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Engage in virtual combat with these fighting video games that will bring out your competitive edge and show off your strategic prowess.

The S16 Swiss Draw Gave LPL Two Nightmare Matchups and One Clean Escape
When the draw ended, two matchups stuck first: IG vs GEN and TES vs HLE. BLG, in Pool 2, did not get T1 from Pool 3. When the screen cut to the next group, someone in the training room folded a slip covered in matchup notes and left it folded. AL drew KC, BLG drew MKOI, DK drew G2. The first Swiss round enforces same-region avoidance and seed-pool crossover. Four China-Korea matches were possible. The draw delivered the two biggest ones.
By Jinabout 8 hours ago in Gamers
They Bought the Game. Then the Servers Died. Now Players Are Rebuilding It With AI.
On January 12, 2026, EA shut down Anthem’s servers for good. The game had no offline mode. Its world, characters, and content died on the official service. Less than a week later, a community developer named And799 posted a video. Two players had entered the same Anthem lobby on a self-built server emulator.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
Crash n the boys street challenge: an unsung video game classic
In the early 90’s there was a video game released on Nintendo with some other video game distributor called Crash and the boys street challenge and I loved that game so much. Given the 80s had just ended. It was like one of those video games made up to look like crash was the rich guy and he had a rich father and they had to compete in an Olympic type games throughout the streets of New York cause that’s where the video game was set And I only made it to the one challenge where they’re swimming in the middle of New York City in the street and it looked like an Olympic size pool but yet it was a great video game nonetheless. Too bad not enough people know about this awesome video game.
By Revista Miko:XCI 3 days ago in Gamers
Steam Is Flooded With AI Games. Players Are Not Buying Them.
In October 2025, Steam Next Fest showed 2,960 games. Of those, 504 disclosed generative AI use. That is 17%. By June 2026, the number of demos had grown to 4,227. Of those, 1,694 carried an AI tag. That is 40%. In the second quarter of 2026, AI games made up about one-third of new Steam releases. Their estimated share of sales was about 10%. In the fourth quarter of 2025, that sales number hit 27%. A few breakout hits pulled it up.
By Jin7 days ago in Gamers
AI Got Crushed by Slay the Spire’s Hardest Mode? I Looked at the Data, and the Headline Falls Apart
200 runs. One win. That is the full record of 20 large language models against the final boss on Slay the Spire ’s A20 difficulty. GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and GPT-5.6 Sol trade places atop other leaderboards. Against the Corrupt Heart, their combined win rate was 0.5%.
By Jin7 days ago in Gamers
Phantom Blade Zero’s 66 Days Mode Is a Death Clock the Developers Can’t Beat
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, a 4Gamer reporter asked Liang Qiwei whether anyone on the development team had cleared the “66 Days” mode without dying once.
By Jin7 days ago in Gamers
Buy-to-Play Isn’t Always the Better Deal. My Steam Backlog Proved It.
Many players say the same thing: buy-to-play games are a better deal. At first, that sounds obvious. Free-to-play games cost nothing. Buy-to-play games cost money. How could the paid option be cheaper? Then you play a few free games. You see how they work. Free is the entrance. Inside, gacha, skins, battle passes, monthly cards, first-time recharge bonuses, limited bundles, and seasonal quests pull money and time out of you through thin pipes.
By Jin8 days ago in Gamers
Why DNF Stopped Being Fun (It's Not Nostalgia)
You're sitting in Grandine. One full fatigue bar is gone. A few fake purples lie on the ground. You don't pick them up. In your storage, you still keep the chainsaw, the flamethrower, the Ice Dragon greatsword you dropped back then. Back then, when a boss pink dropped, you could type three lines in guild chat, hands shaking. Now you open the equipment dictionary. Those things are still there. No one talks about them.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
We Beat Video Games Before the Internet. Here’s What It Actually Took.
Blow on the Cartridge, Keep Banging into the Wall The TV was convex, with a layer of dust on the screen. Summer afternoon, the fan spinning, the cartridge hot in my hand. I was stuck on World 4 of Super Mario . I’d been down every pipe, stomped every Koopa, the flagpole was on the right, but I couldn’t clear the jump in the middle. I tried twenty times. On the twenty-first, I fell into the pit. Mom called me for dinner. I didn’t answer.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
Sony Locked the PS5. Hackers Found a Key. Players Are Stuck in the Middle.
On September 29, 2026, an exploit chain called Relapse became public. This was not a minor security incident. Attackers combined a WebKit browser vulnerability with a kernel-level aio_multi_wait UAF race condition. The result gave them kernel-level physical memory read/write privileges on the PS5. Every official firmware version from 7.00 to 13.60 was affected. That range covers the original fat model, the Slim, and the recently released PS5 Pro.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
AI Built Half This Game. One Human Built the Part That Mattered.
Three days ago I played Qunxia Zhuan: Survivors . The opening cutscene is AI-made. Anyone who has used AI image or video tools will recognize the look. The voice acting is AI too. It sounds oddly familiar, and not in a good way. The action is the weakest part. Poses work. Fights do not.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
We Called Her Ditzy. Her Coworkers Called Her the Only One They Trusted.
If you dropped Estelle Bright into an office, most people would write her off in a week. She talks too loud. She asks the question everyone else is avoiding. She yells "Joshua!" across the room. In a company full of careful email phrasing, she sounds like a liability.
By Jin12 days ago in Gamers