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Management at Scottish studio Build A Rocket Boy, makers of notoriously panned GTA-like MindsEye, have reportedly installed monitoring software onto the PCs of their staff without informing the workers beforehand. The move appears to be linked to ongoing claims from BARB executives that the game's prospects have been deliberately sabotaged by third parties. Read more View the full article

Planet of Lana II, Wishfully’s followup to their tremendous puzzle-platformer original, punched our news mouths with a double hit of announcements last week. First, it’s got a release date of March 5th 2026, a mere three weeks from now, and second, there’s a Steam demo coming even sooner, on February 11th. An embargo lift means I’m now at liberty to share my thoughts on said demo, and can report that it’s exactly the same as the demo given to press last year, and as such, you can already read what I said about it here and here. Still, eh? Release date, eh? Read more View the full article

2XKO, Riot's League of Legends fighting spin-off, is having its development team significantly cut back not long after release. Game Developer report a Riot spokesperson as stating the publishers have put plans in motion to lay off around 80 developers on the game, about half of the global team who've been working on it, with the potential for some of the affected workers to land in new posts at Riot. Read more View the full article

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I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and voice channels. I regret its cybersecurity breaches. I resent that the PRs use it for every virtual press event. I’m furious that I have to download 12 updates whenever I remember to turn it on. I despise the feisty and cloying loading screen trivia and service messages. Show me the “empathy banana” again, you weird little gopher beetle. I’ll put you in the microwave. I also dislike that Discord now assumes I’m “teen-by-default” and restricts my access appropriately unless I go through some kind of age verification process, though I can understand the rationale, given some of the awful things that have happened via Discord. Already in play across the UK and Australia, this new “age-assured” approach is now being rolled out worldwide to create “a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13”. Rather unnervingly, Discord’s new age verification system includes an “inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age.” Read more View the full article

A recent update to Steam allows developers to list a planned 1.0 release date for their Early Access games. While developers have always been free to share this information in blog posts or in the description on the store, in the past, they couldn't flag a game's planned release so clearly. While this might seem like a small change, I'm thrilled to see it. Steam Early Access can be an excellent tool for developers, allowing them to put their game into players' hands and earn money without waiting until it's ready for a 1.0 release, but it can be a mixed bag for players. Read more View the full article

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Aethus is a crafty new sci-fi survival game in which one woman and her flying drone pal excavate a layered underground world on behalf of a galactic megacorp. You’ll create a surface base from holographic modules, gather evidence about a doomed science expedition, research a wacky new element, and unearth the dirty secrets of your employer. It sounds a lot like Coffee Stain’s Satisfactory, with opportunities for automation later on, but it’s viewed from an elevated third-person perspective, and appears more narrative-driven. Satisfactory through the eyes of Diablo? I can - as we space miners like to say – 'dig it', though I’m quite weary of games about being the lonely stooge of some breezily villainous extraction racket. This particular seam of satire has long since been gutted. I am ready for games in which we go to other planets for Nice reasons. I feel like that ought to be possible. Anyway, here’s a trailer. Read more View the full article

Nioh 3 “is less punishing” than Nioh 1 and Nioh 2, according to our reviewer Jeremy Blum. In a fine example of the Duality of Man, this observation forms part of a sentence in which Jeremy also confesses to smashing a hole in his desk with his controller. I can only imagine the destruction if he’d run into one particular “very rare” Nioh 3 bug, recently patched out, which causes the game to corrupt your save data if you end the game while praying at shrines. Read more View the full article

I'm just a tiny mining droid trying to carve an upward path through the brutalist monolith that dominates the skyline. Not hurting anyone, am I? Yet, I'd be making much better progress if it weren't for the pesky red-eyed monsters that keep attacking my base. They're just afraid of change – NIMBYs the lot of them. Every few floors I climb, I have to race home to blast the incoming creeps with my base's gun turret. But then that's the ever-present challenge of Iter-8, the latest half-mining game, half tower defence game to have stolen my attention. Read more View the full article

Grab your exploding hammer if you've invested in one, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have revealed a trio of new cyborg enemies which'll be deploying on the battlefield as the shooter's forever war shifts into a battle to conquer Cyberstan. Well, I say new, these metal-augmented marauders will be plenty familiar if you're a veteran of the first Helldivers. Read more View the full article

Last year I covered the demo for Void War, robotically describing it as FTL meets Warhammer 40,000, because that is what it is, and sometimes, you have to call a Spade Marine a Spade Marine (I did enjoy the demo, as flagrantly combinatory as the game may be). Read more View the full article

Late last year, horror game Horses was denied a release on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Both Valve and Epic judged that Santa Ragione's surreal work violated their rules regarding adult content, while the studio have asserted the the game "uses challenging, unconventional material to encourage discussion" rather than sexually titillate. Now, an interview given by one of the Epic Store's executives has reignited the war of words between the storefront and Santa Rangione, with the latter accusing Epic of making "provably incorrect statements about the game’s content". Read more View the full article

Happy this week all! Peeling back the curtains, I discern traces of blue advancing through sallow clouds, a hint of stray sunshine gracing the soggy leaves in the drive. All signs point to the onset of spring, but I will not be fooled. This is a classic Maw stratagem to waylay vitamin D deficient news editors. The creature is trying to tempt me into the open so that it can shower me in digestive juices (what you in the normal world are pleased to call “rain”). Read more View the full article

Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties' director Ryosuke Horii has addressed the controversial casting of actor Teruyuki Kagawa in the remake, which has resulted in fan backlash due to a 2022 report from Shukan Shincho detailing sexual assault allegations against the actor. Kagawa apologised at the time, but didn't specify what he was apologising for or confirm the events reported in Shukan Shincho's article. Read more View the full article

I have patched the UHQ servers to the latest. From Spawn's site: Master server has moved! Post by oopsallnaps » Sun Feb 08, 2026 8:17 am This applies to NOLF 1 and NOLF 2. I gave some advance notice in the discord, and on the "news" section of NOLF 2 mp (in-game) but as of Feb 7th (now) the old master server has shut down. I've release new patches to update the master server to openspy.net! Both files have been added to the UHQ downloads (NOLF 1 and 2 respectively - Eliteone) NOLF 2 and NOLF 1 NOLF 1 can actually just be hex edited to support it (the dll inside modernizer.rez, change userface.me to openspy.net.) But I made a silly mistake with NOLF 2, so I had to create a virtual machine (I use linux now) to code and compile an updated JServerDir.dll. The solutions are also commited to their github repos, in case I messed up. https://github.com/haekb/nolf1-modernizer https://github.com/haekb/nolf2-modernizer Please update, and thanks for enjoying my patches!

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For all of their faults (the list may be endless), the interesting thing about live service games, when done well anyway, is the way they can change from day to day. There's an actual living quality to them that, even if I'll always prefer them, a singleplayer game can't capture as well. One such game that can change quite drastically is Arc Raiders, with its varying map conditions and events, swapping in and out at the whims of its developers. This rotation isn't something universally loved, but CEO Patrick Söderlund has said that they're here to stay. Read more View the full article

Last month, Ubisoft pretty unceremoniously cancelled a bunch of games, the most notable of the bunch being that long gestating Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. This came as part of a major restructuring at the company, putting up to 200 jobs at their Paris HQ at risk, ultimately leading to a call for an international strike, and the firing of one Assassin's Creed designer. It's all a concerning mess, and now the creator of Prince of Persia and lead designer on the original Sands of Time Jordan Mechner has shared his sympathy to devs affected by the remake's cancellation. Read more View the full article

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