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Last week, Itch.io delisted thousands of games featuring various kinds of “NSFW” material, rendering them invisible to anybody searching or browsing the site. Other developers reported that their games had been taken offline entirely. Among the games delisted was Mouthwashing, Rock Paper Shotgun’s game of the year 2024.
Team Fortress 2, that shooter with wacky character intro videos so good I have to watch each of them at least once every six months, got its 2025 summer update late last week. There are a host of new community-made maps, items, and taunts, in addition to a fair few bug fixes from Valve themselves.
Cool to see, though one vocal group of players are keen to see the developers delve back in and make some changes to matchmaking, having penned an open letter to the Steamy company outlining hopes for the revised system that melds the very old old one with the slightly less old one the game’s had since 2016’s Meet Your Match update.
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Amazon has rolled out major price cuts on the latest GPUs, making it a great time to upgrade your gaming rig. There are big savings across the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5060 series cards, along with solid discounts on AMD’s RX 7900 XTX, 7700 XT and 9060 XT. These deals cover every price bracket, from high-end 4K powerhouses to budget-friendly 1080p options. If you’ve been holding out for a new graphics card, this is one of the best times to buy.
A demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at this year’s Gamescom, with Microsoft set to show it off in tandem with the first public exhibition of the ROG Xbox Ally handheld.
Yep, the fates of this long-awaited Metroidvania sequel and Asus’ Xbox-branded portable PC continue to intertwine, like star-crossed lovers. Well, aside from how star-crossed lovers are traditionally bound by love and crossed stars, not a desire to make money and also a desire to make more money.
The Cyberpunk 2077 modder behind a bunch of the game’s most popular romance mods is set to make NPC showering an optional extra in two of their works, with the hopes that these “non-sexy mods” will no longer be “hidden unnecessarily”.
Their decision comes as a response to recent changes Nexus Mods have made regarding creations that’re classed as “adult”, something the modding site’s done as a result of the Online Safety Act coming into force in the UK. The legislation’s seen the likes of social media and porn sites also have to adopt new age verification checks before allowing users to access a range of content deemed unsuitable for children.
Dusty extract-o-shooter The Forever Winter got an update over the weekend that added another mech to the growing list of horrifying war machines that roam its post-apocalyptic world looking for fleshy idiots to squash and eat. “The StiltWalker is a multi-legged destruction machine: equipped with multiple missile and machinegun weapon systems,” say the developers in an update post on Steam. Pfft. What’s so scary about that? Just shoot some rockets at it.
“It is also equipped with a point defense system that can detonate explosive munitions that are fired at it from a distance.”
Ah. Well. Nevertheless.
Valve have released a revamped Steam store menu in beta, so folks can give a number of changes a whirl and offer feedback ahead of the full rollout.
As the pipe-themed company wrote in a news post about the menu emerging from the labs for this testing, the main goal of its changes is to offer “easier access to the places Steam users most frequently visit”. Insert joke about the sorts of weird stuff one can have lurking in their Steam library here.
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Alienware’s Aurora mid‑range x16 laptop deal is the highlight today, coming in at the same price as the entry‑level model but with a stronger CPU. It’s effectively a free upgrade for anyone shopping smart. To round things out we’ve pulled together some of the best gaming keyboards and mice currently discounted and ready for headshots. Let’s get into it.
In Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, you play one of the hazmat-sporting goons at a government checkpoint during a zombie apocalypse. Your job is to let refugees through the gate one by one, and appraise them for evidence of infection. You know the kind of thing: hidden bite marks, weird heartbeats, high temperatures, people ripping your face off without showing appropriate documentation, etcetera.
“You OK babe? You’ve barely touched your boost?” mentions a helpful fish in the trailer for roguelike racer Reality Drift, thus setting the new standard for all reminder pop-ups going forward. I tabbed this one because the phrase “racing game where your choices matter” intrigued me. I was unaware of the helpful fish at this point. Or the road signs that offer you a choice between ‘space’ ‘cat land’, and ‘hell’. Here’s a visual compilation of suchlike images, with added movement.
