Sleep Awake, a visually inviting horror game from the lead dev behind Spec Ops: The Line, has a demo out now

It's been a while since we've had a new game from Spec Ops: The Line director Cory Davis. As far as I can tell, the last game he made was 2016's Here They Lie, a survival horror game. He's currently working on another horror game in fact, Sleep Awake, which is a horrendous name, though I think it's doing some interesting things. Weirdly, he's making the game alongside Nine Inch Nails guitarist (for live shows, anyway) Robin Finck, and while the game doesn't have a release date, it did just receive a demo.

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As Square Enix release Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles on PC, I renew my demand for my mate Richie to return the PSP copy I lent him 15 years ago

*cavernous, torturous, 20-second-long sucking-in of breath*

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Civilization 7 update 1.2.5 arrives today, bringing new map types, building UI improvements and Napoleon buffs

Civ 7 beefy update 1.2.5 arrives today, September 30th. Developers Firaxis have laid out its major tweaks and additions, which include new map types and city states, plus a revamp of the construction interface and a hefty helping of balancing.

The polarising 4X strategy nation-builder has gotten the likes of auto-explore and world wonder reworks in its last couple of monthly updates, with Firaxis having settled in for the long haul after an initial flurry of post-release tweaking. 1.2.5 is the first update the game's gotten since an undisclosed number of workers - "dozens of people", according to Game Developer sources - were laid off at Firaxis earlier this month, in what publishers 2K told RPS was a "staff reduction" as the studio "restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity".

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EA are about to be bought for $50 billion by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firms, claims report

Battlefield, EA Sports FC and Apex Legends publishers Electronic Arts are holding "advanced talks" to go private with a valuation of $50 billion after 35 years as a public company, according to reports this weekend.

If rumour breathe true, the buyers are a group of investors that include private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, the Saudi-backed investment firm founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong pre-patch 3 beta update brings extra controller support and dispels nagging lategame curses

As has been the case with all of Hollow Knight: Silksong's sizeable updates this far, Team Cherry have put out some tweaks as a Steam beta shot to the upcoming patch three's chaser. As of now, opting into playtesting this "interim update" offers some extra controller support and fixes, but the devs say more'll be added before the full patch goes live to everyone.

In case you need a refesher, the metroidvania's first patch made a couple of its early bosses a bit easier. Meanwhile, its second patch didn't do any balancing, but did bring handy fixes to problems like the Savage Beastfly boss cheekily hiding below some lava.

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What's on your bookshelf: Saltsea Chronicles, Mutazione and Thronglets' Hannah Nicklin

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Having finally read The Epic Of Gilgamesh recently, I feel I should in be awe at how the proliferation of certain themes and dramatic modes throughout history speaks deeply to the truths of the human experience. However, gaming has taught me to recognise a dirty asset flip when I see one. For shame, much of storytelling.

This week, it's Saltsea Chronicles, Mutazione, Thronglets, and much more's Hannah Nicklin! Cheers Hannah! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for laughing at your sat nav's American voiceover lady when, as you're visiting Northamptonshire for the first time, she pronounces Towcester as toaster. That can't be how it's said, you snort, surely everyone from there would have to follow-up revealing their hometown by insisting they weren't born in a bread slot. Silly sat nav, get out of here! You then end up at a racing circuit. Adrian Edmondson is chatting to a local radio host over the tannoy. The host pronounces it toaster. You ask a passerby. They pronounce it toaster. You wonder if your sat nav wife will take you back.

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Q-UP is a coin flipping eSports game that prides itself on its fairness that might be gaslighting me

I think Q-UP might be gaslighting me. It most certainly is a real video game, I played it myself. And yet it presents an entirely different vision of reality where it is the coin flipping eSport of choice. The worst part is that it nearly convinced me that such a reality is a pretty good one. Perhaps even more than half!

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Genshin Impact devs' next game looks so much like Animal Crossing I'm almost not sure why it exists

I am genuinely unsure if MiHoYo are capable of making a game that doesn't heavily borrow from a different game you probably already love at this point in time. Denying The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's influence on Genshin Impact is like denying the sky is blue! Only recently was Honkai: Nexus Anima revealed, a game that takes Pokemon and shoves it into a blender with Auto Chess. And now there is Petit Planet, a game I can only describe as Animal Crossing but if it was in space, I guess.

