GOG says it’s ‘proud to give Horses a home’ after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won’t let it forget the time it rejected another horror game

Horror adventure game Horses was rejected by Steam after it was submitted in 2023 for, as the storefront put it, “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Developer Santa Ragione has argued that the scene in question was not sexual and that it has since been changed to feature…

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Garry’s mod successor s&box goes open source and even opens up the finances, Garry says: ‘Valve gave me my chance, I’m already rich, I don’t want to f*ck anyone over’

Facepunch Studios has announced that s&box, the long-in-development successor to Garry’s mod, is now open source. “We’re awesome,” says studio founder Garry Newman, which we’ll nod through because they kind of are. “S&box code is on GitHub now (Valve’s code is still closed source, we’re not open sourcing that).” s&box has been made open source…

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Darktide’s new Hive Scum class can transform into a nigh-on immortal John Wick with infinite bullets—it’s no wonder Fatshark’s nerfed it before release

“Why do those guns just look like normal earth glocks?” Our Senior Editor, Robin says, as I show him a video of me blasting enemies with my Hive Scum’s ‘Dual Stub Pistols’. They might not look like the most 40k weapons ever, but they do play to a particular fantasy, i.e. I am John Wick,…

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What’s the point of being an adult if you can’t buy yourself a big Joytoy Warhammer 40,000 action figure to display on your PC gaming desk?

For the classic space marine look, this guy’s a really affordable option made that bit more attractive with the discount. Castor is a bit of an obscure character—he’s from the Space Marine Heroes range of miniatures—but ultimately he’s just a badass Ultramarine with the iconic bolter weapon and the option of a bolt pistol and…

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Only 1.5% of Arc Raiders players have turned a Rocketeer into a mobile weapons platform, and I’m baffled it’s even that common

I’m in love with Arc Raiders‘ terrifying machines. Not literally, of course, most of the time they’re viciously chasing me with tasers or blowing me up with rockets, but they’re all remarkably creative and reactive. You can delay Shredders from eviscerating you by blasting their propulsion, legendary energy weapons rip off the armour from elite…

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Helldivers 2 has players excited about the chance of a rogue fourth faction after Super Earth declares a ‘War on Dissidence’

Helldivers 2’s latest Major Order has players in a bit of a tizzy, because it’s putting the latent paranoia of Super Earth and High Command front-and-centre of its very own War on Terror. Super Earth has declared a new “War on Dissidence,” after declaring that “the expanded Center for Citizen Surveillance and Safety has found…

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