Steam offers a wide variety of free-to-play games, including online titles and independent creations. You can find popular free-to-play MMORPGs like Guild Wars 2 and Lost Ark there, and Steam frequently gives away free games during sales, helping indie developers reach new audiences. To start 2026, Steam is letting players grab four different games completely free.
Looking back, it’s amazing to see how huge both the Persona and Pokemon series have become over the last 30 years – they’ve definitely changed a lot since they first came out! I’m really excited for 2026 when they both celebrate their 30th anniversaries, and I’m guessing both Atlus and The Pokemon Company have big plans. But honestly, I’m feeling a lot more confident about what Pokemon will reveal. They’re on the verge of launching their 10th generation of games, which is awesome. A brand new mainline Persona game, though? That still feels pretty far off, even with the anniversary coming up.
As large language models grow in size, efficiently saving and restoring their state becomes a critical performance bottleneck.
Over the years, a few open-world games have really stood out with their fantastic shooting mechanics, making combat much more exciting and fun. If you’re tired of weapons feeling weak and ineffective, there are plenty of options that deliver smooth, engaging gunplay, turning every fight into an adrenaline-pumping experience.
PlayStation Plus subscribers in January 2026 will receive three free games: Need for Speed Unbound, Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, and Core Keeper. Need for Speed Unbound is a visually striking racing game from EA. Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is a remastered version of a beloved, classic 3D platformer originally for the Wii. Core Keeper is a cooperative survival game with a retro look and feel, often compared to Minecraft. While Core Keeper received generally positive feedback, reviews for Epic Mickey: Rebrushed and Need for Speed Unbound were more varied.
Developed jointly by Spike Chunsoft and tri-Ace, Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky is a Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) originally released in Japan in December 2015, and later in the West in October 2016 for the PS Vita and PS4. Just after the game’s tenth anniversary, Spike Chunsoft announced it would no longer be selling the game. The PS4 version was removed from the PlayStation Store on January 1st, and the PS Vita version will be removed on January 5th.
Ultimately, only one game can win Game of the Year, which always leaves room for debate. Each year, many games feel like they deserved the award but didn’t quite get it. While some have stronger arguments than others, the following titles were all serious contenders and came very close to winning.
I’m totally hooked on the Boruto series right now! The Two Blue Vortex arc has been amazing – the fights are incredible, and the characters are actually getting some really interesting development, which is something a lot of us felt was missing earlier on. Seriously, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex is just firing on all cylinders! It’s throwing the next generation of ninja into some seriously epic battles, and we’re watching new legacies unfold and history being made right before our eyes. That’s what makes this part of the story so unbelievably exciting!
![The string network [latex]\mathcal{P}\_{\mathrm{SY}}(\vec{r},\vec{s})[/latex] visualizes a bound state of dyons within the framework of Stern-Yi theory, demonstrating a topological structure that encapsulates their interaction and confinement.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.24988v1/x5.png)
New research connects the behavior of strings to a complex mathematical structure, offering insights into the dynamics of quantum fields.
The question hangs heavy in the air, like the breath of a bureaucrat in a winter queue: Is silver’s rally a bubble, or merely the market’s capricious waltz? On December 30, the French bank Societe Generale, with its Log-Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) framework-a tool as convoluted as a Politburo meeting-detected bubble-like behavior in silver prices. Yet, they caution: “Do not mistake the shadow for the gallows.”