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Star Wars Zero Company is facing a wave of negative user reviews after a report emerged that approximately 80% of the game's development team was placed on unpaid leave ahead of the title's launch. Players, angered by the treatment of the developers behind the game, took to review platforms to express their frustration, resulting in a coordinated review bombing campaign.
Nexus Mods' parent company, Chosen, has acquired SteamDB, the widely used community-run Steam data-tracking and analytics site, the two parties announced on September 2, 2026. SteamDB has long served as an invaluable resource for PC gamers and developers alike, offering detailed information on game pricing, player counts, sales history, and backend Steam data. The acquisition brings the independent project under the umbrella of one of gaming's largest modding platforms, with Chosen stating its goal is to provide SteamDB the resources and "long-term stability it deserves."
Nintendo has surprised fans with a free Switch 2 update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the long-reigning champion of couch multiplayer, adding a headline feature that players have long dreamed about: eight-player local split-screen racing. The patch, released on September 2, 2026, lets up to eight players compete simultaneously on a single screen, taking the game's already chaotic party appeal to an entirely new level. This is a significant leap beyond the four-player split-screen that has been the series standard for years.
Nvidia's long-anticipated and already-controversial DLSS 5 is making its official debut this week through NBA 2K27, giving owners of 50 Series GPUs and GeForce NOW subscribers their first taste of the company's next-generation neural rendering technology. Promising "Hollywood-grade photorealism" and AI-generated imagery designed to overhaul how lighting and materials look in games, DLSS 5 has been pitched as a transformative leap rather than just another upscaling trick. The technology had already stirred up buzz after modders prematurely extracted it from game files late last week, but its arrival in a shipping title marks the real starting gun.
Capcom has stripped Denuvo anti-tamper DRM from Dragon's Dogma 2 on PC, the company confirmed ahead of the game's upcoming Dark Arisen expansion. The move follows a well-established pattern in the industry, where publishers remove Denuvo protection from titles once the software has served its primary commercial purpose of guarding a game during its most lucrative sales window. The update accompanying the DRM removal also brings a sizeable list of additional changes to the base game.
