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GOG "won't be making absolute statements in either direction" about their future approach to AI use
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GOG "won't be making absolute statements in either direction" about their future approach to AI use

Retro PC game sellers GOG have faced criticism recently for using a piece of artwork made using AI tools to promote their store's new year sale. The storerunners have since claimed that this banner was a work-in-progress asset which slipped through onto the store by mistake. Now, the platform's managing director has revealed that the company are "not planning on making absolute statements in either direction" in terms of their future AI use, following the backlash. Read more

Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form
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Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form

Approximately 15 years, two months, and 14 days ago, Quintin Smith (RPS in peace) lobbed the headline 'Poker Night At The Inventory Released Today' onto this fine site. On this day, February 5th - approximately 479,821,535 seconds further on in time - I'm here to tell you Poker Night At The Inventory is coming back, baby. Read more

As extra DLC chat lingers, The Witcher 3 gets a Witcher 4-inspired quest mod designed to give you a taste of Ciri's adventures in Kovir
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As extra DLC chat lingers, The Witcher 3 gets a Witcher 4-inspired quest mod designed to give you a taste of Ciri's adventures in Kovir

Following The Witcher 4's big reveal at 2024's Geoff Awards, it predictably took modders about five minutes to revamp The Witcher 3's Ciri into her older monster slaying variant. Now, one of them's had a crack at going a step further by designing a short questline offering a taste of Geralt's non-quite-daughter slaying monsters in Kovir and Poviss, with help from CD Projekt's RedKIT tools. Read more

Fallout: New Vegas' Van Buren remake mod Revelation Blues has a new name and a second demo dropping soon
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Fallout: New Vegas' Van Buren remake mod Revelation Blues has a new name and a second demo dropping soon

If you keep an eye on the big, ambitious Fallout mods that're always in the works, you might have heard of Fallout: Revelation Blues. Its developers have been plugging away at remaking Van Buren - the version of Fallout 3 which was in development at Black Isle Studios before being cancelled in 2003 - as a New Vegas mod for the past few years. While they released a first demo last year under the Revelation Blues moniker, the group have decided to re-christen their project Fallout: The New West a

Scratch that, the Steam Machine is delayed after all – and Valve confirm RAM shortages will affect pricing
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Scratch that, the Steam Machine is delayed after all – and Valve confirm RAM shortages will affect pricing

Despite AMD’s assurances to the contrary, Valve have announced that they’ve pushed back release plans for the new Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR headset. Alas, my curse of publishing news posts roughly 0.0045 seconds before a major situation change continues to ruin my life – sometimes I wish I’d never beaten the warlocks in that Titanfall 2 pub match. Read more

Yapyap is a jolly bit of gang wizard vandalism with a touch of Dark Messiah
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Yapyap is a jolly bit of gang wizard vandalism with a touch of Dark Messiah

Yapyap stands apart from other “friendslop” horror extraction games by giving you plenty of firepower to begin with. Airpower, anyway. You and up to four mates are the boggle-eyed, flap-jawed minions of an enormous, moon-masked wizard. You’ve been summoned to wreak havoc on a rival wizard’s procedurally generated tower. Over the course of three nights per round, you must smash as many fixtures as you can to fill up your quota of Chaos – tapestries, crates, paintin