Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: ‘I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child’

Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed soulslite multiplayer ARPG, is more than a little popular with around 190,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write this. It’s also got more than a little of everybody’s favorite novel-but-ruinous technology, as some of its NPCs appear to be powered by LLM chatbots. That means you can converse with…

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is ‘definitely not competing for resources’ with Space Marine 3, because the latter is still years away

With over seven million copies of Tyranid-splatting action sold, it’s safe to say that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 was a bit of a hit for developer Saber Interactive. Indeed, its success guaranteed there would be a sequel, and Saber made no attempt to hide the fact, announcing Space Marine 3 was in development just…

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The creators of zombie survival hit Vein say its launch was ‘much larger than expected’ and there will be ‘a bit of a transition period’ as it looks toward future updates

Steam’s endless torrent of new games means that far too many of them go overlooked, but it also means that surprise hits are being created pretty much every week. Such is the case with Vein, an early access zombie survival sandbox that aspires to be a hybrid of DayZ and Project Zomboid, and has quietly…

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Almost 20 years since it hit Steam, Garry’s Mod finally addresses ‘lackluster support for weapons used by NPCs’ and gives Dr Kleiner his gun license

I’m always taken by surprise when Garry’s Mod receives a new update. Since it came out when I was still a teenager, I just assume it’s ancient history. Yet in reality, Facepunch’s anarchic toolbox remains very much a going concern. With over 22,000 players in the last 24 hours, Garry’s Mod is the 62nd most…

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Slot machine roguelike CloverPit sells 1 million copies, and its developer celebrates the payout by adding its ‘most requested feature yet’

Spooky gambling roguelike CloverPit has hit the jackpot for developer Panik Arcade, selling a million copies since it was released at the end of September. Seems a lot of people can’t resist the allure of playing with a cursed one-armed bandit in a dingy basement that’s possibly also in hell. “Thank you so much for…

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Escape from Tarkov fans are scrutinizing alleged sympathies for the Russian invasion of Ukraine within Battlestate Games: ‘If I could refund it I would’

Today, a thread on resetera from user RedbullCola titled “Escape from Tarkov directly funds the Invasion of Ukraine through partnerships” linked to a pair of imgur galleries that has been traded around on social media before. The two galleries show a series of images that draw an apparent close relationship between Battlestate Games, particularly COO…

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