Developer of NSFW games says Valve won’t let them add adult content in updates, now it has to be DLC

Since the anti-porn crusaders Collective Shout pressured payment processors to get adult games removed from storefronts, things have been rough in the world of eroge development. (Eroge being short for “erotic game”, he wrote, feeling like your dad explaining how babies are made.) Now, a developer at Crimson Delight has claimed they can’t add new…

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Silksong sickos have already painstakingly determined the DPS of every crest in the game, and you might want to switch off Reaper

Visic on YouTube and D4CLoveTrainn on the Silksong subreddit are two Silksongers of the admirably deranged, number crunching variety: Each one independently tested the DPS of every crest (weapon moveset) in the game, and their results exactly corroborate each other. Such analysis is possible thanks to XiaoHaiNB’s ShowDamage HealthBar mod on the Nexus, which reveals…

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One of my favorite shooters of the 2020s⁠—a sleeper ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ on Steam⁠—just got a second episode that more than doubles its length for $10

After a three-year wait, the phenomenal FPS Cultic is finally done, with creator Jasozz Games and publisher 3D Realms releasing its second episode on Steam for $10⁠—the same price as Episode One. I’ve loved Cultic since before launch for its art style: Severely dithered and with a limited color palette that calls to mind ’90s…

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Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot AI tool promises to be ‘your personal gaming sidekick’ but it mostly seems to do the work of a Google search, with the potential for ‘hallucinations’

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is officially coming to the Xbox Game Bar on PC starting this week. The new “Gaming Copilot” feature was announced just last month and, as of Thursday it’s already beginning its full beta roll-out to PC and coming to the Xbox mobile app in October. As the name suggests, it’s a gaming-specific…

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FromSoftware is showing a sliver of mercy with a new QoL patch for Nightreign’s super hard Deep of Night, but it hasn’t gotten any easier

If you’ve been playing Elden Ring Nightreign’s intense new Deep of Night mode, you may have noticed your Depth level ranking sometimes doesn’t increase as it should after a victory. That glitch and some much-needed quality-of-life tweaks are getting addressed in an upcoming patch Bandai Namco announced on Friday. Along with a fix for the…

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