A recent Linus Tech Tips video has thrown out a possible number regarding the Steam Machine’s mysterious price points, and the host, Linus Sebastian, said that the device’s price is most likely going to be around $699.99.

Throughout the video, Linus tried to recreate the Steam Machine as close as possible with components that they had in the studio, which ended with a PC having the following specifications:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8400F
• Motherboard: Asrock B650M-H M.2+
• RAM: Crucial (2X8) 16GB 5600MT/s CL46
• Case: Player’s Choice
• PSU: Seasonic GX-550 550W
• GPU: Asrock Challenger Radeon RX 6600
• SSD: Kingston NV3 500GB
• Controller: Gamesir Cyclone 2

The controller addition was necessary due to the Steam Machine’s controller. All of the components listed cost $602, if it were based on its historical low price. If it were based on the current cheapest retail price, the build would be significantly pricier, eventually reaching a $813 price point.

Linus also said that they have overspent on a number of components, which include the power supply, motherboard and the case, the last one of which is surely much cheaper for Valve considering the form factor of the Steam Machine.

It’s worth noting that this $699.99 guess for the machine comes with the caveat that there will be no major changes in the current market for components, especially SSDs and RAMs, both of which are currently skyrocketing.

The Steam Machine was revealed on Nov. 12, 2025, worldwide, together with the Steam Frame and a new Steam Controller. Until today, Valve remains tight-lipped regarding the price of the Steam Machine, but has said that it will be “in line with the current PC market.”

Ubisoft is giving away its action-adventure RPG Immortals Fenyx Rising for free until Dec. 2, 2025.  Players simply have to go to the game’s store listing on Ubisoft Connect and then redeem it to be able to enjoy the game.

It’s worth noting that while Immortals Fenyx Rising is available on PlayStation 4 & 5, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Ubisoft is only handing out the game for free for PC players and only on the Ubisoft Connect launcher.

Coincidentally, the game is also part of the Ubisoft Super Heroes Sale on Steam, allowing players who want to buy it on the storefront to save 80% on the standard version of the game, and 75% on the Gold Edition of the game, with the latter including the Season Pass and additional digital content.

Immortals Fenyx Rising, while receiving great reviews, has faded away into the background due to its similarity to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, one of the best games released in 2017. Despite this, the game has received a generally favorable review on Metacritic during its release and a mostly positive review on Steam, even having a very positive recent review score as of the writing of this article.

In a video commentary regarding the recent financial results published by CD PROJEKT RED, Piotr Nielubowicz, the company’s chief financial officer, revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 35 million copies as of Nov. 26, 2025.

The game was also able to achieve this feat much quicker than The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, one of the studio’s best-selling games. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt was able to reach 30 million copies sold after being out in the market for six years, while Cyberpunk 2077 was able to do so in just five.

Additional highlights in the studio’s financial results are its 53% increase in revenue year-over-year, and the studio’s net profit increased by 148%. The studio’s net profitability also rose to 55.4% this year. While this is one of the most profitable years for CD PROJEKT RED, it’s also one of the years with high costs and expenses.

Cyberpunk 2077 was released on Dec. 10, 2020, for the PlayStation 4, Stadia, PC and Xbox One. The next generation version of the game was released in 2022 for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A Nintendo Switch 2 version was released this year, the same with a macOS version.

Cygames announced in a short X post that Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising will introduce two new control schemes to the game on Dec. 2, 2025. The developers did not elaborate on what kind of control schemes are coming to the game.

As it stands, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising doesn’t have a control scheme similar to Street Fighter 6’s Modern or Dynamic settings. While the game already has some semblances of those already being implemented in the game, such as the skill button and the dash button.

The addition of the control schemes puts the game in line with other fighting games that are lowering the barrier of entry by evolving their control schemes. Street Fighter 6’s Modern control scheme, for example, gets rid of motion inputs, making it easier for players to perform special attacks and supers.

Aside from the control scheme addition, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising’s free-to-play version will allow players to play the whole base roster of the game for free starting on Nov. 27, 2025, until Dec. 4, 2025. This will not include DLCs such as 2B and Meg.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is a 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works and published by Cygames. The game was released on Dec. 14, 2023, and is available on PlayStation 4 & 5 and PC.

UK studio Splash Damage, the team behind multiplayer aspects of well-beloved games such as Doom 3 and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, is now facing massive layoffs as the studio has recently undergone a studio-wide consultation.

