Steam is going to let you hide the games you don’t want your friends to see

By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a lesser-known ending for dead player characters, letting you haunt the epilogue party. To pull it off, you have to get Gale to sacrifice himself at the end to destroy the Netherbrain, but without teleporting his friends to safety. If you do this, you'll die, but Withers will still invite you to the big meet-up in the epilogue.

Ever been idly clicking through the Steam store and something causes you to immediately hit the brakes and add a game to the top of your wishlist? That happened to me today while looking at upcoming city builders. There's just something about an isometric city builder with retro pixel art that immediately appeals to me, so Metropolis 1998 grabbed my attention with just a few screenshots.

Last month, the MultiVersus rumour mill span itself into a frenzy over some stickers plastered in Belgian McDonalds, which appeared early—like some kind of hallucination you experience when you're severely dehydrated, only the water in this case is a platform fighter most people had a good time with that randomly shut down for months.

Xbox Game Pass is going to add plenty of new games to its library in 2024, expanding the variety of choices available to anyone who subscribes to the service. Although it's impossible to say what the full scope of changes to the library will be in the coming year, a number of planned titles have already been revealed. Among these options, a select number stand out as the most exciting additions to the service.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is less than three months away from being released. Just a year and a half ago, this remained a pipe dream for fans of the original action RPG, as ten years had passed without a sequel. Then the June 2022 announcement came and they could finally rejoice.

Fallout 4’s most ambitious, “game-size” conversion mod takes the post-apocalypse to London City and it finally has a release date. 

Stellar Tera Shards are a key item connected to the new Stellar Pokémon Type in 's latest DLC, The Indigo Disk. The Stellar Type is a new and unique Pokémon Type that only appears when you Terastallize other Pokémon with 50 Stellar Tera Shards. A Stellar-type Terastallization will make your Pokémon super effective against other Terastallized Pokémon, making Stellar Tera Shards a game-changing addition.

Steam users who opt-in to Client Betas can now hide their games from people on their friends list. The new update also includes adding new features to the Steam Shopping Cart. This includes private shopping, inline gifting, and cart sharing between devices.

If you've opted in to the Steam client beta, you can now mark games in your Steam library as private so that they're invisible to other users. That means that if you're - as a hypothetical - a games journalist who once had to buy and install some games with questionable names and subject matter for an article you were writing, you can now hide that so it's no longer visible to your friends or - hypothetically - your child.

I love how Microsoft Flight Simulator exists in the background now, like the distant roar of an overhead flight path. Not only is it just nice to have a shiny, new version of one of the gaming OGs there to pick up and play at any time, every now and then it drops an absolutely gorgeous new trailer showing off some wild technical wizardry or hyper-detailed new cityscape. That's exactly what's happened now, with Flight Sim's latest update inviting you to pay a flying visit to an eclectic collection of European cities.

Archaludon is a powerhouse new Pokemon trainers can grab early in the Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. The huge arched Pokemon folds down into a bridge-like shape and blasts enemies with a variety of different killer beam attacks. This is one of the best Pokemon for dealing with the Elite Four in the Terrarium region — and a great Pokemon to grab before facing off against Drayton in the Polar Biome. Archaludon is available to all players and you’ll be able to buy its evolution item in the Blueberry Academy Store. Now that’s convenient.