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The Tuesday gaming news, all in one post:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

Steam’s Top 10

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GOG has launched its Back to School Sale , with over 7500 deals and up to 95% discounts until the 10th of September: https://www.gog.com/en/back-to-school-sale

Steam has one new deal as well as several sales/events:

• The only deal that shows up is the Early Access title Here Comes The Swarm , 30% off until the 7th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3052730/Here_Comes_The_Swarm/
• These are the new sales/events, in launch order:
  • Yuri Game Selection 2026 has upcoming titles and up to 75% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43093400/sale/yurigameselection2026
  • Pixel Arcadia has lots of upcoming retro-future games, plus two games on sale (the showcase is also at GOG): https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46177234/sale/PixelArcadia
  • Publisher FreeMind shows its upcoming releases and puts its games up to 91% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/FreemindPublisherSale2026
  • Publisher MicroProse also brings its upcoming titles an puts its games on sale with up to 80% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/MicroProsePublisherSale2026
  • Weird Days Job Simulator explores job simulator games with a strange sestting or premise. This showcase is ful of upcoming releases, some demos and games up to 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46222062/sale/WeirdDaysJobSimulator-2026
  • IGN Gamescom 2026 is the place to find upcoming titles from this year Gamescom: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9869/sale/IGNgamescom2026
• And, of course, there are new weeklong deals

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GAMING NEWS

The Witcher 4 is 'targeting' a 2028 release
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-witcher/the-witcher-4-is-targeting-a-2028-release/
We've still got more than a year to wait for The Witcher 4. In a video ahead of this year's Gamescom show, CD Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski spoke a bit about the upcoming Witcher 3 expansion as well as the game's long-awaited sequel.
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"That's the question we're hearing from you all the time," Nowakowski said. "We're not ready to share an exact date, I can tell you this: The Witcher 4 is targeting a 2028 release window."
>> Coming from CDP Red, it doesn’t really mean much.

A game dev spent 40 days in the wilderness to make this new Steam survival game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/a-game-dev-spent-40-days-in-the-wilderness-to-make-this-new-steam-survival-game/
(...) Wordless Forest is an FMV survival game solo developer Dogus Cagrici shot while hiking in the "dense forests and wilderness of four different cities across Turkey for 40 days." It's completely dialogue-free (hence the title) as the character Cagrici plays finds himself alone in the wilds, trying to find his way to safety and put his scrambled memories back together after a head injury.

Nearly 500k players showed up for the Wardogs beta: 'The reaction from the FPS community has been insane'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/nearly-500k-players-showed-up-for-the-wardogs-beta-the-reaction-from-the-fps-community-has-been-insane/
You ever get the feeling that a game is about to make a big splash, but nobody you know is talking about it yet? That's where I've been with Wardogs, the 100-player milsim FPS that I haven't stopped thinking about for weeks. Wardogs has steadily built buzz over the past year, recently eclipsing a million wishlists.
Developer Bulkhead held a closed beta this past weekend for those who pre-ordered the $40 early access release, which reached over 100,000 peak Steam players on Sunday—more simultaneous players than Squad, Hell Let Loose, or Arma has ever seen on PC. In a beta debrief video published today, game director Howard Philpott said nearly 500,000 total players tried Wardogs.

A disturbing '90s point-and-click horror game about waking up in a rundown asylum with no recollection of who you are is getting a glow up in 2026
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/a-disturbing-90s-point-and-click-horror-game-about-waking-up-in-a-rundown-asylum-with-no-recollection-of-who-you-are-is-getting-a-glow-up-in-2026/
1998 was a vintage year for PC gaming: Half-Life, Unreal, StarCraft, Thief and Baldur's Gate all released in lavish oversize retail boxes, and it was just as busy in console land: Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie released on Nintendo 64, while the original PlayStation enjoyed Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2.
Into this crowd of future classics was also Sanitarium, which shuffled onto shelves, probably sheepishly, in April 1998. It's an isometric point-and-click adventure starring Max, an amnesiac who wakes in a bizarre, rundown sanitarium. Lest you think this is a game about exploring a slightly eerie rundown hospital, let me disabuse you of that notion immediately: For fear of spoiling everything, I can only say: this game goes places.
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I bought Sanitarium for a couple of bucks on Steam a while ago, but it turns out there's yet another version of Sanitarium coming, also published by Ziggurat. Sanitarium Enhanced is a new reissue with a range of fairly light-of-touch tweaks and additions including widescreen support during gameplay (not just during cutscenes), controller support, and an extras gallery including behind-the-scenes and cut content.

How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/events-conferences/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-how-to-watch/
The official end of the summer isn't back-to-school day. It's not Labor Day. Nope, it's Gamescom Opening Night Live day, the second Geoff Keighley-hosted world premieres showcase of each year that kicks off the gaming trade event in Cologne, Germany which signals the end of the Gregorian Calendar's videogame 'announcements season' and the beginning of traditional 'release season,' to those who observe the old ways. It's live during German hours, though, so here's when to watch Opening Night Live if you hail from some other slice of the globe.