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Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming’s brutalist walking sim canon

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Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming’s brutalist walking sim canon

bashu July 1, 2026

Brutalism serves one of two purposes in games: either as a source of concrete projectiles, or much...

Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios – a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics

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Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios – a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics

bashu July 1, 2026

I had been feeling guilty about not completing my first bout of sci-fi grand strategy game Terra...

Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap

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Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap

bashu July 1, 2026

Say you’ve sprung for a Steam Machine, and are pondering how to put a personal mark on...

GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it’s baked into their contracts

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GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it’s baked into their contracts

bashu July 1, 2026

Three current Rockstar employees in the UK have accused the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio of effectively...

Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump’s wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign “to make the galaxy safe again”

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Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump’s wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign “to make the galaxy safe again”

bashu July 1, 2026

Helldivers 2‘s latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet...

Exodus’ character creator won’t let you totally mess up its protagonist’s “established look” with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

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Exodus’ character creator won’t let you totally mess up its protagonist’s “established look” with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

bashu July 1, 2026

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your...

“Low-effort slop”: The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on “vibe-coding” and now require genAI disclosures

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“Low-effort slop”: The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on “vibe-coding” and now require genAI disclosures

bashu July 1, 2026

The foundation behind the open source Godot game engine have announced a crackdown on the use of...

Xbox claim they’re “not reducing [their] investment in games” despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft’s total workforce are in the firing line

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Xbox claim they’re “not reducing [their] investment in games” despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft’s total workforce are in the firing line

bashu July 1, 2026

Despite yesterday bringing more news of Xbox backing out of funding deals and considering putting studios on...

“Keeping this under wraps has been torture”: Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder’s festering world

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“Keeping this under wraps has been torture”: Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder’s festering world

bashu July 1, 2026

Eremite Games are making a survival game set in the bleak fantasy world of their Bestest Best...

Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators

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Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators

bashu June 30, 2026

Sometimes I feel that my taste in media is a bit hard to pin down, given that...

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