No-Skin is an incredibly simple horror roguelike about the worst party ever, full of strong booze, bad conversation and eldritch violence

Most of us have been to a bad party or two where nothing quite feels right. No-Skin, a recently-released minimalist horror roguelike, shows you what it’s like when the night’s vibes are cataclysmically rancid. The souring conversation with your friends seems like a minor concern, at least, compared to being accosted by an angry, faceless,…

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Rusty Rabbit turns Yakuza’s Kazuma Kiryu into a fluffy bunny

Sometimes, magical things happen when games studios go outside of their wheelhouse. Without Creative Assembly getting experimental, we wouldn’t have the terrifying Alien Isolation. And with Rusty Rabbit, renowned visual novel studio Nitro Plus is branching out in an unusual direction, seemingly blending its knack for storytelling with a cute 2D mascot platformer. One starring…

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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrents for the first time⁠, meaning Valve’s user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations

Is Steam bigger than the Beatles, or Jesus, for that matter? I’m not qualified to answer that, but Valve’s ubiquitous PC gaming platform is definitely bigger than Uzbekistan. As spotted by Blue’s News, Steam surged past 40 million concurrent users for the very first time today. Steam broke the 39 million concurrents barrier back in…

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Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox’s controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late

Nothing stings like betrayal, which is why Firefox users are furious with Mozilla after a controversial update to the developer’s Terms of Use last week. Mozilla is scrambling to smooth things over, but the damage may already be done for many former fans of Firefox. Last Wednesday, Mozilla released a “Terms of Use” document for…

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An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam’s top sellers list: ‘Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this’

‘Lethal Company clone’ is one of the three remaining genres that now encompass the entirety of Steam, the other two being ‘Vampire Survivors clone’ and ‘hentai’. Most of these games briefly clog up the new releases tab before being replaced by yet more cooperative, autobattling horror porn (the first person who develops that game will…

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Total War: Warhammer 3’s next patch will overhaul its Kislev faction, which Creative Assembly has ‘identified as the most in need of a deep review and rethink’

Creative Assembly has outlined its plans for Total War: Warhammer 3’s next patch, and it seems the mid-March update will see a slight change in direction for how the studio approaches updating its fantasy strategy mashup. Patch 6.1 will bring a renewed focus on tuning what’s already in the game rather than adding more stuff…

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