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Game: Harbor Developer: Castilva Games Publisher: Wandering Wizard Genre: Open-World Post-Apocalyptic Survival Event: Closed alpha playtest Alpha Starts: September 11, 3:00 PM PT Sign-Ups Close: End of day, September 10 Release: 2026 Platform: PC (Steam) ⏰ Sign-Ups Close Today If you want into Harbor’s closed alpha, registration closes at the end of the day on September 10 — that’s today. The playtest itself begins tomorrow, September 11 at 3:00 PM PT. There’s no indication the window will reopen, so if this interests you at all, sign up first and read the rest afterwards. ☢️ Harbor is running a closed alpha…

Game: WARDOGS Developer: BULKHEAD Publisher: Team17 Genre: 100-Player Tactical FPS Status: Steam Early Access, out now Milestone: 1,000,000+ copies sold Consoles: PS5 & Xbox in 2028 Beta Peak: 245,118 concurrent 🎖️ WARDOGS has passed one million copies sold on the day it entered Steam Early Access. BULKHEAD and Team17’s 100-player tactical FPS hit a million Steam wishlists in August — and roughly a month later, it has converted that into more than a million sales at launch. ⚖️ They Published Ten Reasons Not to Buy It This is the part worth stopping on, because it is genuinely unusual. In the…

Event: Steam Programming Fest 2026 Host: Valve Status: Live now Ends: September 14, 10:00 AM Pacific Platform: Steam Focus: Logic puzzles, coding, hacking 💻 Steam Programming Fest is live now and runs until September 14 at 10:00 AM Pacific. Valve have discounted a spread of games built around logic puzzles, programming challenges and hacking — both sides of it, as they put it: games where you’re the hacker, and games where you catch one. ⚖️ The Most Underrated Genre on Steam Programming games occupy an odd position. They’re frequently the best-designed puzzle games on the platform and they sell a…

Game: BrokenLore: DON’T LIE Developer: Serafini Productions Publisher: Wired Productions Genre: First-Person Psychological Horror Released: September 10, 2026 Platforms: PC · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S Price: $15.99 / £12.99 / €15.99 Launch Offer: 10% off, limited time Audio: Original Japanese voice acting ⚠️ Content Note BrokenLore: DON’T LIE deals directly and deliberately with severe social withdrawal, childhood abandonment, trauma, addiction, medication and deteriorating mental health. Serafini Productions describe the themes as isolation, trauma, addiction and distorted perception, and the story involves rejection, humiliation and hallucination. This isn’t incidental horror dressing — it’s the substance of the game. Worth…

Event: tinyBuild Connect 2026 Host: tinyBuild Date: Monday, September 14 Time: 17:00 CEST · 11:00 AM ET · 8:00 AM PT Watch On: YouTube · Twitch · Bilibili Headline: Kingmakers — 10-minute gameplay deep dive Milestone: tinyBuild’s 15th anniversary 📺 tinyBuild Connect returns on September 14. The publisher’s annual showcase brings new game announcements, demos and updates — headlined by a 10-minute gameplay deep dive for Kingmakers, the game that’s been silent since its indefinite delay last October. It streams at 17:00 CEST / 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT. ⚖️ Kingmakers Is the Reason to Watch tinyBuild’s own…

Game: Fakin’ It XL Developer: Jackbox Games Publisher: Jackbox Games Genre: Party / Social Deduction Release Date: November 12, 2026 Platforms: PC · PS4 · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S Switch: 1 & 2, later this year Price: $8.99 Players: Up to 8 🤥 Fakin’ It XL arrives November 12 for $8.99 on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 versions follow later this year. It’s a standalone, expanded release of one of Jackbox’s most-played party games, with new question types, eight-player support and proper remote play. ⚖️ One Person Doesn’t Know What…