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Burning Sword: Death Sun Enters Steam Early Access on November 17 With a $1,000 Arena Mode Competition

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4 days ago

November 11, 2026

Burning Sword: Death Sun gameplay screenshot showing a wuxia swordsman unleashing a fiery slash against an enemy.

Burning Sword: Death Sun gameplay. Photo by Rising Tide Publishing.

Rising Tide Publishing and developer Nomadic Games have announced that Burning Sword: Death Sun, a wuxia hack and slash, will enter Steam Early Access on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, priced at $19.99, with review copies available now.

The news follows the game’s appearance at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show, held October 29 to November 1 at QSNCC in Bangkok. Visitors to the Burning Sword booth were the first players outside the studio to try the new Early Access content, and hundreds took part in an Arena Mode competition on a live scoreboard, with the top player taking home the Burning Sword from the booth along with a cash prize.

To celebrate the launch, Nomadic Games and Rising Tide Publishing are running a $1,000 Arena Mode competition for creators. On November 17, accepted creators will livestream a single Arena Mode run as soon as the game unlocks on Steam at 15:00 UTC, and the highest score of the day wins $1,000, with the development team in the chats cheering everyone on.

The Early Access build is complete. All of its content is in the game and playable: five handcrafted, linear stages, each with secrets off the main path; five bosses and two secret bosses; the full combat system, with Power Gauge, Ignite, Quick Shot, Qi Drain and three equipped skills; The Hub and character progression; and Arena Mode, an endless, arcade-style score attack. “It’s fun, and it has a surprisingly competent understanding of fundamentals that a lot of modern action games lack,” said Roger Renfro of Load Last Save.

More stages, bosses and skills will follow after November 17, with regular updates and a devlog for each one. The full game will have five chapters and twelve handcrafted stages, with nine named bosses including Gao Tianqi, two secret bosses and many elite minibosses. Nomadic Games is an independent studio in Bangkok, founded in 2020 to put gameplay at the core of every adventure.

Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars Is Out Now on Quest, PICO and Android XR

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16 minutes ago

November 15, 2026

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Rocky, a rocky alien crewmate, reaches out with a stone fist inside the Hail Mary spaceship in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars.

Rocky, the rocky alien crewmate, inside the Hail Mary in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars. Photo by Maze Theory

Humanity’s last hope is now a mission you can step inside. Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars is out now, a mixed-reality adventure that tells a previously untold chapter of Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi universe.

The immersive mixed reality experience launched on PICO, Android XR and Meta Quest 3/3S. It comes from Maze Theory, the award-winning London-based immersive entertainment studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time.

Players step into the role of Ryland Grace. Ryland Grace and his friend and crewmate Rocky must work together in the face of disaster to keep the Hail Mary intact and bring their world-saving cargo to Eridani — Rocky’s home planet, and Grace’s new home.

It is a story of trust and communication between species. As this mixed-reality experience blends your physical environment with the Hail Mary itself, players diagnose problems, improvise solutions and push the limits of science and engineering to keep the mission alive.

Along the way, players work alongside Rocky to keep the mission alive, diagnose failing systems and improvise scientific solutions, and manage their ship and its precious cargo as they travel through the stars — experiencing humanity’s last hope firsthand.

Watch the launch trailer below.