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With pre-order early access to its campaign underway ahead of this week's full launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has earned a 94% positive rating across 4,068 Steam reviews, giving it a 'Very Positive' score. That's the best Steam reception for a mainline Call of Duty title since 2010's Black Ops, far outpacing recent entries like Black Ops 7 (38.7%), Black Ops 6 (45.7%) and Modern Warfare III (48.1%).
Microsoft has fixed a bug that caused games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash or fail to launch after installing the September 2026 preview update KB5124010. The fix arrives in the KB5127648 October 2026 Patch Tuesday update, which Microsoft says affected users on Windows 11 24H2 and later should install.
Microsoft has made its Disc to Digital tool available to all Xbox users after a month of Insider beta testing, letting players convert physical Xbox One and Series X game discs into digital licenses tied to their account rather than their console. The feature does not require an Xbox Game Pass subscription and is triggered manually by selecting 'Claim Digital License' from a game's menu rather than automatically on disc insertion.
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is introducing the Power To The Players Act, which would direct the FTC to write rules guaranteeing that buyers of digital video games own more than a revocable license. The bill would also require games with online features to include offline modes that keep working after servers shut down. Torres cited 2K Games' decision to delist NBA 2K25 and shut its servers by January 2027 as an example of the problem he wants to fix.
A new emulator called PS5X lets Xbox Series X hardware run PlayStation 5 games, but only through Microsoft's Developer Mode, which restricts games to 5GB of memory versus the 13.5GB available to retail Xbox titles. The cap only lifts when software runs via the Visual Studio debugger, a developer-testing setup, and consoles in Developer Mode cannot load retail games until switched back. Microsoft banned emulators from retail Xbox mode in 2023 and has reportedly suspended players for 15 days for circumventing that policy.
Daniel Mullins Games announced during a Twitch stream marking Inscryption's fifth anniversary that a mobile port is in development, though no release date was given. The studio also ruled out new DLC, saying on Reddit it considers Inscryption a complete experience and doesn't want to add content just to capitalize on its success.
Horror author Clive Barker says he now holds the rights to Hellraiser and wants to develop new ideas for the franchise on screen. He credits renewed interest in the property partly to a recent video game adaptation.
A gaming hardware explainer argues that capping frame rates in most PC games helps maintain stable performance, reduces screen tearing, and lowers GPU stress, fan noise and power draw. The author recommends setting an fps cap especially on VRR monitors to keep gameplay within the effective variable refresh rate range, generally 48fps up to the display's max refresh rate, which also slightly reduces latency when paired with V-Sync.
An outlet has published an open discussion thread inviting readers to share their opinions on the newly released 'Street Fighter' film adaptation. The piece poses the adaptation's quality as a question for community debate rather than offering a formal review.
A tech newsletter digest compiles several items: a report on espionage concerns in Silicon Valley's AI industry, comments from Michael Dell on surviving a potential AI bust, news of Apple's new HomeView tablet, and details on Meta's latest move into advanced AI development.
Adobe discontinued Flash Player at the end of 2020, leaving thousands of early-internet games and animations inaccessible through normal browsers. Several archive sites have since emerged that let users play those old Flash games today, largely by running them through Ruffle, an open-source emulator built specifically to replicate Flash's functionality without the original plugin.
Fab24hr is a free 3D browser game, developed in Taiwan and available in Chinese, English and Japanese, that puts players in the role of a semiconductor fab worker. It offers a 12-chapter story mode tracing a hearing-aid chip from R&D to end user with three possible endings, and a 'day in the fab' mode where players choose a role, such as process engineer, and handle equipment failures and production emergencies.