FNAF lands Fortnite's most liked reveal | Bungie broadens Marathon | Steam's algorithm takes over discounts

Fortnite Five Nights at Freddy’s Announcement is Now the Game’s Most Liked Reveal Ever, Beating the Avengers and Dragon Ball Z

Marathon Is Becoming A Much Bigger Game As Bungie Teases A New Zone, Social Space, Deathmatch Mode, And More

The algorithm comes for Steam’s Discounts and Events

Numbers

• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Quietly Hits Huge Sales Milestone

• TinyBuild revenue rises 18% to $20m during H1 2026, with 85% coming from first and second-party owned IP

News

• Grasshopper Manufacture splits from NetEase Games

• Mark Zuckerberg debuts $1,299 Meta VR Glasses and Muse Charm pendant as part of AI agent push

• Minecraft World to open in UK with world-first hotel and rollercoaster

Industry Trends

• Amid mass Xbox layoffs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the “streamlining” is “great to see”

• A New PS5 Jailbreak May Have Just Opened The Floodgates To Piracy

• Meta reveals AI game creation tools Horizon Create and Horizon Studio

• ‘Cozy’, ‘Simulator’, ‘Cat’: Do Certain Words Have the Power to Make a Video Game a Hit?

Rumors

• Rumor: Rockstar Games Is Making LA Noire 2 Next, And It’s About The Zodiac Killer

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