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Blobun is an indie puzzle game currently making waves on social media thanks to a joke setting that eliminates its lesbian content. The problem? Blobun protagonist Stephanie is gay, so flipping the so-called “lesbian toggle” in the options menu removes her from the game and renders it totally unplayable. “It all started a while back...

Microsoft just announced the pending availability of Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered assistant that’s being advertised as a novel way to help players get better at their favorite titles. The company says it will accompany people through games, offering tips, guides and useful information along the way. Microsoft boasts it can also help folks download and launch games, solving the eternal problem of, uh, pressing a button. Copilot for Gaming will be available as part of the Xbox mobile app, so ...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has enjoyed a successful launch, and Warhorse Studios and Deep Silver are keeping the momentum going with updates, mod support, and DLC. Thursday’s Patch 1.2 update includes a crucial RPG feature by adding a barber to Zhelejob and Kuttenberg, so Henry can change his look to suit his mood. Warhorse has...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it's creating a new Council for National Security within the agency. The FCC's announcement doesn't go into much detail about what the group will do, but a list of its broader goals focuses on US competition with China, including in AI and other tech sectors. The FCC's statement on the Council for National Security says its three-part agenda includes: "Reduce the American technology and telecommunications sectors’ trade and supply chai...

I've definitely been here before.

Who needs sunscreen when you’ve got a fifty foot tall killer robot?

Totally Tactical! We're almost three months in, and we haven't had a single Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game lined up for Switch in 2025 — which, after the trio we got last year, feels like a long time. One that we'd expect to see make its way over at some point, however, is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, an upcoming turn-based title from developer Strange Scaffold (Sunshine Shuffle, An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs) which will be skating onto PC on 22nd May. You re...

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 is bringing back the classic levels and gameplay of the early games — if not the free-skate structure career mode of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. The soundtrack for Activision and Iron Galaxy’s remaster will also be a mix of familiar and new, with a range of punk,...

Carl Lundstrom was 64.

It’s time to dust off that Steam Deck, wipe down that controller, and tuck away the throws. Hot off the heels of Steam Next Fest comes the Steam Spring Sale, and indie publishing platform indie.io has heaps of imaginative games from small teams to help put those Winter blues to bed for another year.

Fortnite will be available on Arm-based Windows machines later this year. In a blog post, developer Epic Games said that it is working with Qualcomm to get the hugely popular game compatible with the new Windows architecture by offering Windows on Snapdragon support for Epic Online Services Anti-Cheat, also known as Easy Anti-Cheat. Microsoft has making a big push to convert its computing ecosystem to Arm-based hardware with Windows 11, especially as it puts more resources behind its line of Cop...

Netflix announced on Thursday that Charlie Brooker’s conversation-starting bleak-future anthology series Black Mirror will return for a seventh season on April 10. The announcement came with a gallery of season images and a preview trailer for the six-episode season, which includes prominent appearances from Paul Giamatti, Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina, and others, plus a Black Mirror...

Henry of Skalitz’s status as an all-time great RPG protagonist has been solidified by Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's brilliance, but if you’ve ever thought that his physical appearance was a bit safe, now’s your chance to shake things up a bit. KCD 2’s free barber shop DLC has just landed, letting you give Henry a fresh trim. Also hitting the game today is update 1.2, which makes over a thousand improvements and bug fixes, and official Steam Workshop mod support.

Google is updating Android to support Auracast, a Bluetooth LE technology that makes it possible to create, listen to and switch between public broadcasts of Bluetooth audio on the devices you already own. At its simplest, Auracast could let you to tune your Bluetooth earbuds to a muted TV in a public space and hear its audio. For Google, though, it sounds like the company is primarily interested in using the feature to make hearing aids even more helpful. Google plans to use Auracast as a way t...

"I would always trust parents to make their own decisions."

The 47-second announcement trailer for Disco Elysium’s upcoming Android release has familiar scenes from the original game zoomed in to fit within a phone screen. Text that normally sits in a panel on the right side of the screen has been moved to the center, and skill checks look like they’ll involve actually rolling a...

Including all ports and DLC. The upcoming 'Definitive' Switch version of Xenoblade Chronicles X has gotten us all excited about not just the Wii U gem coming in from the cold, but about the wider series in general. Tetsuya Takahashi's baby has grown and flourished throughout the Switch generation to such an extent that 'Operation Rainfall', the fan-led campaign to pressure Nintendo into bringing Xenoblade Chronicles (among other RPGs) to the West, feels much longer ago than just 13 years. The fo...