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If you miss how much Hornet used to scream and shout, there's a Hollow Knight: Silksong mod you'll shaw-ly want to pick up

Have you, like me, been unable to get that one TikTok sound out of your head that mixes Anri's iconic anthem I Can't Stop The Loneliness with the screams of Hollow Knight's very own Hornet ever since Silksong came out? It's a surprisingly good combo, but it also serves as an unintended reminder for something: these particular screams of Hornet's are nowhere to be found in Silksong. You know, the classics, like "SHAW," and "Adino!" not to mention the unforgettable "Hegale!" So of course there's a mod for that.

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Possessor(s), the sort of Metroidvania from the devs behind Hyper Light Drifter, gets a November release date

Heart Machine have had a busy year. It was only in January that they launched Hyper Light Breaker into early access, a surprise follow-up to their beloved indie action RPG Hyper Light Drifter. That launch didn't go amazingly due to a myriad of reasons, and even now the game hasn't completely managed to find its footing yet. And then there's Possessor(s), their search action (not Metroidvania) game that at long last has a release date!

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Aha! I have at last wrested control of the WAWAPs from the intruders! Let the smiley faces return! And also, be a star and let us know what you're getting up to this weekend? I've missed our chats.

Here's what we're all clicking on this weekend!

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Having resurrected The Crew, devs behind fan revival project are now working on a big mod to restore the racer to "greatness"

Earlier this month, fan-made revival project The Crew Unlimited, brought Ubisoft's decommissioned racer The Crew back to life in server emulated PC form. Now, its devs have put out an update outlining a couple of things they're working on to try and take things to the next level.

This looks to be the first time the group have been able to catch their breath since releasing The Crew Unlimited on September 15th, having had to work flat out on fixes for teething issues in the immediate aftermath. Some of those problems stemmed from some players having acquired broken versions of The Crew's game files from "shady sources", with TCU's devs saying they aren't responsible for the server emulator not working in these cases.

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Borderlands 4's latest update aims to deliver more performance fixes, ends up causing more stuttering for some

Another day, another Borderlands 4 update aiming to smooth out more of the performance problems which have plagued the looter shooter since launch, especially on PC. Unfortuntely, this latest patch looks to have led to an uptick in stuttering for some players, with Gearbox recommending some shader messing around as a potential fix.

In fairness to the studio, you can't say they haven't been working hard to get Borderlands 4 running a bit more smoothly since problems in that department became apparent, with this being the third post-launch patch targeting performance in the past couple of weeks. One of them was confusingly noteless, but hey.

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The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X prices aren’t too bad in the UK, but tariffs bite in the US

After much hemming and hawing, Asus and Microsoft are finally ready to talk pricing on their handheld PC team-ups, the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. It’s nothing too egregious in the King’s sterling, with the Xbox ROG Ally confirmed at £499.99 and the Xbox ROG Ally X at £799.99 – while hardly chump change, these are pretty standard prices for entry-level and premium portables respectively.

Those in the US, however, will be paying $599.99 for the ROG Xbox Ally and $999.99 for the ROG Xbox Ally X, the latter representing a big increase on Asus’ current ROG Ally X model.

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For a jetpacking open worlder starring bug-sized Captain Picard, Infinitesimals feels a lot like Operation Flashpoint

Much to my surprise, the overgrown garden setting of Infinitesimals is not especially indebted to any Dreamworks and Pixar films about insects. Nor is the game's steel-jawed space flea protagonist, Captain Awkney Relinrake, directly inspired by Buzz Lightyear. Instead, he channels the stately, swaggering Englishness of Jean Luc Picard and Richard Sharpe, aka Napoleonic Sean Bean.

This last revelation slightly disappoints me, in that Relinrake seems a bit ridiculous, with eyebrows the size of aviation flaps, and I'd like the game to own that humour in a more obviously Toy Story-ish way. But what most catches me out, during my 30 minute hands-on with Cubit Studios' deceptively toony action game, is that it takes a fair few cues from milsims.

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Marvel's Wolverine at long last gets a borderline uncomfortably bloody gameplay trailer, and a PS5 release window

After four whole years of silence, PlayStation and Insomniac have very graciously offered up a new trailer for Marvel's Wolverine. With gameplay no less! Horrifically gruesome, violent, and bloody gameplay that is so intense you should probably give it 15 minutes or so if you've just had your supper.

