Video Game News Roundup – March 14, 2025
Welcome to our daily digest of the latest video game news! Here are today’s key highlights:
- Discover the best bargains in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale.
- An unusual opportunity in India: three fortunate individuals have the chance to purchase an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia’s suggested retail price.
Now, let’s delve into the specifics of today’s gaming news.
Top Bargains in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
The year doesn’t seem to truly kick off until we’ve experienced the first seasonal Steam sale. The Spring Sale often mirrors the Winter Sale from the previous year. This year is no exception, although there are a few notable changes. For example, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been slashed to $30. Additionally, several new games are enjoying modest discounts, such as Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth (a recent addition to the PC platform). For a broader selection, we’ve curated a list of excellent games that consistently appear in Steam sales. You can also explore our guides for the best RPGs, best FPS games, best strategy games, and best survival games for further inspiration.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Three Lucky Individuals in India Have the Chance to Purchase an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia’s Recommended Retail Price
Source: PC Gamer – March 14, 2025
In a reflection of contemporary market trends, a generous retailer in India is giving three fortunate customers the chance to purchase a graphics card at its suggested retail price. This unusual offer was spotted by Videocardz in a promotional campaign, apparently in collaboration with card manufacturer, Colorful. The competition provides entrants with an opportunity to buy a Colorful RTX 5080 at Nvidia’s set retail price – an appealing prospect despite the customer data the retailer is likely to gather from the entry forms. To offset any cynicism, it’s worth noting that the Colorful card being offered is considerably more advanced than the standard Nvidia 5080 model.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
FromSoftware’s Super Mario Maker Inspires Follow-Up to Popular Indie RPG
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
The highly praised 2023 first-person RPG Lunacid is set to receive an unexpected, yet intriguing follow-up. Named ‘Lunacid: Tears of the Moon’, this spinoff is developed using Sword of Moonlight, a remarkable game-making toolkit released by FromSoftware in 2000. Anticipated to release next month, ‘Tears of the Moon’ is a testament to the enduring appeal of the original Lunacid game and its foundational inspiration, the classic FromSoftware first-person dungeon crawlers, King’s Field and Shadow Tower.
The original game, Lunacid, is renowned for its atmospheric gameplay, teeming with secrets and set within a subterranean universe beneath a dying earth. Its design is a loving homage to King’s Field and Shadow Tower, the pioneering dungeon crawlers for PlayStation and PS2 that Sword of Moonlight is based on.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Top Monster Hunter Wilds Mods
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
The modding community for Monster Hunter Wilds is thriving with an impressive range of modifications. There’s an abundance of mods, comparable to the number of doshaguma pelts stored in my inventory, ready to be transformed into glamorous gear. This surge in modding is a boon for the game, which faces certain performance and graphical hurdles despite optimal PC settings. The modding community is stepping up to the plate, diligently creating utilities to alleviate performance issues and tackle other practical inconveniences. The variety of mods is immense, ranging from handy tweaks such as disabling the kill cam (which wrests camera control each time a monster is slain), to custom character outfits, and even odd transformations like enlarging your palico.
Read the full article on PC Gamer →
‘Siege 2 was never on the table’: Director Explains Why Rainbow Six Siege X Doesn’t Need a Sequel
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
Rainbow Six Siege stands as a testament to the longevity of successful multiplayer games. Despite being a decade old, the game continues to thrive, squashing any rumors of a sequel in the making. Ubisoft had been hinting at a major update for the tactical FPS, but following the ill-received launch of Overwatch 2, they decided against adopting a ‘2’ for the next stage of Siege. Enter Rainbow Six Siege X, a comprehensive overhaul of the game’s core features: revamped audio, modernized maps, enhanced environmental destruction, a weapon inspect feature, improved ping functionality, and an exciting new 6v6 game mode, Dual Front.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Valve Celebrates Steam Deck and Steam OS Success: ‘The Future of Hardware at Valve is Bright’
Source: PC Gamer – March 14, 2025
Valve has issued a comprehensive ‘Year in Review’ report, spotlighting its numerous achievements in 2024. Among the various elements of this extensive report, the details concerning Valve’s hardware interests, particularly the Steam Deck, stand out. Valve reports that Steam Deck users logged an impressive 330 million hours of gameplay in 2024, marking a 64% increase from the previous year. It’s speculated that roughly 200 million of those hours were dedicated to playing Balatro. This significant surge is notable, especially considering the Steam Deck’s high-end price point and its classification as a relatively niche device. Nevertheless, it’s evident that the influence of its user community is beginning to make its mark.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Microsoft Introduces Copilot for Gaming, an AI-Powered Assistant, Aimed to Enhance Gaming Experience