DXVK is a tool used by Proton that translates Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan. It's one of the projects that enables Windows games to run so well on Linux platforms like Steam Deck. Version 2.6 was just released.

Time to take the dog for one last walk in this ageing predecessor to Torchlight.

Titus is coming back for more.

PowerWash Simulator is a surprisingly cozy game, giving the player a pressure washer and a truly grimy and grubby environment to clean up. The game has been so successful that there are crossovers with other pop culture titans, like Warhammer 40,000 or Tomb Raider. On Thursday, developer FuturLab announced a self-published sequel with improved visuals,...

Valve have launched the first of their planned four major seasonal sales for 2025, with the Steam Spring Sale launched featuring plenty of big discounts and demos.

It's only been six months since Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2's well-received arrival, but developer Saber Interactive would already like you to know it's working on a sequel. Yup, Space Marine 3 is officially announced, but that's pretty much all we know so far.

Crime doesn’t pay.

Saber and Focus Entertainment Publishing have announced Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3, another bloody serving of Adeptus Astarting with a fresh single player campaign and multiplayer component, plus unspecified "innovations that will redefine the standards of third-person action games". Saber will work on the new action game alongside Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which they assure us will continue to receive updates for "years".

Two Point Museum, the latest business sim from Two Point Studios, is an engrossing museum management game that keeps you hooked with constant rewards. The very act of sending out an archeological team to acquire more exhibits nets you a (totally free) loot box of ancient antiquities. Exhibit-buffing gems and additional themed decorations can be...

The inZOI system requirements are finally out, and not only do we have four tiers ranging from minimum to high, but we also have specific details about optimizing performance through upscaling and how SSDs will impact performance. If you're planning to run inZOI at the highest settings possible, you're going to need one of the best graphics cards alongside one of the best gaming CPUs. Even looking toward the minimum tier, an Nvidia RTX card is listed, which means this is yet another game to ditc...

Focus Entertainment, Saber Interactive, and Games Workshop have announced that Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 3 is officially in development.

Prytania Media owners Annie and Jeff Strain are suing NetEase for defamation, unfair trade practices, and interference with business relations, which the lawsuit says led to the destruction of the company and its multiple subsidiaries: Crop Circle Games, Possibility Space, Fang & Claw, and Dawon Entertainment. Each of these studios shut down in 2024, and...

AMD has pulled off a miraculous comeback with its new GPUs, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT practically pointing and laughing at the RTX 5070 as it sputters with 12GB of VRAM. It’s not just the new GPUs that wowed me with this launch, though, but also the feature set with FSR 4, and AMD just needs to make one change to this feature set to knock one of Nvidia’s key competitive advantages out of the running - make FSR 4 an open standard that will run on Nvidia Tensor cores. Can it be done? After en...

Earlier this month and after a few unintentional slips, Activision officially announced that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 are coming back, with the two games getting remade from the ground up.

First announced back in 2023, NVIDIA is finally releasing a playable demo for Half-Life 2 RTX. If you own the original game on Steam (and if you don't, what's your excuse?), you can download the preview on March 18. The showcase will allow players to see how Orbifold Studios has reimagined Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt with ray tracing. NVIDIA says the full release will arrive "at a later date." Ahead of the demo's release, NVIDIA is also releasing RTX Remix, the modding toolkit Orbifold used to r...

If you fancy a challenging RPG with a dark, horror-tinged vibe that won’t eat up as much of your time as the Elden Ring campaign, you should grab Mortal Shell for free while you can. Developer Core Symmetry was founded by four like-minded people with a shared passion for Dark Souls, and the studio’s debut game is an intriguing and inventive soulslike with some genuinely unique ideas. It’s certainly one to try if you’re a fan of the format, and now you can do so without spending a thing via the E...

If you love space bug-blasting co-op games, then 2024 was definitely a year to remember. Helldivers 2 was an unexpected breakout hit, only for Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 to drop and reach similar levels of success. The reception to the latter was so good and so encouraging that publisher Focus Entertainment has just greenlit a sequel just six months on from its launch. That’s right, development is now underway for Space Marine 3, and Saber Interactive is at the helm once again.