Is This Seat Taken? I hope not, because the sitting-themed logic puzzler is out now

Oh, hello there, Is This Seat Taken? The logic puzzler with a name that’s real awkward to stick midway through a sentence has surprise-released today, August 7th, right off the back of an appearance in a Nintendo Indie World showcase.

When we woke up this morning, all we knew was that this game about telling people where to stick their bottoms would be coming out in August – a vague window previously announced during June’s Whole Direct. Now, it be here.

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Promise Mascot Agency update adds Tony Hawk-level truck rail grinding I didn’t know I needed, and new difficulty modes

Promise Mascot Agency, Kaizen Game Works’ thing about running a business that revolves around costumed weirdos, fairly intense menu shuffling and a lot of driving around, has gotten a free update that adds in a host of new features. The ability to grind along rails like Michi’s truck’s a skateboard, for instance.

Sure, you can already unlock the ability to fly said truck around the spooky Japanese countryside, but come on, if there’s something every management game needs, it’s tricks from the X Games.

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Sony are confident Marathon will release by March 2026 and that their live service transition is paying off

Sony remain confident that Bungie’s live service shooter reboot Marathon will launch within their current fiscal year – that is, before March 31st 2026 – and are fairly sure they’ll be able to share an exact release date this autumn. They’ve factored it into their financial forecasts, see.

They’re also pretty upbeat about their live service business at large, which accounted for around 40% of first-party software revenue in their last financial quarter, though they acknowledge that they screwed the pooch with Concord, which got to exist in public for a whole couple of weeks before Sony kicked it into the sun.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6’s lead, will also require secure boot on PC

I’m sure Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 won’t be exactly the same game, despite their obvious bullet casing-littered common ground. However, they are opting to mirror each other in one manner – both will require you to enable secure booting on your PC.

As if summoned to do so by EA letting everyone know that this week’s BF6 open beta would necessitate a delve in your BIOS to click yes on a thing in the name of eliminating cheating, Activision have revealed Blops is doing the same thing.

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With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a “substantial increase in server capacity” should just have helped

If you’ve tried to hop into the Battlefield 6‘s open beta’s early access period this morning and have ended up sitting a queue behind thousands of other folks in camo gear, then don’t panic. Or at least that’s what EA say, as their wrenches slam against the game’s servers in an attempt to let more people in.

With players stuck twiddling their thumbs in lines that can stick you as far away as 240-something thousandth from the front, the developers have been jolted into action. After all, you don’t want to anger the sorts of folks who’re up for shooting some blokes on an otherwise chill Thursday morning.

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Elden Ring Nightreign is getting an “endless mode” with special relics and “magmafied” bosses, claim dataminers

Some dataminers digging into Elden Ring Nightreign‘s files following the arrival of its Duos update claim to have uncovered some details about an endless mode.

As reported by PC Gamer, said new mode is allegedly called ‘Deep of Night’, and will see you grouped with similarly skiller nighfarers to fight your way up through the ranks of a new rating system that players reckon could work similarly to Armored Core 6’s rankings.

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You can still get into this weekend’s Battlefield 6 beta but you’ll have to watch 30 minutes of those awful Twitch people

If you failed to swipe a key for this week’s Battlefield 6 beta, because you neither signed up via the Battlefield Labs programme before 31st July nor watched Your Favourite Creators play the game during the recent multiplayer reveal, then Don’t Sweat It, Soldier, because Drill Sergeant EA Have Your Back in the shape of a last-gasp code giveaway.

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