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BULKHEAD and Team17's 100-player, three-team tactical FPS WARDOGS launches into Steam Early Access on September 10, debuting at the top of the global Steam best-sellers chart and clearing 300,000 peak concurrent users on day one.

Battlestate Games will install patch 1.1.5.0 for Escape from Tarkov on September 8 starting at 8:00 AM BST, kicking off a planned 5–7 hour server downtime. The update brings the long-promised Lighthouse map rework, a rework of the Lightkeeper quest chain, and the studio's new ranked Leagues system.

FakeFish, the Finnish studio behind Barotrauma, kicks off the Frostrail Closed Beta on Steam today inside the platform's PvE Survival Crafting Fest. The co-op train-survival FPS asks up to four players to drive a locomotive across a frozen post-apocalyptic wasteland, scavenge settlements and fight Revenants between stops, ahead of a Q4 2026 Early Access launch.

Rebellion outlines five takeaways from the new Alien Deathstorm trailer shown at gamescom 2026, including the Reactor mission, alien types, weapons, and tools, and locks a Spring 2027 launch on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass.

Bulkhead Interactive says nearly 500,000 players tried the Wardogs closed beta last weekend, with the title peaking above 100,000 concurrent Steam users on Sunday. The figure lands just days before the early access launch on September 10.

Early hands-on clips from creators briefed by Activision call the native Nintendo Switch 2 port of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 a "pretty impressive" build, with stable frame rates and only minor resolution and draw-distance compromises ahead of next week's Open Beta.

Activision and Infinity Ward have confirmed Digital Legends Entertainment, the Barcelona-based studio behind Black Ops 6 and Warzone mobile, as the partner developer working on the native Nintendo Switch 2 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.

EA's Battlefield 6 free trial runs from August 18 through August 25, sitting almost perfectly inside Activision's first Modern Warfare 4 beta window of August 21 to 25. Both seasons collide this weekend, with Battlefield 6's Top Gun mid-season update and Modern Warfare 4's first-ever campaign-mission beta lined up side by side.

A recent Windows update is causing crashes for some THE FINALS players. Embark Studios has identified the affected system file and published an official workaround while it prepares a permanent fix.