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A small mouse wearing a stitched backpack jumps through a garden beside a cottage.
Co-op adventure / PC and console

Hela's magic backpack needs to make its co-op world worth sharing

Hela's backpack gives every mouse a movement language. The question is whether its open world makes that language social.

GamerGuru Previews Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Yellow LEGO bricks spelling Offroad in black against a dark background.
Studio acquisition / Mobile games

LEGO Digital Play acquires Offroad Games, but has not announced a game

Offroad Games has joined LEGO Digital Play, but the public announcement leaves its games and future brief open.

GamerGuru Industry Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A silhouetted soldier overlooks a rain-soaked, floodlit city at night in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Campaign design / Black Ops Cold War

Black Ops Cold War's evidence board gave its campaign room to think

Its evidence board asked players to collect, compare and decide before the next mission started.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A Steam Deck displays the Steam Game Recording timeline and clip controls.
Steam tools / PC clips

How to record Steam games and save clips without filling your drive

Set up Steam's built-in recorder, save a clip, and keep temporary footage under control.

GamerGuru Guides Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
An operative carrying a rifle crosses a ruined outdoor zone in Active Matter.
Release calendar / Extraction shooter

Active Matter's console launch must make its harsh extraction loop readable

The extraction shooter has a sharper identity than its military hardware suggests, but its Steam and console launch needs a kinder way in.

GamerGuru Previews Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Four cartoon cats face a line of monsters on a grid-based battlefield in Mewgenics.
Tactics and legacy / Mewgenics

Mewgenics sends every battle back to the house

Its house gives every risky expedition a history that the next cat party has to live with.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A bull shark swims in a fountain beneath a giant Neptune statue at an elaborate island theme park.
Design feature / Maneater 2

Maneater 2 turns a theme park into a shark's food chain

The sequel's theme-park setting can make eating, exploring and evolving feel like one escalating act of vandalism.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown artwork showing Sargon running through blue energy in a golden city.
Steam launchers / PC platform

Ubisoft tests Connect Services for Prince of Persia on Steam

The test is limited to The Lost Crown for now, with no timetable for other Ubisoft Steam games.

GamerGuru PC Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
A traveller climbs a ruined stone structure above the clouds on the branches of the World Tree.
Action design / Where the Seeds Fall

Where the Seeds Fall makes every descent a landing puzzle

A flower thrown before a leap could give CygamesEdge's platformer a much sharper kind of vertigo.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Xbox Free Play Days artwork showing the games available during the September 10 weekend.
Free Play Days / September 10-13

Madden NFL 27 and Dustborn are free to try on Xbox this weekend

Madden NFL 27 and Dustborn do not require Game Pass this weekend.

GamerGuru Xbox Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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