It’s been a rough week for Elden Ring Nightreign. Not from a player count perspective: it’s absolutely flying off the shelves with over 3.5 million copies sold in just five days. But when it comes to performance, Nightreign has not held up to expectations.

Aside from solo runs being nightmarish, one of the most frustrating parts of Nightreign has been its matchmaking. Solo queuing isn’t too bad, especially if you just select all the bosses and go from there, but queuing in a duo makes it almost impossible to find a player. I waited an hour the other night for just one more player to join our expedition. It’s not just me: Ted Litchfield also had the same issue waiting two hours for matchmaking to work.

The Dune: Awakening early access period for owners of the deluxe and ultimate editions of the game is now live, and despite Funcom’s confidence that there would be no server problems, there are server problems. The good news is, it seems pretty minor and there’s a quick fix.

If you fire up the game and can’t find any servers, “fret not,” as Funcom put it on the Dune: Awakening Discord. First, you are not alone: PC Gamer’s Chris Livingston and Andrea Shearon ran into the same issue when they tried to get into the game today. Second, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal: One of two easily-addressed issues should fix it:

• Steam didn’t update the D1 patch in time. If you can’t see servers then restarting your client will probably show a patch.
• If you played the Beta the client might default to a beta region. Click the change region button then select the appropriate region

Chris and Andrea both reported that following these steps fixed things up for them, so with any luck at all it’ll clear the trouble up for you too.

If the servers are showing up but you’re having occasional crashes, you’ll want to—as is PC gaming tradition, so you should do this anyway—look to your video drivers. Nvidia recently released a GeForce hotfix display driver that, among other things, will address crash issues in Dune: Awakening.

As was foretold, Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 are now live, and in case there was any doubt, yes, it remains a massively popular game—at this moment, it’s the top-selling game on Steam, and amongst the top-ten most played, too.

While the release date was known, having been announced in April (although there was apparently a bit of a mixup there—the Nintendo Switch 2 edition trailer that initially nailed down the date pegs it at June 5, but somewhere along the line it became June 4), but the actual launch was a very quiet affair. There’s not even a notification on Steam—in fact, right now the page still lists chapters 3 and 4 as “coming soon.” But there’s no mistaking the enthusiasm of fans in the Deltarune subreddit.

Comment from r/Deltarune

And yes, the Steam charts: Deltarune currently holds three spots in Steam’s top-ten best-selling list, an impressive accomplishment by any measure.

Well, it’s been a long time coming. The first chapter of Deltarune debuted in 2018, and the second in 2021, and both were free. Creator Toby Fox said the subsequent chapters 3, 4, and 5 would not be free, however, but apparently Fox was in no great hurry to take anyone’s money because they then proceeded to horse around for four years, occasionally reassuring the world at large that progress was being made but never actually delivering on that progress—until now.

Back in 2020, Phasmophobia took the formula of reality shows like Ghost Adventures, where frat boys explore a haunted location saying “woah” at every sound, and turned it into early access gold. It was our co-op game of the year, won best debut at The Game Awards, and has gone on to sell 23 million copies. Now it’s being made into a movie.

The Phasmophobia movie will be produced by two studios with experience in horror and videogame adaptations: Blumhouse (M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s) and Atomic Monster (The Conjuring, Mortal Kombat). While I’m sure they could make a movie about some dopes investigating haunted houses and getting strangled by ghosts without paying for the rights to Phasmophobia, it’s good name recognition sure to appeal to anyone who has fond memories of waving crucifixes and thermometers around a child’s bedroom in the dark. Fun times.