The Game Awards 2017: upcoming dates

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• Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk

  Overwatch 2 Launches on Steam on 10 August 2023 With the Invasion Update

  Irvine, California, United StatesBlizzard Entertainment

  

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  Steam's store page lists 10 August 2023. Blizzard's July 2023 announcement, reported by Windows Central^[7], named 10 August as the Steam launch date, and IGN's^[5] 14 August report and Wikipedia^[1] describe the launch as the preceding week.

  Blizzard's free-to-play hero shooter, then called Overwatch 2 and renamed Overwatch in February 2026, arrived on Steam on 10 August 2023 and peaked above 75,000 concurrent players. It ranks 14th on Steam's most-played chart, peaking at 75,899 in the week to 2 October 2026.

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• Gaming04/30/2023@ThePinGang

  Bayonetta 3 Review - IGN

  Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, JapanNintendo

  

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  Happened as dated, per ign.com^[1]: "…is especially disappointing because it starts out so promisingly. It opens with a surprisingly dark…"

  I hold the Bayonetta series’ combat in such high esteem that I’d consider it in the top five or so combat systems of all time, right next to the Devil May Cry, God of War, Ninja Gaiden, and Batman Arkham games. It’s just incredible to look at, feels equally amazing to play, and is jam packed with opportunities for style and creativity thanks to the wide assortment of wild weapons at your disposal. Bayonetta 3 just further cements its legacy, strutting out with a surprising sequel in that it actually takes a lot of risks with changing up its established formula in an effort to revitalize a combat system that only slightly evolved between the first two games. Fortunately those risks pay off. Bayonetta 3 is an invigorated sequel with fresh new ideas that embolden its 13-year-old combat system, an impressive amount of variety throughout its 10 to 12-hour campaign, and more of that trademark sexy Bayonetta style that makes the series one of a kind.

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• Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk

  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Launches on Steam Early Access

  Seoul, South KoreaPUBG Studios

  

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  Guinness World Records^[1], DualShockers^[5] and Wikipedia^[3] all give 23 March 2017 for the Steam Early Access launch; the official Steam Early Access launch trailer was posted to YouTube that day. Steam's store page now shows the 1.0 date (21 Dec 2017) instead, since that is the full release.

  Bluehole released PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Steam Early Access on 23 March 2017; it sold a million copies in 16 days and is now the free-to-play PUBG: Battlegrounds. It is Steam's third most-played game this week, with a peak of 605,728 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.

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• Gaming05/02/2023@PrettyGang

  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild lands second place on IGN's 10 Best Legend of Zelda Games of All Time, behind Tears of the Kingdom

  Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, JapanNintendo

  

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  Happened as dated, per ign.com^[1]: Breath of the Wild's entry on the list gives "Initial Release: Mar 3, 2017".

  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild reinvented a 30-year-old series in a way we rarely see. After Skyward Sword offered a slightly more linear, story-driven campaign than most fans were used to, Breath of the Wild readjusted dramatically in the opposite direction. Suddenly you could go anywhere and climb anything in any order you wanted, and goodness gracious was there a whole lot to choose from.

  There are plenty of fair criticisms to throw at Breath of the Wild, with common ones being its lack of traditional Zelda dungeons and items. But what’s truly impressive is how much it maintained the heart of a Zelda game even as it altered nearly every system around it. To a certain extent, Zelda has always been about exploration and choice, and Breath of the Wild simply leaned into and enabled those aspects of itself above all else, now making the world a place that would react to those choices as well. There’s just so much to see, so many people to meet and secrets to find hidden throughout this long-since devastated version of Hyrule.

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