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
Microsoft is set to launch its AI-powered chatbot, Copilot, on Xbox as the “Copilot for Gaming.” This innovative tool is designed to optimize your gaming experience by saving you time, recommending new games based on your preferences, and helping you to re-engage with games you’ve previously paused. The Copilot for Gaming operates on three fundamental principles: capability, adaptability, and personalization. As such, it is engineered to assist gamers in a variety of ways, including providing personalized game recommendations, facilitating seamless game setup, offering game coaching, and helping maintain connections with friends. This was demonstrated with a few examples of Copilot for Gaming’s in-game functionality during today’s episode of the Official Xbox Podcast by Fatima Kardar, the Corporate Vice President of Gaming AI at Xbox, and Jason Ronald, the Vice President of Next Generation.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Rainbow Six Siege Introduces Its First Permanent Mode in a Decade, Overturning Established Rules
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
Long-time players of Rainbow Six Siege might find themselves doing a double-take at the first round of Dual Front, a new permanent 6v6 mode set to debut in Year 10 Season 2. The result of several years of development as part of the Siege X project, this mode is more than just a fleeting event. It’s a radical departure from Siege’s traditional, competitive Bomb format. Dual Front introduces a host of changes, including an increased lobby size, the activation of respawns, and most surprisingly, it allows attackers and defenders to coexist on the same team.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Fragpunk: The Whimsical New Hit on Steam
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
As a seasoned gamer, you’ve likely come across a game with a big head mode. But have you ever encountered a small head mode? What about a 5v5 shooter featuring a pint-sized, bootleg Growlithe (a character from Pokémon) that trails behind you, spitting fire at adversaries? Have you ever played a competitive FPS which allows you to lay an egg by crouching, that can be consumed to regain lost health? Or perhaps a shooter where your movement speed increases dynamically when you use voice chat? It’s unlikely you’ve played an FPS where all these bizarre elements blend together. Fragpunk, having recently reached a peak of 113,000 concurrent players on Steam, is the FPS embodiment of unpredictability and randomness.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Nintendo Predicted to Sell Massive Quantities of Switch 2 Consoles at Launch, Regardless of Price, Analysts Say; June Release Date Reiterated
Source: IGN – March 14, 2025
The Nintendo Switch 2’s price point is stirring quite the buzz in the gaming industry. Analysts have informed IGN that they anticipate Nintendo’s next-gen console will debut at $400, a prediction that is echoed in a recent Bloomberg report. This price, significantly steeper than its predecessor, could even peak at $499, according to another analyst’s prediction quoted in the Bloomberg report. However, they all seem to agree that the Switch 2’s launch could be one of the most significant in console history, irrespective of its price.
“Nintendo is expected to sell a staggering number of Switch 2 units, particularly within the first few months of release, almost irrespective of the set price,” Tokyo-based analyst Serkan Toto told Bloomberg.
Read the full article at IGN →
Rainbow Six Siege Partially Transitions to Free-to-Play After 10-Year Wait
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
Marking the end of an era, Rainbow Six Siege, one of the last pay-to-play strongholds, is transitioning to a free-to-play model. This change aligns with the game’s significant 10-year refresh. However, it’s not a complete shift: while the majority of Siege will be freely accessible, its two most competitive modes, Ranked and Siege Cup, will still require payment. This partial transition to “free access,” as Ubisoft labels it, is set to occur with the Rainbow Six Siege X update launching on June 10th. Game director Alex Karpazis revealed the team’s reasons for not opting for a fully free-to-play model during a Siege X preview event in Atlanta, as reported by PC Gamer.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
Steam Workshop Support Now Available for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Allows ‘Jiggle Physics’ Adjustments
Source: PC Gamer – March 13, 2025
The significant 1.2 update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is now live, introducing official modding support via Steam Workshop. As one player humorously pointed out, “It’s about to get a lot more naked in here.” Developer Warhorse Studios announced, “Bohemia is yours to shape—official modding support for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is now live on Steamworks! Whether you want to tweak mechanics, expand the world, or forge entirely new adventures, the tools are at your disposal.” This, of course, opens up the possibility for nude mods. Despite the few hours that have passed since the launch of Steam Workshop support, no clothing-optional mods have been spotted yet.
Read the full article at PC Gamer →
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