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Valve's made it much easier to tell when a game's leaving Steam Early Access
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Valve's made it much easier to tell when a game's leaving Steam Early Access

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 waiti

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 18:32 Uhr
A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet
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A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet

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-p

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 17:48 Uhr
Team Ninja fix a terrifying "very rare" Nioh 3 bug that corrupts your save when you pray at shrine checkpoints
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Team Ninja fix a terrifying "very rare" Nioh 3 bug that corrupts your save when you pray at shrine checkpoints

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

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 16:44 Uhr
If you want nothing more than to hollow out a brutalist alien monolith, then tower defence mining game Iter-8 is for you
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If you want nothing more than to hollow out a brutalist alien monolith, then tower defence mining game Iter-8 is for you

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-minin

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 16:39 Uhr
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review - a stuffed remake defined by its own grim connections
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Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review - a stuffed remake defined by its own grim connections

Excuse me, coming through. I’m Kazuma Kiryu, and I’m on my way to speak to some gruff yakuza lads about what their local gang war means for my orphanage. You can tell I’m serious because I’m riding a prototype segway dressed in nothing but a swimming cap, goggles and shorts. Now move, I’ve goons to beat up at two, photos to take at three, a biker gang war to resolve at four, and I also need to somehow fit in time to run around town waving my flip phone at stranger

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 16:00 Uhr
Helldivers 2 rolls out the cyborgs as a barrage of bloodcurdling binary heralds the Machinery of Oppression update
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Helldivers 2 rolls out the cyborgs as a barrage of bloodcurdling binary heralds the Machinery of Oppression update

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

Rock Paper Shotgun 09.02.2026 15:53 Uhr