In the UK, consultation is part of the process when it comes to redundancy. During this phase, employers are required to tell the employees part of the redundancy why they’re being laid off, as well as other alternatives to being laid off.

“Today we announced to our teams that we are entering a studio-wide consultation process affecting all roles,” the studio published in a LinkedIn post. “This was a difficult step for us to take, but we believe it is necessary so Splash Damage can remain agile and adaptable in what has been a very challenging market.” The studio also said that it is “committed to exploring every option to retain talent and making sure those affected have meaningful support throughout.”

In 2020, Tencent acquired Splash Damage for $1.5 billion. The studio lasted five years under Tencent’s banner before it was sold off to an unknown group of private-equity investors in September of this year.

Splash Damage is well-known for its Enemy Territory mods for both Quake and Wolfenstein. The studio was formed in 2001 and is currently developing Project Astrid, a game announced in 2023 with no update regarding its development until now.

Brotherhood, a retro-style first-person shooter game developed by FatCatGames, is now available on PC, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox Series X|S and the Nintendo Switch. The game is very reminiscent of classic 90s first-person shooter titles like Wolfenstein 3D, which actually inspired it.

According to the lead developer of Brotherhood, the game is their love letter to the shooters that they grew up playing. “We’ve shaped the full release based on community feedback, and we’re thrilled to finally share the complete experience with players around the world,” the lead said.

The press release mentioned the following as the game’s key features:

• 24 large, labyrinth-style levels across six distinct acts, including a brutal prison break, secret laboratories, scorching deserts, an ancient fortress, and more.
• Classic old-school FPS combat: fast movement, tight gunplay, medkit-based healing, ammo management, keycards, upgrades, and plenty of secrets.
• 20+ unique enemy types, each designed to pressure the player differently — from swarming melee fighters to ranged mutants.
• Mutagen abilities combined with a diverse arsenal to push through overwhelming odds.
• Significant improvements from demo and early community feedback, including refined gameplay flow, updated visuals, enhanced sound, and extensive polishing.

As of the writing of this article, Brotherhood is available for purchase for $10. The game has no multiplayer and does not require a powerful PC to run. The game is also FatCatGames’ debut title.

A crossover between NieR: Automata and Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is coming to the latter on Nov. 27, 2025. The collaboration between the two will include NieR: Automata skins for both Yuffie and Tifa, complete with the blindfold and black getup. They will also receive a NieR: Automata weapon skin.

The skins will most likely be available in the game’s gacha pull system, which means that they won’t be guaranteed. 2B from NieR: Automata will also be available as a boss battle. Players will also have a chance to obtain 2B’s Whirling Ravager ability upon completing Clear Panel Missions.

An event campaign is also going to be held in the game together with the collaboration. A YouTube video (inserted above) said that there will be up to 340 free draws, an event login bonus where players can earn up to 3,000 Blue Crystals, one daily free draw from the crossover gacha and event panel missions, which allow players to obtain enemy abilities.

The relationship between NieR: Automata and Final Fantasy has always been amiable. A few years ago, during the Shadowbringers expansion of Final Fantasy XIV, a full alliance raid collaboration was held between the game and NieR: Automata. This also included cosmetics like the iconic uniforms that the androids wore and their blindfolds.

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is a mobile gacha game developed by Square Enix that is also available on PC. The game was launched worldwide on Sept. 7, 2023.

Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis is a reimagined timeline of Final Fantasy VII, essentially a retelling of the classic JRPG.

Approximately 132 minutes of the recent Marathon playtest have been posted on the Chinese video-sharing website Bilibili, showing improvements of the game, including a cleaner UI, an event called the Heat Cascade Protocol and a new map called the Outpost.

Despite being a playtest locked behind a strict NDA, a Chinese Bilibili user was still able to post the gameplay videos on their account. The videos were also previously available on their YouTube channel, but they were quickly removed.

There are a total of 11 videos on their channel, all coming from the recent playtest. The videos revealed three different maps: Perimeter, Dire Marsh and a new one, Outpost. Perimeter is a map that was once available in the previous tests but has improved in visuals in the recent one.

The game’s UI has also become significantly cleaner compared to previous tests, and the recent test featured an event called the Heat Cascade Protocol. This event forces players to stay indoors most of the time, as fiery particles rain down and drain their health and shields if they remain outside for too long.

