These games are all incredibly engaging and make you think deeply, but they can be mentally draining. Playing them one after another might be overwhelming, or feel strange if you then switched to a lighthearted game like Astro Bot. You might need to take a break from gaming altogether to fully appreciate them. Don’t worry, this description won’t reveal any plot details.
The Steam demo for Moonlight Peaks hits all the expected notes for the genre, but it elevates them with strong writing and quality. The game offers a unique twist: you play as an undead character powered by enchanted food, where farming and building relationships in your supernatural community are key. What makes it really special is the central conflict – a disagreement with your father, Count Dracula, about living a decent life. While there’s real conflict at stake, Moonlight Peaks cleverly uses it to make the cozy gameplay and themes even more engaging.
New research demonstrates how higher-order symmetries can stabilize quantum systems against disorder, effectively raising the bar for spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Many fans of Resident Evil consider Alone in the Dark a classic. The game has a dedicated following, with some players calling it one of the greatest horror games ever made. Though the series has had several sequels, reboots, and remakes, the original three games – currently available for free on GOG – are widely considered the core of the franchise and essential playing for any horror enthusiast.
To use the Stream Your Own Game library, you just need an active Xbox Game Pass subscription – any level will work! It’s best to have a reliable internet connection, too. If you already own the games digitally, or they’re included with your Game Pass tier (Ultimate, Premium, or Essential), you can play them. The library has grown a lot since it started, with 48 new games added in January 2026 and 40 more in February 2026.
Okay, so it totally makes sense why LEGO and Pokémon are teaming up again – it’s Pokémon Day 2026! That marks 30 years since the original Pokémon Red and Green came out in Japan way back in ’96. While we’re getting new LEGO Pokémon sets, nobody knows exactly how many they’ll make at first, or if the awesome Kanto Gym Badges set will come back. Most of us fans don’t think it will, and even when it was available, you could only get it if you bought the big Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise set – it wasn’t sold on its own. Because of that, one dedicated fan decided to rebuild the Gym Badges set themselves using different LEGO bricks, which is pretty cool!
No game is flawless, but the first-person games listed here are among the very best. They either pioneered new ideas, refined existing ones, or truly mastered the genre. These games built on the foundations laid by earlier titles and, in doing so, heavily influenced the future of first-person gaming. They’re considered classics because their impact is undeniable, and they simply wouldn’t have worked as well if played from a third-person perspective.
![LoRDS reimagines parameter-efficient fine-tuning by decomposing block-wise scaling into a low-rank product [latex]W\odot B_{AW} [/latex], enabling granular refinement via post-training quantization or direct fine-tuning with high-rank updates and-unlike methods like QLoRA which introduce additive, non-mergeable adapters-zero additional inference overhead through natural absorption into the dequantization process.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22716v1/x2.png)
Researchers have developed a novel method for compressing and adapting large language models, boosting performance and reducing computational demands.
Embark Studios has been listening to player feedback and consistently adding improvements to ARC Raiders with each update. However, many players wish the development process was faster. A common complaint is that the game lacks essential features it should have had from the beginning, with the absence of a world map being a key example.
Wildlight initially launched 5v5 as a trial, but it proved popular and is now a permanent game mode.