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ZA/UM’s spy thriller Zero Parades sure looks like Disco Elysium in glasses and a moustache

Zero Parades is, if you ask its creators ZA/UM, a lot of things. It is an espionage CRPG. It is a character study of Hershel Wilk, the burnt-out, fallen-from-grace spook you’ll be playing as. It is, as I’m told before being shown some very early footage of the game in motion, "a story about failure, and about crippling regret."

It’s also, quite nakedly, a Disco Elysium successor, perhaps the most overtly Disco-y in what’s set to become a bizarrely crowded field. Some will like that, I imagine. But it’s odd to see Zero Parades cling to the past, while so explicitly asking you to confront it.

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Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website

Amnesia: Rebirth developers Frictional are teasing what appears to be a new sci-fi game by way of a sneaky update to their deep sea horror venture Soma. Whatever it is, it involves some godforsaken luxury hotel steeped in a sheeny corporate appropriation of sacred ideas about cyclical change - a hotel that promises "an out of this world experience". Sounds like the Dark Descenders are getting into the Dead Space business.

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Demi and the Fractured Dream looks like a good fit for Breath of the Wild haters that miss the old 3D Zeldas

Despite many others disagreeing with this stance, I am of the opinion that it's completely fine that we'll likely never get a "classic" 3D Zelda game again. By that I mean, the whole Breath of the Wild/ Tears of the Kingdom format is definitely the direction Nintendo will continue to go in, they've just been too popular. However, I understand the desire for such an experience all the same, and I think Demi and the Fractured Dream might be able to scratch that itch.

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Arc Raiders' devs would you like you to slam its servers with one last, open to all tech test next month

With Marathon having received an indefinite delay back in June, that just leaves one game to test whether extraction shooters can make it mainstream: Arc Raiders. While this one has been cooking for a while now, it actually has a release date, October 30th. There's been a few tests along the way, and it turns out the devs have one last one in them!

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Knock knock. Who's there? The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima. The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima who? The first proper OD trailer from Hideo Kojima who now appears terrified of doors

Kojima Productions have shared a new trailer for OD, their forthcoming horror game. Unlike last night's melancholy breadcrumb of Physint coverage, this reveal actually has substance. It looks a bit like P.T., Hideo Kojima's much-mourned teaser for his cancelled Silent Hills project, inasmuch as the game appears to be first-person, and the trailer is set in some kind of menacing residential building. The whole video is pervaded by the fear of something trying to get in, as expressed by the title "Knock". You can watch it below, unless you're too scared.

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"Here comes the feeling" promises Kojima in latest maddening tease for Metal Gear-like Physint

Dear Hideo Kojima, you'd better give us a proper update on your new Metal Gear-style action-espionage game-movie wotsit Physint soon, because for every hour that passes, I think of another unbearable title pun.

I'm not very Physinterested in Physint right now, a game defined by what it Physisn't. Perhaps I'd be more Physinto it if Kojima Productions would share a proper outline and explore the Physintricacies. But this is Hideo Kojima, a man of *grunts, strains* Sphysint-like enigma. Still, at least we now know that Don Lee from Train To Busan is in the stealthy film-o-game, together with Charlee Fraser from Furiosa and Minami Hamabe from Godzilla Minus One.

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Dying Light: The Beast review

It's hard to talk about Dying Light: The Beast—the latest in Techland's open-world zombie parkour action series—without talking about its origins. While now living life as a full-priced retail game with a respectable ~20 hour campaign (and one that I enjoyed for the most part), The Beast started out as a planned expansion for Dying Light 2, itself a game that has grown, adapted and reshaped itself over the past few years, much like its genetically feisty mutant monsters.

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Silksong's latest public update fixes its worst boss, but not as much as you're likely hoping

Hollow Knight: Silksong's hitherto beta-only update 1.0.28650 is now a fully public release that any dang fool can download without switching to a Steam playtest branch. I'm still noodling my way through the lower levels of Team Cherry's new metroidvania, blissfully unbothered by any pressure to review it or write Silksong walkthroughs. As such, I asked our reviewer James to have a look at the patch notes and pluck out any important changes, based on his many, many hours in Pharloom.

A shadow glided over James's face, then returned and took up residence in one earhole. Wordlessly he outstretched a gnarled finger towards item 3 on the list: "Fixed Savage Beastfly in Far Fields sometimes remaining below the lava."