Marathon players on Reddit said that the video does not do the game justice in regard to the visual improvements. They also said, while unconfirmed, that the game had solo queue and proximity chat, two of the things that the community has been asking for since the game was announced.

Rumors regarding Bungie creating a video regarding Marathon’s new additions and the current state of the game are circulating. According to The Game Post, the video will also contain news regarding the game’s position in its development cycle.

Roblox CEO David Baszucki claims that the gaming platform is amazing for kids despite the company facing backlash regarding child safety and several lawsuits.

Baszucki made the claim on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast, where hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose questioned the CEO about Roblox’s new policy to increase child safety and reduce predatory activity amid open investigations and over 20 lawsuits.

Roblox is currently facing lawsuits from various states, including Florida, Louisiana and Texas. The game was also recently banned in Iraq, citing concerns regarding child safety as one of its main reasons.

“And how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?” Newton asked Baszucki. “We think of it not necessarily just as a problem but an opportunity as well … At the scale we’re at — 150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month — like, what is the best way to keep pushing this forward?” Baszucki answered.

“It does not seem like predators are having that hard of a time getting around your filters … So, I’m curious what’s made you so confident that things are working?” Newton asked. “I don’t want to comment on it,” Baszucki said.

“It’s one of the primary things we’re doing is trying to keep people on our platform.”

“You don’t think you have a problem with predators on the platform,” said Newton. “I think we’re doing an incredible job at innovating relative to the number of people on our platform and the hours, in really leaning into the future of how this is going to work,” said Baszucki.

CEO says security is developing on pace

Baszucki described various ways the company can implement AI and checks to verify age, saying, “We have behavioral signals; we have photo ID upload signals; we have user-suggested age. But we’re complementing that with a facial age estimation signal.”

One security measure Roblox already has is screening text with a filter; however, people have found ways to obfuscate this restriction by using a hashtag “because that’s how you blur out words that aren’t supposed to be used,” Newton said.

“The state of where we are now is primarily getting into the blocking of adversarial attempts to broach the filter and adversarial attempts to try to share PII [personally identifying information], which we’re getting better and better at as well,” said Baszucki.

Newton then asked Baszucki, “How do you as the CEO … feel like we’re applying the right number of resources and they have the right error rates and we’re at a place where I’m comfortable telling parents, ‘Bring your kids to Roblox?’”

“We see all of those metrics internally all the time. They’re not publicly shared. We’re watching filter rates. We’re watching this rate. We’re watching all of that rate. Those metrics constantly get better as we add more and more AI on top of it,” said Baszucki.

At the end of the podcast, Roose asked Baszucki whether Roblox would be able to fix the safety issues plaguing the platform in a year, which is also the same time his kid would turn four. “I’m going to go more out of the box than that. Roblox is an amazing platform right now for your kid. And I’m happy to go deep with you, possibly nondisclose you, show you metrics, all of that, to do whatever it takes to get you over the hump,” the CEO replied.

Missed Count won its first World of Warcraft Mythic Dungeon Invitational (MDI) tournament at the MDI 2025 Global Finals, beating the second-place team, Team Liquid, by a measly eight seconds. There was a three-way tie during the finals between the aforementioned teams and HOLY Method.

MDI is a tournament hosted by Blizzard Entertainment where raiders compete in pushing keystones to the highest level possible within the allotted time. In order to push keystones, teams have to complete the Mythic+ dungeon repeatedly with as few mistakes as possible, considering the tournament is a speedrun tournament.

Missed Count’s main opponent in the tournament turned out to be Team Liquid, the winner of the Manaforge Omega Race to World First, which happened in September of this year. Missed Count held its own against the world-class raiders, taking the fastest times on Halls of Atonement, Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder and Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit.

Team Liquid was able to win the fastest clears on Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, Priory of the Sacred Flame and Operation Floodgate, resulting in the score between the two contenders being 3-3. When the clear times were tallied, Missed Count was able to edge out Team Liquid by eight seconds. HOLY Method finished third, being over two minutes slower than Missed Count.

This tournament, the MDI 2025 Global Finals, had eight Mythic+ teams compete for a prize pool of $300,000. Missed Count’s win earned them $120,000, with Team Liquid taking home $60,000. HOLY Method took home $45,000 for placing third.