The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: ‘It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed’

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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2 years later than planned, Arctic Awakening arrives to pull the walking simulator out of its Edith Finch-shaped grave

The walking simulator really died on its arse circa 2018, didn’t it? It’s like What Remains of Edith Finch released and everyone went “Well, we’re not going to do better than that!” before hanging up their hiking boots once and for all. Even Giant Sparrow, the creator of What Remains of Edith Finch, hasn’t released…

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This Doom mod based on ye olde Flash animation series Madness is, fittingly, way slicker than it has any right to be

Back in the days when I used to haunt Newgrounds as a perpetually online teenager, a new episode of Madness would always shoot right to the top of the portal charts. The series, created by animator Krinkels, was a sort-of cultural after-dinner mint for fans of The Matrix. Madness’ fast-paced, hyper-violent shorts involve grey, cross-faced…

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This ‘supernatural handyman simulator’ is House Flipper for Abiotic Factor sickos, a first-person restoration sim about fixing up a gigantic research facility

While I understand the appeal of renovation sims like House Flipper, I simply cannot bring myself to play them. The idea of spending hours fixing up a fake house seems downright perverse when I cannot find time to maintain my own real, increasingly dilapidated abode. You might say the obvious solution is to take some…

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