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This week in PC games: Tokyo Game Show, Silent Hill, babel city-building and an RPG about a fugitive king

Hello reader who is also a player! Once again I have failed in my fervent efforts to meddle with the Earth's rotation so as to suspend time exactly at 11.30am, Saturday morning. I fear that another week is upon us. Fortunately, it contains some new PC games, spanning full releases and early access launches. Some of those new PC games may even be worth a modest portion of your lifespan and personal capital. Here's a list of the ones I find most appealing or notable.

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Silent Hill f review

Is there anything left that Silent Hill can offer us? Last year, I felt the answer to that question was a resounding no. The series' comeback game The Short Message, a short teaser of a horror experience, landed far, far away from my tastes, and last year's Silent Hill 2 was a remake of a game that needed one perhaps less than any other. This year is different though, because it has a true, full-sized, and most importantly new entry to bring this question back to the forefront. And Silent Hill f is a game that has, annoyingly, put me in my place.

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What's on your bookshelf?: author and narrative designer Heidi McDonald

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - the only regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books that has no conception of space, time, responsibility or consistency. Also, I can't read. Still, I'm feeling confident we can get through this together. In that, I have no other choice. This week, it's editor and author for books like Digital Love and Well Played, and writer on games like Orion Trail and Bramblewood, Heidi McDonald! Cheers Heidi! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for looking up the average costs of raising a child, then researching the startup investment required for a currywurst food truck, then wondering how your spouse would react to some kind of Powerpoint pitch deck. Maybe while serving them one of those little cardboard trays, with a sausage in it.

German gastronomy dreams promptly shattered, seems like there’s little else to do but read some of the best games- and not-games-related writing from this past week.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

I'm very sorry, Mungrul and other pixel-combers - I have once again failed to hide a smiley face in the header image for our latest weekend Wappity. Instead, I have cheekily hidden a few upside-down frowns in the curiously tart and succulent descriptions of my absent colleagues, below.

As for those of us who were not absent when this round-up was rounded up on Friday, here's what we're all doing this weekend.

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Study into inverted versus uninverted controls suggests we can stop having pointless arguments about it

To invert or not to invert? The question of whether to flip the Y-axis in games is often answered with recollections of childhood habits and/or varyingly smug declarations of which joystick setting is 'better'. Now, though, a cognitive research study posits that our control preferences are less about whether or not we played GoldenEye after school and more about the innate quirks of our brains.

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Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer

The great 'dematuring' of videogames continues with reports that Valve are now forbidding "post-launch NSFW content" for games on Steam, even those that are already "adult-only". That's according to Crimson Delight Games, the developers of fantasy RPG Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia. They launched it on September 15th with adult content warnings, after submitting it to Valve's review process in August, and had planned to add sexy scenes through updates while working on a big DLC expansion for 2026.

These updates are not going to happen anymore, apparently because everybody's favourite PG-rated cartoon villains, global payment networks, are putting pressure on Valve. Instead, the updates will need to be submitted as proper official DLC so that Valve can give them a formal review.

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Alleged Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra fight video shows Black Panther having an Angry Cat moment in a bar

Development footage of what appears to be upcoming superhero action game Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra has exploded upon the internet like Black Panther clawing his way into a seedy Parisian bar and flinging himself at alt-fascist soldiers in a whirlwind of kicked chairs and bursting bottles. This also being the content of said video.

Assuming the leaked goods are the Real McCoy, they suggest that the game will be a fast and furious brawler with a fair amount of environment destruction, which is probably what you're expecting from a game with Azzuri and Steve Rogers on the poster.

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Escape From Tarkov's Steam release comes with a snag for people who already own it

It's that time of the year folks. The weather's getting colder, the days are getting shorter, and Escape From Tarkov is getting Tweeted and Skeeted about again because of a controversial decision. This time, it's because the game is coming to Steam, which in and of itself is a perfectly fine, perhaps even smart thing to do. The thing that's being called into question however, is the answer to a question on the Steam release's FAQ page about whether or not you'll have to buy it again.

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Solve your own murder and recover your brain in Blanksword, a roguelike RPG with a demo out today

There are few occasions where a game tells me it's combining two genres that typically don't go together and it convinces me it's worth paying attention to, but Blanksword, a roguelike RPG, is quite different. In it, you are Blank, an angel stabbed in the head, brain destroyed, who somehow managed to survive such an ordeal - albeit without any memory of who you were. And now, you are on a quest through a series of islands governed by "Literally God" in order to figure out your mysterious past.

