Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing

Rust doubles down on its ‘controversial’ meta changes by wiping everyone’s crafting blueprints to ‘bring back that sense of discovery’, and it might become a regular thing

Last month, Facepunch Studios began overhauling player progression in its nihilistic survival sim Rust to coax players out of their bases and encourage more PvP combat, introducing a “controversial” blueprint fragment system that requires players to locate and piece together blueprints to upgrade their workbenches above level one. Despite the apparently mixed reception of blueprint…

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This point-and-click horror adventure where you play a boy with a lightbulb for a head is currently free to keep on Steam

The Kickstarter-backed adventure game revival brought us the likes of Broken Age, Night in the Woods, Beacon Pines, a whole bunch of remasters and remakes, and I suppose Undertale, but among all those you might have missed Bulb Boy. This 2D point-and-click from 2015 brought a Tim Burton flair to the genre, tasking you with…

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Fresh from Space Marine 2, Titus gets promoted to captain in a slick animation that blesses an ad for toy soldiers with all the gravitas of a new Dune movie

Warhammer Previews are Games Workshop’s big official reveal fiestas that happen several times a year. The last roundup of announcements for 2025 coincides with the Warhammer World Championships, and has shown us stuff like new miniatures coming to Grand Cathay’s army in Warhammer: The Old World. But we’ve also had an update on the latest…

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Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA’d a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam⁠, and the devs are crying foul: ‘This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation’

On Friday, the indie dev behind co-op survival horror shooter Misery uploaded a post to its Steam community hub page with an image of a crying cat as its header. Titled “We are under attack!”, the post outlines something you may have noticed if you’ve played the game or tried to buy it today: it’s…

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