Football Manager 2026 revealed, after last year’s edition was left in the changing rooms

Whack out your not-at-all-weird-to-own spreadsheet of teenagers with incredible left feet, a Football Manager thing has happened. Namely, Football Manager 2026 has been announced by developers Sports Interactive, with a quick trailer. There’s no release date as of yet.

If you recall, Football Manager 2025 ended up being delayed and then cancelled, the studio admitting at the time that “the overarching player experience and interface is not where we need it to be.” Refunds were issued to folks who’d pre-ordered the touchline-prowling sim, and the devs shifted their focus on to Football Manager 2026.

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Mafia: The Old Country now has a first-person driving mod that’s ideal for capo cruisin’, when it’s not utterly terrifying

To me, the best part of Mafia: The Old Country is getting really into the idea of pretending you’re living in 1900s Sicily and drinking in the gorgeous vistas that the game’s world offers up like sips of wine. You can imagine, then, how keen I was to give its new first-person driving mod a go.

Having already knife-fought my way through the main story, I thought this sounded like a pleasant change of perspective to take in when motoring around the Valle Dorata, hoovering up the last of those Explore Mode collectibles. I wasn’t wrong either, the mod’s great. Well, when it’s not accidentally showing you the back of Enzo’s teeth and eye sockets.

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Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn’t currently an option in a whole bunch of countries

If you’ve tried to pay for something on Steam via PayPal over the past month and a bit, only to be told you can’t, Valve have now offered an explanation as to why, pointing to a bank that previously handled PayPal transactions in certain currencies as having suddenly terminated its support.

Folks in affected countries first noticed notifications informing them PayPal was “currently unavailable” in their part of the world around a month ago. There’s been a steady stream of Reddit posts from folks who’ve gotten to checkout and been told this since then.

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Krafton claim former Subnautica 2 leads have “resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven’t earned”

Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton have issued their response to the lawsuit filed against them by the game’s former lead developers. If you’re wondering whether things have cooled off a bit between the two parties now we’re in Saul Goodmanville, think again, because the second paragraph of the response sees Krafton accuse the leads of having “resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven’t earned.”

It’s an almost impossible task at this point to sum up the Subnautica 2 saga in less than a War and Peace length novel, but here’s my attempt to give you the abbreviated version. Krafton delay the game from a 2025 early access release to 2026 and fire three leads on it: Charlie Cleveland, Max McGuire, and Ted Gill. The company accuse those leads of abandoning their duties and argue the game wasn’t ready for early access. The leads disagree and file a lawsuit. A big part of what makes the disagreement so noteworthy is a $250 million bonus to be paid to Unknown Worlds staff if the game hit certain targets by the end of 2025, which Krafton have now said they’ll still pay out a fraction of. Annnnddd breathe.

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ PC performance patches will keep coming, if almost as slowly as the game still runs

Still troubled by Monster Hunter Wilds’ stubbornly sedate PC performance, even after multiple patches claiming to grease its framerate gears? The good news is that Capcom have committed to pushing through performance and stability updates into, at the very least, Winter 2025. The bad news is that Capcom also say they won’t have finished their performance and stability improvements until, at the earliest, Winter 2025.

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I’ve taken my desire for a new Burnout game down to the Paradise City in wplace

Please, for the love of all that can be side-swiped to oncoming traffic, make a new Burnout game. This has been one of the five thoughts that fill my head on a daily basis for years at this point, and thanks to a website that’s letting people draw pixel art all over Google Maps, I’ve been given yet another outlet via which to let it out.

That site is wplace, and it’ll look familiar if you’ve been partial to the now defunct Reddit thread r/place at any point. Basically, anyone can hop into its map and colour in pixels to doodle over the top of any place on Earth, creating vast canvases of cool art and scrawled messages to whomever might be watching.

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Peak’s Mesa update lets you shimmy your sandy butt up some sandy buttes, adds tornados and dynamite

Right, stop eating your mate for a minute. Peak‘s had a big update from developers Aggro Crab and Landfall Games, and it adds a new Monument Valley-esque location for you to scale the cliffs of.

Before you can go mountaineering among the sandy cacti and roaring tornadoes, though, you’ll want to put on some suncream. Yes, I know you now do the cannibalism thanks to co-op climber’s most recent patch, but you’ve still got to take your skincare seriously. Come on, at least take a parasol.

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