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Legendary strategy boardgame Twilight Imperium is getting a proper PC adaptation with singleplayer support

Many moons ago, I missed my chance to join a weekly Twilight Imperium play session. Missed my chance, or dodged a bullet? Twilight Imperium is an infamously complicated and backstabby boardgame, the kind of baroque strategy space opera that can swallow up entire days and expose any number of terrible character flaws along the way.

Thank goodness there's now a PC version in the works for Steam, which will at least remove the need to set up the pieces and remember what they do. Here's a trailer.

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Delivery Must Complete is Devil May Cry for Ace Combat pilots

It's been long enough since I last played an Ace Combat game that I can remember only two things about Ace Combat. 1) This Ace Combat 7 cutscene featuring what appears to be a wavy JPEG of a dog, which the Twitterati all thought was an exasperated animator's joke, but which I understand is actually a homage to a real staff member's dog who died before the game's release. And 2) you can 'powerslide' by wilfully initiating a stall, which I think might actually be a move from Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Delivery Must Complete sort of builds a whole subgenre around the thrill of powersliding planes. How does it do this? The clue is that "DMC" is also an abbreviation of "Devil May Cry". Here's a trailer. I promise you there will be no further confusing/upsetting references to dogs.

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MindsEye's lead actor talks being the face of a game that flops hard

From an outside perspective, I think it was probably fairly obvious that MindsEye was never going to do very well. There was barely any game to show off, so they mostly didn't. What they did show didn't look very good either, and when it came out, it was a glitchy mess. This all put 300 staff members at risk of being laid off, the full extent of which still being not particularly clear. And in a recent interview, the game's lead actor Alex Hernandez has shared his own experience of being the face of the game (spoiler alert: it's not great).

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You are a mail delivering turnip with a surprisingly nice butt in Letters to Arralla, which is out now

There are a bevy of games available in the world that let you play as what can only be described as "a little guy." However, you can throw all of them out of the window, because I have found the game that has the perfect iteration of such a creature. It is called Letters to Arralla, and in it you quite simply play as a turnip, who has the juiciest derriere I've ever seen in perhaps any game ever. Yes, even more so than one of those anime gacha games, this turnip's rump has got some serious jiggle physics.

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Psst, Borderlands 4 has a pretty broken infinite damage build, and it may soon go the way of the dodo

Be very, very quiet. Yes, I know this is being yelled from a page on a video game website that at least five people have heard of, so it's hardly hush-hush, but if Randy keeps shouting unhinged things at people about PC specs, I think we might slip under the radar.

There's a Borderlands 4 build. It's a bit broken, and can reportedly down bosses in a click of your fingers by doing a craptonne of damage. I am telling you this information now. The game's director is aware of the quirk at the heart of this slapping-up setup, and I've a sneaking suspicion it might be tweaked soon.

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Y'know what, I’m putting my Silksong struggles on hold to become a humble deliverybug

I maintain that the bounties of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s drum-tight action and hyper-intricate world exploration ultimately outweigh its repeated acts of smirking sadism. It’s a fine dining restaurant where the waiters insist on bashing your kneecaps out with claw hammers before serving the most delightful, perfectly layered mille-feuille you’ve had in your life. It’sh delishush, you mumble through a full mouth and agonised tears.

Still, sometimes I’ll fancy a taste of the good stuff without necessarily having my skeleton destroyed. To that end, I’ve been taking regular breaks from Silksong’s usual heroics to pursue the simpler life of a package courier for Pharloom’s surviving insects.

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Freshly released The Crew fan revival gets early fixes, devs say they aren't responsible for issues caused by game files from "shady sources"

The Crew Unlimited, a fan project making Ubisoft racer The Crew playable again following its unceremonious shutdown last year, released yesterday, September 15th. There's been some early issues to rectify, with the developers having put out two hotfixes already and emphasised that they're "not responsible" for any problems caused by people having grabbed "broken/corrupted game files" from "shady sources".

As we reported earlier this month, The Crew Unlimited's devs started working on it not long after Ubisoft pulled the racer's official servers offline in March 2024, rendering it unplayable. Cue a group of fans deciding to set up a server emulator that'd allow them to get it up and running again for players who still had the game files installed.

