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Abiotic Factor’s 1.2 update invites you to explore the ‘Holiday Cryosphere’, a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything’s on fire for some reason

Abiotic Factor is the best survival game I played this year for many reasons, but one of those is how stupefyingly extra Deep Field Games’ Half-Life-inspired adventure is. Its Black Mesa-esque research facility is so much larger and stranger than it needs to be, and that’s before you get all the strange pocket dimensions you…

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Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an ‘unplanned content update for an unplanned game’ as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold

2025 has been a big year for cooperative shenanigans (shenanifriends?) games, with titles like REPO and Peak providing some of the biggest hits of the year. RV There Yet? is the latest variant of the formula to achieve viral critical mass, taking the basic idea of goofing about with your mates in a virtual space…

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Painkiller’s creator isn’t a fan of its recent co-op reboot: ‘I disagreed with every single thing they’ve done in it’

One of the weirder things to happen in PC gaming this year was that a new Painkiller came out and pretty much instantly disappeared. I’m aware PC gaming moves so fast nowadays that many games get washed away without anybody noticing. But I thought Painkiller would have sufficient cultural cachet to stick around a little…

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Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its ‘Stories Untold’ update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what’s giving Stalkers ‘headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations’

Stalker 2 has already received numerous major updates since releasing in November last year. Up to this point, though, most of those code transfusions have focussed on fixing the sequel’s many bugs or elaborating upon its mechanics, such as improving its A-life system or adding dynamic faction wars. But its latest update—Stories Untold—expands the Zone…

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