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Troublemaker 2 is an exuberant and janky Indonesian open world game with a touch of Like A Dragon

I'm not sure the just-released Troublemaker 2: Beyond Dream is one of those "good games" you're all so bloody obsessed with. My working summary, based on 30 minutes with the demo, is that it's an unofficial Like A Dragon/Yakuza game developed with a fraction of the budget, and set in "fictionalised" Indonesia. That's to say, it's an open world comedy beat 'em up with a bunch of other genres haphazardly stirred in.

I compared it to Rockstar's work and Saints Row in this week's Maw, which was Mostly Wrong. This is a predominantly on-foot experience, for one thing, and you can't grievously assault people at random. There are designated gangs of hoodlums you're permitted to punch out, and as far as I can tell, you have to wait for them to Make Trouble first. It seems very polite and passive for a brawler. Also, you get to transform briefly into a dying cow.

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The Witcher season 4 premieres next month, Netflix show off recast Gerry from the River and vampiric Morpheus

Oh, Netflix's The Witcher TV series is back with its fourth series next month, following a lengthy hiatus that's seen Geralt regenerate from Henry Cavill into Liam Hemsworth. The new series premieres in late October, and first official looks at both the HemsGerry and Laurence Fishburne as Blood and Wine vampire Regis have been offered.

Hang on a minute, I thought, when I scrolled past this news on one of the screens in my Adrian Veidt-esque world-watching setup - Laurence Fishburne's in it? Yep, it seems that after not getting around to watching the third series, I've managed to completely blot out all knowledge that the actor behind The Matrix's pill distributor is being cast in The Witcher.

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Borderlands 4 update aims to "improve stability for a wide range of PCs", but comes without proper patch notes

Borderlands 4 developers Gearbox have chucked more wrenches at the shooter's PC performance over the weekend, following issues that've landed it mixed Steam review fortunes since launch last week. However, if you're looking for patch notes, you're gonna be a bit disappointed. Ah well, at least there are essay-length Randy Pitchford Twitter threads to scroll through if you're partial to someone waffling about how the game runs.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for working out what to do with about 200 apples and 50 pears. The parks round here are full of semi-forgotten fruit trees, so we went out last weekend and gathered a few buckets. It has now dawned on me that if I don't eat apples with every meal and also possibly light fires with them, bathe in their juices and pound them up to serve as a low-grade polyfiller, my flat will soon be overtaken by rats, weevils and feral brewers.

I'll probably take a load to a food bank. I hear apples keep pretty well when they're fresh-picked, at least, but pears are treacherous, adamantium-hard one day and a sopping disaster the next. Anyway, here is some internet writing that doesn't significantly mention fruit at all.

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In Neurocracy, it's up to you to solve a murder mystery through the internet's greatest resource, Wikipedia

You might not think of it as one, but Wikipedia is a game. It has untold numbers of characters and stories, each page an interactive slate with your mouse and hand acting as the choice maker for what you learn next, thus impacting your following choices. This is, admittedly, a bit of a wanky, thinkpiecey way of talking about Wikipedia, so instead of that let's talk about Neurocracy, a game that could quite easily fool you into thinking it is another version of Wikipedia.

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GOG shares their thoughts on preservation in the face of payment processor crackdowns

In general these days it's never a good time to release a video game unless you're Rockstar, but in recent months it's been made even harder due to numerous payment processors cracking down on digital storefronts like Valve and Itch.io. There's a host of reasons this is problematic, but one less spoken about how this is also an issue of preservation. GOG, another digital storefront, this one owned by The Witcher developer CD Projekt, is known for their preservation efforts, and in a recent interview they shared a bit of their thoughts in relation to these recent issues regarding payment processors.

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Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently

I don't play online games particularly often, mostly the only ones that I do enjoy are the kind of games I can play with just my friends. People are mean, you see, and I have a sensitive soul, and also I often find them deeply boring conceptually and in practice. Take of that what you will in relation to this story about Dota 2! Moving on swiftly to a topic that I promise connects to this intro, Gabe Newell! He is a co-founder of Valve, and a noted Dota 2 lover. He also, apparently, is someone who is often subjected to ridicule while playing the very same game his company makes.

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Dying Light: The Beast gets a release date bump so short you'll wonder why they bothered

Whenever there is word of a video game's release date being changed, it's hardly ever surprising because nine times out of ten, it's because it has been delayed. That's just the way things are these days, no one can have the luxury of Team Cherry, who took so long making Silksong just because they were having fun. However, in this case, the release date shifting news is actually a positive one, as Dying Light: The Beast will be launching just that little bit earlier.

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